A message to all shoppers

[Guest Ripper]

OK. We have a shitty economy, I got laid off and had to get a shitty job. Right now I work for Macys in Atlanta. I work with the Visual Department(we make the store pretty) so before you walk in any Macys, or any department store, please read this rant.

 

 

It is October....YES I KNOW THAT CHRISTMAS IS IN DECEMBER!!! If I have to hear one more freaking moron telling me "I can't believe you guys in this store are putting up Christmas decorations, that is ridiculous" I just might jump off my freaking ladder and beat you to death. You heard right...we are putting up christmas decorations. In October. When you are working in a 3 floor store and a couple of hundred thousand square feet, you have a lot to do. You have to be done by Thanksgiving. It take months to get all that crap done. While I understand that this isn't obvious to most people, it should be ovious that YELLING at someone for doing their job is stupid. I mean seriously... does a department store sell candy, coustumes and pumkins...Then why in the hell would we decorate for Halloween? Do we sell turkeys or food?? WHy would we decorate for THanksgiving. Do you at anytime give someone a pair of pants to celebrate Halloween. Do you give jewlery at Thanksgiving? AND even if you do need to say something, don't say that shit around the people doing the work...wait about 10 seconds and talk all the shit you want, but seriously, friday, I worked 8 hours and 216 people walked by bitching about me doing my job. 216... I don't want to hear that shit. Yeah, I know what the date is... Yeah we are putting them up now. No it isn't some huge government conspiracy to get you to spend more money. We are just doing our jobs.

 

So if you go to any store and see them doing christmas decorations, they have a reason. Leave them the fuck alone.

[Guest Big Poppa Popick]

dood...im in atlanta...which macy's?

 

lenox, cumberland, or town center?

 

and no, i wasnt one of those bitching never do

[Guest Ripper]

Perimeter.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Its still early...I figure in a couple years Christmas stuff will be going up in july..ONLY 6 MONTHS to Christmas..

[Guest mesepher]

stores ALWAYS put their seasonal merchadise out early, regardless of the holiday.

[Guest Ripper]

Dude, if it is a absolutly huge store, it takes MONTHS to decorate that sumabitch. We have been working for about a month and a half and we might be halfway done by the end of next week. Its not like we have christmas merchandise out, people are bitching about the decorations.

[Guest Anglesault]

Leave it to the inbred Atlanta hicks. Most stores start decorating for Christmas around now. Maybe not totally full blown, but you can definately see things starting to become red and green.

 

I was more shocked to see stores start stocking up on Halloween candy in August.

[Guest ant_7000]

Ripper I feel ya, The Outdoorsman store I work at already (but slowly) have Christmas decorations put up. Sometimes people ask me why do the store have them up so early, and I'll say the store is pretty big (135,000 sq ft and 3 levels).

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Why not take a note from me and leave your XMas stuff up all year?

[Guest DJ Jeff]

Next time a customer tells you that, just tell them that you consider everyday Christmas.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Next time a customer tells you that, just tell them that you consider everyday Christmas.

Yeah and then when they think your retarded ask for a lolipop.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Wow -- that's dumb.

 

I've worked at places remodeling, and I HATED hearing each and every customer ask what was going on; were we closing?

 

!@#$%^

[Guest Midnight Express83]

Well, I work at a hardware store in Stamford called Karps. We have alot of our Christmas stuff already out and on the shelf. Alot of the stuff was bought in feb and only came here now and we have no place to put it, so it goes up. People kept bitching about us being early and I bluntly say "This was bought last Dec, it was on backorder until now and we have no place to store it so may as well put it up since grass seed isn't a hot item right now".

 

We still are getting Christimas stuff and have 20,000 square feet of work to do. I get sick of people bitching about it. But when the holidays come they want their stuff now. They don't care if it took us 1000+ hours of work. They want it to be done pronto. We got until the week before thanksgiving to get it all done. I just wish people wouldn't judge stores for having management wanting things done early.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Why would people even care in the first place about a store having holiday decorations up in Oct.? Jesus...

