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 have a face for being a supermarket or shop assistantThis happens one or twice a year. I will be in Tesco or B&Q or where ever and someone will walk up to me and say "Do you work here because I can't find....". I can be in my worst t-shirt and jeans and someone will still walk up to me in Sainsburys and ask me. I don't work in retail at all. I did a Saturday job in Comet when I was 15 and some mindless till work while looking for a job after graduating !#?* years ago. I do not understand what people see in me that says to them "shop worker". I've started responding "Do I look like I work here?".
Actually the till work was quite good mindless fun. I used to see scan slowly till I had a nice long queue and then see how quickly I could empty the queue of customers. Scan scan scan scan scan scan. I was practically throwing the tins past the bar code reader.
(, Thu 10 May 2012, 22:02, 2 replies)
this happened to me in chiswicki was wearing a fleece. i mean, it wasnt the fault of the fleece, but for some reason the woman thought that it was a sainsburys uniform. not even the same colour.
anyway
she had a rant. she couldnt find something and ranted. i lisnted till she finished, maybe a minute or so, and then i told her i didnt work there.
she looked very confused.
i like to think i drew her ire and she was a little more polite to an actual member of staff
(, Fri 11 May 2012, 9:56, closed)
I've had this from time to timeOr at least I used to, when I was a little younger. If people asked me where something was I had a nasty habit of pointing them in the wrong direction, or muttering something nonsensical (kiwi trumpet) under my breath as they walked away.
In retrospect, I rather hope I didn't cause enough annoyance for them to make a complaint. On the other hand I do if only for the thought of some management fellow having to watch the CCTV footage to figure out which underling was so rude, then having seen the encounter explaining to the poor offended soul in carefully selected language that they are, in fact, an idiot.
(, Sun 13 May 2012, 18:19, closed)
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