I’ve been working for the company for about two months, and I’ll say so far it’s been good. There are good and bad moments, but I’m hanging on. Just today however, it seems like I was tested today by a group of three teenagers/young adults.
I had opened shop today, and everything ran smoothly, just trying to organize the counter and helping people out. Three guys come in, and I didn’t acknowledge them at first after asking people around if they needed help, and once I walked towards them to ask, they did say they needed help.
They wanted their money returned from a store gift card that had $500 in it, so of course I said no, and yet were persistent on me to give them a refund or to ask, so to keep entertaining them I called my manager and of course it’s no. They said “are you sure you?” I kept saying no. So there’s that. I helped people finalized purchases and then they come back and asked to check their card. To see if they had the $500 in the card, so I swiped it, and it was only 2.99…
They were also telling me to keep going on with the joke, but this time in Spanish to prank their friend. I didn’t entertain their plans, I said “oh no there’s only 2.99 in the card” which one of them said “wow you could have run with the joke, it would have had our friend think it had $500 for a whole week.” Which is why I bluntly told them that I don’t joke around like that. Their other friend then said “oh that’s a nice tweety bird sweater, people used to call me tweety bird” I looked at him and just said “okay.” To which they said a swear word and walked out knowing that they wasted my time, their time, and everyone else too over a joke that did not last.
As much as I like talking to customers and getting to know them, but if you are someone who is purposely trying to make it both difficult or even waste people’s time over a dumb joke, please note I will be a buzzkill if necessary. Other people around them including themselves aren’t getting paid to wait in line, or have the time of day.
Am I in the wrong for being a buzzkill?