Retail blows at times...its the consumers who come in and give us attitude, mainly. So for those who work retail I salute the patience and aggrivation that you experience with me. and for those who do not work retail, learn how it works, or I'm eventually going to snap.
I have been working retail for almost 6 years now. I am currently an employee of the Sherwin Williams company. I used to work at Best Buy where I started my run in retail hell. Sure, for the most part it is kinda fun at times as long as you work with the right kind of people on the store staff, but its the customers that can get to you. For some reason we seem to be targets for irrate and ignorant people. So it came to my attention as to why people get angry at the people in the store who sell the product...simply, they're all stupid/ignorant jerks who have nothing better to do than to become unreasonable and point blame to someone who doesn't have anything to do with the creation of the product they buy. (its like killing the messenger).
But what I want to say is that for those who don't know what it takes to be in retail, consider this scenario: There is an ad in the paper for products on sale. There are a bunch of stores (ex: best buy) all over the country. The ad is the same all over the country. There are a lot of people in this country (nearly 300 million). We have 500,000 of a product to split amongst 600 stores and sold out of a product. Now what do you do?
One person can ruin my whole day because they think I can be like Copperfield and make things appear for them...leave us alone and be patient like all of the nice people. If we are out of something, just say 'OK. What can we do about this?'
I needed to vent. It just seems that people these passed couple of weeks have been evil.
I know there are others out there who know how I feel.