You people! Do you have any idea how bloody annoying shop assistants can be, pestering you with questions the nanosecond you go in a shop! It's stressful being nice to them when really you want to tell them to FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME IN PEACE!
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Just say "I'm fine, thanks", and then "us people" tend to get the picture.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 12 2010, 11:23 PM BSTJust say "I'm fine, thanks", and then "us people" tend to get the picture.
I want to be ignored completely when I enter a shop. If I want help I'll ask for it.
Quote: chipolata @ June 12 2010, 11:28 PM BSTI want to be ignored completely when I enter a shop. If I want help I'll ask for it.
Don't go near Comet then. They're only one step away from opening the car door for you and asking if they can help !
Quote: chipolata @ June 12 2010, 11:28 PM BSTI want to be ignored completely when I enter a shop. If I want help I'll ask for it.
Me too. But now I've been on the other side I know that they have to say that stuff or they get fired. So I can put up with it. 
Quote: zooo @ June 13 2010, 1:20 AM BSTMe too. But now I've been on the other side I know that they have to say that stuff or they get fired. So I can put up with it.
Well it's sometimes people look confused and you want to help, then you realise they are just critically thick and the fact the doors opened without them touching them has turned their world upside down.
Thing is, you can spot these scripted . . in Asda, whichever checkout person you go to (my one real love is Yvonne 
) they all say the same thing.
'So, what sort of a day have you had today?'
Oh that's quite weird.
Ours were just things like 'have you brought a bag?', 'do you have your card?', all that shiz.
Quote: Oldrocker @ June 13 2010, 1:28 AM BSTThing is, you can spot these scripted . . in Asda, whichever checkout person you go to (my one real love is Yvonne
'So, what sort of a day have you had today?'
I have a pet hate of rude people (ironic right). When I was in Tesco on the checkout next to one I was using the girl on checkout said to her customer "Hi how are you had nice day?"
He then went off on one about not wanting to be bothered and he doesn't come to Tesco to talk he comes to "Buy my over priced mushrooms" and f**king leave.
To which myself and the lady behind both responded "Pipe down you stuck up c**t she was only being polite" The hive mind in action there.
Quote: chipolata @ June 12 2010, 11:28 PM BSTI want to be ignored completely when I enter a shop. If I want help I'll ask for it.
I did the same sort of job as Scatts when I was younger and it's horrible, I used to get told off by customers for approaching them, then my boss would tell me off because someone else had already approached them, safe to say I got sacked...
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 12 2010, 11:23 PM BSTJust say "I'm fine, thanks", and then "us people" tend to get the picture.
Last year I discovered the worst bookstore in Australia. Far too many staff, including the owner, kept offering help every few minutes, repeatedly so. The biographies were not arranged by author, subject or category, but just randomly scattered over the shelves. The shop didn't have Hard Evidence by Mark Pearson and the owner said he couldn't order a copy as it wasn't on his "system". I ended up buying a pseudo-biography of Enid Blyton, Looking For Enid by Duncan McLaren. It is the worst book I have ever read and should never have been published.
Quote: Paul W @ June 13 2010, 10:46 AM BSTI did the same sort of job as Scatts when I was younger and it's horrible, I used to get told off by customers for approaching them, then my boss would tell me off because someone else had already approached them, safe to say I got sacked...
I'm usually okay at work because I'm either stowed away behind the counter on inflation, or people are as lost as they seem to be. Our shop is very large and balloons are apparently very complicated. Besides, I think I probably look both smiley and nervous enough for most people to be nice.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 13 2010, 11:34 AM BSTI'm usually okay at work because I'm either stowed away behind the counter on inflation, or people are as lost as they seem to be. Our shop is very large and balloons are apparently very complicated. Besides, I think I probably look both smiley and nervous enough for most people to be nice.
You rotate then? customer service, tills, stockroom?
On Saturdays I'm always on balloon inflation/tills, but sometimes customers only come to the tills to ask for help getting something or whatever. If I'm in on weekdays, I do what my job list tells me - so that's pricing or tidying etc. - serving on the tills in between.