Mobile Phone Shop staff

Don't you just HATE those people who work in mobile phone shops (I don't phone shops that move). They just treat you like something they've scraped off their shoe in their expensive suits paid for by us thickies who they've conned into buying ridiculously priced contracts giving a million free minutes a week and 50 trillion texts and then tell you you're contract only runs for 6 months at the special price when you thought it was ayear...

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

The arogance of them though is enormous and must have some scope. The only problem would be the technical bits where they blind you with science ... but then again those technical bits could be really childish.

A good idea?

i hate any shop staff, especially in computer shops, they go into all the details about every friggin wire in your computor, then its mega bytes, giga bytes, pentium processors, biffidus digestivum and pentapeptides, your stood there thinking "yeah how much f**king porn does it hold", it's the same in super markets, but the helper gets all embarased, and tries to hide away until you leave just because they are to embarassed to say "i don't know where the extra small condoms are" (my mate had this happen,,,, i swear).

I'd agree Dave that mobile phone shop staff are the bigger tossers. I also hate the fact that you can't buy any new 'phone just for text and normal calls, it has to be a holographic display and mp4 pop videos on a screen the size of a f***** postage stamp. C***s.

While at uni i actually worked in a mobile phone shop to pay for the nights out...and you should have seen the numpty's i had to serve, although that may have been something to do with the town i worked in.

I know we get training about the newest and most jumped up versions of phones, but i still had time to explain the basics to someone who didn't know. To be honest, you can walk in to some phone stores and they'll have you sat down with in two seconds ( i know the tricks of the trade) but we were laid back in comparison, or is that lazy?!

The pressures are on to sell in a mobile phone shop - if you don't hit targets you get fired. We have to approach every single customer else we fail our mystery shop....

Okay, yes i hate being baggered too but look at it from the other side..they're just doing their job!

My impression was that if you didn't know what you wanted they treated you as if you'd just crawled from out under a stone. A good salesman should make the customer feel important - not the other way round.

Okay, i get your point and i'm sorry you felt like that - cause that is essentially terrible customer service.

I must just be an exception to the rule! And maybe it was my lack of enthusiasm for the job (as it was only while i was at uni) that made me less pushy than others and in the end the better salesperson. I was top sales for many weeks!

No - they're not pushy. Just A**eholes. Scope for a sitcom?

Yer...could see it working. Or any sort of pushy sales environment...and i will totally agree there are some right idiots that work in the industry.

Quote: EllieJP @ March 12, 2007, 6:38 AM

Okay, yes i hate being baggered too but look at it from the other side..they're just doing their job!

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I hate 'look at it from the other side' as advice. why don't they look at it from our side and not be w****s? who decides who has to look at it from whose side?

bad mood today Ellie, sorry

Once again point taken!

Maybe i should just stop defending them as i once was one...i'm not any more. And you're right...they themselves should see from the other side too.

And i've just seen a bad spelling mistake of mine baggered = badgered

*how embarrassing?*

I wondered what that meant. Thought it might be some quaint custom you'd picked up in Australia...

Ah yes...that maybe would have been a less embarrassing way to explain it!

Baggered = annoying in Aussie speak

It could be some terrifying hybrid of buggered and badgered, which I don't want to think any more about.

On the subject of selling and salesman, there's the brilliant Glengarry Glenross. It's great on the pressure of being a salesman. As for people who work in shops, I don't blame them for developing an attitude. Imagine having to speak to members of the public day in day out? After a week of that, I'd be going into work with a knife.

Any other words like Baggered? We could start our own little form of slang that only us chosen few would understand...