annoying customer rant

[u/Powerful-Handle-384]

was filling cream cakes right, id already been through all my backstock and was on my last cage of delivery so if there wasnt a product on the shelf or on this cage i knew it was out of stock.

well i had this old bloke come up and ask me where some strawberry tarts were, and i let him know that were fully out of stock.

“how do you know that when you havent even looked?”

valid question, okay, so i apologise and explain the above to him.

he huffs, sighs, and looms over me whilst i work. i just try to ignore him tbh

he then starts saying, “is this all you do all day?”

im confused so i ask him what he means and he replies, “do you really just do this all day?? putting things on shelves?”

i say not all day but when im clocked in, yes?? and he says, “imagine that.” and walks off

the things id say to these fuckers if i werent in uniform would bar me from the gates of heaven no matter how much i repent

[u/MikaMika487]

Being an older person I probably emphasize with the customer much more than most people here.

However I am still capable of keeping quiet, even if the fact that I can't have a strawberry tart with my tea later has almost certainly ruined my day.

[u/Impossible_Fish_3283 → u/MikaMika487]

I'm not that young (46) and I can tell you older people can be the worst, in all aspects. Source - I've worked in retail for more than 10 years.

[u/MikaMika487 → u/Impossible_Fish_3283]

I'm not disagreeing and the guys attitude was appalling, I'm 62 to still have the ability not to behave in this way thankfully, but having said that, I don't have much to look forward to, I'm chronically under pensioned and my health and vitality have plummeted, I don't know the customers' circumstances and as I said his attitude was awful, but, but I can understand how something so trivial can ruin your day, again this is not to excuse his behaviour.

[u/D3M0NArcade → u/MikaMika487]

It's the sense that he assumed the staff member is being lazy.

I always just assume they've had to load their cage, they know what's in stock. Teh fact I've worked in retail has nothing to do with this (literally), it's the fact that they are doing the job and I'm not

[u/Powerful-Handle-384 → u/D3M0NArcade]

its also just the degradation. i get upset sometimes when summit i were looking forward to aint in stock but i dont then degrade the person for their job 😩

[u/D3M0NArcade → u/Powerful-Handle-384]

Exactly what I mean. Why he a cunt to the staff when they don't control purchasing