Well, I'm Going To Blame You

[AtDIelement]

So,

For a lack of a better way of saying it, I've had sucky customers, I've just tried not to let them get to me. Thus the lack of posting, but this is starting to get on my nerves. I hate feeling like a broken record.

SC: So, what's going up next door?
Me: A SCS Pharmacy
SC: WHAT?!?!?!!!111?!? How could you guys allow that to happen?! *Storms out*

SC: What are they building next door?
ME: SCS
SC: Ugh, just what we need, another pharmacy, you guys should really tell them to stop building. *Storms out*

This goes on, and on, at least 15 times a day.

We're a bank, we have no control over what the previous owner of the gas station next door to us did with HIS land. Get over it, I'm personally excited about it since I'll have all sorts of choices on delicious beverages and snacks I can get from them while at work.

K, I'm done now.

[XCashier]

What's wrong with them building a pharmacy? If there wasn't a need for them, there wouldn't be so many. And I'm sure the SC would be glad of a nearby pharmacy if he needed cold medicine or bandaids or some such.

And yeah, growling at you about it is no good. You don't have any say over what the landlord does. But since they want to complain and are too lazy to find out who to complain to, you're a convenient target to snarl at.

[LillFilly]

Meh, it's like people at my mall complaining that we don't have enough stores, then when we finally get a new one, they complain that it's not the one they wanted! WTF are we, a CRACKER JACK box!?

[EricKei]

I'm having trouble making a logical connection here -- why would a bank have control over, or give a rat's ass about, what other businesses move in next door? o_O

Coming from the opposite perspective, I'd LOVE to run a store that was next door to a bank -- much easier to do the daily deposits and get change!

[mikoyan29]

Why would someone who works at that bank have control over what goes next door?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Friends, friends...remember what forum you're on when you ask these questions Just another bunch of whiners, complaining about things that are not worth the energy to people who couldn't care less.

[dalesys]

Me: A SCS Pharmacy

But, but but... You know, they sell drugs at those kinds of places!

[EricKei]

Friends, friends...remember what forum you're on when you ask these questions

But still they make no...di di...mff...wha....GAH! *throws hands up*

[Victory Sabre]

It sounds like the people bitching about it need some of the drugs the pharmacy will sell. Prozac, anyone.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

And we're having the opposite reaction at our shopping center, as we have a cafeteria preparing to open soon.

Actually, it was supposed to have already opened, but what I've heard from Mama Hen (who is one of our regular customers and everybody's adopted mom, who just went through orientation for a position there) is they are waiting for both health and fire inspections to take place before they can open, it's on hold now. The owner is hoping to open by the end of this coming week (if he can get the inspections completed and everything passes muster.)

So from customers we've been hearing the question "Have you heard when the cafeteria is supposed to open?"

Apparently checking the website they have posted on a handmade sign on the front door for information is just too much trouble.

[BrenDAnn]

First, why would a bank have control over that and second, what's the big deal about a pharmacy moving in? Is it suddenly equivalent to a crack house, with all the drugs and such that they sell? I don't get it!

[xaenon]

SC: Ugh, just what we need, another pharmacy, you guys should really tell them to stop building.

Yeah, because we all know how a company, after spending money on a lot, an architect, and construction crews, not to mention allotting inventory and hiring staff and management for a new store, will just 'stop building' when asked just because some person doesn't like it.

also:

Seriously, Mister - if you don't like it, why don't YOU tell them?

[Android Kaeli]

When the store next to Random Craft Store was being remodeled for when the new company took over, we employees knew what it was. By the 20th or so customer asking what was going in next to us, I just began saying I had no clue whatsoever -- a few got pissy when I said that, I basicaly told them I wasn't aware of what others do in other stores.

[EricKei]

Of course you knew what it was -- a unit that was under construction! ^_^

[RootedPhoenix]

When the store next to Random Craft Store was being remodeled for when the new company took over, we employees knew what it was.

I might have told them that their worst nightmare was opening next door.

(Although I'm not sure what an SC's worst nightmare might be. A store full of common sense, managers with spines and clerks who say no.)