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November 2008:
My first customer tonight was such an idiot. I cannot believe they let these people actually walk the streets unaccompanied. First, she begged sand pleaded with The Bombshell to let him let her buy alcohol. Because that is ever going to happen. Then she came and told me it was ridiculous that she couldn't buy alcohol. I explained it was company policy and she showed a glimmer of intelligence by insisting it was perposterous. Then asked if she couldn't buy alcohol could she buy Baileys. I gave her my now standard reply: Me:"Is it alcohol?" Her:"Yeah..." Me:"Then I think you know the answer already" Her:"Oh f*ck you mate! And it's freezing in here!" She then stropped out the store. The amount of customers we get asking if they can buy beer or liquers if we refuse them alcohol is amazing. Then we had the mad woman in. This woman already tried getting out of paying for £100 of electricity and £50 of mobile phone top ups. Except we caught her and Miss C basically just took the money out of her hand when she brandished £120 in notes on the shop floor. So, tonight she tried to claim that she could pay £30 for £45 worth of cigarettes. The Bombshell wasn't biting, so she stropped out in a huff without any cigarettes. The woman is simply insane. In the past she has begged us to give her a pack for free, and when we refused, begged other customers to buy them for her. And we had a couple of ex regulars turn up. I remembered them because they were possibly the most random customrs ever. The girl claimed to have the biggest colleection of Nuts and Zoo magazines and the guy once proclaimed "We're going to Care Bear Mountain Kim!" They also had a friend with them who claimed to be a regular, but I had no memory of her, and to my surprise, she became outraged that I didn't remember her. How can you be insulted that a shop person doesn't remember you if you don't do anything outrageous? But then we had the delivery, and The Bombshell annoyed me immensely. You see, Evie and her boyfriend came in, Evie to work and her boyfriend, apparently, to really irritate me. Because rather than being like any other boyfriend who gives his girlfriend a lift to work, he stuck around for an hour and chatted to The Bombshell. Which made The Bombshell even slower. Now, because there were only two of us on, I had to work the stock and work the tills too, all the time he just chatted. Which meant I didn't get a last break. And then he had the nerve to have a pop at me for not working enough stock. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. He yelled "F*ck! Why you are not finish these cages? F*ck's sake..." I snapped and said "Well, because some jumped up arsehole has been chatting to his buddy for the last HOUR, I have had to serve the customers, of which there have been many, and work the cages!" He yelled that Bob was his friend and he was allowed to talk to his friends. I replied calmly that this didn't apply when there were just two of us and a ton of customers. He stopped and said "You are right. Sh*t. You are do nice work, there is only 6 box left. Is very good actually. Well done. Now tidy this sh*t up and I am stay on tills." I swear, sometimes I am certain this guy lives in la la land. But, tonight I have The Scotsman, which isn't always a help, but another pair of hands is another pair of hands. I am sure that The Bombshell will be stroppy, and I know The Scotsman will be, but I will just do my job, get on with it, and keep reminding myself that in 8 hours, I will have four days off. And that on Saturday I am going to Red Hat to kick back and do geeky things with geeks and top end hardware. I am actually genuinely excited about going to Red Hat, partly because I have never been to anywhere like it other than IBM about 10 years ago, and also because I will finally get to play with Fedora, something which refuses to install on my laptop or on my virtual machine either. Permalink | |
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