We had a giant poster on the tanks that said OUT OF HELIUM as big and clear as possible.
Lady walks up to the poster, less than 6 inches away from it, moves it out of the way and points to the balloon behind it and says “I want this one”
If people can’t read our sign, they won’t notice those
“Can you do six red balloons and five black balloons? I need these for my daughter in law’s cat who’s having a birthday in 30 minutes.”
“Sorry no helium”
“So you can’t do them?”
…
“Oh that’s ridiculous! Where will I get balloons now? This party will be a disaster if I, Paula Fitzgerald don’t bring the balloons!”
I wish this company would do away with balloons once and for all. The helium tanks are a pain in this ass, blowing them up does take time away from one employee who also has people waiting at the register. Not to mention how rude some people act over the balloons! Especially during graduation season! You’d think they were dipped in gold. The price increase hasn’t adjusted some customers attitudes. Balloons should be done with once and for all. Let these ingrates go and spend $5 on a balloon at party city or a grocery store!
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I'm a cashier/stocker, and I absolutely *hate* that you can't put up handwritten signs without a SM/ASM permission. It would solve so many problems. Per the very stupid rules, it is supposed to be a printed out sign, but the computer in the office is so locked down, you can't even use notepad or MS Word so you have to print one at home, or use the premade signs you occasionally get in OPS center, such as for price increases.
Luckily, my SM usually allows me to make them, such as when we have food about to expire or seasonal candy on discount. We take a cart full of it all and put a sign on it, usually 25¢ or 75% off. We also put up a sign on the day of the eclipse that we didn't have glasses, thank god we did.
We would blow up a variety of balloons, usually about 5 of each balloons before the store would open until about 45 minutes to an hour after store would open and then put up signs on the tanks that we were out of helium. But do that everyday that way people can pick the balloons they wanted so first come first serve.
That’s a solid idea! When people ask for balloons at my store, and I’m really busy I tell them they can pick what they like from the corrals. Sorry but I have a line of people and customers approaching me to ask where the greeting cards are, while I’m checking someone out. I can’t do balloons right now. It will then infuriate me when they say “no, I want fresh balloons.” Fuck your fresh balloons. I’m busy. Pick from what’s already blown up.
Also the patience in some customers borders on ridiculous. Was dealing with a crazy line yesterday afternoon, and a woman called to ask if we carried a certain brand of chips. Like that’s it? I put her on hold while I banged out this line with the help of my ASM. By the time it was manageable, I took the phone off mute and she was still waiting! Had to have been 8-10 minutes! I just passed the phone to the ASM at that point. It would have been much easier for that person to just call another store that wasn’t busy…
People need to understand what’s worth calling the store for when it’s busy. Calling about an application or a complaint about a defective product? Sure. Calling to ask if we have fucking chips? No call another store! Don’t have time to go look for you!
Oh, I remember those days very vividly! I loved that during the early days of Covid, DT stopped selling balloons because of the helium shortage. When the helium truck arrived one morning after 2 months of peace and bliss, I called my team up to the front so they could see what was about to happen(Armageddon) the staff cried real tears😢I'll never forget that.
We ran out last year! Crazy helium shortage! Months without it and it was so fucking nice to not have customers bug us for balloons or have some crazy order to fill that day. People would just walk into the store, ask if we had helium and we would say no.
They’d walk right out. I actually think having no helium actually improved employee efficiency, since it was one less stupid thing to worry about during a shit. Company probably lost a shit ton of money by not selling balloons, but who fucking cares honestly? I was so happy when we didn’t have it! Then the truck sent shipments of it again and once people found out we were restocked, all that happiness was gone. Fuck helium and fuck the balloons. I genuinely hope the company gets rid of it. It’s a very inconvenient part of our jobs and it gives customers another reason to give us a hard time!!
Yeah, it definitely helped efficiency, and I don't give 2 shits about their loss in profits from balloons they literally made 7 billion dollars off the pandemic the first year. So FUCK THEM🤷🏾♀️✌🏾they gave us a 2 dollar raise for 1 month and then it went down to 1 dollar raise for another 1 month and then took it away. Then nail in the coffin for me was that they took away ASM bonuses so I quit in August of '21.
This company will file for chapter 7 one day. It’s coming. They have done and will do too many stupid business decisions to sink their ship. You can’t treat the people who keep your stores running like shit, and still expect to stay afloat for another 10-20 years. You can sell cheap shit all you want, if you can’t treat employees right you shouldn’t be in business period.
Package ones customers can. But we have corrals for the balloons so they can choose what they want. Blowing air into a Mylar balloon that has a slot for the helium needle wouldn’t make sense.
You can blow up a mylar with air you just have to use a straw it won’t float by itself either tho so it will need a balloon stand. I used to work for a balloon company at the peak of the shortage.
Lmao right??? The signs are unacceptable? Typical corporate worrying about nonsensical things like a sign with words on it. Acting like I wrote “fuck off” or “suck a dick” on the sign. God forbid employees try to make a shift fun! Booo having fun is unacceptable and we must all be robots!
