Let's all bitch about working retail!

[Disgruntled Intern]

I told a Mom she shouldn't preorder the game for her son because the main character turns his penis into a sword of epic proportions and uses it as a weapon.

My boss was not amused.

But boy howdy, I sure was.

This game looks stupid to me.

Mod note: This thread was split off from this one. For the record, DI was talking about the game 'Prototype'.

[Hobo]

DI wins again people. Sacrifice your children

[Disgruntled Intern]

No need for sacrifice. I will kill your children with my penis sword.

Or, as I like to call it, "The anger sword of The Danger Lord".

[Nate]

What was the rating of the game, out of interest?

I'm assuming she shouldn't have been preordering it anyway...

[Disgruntled Intern]

I don't even think we're taking pre-orders on it at this point.

It will definitely be rated M, though.

You'd be surprised what parents will buy their children. The computer prompts me to let parents know why a game is rated M, but for the most part, they don't care.

I once refused to allow an 8 year old boy to reserve GTA 4, and he threw a shit fit. Twenty minutes later his Mom came in and demanded that I let her preorder the game for him.

I also love it when seven year old children come in bragging about how they 'chainsaw all of the stupid fucking noobs' on Gears.

I mean, come on.

[Strike Witch]

Think that's bad? Come over to the nerd Warhammer table with me sometime. Fucking ten-year old comes in with a box full of totally unrelated and unpainted models and demands a match.

"Do you have the rulebook?"
"Naw buts I remember all the rules."
"Do you have an army book?"
"Naw I just Space Marines and some Orks."
"Do you know how many Phases there are each turn?" (VERY basic question, it's the thing you learn after "Space Marines are pricks" and "The Imperium is Gothic")
"6?"
"Get the fuck out."

Of course he drags his mum over and she's all "He's just starting this hobby, please be nice to him." And then we're all "Well if he wants to play he can go and buy a Codex and make an army list like the rest of us instead of buying random models." And she'll just look at us, smiling, and telling us we should set a "Good Example", I.E. roll over and amuse her little ADH terror while she goes and has a coffee and a cigarette.

Finally, I go and talk to the manager, who's a total hardarse on troublemakers and loiterers, who comes over and boots them both.

Repeat each week.

[Nate]

This is spam. However, it is interesting spam and as such deserves its own thread.

When I'm a bit more awake and not quite so depressed about a failed practise packing, I may be able to think of my own retail horror stories.

[Hobo]

I had a woman flip at me because I let her break the rules about some shitty 50p coupon. Yes, that's right she got her own way and still decided to flip at me because apparently I swore at her. Which I didn't, unusually. She was making my job a nightmare though over some fucking oats. WHO CARES ABOUT OATS

Why must people inbreed so much?

[Mac Sirloin]

I worked at a convenience store down the street which doubled as a department store for laughably poor people (HA! HA!).
Anyway, my boss was a dick but most of the Cash people were friendly and we would get into the occasional chat.
One day, this dishevelled looking pseudo gangster/garbage eating guy walks in and asks if he can get a refund on this huge bag of jerky.

Beef Jerky.

Because he already ate some of it the Cash says "I don't think so." So he goes away.
The next day he shows up at about the same time but there's a different Cashier, so he tries again.
Denied for a second time, he returns on the third day and several more.
It took me a little while to notice, but each day there was less jerky in the bag.

When my boss found out he waited for the guy to come, and raised hell for harassing his cash's.

This guy is pissed, so he leaves and comes back with some of his friends and they come up to me and I got in one little fight so my mom got scared and said your living with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

[Wings of Fire]

This one time in Gamestation a woman came up to me and said "Excuse me have you got any Wiis?" to which I replied "I'm terribly sorry ma'm but theres a stock shortage at the moment, if you come in about half 8 every weekday morning you might just be able to catch the delivery but i warn you they go in about half an hour" This is the reply I had been told by my boss to say.

So she says "Ok thanks" and goes back to her husband with a disappointed look on her face. They talk for about a min, throwing me glances, and then her husband walks up to me and what does he say? "Excuse me, Are you SURE you don't have any Wiis?". What the crap does he expect me to say? "Well sir i found your wife too hideous to serve but I have a Wii special just for you"? ¬¬ Idiot customers get Epic Fails

Although having said that upper management isn't much better....Once we had orders to do a bundle deal on two games with a PS2.....The games were Lego Star Wars and GTA San Andreas....Am I the only one who sees the problem here? >.<

[Mac Sirloin]

This one time in Gamestation a woman came up to me and said "Excuse me have you got any Wiis?" to which I replied "I'm terribly sorry ma'm but theres a stock shortage at the moment, if you come in about half 8 every weekday morning you might just be able to catch the delivery but i warn you they go in about half an hour" This is the reply I had been told by my boss to say.

