My god, now i understand what i was missing, not working retail...

[wolven7]

MC Frontalot - [I Heart Fags]--- People Fucking Suck.

Don't walk into a specialty shop, and immediately assume that the person behind the counter doesn't have the intelligence necessary to understand your extremely common place fucking watch. Your Seiko Kinetic is not some neat new invention. (MC Frontalot - [Crime Spree]). It's been around for about seven fucking years, and if I, personally, can't fix what's wrong with it, i certainly know what needs to be done to do so, and can inform my watch repairperson toward the end of fixing your fucking problem. Don't thik that i'm an idiot, or someone of whom you can take advantage. Don't ask me to do work twice, because you can get it done somewhere else, cheaper or free. (MC Frontalot - [Rewind]). When it's done, It Is Fucking Done, and you will Pay Me and Thank Me. Are we clear?

Fucking people.

I always said i wanted to work retail, because i didn't have the work experiences that most people had, growing up.

MC Frontalot - [Front the Most]--- Now I get it.

Other than that, the best part of my day was talking to my dad, and mech_angel.

I've been feeling as if my periods of downtime are useless blocks of time, that cast an ill shadow on everyth8ing else i'm doing, when i'm busy. If i'm not doing Something, i might as well Have Been doing Nothing. You get me? I know it's not true, but it's how it feels. (MC Frontalot - [Good Old Clyde]). So i'm working on fixing all of that.

Anyway. I'll talk to you later.

I need food.

Comments

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

Working retail is good for learning patience.

Where is your watch shop, anyway?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is.

Plaza level of Lenox Mall, in between the California Pizza Kitchen and Bloomingdales.

Guess how many times a day i have to say that...

urge to ask you where it is again

[karishi.livejournal.com]

I have yet to pick up my own phone and say "Yerkes Primate Research Center," but I've felt the habit tugging at me.

Re: urge to ask you where it is again

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yep. I hear door sensor noises, and ticking, whenever i'm in a quiet room...

I've almost answered my cell with the "It's About Time" spiel, twice now...

[mendori.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I get where you are coming from, because being competent is what working a job like that is what its all about.

However... I've been in many a specialty shops where the guy behind the counter didnt know his ass from toast when it came to their product. Worst was the butcher shop where I tried to get several cuts of lamb done and was told they didnt sell mutton. I wanted to kill someone. And then there was the rare bookstore I went in where they actually had first editions OUT ON THE SHELF. Or the electronics supply store where the guy couldnt tell the difference between two capacitors I needed to buy and had to have me GO GET THE BOXES OF 1000 off the shelves so he could price them right.

However, about the only thing I think you guys at IAB wouldnt be able to fix would be a sundial. I love you guys.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That is a product of poor training and incompitent help. Those people should either be A) Fired or, prefereably, B) trained better. But what do I know, i'm only a lowly salesperson.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I'll have to agree with mendori, here...I've worked with most of those idiots. We've had illiterate people trying to file cd's. At Inventory, the temps thought it was okay to talk on their cellphones while doing that, despite that they told us not to talk to ONE ANOTHER.

Customers are shit, most times, though. Still love the woman who walked in, took in a store the size of a city block, two floors, and asked me if we sell cd's.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

People walk in,past the giant sign telling people what we do, and ask if we sell batteries.

People come in, look around, and Ask SERIOUSLY if we have the correct time.

I know people get let down, but assuming incompitences does a disservice to everyone.

[lilsayermonster.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the whole "customer is always right" crap. People blindly believe that it means they can treat the salesperson however they want and get away with it. I have had lots of customers act as though just because I'm behind a counter I have no other feelings than that I should live to serve them. Bastards.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

The Customer is not always right. Unless the customer is God Itself, the customer may need to face the very harsh reality that they are in my store, and i'm treating them better than anywhere else, in the mall, becuase if, in my hands, his shit breaks, He'll be compensated. Now, at our prices, that's amazing.

There's only one place that does it cheaper, and if THEY break your shit, oh well.

Fucking people.