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• Cary McNeal commented on Retail: It's Not For Everyone
  You make a very good point, Meiggs. I'm sure waiting tables is harder than selling sweaters, for the reasons you list. People are pissy when they're hungry. I loathe people who treat wait staff like crap. My wife waited tables for a while, and she'd come home with stories that made me want to drive up to the restaurant and beat somebody's ass....
• Jess commented on Retail: It's Not For Everyone
  I honestly haven't tried retail yet. The only time I've interacted with customers was when I worked at Subway for a month or so. It wasn't too bad, except for this one girl who accused my manager of not teaching me how to make a sandwich properly because she told me to stuff it with so much stuff it wouldn't close. Grr. Now I work as a salad cook, and it's great. You don't have to interact with the customers, and if stuff gets sent back... generally it's the server's fault. I definitely do not want to do it for...
• Laje Kahr commented on Retail: It's Not For Everyone
  Yeah, this absolutely why I think the same way. I waited for quite a few "entitled jerks" that I think would be much nicer if they'd ever been through what I'd been through, but then again now that I'm older, I've begun to thing some people are just jerks no matter what. Man that was quite the run-on sentence. Still probably not a bad idea for people to give it a go, but there are definitely people not well suited to it....
• varareader commented on Retail: It's Not For Everyone
  I think you need to have some sort of humor to pull it off. What you should have done (provided the manager was far far away and the customer looked like they could take a joke) was actually reply to their question, "Do you work here?" with one of your answers. You can end up with some hilarious conversations that brighten up the day that way. But... you can also end up with a complaint... so I can understand not doing it. Thankfully, I have an easy going boss that ignores such complaints cause the people making them need to...
• Frenchie commented on Retail: It's Not For Everyone
  I've been working at a pharmacy since I started college. Sometimes, when I tell stories about my insanely crazy customers some of my friends are like MAN I COULD NEVERRRR DO THAT, I'D GO INSANE! How am I not? Simple. The crazier they get, the normal crazies start to seem okay....