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My tolerance levels at the best of times is low, thanks to my job. (Patience was never my virtue, and since working with inmates, what little I had has gone completely.) People in general just get on my nerves, because people tend to be rude and have no manners. In certain scenarios the rudeness is diminished. In others, it's at the forefront.
Shopping in general makes people freakishly rude. Holiday shopping? HOLY CRAP. People stand in the middle of the aisles blocking traffic when they could step over a foot and let people by, walk over you because they refuse to wait 10 seconds for you to move out of their way, give you the stink eye and aim their buggies/baby strollers at you because you dared to look at a sweater and stand exactly where they want to stand, sit down to rest right in front of the most popular item in the store (in this case, in front of the size 8 and 8 1/2 shoes, the most average size in North Carolina).
Let's not forget rude store clerks. It's one thing when you're slammed and everyone's asking you ten million questions at once. I am patient in that regard. I've worked retail. But when you have too much product in your store, the clerks not working the registers are busy folding clothes and straightening displays instead of asking people if they can help, and the person working the dressing room area IGNORES the line of people waiting for dressing rooms (that are open but require a key to get into) because she has decided it's time to put up clothes?
I stormed out of a store because of the rudeness. I'm there to spend money. I just want to try on two things. If you can't be bothered to help the customer by doing your job, then I'm going to walk out and leave my items sitting in the midst of the display right in the front of the store for the clerks to clean up. I was so pissed. I was tempted to stop at the register, throw my things down and tell them I wasn't buying them because I couldn't try them on. But those girls were working hard. I just let corporate have it instead.
And the sad thing is, I still have more shopping to do. Not much, but just enough that I'm going to have to venture out on Wednesday. At least it will be a Wed.
Shopping in general makes people freakishly rude. Holiday shopping? HOLY CRAP. People stand in the middle of the aisles blocking traffic when they could step over a foot and let people by, walk over you because they refuse to wait 10 seconds for you to move out of their way, give you the stink eye and aim their buggies/baby strollers at you because you dared to look at a sweater and stand exactly where they want to stand, sit down to rest right in front of the most popular item in the store (in this case, in front of the size 8 and 8 1/2 shoes, the most average size in North Carolina).
Let's not forget rude store clerks. It's one thing when you're slammed and everyone's asking you ten million questions at once. I am patient in that regard. I've worked retail. But when you have too much product in your store, the clerks not working the registers are busy folding clothes and straightening displays instead of asking people if they can help, and the person working the dressing room area IGNORES the line of people waiting for dressing rooms (that are open but require a key to get into) because she has decided it's time to put up clothes?
I stormed out of a store because of the rudeness. I'm there to spend money. I just want to try on two things. If you can't be bothered to help the customer by doing your job, then I'm going to walk out and leave my items sitting in the midst of the display right in the front of the store for the clerks to clean up. I was so pissed. I was tempted to stop at the register, throw my things down and tell them I wasn't buying them because I couldn't try them on. But those girls were working hard. I just let corporate have it instead.
And the sad thing is, I still have more shopping to do. Not much, but just enough that I'm going to have to venture out on Wednesday. At least it will be a Wed.
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