Our store has a hard-and-fast rule that the loaders may not go out into the parking lot to help customers load items ... the customers must bring their vehicles up to the loading doors. I'm assuming it's a safety issue.
So 99.99999% of our customers have no issue with that.
Then there was this guy ... as told to me by a loader.
Loader asks if customer would like help loading whatever. Customer says yes. Loader says "Fine, sir, if you'd just bring your vehicle up to the loading doors here." Customer assures the loader the car is already right outside the doors (this is often done in the area of the lumber loading doors).
Loader wheels the stuff outside and says "Ok, sir, which one's your car?"
And the customer points to a vehicle that is little more than a faint speck on the far horizon.
Okay, I'm exaggerating. But you get the idea.
Loader repeats that he CANNOT go out into the parking lot; customer MUST bring his vehicle to the doors.
Customer flips out and starts yelling that loader WILL. DO. YOUR. JOB. NOW.
Loader: "Nossir, I cannot go out there. Company rules."
Lather, rinse, repeat several times. The customer at one point opts to vary the scene a bit by yelling at the cashier ... who has even fewer options than the loader (i.e. none at all).
At one point the loader, in response to a particularly snotty question from the customer, said something to the effect of "Well, if you don't feel competent to drive your vehicle up to the doors ..." thus sparking a shrieking fit from a second, and totally unrelated, customer ("HOW DARE YOU CALL A CUSTOMER STUPID!!" Well ... if the shoe fits ....)
So now he's got two people yelling at him in tandem.
I don't remember how it turned out. I do remember wondering why neither the loader nor the cashier thought to call for management to come down and sort these idiots out. Didn't get a chance to ask him, alas; he'd just finished telling me this story when he got called off to some distant part of the store.
So 99.99999% of our customers have no issue with that.
Then there was this guy ... as told to me by a loader.
Loader asks if customer would like help loading whatever. Customer says yes. Loader says "Fine, sir, if you'd just bring your vehicle up to the loading doors here." Customer assures the loader the car is already right outside the doors (this is often done in the area of the lumber loading doors).
Loader wheels the stuff outside and says "Ok, sir, which one's your car?"
And the customer points to a vehicle that is little more than a faint speck on the far horizon.
Okay, I'm exaggerating. But you get the idea.
Loader repeats that he CANNOT go out into the parking lot; customer MUST bring his vehicle to the doors.
Customer flips out and starts yelling that loader WILL. DO. YOUR. JOB. NOW.
Loader: "Nossir, I cannot go out there. Company rules."
Lather, rinse, repeat several times. The customer at one point opts to vary the scene a bit by yelling at the cashier ... who has even fewer options than the loader (i.e. none at all).
At one point the loader, in response to a particularly snotty question from the customer, said something to the effect of "Well, if you don't feel competent to drive your vehicle up to the doors ..." thus sparking a shrieking fit from a second, and totally unrelated, customer ("HOW DARE YOU CALL A CUSTOMER STUPID!!" Well ... if the shoe fits ....)
So now he's got two people yelling at him in tandem.
I don't remember how it turned out. I do remember wondering why neither the loader nor the cashier thought to call for management to come down and sort these idiots out. Didn't get a chance to ask him, alas; he'd just finished telling me this story when he got called off to some distant part of the store.
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