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What is this “the back” area that customers think exists? It’s a corner store the size of a postage stamp. I work everyday and I stock our shelves and I know what’s on them. When I say we don’t have something, please don’t ask me to “check the back.” There is no back. There’s no magical extra room full of stock we withhold until someone comes looking for it. For the love of god, find another way to ask if there’s definitely no more of the item you’re looking for without telling your clerk to check “the back.” —Baby got
This article appears in Dec 25-31, 2014.
Do that thing where you pretend to walk down stairs. These people have great technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssFD9lPOKb…
It’s a colloqialism.
My anaconda don’t want none unless you got adequate retail storage facilities, Hun!
That is officially the best post of the year so far!
That’s not saying much. ^^^
OB, at the retail store my wife works at in the village, out back is a postage stamp sized, staff bathroom & a receiving area about 8×8 ….You can’t store anything out there…& then receive a pallet of anything else ….& be able to move lol.
Maybe they’re used to dealing with Consumers Distributing at Bayers Road? Tell them to get their time machine calibrated.
that competition was horrid ivan! the woman bent at the waist. john cleese did it best,. he does everything best
This is only one of the specimens of the brainless % of our city’s population at work. Don’t be so surprised. I see countless of them daily, and have to deal with them as well, so I know exactly where you’re coming from. Commencing countdown, engines on (seat belts as well), check ignition and may God’s love be with you. Hold on we’re in for a bumpy ride.
Yours truly
Easy enough to handle, mate. Go out back, shuffle a few things about and tell the silly wanker you’re all out. Then flick him with a crusty dragon as he leaves the store.
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speaking of baby go no – where the heck are my two bitches I submitted? one on that prick fantino and the other a human condition bitch about those idiots who walk around with coffee cups sprouting from their appendages.
OB,
I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to expect that any retail outlet has some sort of storage (a room, a closet, the trunk of a car up on blocks out back) but, that said, I haven’t seen your postage stamp sized place of work.
So I’ll play along. Next time you have this situation have some fun with it:
Say to the customer, “I’ll check with the guys out back.”
Pretend to dial an extension on the phone.
Say, “Yeah, Jimmy? Oh, Charlie, I didn’t recognize your voice. Anyway, it’s Betty (or Bill) here – out front. Can you check if that shipment of Nifty Noodles we were waiting for came in.”
Hold your phone to your ear while smiling at the customer and whispering, “He’s checking.”
After a minute or so say into the phone, “Okay Charlie. Thanks for checking. I’ll get in touch with head office and make sure they expedite that shipment.”
Smile and say to the customer, “Sorry. We were expecting a full shipping container load of Nifty Noodles but they haven’t shown up yet. Check back later in the week.”
The customer will either have a sense of humour and laugh or be totally confused and just leave.
matou – you should be so snapped up if you were in the job market .
Or tell them: ‘I just sold the last pack.’
It’s important to be able to laugh at ourselves and all of our follies. Once you lose your sense of humour, all is lost.
Shopkeep to customer: Leave your name and number. I shall check the back 40 when I have the time and shall call you with my findings upon my return. Should only take an hour or two.
If a fymynyst asks a retail employee, who is also female, to go out back and look for something in supplies – and there is no back storage place to go search, and the retail employee refuses to go look – is it sexist?