cubicle

cubicle: desk or office cubicle is a partially enclosed workspace, separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions that are usually 5–6 feet


sounds perfect. lol.

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i need ink.

Customers come in all the time and do not know the ink # they need or even the printer model #.... there are thousands of individual ink possibilities!!!

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hissssss.

A customer, after being directed to the correct exit, hisses at my co-worker Jacob after he corrects her.

Is she an animal??

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this is not a flea market or a yard sale.

Retail stores ARE NOT Flea Markets. We do NOT haggle over price. The end.


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wait, you charge money???

Customer rolls in with this computer that obviously has many viruses on it. I tell her that she could try an anti virus but it probably will not work. Trying to make her life easier I tell her that we offer a service where we will clean out all the viruses for her and her computer will be back to new.

She freaks out and does not understand why we can not do it for FREE!

Hello. How long have you lived on this Earth? We are a business. Not a non-profit group.


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the sunday after black friday.

Dude rolls into our store angry that the desktop computer package, (featured in the previous cartoons), was at regular price of $999.

He claimed that it MUST be illegal what we did with the price. Our company and other companies lost money on the product by selling it at that super low price... geez.... you do not even need a business degree to figure that out.


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controller.

Lady comes into day and walks up to me, holds up an XBOX controller and asks, "How many people is this controller for?"

It was one of the most ridiculous questions and simple questions that I did not understand what she meant. I mean its a single controller... how many people did she think could use it at once?

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Black Friday Excuse Me's

Some people had a case of the excuse me's.

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Black Friday line.

I had to hand out voucher tickets to the crazies in the line outside of our store that wrapped around the building. I had two different sets of tickets, one for a Wii and one for a desktop package.

But still that didn't stop the Customers from hearing TV and laptop come out of my mouth!

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phone calls.

This occurs DAILY when you answer the phone at our electronics store.

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Do you guys sell coats?

Customer incident that occurred to my co-worker Jacob. Guy walks into an Electronics Store looking to buy a coat.

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how does this microwave work?

Customer episode that occurred to my co-worker Stephanie (otherwise known as Dani).

Ah, the joys of selling microwaves. Silly Customers.

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where are your pickles?

Customer episode that happened to my co-worker Jay R. Some dude came in looking for pickles...in an electronics store. craziness! silly customers. lol.

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do you sell this tv?

Customer episode that happened to my co-worker Tyson.


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black friday brawl.

Last PS3 left!! Fight! Fight! Fight!

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looney tunes.

My Customer yesterday continued to refer to "looney tunes" but I finally figured out he was trying to talk about "itunes". lmao. silly customers.

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happy thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Be Thankful that you are not standing in a long line outside of an electronics store the DAY BEFORE Black Friday =)

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jingle. customer tracking.

New idea for tracking Customers in the store.... place jingle bells around their necks so that you can hear them approach.

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i can't hear you!

This guy walked into the store yesterday with extra extra large headphones on attached to an ipod arm band.

I knew that he did not want to talk to me, but I had to greet everyone so I went up to him 3 times. He was a zombie. I could smell his fear of me. lol.

Wow. A grown man could not speak to a 23 year old girl. Silly Fearful Customers.

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The Flicker.

(Customer incident that occurred to Jacob). So this Dude totally tried to leave the store without paying today. Once he was sent back to pay he wrote a bad check that was declined. He then preceded to FLIP OUT screaming for the whole store to hear, "This is horrible service!! I will NEVER come back here AGAIN!!"

Someone then just asked for another form of payment and the Dude starts jumping up and down giving us all the middle finger... with BOTH HANDS!

Silly Customer, you need money to purchase things.

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street names.

Dude rolls in today looking for a GPS, but it's not that simple of course... he is looking for a GPS where you do not have to input a street name.

After telling him that all the GPS units that we carry require a street name he makes me go through everyone with him, proving to him that they will not calculate without entering a street name.

His goal: to drive to Dover, Delaware. In fact, he would like to go to anywhere in Dover, Delaware. I explain to him that he could just pick a street name from the list but he is not satisfied. He DOES NOT want to pick a street name now... noooooo... he wants to wait to get up to Dover then figure out what street he needs. He was pissed.

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follow on Twitter.

follow "My Life as a Servant to Humanity" on Twitter.... http://twitter.com/#!/suntannedtuna

My Bad.

Yup, because you know Mr. Customer that I control every aspect of this product since I handcrafted it in the factory, to delivering it in my Honda Civic to the store, and giving it the right price. It's all in my (the sales servants) hands, mwahaha.


