Little Pirate Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Retail's a rough job--but I learned nothing pisses off an angry customer more than being smiled at and asked if there's anything else they can be helped with. It almost feels like real life trolling at times. Otherwise, you gotta do what you gotta do to get by. I have a couple regular customers who are awesome as hell. One of them is this arab guy who will come in and just flatter the crap out of all the gals in the store. "You are looking so spiffy today!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slatz_grobnik Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Almost a lawyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Almost a lawyer. Oh god not another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Yeah everyone here is in law or retail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knifington STRIKE Posted December 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Retail's a rough job--but I learned nothing pisses off an angry customer more than being smiled at and asked if there's anything else they can be helped with. It almost feels like real life trolling at times. Otherwise, you gotta do what you gotta do to get by. I do this to nurses who piss me off. It is the only way I can get through a whole shift without snapping at every burnt out don't-five-a-shit nurse I have to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. McFluffermutton Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I work at an assisted living home. I serve old people food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouchart Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I work at an assisted living home Soylent Green distributor. I serve old people food. There, I made it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudkip3DS Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I work at an assisted living home Soylent Green distributor. I serve old people AS food. There, I made it better. There, I made it even MORE better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyez Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I'm a graphic designer at a major marketing company, one in a dept of 12 I think. Sooo basically I take a lot of bullshit ideas padded with nice wording and make it look pretty so companies can make more money. The plus side is there's a lot of depts to deal with clients, copywriting, research, IT, etc...so it's nice to just focus on strictly designing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brida Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 we're all lawyers, retail, graphic designers...or rapists, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slatz_grobnik Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Almost a lawyer. Oh god not another one. Does it make it any better if I hate it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 today was totes easy. And I'm crewed for Thursday, which is my Christmas holiday. Double and a half, baby! That's ~$48/ hr! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diedan Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 we're all lawyers, retail, graphic designers...or rapists, apparently. Oh gods noooooo! I work in research though! Research! Although it's typically for evil food companies to make their crap product cheaper so they can make more money... ...so I guess transitive consumer rapist? Goddamnit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Oh gods noooooo! I work in research though! Research! Although it's typically for evil food companies to make their crap product cheaper so they can make more money... So its people like you I can blame for costing us our jobs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diedan Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Uhhh...probably not? Unless somehow you work for a supplier that a large food company decided to stop using because they were too expensive. And even then I just supply the data! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 ah. No, I work in a manufacturing plant for a snack food company, and we've been leaking jobs like a sieve for the past few years. "staying competitive" "by 2013 x amount of people will retire and only y people available to fill those jobs" etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Retail's a rough job--but I learned nothing pisses off an angry customer more than being smiled at and asked if there's anything else they can be helped with. It almost feels like real life trolling at times. Everything you wrote there is 200% fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 I had a rather hefty woman threaten to jump over the counter and strangle me when I worked at WalMart. She got even more pissed when I started laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diedan Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 Ah. Fair enough. More often than not, my job entails actually making food better. When companies want to make food cheaper, it's extremely risky and not one they move on unless they're absolutely sure it can be done without consumers noticing. The problem with the industry is that it needs to exist (people have to eat), and yet the budgets are shrinking and forcing companies to cut back (the majority of the budget goes to marketing instead of the actual quality of food). So food companies need to cut costs and they prey upon suppliers. But the food companies aren't going to make a move unless they find someone who can produce at parity with or statistically better than what they already have, so it's up to suppliers to cut costs if they can't cut quality, which unfortunately comes at the expense of jobs sometimes. Honestly, I'd put the brunt of the blame on the culture we've built up around marketing and advertising more than the food or food companies themselves. That's where the budget goes because that's what makes money. It's all kind of fucked up and weird, but I just do the studies we're given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 with my job its just funny because they are cutting these jobs, yet we have all this overhead from specialist (non producing) positions that get paid way too much to do way too little, yet we're getting replaced by machines. And the fact that they make really dumb calls with scheduling production. really it comes down to corporate greed and CEOs doing whatever they can to continue to make exorbitant amounts of money, regardless of what happens to the little man, and the quality of their product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diedan Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 with my job its just funny because they are cutting these jobs, yet we have all this overhead from specialist (non producing) positions that get paid way too much to do way too little, yet we're getting replaced by machines. And the fact that they make really dumb calls with scheduling production. really it comes down to corporate greed and CEOs doing whatever they can to continue to make exorbitant amounts of money, regardless of what happens to the little man, and the quality of their product. And such is capitalism... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Showmeyomoves! Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 ^ Rock beats scissors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted December 22, 2010 Report Share Posted December 22, 2010 But with all kinds of people I meet all kinds of stress. I get trailer park people screaming at me because my store won't take EBT/food stamps for their food items, and richer people upset that we won't take their credit card. And kids just being annoying and unaware of this magical invention called 'tax'. When I go into a Dollar store (They are called Dollar Tree around us) I go in and pick out what I want. I wait quietly in line. I pay in cash and say "thank you" and at this time of year "Merry Christmas." I always wondered why that was so difficult for 99% of the population. we're all lawyers, retail, graphic designers...or rapists, apparently. WELL, obviously what we have here is a RAPIST on T A Y! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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