# Working with the public totally sucks! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 23, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238 "2003-09-23T03:26:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238/61 "2003-09-28T17:46:51Z")
If it’s the regulars then yeah that would be veeeery annoying. Yeah when I worked as a hostess part of my duties was to get the drinks, that’s why I thought they might be used to it. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238/62 "2003-09-29T00:33:14Z")
Retail is hell in the afterlife, I swear it is. Maybe we’re all actually dead? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238/63 "2003-09-29T00:55:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanguineSpider \* > \*\*Retail is hell in the afterlife, I swear it is. Maybe we’re all actually dead? \*\* Sartre _did_ say “Hell is other people.” ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238/64 "2003-09-29T01:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krisfer the Cat \* > \*\*Oh I forgot one: I ABSOLUTELY HATE asking an employee for assistance and they answer" I don’t usually work here so I can’t help you." **WTF?!** IF you are working there learn the god damned area! > Then when I ask them if they can call for someone who does know the area they look at me like I just pissed on their shoes. Guess what YOU wear a nametag with your name on it… I learned to read many years ago. My next stop is the manager’s office… \*\* Now, I have been in an area that I don’t normally work in. And I do tell the customer I don’t know, but I do try to help them as best I can. It doesn’t matter though, when I tell a customer I don’t know, and I have to look for a particular item, they get made at me like I told them to go to hell. I can’t learn the department because there isn’t time. If i’m in another department, it’s because we are short handed at the moment, or I am covering for lunch. So no, I don’t know which shoes are running shoes or walking shoes. NO I don’t have any idea if a size 34 is a large. No ma’am I can’t help you fit a bra, you mean to tell me you don’t know after all this time? So it’s not always that we don’t know the area out of spite or something. For me personally it’s because I really don’t know. Only go there when needed.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238/65 "2003-09-29T02:18:30Z")
**Spider** , what’s the deal with everyone being so snotty about you working adult retail. I mean, it’s just sex toys and porn, for God’s sake. Everybody’s got that at home, right? ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238/66 "2003-09-29T18:52:12Z")
Well, I came into the “clique”. I was an outsider and I came from porn… EWWWWWW _porn_!! Silly bookstore clerks, they think their shit doesn’t stink! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-the-public-totally-sucks/203238.md?page=3)