To the girls who were working in the Transit store in Halifax shopping centre on Saturday night:
Worst customer service ever. Instead of helping customers get what they needed , you were all standing around talking to your friends who came, and screeching about how you haven’t seen them in ages.
I understand that you girls are maybe pretty, maybe you think that gives you some kind of priviledges…I don’t know, I mean I don’t think Im ugly at all, but I never do stuff like this at my job…
Regardless, this isn’t the first time I’ve been in that store and have received horrible service from the same people. You girls are always incredibly snotty. You always have your noses up in the air as if you’re hot shit. Well let me telly ou something, you aren’t. People see right through that. You don’t deserve to have jobs like this if you can’t do them properly, and mind you, retail raelly isn’t that great of a job to be in in the first place.
For the record, I work in retail, so nobody tell me that I should have gone up to them asking them to help me. It’s a bit awkward for the customer to do so when the employees are all having a huge conversation with people who aren’t even there to buy shoes.
This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2008.
These girls are like the clique crowd in high school – time has a nifty way of humbling such tittering little twits. I love karma and I’ve lived long enough to see it happen time and time again. Fret not.
Totally agree. Customer Service is not part of the job desc., it’s prob more like “how long you can stand on one foot in heels”!I think it’s hilarious that they think the 3″ heels give them the right to look down on anyone! How much do they make???? $8/h if they’re lucky?? Their attitude changes pretty quickly when they realize that you’re about to spend $120 on a pair of boots, though! And I have to laugh at them thinking they’re all hot in their spike heels working 8 hour shifts….how much you wanna bet if you went to the backroom during lunch hour that there’s more crying going on than eating!Let me know how your back feels in a few years you dumb bitches!??!
When I was young and didn’t know any better, I, too, wore ridiculously high heels. There wasn’t a moment when they didn’t hurt some part of my body but my ex would go on and on about how nice they looked. Finally, I got so fed up, I told him if he liked the fucking things so much, he should put on a pair for an hour. That went over like a lead fart. Then I gathered all my high heels up and pitched them in the trash. I’ve been ‘heel-free’ (from the shoes and the ex) for over 20 years now and cannot understand why anyone would want to wear those twin towers of toe torture.
I like reading Elbee’s comments, I always laugh at them, and almost always agree with them.
Hey matt, you know what else is really annoying? People who type in CAPITAL LETTERS. Oh, and people who can’t spell.
Dear Matt – I don’t have to justify squat to you – chill out, you’ll live longer.
I agree,Ellbee is nothing but a tired windbag.who has no life. Get off your ass, lady. Stop obsessing over this site, because you’re clearly starting to annoy the shit out of people.thanks!
Holy Shit Matt, you’re such an asshole!! Why does it bother you so much that Ellbee likes to comment? I think her comments are great, whether I agree with them or not! And does if really enrage you so badly that you have to type in caps lock? Hahaha, get a life!!! If there were no comments on the bitches, they wouldn’t be half as fun to read! Ellbee, keep writing!!
One more thing Matt, and Poop:In order for either of you to know how often Ellbee comments on the bitches posted here, you both must spend just as much time as she does reading them! Atleast Ellbee has things to say and takes the time to say them (and thus giving you more to read!), whereas you probably both just sit there drooling!! Atleast she’s whitty and entertaining.
Jeeze, isn’t the whole purpose of this board to bitch and comment on said bitches? I love this image a few of you have that I’m sitting here all day, twitching in my chair, just panting to respond to anything that pops up. While I do enjoy this board, I do have a life, not a bad one either. That I’m managed to upset some of you is a real head shaker since my only crime seems to be expressing an opinion. If you don’t like it, skip my response and go forward to the next one. But to rant on in CAPS and make unfounded assumptions about me just demonstrates your immaturity and intolerance.
I agree with Rachel. I really like reading Ellbee’s comments, she always have something interesting to say and has a great sense of houmor about it. Like Rachel Iit’s not every time that I’ll agree with what she says, but she’s still great! Matt sounds like a mean, spiteful, angry prick.
windbag!
I think Matt and Poop are on their periods and should stfu!
I’d prefer ‘breezesack’ myself. Your moniker is well chosen, young poopy-pants.
It’s Poop to you, Ellbee. Get your damn facts straight!..and i think i’ll stick with windbag..it just feels right, y’know?
Wow – what a challenge! This might be the most amount of attention you’ll ever get, Math-Phew.
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agony. You guys still there?
You’ll be dreaming of tin Bayers Aspirin boxes tonight, me lovelies. BAHAHAWHAWHAW!
Way to totally trail off topic…
Matt/Poop and all the other shit disturbers.If you don’t like what Ellbee has to say STOP reading it! This wasn’t a bitch about her and do YOU have the nerve to say she has nothing better to do. Kinda like u nothing better to do all day then be ignorant and intolerant of other peoples opinions?!It’s a public fourm, get over it.
