Post by Gerard Gerard on Nov 24, 2012 7:56:33 GMT -5
Please do expand on that, after you've scrapped your will to live back together. As one of the Non-US 'Crappers, these Black Friday horror stories are something of a morbid curiosity for me.
On the sales floor, it's just wave after wave of people just gathering around, trying to get me to show them all the sales and items they're trying to pick out. I don't have an issue of showing someone around, but when I also have 3-4 people trying to grill me about other things while at the same time I'm helping someone, it's disrespectful of both the person I'm helping and myself.
It didn't help that the store made the walkways shorter by adding toys and stuff in the middle of them so everyone had to walk behind each other one at a time in every aisle, meaning everyone is kind of getting herded together in sections, making it harder when I need to go to the back and get items to the floor or am trying to restock shelves. It can make someone agoraphobic.
Also, when I do cashier work, most people always seem to get in my face when the price of an item is not what gets ringed up.Since the system the store uses adds in discounts and sales at the end, people always lean over my shoulder when I'm scanning, see the original price, and freak out. And the thing is, nearly every single person I ring up does the exact same thing. Sometimes even more than once during the same checkout, which blows my mind.
The thing is, one on one, most of these people would be perfectly fine to deal with and I'd enjoy helping them, but in a mass group, it just completely riles them up and it goes nuts. Not to mention the bad customers, those who will curse you our if you don't help them fast enough or have gotten a run around from other staff and decide to take it out on you. That would suck on non-season times.
It's just the season that does it, I guess.
Oh dear, at least you've survived it. Thanks for humoring my rubberneckin' tendencies.