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So today marks the... 16th time someone has threatened my life at work. Man I love my job...

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Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
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I work at retail. 'Nuff said.
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APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
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Was gonna guess retail. Oof, that sucks dude :/
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
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Thanks. As much as I hate to admit it, I've gotten used to it. The area where I work at is populated with a bunch of rich, entitled, college kids who talk more than they do. It's kinda sad that I find these death threats more funny than scary anymore.

But I'm in no real danger. The only danger I'm actually in is accidentally hurting a college kid's feelings. Oh no....

And before anyone asks: Yes, I have been looking for a new job. I've been looking for a year now. But being one of those rich, entitled, college kids myself (At least in the eyes of potential employers...), no one wants to hire me.
I think everyone should have to work in retail at least once in their life for at least a year - it really opens your eyes and helps you not be a douchebag to the people around you. Honestly, waitressing and retail jobs can go fuck themselves. Not even the one or two nice customers make up for all the trash that comes through your doors. >.<
I get a feeling I'd barely survive a day in retail.
I once worked in a food place at a amusement park for a summer and it was the worst summer of my life. Everyone treats you like shit and the temperature in the little shitty box I was in was likedouble the temperature outside. This one girl I was working with one day didn't drink water for some stupid reason and she just got hotter and hotter (no, not in that way) until she ended up passing out on the floor during dinner rush. Lots of pissed off customers complaining while I asked for someone to help me carry her somewhere cooler. And that's why I try to get jobs where I have to serve customers as little as possible, preferably not at all.
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
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Liberty: I wish that happened. People need to be on the other side of the abuse so they know how crappy it is.

TungerManU: Anyone can survive in retail. You wanna know my secret? Don't care so much. No matter how much you're getting paid, it's not enough to take any insults directed at you seriously.

SnowOwl: Yikes, that's rough. I probably would have quit right then.
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I get a feeling I'd barely survive a day in retail.

Same. It would end with crying most likely. Maybe it'd help condition me?

Sorry you have to deal with that, Red. I always hear horrible things about retailing jobs.
unity
You're magical to me.
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;_; That's awful! I too have served time in that industry, and I hope to never have to return.
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
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Yeah, no kidding. If I never see a customer again, it'll be too soon.
This seems a good place to ask, but do any of you read Not Always Right? That place is a good read for stories about what really goes on in retail.

Yay. Retail.

Thinking of it, what an odd word. Retail. Re-Tail. Did a rat need to get a new tail affixed or something? Wonder where it originates from.

...ask Google and you shall receive: "Retail comes from the Old French word tailler, which means "to cut off, clip, pare, divide" in terms of tailoring"
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
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Old Italian saying: When you work with the public, you work with a swine.
Throughout my entire six year career working in retail, I’ve never actually had a customer threaten me that he or she was going to kill me over something, but I have had people throw certain things at me because they were p*ssed off, like loose change, crumpled up receipts, and the like at my face. Usually I just laughed about it and shrugged it off.

Our problem wasn’t that our customers were violent – oh no! Our problem was that most of our customers couldn’t grasp the basic concept of what was written on a sign – even if there were 10 of them right in front of them – telling them that a certain department was closed for the day, lol.

I remember one day when I was working at the front desk at the grocery store I was working for, one of the mangers there had ripped out our Western Union terminal (where you could send money to anyone, anywhere for a small fee) because we were extremely understaffed and we didn’t have the time to operate this thing all day since it was just a service we provided and we weren't making much money on it. An hour later, somebody wanted to send money, I told them that it out for repair, and the person then wanted to speak to a manager about it. The manager then came up to the desk, waved his hand back and forth where the machine used to be, and that person STILL wanted to send money, LMAO.

Even though working retail has its bad days, you often get to see such comedy gold unfold right in front of your eyes. Seriously, some of the stuff that you get to see there you can’t make this shit up.
I worked in retail for about a year, in a grocery store in the "bad area" of Surrey, BC. (@Addit - Newton area, it was right by the wavepool, on 72nd and King's Highway iirc). I started in the Pop and Chips isle as basically a stockboy. Within 3 weeks I was asked to take training to become a manager of sorts, and within 2 months I was a Clerk-in-Charge, managing the store from 6pm to Midnight, closing the safe, doing some light accounting etc etc... (yes, I am generally an overachiever)

It wasn't so bad. Not sure why people hate retail. In fact, on two separate occasions I was complimented on my smile.

I am not cut out for retail, though. I am not mean enough and have difficulty dealing with beligerent customers and homeless people loitering outside the store at night.
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