Christmas Day at your local <my store>

[dragon_wings]

Today being Christmas, my drugstore was open 9-6 and the pharmacy was closed.

We had the usual customers annoyed the pharmacy was closed....

But the biggest issue and the worst SC were the ones that came up to the door *at 6 sharp* and demanded that my coworker at the door let them in. Apparently (and I heard this second hand cause I was not up to dealing with asshole customers so I took my trash to the back) they were arguing with C (the guy at the door) that we close on 10pm. So why were we closing at 6?!? All while staring straight at the sign on the door that said:
Christmas Day: 9 am to 6 pm
Pharmacy: closed
Nearest 24 hour pharmacy: x location



Please to be January somethingth nao.

[MoonCat]

Well, we all know they don't read signs. Idiots.

[PepperElf]

yeesh.

i mean there were a couple of places my bf and i wanted to go to in particular on christmas eve. but we called ahead first. both places answered the phone but said they weren't open. (one place was only working to fulfill catering orders)

but in both cases we were polite. closed means closed.

[Teefies2]

Dragon Wings I feel your pain.

We had the same idiots too. Most people were extremely grateful we were open, because in my small little town, there was only us, one of the gas stations, and the Chinese restaurant open.

The best/worst, and thankfully, last customer was a woman who had a bunch of cra...... I mean merchandise ;-). All of it was in the gift bags she was buying as well. Because you know, she had to take these right to the people they were going to and she didn't have time to wrap them, because you know it's CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!!!!!! So I have to take each item out of the gift bag, ring the bag, then the items, and be DAMN sure to get it back in the gift bag in the ORDER she had it in. Meanwhile, the "we are closed" announcement is going on, co-workers are sweeping, facing, etc.

Oh NOOOEESSS!!!! One of the gift bags has a TEAR IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get J to run back and get her another one, meanwhile I void that one off and tell her so. When J brings back a new one, I ring it up.

Tell her the total, get the money, hand back the change. "Did you take that TORN one off?" Yes ma'am, as I told you at the time. "Are you SURRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE?" Yes ma'am, see here on the receipt, it shows the one you first bought, then where I voided it off, then where I charged the new one. "Well I don't like being rushed" I'm not rushing you ma'am. "When you're rushed, you miss things"

WTF???? No one was rushing her, I was patient as all get out. Heck, I knew I wasn't leaving the second her ass hit the door anyway. If anyone was making her rush, it was her rushing her bad self to get out the store and to whereever the heck she was supposed to have had all those presents already

[Jester]

Today I lazed around doing jack shit. And around midafternoon, decided lunch at one of the Irish pubs here would be delightful. So I hop in the Jestermobile and drive down there, wondering why the parking lot was so empty....and then realized why when I got to the locked door.

Bummer.

Of course, since no one was there, it wouldn't have mattered if I had been an asshole about it, but I did what any reasonable person would have done...decided on going to the other Irish pub, called them to make sure they were open, then went and had a lovely lunch.

End of story.

[LillFilly]

I worked overnight at my mall, which was closed 5pm xmas eve and all xmas day. It's been like that as long as I've worked there, yes people were constantly trying to get in! Especially the mall walkers, who looked PISSED And at out one 24hour anchor store, which only ever closes on xmas, I counted 33 people trying to get in their locked, dark doors just while I was outside; so you know it must have been 10X that number for the whole day!

[crazyofficeclerk]

I had to go in yesterday even though the store was closed to do temperature checks. I laugh because it takes me longer to drive over to the store than it does to do the checks. So within that short amount of time, lets say 10 minutes, the phone rang at least 4 times that I could hear. And I'm pretty sure that at one point I heard someone bang on the doors.

[Lace Neil Singer]

When I worked at the country park, all the stable staff worked two hours on Christmas Day (so that one person wouldn't end up having to do the whole day). We split the day up into sections so that all the tasks would get done; ie, feeding the animals, feeding the horses, mucking out the show team who were never turned out over Christmas, bedding down the show team, and doing the afternoon feeds. I did the afternoon feeds and it actually took me less than two hours to do it cuz the morning feeders had kindly made up the feeds for me.

Anyway, while I fed the outside horses and the farm animals, I saw several cars pull into the car park. The people got out the cars, stared at the sign in front of them that said the place was closed for Christmas, then set off to try their luck cuz obviously, they didn't see the sign. -.-

One group of people even made it to the stables, just as I was locking up, and I told them that the place was closed. "Why are you here then?" asked the father.

Duh, cuz the animals don't live on air, stupid.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I worked overnight at my mall, which was closed 5pm xmas eve and all xmas day. It's been like that as long as I've worked there, yes people were constantly trying to get in! Especially the mall walkers, who looked PISSED And at out one 24hour anchor store, which only ever closes on xmas, I counted 33 people trying to get in their locked, dark doors just while I was outside; so you know it must have been 10X that number for the whole day!

The Litter Box closed at 6 on Christmas Eve and boy, we were tired. Still had a massive line of people at the checkouts (5 out of 6 registers open - #2 was out of order still and had been for some time.)

Gump (our new AM - yes he's about as fast as Forrest Gump - heehee) had locked one set of entrances around 5:30 (even had a line of carts against the doors on both sides) and we still had folks moseying in at 5:58!!!!! :facepalm:

Thankfully our CSM made regular annoucements every few minutes starting at 5 pm to remind customers of the holiday closing time. We did start getting away from the registers after 5:30 to go outside for a quick smoke though . . . we'd take turns running the registers so one of us could go (our CSM is really cool that way.)

Still had customers who were trying to get into the store when Gump locked the other side at 6 - he did let one in, whose wife was already in the store. Other than that, everybody got turned away and we finally got the lines down and all the customers out by 6:15ish. After picking up 2 last minute items (thankfully I'd just gotten away from the register to get the sweeping done and trash collected when the phone went off) we had all the tills pulled by 6:30 and while other coworkers were finishing up the returns and damages, as well as cleaning the registers, we were out the door at around 6:40.

I could've killed my Mom for calling at the last second . . . we had just made a late night run to Wallyworld on Friday to get last minute stuff so we wouldn't have to get anything else. What did she want?

Trash bags and a box of laundry detergent. :facepalm:

Of all the stuff we got Friday at Wallyworld, she somehow overlooked those two items. Not even Christmas related - just everyday items for us.

But we did have folks still coming into our parking lot as late as 6:30 trying to get in. We've had signs up on both entrances for at least 2 weeks stating our holiday hours . . . but of course it's the same shit every year.

But anyway, we did manage to survive without any major issues.