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  • #1

    Customers Catching Your Attention

    What's the worst way a customer has ever done to get your attention.

    I've had the usual "HEY You" or "Get Over Here".

    But while working for a large superstore a few years ago a friend of mine who was on his hands and knees picking up some stock which some little kid had knocked off. A Customer who was at the end of the Aisle whistled at him like a dog and muttered "Come over here". He then walked right over to him and the customer started waving his finger at him about the fact the store had run out of a product.

    My friend said in a calm voice... Sir, treat me like a Dog again and I'll act like a dog and bite that finger your waving at me RIGHT OFF understand.

    His wife muttered how dare you speak to a customer like that - we pay your wages.. come on we are not shopping here again.

    Funny how I saw them again a few days later.... having a go at a new member of staff (her first day) about the fact she didn't know if we sold Orange sauce for her duck..... don't know why we shop here I really don't while walking away.

    Spotted them again the next week.....
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    Do any of them EVER really follow through on the "never shopping here again" threat? It always seems like they realize its too inconvenient to go anywhere else and come crawling back in inside of a week.


    I've had the usual "HEY You" or "Get Over Here".
    ...Fatality?

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    • #3
      Quoth Gravekeeper View Post

      ...Fatality?
      Nah, Friendship.
      Friendship, again?

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      • #4
        Quoth Tria View Post
        Nah, Friendship.
        Friendship, again?
        Friendship? FRIENDSHIP!?

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        • #5
          Quoth Gravekeeper View Post
          Friendship? FRIENDSHIP!?
          Banality? Once must consider that they acknowledged your prescence, that's as close to Friendship you are gonna get.

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          • #6
            Quoth Gravekeeper View Post
            Do any of them EVER really follow through on the "never shopping here again" threat? It always seems like they realize its too inconvenient to go anywhere else and come crawling back in inside of a week.
            I know. People who make those comments make you want to help them even less in hopes that they fulfill that promise.
            Quote Dalesys:
            ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"

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            • #7
              Quoth UK Worker View Post
              ...how dare you speak to a customer like that - we pay your wages.. come on we are not shopping here again.
              I'll be sure to remind you of that when I see you next week.
              This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.

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              • #8
                I always want to say "Can I have that in writing? That way, if you come back I can sue you for breach of contract." XD

                And the most obnoxious way I've had my attention caught was like this:

                I was working in the pet section at the garden centre. I was all alone and had been running around like a blue arsed fly all day; this was why I was a bit short tempered. Now, at the time when it all happened, I was helping a customer. She wanted to buy one of the budgies, a rather cute blue and white one skewbald looking one. I then got a box and after trapping said budgie in the end of the cage, caught it in my hand gently with an eye to putting it in the box.

                Enter SC. Said SC barged right past the customer I was helping and said to me, "Excuse me." I ignored her, as catching birds of any description is delicate work, and I prefered to not traumatise the bird any more than is necessary. I just mumbled, "Wait a minute." SC then shouted, "EXCUSE ME!" and prodded me in the back.

                I then withdrew from the cage, budgie in hand, and said to her, "Wait, can't you?! I'm helping someone else right now!" She then withdrew, mumbling an apology, and I went back to what I was doing.
                People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life.
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                • #9
                  Stuff like that irritates the hell out of me....especially tapping the money on the counter, grunting at me but my biggest pet peeve is people clicking their fingers at me. I always raise one eyebrow and state very calmly......It'll take more than two fingers to make me come!

                  I have had people complain when I've said that but I come over all innocent and make them feel like dirty perverts (nothing wrong with being a pervert as hubby says it doesn't make you a bad person) and tell them I meant that saying excuse me is a much better way of getting my attention!

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                  • #10
                    When I was a waitress, I had men smack me on the ass to get my attention.

                    I've had people whistle at me and snap their fingers too, but after being molested like that several times, the whistling and snapping just didn't seem so bad.

                    If you have to ask, it's probably better posted at www.fratching.com

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                    • #11
                      I'm waiting for someone to throw wads of paper.
                      Unseen but seeing
                      oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                      There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                      3rd shift needs love, too
                      RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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                      • #12
                        Quoth BeckySunshine View Post
                        I'm waiting for someone to throw wads of paper.
                        I am not temperamentally suited to being around people anymore. My first thought reading this was "... So I can throw it back at them after setting it on fire."
                        Everything sucks. I must be living in a vacuum.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Boozy View Post
                          When I was a waitress, I had men smack me on the ass to get my attention.
                          ...

                          Sorry, a smack on my ass earns a punch in the mouth. Wanna complain? Well, you did put your hands on me without any provocation. In fact, you struck me. That counts as battery.

                          And I have every right to defend myself from further harm. It's not my fault that you chose to strike a 2nd dan working on her 3rd. And I'm sure your drunken buddies are still laughing about how you got punked out by a girl.
                          A smile is just a grimace that's been edited for public consumption. -- Tony Cochran

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Boozy View Post
                            When I was a waitress, I had men smack me on the ass to get my attention.

                            I've had people whistle at me and snap their fingers too, but after being molested like that several times, the whistling and snapping just didn't seem so bad.
                            Sorry, that kind of behaviour gets you sued. DO NOT TOUCH ME without my permission, period, end of story, no discussion.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth BaristaGirl View Post
                              Sorry, that kind of behaviour gets you sued. DO NOT TOUCH ME without my permission, period, end of story, no discussion.
                              You should of gobbed in his drink/dinner or WORSE

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