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Retail workers; what do customers do that annoys you?

  • 05-07-2010 09:35PM
    #1
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Ive never worked in retail but Im sure many of you have. 2 friends of mine do and the good oul "Do you work here?" seems to grind their gears the most.

    "No I just decided to wear the store's uniform for the day. As a bet. For the craic"

    So retail workers, what do customers do that annoys you?


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  • #2
    Korvanica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    everything....

    also


  • #3
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    The whole "Oh I was just looking dear, I'll come in another time when I want to buy something"...when you've turned the whole shop upside down with all the different sizes/colours/types of crap they wanted :mad:


  • #4
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Return used knickers. Slightly worse was the returns policy that allowed it.


  • #5
    mariaf24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭mariaf24


    pow wow wrote: »
    Return used knickers. Slightly worse was the returns policy that allowed it.

    :eek:


  • #6
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    QueenOfLeon wrote: »
    The whole "Oh I was just looking dear, I'll come in another time when I want to buy something"...when you've turned the whole shop upside down with all the different sizes/colours/types of crap they wanted :mad:
    Nothing worse though when you walk in a shop (Especially small shops) just for the look and a sales assistant comes up to you asking if you are okay. When you say you are simply just looking they just stand there watching you.


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  • #7
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    When I was in retail the amount of ignorant fcukers that would say 'I know my consumer rights & I'm entitled to a refund' & then stand there defiantly with their equally ignorant friends smirking.

    Bear in mind that the dress/ top they are returning would have sweat patches, make up/ fake tan on it, smell like an ashtray & possibly have a fag burn in it somewhere.


  • #8
    christ on a bike!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭christ on a bike!


    You get to see a real nasty side to people, arrogance that truly leaves you bewildered. Fact is if you talk down to people you're a d1ck, and you encounter a lot of d1cks working in retail.

    Those days are over for me :)


  • #9
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    customer-"sorry how much is that there?"

    me-"i don't work here"

    Customer-"oh i'm so sorry,do you know how much it is anyway?"

    :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


  • #10
    Dardania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭Dardania


    In a provincal town centra or spar-middle aged menopausal women-you can tell by the hormonal-squint in their inkdrop eyes that they're pining for a row with someone that has to let them win... I don't miss those bintish customers at all

    In balance though the rest of the customers can be grand if they're up for banter


  • #11
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    pow wow wrote: »
    Return used knickers. Slightly worse was the returns policy that allowed it.

    That could actually appreciate their value ..... depending on who wore them of course.


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  • #12
    etymon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭etymon


    shove a load of coins on the counter, blatantly avoiding your outstretched hand


  • #13
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    bonerm wrote: »
    That could actually appreciate their value ..... depending on who wore them of course.

    The words 'sumo', 'parachutes' and 'nasty granny panties' spring to mind.


  • #14
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Retail workers in Ireland are f*cking useless tossers in general. They are lazy, unhelpful & clueless. And that's just the managers.


  • #15
    fruvai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭fruvai


    etymon wrote: »
    shove a load of coins on the counter, blatantly avoiding your outstretched hand

    or throw coins on the counter


  • #16
    christ on a bike!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭christ on a bike!


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Retail workers in Ireland are f*cking useless tossers in general. They are lazy, unhelpful & clueless. And that's just the managers.

    :eek::eek::eek:
    **** storms a comin'!


  • #17
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    The ones that need sat nav to find the exit but can spot a cent on the ground from 10 paces.


  • #18
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    What really used to annoy me when I worked part time in a shop when in school was customers who mistakenly thought I cared about their problems. Part time job, obviously not. Personally when Im shopping these days I always bear in mind that the part time sales assistant
    • Dosent care if Tescos sell this item cheaper then his shop
    • Dosent care that your going to take your business eleswhere
    • Dosent have anymore 'in the back'
    • Isint bothered that your going to call the manager
    • Worries only about consumer rights when he's the customer
    • Genuinely looks forward to those really irrate customers charging towards the shop manager


  • #19
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I work in retail at the moment for my sins, and one of the worst things i find is the sheer lack of respect and basic manners people have.

    Listen here, just because I'm working in a cinema, does not mean that you are better than me, so stop acting like a jumped up bitch and have some bloody manners!:mad:


  • #20
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    pow wow wrote: »
    Return used knickers. Slightly worse was the returns policy that allowed it.

    Is this a ladies clothes shop? If so, where and can I sniff before I buy?


