fuckyeahretailrobin:

Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “I hate this print, redo the entire thing!”

Bottom Text: “Can you give me the reject for free?”

Printing store robin and good lord am I tired of hearing this.  A customer will order a special poster that usually costs $30 or more, point out an error (usually one that they make) and demand we redo it.  Then when we’re ready to throw out the reject they start demanding that we give it to them for free, resulting in a scam version of “Buy one get one free”.  We recently had an incident where we ended up giving a customer over $300 worth of merchandise because he kept pointing out mistakes and demanding we re-order his expensive posters and give him the rejects “in exchange for wasting his time”.  So our store manager told everyone that we’re shutting down that way of thinking indefinitely.  We’re not giving people any more chances to take advantage of us in that manner.  It’s been resulting in a lot of fun tantrums from local business owners when I bluntly tell them exactly why we’re not giving away free rejects anymore and they have that twinge of guilt in their faces.  They KNOW they pulled that stunt with us and are too proud to admit it and they KNOW they’re trying to pull it with me right now.  No matter how many times you can claim that you gave business to us for so many years and no matter how many managers you can demand to talk to, it won’t sway us any more.

THISSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!^^^^

I have had this pulled on me before

I got wise

1: Rip up any mistake as soon as it’s pointed out. Oh there’s a mistake? **RIIIIIPPP* we’ll do it again *sugary sweet smile*

or

2: Oh there’s a mistake? I’ll reprint it but I have to keep the bad one to show my manager/supervisor/whomever isn’t in the store at the time. >:3

I had a guy claim that a barley visible - non damaging - can only see it at an angle if you catch it in just the right light - dent/ buckle in the paper (or whatever you want to call it it happens when you roll paper) made the poster for his 4 y/o daughter’s birthday “no good” and he wanted a new one. Then he wanted the ‘damaged’ one for free. I did not let that one fly. if it wasn’t good enough 10 mins ago. it’s not good now. I reprinted it, gingerly handed it to him to roll up himself and pulled excuse #2 out of my butt to get him out of the store. He even tried to guilt me by saying my supervisor would have given it to him for free (which may have been true, she could be spineless sometimes) not to mention he used his companies retail price card to get it at a cheaper price in the first place.

Oh no I know his trick, he was a cheap ass and was trying to get freebies. Not on my watch jack >:|

myponynews:

“Princess Celebration Bakery” with Mrs. Dazzle Cake and Twirly Treats (Est. July release)

On Amazon (currently unavailable)
On BBTS ($16.99)

Blind Bags Wave 8 (Neon-Bright Collection) (In Stock)

On BBTS ($48.99, case of 24)

Pinkie Pie WeLoveFine…

Sweet Jesus in Heaven, Pinkie has a rainbow colored cupcake! O.o;

fuckyeahretailrobin:

People who enter retail establishments with a coupon:
READ THE COUPON!
If you come up and the coupon doesn’t cover your item, I automatically think you’re a huge moron. Especially if you have the gall to yell at me for it.
It’s not my fault you’re illiterate. Go away.

Yes please this!

fuckyeahretailrobin:

Over the course of a few months, I’ve noticed that the particularly horrible customers (I mean the ones that go out of their way to be nasty, to be contrary, to make you personally regret ever taking this job because they would come into your life eventually) all show up around the time that the full moon appears.  

Now I’m no believer in astrology.  But I’m just saying that the last week has brought me almost to a mental breakdown from the horrible customers, yesterday was the worst day of all, last night was the full moon, and today every customer is complacent and decent.

Anyone else a believer in Moon Theory and modern-day lunatics?

wtf-fursuits:

It really could have been a decent suit, if they had chosen normal fur. This stuff hurts my eyes.

I love it, it reminds me of lisa frank!

fuckyeahretailrobin:

I don’t select the schedule. That person is actually hired through a different company and kinda sorta works in our store but not. He’s eating lunch. You seriously want us to drag this guy off his 30 minute lunch on a Sunday because you are just SO greatly inconvenienced  Oh, you understand, but he still needs to come? GET OVER YOURSELF! Walk around the store for 20 damn minutes you’re lucky he was even there today.

This is why I don’t have breaks. I’m the only one in the print dept. that can do anything and without fail the min. I step off the floor someone needs the most complicated thing ever.

fuckyeahretailrobin:

Uuuuugh, so my store will be partaking in this. Basically, what customers are going to be able to do soon is order items that we have in stock online and come pick them up in store. Which means we, the people who work there, have to go to each aisle and pick up every item they order off the shelf or from back in the stockroom. We basically have to do their shopping for them now.

The thing is, the counts for our stock are never exact - they’re always off by a few due to damaged product that doesn’t get scanned out right away or cases of people stealing, and the training course we had to do on the computer for it didn’t tell us what to do in case we didn’t have any of what they specifically asked for.

I don’t wanna do this. At all. Noooope.

