Shop assistants .... deeeerrr

[Tonyz]

Recently felt in a weird mood when shopping in Myers. When buying new stero was asked
"would you like to charge this?"
"Yes " said I
the assistant then pompously plays with his computer/ cash drawer/thingy running all through the paperwork, then asks
"Can I have your credit card please"
"Dont have one" said I
The assistant is dumb struck "WHAT" :eek: he asks
I repeat myself.
He..." you said you'd like to charge this up"
me "Yup"
"But you dont have a credit card ?"
me "Nope"
At this stage I thought I'd gone to far he acted as if having a baby, gave a little cry and phoned supervisor.
What should have taken 5 minutes finished up me taking the p*ss out of them and 4 staff members involved over 20 minutes
Its the way the poor sods are trained and dont really listen to what they are saying
Try it at Bunnies....... go on I dare ya........................Tonto

[echnidna]

Devious !
Wish I'd thought of it.

[Daddles]

You're a bastard Tonto. Come up to my place sometime and teach me the technique please

Richard
impressed

[Iain]

I love snotty shop assistants who stare down their noses at you, just because I have an old stained holey T shirt on (I Like it) daggy shorts and old thongs.
When it comes to purchase time I produce my Amex gold with Dr as the title, really pulls them up in their tracks.
I rarely use it but sometimes the situation warrants it, I got caught out once years ago at the airport when some poor sod had a coronary and they paged me, it's only a Phd.
Still a bit of fun though.
Another one I use at the checkout is 'do you take cash', gets some strange looks.

[arose62]

I carry some $1 and $2 notes in my wallet for when young shop ass-istants get snooty....


Cheers,
Andrew

[Jack E]

Iain,

Is it normal for Phd's to put Dr as their title or is this reserved for Medical practitioners to save any embarresment such as the one you mentioned.
My partner is a Dr of the Medical kind and has had to send a copy of her MBBS degree to the AMA before they will allow her to have the title Dr on her Amex Gold Card.

[Iain]

Yes, and several politicians use their title quite freely, it is an earned title and I may use it as I see fit, which I don't.
Vets and Dentists also use the same title although mine was in an unrelated field.

[Pete J]

Somewhere, on a shop assistants bulletin board, there is the other side of this story. Its a shame it can't be posted here to give this 'weird mood' tale some real perspective of how unlucky shop assistants can be.

[Driver]

Somewhere, on a shop assistants bulletin board, there is the other side of this story. Its a shame it can't be posted here to give this 'weird mood' tale some real perspective of how unlucky shop assistants can be.

Hear, hear!

Who the hell would want to work in retail?

Have a heart fellas. Most of these young kids are earning lousy money, on their feet all day, working for big retail organisations who don't strike me as being the world's most caring employers. Do they really deserve to have you blokes giving them a hard time? If you want to have a go at retail organisations, pick on the store managers, not the poor little buggers at the front end.

[ozwinner]

I think it is shocking for someone to go into a shop, or anywhere, just to torment the poor shop assistant.
The shop assistant doesnt want or need to be pestered by numbnuts all day, they are only there trying to earn a quid, and dont need, or want dckheads.

Im lucky in the shop that we own in that I can, and do, tell customers who try it on where to go.

How would you feel, being pestered by dckheads all day in your job??

Grow up!!

Al

[ptc]

Al, here here !

[Iain]

Whilst I agree with Driver and Ozwinner I do not go into retail to aggravate anyone but I detest pompous, pious smartasre little pricks who want to put you down, and often have no idea what they are talking about.
Example:
Harvey Norman...These speakers (little plastic satelites) are rated at 1000w RMS, Pony Pellets, they would be pushing to cope with 5watts.
NAD? never heard of it, can't be any good as we have the best equipment (tell mr Encel that).
KEF speakers (they asked what I was using) never heard of them, also can't be any good.
I went back later and bought my home theatre from a bloke who knew what he was on about and not full of crap.
Also Harvey Norman, my new digital video camera was not doing what I wanted (instructions were a bit vague on downloading), this was seen as an opportunity to sell a cleaning tape, I objected on the grounds that those nasty little tapes are abrasive, he dissagreed and said they were not.
I didn't buy the tape, they are abrasive and bugger heads, went to Canon Vic who admitted that the instructions were being updated and gave me a one on one on how to get the best results using AVI not JPG as outlined in the manual.
I do not bash retail staff unless warranted, and I find most are as helpful as possible and not rude or brash, but I will not tolerate these buffoons who think they know it all.
Having said that I am a lover of classical music and shop on a regular basis at Readings and Thomas' and find that the staff in these places really know and love their stuff, they even have experts in certain fields, question on jazz, I'll get Geoff for you, he's our guru etc etc.

[LineLefty]

The bottom line is, don't go to harvey norman. They're a contradiction in terms. They call themselves the "XYZ specialists but they're also the ABC Specialists, the DGF Specialists and the QRS specialists.

Especially for video camera realtied thingos, stay away from Harveys.

[Zed]

I gave tonto a greenie as it amused my funny bone, however the question begs was tonto being a ar$ehole or was the attendant being one ?

So long as it was in jest is the important thing, in my opinion if the jester was known to be jesting to the jestee then al well and good, if the jestee didnt know he was being jested and he was an a-hole to boot then all the funnier...

what am i talking about - ahhh.... doesnt matter anyway.

kumbay ah!

[silentC]

Yes, but does the Zeddee know he is being Zedded by the Zedder, hmmm?