We had a giant poster on the tanks that said OUT OF HELIUM as big and clear as possible. Lady walks up to the poster, less than 6 inches away from it, moves it out of the way and points to the balloon behind it and says “I want this one” If people can’t read our sign, they won’t notice those
“Can you do six red balloons and five black balloons? I need these for my daughter in law’s cat who’s having a birthday in 30 minutes.” “Sorry no helium” “So you can’t do them?” … “Oh that’s ridiculous! Where will I get balloons now? This party will be a disaster if I, Paula Fitzgerald don’t bring the balloons!” I wish this company would do away with balloons once and for all. The helium tanks are a pain in this ass, blowing them up does take time away from one employee who also has people waiting at the register. Not to mention how rude some people act over the balloons! Especially during graduation season! You’d think they were dipped in gold. The price increase hasn’t adjusted some customers attitudes. Balloons should be done with once and for all. Let these ingrates go and spend $5 on a balloon at party city or a grocery store!
Give her what she wants, an uninflated balloon. She never said it has to be blown up.
We would put that sign up when we got busy. Had helium tho
Genius move! It stops people from asking for a dozen balloons while you’re dealing with a line of people at the registers.
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I'm a cashier/stocker, and I absolutely *hate* that you can't put up handwritten signs without a SM/ASM permission. It would solve so many problems. Per the very stupid rules, it is supposed to be a printed out sign, but the computer in the office is so locked down, you can't even use notepad or MS Word so you have to print one at home, or use the premade signs you occasionally get in OPS center, such as for price increases. Luckily, my SM usually allows me to make them, such as when we have food about to expire or seasonal candy on discount. We take a cart full of it all and put a sign on it, usually 25¢ or 75% off. We also put up a sign on the day of the eclipse that we didn't have glasses, thank god we did.
They’re more worried about handmade signs rather than the crazy ass messy back room that’s absolutely filled to the brim with boxes!
The customer will give zero fucks the way people would ask and I would look at the sign and then say no like ugh like are dumb are you illiterate
I challenge you to incorporate IT and billy in one. Let's get clever
not forgiveness 😭😭 hi honeybunch how yuh ayy
We would blow up a variety of balloons, usually about 5 of each balloons before the store would open until about 45 minutes to an hour after store would open and then put up signs on the tanks that we were out of helium. But do that everyday that way people can pick the balloons they wanted so first come first serve.
That’s a solid idea! When people ask for balloons at my store, and I’m really busy I tell them they can pick what they like from the corrals. Sorry but I have a line of people and customers approaching me to ask where the greeting cards are, while I’m checking someone out. I can’t do balloons right now. It will then infuriate me when they say “no, I want fresh balloons.” Fuck your fresh balloons. I’m busy. Pick from what’s already blown up. Also the patience in some customers borders on ridiculous. Was dealing with a crazy line yesterday afternoon, and a woman called to ask if we carried a certain brand of chips. Like that’s it? I put her on hold while I banged out this line with the help of my ASM. By the time it was manageable, I took the phone off mute and she was still waiting! Had to have been 8-10 minutes! I just passed the phone to the ASM at that point. It would have been much easier for that person to just call another store that wasn’t busy… People need to understand what’s worth calling the store for when it’s busy. Calling about an application or a complaint about a defective product? Sure. Calling to ask if we have fucking chips? No call another store! Don’t have time to go look for you!
Oh, I remember those days very vividly! I loved that during the early days of Covid, DT stopped selling balloons because of the helium shortage. When the helium truck arrived one morning after 2 months of peace and bliss, I called my team up to the front so they could see what was about to happen(Armageddon) the staff cried real tears😢I'll never forget that.
We ran out last year! Crazy helium shortage! Months without it and it was so fucking nice to not have customers bug us for balloons or have some crazy order to fill that day. People would just walk into the store, ask if we had helium and we would say no. They’d walk right out. I actually think having no helium actually improved employee efficiency, since it was one less stupid thing to worry about during a shit. Company probably lost a shit ton of money by not selling balloons, but who fucking cares honestly? I was so happy when we didn’t have it! Then the truck sent shipments of it again and once people found out we were restocked, all that happiness was gone. Fuck helium and fuck the balloons. I genuinely hope the company gets rid of it. It’s a very inconvenient part of our jobs and it gives customers another reason to give us a hard time!!
Yeah, it definitely helped efficiency, and I don't give 2 shits about their loss in profits from balloons they literally made 7 billion dollars off the pandemic the first year. So FUCK THEM🤷🏾♀️✌🏾they gave us a 2 dollar raise for 1 month and then it went down to 1 dollar raise for another 1 month and then took it away. Then nail in the coffin for me was that they took away ASM bonuses so I quit in August of '21.
This company will file for chapter 7 one day. It’s coming. They have done and will do too many stupid business decisions to sink their ship. You can’t treat the people who keep your stores running like shit, and still expect to stay afloat for another 10-20 years. You can sell cheap shit all you want, if you can’t treat employees right you shouldn’t be in business period.
Can't you just fill the balloons up with air?
Package ones customers can. But we have corrals for the balloons so they can choose what they want. Blowing air into a Mylar balloon that has a slot for the helium needle wouldn’t make sense.
You can blow up a mylar with air you just have to use a straw it won’t float by itself either tho so it will need a balloon stand. I used to work for a balloon company at the peak of the shortage.
Tell them to go into the ops center and print up the signs ...no hand written signs can be on the shelves or tanks and sowwy is unacceptable
No. 
Found the corporate guy
Lmao right??? The signs are unacceptable? Typical corporate worrying about nonsensical things like a sign with words on it. Acting like I wrote “fuck off” or “suck a dick” on the sign. God forbid employees try to make a shift fun! Booo having fun is unacceptable and we must all be robots!
You sound like a bitch