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As you all know I have this junk job working as a sales clerk in the electronics department of my local WalMart.

So this b***h and her a*****e boyfriend are wanting to by a 50" Philips big screen tv. I went to the backstock room and found we didn't have any, then checked the inventory system and found we had 4 on order. When I got back I informed them of this. They then asked me to call the nearest WalMart to see if they had them, which they didn't. The b***h asked if I would honor another store's price if and when we got the TVs in, which we would. The a*****e said they'd check out another retailer and just get it there if they had it or come back and fill out a raincheck form. That was the last I saw of them.

While I was on my lunchbreak, I was informed those j******s made a complaint about me. Appearently I "failed to offer the phone numbers to all the local WalMarts". Had they asked, I would have sent them to the courtesy desk for assistence as I only have a private store-to-store phone number.

While I'm pissed they made this complaint, I'm relieved to know that these types of silly b******t complaints don't go on our records.

Philip
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You have to have the patience of a saint to deal with customers in an environment like a store/shop.

The customer always thinks they are right, even when they aren't but you have to grin and bare it.

That's why I don't work in a place like that as I'd be opening cans of whoopass all over the place Wink

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Paul: Feb 5, 2003, 2:33 AM
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Heh, I know what you mean. I've worked a few years in the retail business and customers are pretty funny at times. I've been pushed, snorted at, yelled at... you know the story - Not my fault, one of these guys claimed he was recently released from the CIA and that a transplant was in his brain that sent everything he saw and heard to a satelite to be recorded... worse yet, I think he was in his mid thirties was trying to impress an ~18 year old girl that worked with me. Store policy would allow girls to have a second name tag with a fake name as some would get harrassed and we were worried about stalking. There are some really lousy and creepy individuals out there.

On the flip side though, even if they do complain, who cares, it's not a job you'll keep forever but the skills that you get dealing with those wacky customers are incredibly useful.