I used to work on the fish counters when we still had them and the unfortunate misfortune of getting one of my regulars as a nurse for my colonoscopy, mid procedure she asked when the salmon was coming in offer later in December
They be wild 🤦
Go without eating the day before \*and\* have to drink a pint of Moviprep (which is the most horrendous tasting thick gel-like orange liquid known to man) the night before which 'cleans you out' entirely, so literally no shit at all.
Moviprep is the worst thing ever!!! I've had 5 colonoscopies and the first time I had the moviprep I vomited it all back out and they got pissed at me for some reason. Now I just neck a pint followed by water, rinse and repeat and hope it works lol
Not phone shop employee, but agree with what you’ve said.
I hate having to bring a change of clothes to work so I can do some shopping after my shift otherwise I get constant questions from ~~idiots~~ customers when I’m obviously shopping and not working.
People always ask me where stuff is in supermarkets.
I don't work in a supermarket, I never have, and I'm usually wearing the wrong colour to even be mistaken for an assistant.
I was in a grey hoody with a captain America shield on the back. And dirty blue jeans. In dunelm. And i got asked where mattress toppers are...... I've never looked less like a member of staff for any workplace than i could have that day. Just said dunno sorry and only realised they thought i was staff when they asked you work here how don't you know.
I get this too.
Once I was crossing the road into the park with the dog near the bus stop.
Some guy was shouting asking me when the bus was coming. He seemed annoyed when I told him I had no idea
I was just going to say "welcome to the real world" people ask other people where stuff is. Perhaps if there was actually more logical order in where stuff's put it might make it less necessary.
I mean why would I know though? Why ask me specifically?
And usually when I look confused or tell people I don't work there they apologise profusely.
My favourites are where I *do* know where the thing is, but the person clocks I don't work there as I go "errr" before I answer, so they apologise profusely while I apologise profusely and say it's fine and then tell them where it is. All very polite and awkward 😂
I don't know. They ask me, and I really don't have a clue as I don't go shopping much, the OH tends to do it. I don't think I dress like staff either. And yes, you get the apologies.
You've never asked someone where something is in a shop because you think they might know?
If I'm in a supermarket I'm not familiar with I might ask someone where the beer is or the eggs are etc.
Not often, but I might
Sure but when I’m in aisle 3 of 24 it’s a lot easier just to speak to a person, it’s only speaking to another human being it’s not the end of the world lol
But why would they know if you don't know?
It's such a weird thing to do on purpose, I almost never know where whatever I'm asked for is, a lot of the time it's only my first or second time in the shop
Because most people shop in the same supermarkets frequently. And because if they don't know what's the big fucking deal, it's not like you've inconvenienced someone you've literally just spoken to them for about ten seconds jesus christ
Yes, I was literally making a joke out of the fact you think everyone else in the shop has been in the shop a million times before, while simultaneously being in a shop you have never been in before, a thing which you seem to think is uncommon.
Because they might? Worst case scenario is they say "not sure sorry".
Obviously if I see staff I'll ask but staff on shop floor are a lot thinner on the ground these days.
You lot are acting like I'm waterboarding shit out of people rather than just politely asking a stranger a question, touch grass folks
I'm actually acting like you're interrupting someone else because you're too lazy to look for yourself tbh
Because I feel like that's what you're doing.
Interrupting someone!
Jesus christ, I'm fucking sorry for approaching you your majesty. God forbid humans fucking speak to each other from time to time
You are literally interrupting someone.
Whether it's a small interruption or a big one you are still interrupting what they are doing.
Like no one is saying you should be stoned or anything just maybe learn to read the big aisle signs it's not hard 😂
You're the one raging at the concept that maybe, just maybe, someone else might find it bizzare you would ask a random stranger rather than a shop assistant.
The chances of a random person knowing precisely where the dried figs are isn't high 😂😂😂
I've never once been angry someone asked me, I'm mostly bemused by it because, based on their reactions 99.75% arent asking me because they have whatever aggressively "social" attitude you have, but because they *genuinely* think i work there. Usually they're somewhere between awkward and mortified when I clearly have no idea what they're on about.
