Wednesday, December 21, 2005

It's Starting...

The bitchfest that we know as Christmas returns is starting already. The bitchy attitudes have been whipped out and in full force. You better have a full defense of confidence to battle this return season. Pull out all stops, and fight fire with fire.

I don't know what it is, but there are a lot of fucking assholes returning shit and it's not even after Christmas yet. It's been really busy at Guest Service, to the point where it's almost impossible to keep up with anything.

Let's start with a few gems from the past few days:

There was this woman who came up with a black shirt. I don't know what the fuck her problem was, but she went into this all out rant. Apparently she had bought grey and brown shirts on Sunday that were on sale and they told her they didn't have any black shirts. She told me that they must have been lying because there was a black shirt. So I tell her that we may have got a shipment in, and she started bitching that they told her they wouldn't get anymore in. She also said they checked the inventory with our computer and I told it that the inventory was as of 8am that morning so it could be wrong. She wasn't having any of it and basically insinuating that they had lied to her. I was still fucking wondering what the fuck she wanted other than to bitch. She wanted to buy the black shirt! Was the fucking bitchout necessary!? She started bitching about how it was on sale on Sunday and that she should still get the sale price because they lied to her. I told her that if it was on sale on Sunday, that it would still be on sale because it was within the same week. For whatever reason, the black shirt wasn't ringing up on sale. I finally just changed the price and she left. But jesus fucking christ, she kept asking if I understood and I told her yes, but I still didn't know what she wanted. What the fuck do you want me to do about it!? All she wanted was the sale price, and had she said that in the first place, we both would have saved 10 minutes.

Then, there was this woman who wanted to return a few shirts. But the receipt was expired. She freaked out on Renae because our policy is "stupid". YOU HAD 90 FUCKING DAYS TO RETURN THEM!

We have been getting a lot of expired receipts lately, and getting bitched out because of it. There was this woman who had an expired receipt and she freaked out saying, "What about after Christmas?" What about it? We still have the same return policy. I also remember way back when, there was this woman who bought something in September for Christmas and came up to GS and told me to write on the receipt that it was OK to return after Christmas. Her receipt expired before then, so I told her I couldn't do that. She returned her stuff and bitched me out and left. Good riddance. I don't know what is so hard to understand about 90 days.

For some reason I have a feeling that this return season is going to suck major ass. At least I can be an asshole right back.

For everyone returning things this year, remember that you win more bees with honey than vinegar. Be respectful and nice and employees with be more likely to help you out. Employees are only doing their job and it's not their fault. They are following company policy and if you have a problem with it, politely ask to speak to a manager. Don't expect things to change just because you talked with a manager either.

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