Eight Ways To Stop Pissing Off the Person Who's Ringing You Up
By: Jessica Naomi Valadez
Art by Houng Nguyen
Oh, the magical world of selling clothes! Y'all must think we love our job, working in a place where we get discounts on all our favorite clothes. Well, there are times where we don't enjoy it...and sometimes it's because of you. Here are eight things customers should keep in mind while looking for the latest gear É
8. If You Don't See It, We Don't Got It
The shirts are nicely color coordinated, folded and labeled with stickers of different sizes for your convenience. If you don't see the size your looking for in the pile, that means we don't have it. Please don't keep unfolding every shirt thinking that your size is going to magically appear out of nowhere. |
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7. Fitting Rooms Are Not Your Garbages
The place that tends to be the dirtiest is the fitting rooms. The nastiest things I seen used were dirty pads. I also found a condom. And yes, it was used too. |
6. Quit With the Prank Calls
Why is it that people wait until after we are done talking that they choose to hang up the phone? EX: "Thank you for calling ---, same great style, new low prices all the time, this is Jessica speaking, how may I help you?" Customer response, "If you like to make a call , please hang up and dial the number again." |
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5. We're Not Invisible
The reason why we ask if you're finding everything okay is because that's our job, we're trying to help you. At least acknowledge us. Just the other day a customer walked in and I was pointing out our sales to him. I thought he was walking behind me as I was showing him all the hot spots in the store, as I turn around to ask him a question, he's gone! Turns out I was talking to myself the whole time and he had walked out of the store already. |
4. Closed Means Closed
This happens every night I work, guaranteed! There are always those last minute shoppers that try to open the doors and come in after they are locked. People have even tried to bribe me. There are nights when people will literally stand and wait in front of the door for 20 minutes thinking we're going to let them in if they wait long enough. We're not. |
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3. Our Store is Not Free Day Care
I could not stress this enough -- we have too many kids running around tripping over things. I've had this one incident where a little boy was spitting in his hands and then wiping it all over the mirrors. Guess who had to clean it up? Watch your kids. |
2. My Name Is Not "Hey Girl!"
Just cause I work in retail, doesn't mean my name is ÒHey Girl!Ó Why do customers think its cool to just yell ÒAy,ay,ay!Ó or whistle from across the store when they need help. I'm not a dog and a simple excuse me would be fine. |
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1.Stop Asking for the Hook Ups
I get it every day from friends, family and even strangers. I don't know you, so why am I going to hook you up? Besides, there's no way I'm going to risk my job because you want to save money! There are times when guys ask me for my number or try to hit on me and I doubt them. I feel like they only want to pick up on me because they think if they can get into my head they may get the discount. Wrong. |
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