Retail Therapy is now on AIM so you can chat to me about anything retail-related in real time, wehey! I’m interested in hearing from you. You can just have a bitch or tell me your own retail hell stories.
This may not be a permanent thing, I’m just giving it a trial run. If you don’t have AIM, I’m sorry, I did try Windows Live but it was a train wreck.
My AIM screen name (and email address) is in the sidebar for you to copy.
Speak to you soon!

RT

Tags: blog

I just read this on a magnet: “Stress is when your tummy says no but your mouth says no problem”. Cute.
So next time work calls and asks you to come in on your day off, just tell them where to go. “No” will also suffice.

So, after 17 votes (I’m really surprised it got that many, lol), just under half of you have worked in retail between 1-5 years. 6-10 years and 11-20 years both got 4 votes each and someone has been working in retail for over 20 years. Christ!

Tags: blog

I’ve added quite a few non-retail related websites to my blogroll that might entertain you for a while. I especially like Photoshop Disasters, and Orisinal has some really cute games.
I will also get round to updating the poll....eventually, lol.

RT

Tags: blog

I got a reply from the book seller. They’re not allowed to have customers on the warehouse site because their insurance doesn’t cover it, and I finally got a phone number from them. Not that it’s much use because I’m not going to be ringing them.
I understand about their insurance and everything but I’m still pissed. It’s literally just round the corner from my house. And like Nick said in the comments-he took his business elsewhere because they make it so difficult to get in contact with them. Lost business, lost profit. There’s a lot of conflicting information about them on google.
I’ll still end up buying from them because there’s not much chance of it getting lost in the 800m it has to travel to my house, but knowing Royal Mail it will still take 3 weeks.
Hmmm....very, very annoying.

Tags: annoying, anger!, stupid

Customer: “To make green, do you mix red and blue?”
Me: “No, you mix blue and yellow.”
Customer: “Oh yeah, ‘cause red and blue makes...”
Me: “Purple.”

*facepalm*

Tags: stupid, dumb

Today I got stuck with a trolley load of “Dump”. It was Dump because piggy customers had left it lying around, and Dump because I didn’t necessarily put it back in the right place either. What can I say, it made the whole job a lot quicker.