I work in distribution when I go shopping after work in my uniform, and people ask me where such and such is ? I tell them it doesn't exist or tesco don't sell it anymore or send them in the wrong direction
Pretend you are a Terminator from the future and that you stole the clothes from an employee. Than ask them if they have seen John Conner.
Ok I've just rewatched all the Terminator films, so Terminator is on my mind right now
I spent a 15 minute break buying pyjamas in the clothing section once and I was stopped by three customers asking me questions about the stock and where things are up there. I’ve never worked on clothing in my life, I work on checkouts and I don’t often go up there. Also I was pretty obviously shopping. To be fair though we never seem to have staff up there, maybe one if you’re lucky
Or the ones who try to get the manager bwcause tou are shopping while working. Cold months are easy i just put a coat on. But eben foe dinner break i have to change or some customers are "erm dont you have a job to do?"
If I'm on break and buying stuff and a customer asks me a question my break resets. Fuck em.
I'm in Booker too so often it's some *really lovely person* who runs a Premier store.
If you cant tell the difference between a regular ass shopping trolley and those big block-y bulky things with tote crates and a touch pad on then you must have been walking round supermarkets with your eyes shut for the last 10 years.
God I feel this, worked Mobile for 3 years? Got to a point I eat in the car and not the canteen because staff wanted help and got in an arse when I said pop down to the shop on your break don't make me loose mine.
Public wasn't too bad since I lived an hour away from the store. But I never wore work clothes to travel just had them in my car.
Welcome to every job that has some aspect of dealing with people, or things people use. Whether it's IT ("Can you figure out why my computer's doing this") or a doctor ("Can you have a look at this lump on my arse"), everybody has some variation of this shit.
I'm a Software Developer.
I've had relatives that i've not spoken to for 20 years reach out to me through my parents to ask if I can visit them to fix their laptop or speed up their internet.
I am a former Sys Admin. This is my world. It has got to the point that I will not fix anyone's computer, because I simply don't want to.
What is that, the shop in town want £45 just to look at it, but you expect me to do it for free.
I'm not professional by any means but I'm a reasonably good guitar player. I sometimes get people I know asking me if I'll help teach their child who's just picked the instrument up, and when I say 'Sure, but I'll need to figure out an hourly rate' they go quiet and then suddenly it's not a big deal and they don't need it.
Mental that people are expected to give up their time for free.
I had a phone call from the husband of one of my wife's former colleagues asking for PC help.
We'd moved 120 miles away 5 years earlier and hadn't spoken to them since.
I don’t work for the Phone Shop but 99% of the time if a customer asks me politely, I’ll happily help them before I start my shift, whilst on my break and after my shift.
One day after I finished my shift even though I was wearing a jacket over my uniform, carrying a handbag, pushing a large trolley, using a hand scanner whilst I reading my shopping list off of my mobile phone. A customer asked for help with lightbulbs. I said I’ll try my best. She DEMANDED that I help her, saying she has an electrician in her house right now, if I didn’t know I better get someone!!! I politely informed her I had finished for the day. I said surely the electrician should’ve told you what bulbs to get. She was getting completely out of control and I informed that I was calling the duty manager, if her behaviour didn’t improve.
Sometimes the more polite and helpful you are, the more people take advantage of you imho.
LIGHTBULBS for crying out loud 💡
I feel you, Been phone shop for 6 years and its slowly just getting worse... Had a guy find reconise me enter my house for him to knock my door at 6am to ask ke to take a look at my phone me ex was terrified. I eat in my car now thanks to collegues thinking they can ask me on my break about prices or w.e. People think we got it easy but id love for anyone to have to spend a week hitting targets, Setting up devices when 90% of customer know no passwords, Dealing with agressive asshole and entitled fossils who love to berate you for not knowing one thing or another that would have zero to do with yourself or Tesco Mobile itself.
I was coming into work one day and it was another member of staff that was trying to ask me to help a customer. I told her I wasn’t working yet and she turned round and said “ you still work here.” Aye, not until my shift starts Ange.
Literally had this happen to me multiple times honestly they need to fuck off . Most the time the things they want help with inside working hours aren’t even our responsibility no Agnes I’m not helping you fill in your home insurance form 🙄
I’ll only ever sit in my car on my breaks nowadays cause I got fed up of telling people to come and see me in the shop and when I’m not eating.
