Today was not great but I suppose by my standards was not completely terrible either. I started it all off by going to work and during my commute I stubbed my toe so naturally some guy had to step on it. After I got to work I helped some customers including a snobby girl from Texas and Australian lady. I don't know if it's just me and my luck but the last few Australian customers I've had have been well let's just say interesting.
The first Australian lady was the most indecisive person I've ever met. She spent almost an hour the first day she came in trying to decide whether or not to buy something. We finally convinced her that she could bring it back and she bought it and left. Yesterday she came back twice. The first time was to return something and try some things on. But because she is very indecisive she couldn't decide whether or not to buy one of the things that she tried on so she had us put it on hold for her. Half an hour before she closed she came back and bought it. Because she doesn't fly out until Sunday she'll probably be back.
The Australian lady who came in today was very demanding. After I helped her find some pants she asked me what the difference was between two pairs of them. After I explained it to her I guess she wasn't satisfied with the answer I provided because she hit me with one pair of them. She also came back later in the day to continue trying things on. But because the customer is always right I just smiled and helped her again later.
After I finally made it to my lunch break, because I didn't bring a lunch I went out to buy something. My original plan was to go to Tim Hortons. Sadly that didn't work out because there was a police incident and there was a huge section of the road blocked off. Apparently some guy had a large knife and was waving it around but as far as I know no one got hurt. I changed plans and ended up buying an expensive sandwich at Starbucks.
I finished my shift late because there was a couple and an adorable baby in the store and they weren't quite finished shopping. They ended up spending $2240.00 so we were glad we let them stay. this is the one time that I think that it's too bad I'm not on commission. Although the husband did try to tip me $10. I honestly wasn't sure what to do. I told him I couldn't accept it but he left it anyways. I work in retail, how often do you get tipped in retail? I've never seen it happen... So after I got home a lot later than I expected, I started to cook dinner and my pot boiled over. They say that bad things come in threes but technically that is at least 4 depending on what you count as bad, so hopefully nothing else happens. I don't think that anything else can go wrong today though, mostly because today is almost over.
Moving on to my plans for tomorrow. Tomorrow's plans include going to school, grabbing lunch with a friend to talk about our projects for class, getting a pedicure (mostly so I can wear open toed shoes at work and because I want to be pampered), and finishing my outline for afore-mentioned project. Hopefully I can get that all accomplished especially the last thing because the outline is due on Wednesday.
It wasn't a "tip" per se, but in one shop I worked in, there was an elderly lady who always wanted to buy me something and every time, I would say that we weren't allowed to accept gifts. I was getting quite concerned to be honest with you, and ended up speaking to my supervisor. Turns out he knew the lady and all it was was that she had no family and was just very, very lonely. I always tried to make her feel special whenever she came in but she was so desperate to do something nice for me that she got quite upset and offended when I kept saying no.
ReplyDeleteProblem is, it's just not appropriate to accept tips or anything like that in retail. If you work in a bar, you could let someone buy you a drink or someone might tip you if you work in a restaurant but retail jobs just aren't like that. At least, not the ones I've ever had. It might be different if you do actually work on commission but I've never done that.
He did come back in the next day with his wife at which point my manager told him that we couldn't accept tips, but he still wouldn't take it back so we added it into a "slush fund" that also has money in it from the company from other times where there were contests such as "if you beat your target for this month you get $100." Apparently we're all going to go out for dinner at some point.
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