I feel sorry for your baby

[Food Lady]

Sighting because not my story. So my coworker--let's call her Betty--is the sweetest person and quiet. Some pregnant chick was ticked because the price on something was wrong. Betty apologized when she told her that, and the harpy responded "You know, you shouldn't work in retail if you don't know how to deal with people, you little bitch." Betty held on to her composure for a few seconds, but ended up in tears. Pregnancy is no excuse for that.

[Employee28567]

You know, I had a really bitchy moment with a pregnant lady and a very embarrassed husband.

I was a house manager at a giant festival. I had the big jazz venue. some asshat decides to have a smoke in the bathroom. The alarm goes off, so I have to immediatky evacuate 500 people. But pregnant lady decides she must stay, instead of stepping out onto the front patio, She won't go, and I get to, only in this kind of level of managment at this theatre, be firm and almost stern. "This is for yours and your baby's safety," I finally say. She squints her eyes as if to say, "I WILL be conplaining to you boss." The director of the festival doesn't give a shit and would have backed me up in a second.


I see her later bitching out her hubby. I hope they put her on bedrest. She shouldn't have been out in society.

[bainsidhe]

you shouldn't work in retail if you don't know how to deal with people,

This is an all too-common sentiment and it really bugs me. Probably because it's always about how an employee should take some form of abuse that would never be acceptable in a regular social setting. It isn't okay to hurl insults over any perceived inconvenience, or to belittle someone, or to grab someone without permission, or to threaten their job, etc.

[Food Lady]

^ EXACTLY my issue and what makes me sooooo angry. I know how to deal with people in that way, but I refuse to.

[XCashier]

It isn't okay to hurl insults over any perceived inconvenience, or to belittle someone, or to grab someone without permission, or to threaten their job, etc.

The people who do that to retail workers, you know would be the first to cry foul and threaten lawsuits if someone did the exact same thing to them at their workplace. Yet they still don't see why we get mad if they treat us that way.

[Slave to the Phone]

Not to mention that most of those people have never worked retail. What would happen if all of the retail people stopped working retail? There would be nobody to open the store, nobody to clean up after them, nobody to abuse because they had a bad day and are powerless at work so they can take it out on a retail robot who isn't allowed to say anything back.

Sometimes it is very hard to not say anything back. One of the questions we need to ask when checking someone in is "Are you self employed?". That is because not everyone is trained to work food stamps with self employment. I hear over and over "NO!!! I'm disabled!" Every so often, I'll slip up and say "my husband is disabled, and he's self employed."

The other one that kinda ticks me off is "You don't understand how hard my life is!" Dear customer, how do you know that? The only thing you know about my life is that I'm the one sitting behind the desk, punching numbers into the computer to determine how many food stamps you will get. You have NO idea what has happened in my life, you have no idea what I am going through.

[notalwaysright]

"You know, you shouldn't work in retail if you don't know how to deal with people, you little bitch."

"You know, you shouldn't reproduce if you don't treat other people with respect, you huge idiot."

[Crai]

"You know, you shouldn't reproduce if you don't treat other people with respect, you huge idiot."

LOL Sadly many do and that is WHY we have sites like this .

[An Haddock]

"You know, you shouldn't work in retail if you don't know how to deal with people, you little bitch."

read: "I am an entitlement whore and since you won't give me what I want it means you're doing your job wrong."

[Deserted]

Ah, yet another perk of cab driving: Someone says something like that to me? "Oh really? Get the out of my cab."

[Sparklyturtle]

I don't play well with others. I never have, which is probably why I did so well with medical transcription. I did have a job where I interacted with doctors, but I refused to put up with their abuse, and because I was a civilian federal employee there was little they could do to me, especially since I was tame compared to my boss. I liked working with her - she took nothing from nobody, and you didn't mess with her subordinates. This worked well in a job where I had to keep track of doctors' dictations but I'm sure it wouldn't work as well at Target. Plus, the first time I told a customer to stick it in their ear, I'd be fired. I don't know how Turtleguy drives a school bus and still comes home coherent, but he says that after 20 years of dealing with military officers (he was enlisted) dealing with children is a piece of cake.

[Pagan]

You have NO idea what has happened in my life, you have no idea what I am going through.

Oh, no, but you are supposed to leave whatever is going on in your personal life outside. That has always bugged the shit out of me. Sometimes, you just can't.

[Food Lady]

Oh, no, but you are supposed to leave whatever is going on in your personal life outside. That has always bugged the shit out of me. Sometimes, you just can't.

I know I can't leave pain behind. It goes everywhere I go because it's in my body, and it gets me in trouble. Yesterday it was "What's with you and [not selling] credit apps?" My answer was that the pain was bad enough that it was completely distracting. Honestly, it was all I could do to get through a transaction and wait for the opiate to kick in. Fortunately this supervisor is a compassionate guy and understood. He still had to tell me to start asking again because the upper managers were on his butt. The real trouble is with sucktomers.