Yeah I found that out with Amazon about 5 or 6 years ago.
It’s getting to the stage if I can get enough ordered in one go, I can pay for a Fedex shipment and still come out cheaper than just buying it here.
Plus we normally are lagging on releases (DVD/Books) so it’s faster too.
Who said I was taking it out on my customers? I said before that I smile and laugh a little, what more do you want? Am I not allowed to vent on a message board? The fact that they’re trying to help me (and I’m not even sure they’re doing that, they could just me amusing themselves) doesn’t make them any less annoying.
Look, if you’ve reached a state of zen serenity where hearing the same joke two to three times a day doesn’t bother you, then that’s fine and good for you. But I’m not quite there yet and I would like to be able to vent such frustrations on a somewhat anonymous board, where it doesn’t hurt anyone. What is wrong with that?
But like you said, agree to disagree and all that…I guess we’ll just never understand each other.
Um, no, I am not. I’ve worked retail and fast food.
You know those Select Comfort mattresses? Yeah, I “sold” those for a year in a mall.
While the public is comprised of 85% morons, I didn’t let it stress me out. What pissed me off were the greedy father-company and their inept management, selling a $1800 air mattress in a mall, and breaking a little tiny bit off for the people actually slinging them.
I don’t understand how you could make such foolish fucking statement based solely on assumption.
Fuck this heartburn. Why have I not learned yet to take my pill after I eat breakfast? At least the oatmeal seems to be killing it.
Owwwwwwwww.
You call 85% of the public morons, I call 90% of the public good, and I’m the whiner?
:sniff sniff: What’s that heady aroma, redolent of spring?
Oh yes, bullshit! That’s what you’re spreading!
Ah! I see–it’s more of that colloquial Spanish stuff, the kind of thing that makes me scratch my head watching “Amores Perros” as the word “cabron” is translated into about seven different naughty words, seemingly at random.
Unfortunately, that sort of Spanish is the only kind I tend to learn readily–I won’t be able to give directions to my house but I can certainly tell someone off for not knowing how to get there! 
Are you insane?
You’re either:
a) Very young
b) Very naive
c) Stupid
I usually don’t like to call people stupid, but with a statement like “I call 90% of the public good,” you’re leaving me little choice. I am hoping for your sake that it’s choice A or B.
I’m:
D) Someone who’s worked for the public for six years and who knows what people are like.
You are either:
A) An asshole.
B) A liar.
C) An asshole and a liar
D) A troll.
I’m hoping for your sake it’s D.
6 years?! You must be an expert, then. Carry on, sunshine.
Congratulations, you just destroyed whatever shred of credibility you had remaining. Six years isn’t enough in your esteemed eyes? I’m so sorry it doesn’t compare to your whopping one year selling mattresses.
You are obviously just stirring up shit for the sake of stirring it up and have no arguments of value. You have studiously avoided all points made against your argument, you have changed the point of the argument solely to antagonize, and have provided a ludicrous example of stress, then claimed it wasn’t you. And now you don’t have any arguments left.
Bye bye, troll.
What points?
The point that you’re an early 20something twit who thinks dragging items across an infrared barcode scanner is stressful?
Or the point that you haven’t even begun to understand what ass-kickings life has in store for you, yet you think with six years at a checkout stand, you do?
Or maybe it was the point that you can’t post on a messageboard without “shaking with anger” when someone calls you on your choice of things to get truly bothered about (people telling lame jokes)?
Those points?
Incidentally, do you put these lame joke-tellers in your “bad” 10% of people?
Don’t be silly, morons are toward the lower end of the bell curve, IQ 50-69. I’ll bet you’ve run into one at the most.
Ok, women, listen up. You do NOT give toys in a store to children who aren’t yours. Even if the child is crying and pointing to it. The mother had already removed the stuffed dog from her daughter’s hands, and daughter was taking the opportinuity to pitch a tantrum while mother was checking out. I am in line behind the squalling, kicking child, who is pointing to the stuffed animal. You walk up, look at the child, look at the dog, and hand it to her.
The child immediately rubs the stuffed animal all over her snotty, teary face. Then her mother has to spend a few minutes getting it away from her again. Which of course causes another tantrum, complete with the child sweeping everything she could reach off of the checkout stand and into the floor.
Who do you think you are? If the mom had wanted her kid to have the dog, she would have given it to her and paid for it. Now it is covered with snot and tears - and most likely will be put back on the rack for some unsuspecting mother to buy for her child.
Idiot.
Ooh! Ooh! I get annoyed when people try to talk to me about their religion and why I need it, even though they’re just trying to help. That’s sort of the same thing. Friends?
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This is totally minor and mini, but I cannot stand it when people leave off “I” or “We” when writing message board posts or blog entries.
“Went to Costco today. They’ve got lots of stuff there. Later, took a nap and then watched the game. Dropped by Jen’s after that.”
It sounds fucking LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME. It sounds like you think you’re some sort of coolguy Kurt Vonnegut meets Hunter S. Thompson fucking casual 2k00l4sk00l Beat Generation survivor chronicling his trips through the self-transforming wastelands of America, MAN. BRO.
That shit needs to be ethnically cleansed and buried in the same mass grave as “yr.”
Hear, hear!
If all the job entailed was “dragging items across an infrared barcode scanner” then, yeah, it wouldn’t be very stressful, but there’s a lot more to it than that. If that’s all you had to do during your sales job, you’re one damn lucky pup.
I gotta agree with Pixiesnix on this one. A good 90% or so of customers are forgettably average. You just remember the morons and the assholes much more vividly and for a far longer period of time. (You remember the really wonderful customers longer than the forgettably average ones, too, but unfortunately not as long as you remember the assholes.)
There was no assumption. You asserted categorically and without qualification that working with/for the public is never stressful. It may not have been for YOU in the (short) time you did it, but that’s certainly not the case for 95% of retail workers.
I repeat, you are a liar.
I prefer the public to management. If the public is stupid then I can just write them off as such and our interaction is over in about two minutes. If management is incompetent their incompetence affects my entire shift and can get me fired. Shitty management gets to me much worse than shitty customers.
Ooh, minirant. Fuck you, old boss. I know you have a lot of employess. I know you get tired of us young whippersnappers who deliver your pizza and are always cutting up with each other, but when I ask you a question, I do not you want you stare at me like the dumbass you are or mumble. Communicate like a normal human being and stop pretending like every minute of your life is a chore to be handled.