Thrift Store Retail Hell

Thrift Store Slave, Tinkerhell sends a photo of the day care center down aisle 4.

She also had a few comments to say about something that annoys the hell out of all of us: The fuckin store phone.

Where are you located?

Whenever the phone rings it makes me cringe. What will the question be?

I'm an Asst manager at a thrift store.

When we answer the phone we say the name of the store...." xxxxx, the location and our name.

On one of many occasions I answered the phone and said this. In return I get the question, " Is this xxxxxx?" I had already said the name of our store first and foremost.

They want directions. They don't tell me where they are coming from but do ask if we are North or South of the main cross street. I tell them this.

Then they ask what side of the street are we on. I say the East. She does not understand this. I figured I'd say East due to the fact that she didn't tell me where SHE was. she replied, "East, what?"

I reiterated that we are on the East side of the street. She said, "Well that doesn't make any sense."

Just unbelievable really. It's one thing to have no sense of direction in a car but it's even worse when they are on the phone.

Tinkerhell

 

Comments

[Spritzy]

Yeeeeeesh! That mess makes me queasy. You can tell by the lined up horsies that the little girl there has been having fun wrecking the place for some time.

[Megan]

I hate those types of phone calls! Most of the time they have no sense of direction and they don't tell you where they are so that you could guide them better!

"Hello? How do you get to y'all's store?"
Umm...first of all, where are you?
"I don't know! I'm by a Walgreens!"
Really? There are several Walgreens in this city. Which one?
"The Walgreens with the rosebushes out front!"

[Jit]

Oooowww... my brrraaaiiiiin... the mess... the mess!!

[Tony]

What would be really fun (but probably get you in trouble) is just to give them random directions. "Sure, just go about a mile down the road turn left, go through three lights, turn right, then take the first left, stay on that road, we'll be on the right side next to the Chuck E. Cheese and Blockbuster... if you see the Burger King you've gone too far."

[RaleighRob]

It is a crying shame that in most US states' public school systems, you can graduate without ever taking a geography course. Instead of learning how to read a freakin' map, everyone just rather be told how to get someplace, or have their GPS do it.

[Retail Drone #37]

GPS makes people stupid. Look at a map and stop suing the GPS companies because you ran into a light pole.

[Logan]

Oh my god! The suggestion to give random directions cracked me up, because I had a coworker who did that once. He just rattled off driving directions with no idea where they may end up. I couldn't believe he did that, but he said if they couldn't even find the place, they also wouldn't be able to bitch at him.

[Lepchin]

That child.....*rants*

Excuse me.

Yeah I can't count the number of times people have tried to make me give them directions from where ever they live. I just tell them that they're better off going to google maps.

[Kit]

Oh ... lord ... if that child did that to my department I'd do one of a few things: (1) start picking up things while sending mildly evil looks to the parent of the child, (2) send my "death glare I'm going to get you like the Boogey Monster will get you" gaze at the child, which usually makes them freeze in their tracks and slowly back away.