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  • #1

    Picky Pennies and Bitches

    Two stories for today from World Chained Trading Corporation.

    Picky Pennies

    Had a guy buying an incense holder for his son. He acted a bit snotty but I didn't think much of it considering I work in Up Scale County. Gave him a few pennies back as change and he copped an attitude.

    Snotty Penny: This penny isn't shiny. *tosses it onto the counter and looks at me expectingly*
    Me: Well sir, you can always donate it to the piggy fund. All the money goes to buying livestock and giving it to poorer nations.

    Snotty Penny glared at me and left with his son when he realized I wasn't going to open my register to get him a shinier penny.

    Me: T, can you believe that guy. He totally complained about the damned penny I gave him and wanted me to open the register to get him a new one.
    T: Seriously? Where's the penny?
    Me: Still on the counter.

    And yes we did donate it to the piggy fund.

    Earring Bitch

    Had an elderly woman come in close to closing time. She spend about 20-30 minutes pawing through our earrings (earrings I had just straitened and made look all nice like). Me and T both greeted her when she entered the store and asked her a few times as we passed her doing other stuff if she needed help. Every time she glared at us and literally grunted at us. A serious grunt.

    Ended up she bought one pair of earrings. I went over to re-straiten things and it was a worse mess than I thought it would be. There were individual earrings that were on the floor. Turned out that they were from sets in the middle to the back of the hook of earrings. Earrings were placed on wrong hooks and were just laying on the jewelery tables.
    Honey and Thorns ~ Handmade Knit and Jewelry
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    Ugh, that woman! If we find out where she lives, let's plan a field trip to turn her closet inside out. Pretty please?
    I'm so sorry she did that to you. How long did it take to clean it up again after that?

    Can remember when we had a wall full of earrings. Please, never again!
    When we finally shifted them off to another store one customer was SO mad that she said she was going to call up and complain. How dare we de-shelve items that don't sell!
    And yes, they constantly looked the way you described. Partly because there was never enough time to tidy them up properly - when someone finally managed to do it, yeah, it took two full days. (roughly 18 hours of work, give or take a bit)

    About the penny guy - I think it's time you started keeping your registers as filthy as possible. I'm loving the idea of the piggy fund!

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    • #3
      Truthfully, I have a feeling the Grunter's closet is just as bad as the mess she made. Luckily for me, the earrings didn't take too long to straighten. It was mostly just finding the matching set for the earrings she knocked off their card. Me and T had just recently gone through and reordered them all and have been keeping on top of them to make sure they don't get too bad.
      Honey and Thorns ~ Handmade Knit and Jewelry

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      • #4
        I really have to wonder -- after Grunty had done her work, were there any missing earrings/empty cards...? If so, do you have a security camera aimed at that display? >_>
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        • #5
          There weren't. T and I decided she was just a bitter old crone out to make work harder for us. Especially after she knocked over some sunglasses and instead of putting them back where they belonged, tossed them onto the display and messing up a few other rows.
          Honey and Thorns ~ Handmade Knit and Jewelry

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          • #6
            Geez, the guy gave you some crap because his penny wasn't SHINY??? 99 percent chance that he wouldn't give a shit anyway, the shiny penny probably ending up in his car somewhere or on the floor of his house. Pennies are worth so little in value, it shouldn't matter what the stupid coin looks like!

            And I thought I had MY share of picky customers!

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            • #7
              re The shiny penny - He just wanted to see you jump for him is all. What a d***.
              "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
              "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
              "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
              "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
              "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
              "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
              Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
              "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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              • #8
                My mom likes shiny pennies rather than dull ones, but not to the point of refusing change if they're not shiny.

                Of course, when we're playing Winger Family Rules Tripoley, I'll trade my shinies for her dull ones...

                ...oddly, though, she seems to win more often than me when she has those shinies, so I may have to stop doing that next time we play.
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