Really? What is this kindergarten? We do not have EVERYTHING... that's impossible. Whatever.

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pen refills.

Need I say more.

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the size of carts makes the sale.

Another true story that happened to me. Guy walks in and takes out a cart and is pissed off because its the only size cart we have but its "too long" for his purposes.

I explain to him that is because we sell big items like TVs but he says he is purchasing a small item (obviously that's what the shopping baskets are for) but that's too small.

He was so dissatisfied with the length of our carts and the complusive need to have a cart a certain size that he left immediately vowing never to return AGAIN. Silly Customers.

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excuuuuuse me. do you work here?

One of my biggest pet peeves. I'm wearing a colored polo with a name tag and khaki pants. There is a 94% chance that I work in the store. My name is not "Hello." or "excuse me", that's what the name tag is for.


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Why is this on sale?

Nothing is wrong with it. The company just picks stuff to be on sale for the week. I don't know how they pick the sales and I never know what they will pick to be on sale. Mystery solved.

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just looking...again.

It's not a museum, it's a store. But if you treat it like a museum then I will be forced to treat you like you are in a museum. :) fair?

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the greatest objection.

When I worked at Staples in Burbank, near all of the Hollywood Movie Studios, I came across the greatest objection to a service plan EVER!

They were screenwriters for a new TV show that would be filming on a desert island and were very excited since they had recently got the job before they came in to purchase a laser printer. I had absolutely nothing to say to that objection.

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Black Friday in a Customer's Mind

(click on image to make larger)Black Friday is in 8 days. For some reason Customers think that I have a magic bag that has an endless supply of the product that they are looking for on the busiest shopping day of the year.

duh.

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dress.

When I worked at an office supply store I received this response to my frequent phrase, "Anything else we can help you with?"

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Yeah... it was very awkward.

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Printer Demo Fun./Just looking.

First of all, the printers that are on display go through a lot of abuse. Little kids with sticky hands, people opening them up, jamming ink cartridges in etc. Ink is out or almost out... I mean there are starter cartridges.

But yet the Battle of "Why the printer does work?" rages on. lol.

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The most common phrase: "I'm just looking." Customers come in and just walk around?




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No produce.

Really? Its a Blackberry. That is all.

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I will not bite you.

Really? You are that scared of me? I just thanked you for walking into MY store. I just asked "how are you doing today?"

But, no Mr. Customer, you can not even look me in the eye when I speak to you. You run away even though clearly you need assistance finding your product.

I don't bite.. at least not on Tuesdays. lol.

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I'd like to buy the Internet.

The actual internet is not for sell. The internet is a concept. If you want the internet I can set you up with a service through an Internet Service Provider. This guy did not want that. No he wanted to purchase his own internet and have no service charge....yeah.

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The Great Battle of TV's versus Computer Monitors

Ah, yet another Battle of Recognition. Some of my Customers think, for some reason, that the Computer Monitors are TV's??

Yeah like they are going to get a 20in HDTV for $99....lol




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Super Computer for Granny....

Computer prices have dropped but Customers still think that if they dish out more money they will get a good computer. A $1,000 computer today is reserved for intense gamers with powerful graphics cards, 8gb of memory, and 1tb hard drives....yet Customers, like Granny here, who just browse the internet purchase these expensive gaming machines. Oh well, its there money I guess.

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Welcome.

Welcome to my newly created blog where I attempt to record through drawings the ridiculous and strange occurrences that befall me as I work as a Sales Servant in Retail. Retail and dealing with Customers is my inspiration. All artwork is created by me and is based on TRUE EVENTS!

I hold 4 years of Retail Servant experience. From electronic sales to office supply sales, to cutting candied apples and selling SpongeBob shirts at Universal Studios Hollywood, to being a coffee fetcher for Hollywood Producers at Warner Brothers, to valeting cars for the super rich in Beverly Hills. My specialties are:

• Finding ink when you don't remember your printer or your ink number
• Fixing your camera when you forgot to charge the battery
• Carrying large items for you
• Showing you where the paper is located, surprisingly under the billboard large Paper Sign
• Explaining the difference between Office Software and the Operating System
• Finding your Black Mercedes Car Key out of 80 others identical Black Mercedes keys(only takes 30 minutes) because you lost your valet ticket
  
• Putting up with drunks when they spit at me for taking too long to bring their car up
• Helping Prostitutes find the room number for a guest they want to charge overnight parking to (but forgot his name and room number) and not being able to locate said information in their Blackberry<--- yeah this happened too!
• Typing in a phone number twice because you did not tell me that 702 was an area code
  

ENJOY!

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