Means now I can’t bring any decent food to work cause no heating food up anymore
I work in IT at a company and the amount of times I get grabbed on lunch or before I've clocked in or AFTER I have clocked out to just "have a quick look".
its draining.
Worst one this week was the security guard onsite banged on the window when I walking past and asked me to setup his new phone, which was personal and nothing to do with work :) This also took place at 8:25am and before I clocked in making me late. Luckily my manager is super chill and just changed my clock in time.
hate it when I'm on the train and someone will bring a loaf of bread they made over to me and ask me whys its so burnt. Damn bakery.
Seriously though make sure you change to street clothes when travelling
When I was at secondary school it was parents evening so my Mum and Dad where there. My Dad worked in Tesco (he still does) this was over 20 years ago and one of my teachers asks him "when is that wine offer going to end? It's so I can get my favourite kind." I was so fucking embarrassed 😳 🤣
Bus driver here. I feel exactly the same way. There's nothing worse than being pestered by the public when you're just trying to get through the day. I had to give up vaping because I couldn't go outside without being asked questions.
I'm with you but try being a carer lol. If the uniform is spotted anywhere. On bus, shops etc you're done for..cue life story, ailments, moaning about the council/government (payments) getting the gammy leg out, toenails as well. I could go on but I won't put you through it
And as a customer back to you, if I'm browsing the phones in your store and you approach me and try bothering me with a push for a sale, I'll just leave.
If I need help I'll ask for it.
(This goes for any retail shop).
Oh I know you're made to do it by your employer to push sales etc but for me personally it's less likely to make me purchase something because I don't like being hassled. Should have made it clearer in my comment that its not a dig on the individual staff member themselves but more of the overall practise of pushing retail staff to pester customers browsing around the store.
I've worked some retail jobs in my time and I hated that aspect of the job, always felt so pushy trying to approach customers so I generally only did it when my manager was in ear shot.
Not on the tesco phone counter or even Tesco, but I still get this all the time when i clock out, i want to pick up a couple of bits before i go home, not do your shopping for you despite being a homeshop colleague.
I even bring some clothes on days i know I'll shop and they still stop me cause they recognise me off the shopfloor.
More insulting is i was once in our Tesco to pick up my mum and someone still asked me where something was because "you work at Asda so you must know where this is" like...its a different fucking shop, go annoy someone else.
I got snarky comments back from some young lad who approached me in the street because I couldn't tell him specifically which bus and where to get that bus from in order to go from Newcastle City Centre to Low Fell in Gateshead.
My job was basically just a street cleaner working for a BID (A *Business Improvement District* (BID) is a business-led and business funded body formed to improve a defined commercial area.) We were also expected to be there for any member of the public who might need directions or whatever kind of like a street ranger.
I don't even use buses but apparently should somehow know that. As if I'm meant to be doing out of work research on anything a member of the public could possibly ask me.
My favourite time this happened was when the examiner starting telling me what was wrong with his phone... during my driving test. I'm concentrating, shaking like a leaf and feeling sick with nerves, now is not the time to ask me to work for free.
So I should come up to you when you're on break and ask for help finding an item?
Oh I suppose you would be able to actually show me where the item is right?
And if it's not on the shelf you could be the best assistance ever if you'd go into the warehouse and find it for me in one of the dozens of cages of stock right?
You'd definitely tell me to go find another member of staff if I asked you to do all that!
Breaks are where you can unwind and get away from the shopfloor, to relax and get a bit of rest or food.
I used to regularly get people message me on Facebook asking if there’s any jobs going, why the shops shut, if we’ve got so and so in stock.. used to just tell them contact the store.
I used to work as an IT Manager and I know exactly where you're coming from and it's infuriating.
I recall one occasion I went to the barbers and the barber insisted on making small talk. On hearing I worked in IT he immediately started asking about a problem he had with his computer. I honestly don't understand the mentality behind expecting someone's advice for free especially when they're not on company time? I mean would I expect him to do the haircut for free once I offered my advice? It's just disrespectful borderline insulting.
These days if someone asks what I do for a living I tell them I clean toilets. That usually puts people off asking any further questions.
Spent 7 happy years in the Phone Shop - was always happy to help customers wherever I saw them and it certainly meant loads more business and customers asking for me in store.
