Monday, March 05, 2007

EXPI(RED)

Oh wow! That's all I can say about the past few days...

Friday I got to leave after only 2 hours because it was still dead in the store. I helped 9 people in my 2 hours that I was at Guest Service. The next person came in, and I got to go home.

Well, the weather changed and it was nice Saturday and Sunday. All the people that weren't in the store for the past week came in. It was nuts. And there were tons of expired receipts, but there wasn't really a backlash against that. Well, less than normal anyways.

But we did have our fair share of Canadians. It's their stupid holiday. We get asked CONSTANTLY if we exchange money. No. Do it before you fucking come here. Well, there was this one who had a $100 Canadian bill and wanted to exchange it for US money. So here goes the conversation:
Canadian: "Can I exchange this?"
Me: "I'm sorry, we don't exchange money up here but you can use it at the tills for payment."
C: "So can I use it at the Starbucks in here?"
Me: "Yes, but they may have to call to for money to have enough to give back to you." (We did just open, and there's not enough in the registers for a fuckin' $100 bill)
C: "So why can't you just exchange it here then!?"
Me: "We don't exchange money."
C: "Well where can I exchange it!?"
Me: "A bank."
C: "They are all closed!"
I just shrug and give her the 'not my problem' look.
C: "This is just silly!"
What's silly is that you Canadians come down here expecting that we are going to take your money. We don't have to. Exchange it BEFORE you come here.

I dread the weekend for this reason...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seriously though, being Canadian and in the service industry, do you know how many Americans come up here and think they can use their currency? I mean, we'll usually take it, but show us the same courtesy when we're ignorant in your country.

It's especially irritating when you're waitressing and the Americans leave a couple US dollar bills as a tip like this is fucking Vietnam or something. Because everyone bows down before the mighty American dollar!

Have you seen the exchange rate recently? The US dollar is, like, 87 cents Canadian. Big fat deal.

Anyways...


-Karen

Keri said...

I am a fellow Target employee ... a clerical at a brand new SuperTarget ... your blog REALLY entertains me