Summer is one of the most anticipated times of the year. Students are finished with school and don't have to worry about memorizing another molecule, foreign language or random date in history for three whole months. It's a time of relaxing, staying up late, sleeping in, going to the beach and shopping.
Whether it's shopping for the perfect bathing suit, a hot outfit to wear on a date or just hitting up a good sale, people flock to stores everywhere.
While you are wandering through the stores picking up clothes and tossing them down, trying on things you will never buy and leaving your trash all over the store, you are also creating a small hell for those of us so "fortunate" to be working retail.
When I signed up for my job I knew what I was getting into, and for the most part, I love what I do. There are people, however, who come into the store and whose sole purpose, it seems, is to mess it up as much as possible before leaving.
Being in a retail bubble and only having other retail workers to share horror stories with, I decided to ask some non-retail people why they think shoppers are so rude and inconsiderate, and I got some interesting answers.
"The reason people are so rude when shopping is because they are spending money and expect to be able to walk all over people," sophomore Morgan Lothes said.
Junior Steven Schalk's opinion goes in a different direction.
"The informed and generally courteous population doesn't usually need assistance in finding their item, and thus you don't interact with them as often. It is the idiots and morons who require direction, and thus seek you out. From there, their substandard social skills take over, and I'll assume you're familiar with the result," he said.
Schalk also has a theory about people who don't ask for assistance, but still leave clothes and trash everywhere.
"That is where you get your idiots who don't need your direct assistance, but also don't give a shit to put things back where they found them," he said.
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sarah jacobson
posted 8/25/08 @ 4:12 PM CST
I know this article is meant to educate (and make retail worker's lives easier), but it comes off as quite snarky and angry. I've worked in retail for years, and I'm familiar with all of the above complaints. (Continued…)
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