Today, I had to wait thirty minutes after closing to check out a lady who was purchasing 20 different styles of curtains. I asked what she would be doing with them all, and she replied that she would be bringing 19 of them back tomorrow, as she didn't know which would match. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was shopping with a friend. We snuck into the same fitting room so we could give our opinions on each other's clothes. The suspicious saleswoman knocked on the door and asked how many people were in our room. I quickly answered, "It's OK. She's just watching." FML
Today, I was ringing up a lady’s items; two shoeboxes. Per policy, I’m supposed to open them. She heavily insisted I didn’t. I ignored her and found other merchandise inside. She then went on a rant on how "people should mind their own fucking business" and stormed out of the store without buying. FML
Today, I was planning on meeting my friend at the mall. She came late, and I was in the dressing room trying on a few things. When I came out to meet her, she looked at me oddly and said, "You shouldn't buy that, it looks terrible on you." Those were the clothes I came in. FML
Today, I had to help train a new employee at the register. It got busy so I had to take my eyes off her for a few minutes. At that time she managed to let someone walk out with $150 worth of fabric. I couldn't catch the customer. FML
Today, I needed to buy Vagisil. I went to the grocery store so I could use the self check-out. My item rung up incorrectly, so a girl came to help. She was new and having trouble, so she called more people to help. I ended up having five people around me talking about my Vagisil purchase. FML
Today, my usual 15 minute return trip from the fabric store took almost an hour and a half due to traffic. Once I finally got home, I realized I misunderstood the pattern I'm using and only bought half the fabric I needed. FML
Today, while checking out at Target, I had the choice of standing behind one lady or a long line. Naturally, I chose the former. Half an hour later, the long line had completely passed, and I was still standing behind the lady, who was now arguing with the cashier. FML
Today, I went shopping for a new pair of jeans. I was feeling good about the fact that I was going down a waist size until the cashier decided to discuss with me, three co-workers, and the ten other people in line how she didn't even know jeans came in sizes that big. FML
Today, at work, a customer went to try on a pair of pants. A few minutes later, she hurriedly returned and put the pants back on the shelf without saying anything. I later found out she'd come down with a bout of diarrhea and apparently didn't want to pay for the dry-cleaning. Glamorous. FML
Today, while shopping, a lady came up to me and asked if she could borrow my baby because, "Y'know, I'm in a hurry and they'll let me checkout first." FML
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1animalallover 16
Well she curtainly has a sense of style.
Shadowvoid 33
That's a whole lot of extra work to find a good pair of curtains, like you could easily narrow it down. "Yeah, I don't think the flying sex snakes fit the mood in this room, I'll buy the other 18 curtains."
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worldclassrager 41
People do that...it's like paint buy more than one put a little on the walls in different spots then pick one...it's a very good concept
Bleublancrouge_fml 13
And remember OP: "Client is King"
Saraishi 25
Retail hell.
miss_amphetamine 24
I manage the front end of a big retail store. Several of my supervisors have pointed out the need to keep an eye on customers who do things like buying many multiples of the exact same item, or mentioning they plan to return something - especially if they use an obscene amount of coupons. A current trend, at least in my area, is people buying items using fraudulent coupons and then altering the receipt, then return them for full price the next day. You should let your boss or AP know because the customer might be up to something.
devinaww 15
what do they do to the receipt? alter the price?
miss_amphetamine 24
By removing the coupon from the receipt, so it looks like the item was purchased at the original price. If the (fake) coupon was for $5 off a $10 item, they will remove the "$5.00" from the receipt so it just says the item price ($10.) The customer returns it, usually to a different location and within a certain time period, so the system has not yet processed the transaction. This means that the cashier will manually enter the price as the original. People do this with multiples of the same item, because they can duplicate the same fake coupons rather than making more. Example - if the coupons are for 50% off, a refund on the items doubles their money. It's really, honestly, ******* clever. It WAS, that is, before we figured it out. I wouldn't recommend trying it.
singlwforlife 22
We have people who pull similar antics at my work as well. Every time someone like that comes through my line I can't help but be a little jealous... There's no way I could afford to buy 20 pairs of curtains at a time, even if I was returning 19 the next day! I'm living the broke life, I would have to buy them one by one and wait to return them until I had the gas money to get back to the store!
ARetardedSeal 24
People gotta start somewhere, I work construction jobs and I don't even have a car for myself lol. Work hard and you'll achieve your goal
morganmck 15
Sounds like a good time to come down with the 24 hour flu and have to call off.
JKPwnage 27
Does she not have a phone with a camera?
RuthieeAbreu 10
Thats funny. ? Never thought of that.
nitrog100 21
Has she never heard of swatches!?! I've had to deal with some pretty awful customers before, so I feel for you, OP...
mischiefkel 17
Wow, what a bitch. Her sense of entitlement needs to be taken down a notch. She needs to lose whatever job is making it so she can afford all those damn curtains, and then be forced to work retail and process all of her own damn returns. She'll probably open all the packages and hang them up too, just to take them down, ball them up and shove them halfway back into the now ruined package before returning them. In case you couldn't tell, I work in retail and deal with these assholes daily. I hope for OP's sake that they don't accept open-package returns.