[donmeca2020]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Honestly sounds more like accusing people as a whole of being lazy rather than just sharing his personal viewpoints, but whatever.



Really. Really. As if people can afford that luxury in this economy.

I mean, I agree with you on that. I do. But right now, your average retail worker is likely working at least one other job to make ends meet, and I'm not talking about living some lavish, expensive lifestyle. Hell, I make $12/hr and honestly, after making sure the bills are paid and doing some necessity shopping, we end up living paycheck to paycheck. Imagine what it's like when you're paid less than that - it doesn't matter if you hate your job, because when it comes down to working a job you hate that pays for crap and has you dealing with rude, irate people for an entire 8-hour shift (if you're lucky enough to get an entire shift), or not eating, making rent, or keeping the lights on, a lot more people are gonna choose to keep the job. Because the job market isn't exactly a lively place, no matter what your skill level or desired position is.

And yeah, there's still an amount of 'obviously the employees don't care,' but the environment doesn't promote caring. You don't get any incentive to care when you work retail, unless you have some REALLY good supervisors and/or benefits. Because, yeah, for all the customers who point out how helpful you've been, or mention you positively to a manager, or whatever, there's at least two dozen more who think you're inept, who blame you for problems beyond your control, who tell your managers that you were rude to them, all that jazz. Because retail employees, as evidenced from some of the experiences mentioned here, are treated like crap from entitled customers who have 'the customer is always right' branded into their brains and think that gives them free agency to be dicks.

All right, I'm done with my rant, can we please get back to talking about toys now.

And this is the same reason i got into with you last time.... NO ONE is forced to work in retail and accept low high school,college kid,retiree wages. It's by choice. as far as you trying to shoot off saying customers are unreasonable and ask for too much. sorry to bring to light to you that's part of the job when working in super markets,retail stores etc. there is no acceptable reason to being unprofessional when that's what your job REQUIRES you to do with customers on a regular. keep in mind retail is definitely not for everyone.