  • #21
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Damaging stock, throw the extra milk the didn't want in behind the dog food, ice cream dumped on bottles of coke, open and use the hand cream / deodorant / make up and through it back, buy another one, eat the deli hot food and stuff the greasy empty pack in behind stock, open up packs of tea-towels, duvets covers, ironing board covers, packs of underwear.

    All this stuff ends up in the skip and you pay for it!


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  • #22
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Dman001 wrote: »
    Nothing worse though when you walk in a shop (Especially small shops) just for the look and a sales assistant comes up to you asking if you are okay. When you say you are simply just looking they just stand there watching you.

    Well I do know that when I worked in retail we were constantly wary of mystery shoppers and as part of our customer service we had to attend to every customer so the retail workers are only doing their job!

    Although I never then watched them. I would attend to other customers or something!


  • #23
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    People that leave used tissues in the changing rooms. WHO DO YOU THINK HAS TO PICK THEM UP YOU IGNORANT CÚNT!!!!??? Ahem....

    People who come up and say what's the price of this? Scan, it's X price. But it's in the section marked Y price, why isn't it Y, I'm entitled to get it at Y! No you're not, believe me I know your rights and you don't. I cannot physically stop other customers from putting things back in the wrong section! Get over it!

    People who for some reason think it's just fine to come in to browse at 30 seconds before closing time. Fúck off, we're only open because I'm not allowed to close the door until the bells go. Be assured that when you do that the people working in the shop wish something heavy would fall on you.

    People who try to return clothes when they've no receipt, there's no tags at all left on it, and has obviously been washed as the colour has run into the washing label. And when they admit themselves they bought it more than 28 days previous. (What makes it worse is that the supervisor actually did give this woman a refund :rolleyes:)


  • #24
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    Customer: "Do you work here ?"

    Me in a big orange apron with B&Q written on it, name badge, B&Q T-shirt and B&Q trousers : Stare blankly :cool:


  • #25
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    robbie_998 wrote: »
    Customer: "Do you work here ?"

    Me in a big orange apron with B&Q written on it, name badge, B&Q T-shirt and B&Q trousers : Stare blankly :cool:

    :D

    I honestly think a lot of people do that as a wind up. Especially if there's more than one of them.


  • #26
    nibtrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    open and use the hand cream / deodorant / make up and through it back, buy another one,

    I hate this! Used to work in retail, had customers ripping open packs, despite the fact that there were open samples right beside them, they would decide to buy the item and take a new pack off the shelf! Grrrrrr!!!:mad::mad:


  • #27
    ldxo15wus6fpgm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭ldxo15wus6fpgm


    They'd come over to me just as I was finishing folding a big stack of clothes, and yank out the one at the very bottom of the pile to have a look, knocking pretty much the whole pile over and making a mess of it. They'd then give a little shrug of their shoulders or a little 'hmph', chuck the jumper/whatever on top of the nice mess they've just made for me and bugger off.

    :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


  • #28
    Vinta81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    Always asking for discounts, especially last year it was awful " I'll give you €40 (for a say €60 pair of shoes) it's a recession ater all" erm imagine me going to my local shop to get a loaf of bread, "I'll give you 10c" get a grip.

    "Is that the price" - points to price tag


  • #29
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    I work part time in retail, and the amount of ignorant pigs you come across in a day is bewildering; snobbery, arrogance, lack of respect, its all there.

    You do however come across decent coustomers and have some banter and thats all well and good.


  • #30
    FunnyStuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭FunnyStuff


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Retail workers in Ireland are f*cking useless tossers in general. They are lazy, unhelpful & clueless. And that's just the managers.

    Well with an attitude like that, why the **** would anyone want to be helpfull to you.


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  • #31
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    I work in a bar. I hate it when it's busy and people take an age to tell you the order or tell you it one drink at a time or have to go back to the table to see what Mary is drinking.... Also annoys me when you complete a transaction and just about to move onto another customer when you hear, "Oh can you put on another Guinness for me please?" Or "Can you give me change for the fags aswell?" etc etc.

    People who tell me the price of the pint is cheaper elsewhere.... i don't care! Or people telling me the drink is bad.... they may have a point at times of course, but it gets annoying.

    One fella who rarely comes into the pub always asks for a Guinness with a big head. Doesn't realise that isn't really possible to do.

    People who ask me "Do you want money for that?" Just :confused:

    Farting

    People who won't feck off home at closing time and stay talking and singing till all hours and don't ring a taxi until they finish their drink instead of half way through.

    People who ask for drink after hours.

    There's alot more too:rolleyes:


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