Shops and SupermarketsI used to work in a supermarket where the girl on the deli counter cut off the top of her finger in the meat slicer, but was made to finish her shift before going to hospital. You can now pay £100 to shoot zombies in the store's empty shell, haunted by poor dead nine-finger deli girl. Tell us your tales of the old retail experience, from either side of the counter
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:50)
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I'll just nudge it out of the way...It was a few days before Christmas several years ago and snow was on the ground (this was in the North, obviously). I was temping at a large and very busy supermarket working 'on the back door' dealing with burly delivery drivers and their large lorries. One of them was in a particular hurry and decided that as manoeuvering round the small car parked near the gate would cost vital seconds, he would 'just nudge it out of the way' with his 40 tonne truck. The sobbing of the staff member when she was told her car had been demolished against the wall went on for days, I was told.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 16:10, 2 replies)
I was NOT that burly driverI don't nudge them, I block them in.
A Somerfields in a galaxy far far away. I turn up to find a Mercedes badly parked in the loading bay. I avoid hitting it, just. Halfway through unloading the driver turns up and wants me to move. She's not staff, she's not a customer and she's ignored all the NO PARKING HEAVY VEHICLES TURNING signs.
On my refusal to move, she calls Plod. He turns up, explain she's on private land, nothing they can do. She also has out of date tax. Oops.
There is then some very loud yelling, which got even louder when the manager brought out a bag of doughnuts for the copper.
(, Fri 11 May 2012, 18:28, closed)
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