People banging on store doors after closing

Used to drive me nuts when I worked in a store. Morons would arrive at 10.02pm looking to buy fags. I'd say 'we're closed' 'But sure it's only 2 minutes past'. I mean, wtf does it matter how minutes past it is?

Knock knock

Who's there?

Fcuk off.

Fcuk off who?

Slightly off-topic but continuing the service/retail theme. The other night there was an old biddy giving off stink at a fast food joint to a worker behind the counter saying she didn't want one of the pieces of chicken that had been laying a while. About 5 minutes this went on. You'd feel like turning round and saying 'listen you're not at the Hilton, if you want fresh, well prepared food, fcuk off out of here'.

Trashbat wrote: »

If a light is on in the shops and there is someone there, and all you want if a packet of fags (i.i nothing that involves browsing) then i dont see the harm in checking. If you dont ask you don't get. Can't imagine why someone workingthere would take offence to that tbh.

They will say they only want fags, but rarely they just want one thing, they say a single item to get inside. But usually they want more and it takes 5-10 minutes.

I worked in a Spar for years, 3-11 five nights a week, last thing i wanted was to be waiting another 5 minutes to allow some lazy fecker pick something up, they had all night to get to the shop. Also tills will be counted, while to the customer one item doesn't seem like much but it could mean the till needs to be rebalanced which wasn't something i was going to do.

And a note to all the shopper who come just are you are locking the front door or pulling down the shutter, there is no way in hell the shop is going to get reopened for anything. Everything is locked up, floats are put away and the alarm is on, no-one is going to undo all that just for your nicotine addiction.

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

also one night desperately needing medicine for a sick child I beat the **** out of the shutters at the chemists and begged to be let in.

They are obliged to do that as far as I know if there's still a pharmacist in the chemist (i.e. he/she hadn't already left). Might be handy to know if you are in that situation again. Not that anyone would deny somebody medicine for a sick child.

My mother used to work in Argos years ago and she said they were shutting the shop one Christmas Eve and some tool started banging on the doors demanding to be let in. The manager went outside to talk to him and he was shouting 'You have to let me in, I have to buy (Santa) presents for my son'. Of course he was screaming blue murder and the usual 'I'll report you to your superiors' tripe. The manager wasn't having any of it, they had locked up for the night and she replied 'If you thought more of your son, you wouldn't have waited until 6pm Christmas Eve to buy his presents'.

What grinds my gears is when shops lock the doors 15 minutes before closing time.

PirateShampoo wrote: »

What grinds my gears is when shops lock the doors 15 minutes before closing time.

I once closed the doors 5 minutes before. We hadn't seen a customer for over an hour and the manager had done the same the week before. So I made the call and closed up. 2 mins before 9pm a woman comes to the door and throws a wobbler saying she has every right to come in because we shouldn't close til nine. I would have let her in but there was cash all over the desk. She eventually went away but complained the next day saying she was looking to spend €500, my manager offered her 30% off whatever she wanted and she bought 1 cheap ass item. When my manager tried to reprimand me I just told him I was following his example. He was a sh1te manager anyway. Didn't last too long.

rainbowtrout wrote: »

My mother used to work in Argos years ago and she said they were shutting the shop one Christmas Eve and some tool started banging on the doors demanding to be let in. The manager went outside to talk to him and he was shouting 'You have to let me in, I have to buy (Santa) presents for my son'. Of course he was screaming blue murder and the usual 'I'll report you to your superiors' tripe. The manager wasn't having any of it, they had locked up for the night and she replied 'If you thought more of your son, you wouldn't have waited until 6pm Christmas Eve to buy his presents'.

Nice response Something like that happened to me too, on Christmas Eve a few years ago. I was working in a supermarket, it was ten or fifteen minutes after closing time, the shutters were down, tills emptied, the lights on the shop floor were off (foyer, offices etc where people were still finishing up were still lit), and myself and a few other staff members were waiting outside for our lifts home. This guy comes up and pleads for five minutes to be let in to buy one thing he absolutely needs for the Christmas dinner. He wasn't drunk or anything, and could see the place was completely shut down, what did he really expect?

i work in a cafe and we close at 10. about half ten, myself and another waitress were closing up - that is the door had been locked half an hour, the floors had been hoovered, the til had been done, all the cleaning, stocking ect had been done and i was just mopping the floor. i had the front door opened to help the floor dry, and all the tables and chairs were pulled out into the middle of the floor. basically.. it was very very obvious we were closed. This group of 7 looked in the door and i shouted out "sorry were closed", but they ignored me, walked over my clean floor, squeesed in past the clutter of tables and asked the other waitress for menus. She explained that we were closed but we open at 10 the next morning.. their respose "but there's 7 of us". ...idiots!:rolleyes:
i seriously felt like shouting at them that iv been on an all day shift, im wrecked and in a rush home as i've more to my life than work.