So she says "Ok thanks" and goes back to her husband with a disappointed look on her face. They talk for about a min, throwing me glances, and then her husband walks up to me and what does he say? "Excuse me, Are you SURE you don't have any Wiis?". What the crap does he expect me to say? "Well sir i found your wife too hideous to serve but I have a Wii special just for you"? ¬¬ Idiot customers get Epic Fails

Although having said that upper management isn't much better....Once we had orders to do a bundle deal on two games with a PS2.....The games were Lego Star Wars and GTA San Andreas....Am I the only one who sees the problem here? >.<

I can understand why the guy asked, actually,as a pair of my friends work at Future shop and EB Games respectively, and they do tend to hoard some of the Wii's until the last two days before christmas, where they can raise the prices (and they do.)

My Future Shop friend (Patrick) said that they usually they save them for employee's, though they aren't allowed to do that or something.
I am guessing this guy heard about that and just wanted to make sure.

I hate seeing dissapointed Parent's, actually, because god knows the kid will throw a fit if he doesn't get a Wii.

[Disgruntled Intern]

Ugh. The Wii situation is a nightmare.

We have empty boxes displayed, and this makes people furious.

Although I have been offered money and oral sex if I would have held a wii for someone.

[Mac Sirloin]

God know's that Nintendo doesn't have an excuse, the Wii is the most inexpensive of the three, and I am guessing that should reflect on manufacturing costs a little.

I am wondering though, what if the Wii is just the next tickle me Elmo? People will want it when they can;t get it, etc...

[Strike Witch]

Let's sell them cheap knockoffs then! We can call them Eiis.

[Rex Tirano]

I'm currently a Woolworths employee, and I swear to god if I hear another Christmas song, I will stab someone. They just loop every 40 minutes, every day.

ARRRRRG.

- Rexy

[Leto]

At least you don't have Christmas techno. Or an Iron Man cover that says at the start "I AM SANTA CLAUS.". Urgh.

[Godlesswanderer]

Ah, the joys of not having a job over Christmas.

There are none, I envy you all.

[Hobo]

I worked at a convenience store down the street which doubled as a department store for laughably poor people (HA! HA!).
Anyway, my boss was a dick but most of the Cash people were friendly and we would get into the occasional chat.
One day, this dishevelled looking pseudo gangster/garbage eating guy walks in and asks if he can get a refund on this huge bag of jerky.

Beef Jerky.

Because he already ate some of it the Cash says "I don't think so." So he goes away.
The next day he shows up at about the same time but there's a different Cashier, so he tries again.
Denied for a second time, he returns on the third day and several more.
It took me a little while to notice, but each day there was less jerky in the bag.

When my boss found out he waited for the guy to come, and raised hell for harassing his cash's.

This guy is pissed, so he leaves and comes back with some of his friends and they come up to me and I got in one little fight so my mom got scared and said your living with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

Fuck you for getting me with that.

I'm currently a Woolworths employee, and I swear to god if I hear another Christmas song, I will stab someone. They just loop every 40 minutes, every day.

ARRRRRG.

- Rexy

Amen, it's clear now why Sainsburys only play music at xmas. I hate this shit. Hasn't been too bad today though, out duty manager was a dickbag though

[Mutual Friend]

Middle-aged women always try to come on to me. It's horrific. Back in the day, middle class housewives would just have affairs with their doctors, but since they're all foreign now they have to resort to innocent boys like myself.

[Strike Witch]

I'm currently a Woolworths employee, and I swear to god if I hear another Christmas song, I will stab someone. They just loop every 40 minutes, every day.

ARRRRRG.

- Rexy

Hah, I went to the movies during Christmas, and they played an endless loop of some children band Christmas Compilation CD.

Even in the fucking toilets.

[Mac Sirloin]

Fuck you for getting me with that.

Hahaha, up yours .

[Hobo]

Hahaha, up yours .

And yours captain canada

[Wings of Fire]

I hate seeing dissapointed Parent's, actually, because god knows the kid will throw a fit if he doesn't get a Wii.

