Things I am tired of hearing (feel free to add your own!)

[BrenDAnn]

Deserted, I get that here in Iowa, too. I also get the winter variation of "Cold enough for you?"

I get it. It gets unbearably cold here in the winter. Doesn't mean I want to answer that question 50 times a day.

[Dreamstalker]

"I am the customer and you will serve ME!" ...excuse you, I have three other people wanting help. If I ignore them to focus on your entitled ass I'll be the one that's yelled at but I bet that's what you want.

[Deevil]

"I should get free shipping, Hawaii's part of the US."

You get an A+ on geography, but an F on logistics. Until a very, very, long bridge is built, ground delivery (which is the delivery method for free shipping) will not work for a state that has approximately 2,500 miles of water between it and the closest state.

[Deserted]

Deserted, I get that here in Iowa, too. I also get the winter variation of "Cold enough for you?"

I get it. It gets unbearably cold here in the winter. Doesn't mean I want to answer that question 50 times a day.

I've had some experiences with that as well. When I was a child (preschool) my father's company moved us around the country a bit. A year in Florida... followed by 2 years in Illinois. (I'm native to Desert Hell.)

[Seanette]

"I am the customer and you will serve ME!" ...excuse you, I have three other people wanting help. If I ignore them to focus on your entitled ass I'll be the one that's yelled at but I bet that's what you want.

"And these three other people who were here before you are also customers. I'll be with you as soon as I take care of the people ahead of you."

[Anakah]

"You look bored, I'll give you something to do"

I want to scream when people say that. It's the worst thing you can say. You have no idea what I was doing and please say it a little louder so my bosses think I'm not doing anything. Luckily the bosses know people say stupid stuff. They usually walk up after I've had a big line and have no idea I just got done with a million people.

"I'll come to you instead of the machine. Job security!"

They are referring to the ticket machine (I work casino) and I still have 200 plus tickets everyday regardless if they use it or not. I do more than just cash tickets and make change.

"I'll take six twenties, har har har!"

When presented with a 100 dollar bill and they think its funny to ask for more money than I was given. I've offered four before just to see what would happen.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I get the "you look bored" comment a lot and it makes me want to scream, like "Sure is quiet!" Both comments are uttered by customers who come in right after we've just had a huge rush.

[sdg31000]

"How can you charge so much? You're a charity shop, you get this stuff for free"

It's my job to make as much money as possible for the charity. The charity is meant to flow from you to us, not the other way around.

"I need this/these in a different size/colour"

We only have that one. The person that donated it was a different size to you, sorry. We don't make everything out back. If we did I would be making much better quality things and making more money.

[Deserted]

"Wow, you guys are expensive."

No shit. You're the one that called us. Don't like it, take a bus.

[Dizzy_1986]

A few more that I've thought of...

1. "I spoke to / saw your Dad yesterday." Now this wouldn't be so bad if a) the man they are referring to as my 'Dad' is actually my boss. No relation whatsoever, I don't even know how they come to the conclusion that because i work for a man that he MUST be my dad. b) the boss in question is one of the biggest arseholes I have ever had the misfortune of meeting and c) my actual Dad passed away in July of this year so it is still very recent and still hurts like hell.
Up until now I have stayed quite calm and just corrected the people in question by saying something like "he's my boss not my dad", but I have suggested that next time a customer says "I saw your dad yesterday" I might just look shocked and say "Well f**k me sideways, how the hell did you manage that? Is he ok? Where is he?" (I do have quite a dark sense of humour - I get that from my Dad, he would have thought it was bloody hilarious if i did say that!)

2. "Sorry am I interrupting your lunch?" Usually said in a very sarcastic manner. We have to eat our lunch pretty much on the shop floor and get up and serve if someone comes in, even though we lose half an hours wages a day for a "lunch break".

3. "Well it's not that difficult a job to do surely!?" when asking for a jewellery / watch repair. If it's that bloody easy, do it yourself.

[KellyHabersham]

The term "Job Security", especially when it's used in reference to things like having to pick up after customers, or checking in large amounts of library materials.

It is NOT "job security" when someone like Whirlwind Mom comes in and lets her kids make a mess out of the children's room, nor is it "job security" when you get one of those customers who returns large amounts of library materials, and fusses that everything isn't instantly checked-in. Neither of these things will bring me any additional pay or benefits.

[wolfie]

2. "Sorry am I interrupting your lunch?" Usually said in a very sarcastic manner. We have to eat our lunch pretty much on the shop floor and get up and serve if someone comes in, even though we lose half an hours wages a day for a "lunch break".

What do your local laws say about the length (and lack of interruptions) of a lunch break. If you're required to have an uninterrupted half hour (which is unpaid), but don't get it, then you're working off the clock.

[Nunavut Pants]

... I have suggested that next time a customer says "I saw your dad yesterday" I might just look shocked and say "Well f**k me sideways, how the hell did you manage that? Is he ok? Where is he?"

"You did? Were the flowers on the grave still fresh, or do I need to put some new ones on there?"

[depechemodefan]

It's cheaper on the website/why isn't it the same price as the website?

If you order from the website, you are ordering from a warehouse, that isn't temperture controlled for the comfort of the people working in the warehouse, a warehouse that cost less to rent per foot then the store, and also, you pay for shipping (unless you have a membership; then it's free shipping) and also the convenience of getting it today by going to the store is worth more than waiting, at best, 3 days to get it from the warehouse. That is why it's cheaper on the website.

To be honest, I don't order anything online, unless someone gives me a giftcard where I have to order something online, or the few times I buy stuff from ebay. So I never look online to see the price of an item to decide what store to go to to buy it. I think the few times I did go online to look at something, there is a price that will state online price and another price that will state store price and they are not the same price.

[gremcint]

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