I got screamed at all day. Over Elmo. Fuckin' Elmo, man.

[Mutley]

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DU parents, I'm begging you. Please, oh PLEASE be nice to your local retail workers this holiday season. They take a Lot of shit.

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[SacredCow]

1. I feel for you, mutley.....

The one given of the holiday season is that as it gets closer, people get meaner and nastier.

I truly think I'd starve in the streets before working retail again.

[Mutley]

5. I thought the same thing.

But man, you'll end up doing what you gotta do. Just like I did.

:(

[SacredCow]

11. You're probably right....

Here's to you getting yourself out of that line of employment! :toast:

[Mutley]

13. Thanks!

:toast:

[Random_Australian]

2. I'm nice to retailers year-round. (not that I am a parent). And I'm not

about to stop just cos some hullabalooing bloke went and got himself killed about this time some years back.

[Mutley]

6. Who got himself killed?

What happened?

[Random_Australian]

15. You know, that guy waaaaay back who still ruins every Christmas -

y'know, shot his mouth off about everything under the sun, ended up getting in quite the trouble with the law.....oh yeah, "Jesus", that was his name.



(Sorry for scaring you when you did not get the joke the first time)

[Mutley]

17. Oh, yeah. Him.

Celebrating Jesus obviously means we need to beat each other up in stores over a stupid toy. :eyes:




:P

[Random_Australian]

18. Well yes, didn't you read your ten commandments?

"Go nuts about toys" is the one between "no other God but me" and "don't elect republicans"

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. And 'Thou shalt covet

thy neighbor's Cheap, Store-Bought Crap."

[Random_Australian]

23. And of course "you shalt not engage in silly, knees bent advancing

behaviour, and ye shalt not run out of toys within 600000000 months of christmas."

[Mutley]

24. I must've missed all three of those.

My parents were heathens and never forced religion on me. Guess that was the basis for my being an atheist. :D

[Random_Australian]

28. Same! Anyway, have you seen "A short History of The World"?

It has THE BEST call ever made about the ten commandments, without exception. :)

[Mutley]

34. I have, but it's been awhile.

I don't remember it very well.

[ComerPerro]

3. You can always tell a person's character by how they treat

waitstaff, store clerks, and others in the service industry.

If they are rude to them, then it doesn't matter how they treat people they know.

They are assholes

[LynzM]

4. Agreed.

There's no reason to be rude, impatient or unkind to someone who is serving you, unless they are being rude or unhelpful on purpose, first. Even then, better just to talk to a manager. I'm continually amazed by the way I see people treat others, just because those other people happen to work in a position where they are serving others.

Mutley, hugs, dude. :hug:

[Mutley]

9. Thanks, LynzM

:hug:

[Mutley]

8. Bingo.

My ex used to be nasty to waitstaff if they made even the smallest mistake. It's no wonder he's my ex.

[SacredCow]

12. Oh, I just hate that kind of thing....

I've rarely found it appropriate to bitch out waitstaff and/or retail clerks. Having been there, I know that there's almost always more to the situation than you, the customer, know. A little patience and a kind word goes a long way to making everyone's day less stressful.

I'm sure everyone here will understand when you need to vent as the Holidays draw nearer. Personally, I've been punched a lot, so have at it, darlin!!!! :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. And it's still September

Think of what it's gonna be like around Dec. 10. :scared:

'Tis the season to be jolly, y'know. :eyes:

"War on Christmas" my ass. Corp'rit Mer'ka wrecked Christmas a long time ago.

[Mutley]

10. Don't remind me.

:cry:


Yup, Christmas is nothing like it was when I was a kid. We got one big gift, and a few small gifts. You wouldn't Believe the kind of money people spend these days.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. It's the economy

Since the Republicans worked it 20 or so years ago so that both parents have to work, parents make up for the lack of time spent with their kids by overindulging them with Cheap, Store-Bought Crap.

Christmas is the Super Bowl in the Cheap, Store-Bought Crap season.

[Mutley]

16. And most if it is indeed Cheap, and Crap.

They charge $50 for this styrofoam Superman that flies by remote control, but it falls apart if it hits the ground too hard.

:eyes:

Oh, and Elmo is $39.99. x(

[Bucky]

19. WHY the FUCK don't you HAVE more Elmos? It's Christmas, Goddamn it!

How the FUCK can we have Christmas and celebrate the motherfuckin' birth of the Christ child if you don't get those third world laborers off their brown asses and make us some more Goddamn Elmos!!!

