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Final day of Super Duper Uber Mega Super Stupendous Lowest Prices of the Season, and I was assigned to work the salesfloor.
This does wonders for my energy level in the morning
Hearing the song "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne over the PA as I'm coming down to the floor to start work.
Or "Running on Empty," also by Jackson Browne.
Muzak really knows how to get me going in the morning.
Yeah, we got that
Customer: Do you have this...thing, it was advertised on TV...
Why yes, we do! It is conveniently located between this other thing advertised on TV, and something else also advertised on TV. Can I help ya find anything else?
...something to do with furniture...
Me: EZ moves?
Customer: Yeah, that's it.
Keep track of your local crazy people
I encountered a woman walking around aimlessly, vague look in her eyes, pushing a shopping cart and muttering "Clearance swamp, clearance swamp, clearance swamp, ought to be ashamed of yourself, ought to be ashamed of yourself...."
Yeah, we're going to give this one a wide berth. Especially since she also reeks of pee.
Drugs are Bad
Guy asks me where we have our roses, because he saw an ad on TV, from my company, saying that in honor of Sweetest Day, we were offering 18 roses for $10.
1.) Sweetest Day is a sham "holiday" if there ever was one. What, we now need two special days to remind our significant others we love them with cards and gifts and candy and other shit?
2.) We're not currently doing any advertising on TV
3.) 18 roses for $10? Dead ones maybe.
He insisted he saw this commercial on one of the local TV channels. I told him only a few bigger stores in our district may be having that sale, because it would've been impolite to ask him what the hell he was on to think this was a legitimate deal.
Yay for remembering
Cashiers pages with a carryout for a chair or something. Somebody else answers.
15 minutes later the service desk girl pages me, because the customer is still waiting for her chair, and was I the one who took the call in the first place? I told her I wasn't and delivered the chair.
I asked the two guys working on the floor at the time and asked them if they had answered the carryout page and simply forgot. They both denied it. So one of them has to be lying.
Grrrrrr
I don't mind being pulled over to the side at a fast food place. I mind being pulled over AND having my order screwed up.
I ordered a chicken sammich value meal and 6-piece chicken fries at Burger Monarchy. They pulled me off to the side, and later brought me my order--sans 6-piece chicken fries.
I called them once I returned to work and they put me in "the book." for a free 6-pc chicken fries. I'm not sure I'll ever make good on it. I think I'm going to avoid Burger Monarchy any time I go out for my lunch.
Meh. 5 days in a row down at work. 4 more to go.
This does wonders for my energy level in the morning
Hearing the song "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne over the PA as I'm coming down to the floor to start work.
Or "Running on Empty," also by Jackson Browne.
Muzak really knows how to get me going in the morning.
Yeah, we got that
Customer: Do you have this...thing, it was advertised on TV...
Why yes, we do! It is conveniently located between this other thing advertised on TV, and something else also advertised on TV. Can I help ya find anything else?
...something to do with furniture...
Me: EZ moves?
Customer: Yeah, that's it.
Achievement unlocked!
Divining vague customer requests
Divining vague customer requests
Keep track of your local crazy people
I encountered a woman walking around aimlessly, vague look in her eyes, pushing a shopping cart and muttering "Clearance swamp, clearance swamp, clearance swamp, ought to be ashamed of yourself, ought to be ashamed of yourself...."
Yeah, we're going to give this one a wide berth. Especially since she also reeks of pee.
Drugs are Bad
Guy asks me where we have our roses, because he saw an ad on TV, from my company, saying that in honor of Sweetest Day, we were offering 18 roses for $10.
1.) Sweetest Day is a sham "holiday" if there ever was one. What, we now need two special days to remind our significant others we love them with cards and gifts and candy and other shit?
2.) We're not currently doing any advertising on TV
3.) 18 roses for $10? Dead ones maybe.
He insisted he saw this commercial on one of the local TV channels. I told him only a few bigger stores in our district may be having that sale, because it would've been impolite to ask him what the hell he was on to think this was a legitimate deal.
Yay for remembering
Cashiers pages with a carryout for a chair or something. Somebody else answers.
15 minutes later the service desk girl pages me, because the customer is still waiting for her chair, and was I the one who took the call in the first place? I told her I wasn't and delivered the chair.
I asked the two guys working on the floor at the time and asked them if they had answered the carryout page and simply forgot. They both denied it. So one of them has to be lying.
Grrrrrr
I don't mind being pulled over to the side at a fast food place. I mind being pulled over AND having my order screwed up.
I ordered a chicken sammich value meal and 6-piece chicken fries at Burger Monarchy. They pulled me off to the side, and later brought me my order--sans 6-piece chicken fries.
I called them once I returned to work and they put me in "the book." for a free 6-pc chicken fries. I'm not sure I'll ever make good on it. I think I'm going to avoid Burger Monarchy any time I go out for my lunch.
Meh. 5 days in a row down at work. 4 more to go.
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