• Retail Life #27

    *SCREAMS!*          Oh, lovely humans. Some days in retail are so nice. Customers help each other out, someone in line helps cover the change if the person at the register is short, and no one destroys the clothes section. And there are other days. Most days, really. Everyone is yelling, there are kids everywhere, a…

  • Oh, Customers

  • 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…

  • Fun Times in Retail

    Check back in on Thursday to hear about the lovely people I’ve had to deal with lately.

  • Public Freakouts