Ranting and Venting of a Pissed Off Retail Worker

Razen · 2010-04-22T19:59:45+00:00

[size=12]Dear Fakku, I work in the glorious world of retail, the business that treats its customers with ungodly amounts of more courtesy than its faithful workers. It's a slimy, stench of a workplace that demoralizes and degrades you until you can't keep it in any longer. I have reached that staged, and my rant begins here. I work at a grocery store. Yes, I may have it better than some of your Wally World workers, but that's like saying shit has it better off than piss. I work in the meat department, which gets enough traffic to put the morning rush of Chicago to shame. The place that I work treats its customers like idiots and newborn children. How can they be treated as both? Well, you use standard psychology that every store uses to trick its customers to buy more, and lick their buttholes at the same time. The customer is ALWAYS right. A customer complained about me not helping them out, when I clearly did, on a terribly busy day mind you. The manager would have none of this employee defending himself. Instead, I'm "here for them," and need to treat them better. A customer literally took a nice big shit in the middle of our store once, and we were the ones responsible for cleaning it up. I bet they gave the person a ten dollar coupon for their trouble. Don't get me started on the customer's attitude. It seems that every rude asshole in town comes to shop on the same day, Coupon Thursday. What is that? Well, on this special and glorious day, you get ten dollars off any purchase of fifty or more. No, it doesn't increase in increments, and it excludes alcohol, milk, and a nice long list of exceptions. In essence, a ploy to get customers to buy more. On to these arrogant assholes. To be honest, most of the ingrates are fat motherfuckers (no offense if this applies to anyone) who I guess have lived their whole life being babied by the retail world. The funny thing is that it's always the worker's fault if you can't have your way. If we're out of stock, fuck me, why the hell did I not think of doing the manager's business. A price is too high? Well fuck me for not overriding the system to fit your budget. You just shit your pants? Well let me just wipe your ass for you! The managers have no fucking clue what goes on besides their jerk offmanager's office. I think I know what goes where and when I need to put stuff out more than you do. I actually do work instead of bitch at people and lick customers' bumholes all day. I actually spend time trying to figure out what is best for the situation, not just doing something for the sake of "looking productive." Seriously, retail. Give the workers some god damn dignity. Ok, so we pissed a customer off. Big fucking deal. It's not like they can afford another place will go another place just because I gave them the wrong price. Why do we let these assholes shit on us, then demand us to clean it up. It just sucks. [/h]

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Razen

15 years ago

Thank you, x-gen. It's nice to have support. Like you were mentioning, the people who complain about retail work usually have never experienced it before. I know I don't have the worse job out there, but there are just things about the job that infuriate me.

highelf420

15 years ago

Maurice wrote...

If I could minus rep you, I would, because you are complaining about your job, which you get paid for. If you don't like your job, go elsewhere. You sound like a bitch who can't handle every day situations.

If I could minus rep you, I would, because you are complaining about someone complaining about their job, which they get paid for. If you don't like their post, go elsewhere. You sound like a bitch who can't handle every day threads.

Razen

15 years ago

imnotyourdude wrote...

Maurice wrote...

It's posts like these that remind me of the awesomeness of people. Rep for making me laugh.

penelopesays

15 years ago

This is fabulous, and oh so accurate.

not that i've ever worked in a grocery store, though.

Kiss-Shot Soba-Scans Staff

15 years ago

I've only worked in retail for a short time, I haven't met anyway annoying customers yet though.

However I just walked up to where I work, got told I wasn't allowed to work and had to see my manager tomorrow, and then I had to walk home again ._.

I have a small idea as to what's it about and I'll probably be fired. But my Manager appears to expect me to be the perfect employee and make no mistakes, even though this is my first job and since I'm human and all, mistakes will happen.

I'm kinda hoping I will be fired, the people there are fucking horrible.

Anonymous

15 years ago

Retail (and the service industry in general) have always been fantastic jobs for me. Maybe you aren't trying hard enough. You're looking at things the wrong way if you think they are treating you like shit 100% of the time because "I deserve the best customer service evar". I'd be more worried about the asshole managers who are letting this shit happen to you. If they aren't taking care of you even after someone fuck wad shit on the floor and left you to clean it, then something is wrong.

Why are you still making minimum wage after a year and a half? You should put in for a raise. In the mean time, keep looking for better jobs. You should find something more suitable for yourself than cleaning up after other people's shit. Literally. You should have started a year and a half ago, when you first got this job, if you had any inkling how horrible this would be.

Razen

15 years ago

The company I work for doesn't have the best line of managers. I've heard of people being laughed at asking for a raise. Even if one of them did hear my plea, they probably wouldn't do anything about it. When I first started, I was making under minimum wage. I can't tell you how many times I brought it up, but it was eventually fixed two or three months after I started working. I got paid the difference eventually, but it's still upsetting how they wouldn't do anything about it.

highelf420

15 years ago

Maurice wrote...

Spoiler:

I can't stop staring at your signature...
Also, I don't think he's necessarily saying that he "deserves" the best customer service ever. He's just rather telling people who have never worked retail ever to take some chill pills before they enter the store. There are people who go through life and never even get close to a retail job, and that's fine, but a lot of them tend to be stuck-up know-it-alls who treat workers like shit because they think they are superior (or rather that the worker is retarded).

On that note, I think you can do your best every day at any job and no one would give a shit. But, if you mess up, everyone hates you for it. I think he's just looking for some recognition that he's doing his job right. I just got done watching Eva 1.0 again, so I stole that theory from Misato about Shinji.

Razen

15 years ago

imnotyourdude wrote...

Spoiler:

I certainly don't expect praise from every customer like you said. I just want a little dignity. And what you say in the second paragraph is very true. The managers never take notice of the good job I do, but when I mess up, then they take notice of my failures and how I'm no good.

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