1. Customers arriving five minutes before the shop shuts
Photo: Warner Bros.
2. Getting blamed for price increases as though you have any control over anything in this infernal place
Photo: LucasArts / Disney
Oh no, sorry, overestimate. I meant overestimate. I can’t do shit.
3. Carefully arranging a display, only for it to be destroyed 10 minutes later
Photo: @TiffaanyJohnson
4. People asking for a 50% discount because the item has a tiny scratch on it and therefore is literally worthless
Photo: @fyrsyryn
Ah yes, of course. You know what, here’s 90% off.
5. Customers not understanding the difference between what they want and what is available
Photo: Comedy Central
You see, what you want is something that we don’t have. Do you see the issue we’re having here?
6. *no price label on the product* Customer: So that means it’s free then? Hahahahaha
Photo: JustEat
7. Giving your biggest, cheeriest “Hello sir/madam” and getting this in return
Photo: Getty / Craig Barritt
Good morning to you too, dick.
8. Holding out your hand for the customer’s money, who decides to just dump it on the counter
Photo: NBC
Oh good, you’re paying with all your loose change too. This won’t take a moment.
9. When a customer’s total is £0.02 more than they were expecting
10. Customers trying to return something that’s soaking wet, slashed up and covered in jam, claiming that it’s “faulty”
Photo: 20th Century Fox
11. When the phone rings and rings and rings, then you answer and it’s “What time do you close?”
12. “It says everything’s 50% off” No, everything’s UP TO 50% off
Photo: Mark Morgan
Check the not-so-small print.
13. Customers asking you to check ‘The Back’ when you know there’s nothing there
Photo: Roland Tanglao
What a surprise, there’s nothing there.
14. Getting a whopping 15 minute break on your 10-hour shift because work is crazy busy
Photo: @grace_bentleyxo
15. Parents treating your workplace like a creche and basically letting their children destroy everything
Photo: Natalie Greco
Petition to have one of these installed in every shop ever.
16. “I have a voucher, but I left it at home.” Well you don’t really have a voucher then, do you?
Photo: Coca-Cola / Wired
Also I’m fairly sure that voucher is from 1883.
17. When a customer seems to know more about your store policy and operations than you do
Photo: Paramount Pictures
Really? Tell me more about how we’ve always stocked this product that we’ve never stocked.
18. When it’s 9am on a Monday and the first thing that happens is a customer yelling at you for something that wasn’t your fault
19. “Oh wait, here’s 30p.” But I just pressed the £10 button on the till…
Photo: Warner Bros.
20. “Smile!”
Photo: TriStar Pictures
21. When you think it’s been four hours but you’re only 10 minutes into your shift
Photo: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Feature image: @iEatBears / Fox