It's their fricking fault for not ordering one or using their brains and buying early to avoid the inevitable Christmas congestion....this DID happen last year y'know!. Foolish people are the only kind in this world who can count on getting exactly what they deserve.

Onto more bitching.

This week....the week before Christmas is THE busiest week in the year for probably any retail i guess but particularly teh video games trade so it can really make a difference if one person is off. On Friday a guy called in ill......ok fine a bit extra work, no real trouble. On Saturday a bloody cockmunch i work with who is well known for being a bloody cockmunch also calls in ill (he really wasn't i live practically next door to him) and now the situations quite serious, on the 23rd the whole shop has to basically be renovated for the January sales (through reading the lists sent by head office i calculated that half the games on it went down by less than £5 and the ones that went lower are the bloody awful ones no-one buys) so everyone needs to be on task, processing trade and dealing with customers so the manager can get down to the important work i.e reshelving games and taking down the Fat Chris paraphernalia (I swear if i see one more Fat-fucking-Chris picture ever i will scream, cry or do both...he is plainly the most awful marketing idea ever). so near closing time on Saturday the manager (whose a nice guy) phones cockmunch and asks him if he'd like to make up the hours on the 23rd and get overtime for them. What does cockmunch say?

'Naaah sorry Matt, I have to meet people tomorrow'

Weakest excuse ever.

And even better another bloody idiot of a Christmas temp phones in sick on Sunday which means the staff is now down to four people for that day.

So it's today....I go in work for 10am for a contracted 6 hours, because as its Sunday the shops shut at 4 (blame religion) expecting maybe to do one hours overtime because of the sale thingy. Instead we get hardly any trade done, everyones on the edge and stressed because we happen to be understaffed and instead of doing the stuff he needs to do the manager has to do the day to day stuff....the most important day of the year and we struggle to keep up.

The after effect of this? Its closing time when we start raping the shop floor and starting over....we aren't even faxed the info we need for price changes till half four and to top it all off its a cold cold evening. Apart from the pizza (which teh boss bought for us 'cos he's such a five star bloke) i spend the next five hours un-stickering, re-stickering, pricing and shelving and only got my ass outta there at ten because i was ordered to, being totally knackered but I ain't complaining too much, I got paid....unfortunately the manager only gets paid the hours the shop is open so he's working around six or seven hours overtime with the only incentive being his boss will probably fire him if he doesn't get all the sale toss done. Retail sucks balls.
And thats me done [Exits angry mode)]
[Ceases rant]

Have a very merry Christmas everyone ^^ and if you do shop at Gamestation please appreciate the workers who get paid a pittance to put up with you and their plainly mentally deficient boss's.

[Disgruntled Intern]

Some stupid kid with a mouth full of gold teeth and a belly full of cheap beer and ramen threw up all over the floor today.

I had to clean it.

Then I had to process his trades.

Fucking kids.

[Kimon]

At least you don't have Christmas techno. Or an Iron Man cover that says at the start "I AM SANTA CLAUS.". Urgh.

Bwa-hahahahah!

That sucks man, where do you work?

[Rex Tirano]

:P Heeheee, that's awful SuperMunch.

Woolworths is stupid, all the Xmas cards are going back to full price today, but on Boxing day they're all going to be half price. So there's fuck loads of repricing to do, which is just a bitch to do.

- Rexy

[Mac Sirloin]

When I worked at that Convinience store (I actually did, IMO)
I found the price gun was a source of unrelenting joy, tagging customers was always worth it.

[Leto]

Bwa-hahahahah!

That sucks man, where do you work?

Number1 shoe warehouse. Really shit inbetween job. I mean I stack shelves... Retail is not my area. Shoes in alphabetical order of style, brand, size and they're all randomly placed in the fucking store, because the place is run by deadbeat maaaaris.

There was my little rant. GONA LEAV LOL

[Facsimile]

Number1 shoe warehouse. Really shit inbetween job. I mean I stack shelves... Retail is not my area. Shoes in alphabetical order of style, brand, size and they're all randomly placed in the fucking store, because the place is run by deadbeat maaaaris.

There was my little rant. GONA LEAV LOL

Oh man, alphabetical stacking get me hard.

I'm working at Dick Smiths over the holidays, and have all this pressure to sell stuff, like warranties, on stuff that doesn't need it. Next year I'm totally getting a mindless stacking job.

I could bitch all day about retail, as I worked at our largest retailer chain in the country for three and half years, but I can't/don't want to think of any at the moment.

[Hobo]

Haha fax is a dicksmith

lololololol