This is both a pain in the butt and not so bad depending on how it’s set up. at my store I work in the print dept of an office supply store, the orders come to my computer, I log in, print out the order and ask for someone to get it (unless it’s close by and i’m not busy I’ll grab it.) then we lock it in a cabinet organized by their last name. the sucky part is i have to remember to mark the item as ready for pick up and then picked up after the customer gets it. I’m also the pick up point so while I’m busy running 100 jobs for people i also have to deal with the pick up orders, which get confusing as I also have people who leave print jobs to be picked up as well….also our store policy is that whoever the owner of the credit card that paid for the order HAS to pick it up, so no bf’s/gf’s, kids, SO’s, coworkers can pick it up. it’s a pain and we get bitched at aaallllll the time but it’s store policy. :/

dinosaurdracula:

This was the episode that made me a MST3K fan. I’m kinda afraid to look up when it’s from, because I know I was yoooouuuung.

Edit: Holy jeez, 1991?

I believe this was mys very first mst3k episode ever too! Me and my mom were flipping through the channels and i remember seeing the turtle monster kaiju movie, but we couldn’t understand why there was a guy and 2 ‘creatures’ in the corner of the screen talking through the movie. We flipped past and found something else on. A few years later i got into mst3k and fell in love with the humor :3

fuckyeahretailrobin:

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “CHURCH”

Bottom Text: “CROWD”]

OMG this! I’m a christian (not an in your face one) but even I want to set fires to some of the churches and temples that abuse their tax exempt, treat me like crap, demand services from my print center yet expect to not pay for those services etc.

>_<

rantingrobins:

Ugh, if I hear the noise of someone knocking on a glass window one more time I’m going to scream.

I work at two movie theatre (I’m a shared employee) which has many glass windows in both theatres.

In Theatre B, It’s a more fancy theatre with tons more doors. Its hard to keep track of who buys…

Look them in the eye and slowly finish your lunch…LIKE A BOSS!

rantingrobins:

Today was not a good day for me. I was having a hard time with my lung disease and wanted to cry because I wasn’t feeling well. But I tried pushing past it by joking with all of my customers and they were all making great and nice conversations with me.
Then this guy.
He comes up and asks for…

Some people have no sense of humor or want to have one. This guy is a classic case of that. Don’t let him get you down.

fuckyeahretailrobin:

This a an “Expect Great Things” dressing room. It’s the handicap stall and nothing was hung up it was all in the floor. I literally almost cried. Are people really that lazy!? I understand not putting it back on the return rack but throwing it in the floor? 

To answer your question, yes…yes they are…

fuckyeahretailrobin:

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “You have been here…”

Bottom Text: “For five. HOURS.”]

Story time from a copy/print robin!  So we have a regular that is disabled, he apparently had an accident and lost all but two of his fingers.  I feel bad for this guy because he works for an organization for training the disabled for athletic events.  That is awesome.  But apparently the people he works with like to dump all the work on him.  He has come in very frequently for the past few months to get books printed and edited.  This is cool, but when you’re the only person working in the copy/print department and said department is the busiest place in the store it becomes incredibly frustrating after a while.  Customers will come in droves and I am forced to juggle literally typing up an entire book for him with pretty much everything else.  Ring up the customers, work with photos, print other papers, etc.  The night that the image above alludes to was the final straw.  Yes, this poor guy was in the store for five hours, making me go through a document and editing the entire thing to change the font colors.  That was my entire shift that night.  All the while I was forced to take orders rather than being able to just work on them then and there.  It took pretty much a week for the department to finally get caught up with all the orders we kept on getting forced to take rather than complete right away. 

My manager finally had enough when he saw my exhaustion and rage filled face at the end of my shift that night and volunteered to confront this guy and mention the fee we charge to customers that  demand a worker’s attention for long periods of time.  Said fee is a dollar a minute.  Yes, we are technically obligated to charge this, but a lot of us bend the rules a bit because even we think it’s pretty outrageous.  But that night was enough.  I still feel really bad because obviously it’s difficult for this poor gentleman to do the editing himself but…  I’m sorry.  If we already have deadlines to fill with other equally important documents then it’s incredibly unprofessional to just pull everything to a screeching halt just for one person.  Handicapped or not.

THIS^^^

Oh OP I know your feels I know your feels sooo hard ;_;

fuckyeahretailrobin:

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “the only customers that do the survey.”

Bottom Text: “are the angry ones.”]

we used to have a secret shopper program at my store, and that was fine and dandy. but now the company has switched over to relying on customer survey reviews that are printed on their receipts.

and is it just me, or are the only people who actually do the surveys the angry customers that get pissed off because you don’t kiss their ass? my boss has reamed us a few times because our scores came in so damn low then I think she gave up because she realized what was happening.

Geh, we have that at our store too, yeah people that have good experiences forget to do a survey, even when we circle the receipt with a yellow highlighter. people with an axe to grind, remember…oh do they remember.

fuckyeahretailrobin:

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “STARTING RETAIL: CAN’T SAY NO TO ANYONE.”

Bottom Text: “NOW: EVERY NO IS AN ORGASM.”]

Seriously though. Starting retail, customers walked all over me, because I was too scared to tell them otherwise. Now, literally NO SHIT IS TAKEN.

“Can I have a coup-“

“NOPE. DON’T KEEP COUPONS AT THE REGISTER.”

“BUT-“

“NOPE.”

“I SHOP HERE ALL TH-“

“NOPE.”

This is slowly becoming me. I still have my days where i take shit because i don’t want to deal with some people but I’m deff. growing a backbone.