Update
21/08/08 14:13 Filed in: Stories
Sorry I haven’t been posting much. I had promised to bombard you with posts at the end of the 2 week break, but during that time I couldn’t just write a post on a whim so I forgot all the little shit I moan about and just remembered the good stuff. It was pretty good stuff though.
Plus, I’ve had 3 days off in a row this week so I haven’t had much to write about. I almost forget retail, lol. Bliss. Well, bittersweet. I spent most of Monday afternoon either sedated or recovering after a trip to the dentist. I wasn’t having teeth pulled or anything, I’m just a big wuss. So Monday was a bit of a blur, I wouldn’t have made much sense even if I had tried to write something.
Anyway, I was back in work on Wednesday and another mystery was revealed. For the past few months I’d occasionally seen a guy walking around upstairs and he’d even come into the staff cantine to ask which manager was on that night, but no matter who I asked, no one could tell me who he was. He’s pretty old....and very ugly. Imagine a surfer dude at 50 - too much sun, cigs, and still dying his hair blonde - that’s what he looks like to me. Well, I saw him again yesterday and it turns out he’s the “blind guy”. He’s not actually blind, he just comes in to sort out the blinds, as in Venetian and vertical. We think he fancies the A&C Supervisor. The only reason I found out who he was was because he came over to give her a packet of cigarettes after she’d bought him some jelly beans earlier. How romantic.
That’s really the most interesting thing that’s happened. It’s been very uneventful in the store recently. The most irate customer I’ve seen was a guy who started kicking off because he’d driven to the store twice to pick something up and was moaning about the amount of petrol he’d used. It’s not like he couldn’t have rung ahead to check if we even had it in stock first, so obviously it’s all our fault he wasted petrol. I don’t know if we gave in to him or not.
I also had to deal with a guy who claimed he’d bought a fish tank from us about a year ago and the flouresent bulb had gone and he couldn’t find a replacement anywhere. He said we still sold the product so I think he was hinting at me to give him a bulb from another tank. Before I could laugh in his face I passed him over to a duty manager so I don’t know what happened with him either.
There’s some anti-climaxes for ya.
Plus, I’ve had 3 days off in a row this week so I haven’t had much to write about. I almost forget retail, lol. Bliss. Well, bittersweet. I spent most of Monday afternoon either sedated or recovering after a trip to the dentist. I wasn’t having teeth pulled or anything, I’m just a big wuss. So Monday was a bit of a blur, I wouldn’t have made much sense even if I had tried to write something.
Anyway, I was back in work on Wednesday and another mystery was revealed. For the past few months I’d occasionally seen a guy walking around upstairs and he’d even come into the staff cantine to ask which manager was on that night, but no matter who I asked, no one could tell me who he was. He’s pretty old....and very ugly. Imagine a surfer dude at 50 - too much sun, cigs, and still dying his hair blonde - that’s what he looks like to me. Well, I saw him again yesterday and it turns out he’s the “blind guy”. He’s not actually blind, he just comes in to sort out the blinds, as in Venetian and vertical. We think he fancies the A&C Supervisor. The only reason I found out who he was was because he came over to give her a packet of cigarettes after she’d bought him some jelly beans earlier. How romantic.
That’s really the most interesting thing that’s happened. It’s been very uneventful in the store recently. The most irate customer I’ve seen was a guy who started kicking off because he’d driven to the store twice to pick something up and was moaning about the amount of petrol he’d used. It’s not like he couldn’t have rung ahead to check if we even had it in stock first, so obviously it’s all our fault he wasted petrol. I don’t know if we gave in to him or not.
I also had to deal with a guy who claimed he’d bought a fish tank from us about a year ago and the flouresent bulb had gone and he couldn’t find a replacement anywhere. He said we still sold the product so I think he was hinting at me to give him a bulb from another tank. Before I could laugh in his face I passed him over to a duty manager so I don’t know what happened with him either.
There’s some anti-climaxes for ya.
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