I have never made it a secret that customers often do my head in.
They don’t know what they want, grunt out one word and expect me to know it’s a question and a lot of the times are simply just rude.
Nothing annoys me more, however, than idiots who come into the store and instead of shopping, just loiter in your section having a mothers club with their friends.
There are many things that annoy me about this practice. First of all, why stand around a fixture to catch up with someone when there are approximately 200 cafés in a 200-metre radius. It’s idiotic.
My second issue is that, as it’s my job, I approach the customers to see if they require help and they give me a filthy look for interrupting their conversations or simply being in too close a proximity to them. Um, it turns out that I’m paid to be there people. Move along.
My third and, for the sake of my temper, final issue is that these fools are blocking my product from people that actually want to buy things and making it an intimidating place for people to shop.
I feel awkward working around a mass congregation of the middle-age bourgeois, how do people that aren’t paid to be there or aren’t as brash as I am meant to navigate through their disgusted looks?
So as a message to those people that feel it appropriate to loiter around shop fixtures, blocking off a section and chatting for half an hour. Please stop, think about what you are doing. I understand that people always run into friends randomly at the shops however, use your head and move on to a café or somewhere more appropriate if the catch-up is going to be a marathon.
If I walked into your workplace and sat on your desk talking to my friends stopping you from doing your job you know doubt, would be annoyed. So don’t do it, as it’s the same thing.
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