[Mutley]

26. We'll get the fuckin' Elmos when we get the fuckin' Elmos!

:D

[SacredCow]

31. Elmo has had quite a run, hasn't he?

What's next for that little red furry thing?

[Mutley]

41. The fiery pits of hell?

:shrug:

That'd be MY first choice, anyway. :P

[SacredCow]

33. You owe me a new keyboard, Bucky!!!

:spray:

On edit: I'm re-imagining that as delivered by Samuel L. Jackson in the new movie "Red Furry Monsters on a Plane"

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. Awww, I'm sorry.

:hug:

[Mutley]

27. Thanks Rev.

Pssst! Don't ever get a job at a toy store. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

32. I did food service for a year and a half, that was enough.

:P


You should get one of those blow up punching doll things, then when a customer is acting up just turn around and hit that thing with all you've got, turn back and say, "I'm sorry, what you were you saying?"

[Mutley]

37. LOL!

We have those for sale, too. And I get a whole 10% employee discount 'n' everything! :eyes:


Good idea. I'm gonna do that. :D

[Left Is Write]

22. There's something in all this I CANNOT FIGURE OUT.

I've seen story after story about boorish customers, violent customers, profanity-using customers, all knocking each other over to get the Elmo Of Their Dreams.

My question is:

WHY, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE? WHY????

Why would you WANT one of those things in your house?

[Mutley]

29. I can't figure that out, either.

Elmo has to be one of the most Freaking irritating toys we have. :grr:

[SacredCow]

39. It's not so much that anyone WANTS it.....

When consumers hear that anything is in short supply, they go apeshit and buy said item for reasons unknown. Maybe they get bragging rights out of it or something, but man- how lame can one's life be to tie success with acquiring an obnoxious red toy? If I ever get to that state, I hope that someone here would come slap me within an inch of my life....

[Left Is Write]

45. I think they really want them. They promised Junior he could have one...

or Junior will be Really Really Upset if he doesn't get one, or some other such predicament.

Thank goodness my children are too old for Elmo toys.

[SacredCow]

46. My ex bought our son one of the incarnations....

A Chicken Dance Elmo, or some such horrible thing. He took one look at it, and promptly moved on to the skateboard that I got for him (and endured 10 shades of holy hell for). That's my boy!!!!! :loveya:

[Mutley]

47. Ohhh, Chicken Dance Elmo is the Spawn of Satan!

:cry:

[NC_Nurse]

25. I'm so sorry to hear this!

It sucks to have to take shit from people at work. At least I know people get short with me because they're sick. I don't understand people
who take their shit out on people who are attempting to help them tho... how stupid and pointless.

[Mutley]

35. I can understand customers who get frustrated because

they're dealing with a bad employee. We have Plenty of those. But I always try my best to make them happy, unless they start acting like assholes. I have no time for people who only want to bitch — loudly and with plenty of swearing.

[NC_Nurse]

44. No excuse for that

none at all.

What great role models they are for their children. :sarcasm:

[LeftyMom]

30. Well you get back there and slap some elves around until they make me one!

Of all the stupid things for people to get wound up about. :eyes: Elmo is the most annoying thing there is anyhow.

[Mutley]

36. You're not kidding.

People are going to beat the hell out of each other for an Elmo, then want to pull their hair out after listening to him for two days. :eyes:

[Bucky]

38. Until they make you an elf? Does slapping them do that?

I have to admit I've never slapped an elf, altho I've certainly thought about it a lot.

[Haole Girl]

40. Oh...people are just crazy in stores around the holidays!

Crazy! I worked retail many years in my youth. I'll never forget the time I worked in the men's tie department and people would wait until *after* we closed to mess-up all 1000 neckties. Ugh!

[Mutley]

42. Oh yeah, we get those.

We get people who want to come in thirty seconds before we shut the doors, and I'm not exaggerating here, and spend an hour meandering around and messing things up. Then they'll buy something for $10-15 and leave. x(

[WhollyHeretic]

43. I worked at Home Depot years ago and the store closed at 10

I would be filling up the paint machine at 10:30 when some jackass would come strolling around the corner and ask me to mix up some paint. :grr: