Is my sister an SC??? (Long)

[Ledomar]

Me thinks that it's time for a "brother sets sister straight" kind of talk. People like her are the reason some retail workers aren't the best at customer service, and also why prices get raised due to all the shrink.

[Jay 2K Winger]

People who do not return their shopping carts are the lowest form of life.

Incorrect. There are far worse than that. But agreed, they are inconsiderate scum.

[Spork4pedro]

My sister is pretty much the opposite. When she shops at my store, she'll take out items and leave them on the wrong shelves of each department, justifying her excuse by saying, "But I'm providing JOB SECURITY for the employees!" As a cart-pusher myself, I'm furious to see her leave her shopping cart in some empty parking space or another stupid place instead of putting it in the cart corral. I'll be off-duty at the time, but will always correct her mistake even though she says, "Let the other cart-pushers get it!" OTHER cart-pushers? Those guys are fellow coworkers!

ugh....are you sure you didn't just describe my sister? That is EXACTLY how she is, all the way to the "job security" bit. I've never understood that logic. My response to her is "No! If you want to provide job security shop here ALOT and raise sales. More sales = more hours. Now all you're doing is being a jerk and making a mess."

[Dreamstalker]

In my store, I've been picking up a lot of misplaced stuff that just seems to be deliberate. Chip bags opened on the bottom seam and put back in such a way that you'd never know it was open until picking it up, produce and meat lined up perfectly on a pasta shelf (and the pasta on said shelf was stashed in with the milk...wtf), meat placed just-so in the freezer, etc.

I did find a Stonehenge of sort made from baskets and bottles of juice last night. That was at least amusing (part of me was tempted--only for a minute--to add to the structure) and easy to tidy up.

[Zaiida]

One annoying occurence is the mysterious person who keeps ripping the caps off the UHT milks and leaving them at toddler height and the person who makes sculptures out of the shampoo bottles on the overstock top shelf and when they come tumbling down from 2+meters they shatter everywhere.

Even the shoppers are on the lookout for the culprits after someone got boinked by a stray conditioner and a pack of nappies from a hidden nappy tower in the baby isle. Whoever it is is good, nobody sees him and it's done at busy times too. Latest consensous is he's a ghost from the museum next door.

He's really good at concealing what he's done too. Lids are back on the UHT's looking like normal and the 'sculptures' are usually hidden by a structual support and nearly invisible. Stupid pranksters.

[Merriweather]

Latest consensous is he's a ghost from the museum next door.

You never know. We had a haunted toy store one place I lived. I actually worked there for less than a week (I quit for reasons concerning management, nothing to do with the ghost, which I saw no trace of ).

[Dreamstalker]

I've come to the conclusion that my store has to have a ghost, it's just not possible to explain some of the crap that's been going on.

[Merriweather]

I've come to the conclusion that my store has to have a ghost, it's just not possible to explain some of the crap that's been going on.

When we lived in the UK, tales of haunted shops were commonplace. Of course, over there, the shops are pretty much all in the town centres, and the town centres go back hundreds of years, including the shops themselves, so not so very surprising, really.

The town we live in now, in the US, actually does still have a bustling town centre itself, and while not the age of those in the UK, most buildings do go back to pioneer days, I'm sure I've heard stories of one or two here.

[downforit2008]

Me thinks that it's time for a "brother sets sister straight" kind of talk. People like her are the reason some retail workers aren't the best at customer service, and also why prices get raised due to all the shrink.

I'm all for that talk, but seeing as I'm the "younger" brother even at the age of 27, she won't take the talk too seriously. Especially since she works at a job that isn't customer related. She works at the kind of job where she and the coworkers can surf the internet and giggle about the funniest Youtube videos are in between assignments. She doesn't have customers coming into her work and shrieking, "HEY!!! How about some SERVICE??? I'm NEVER shopping here again!"

The only way she could ever understand is if she worked Retail as well, but she thinks she's too "good" for that. But she also hopes to try and use me in the hopes of getting my 10 percent discount on her shopping trips. Needless to say, I'm too embarrassed to take her to my work in person. I wouldn't want her to talk down to a cashier and treat them like shit, and then having to justify to that same coworker the next day about how stupid my sister likes to act around us "minimum wage losers."

I've read all your comments on here and appreciate the posts! Yes, it's good to know that a little Retail experience is enough to have me become the most HUMANE customer everywhere I go.
When I vacationed in Denver, I tipped a very friendly waitress $20 for a lunch that cost $32. Needless to say, I REALLY made her year! Plus, she deserved that $20 for the service she gave me.

[Willis]

I had a friend like your sister. We're no longer friends because I ended that toxic "friendship". He would definitely bitch about the cheese sticks even if they weren't charged. He'd act like there was nothing else to eat and there'd be sandwiches, fries, snacks and other stuff. His catchphrase was "it's cool", but everyone who knew him well enough knew he wasn't cool. Just because the cheese sticks were forgotten he'd make a stink of it. From everything you said, she's absolutely an SC, EW and considerably ungrateful. That ex-friend was extremely ungrateful too. He had a way of trying to hide it but it'd eventually rear it's ugly head. Next time don't share with her if she's going to complain like that.

[chikenlady]

Needless to say, I'm too embarrassed to take her to my work in person. I wouldn't want her to talk down to a cashier and treat them like shit, and then having to justify to that same coworker the next day about how stupid my sister likes to act around us "minimum wage losers."

Tell her exactly this.