Gotta love retail.

Customer: I bought this sweatshirt a couple of weeks ago and it was on sale for 19.99, but the computer rang it up for $24.99.

Le’ Me: Okay, I’m pretty sure it was the henley shirts that were on sale but I’ll ask my manager, maybe he remembers. -Asks if they were on sale for 19.99, he says no he didn’t think so-

Customer: It was $17.99.

Le’ Me: -ignoring lies-… Really though, if you don’t have the sales ad there’s nothing I can do for you. I could honor it if you had the ad.

Customer: Of course you can’t, I just love to over pay for things.

Le’ Me: You didn’t over pay for it, you paid regular price for it. Do you want your receipt back?

Customer: No, I don’t need that now.

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Our henley thermal shirts had been on sale for 17.99 for the Labor Day Sale. As I told her, if she had the sales ad, I would have happily honored the price - but it would not have been honored because she purchased and item that wasn’t on sale. :P

#customer  #customers  #receipt  #retail  #job  #jobs  #lie  #lies  #not always right  

I have decided that I will beg my boss to let me work on halloween…

… simply because I plan to come in as a man. Beard ‘n all.

#make up  #mua  #man  #men  #women  #woman  #halloween  #work  #retail  #lol  #awesome sauce  

The RANT of the RETURNS.

We get a lot of returns. Very few are legitimate, and while I try so very hard to stay with company return policy, my managers end up making me look like an ass when they break company policy just to make some major dick head happy.

- ”It doesn’t fit” regarding hardware and clothes.
We aren’t allowed to return hardware, because we sell it in bulk and it’s not marked. Sometimes I’m lenient with this, but other times I’m not. I’m going to start warning customers that they need to make sure they have the right sizes in their nuts and bolts because we aren’t allowed to return them.

Clothes however, piss me the fucking hell off. You have these not so skinny ladies buying sizes that obviously will never fit them. I’m a fatty, I know what I can and cannot fit into. If I’m not sure, I’ll go try it on. Did I mention we have fitting rooms? We do. And people leave them like a tornado through a trailer park.. Then there’s the famous “I washed it, can I return it?” At which point I tell them absolutely not.

- “It’s the wrong one”
We have this about EVERYTHING. Clothes. Hardware. Parts. Paint. Personally, I never buy anything without being absolutely certain that it’s the right one - for two reasons. That is an epic waste of money in product and gas (because I don’t return shit u_u/) and then I look like a damn fool strolling back up into a joint to buy something similar to what I just bought. This kind of fits in with the excuse above… If you’re not sure - DON’T BUY IT!

- “I just don’t need it”
Then why…
On God’s green earth…
Did you buy it?
Do you have 27 cats? Are you a hoarder? Are just just mentally retarded? Do you have a shopping addiction? Or are you just really trying to piss me off by being a lying jack ass?

- “What’s your return policy?”
30 days, with a receipt you’ll get your money back the same way you paid for it. You need to keep the tags and it can’t be washed if it’s clothing or worn if it’s footwear. If you don’t have your receipt, you get in-store credit, and for the love of God don’t pay with a check unless you’re willing to wait 2 weeks for our store to send you a check back. Actually, don’t pay with a check at all - just get a debit card. Please, don’t come first thing in the morning. We don’t have that much cash in our drawers to help you. Also, don’t be a dick, because then not only will I waste your time, I will make you wait FOREVER to complete the return :)

#rant  #refund  #refunds  #retail  #return  #returns  

Prepping to go to work…

Which means the following is going to happen…

- A lot of bull shit returns consisting of ‘It doesn’t fit’, ‘I forgot my receipt’, ‘It’s the wrong one’ and my favorite, ‘I just don’t need it.’ THEN WAI U BUYED IT?!?!?!!! I’m going to save my returns rant for another post. u_u

- People are going to bitch about how hot it is, and state how ‘nice’ it is in our store… despite the fact that I will be sweating my balls off because my manager refuses to turn the thermostat down.

- I’m going to have to tell at least 20 people how to use the god damn credit/debit machine, step by fucking step.

- I’ll be forced to handle returns, transactions, bitching customers, customers that need help, customers that want discounts on top of discounts, help customers know where ‘tools’ and ‘pet’ supplies are despite the big ass fucking signs hanging in our store that directs them to the proper aisle, phone calls, help customers over the phone, help customers with horse bullshit then become fantastically enraged when they refuse to listen to me (When they’ll be back in two weeks stating how /their/ way didn’t work)… and then I’ll get to yell at the guys back at service because they are mostly lazy fucks and I hate them as coworkers.

I thought I’d done a good job getting out of my fast food job.

I have never been more wrong in my life. 8(

#fast food  #retail  #job  #jobs  #customer service  

#retail robin  #meme  #retail  #job  #customer service  

I HATE MY COWORKERS.

Not all of them. Just most of them… like.. 75% of the..
Which is most of them…
Because we don’t have a ton of people.
All but four of them.

The rest of them can shit broken glass and piss lava.

#coworkers  #coworker  #job  #jobs  #retail  #fuck this  #hate  

My Problem Isn’t That I’m Boring…

I don’t party, I don’t hang out with a massive amount of people, I don’t like most people, and in the graced quote of Nick Simmons, I find that most people aren’t worth getting along with. I am however, completely restless.

I can’t stand being where I’m at as far as jobs go. I work retail, and I hate it. I hate the rude, snotty customers, the lies they spill, and the ass kissing corporation I work for. We have very understanding individuals, but these are people who have actually been where I am - they’ve been behind the service counter or behind they have operated the register. They get it, when most folks don’t. These are the people I enjoy, and the people I can joke around with and the people who will listen if I’m just not having the best day because it’s been full of shitty coworkers or shitty customers - but they never retaliate “Well, that’s your job” because they FUCKING. GET. IT. They know I’m trying to escape, they don’t feel the need to point out the obvious.

Nobody really wants to spend their life in retail, but very few individuals have enough drive, motivation and determination to escape it - because they’re too busy spending their money on booze, partying or whatever else is meaningless in life. I however, am one of those people who will not waste their life on such a mediocre ‘career’. I don’t have money because I reinvest it into the several fascinations of my life. Horses, as I’m going to start training next month. Photography, as I am a photographer who is quickly growing a client base. Make up, because while I hardly ever wear makeup, I love doing makeup, and I’m good at it.

People always make the comment to me that I’m talented. Am I really? Maybe I am, I don’t know - but I think it has more the desire to master the skill that has allowed me to progress so quickly in the several factors of my life. I could end up training horses, shooting photos and making faces until the day I die, and I would be as happy as a clam. These windows are opening up for me, while my coworkers, bosses, etc. are stuck in their lives, completely numb to the fact that they are the masters of their own lives.

I am PROUD of the work I do with make up, photos and horses… I can’t say I’m exactly proud to proclaim that I am a ‘team member’ at a store that is more cliquey than high school, a boss I loathe, and a store that has made over 3 million dollars in the last six months and easily tops 5 digit numbers PER DAY in sales, when I am lucky to get a paycheck of $300.

I will never settle for less then what I want, and that’s the reason I will never fit in with today’s society, and for this reason I am labeled boring, a loner, an outcast - when really, I’m just restless, and I won’t stop resting until I have a better, happier life!

#life  #jobs  #job  #career  #motivation  #inspiration  #boss  #retail  #sucks  #blog  #freedon  #bitches  #assholes  #word  #outcast  #loner  #individual  #unique  #fuck 'em  #laycees lyfe