[Guest Ace309]

People used to complain all the time when I worked at Rite Aid. One REALLY indignant customer came up and complained that we went straight from Halloween to Christmas, "just because Thanksgiving isn't a money holiday."

 

Uh, ma'am? We're not in this for our health.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I don't mean to topic hijack, but I don't want to start a thread to rant in.

 

I work in a sneaker store called Finish Line right now. My job is ok most of the time, so I can't really complain about too much. I was in the stock room for pretty much my whole shift yesterday and it was making me go crazy after a while. We got a shipment of about 40 boxes and I had to go through each box and make sure everything was there and I had to put all that shit away after I got finished. Despite me feeling like I was going to go crazy, I was in a decent mood. My mood started to change when I saw the schedule for next week and noticed my lack of hours. My mood got even worse when I found out that I was being sent home an hour early. I sucked it up and clocked out.

 

When I was about to leave, I saw the manager in training talking to an African woman who looked familiar to me. I went over to the MIT and asked her if that was the same woman who was in the store last week causing trouble. It turns out it was. Last week, I had clocked out and gone to the food court and ran into a girl that I know from school. While I was talking to her, a cousin of mine stopped by and we went back to my store so I could get him a pair of sneakers. When I go there, the woman was standing at the register with her arms folded because she wanted to return a pair of sneakers. She didn't have her receipt, but she wanted cash. The MIT explained to her repeatedly that she couldn't give her cash without a receipt, but the woman just stood there and pretended that she couldn't understand. I would have called security, but the MIT called managers at other stores in an attempt to reason with the lady. When I left the store, the lady was still there.

 

Anyway, I asked the MIT what she ddi last time and she said that she caved in and gave the lady her money back. Man did that really pissed me off. I looked over at the checkout counter and saw a pile of shirts that the lady was returning. I saw five shirts. Two medium North Carolina shirts and three Maryland shirts. The first thing that came to mind was, "why the fuck is this lady trying to get over on us?" Here she is returning some shit to the store and I am fully convinced that she stole it. You mean to tell me that she liked the North Carolina shirt so much that she bought it twice? In the same size? Then bought the Maryland shirt three times? I think that she stole the shit and wanted to return it so that she could get store credit. Furthermore, I think she wanted to take the store credit and purchase something so she would be given a receipt. I then think that she intended to use that receipt when she came to return what she bought with store credit and try to get cash. The last time she was in the store, she said that she didn't want store credit because there was nothing that she wanted. That miraculously changed a week later.

 

I went behind the register and I was looking at her in a way that dared her to start some shit. I was itching for her to say something. She took her shit and tried to complete the transaction as quickly as possible because she knew I was about to go off on her ass. If she fucking needed money so damn badly, I would have been more than willing to help her fill out a job application so that she wouldn't have to try to rip us off. Does she think people are fucking stupid? Let me see someone come into the store trying to return anything that looks remotely like what she bought and they're going to get tossed out on their ass and they're not getting shit. Not even the clothes that they wee trying to return. If she has such problems with our store, why not got back to the store where she bought her puffy ass shirt and keep shopping there. She can get the fuck out of my store and never come back for all I care. She tried to steal some shit and bring it back to the store as if she bought it! She tired to fuck us! She tried to fuck us! Quite frankly, I wasn't even worried about cussing her out yesterday because I know the manager and the MIT would have supported me. The MIT can be nice all she wants, but next time I'm going to take charge of the situation. That goes for anyone who I catch trying to pull some funny business. Damn customer service. They're going to get tossed out on their ass for trying to screw us and they'll get tossed out on their ass whenever I see them in the store again. Fuck these worthless motherfuckers that try to make a living off of ripping people off. Get a fucking job.

[Guest El Satanico]

Well "hustlers" need love too...

 

Y'all being too high strung if customers asking about christmas displays pisses you off that much. If you can't laugh about shit like that working retail will drive you to insanity.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I usually laugh things off at work, but I don't like people trying to rip me off.

