Home Improvement Store Asshole Custys

From Depot Demon, a female Retail Slave:

I get all kinds of custys at a certain home improvement store who loves the color orange, including the most sexist assholes you can think of.

I work in Lumber and Building materials, which involves lifting some heavy shit. If I can't lift it, I can't work in that department. However, male customers love trying to get the other male associates in the department instead of me.

Here are some examples of shit that has been said to me and some I've heard from other women:

"You shouldn't be working here, why aren't you cashiering like women should be? Leave it to the guys."

"You know, women shouldn't be working. You should be at home making your man dinner." (That one made me go WTF.)

"I got a bad back. Why don't you get one of the guys to lift this for me?"

"I'll go to the other store down the street. I don't want a girl to help me."

"Let me get a guy over here. You women don't really know what you're talking about"

"You know what? Let me get that guy to help me. He should know what he's talking about better than you."

"They must be desperate, if they're hiring girls"

This kind of thing happens all the time.

I love it when I'm the only one there, and I get to watch them suffer, or the look on their face when I lift something for them. It's like their world gets turned upside down! Muhaha!

Love,
DepotDemon

Note from Carolanne: "I recommend smacking them in their fucking sexist head with a hammer and cutting off their tiny balls with a pair of gardening shears."

Comments

[CrumBapNuts]

I feel your pain, and I'm a male working at this same establishment. I cashier sometimes and people expect me to load and know everything.

I had a customer awhile back being helped by one of our female employees, she was on a register but was pointing out where our screws were not more than 20 feet away with signs. After hearing this conversation I accidently made eye contact with this guy and he asked me the same exact thing. "Sir she just told you where the screws are." He said he had to be sure and that cashiers don't know anything. What an idiot.

[Kerry]

You should "accidentally" hit these fucking assholes in the head with something heavy they request. =D

[jk]

I too work for the orange empire, and I once watched a woman wait 30 minutes for a guy to come load up her two bags of concrete because she refused to let me do it for her. She went on and on about how it was "man's work" and how men and women are made differently and all other kinds of uncomfortable 1950s biology lessons.

I should have asked her why she was doing "man's work" buying fucking concrete in the first place.

[Green Boy]

Next time a guy (or gal) doesn't think you can lift something, just say, "I got it." Then, 'accidentally' drop it on the douche bags foot.

Remember... the customer is always right ;-)

[Retail Therapy]

^^I was going to say exactly what they said.^^

[Tony]

It might also help to remind them that this is in fact the 21st century.

[Dianne]

If you think it's bad being a female employee at the big orange sexist empire, try being a female customer. I am not a scary ass customer, I've worked in retail, and I was nice before that.

I've never heard stupider shit than I have from male employees at the orange sexist empire. And yes, I do know what I'm doing, I don't have a 'list' from my husband, he didn't 'let me out of the house', he's home doing the dishes.

The only informed, quick help I've ever gotten from the orange evil empire was from a FEMALE employee.

But that poor girl was few and far between, sorry to say.

Now I have some woman at my gym pushing pink tools geared to women. WTF?

[Regan]

I worked at a hardware store and most of the time the guys just flirted with me, but I did get a couple assholes one night. It was closing time and 2 rednecks came in and sure enough I hear in my earpiece "CUSTOMER SERVICE TO THE FASTENERS AISLE" I'm like OH great...I know nothing about screws and nuts and bolts lmao. So I go down "Can I help you?" The 2 guys look at me like I'm an alien and chuckle and say "Is there a GUY that can help me???" I just walked away lol.

[M]

Sorry that you have had such a difficult time of it at the orange store. I also work in lumber and building materials there and am also a woman. I don't have any problem at all since I have worked in the construction industry for over 20 yrs and know my stuff. Only one male employee in my department kind of had his nose out of joint for a while but he's gotten over it. Now employees from my own and other departments bring customers to ME directly for answers to their projects.

Oh by the way I'm 5'2, 116 lbs and I CAN lift an 80 Lb bag of concrete.... its all in the abs and attitude......