I used to work for Publix. I worked for a store that was located near the local retirement community "Century Village" affectionately known to the employees as "Cemetery Village". Every weekend they'd bus-load seniors over in trolly's where they'd wander around for about 40 minutes and all make a mad dash to the register to catch the next bus home. Weekends sucked.
Of course, working in a grocery store you are going to get a lot of questions on where is such-and-such an item located. That's fine, you tell them the aisle and most of the people will find it from there. Some items are a bit difficult to locate, and over time you learn which ones those are. I'd be very specific if someone asked for one of those things... like Aisle 12, halfway down on the right side between the (product) and (other product). You'd think that would work. But you'd get the a-holes that thought you were sending them on a wild goose chase or "I was just there and they aren't there". So, I'd walk with them, find the item, and do my best not to call them an asshole.
At one point I was a stock clerk and worked the frozen food aisle. There were 1 and 1/2 aisles of frozen items, plus a section for Ice Cream in the bakery. On the weekends when the Senior's would arrive, we'd be stocking the shelves and every 5minutes someone would ask "Where're the bagels?" to which we'd respond "next aisle over, between x and y". I got that question so many times, it haunts me to this day.
One day, I was tired of it so I got one of the fluorescent signs and wrote "Bagels" on it and hung it in front of the door. My coworker said it wouldn't help. He was right. They don't read signs. I was always tempted to put a "Buy 2 for the price of 3" sign on some produce and see how many people would be pissed off later that day when it finally dawned on them.
As for shoplifting, back in the day they didn't have cameras, but, in order to prosecute thieves you had to have someone witness the whole chain of events from stealing all the way to leaving the store. So, on weekends the managers would hang out up in the ceiling area and peek out between the roof tiles up there and radio down to the other group (I imagine they enjoyed their time up there... I bet it was fun times). It's amazing how much people steal even from grocery stores. My favorite (at the time) was this old lady that always reeked of urine and had nasty facial hair, etc. She always needed a 'carry out' and when she was in the store it was like a losing lottery to see who'd get stuck helping her. I got picked many times. So, one day I caught her eating some cookies from a bag, followed her around and watched her put it back on the shelf and reported it to mgmt. She wasn't allowed back after that.
Looking back, she was probably poor and needed help but couldn't afford it.
I could go on. I once wrote about my adventures in grocery service in a journal I had to keep for a college course. The professor apparently enjoyed it so much he stopped me a semester later in passing just to rave about it. The funny thing was I wrote it all in one night just before it was due. Good times/bad times.
Of course, working in a grocery store you are going to get a lot of questions on where is such-and-such an item located. That's fine, you tell them the aisle and most of the people will find it from there. Some items are a bit difficult to locate, and over time you learn which ones those are. I'd be very specific if someone asked for one of those things... like Aisle 12, halfway down on the right side between the (product) and (other product). You'd think that would work. But you'd get the a-holes that thought you were sending them on a wild goose chase or "I was just there and they aren't there". So, I'd walk with them, find the item, and do my best not to call them an asshole.
At one point I was a stock clerk and worked the frozen food aisle. There were 1 and 1/2 aisles of frozen items, plus a section for Ice Cream in the bakery. On the weekends when the Senior's would arrive, we'd be stocking the shelves and every 5minutes someone would ask "Where're the bagels?" to which we'd respond "next aisle over, between x and y". I got that question so many times, it haunts me to this day.
One day, I was tired of it so I got one of the fluorescent signs and wrote "Bagels" on it and hung it in front of the door. My coworker said it wouldn't help. He was right. They don't read signs. I was always tempted to put a "Buy 2 for the price of 3" sign on some produce and see how many people would be pissed off later that day when it finally dawned on them.
