• Retail Rant

    It’s been awhile since I ranted about my day job, so I thought I’d give you a catch up entry on how much I still wish I didn’t work in retail. Just in case you started to think that it was all fun for me now. The general public hasn’t learned to behave any better.…

  • Retail Life 32

             It would seem that I’m more aggravated with my retail job than usual. It’s possibly from putting in so much work for my wish to work from home and write and edit all the time. I feel like I’m on the brink of something great and it makes me impatient to be out of…

  • Retail Life Episode 31

    It’s been a minute since I posted a retail story, so how about we talk about that today? I hope the gap doesn’t suggest I have had no one get on my nerves, because that sure is a daily occurrence, ha. But I’ve worked at this store for almost eleven (ELEVEN) years now, so I’m…

  • Customer Fail

    This week we return to tales from hell – I mean retail 🙃

  • Retail Life #26

             Sometimes people are so extra. They can be so over the top for absolutely no reason. Sometimes it’s funny. But sometimes it just makes you want to slap them. Sometimes both. And yet you have to keep your professional face on through it all. But it’s okay, because that’s how some of the best…

  • Retail Life #25

             So I’ve concluded that I might need a vacation. I’m a little too grouchy all the time. Either that or everyone else is too grouchy and want to take it out on the poor retail workers. Because we’re supposed to just let people yell at us and give them their way all the time.…

  • Customer Complaints

  • Retail Life Episode 24

    Oh, the sweet public. The generous, loving, patient general public. Where are they? Because they sure don’t shop at my store. One in ten customers are nice lately. And that’s better than none, but still. I’d like to not have to bite my tongue at least twenty times a minute to keep myself from saying…

  • Drunk Customers

  • Retail Life 23

    Let me preface this story by letting everyone know that our company’s return policy has changed. Most companies have done this, actually. In light of covid-19, we are not accepting returns or exchanges. Obviously, this has caused quite a few people to get angry. Even with the sign posted right on the register on a…