Cigarette Hag

[Lace Neil Singer]

Ugh, don't you just hate SCs sometimes? The way they seem to think they know better than you. -.-

This woman just pushed all my buttons. At the moment, we're out of stock of certain cigarette brands, due to a problem at the other end; we ordered in the brands but they never sent them to us. She first asked for Benson & Hedges silver. I said that we didn't have any. That's when the SCness started.

"Benson - And - Hedges - Sil - ver," she intoned slowly, as tho I was foreign or extremely stupid. "You know, with the sliding packet?"

"We don't have any," I replied. "We're out of stock."

"Go - Look - Round - The - Back," the SC replied, still in the same condescending tone of voice.

Look, lady, I have been restocking those sodding cigarettes all morning. I've already been round the back and we don't have any. Don't you think I would have restocked them, if there were any?

"There aren't any round the back, I looked this morning," I replied, politely, tho I was fighting an urge to tell her to sod off. "Our supplier didn't send us any new stock."

SC then looked as tho I'd just told her that her mother was a hamster and her father smelled of elderberries.

"Fine then," she snapped badtemperedly. "I'll have to have Mayfair Smooth, in that case."

Bitch.

[blas]

It was always days of doom when the vendors with our ciggies didn't show up for delivery, or if my manager made a mistake and didn't order enough of a certain brand.

As I always used to say, she catered very much so to the regular SCs, a few of them smoked really cheap like off brand ciggs, so she'd order a few cartons for them. If there was a miscalculation or we ran out of them, and they'd come in and we didn't have any of their precious Liggetts (the thought of Liggett cigarettes makes me want to puke), they'd throw a huge fit "But ye manager ALWAYS has them here for ME!"

Me Me Me Me I'm so special Me ME ME!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Exactly that. -.-

What really annoys me is when an SC will stand there staring at the empty space where a brand usually is and then ask me, "Do you have any?"

Yes, I do. But they're invisible. And of course the ever popular, "Do you have any round the back?"

I know exactly what there is round the back, cuz get this, since my collegue who normally deals with restocking the cigarettes is off sick, I'm doing it all the time now (no complaints; it's kinda fun! XD) so I know what's round the back. Also, I'm hardly going to leave stock round the back when it could be put up front and sold, am I?

[ArcticChicken]

When I was at the Pathmark, they switched to a new ordering system that was supposed to order automatically. We ran out of everything that actually sells. Newports, Marlboro reds, everything. At one point I think we were down to Virginia Slims, whatever the hell the all-natural tobbaco one is, Capris and the ones designed to help you quit. I hated working customer service then. "What do you mean you don't have no fuckin' Newports!"

[Food Lady]

I don't sell cigarettes, but I'm wondering why your customers are telling you to check in the back while mine always seem genuinely surprised that I can check backstock for them. *scratches head*

[Lace Neil Singer]

What, you've never encountered SCs who believe in the magical backroom, where everything they could possibly want is kept? XD

[fireheart]

Obviously this lady has never heard of cartons....or realises that cigarettes fall under the category of "high theft" in most places....

[chainedbarista]

we-don't-have-them...do-you-need-me-to-repeat-that?

here, go suck on a tailpipe and get your fix.

[Ironclad Alibi]

"Benson - And - Hedges - Sil - ver," she intoned slowly, as tho I was foreign or extremely stupid. "You know, with the sliding packet?"

"We don't have any," I replied. "We're out of stock."

"Go - Look - Round - The - Back," the SC replied, still in the same condescending tone of voice.

I thought of a special show you could set up for this SC.

1. Save a pack of B&HS for her the next time you run out. Hide them in the back of your pants.

2. When she demands you check the back, make a show of rumaging in the back of your pants, and pull out that special pack just for her.

3. Post the video to YouTube so we can see her reaction.

[aurelemsrealm]

here, go suck on a tailpipe and get your fix.

Ah, the perfect answer to this and so many other sucktomer complaints.... Why can't they just go suck on a tailpipe and leave us the hell alone?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Preferably as soon as is humanly possible. xD

On the plus side, at least these SCs provide us with stories to put here for others' amusement. Tho my SC stories rarely match the epicness of others.

[chainedbarista]

hey, it doesn't have to be epic to get a laugh!

sometimes, i need short ones after a long day.

[Imogene]

Me Me Me Me I'm so special Me ME ME!

QFT
Might have to put it in my signature, too.

[ZedOmega]

You don't carry nicotine patches by any chance, do you? That would've been the perfect opportunity to try to sell them if she's going to be that much of a bitch about it. "I'm sorry, ma'am, but we're out of stock of that brand, as I've said repeatedly. But you're more than welcome to try these patches, which would work just as well."

Jeez, I might have a favorite brand myself, but I switch brands when they're out of stock of my usual. Golden Bay/Blend Non-Filter > Camel Wides > Marlboro Reds > Bugler > Midnight Special > just bloody go without for a while...

[Lace Neil Singer]

Sadly we don't; but I too don't understand why people just can't temporarily switch brands. I smoke Marb Menthols but I can switch if needed. In any case, if we're out then we're out; I just can't wave a magic wand and make a brand appear. If I did have such a wand, I'd anyway be more likely to use it to make the SC vanish.