As for shoplifting, back in the day they didn't have cameras, but, in order to prosecute thieves you had to have someone witness the whole chain of events from stealing all the way to leaving the store. So, on weekends the managers would hang out up in the ceiling area and peek out between the roof tiles up there and radio down to the other group (I imagine they enjoyed their time up there... I bet it was fun times). It's amazing how much people steal even from grocery stores. My favorite (at the time) was this old lady that always reeked of urine and had nasty facial hair, etc. She always needed a 'carry out' and when she was in the store it was like a losing lottery to see who'd get stuck helping her. I got picked many times. So, one day I caught her eating some cookies from a bag, followed her around and watched her put it back on the shelf and reported it to mgmt. She wasn't allowed back after that.
Looking back, she was probably poor and needed help but couldn't afford it.
I could go on. I once wrote about my adventures in grocery service in a journal I had to keep for a college course. The professor apparently enjoyed it so much he stopped me a semester later in passing just to rave about it. The funny thing was I wrote it all in one night just before it was due. Good times/bad times.
Worked at McDonalds for about 4 years. I didn't have much of a problem with customers, but with my co-workers.
- On my first day of work, I was watching training videos in the back break room. After the 2nd one a rough looking girl comes in and puts in the 3rd video and pushes play. She leaves and the movie started. It was hard core porn. I just stop the tape and left the room.
- I fed this little black stray cat out back all the time. I basically took care of the little guy for about 9 months at work. One day I went out back to throw away some trash and I couldn't find him, he was always there following me. A couple of other employees ask me where my cat was. I knew something was up becasued they never asked about him. The next day I had to dispose of used grease from the friers. When I went out back to empty it into the container, there was my cat dead in the used grease.
- I worked evenings since I was going to school and ended up closing many times. One night after the store was closed, I was cleaning up the lobby and I went back to get some more mop water. There in the maintenance room was a couple fvckin away. They didn't even stop when I opened the door, so I got the other 2 girls that worked with me up front and we watched them. We all clapped when he finished up on her.
- On my first day of work, I was watching training videos in the back break room. After the 2nd one a rough looking girl comes in and puts in the 3rd video and pushes play. She leaves and the movie started. It was hard core porn. I just stop the tape and left the room.
- I fed this little black stray cat out back all the time. I basically took care of the little guy for about 9 months at work. One day I went out back to throw away some trash and I couldn't find him, he was always there following me. A couple of other employees ask me where my cat was. I knew something was up becasued they never asked about him. The next day I had to dispose of used grease from the friers. When I went out back to empty it into the container, there was my cat dead in the used grease.
- I worked evenings since I was going to school and ended up closing many times. One night after the store was closed, I was cleaning up the lobby and I went back to get some more mop water. There in the maintenance room was a couple fvckin away. They didn't even stop when I opened the door, so I got the other 2 girls that worked with me up front and we watched them. We all clapped when he finished up on her.
waggy
No Lifer
- Dec 14, 2000
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why should he be slapped?
He stated NO very clearly yet the op kept going on about. Once the customer says no then drop it.
I hate getting pesterd to buy a tthe damn thing. most times its not worht it. Its just pure profit for the store.
When i say NO i mean NO. I don't need to be asked 3 times if i want it. I do need to be reminded that i am buying a $1200 object (well thanks sparky! thought it was $1.20).
Wow good stories here. I've been reading them all morning at work. People keep asking me to do stuff and wanna say I'm busying readying these funny stories but anyway . .
I worked at a Grocery store in high school and it just so happened to be in the 'ghetto' part of town. One of the worst customers was this guy who had NEVER bathed in his life. He reeked to BO so bad his stench would lurk around your register. My 'cool' manager would laugh at me when he would go through my line. Or my friend would see that I had no one in my line and would inform him that there was no waiting at register #2 or whatever.
Then one nite was was taking the flag down and this truck goes blazing out of the parking lot and this yokel sticks his head out of the passenger window and yells at this pregrant lady "Nice T*ts!" and I'm like . . did that just happen?
I have more stories but I guess I have to work.
I worked at a Grocery store in high school and it just so happened to be in the 'ghetto' part of town. One of the worst customers was this guy who had NEVER bathed in his life. He reeked to BO so bad his stench would lurk around your register. My 'cool' manager would laugh at me when he would go through my line. Or my friend would see that I had no one in my line and would inform him that there was no waiting at register #2 or whatever.