Once again…still going off topic.guys, keep the arguing to some other form of internet so nobody else has to read it.come on now. You’re all becoming the people you’ve probably written bitches about.shame on you.
You folks should check out the oldschool usenet news: hfx.general and ns.general for some serious wanks.
Hey, who called in the stay-on-topic police? People can vent about whatever they want to vent about, regardless of the initial topic. Let it go.
Hey Sarah, maybe YOU should stop reading what WE have to say. HUH? HUH? You love poop, admit it.PS. Ellbee smells.
Not nearly as sweetly as you, poops.
Hey Ellbee, you need 4 more posts for matt to win the bet! LOL!
Is that all it took to shut her hole?Nice one, Molly.
let me get back on topic then.I WAS one of those girls that was working at Transit Saturday night. There was three of us on, did you know that? Because if you did realised that you would have noticed that there was a girl working and helping customers, and she was not in 3 inch spike heels. Infact I don’t really wear our three inch spiked heels because I know what they will do to me when i’m old and grey. I’m sorry if my two girls got distracted on a slow Saturday night to talk to some “old friends” but i don’t believe any “schreeching” went on. I never ignore a customer unless i’m busy with too many others but i still manage a hello. Sometimes i do get snubbed by customers when they don’t hear me because i’m sick and don’t have a voice. My nose is not up in the air, and i don’t think i deserve a job like this because i probably get treated like dirt, because of people like you the clump us all in a category. I was never popular at school, or part of clique nor am I beautiful just a girl doing a job to get money to make her life better, but not you would care because to you I’m just a Shoe Salesperson there to make sure the size 7 in the heels are still there for you
Three salespeople,.one helping a customer, two talking to friends, one customer not being helped ‘on a slow night’ adds up to poor customer service.Truth be told, some customers idea of waiting 5 minutes for service is actually only 30 seconds, but thats the sad reality of retail. Me, I give 2 minutes after a sales ‘associate’ notices I’m there before I leave due to lack of service. Obviously that 2 minutes increases in time if there are other customers present or if they are talking to friends/good customers and say they’ll be with me in a minute.
Gingergirl, I completely agree with Cranky. I’m assuming you’re the manager, since you made sure in your reply to refer to your coworkers as ‘my girls’. You admit it was a slow night, and the fact that you might have been busy with another customer doesnt really excuse the fact that the other two girls were busy gabbing away to friends and didn’t notice a customer in need. It also makes you look bad as a manager too, because as someone in charge you should be able to multitask, atleast well enough to notice when your employees arent doing their jobs on a slow night .So you really have no excuse.
Here we go ..I applied for a job at Transit once and realized they didn’t pay me enough to be hot enough to work there.”We’re all about image .. you must wear the latest fashion, that includes clothing and shoes ..” Oh, I was also informed that full time associates make a salary .. and get paid a certain amount each week for being there full time .. the only problem was, if you divided it by the 40 hours, it was LESS than minimum wage .. but that’s okay cause “you’ll make it up in commission”.Well .. that’s doubtful .. if you ignore customers how do you make the sales to get your commission? I find the whole Aldo chain of stores cares more about their image then customer service. Nine times out of 10 when you go in there, you are ignored or instantly judged. It is damn annoying and I too am sick of it.Stop making excuses and do your damn job – or better yet, get a job that pays you at least minimum wage .. you’re getting screwed
To “matt”- hmmm, asswipe, you spelled your own name in small letters…what makes you think I’M going to capitilize it? Actually, I find your comment hilarious. “Why don’t you capitilize the first letter of my name when I myself don’t?” I’m rolling my eyes, hard.
Don’t shop at Transit. The salespeople are automatons and the shoes aren’t even that great. Bad service, bad shoes! At least they’re consistent!
Wow, from shoes and stores to how commentators hate each other!!.. anyway, back to the original subject. Check out Aldo, I love the people that work there. They think they’re in a modelling contest of some sort!
First of all, I do work for Transit however not in the Halifax location. I think what is worse than people coming into our store and thinking that we are not helping them and being “snotty” is when they walk in and think they are better than us. Most of the time you bitches walk in and don’t here when we say Hi because you are too busy with your nose in the air or talking on your cell phone. I make my best effort to say hello to everyone that walks in the store and give them great service and wanna know what I get in return? I get snubbed, people saying “Were just looking” in the bitchiest tone possible and the talk loudly enough to there friends about how they hate going schooling because sales people don’t leave them alone. Second on the note of gingergirl, not everyone there is what they seem. I for one am not a “Transit Girl” I’m a Transit Boy, and you should see the looks I get for that. I was never popular in High school, I was and am not that attractive. I come to work in my Transit shoes, dress pants and a nice fashionable shirt and tie. This for you people is not conforming to a hidden looks agenda, this is a dress code. No matter where you work your going to have one. I think before you bitch you should put your self in there shoes for a second…think, was I talking to someone, was I on a cell phone. Please, think before you bitch