This is the same shit I’ve had to repeat to about 15 people in just the last 10 minutes:
Sorry, we’re closed now. We close at 3 pm.
That’s right, we’re closed now.
No, we can’t open back up for just a minute.
No, we really can’t. I’m really sorry that you need a ruler right now, but we can’t. We closed over 20 minutes ago.
Why? Because we have specific times that we open and close. We have to follow that.
Sorry, if you have a problem with it, take it up with administration. I don’t make the hours.
Their response after all this is to give me a dirty look and roll their eyes before walking away haughtily. WTF?? Are these students fucking stupid? I’ve put up with this same bullshit from them for the last 3 years. It doesn’t seem to matter that I’ve got my store hours posted in neon paper, in bold, 72 point type dozens of places all over the department, and on my fucking door too. They seem incapable of reading a sign, and think that I should jump to serve them.
Sorry, fuckwads, I started at 9 this morning, and I’m only just now (at 3pm) getting my lunch hour. I have to treat you all with respect, so give me some.
Eesh. Now THIS is a rant about students that I can get behind.
All the same, I think you should give them a ruler. If you can get a good 30’ running head start, screaming like a banshee while your face is contorted with rage and you wield the ruler over your head like a scimitar, so much the better.
I used to work for a vet who closed from 12:00 until 3:00 every day. We ate lunch, then had surgery hours from 1:00 to 3:00. As receptionist, I would always get someone pounding at the door “Open up - I know you’re in there I can see your cars!” “We’re closed until 3:00, the doctor will be available then.” “Can’t you just let me in? I’ve got …yada yada yada.” Even if I let you in, which the doctor has told me not to do, he can’t see your pet until 3:00 because he’s in surgery." “This is an emergency - if I don’t get my dog’s rabies shot today they’re gonna take him and put him to sleep!” “The doctor is in surgery and will be happy to give your dog his shots at 3:00.”
And on and on…did these assholes think the vet was going to leave an animal open on the table so he could give shots to a dog? When the animal should have had shots several years ago? Finally, the vet decided that the door would not be answered and the phone machine turned on during surgery hours.
You’re friggin’ closed?!? Well then what’s with the gigantic lit-up sign that says “OPEN 24 HOURS” that enticed me to drive my fucking car into the parking lot, park, and then walk up to your door only to find it locked?
(this is regarding my neighborhood Safeway, which does this all the time, and it’s really starting to piss me off.)
So…why do you close at 3:00 when there’s still capitalism to be done? Are you some kind of communiss? Got something against edumacation? Jees, just give up the ruler–not like you’re pating for it anyways.
I always liked when a store I worked for did inventory. Well, I hated doing inventory, but we’d put these big signs up in the doors that said, “Closed for Inventory.” We always did it on Sundays, a day we were normally closed for business, anyway, so regular customers didn’t even expect us to be open.
We’d get people banging on the door, asking if we were open, asking if they could come in and look around. Hey, all the merchandise is just out and laying around anyway, why not? :smack: :rolleyes:
Fucking morons.
I had a little discussion with a Fellow Employee (FE) the other day. He called me we spoke on the phone…
Fellow Employee - “Hey, I came by your office TWICE yesterday, and you weren’t there!”
Me - “Well, I was here yesterday.”
FE - “I waited like five minutes each time.”
Me- <puzzled> “Around what time?”
FE- “Lunchtime!”
Me- “:wally (to myself) Well, I was probably at lunch then, too.”
One day…ONE DAY!!!
I’m gonna decapitate an idiot and hang their head in my office. There’s gonna be a little ‘speech balloon’ above it that says “I pissed off Grizz ONE too many times.”
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If fifteen customers regularly show up between 3:00 & 3:10 then maybe 3:00 is not a particularly good choice for closing time.
Counterpoint: Who on earth closes at 3? Why are you even open and in business if you’re going to close so early? If you’re a place that sells fucking rulers and you actually close for lunch, you have more serious infrastructure problems than Enron raping Haliburton.
When I worked at a pawn shop, I got into the following phone conversation (even though we were on the way out of the door, it could have been the owner calling, that’s why I answered):
Me: (name) Pawn Shop
Mental Giant: What time do you close?
Me: 6:00.
MG: What time is it now?
Me: 6:15.
MG: So, you’re closed, right?
Me: Uh, yeah. We are.
MG: (long pause, gears grinding): Uh, okay. I’ll call tomorrow.
My old boss closed at 3 and was only open Monday through Friday. He serves food to the suits up at the Capital Building in Harrisburg.
By the way, he now owns every building on that block of 4th Street. I think it’s safe to say that you can be quite successful with hours that seem to be pointless. It all depends on your clientele.
It is an unfortunate fact of retail and foodservice that if you close anytime before people normally go to sleep you’re going to get people straggling up after closing time and they’re always going to act pissed off. Hell, I’ve seen workers at places that close at midnight get abused. People want what they want, and all their lives they’ve been told that they can get stuff at their convenience, so when they can’t they act like assholes. I endured countless years of that at the restaurant I used to manage in the evening. Finally I just started to lock the door and ignore them when they banged on it. Eventually they got the picture and left. They could have saved a whole lot of trouble by reading the sign that said in big, bold, orange letters the word “CLOSED”.
The customer is always right (:rolleyes:), but if they can’t get in they’re not customers.
