Thrift store tales

[Moogles]

It's been awhile since I posted on here. I have a new job at a local thrift shop which is a registered charity, so no tax! I have been building up a stock of stories, but I sadly kept forgetting them. Tonight however, my last customer of the night had me reeling.

Note: we close at a set time. Simple right?

Me: moi
SC: duh
CW: co-worker

SC walks in at 10 minutes to close.
Me: Hello, just to let you know we're closing in 10 minutes
SC: I know. You told me last week and you don't need to tell me again.

2 minutes later
SC: What's your name?
Me: Moogles
SC: I'm calling your manager! It's rude and illegal to tell me when you close. You should never tell customers when the store closes! No one else does it! I'll have you fired!
Me: Well, just let her know that all I did was say when we were closing

SC leaves, and CW comes up
CW: What a raging hosebeast! You weren't rude at all. Heck you were a lot calmer then I would have been.

[Aragarthiel]

So, if you told him/her that you were closing last week, why didn't he/she throw a fit then?

[registerrodeo]

Why is telling or doing something in line with store procedures is always rude or illegal? And not telling a customer when the store closes? Alrighty then, no warnings, but they will be spending the night locked in the store because there is a closing time and employees will be leaving and locking up!

[BrenDAnn]

Oh, but registerrodeo, then customer logic would dictate everything is free because no one is there to ring them up. Yes, it hurt to think like that. I'll be looking for my Advil now.

[Marmalady]

You told me last week and you don't need to tell me again.

"Except I obviously do need to tell you again, because you've done exactly the same thing twice."

[earl colby pottinger]

Illegal?

I would have burst out laughing.

While never at work, I have had people tell me something was illegal and my response has always been the same. Call the police or a lawyer (depending on the situation).

What get me is the amount of effort these people will put in to get me to agree with them, but at the same time refuse/resist calling the people that if they were in the right would have the power to do something.

[LillFilly]

Funny what counts as 'illegal' in SC reality....

[MoonCat]

So it's also illegal to have the hours posted on the door? Or on the website (if you have one)? Or in the weekly newspaper ad (again, if you have one)?

These people are NUTZ.

[RealUnimportant]

I got shouted at, sworn at, and threatened with bodily violence yesterday because me telling someone that our station is not a public thoroughfare is "patronising"...?

[taxguykarl]

SC reality....

isn't that an oxymoron?

[Jay 2K Winger]

isn't that an oxymoron?

No, because SC's reject your reality and substitute their own.

[Argabarga]

, I have had people tell me something was illegal and my response has always been the same. Call the police... What get me is the amount of effort these people will put in to get me to agree with them, but at the same time refuse/resist calling the people that if they were in the right would have the power to do something.

Me too, it's amazing how many times the conversation just kinda, ends, right there, like someone pulled the plug on it..... funny how those absolutely CERTAIN they're in the right are so hesitant to test it...

I wonder if they realize they'll lose, or, they're just so used to people caving out of ignorance/desire not to fight, that they really haven't PLANNED on what to do if that response doesn't work?

[Evannah]

Dunno how what you said is rude. She just didn't like the fact that you told her what was what. Some customers don't like it. It's their problem, not yours.