New Year's Eve

Well, tomorrow is New Year's Eve and its been quite a year. Same old, same old I guess. Thanks for checking in on "My Life as a Servant to Humanity" and for the support! Onward to 2011.... oh the cartoons and stories that next year shall bring!

HINT #1...

Customers trying to fit huge products into tiny vehicles...there really should be a separate segment on it.

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Jordan

Hide!!!

A difficult customer is on the prowl!!! Hide! Hide! Hide!

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I need a prescription for my computer!!!

This guy came into the store yesterday claiming that he needed to pick up his "prescription" for his computer.... we are not a drug store.

It is called anti virus. the end. silly customers.

Jordan

I eat pineapples for breakfast.

"Pineapple" is a codeword that refers to difficult/angry/rude customers.

I've dealt with so many pineapples over the years that I eat pineapples for breakfast.

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Snow day.

It's snowing here in good ole North Carolina.. 8 inches so far. Hope everyone had a great Christmas! Enjoy the snow if you are near some!

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Back to the trenches tomorrow...

Jordan

'Twas the night before Christmas Retail version....

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Remember don't abuse your Retail Servants this Holiday Season they have been through a lot already!! :)

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Who sings this song??

This happened to my co-worker Daniel. Dude comes into the store and sings a song to him but does not remember the name of said song or if a girl or guy sings it. Fail.

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farmville lady

There is this lady, nicknamed "Farmville Lady" who comes into the store and will show employees her farmville. She comes in about once a week like clockwork and worries us.


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I am a human too.

After spending 15 minutes trying to contact another one of our store locations my customer informs me that, "Now you know what it feels like to be a customer!"

He says it as if we are totally different species. I am a human too douche bag! If anyone isn't a human than it is totally you Mr. Customer.

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Where do I buy 3G?

Suggested by my co-worker Jon. Customer came into the cell phone section demanding to know where they could purchase 3G.

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Over here! (from across the store)

Suggested by my former Manager Paul. The Customer that shouts and wiggles their finger at you from across the store.

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sales crap grin.

The forced helpful grin at rude and angry customers but yet in your head you are trying to escape.

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audiobooks.

Lady wanted a MP3 player with a big screen to be able to "read" her audio books that would be read to her???

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cover.

Cover.

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regurgitation of information.

All the stuff that I tell every customer about. Over and over and over and over and over and over again. In color!

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credit.

Yup.

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therapist.

I'm not a Therapist.


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Cloning.

A lot of times I am by myself in my department and I am always caught up in a game of tug-of-war between customers.

This is an example of what customers must think I can do....clone myself.


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Discount.

Guy is buying two laptops and wants a discount.


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Oh holy Customer..thee is always right.

Self explanatory. lol.

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the body shaver.

Another Customer incident that occurred to my co-worker Tyson. Hairy guy comes in looking for a body shaver.

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Dark Friday.

Wow. This Customer really did not know the name of the biggest shopping day of the year and then expected us to have product and sales "left over" 5 days later.

Silly Customers.

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-Jordan

After Black Friday.

After Black Friday.

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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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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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