Then one nite was was taking the flag down and this truck goes blazing out of the parking lot and this yokel sticks his head out of the passenger window and yells at this pregrant lady "Nice T*ts!" and I'm like . . did that just happen?
I have more stories but I guess I have to work.
IronWing
No Lifer
- Jul 20, 2001
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I've walked out on purchases because the employees wouldn't shut up about the overpriced/un-needed service plans. At a certain now bankrupt store (initials: Montgomery Ward) the salesperson kept pushing the service plan on a tape player. I finally asked them why they wanted extra money to stand behind their products. The reply was "They aren't our products".
i once had to pick this customer up named jefferson, youll never believe what happened at the end of the night!
You're under the mistaken impression that customers are smart. They aren't. They're incredibly stupid. Where do you think all these stories are coming from?
the manner in which he said no was abrasive and rude. i wouldve kept on just for his attitude being the way it was.
"no and i dont wanna hear another word about it:
i hate hearing em too..but i know its just his job. and wouldnt become an ass unless he kept on
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: MaverickBP
no longer work there but a store that rhymes with target over on eastern and serene
What store rhymes w/ target? I mean, there's a wal-mart there.... but wal-mart really doesn't rhyme with target....
lol its a joke man..ie acting like i tried not to mention the stores name
So
Lifer
- Jul 2, 2001
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- 81
Originally posted by: MaverickBP
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: MaverickBP
no longer work there but a store that rhymes with target over on eastern and serene
What store rhymes w/ target? I mean, there's a wal-mart there.... but wal-mart really doesn't rhyme with target....
lol its a joke man..ie acting like i tried not to mention the stores name
Sorry, I'm a bit dense when I get 4 hours sleep and then work 10.
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: MaverickBP
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: MaverickBP
no longer work there but a store that rhymes with target over on eastern and serene
What store rhymes w/ target? I mean, there's a wal-mart there.... but wal-mart really doesn't rhyme with target....
lol its a joke man..ie acting like i tried not to mention the stores name
Sorry, I'm a bit dense when I get 4 hours sleep and then work 10.
:thumbsup:
So
Lifer
- Jul 2, 2001
- 25,923
- 17
- 81
<golf clap>
Okay...
Back when I worked at Sears (down on Warm Springs behind Sunset Station, for Maverick
), we got a lot of strange returns, as is, of course usual. Now, we told the girls up front to send everything that wasn't clothing back to it's respective department (I was a chasier, so I worked the front some times, but being the only male cashier at the time, they usually let me hang out back in tools -- which was fine with me because it is DEAD there in the summer), of cousrse they wouldn't listen and we'd get stuff accepted back from up front with missing parts, etc all the time. One of the more common sad situations was when they'd find a way to accept a piece of wal-mart brand clothing back (i.e. we didn't carry it, had no SKU, and the customer can't have had a receipt for it). One of the cooler old ladies who ran the floor would always point it out to me and shake her head. Anyway, the kicker was the one time that some girl managed to take back a bucket of spackle...it was a brand we don't carry, it was old, and it was USED. We all gathered 'round and stared at that one.Another great moment was when I was in the back shortly before closing and the store manager said to an assistant manager (overheard as they walked by) "I could take a bag of dogsh!t, slap a $99.99 pricetag on it, put it on the end of an aisle and people would buy it." (this is paraphrased, but the words 'bag of dogsh!t' and $99.99 were in the sentence.
Originally posted by: So
<golf clap>
Okay...
Back when I worked at Sears (down on Warm Springs behind Sunset Station, for Maverick
Another great moment was when I was in the back shortly before closing and the store manager said to an assistant manager (overheard as they walked by) "I could take a bag of dogsh!t, slap a $99.99 pricetag on it, put it on the end of an aisle and people would buy it." (this is paraphrased, but the words 'bag of dogsh!t' and $99.99 were in the sentence.
lol its true
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