 

Something else that pisses me off is dumbass questions.

 

"What shoes do you have in a size 9? Can I see them?"

 

Do you know how fucking big the stock room is? Do you know how many shoes are back there? How many do you fucking see on the display wall? Do you think I'm going to bring out EVERY SIZE 9 SHOE IN THE ENTIRE STORE? Think people!

 

"Do you have this in another color?"

 

Yes we do! We have it in the back and we hid it right before you came into the store because we don't want YOU to have it! Do you think we're going to have something and not display it? Next time somebody asks me some shit like that, I'm going to give them a peice of paper and tell them to draw what they want the shoe to look like so I can make it for them right there.

 

"Do you work here?"

 

No I don't work here. I just like the uniforms so much that I went and bought my own and I just happen to be in here buying shoes. When you see me going into the back and coming out with shoes, that's not really me. I just go into the back to lay down because buying shoes is such a hard work. The guy that comes out and looks like me isn't really me, it's my twin brother that works here. I though I was going to get in trouble one time because these two girls asked me that questin and I just tapped the logo on my shirt. She said, "oh he's being smart!" She called my manager over and I thought she was about to complain, but she told him that I was a great guy and a good employee when he came over.

 

"How much do these shoes cost? $100? At Dick's they cost $70"

 

When you came into this store, were you under the impression that you were entering Dick's? What does my shirt say? Does it say Dick's? No. That means that you are not at Dick's and these shoes still cost $100.

[Guest papacita]

OK. We have a shitty economy, I got laid off and had to get a shitty job. Right now I work for Macys in Atlanta. I work with the Visual Department(we make the store pretty) so before you walk in any Macys, or any department store, please read this rant.

 

 

It is October....YES I KNOW THAT CHRISTMAS IS IN DECEMBER!!! If I have to hear one more freaking moron telling me "I can't believe you guys in this store are putting up Christmas decorations, that is ridiculous" I just might jump off my freaking ladder and beat you to death. You heard right...we are putting up christmas decorations. In October. When you are working in a 3 floor store and a couple of hundred thousand square feet, you have a lot to do. You have to be done by Thanksgiving. It take months to get all that crap done. While I understand that this isn't obvious to most people, it should be ovious that YELLING at someone for doing their job is stupid. I mean seriously... does a department store sell candy, coustumes and pumkins...Then why in the hell would we decorate for Halloween? Do we sell turkeys or food?? WHy would we decorate for THanksgiving. Do you at anytime give someone a pair of pants to celebrate Halloween. Do you give jewlery at Thanksgiving? AND even if you do need to say something, don't say that shit around the people doing the work...wait about 10 seconds and talk all the shit you want, but seriously, friday, I worked 8 hours and 216 people walked by bitching about me doing my job. 216... I don't want to hear that shit. Yeah, I know what the date is... Yeah we are putting them up now. No it isn't some huge government conspiracy to get you to spend more money. We are just doing our jobs.

 

So if you go to any store and see them doing christmas decorations, they have a reason. Leave them the fuck alone.

I always wondered why Macy's did that. The one I used to go to started putting up decorations in September. Makes sense I guess...

[Guest El Satanico]

I always loved making fun of dumb questions that customers asked.

 

I also always wondered why they put that shit up so early.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

PIN- coming from someone who has worked more dead-end jobs in my past than any one person should have to, I feel your pain. All you can do is thank God you're not the spineless p*ssy your MIT is. Trust me, many managers just cave into customers because it's easier than having to put up with their boss berating them when that stupid customer complains.

 

BTW: When you get into a management role and don't put up with a stupid customer's sh*t, you might get a thrashing by your boss, but it's worth it. Trust me.

 

My fav. line when a disgruntled customer left was to say have a nice day. Then they usually say something dumb or swear. You then say drive carefully. If they say something nasty after that, respond by saying I wouldn't want to see you get into an accident and die -- it would break my heart.

 

Good ol' CSR days. We need another stupid customers thread...