• Why Did She Think I Was Lying? A Retail Rant

    I have been making an effort to not let customers get under my skin. But sometimes it’s just unavoidable. We’ll start off slow with someone who wouldn’t accept responsibility for her card getting declined. She does the card the first time – I tel her it’s declined. She looks at her card and shakes her…

  • A Retail Rant

    Today I have a short rant of the general intelligence of people who shop in my store. I don’t understand how some of these people operate through daily life without dying or getting severely injured. Like… where is the common sense? So, my coolers went down. Four doors of milk, two with eggs and lunchmeat…

  • Retail Life 35

    A quick retail rant because I’m not feeling very creative today… One: if you misread a sign and I’m trying to explain to you what it’s supposed to be, don’t cuss me out and storm off. Sign reads “Buy 2 get 1 free, tanks, shorts and sandals.” You buy two pairs of PANTS and a…

  • 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 30

    Hey, we survived Christmas mayhem and now we’re back to business as usual. Which, of course, doesn’t mean people are any more pleasant, but at least they aren’t hurrying around to buy last-minute gifts anymore. But one side effect of the post-Christmas atmosphere is that people are broke. And what do broke people tend to…

  • Retail Life #29

                One of my pet peeves about customers is when they blame everything in their lives on us retail workers. They come in the store and yell at us for things that are completely out of our control. It gets worse during the holidays because there is more stress going around in general. But that…

  • Retail Life 28

                The last month or so of my retail job hasn’t been too awful. There’s the normal “I can’t believe your bathroom’s broken” still happening and the “When are you gonna get more lysol/clorox wipes/rubbing alcohol/paper towels” every few days. But it’s become bearable. The overall rage people expressed through the first few months of…

  • Couponers

    Thursday will bring you another chance to laugh at my pain. You’ll never guess who got on my nerves this time 🙄

  • 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…

  • 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…