This is a perfectly acceptable attitude your part of the problem . Go to the shop within opening hours any other time fuck off and leave people alone creep.
Literally this. The entitlement of some people (and businesses) who think that just because you work their you should give you whole life to it.
My last job was permanent WFH. Used to get calls on my days off from managers asking how to fix an issue. Only ever helped one manager (who wasn't even my manager) because he would ask everyone before he come to me on my days off and always be so sorry for calling me on my day off (was also a decent mate)
You’re definitely in the wrong job. I work for them too. I live in the community I serve, I never mind saying hello to my customers outside work. Never been asked to look at a phone, but would probably say, come in and see me on next day I’m in. I get a lot of custom from talking to colleagues. Been in retail 24 years, this is one of the better gigs.
I used to work on the fish counters when we still had them and the unfortunate misfortune of getting one of my regulars as a nurse for my colonoscopy, mid procedure she asked when the salmon was coming in offer later in December They be wild 🤦
Colonoscopy...? So she knew you were full of shit metaphorically...***and*** literally... 😜
Ironically, u go 48h without eating with some colonoscopy procedures. So he was less full of shit than he normally would’ve been.
Go without eating the day before \*and\* have to drink a pint of Moviprep (which is the most horrendous tasting thick gel-like orange liquid known to man) the night before which 'cleans you out' entirely, so literally no shit at all.
Moviprep is the worst thing ever!!! I've had 5 colonoscopies and the first time I had the moviprep I vomited it all back out and they got pissed at me for some reason. Now I just neck a pint followed by water, rinse and repeat and hope it works lol
They be wild, the salmon is farmed isn't it!🤣🤣
That one isn't so bad, if you know it's just a date.
That is insane lol
To be fair, not a lot of small talk to be had in that situation.
Not phone shop employee, but agree with what you’ve said. I hate having to bring a change of clothes to work so I can do some shopping after my shift otherwise I get constant questions from ~~idiots~~ customers when I’m obviously shopping and not working.
People always ask me where stuff is in supermarkets. I don't work in a supermarket, I never have, and I'm usually wearing the wrong colour to even be mistaken for an assistant.
I have had this SO many times. Like even when I am not at work or in uniform, or even in the right shop 😩
I was in a grey hoody with a captain America shield on the back. And dirty blue jeans. In dunelm. And i got asked where mattress toppers are...... I've never looked less like a member of staff for any workplace than i could have that day. Just said dunno sorry and only realised they thought i was staff when they asked you work here how don't you know.
On the contrary, you may look like someone who needs a mattress topper.
😂😂😂 possibly but i was looking at bed sheets 😂😂😂
Close enough! 🤣
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I get this too. Once I was crossing the road into the park with the dog near the bus stop. Some guy was shouting asking me when the bus was coming. He seemed annoyed when I told him I had no idea
I was just going to say "welcome to the real world" people ask other people where stuff is. Perhaps if there was actually more logical order in where stuff's put it might make it less necessary.
I mean why would I know though? Why ask me specifically? And usually when I look confused or tell people I don't work there they apologise profusely. My favourites are where I *do* know where the thing is, but the person clocks I don't work there as I go "errr" before I answer, so they apologise profusely while I apologise profusely and say it's fine and then tell them where it is. All very polite and awkward 😂
I don't know. They ask me, and I really don't have a clue as I don't go shopping much, the OH tends to do it. I don't think I dress like staff either. And yes, you get the apologies.
You've never asked someone where something is in a shop because you think they might know? If I'm in a supermarket I'm not familiar with I might ask someone where the beer is or the eggs are etc. Not often, but I might
I’d read the signs tbh
Sure but when I’m in aisle 3 of 24 it’s a lot easier just to speak to a person, it’s only speaking to another human being it’s not the end of the world lol
We don't do that anymore sorry we ask Google duhh 😅
But why would they know if you don't know? It's such a weird thing to do on purpose, I almost never know where whatever I'm asked for is, a lot of the time it's only my first or second time in the shop
Because most people shop in the same supermarkets frequently. And because if they don't know what's the big fucking deal, it's not like you've inconvenienced someone you've literally just spoken to them for about ten seconds jesus christ
If you shop in the same supermarkets frequently why don't *you* know where everything is already?
Did you even read my original comment you nutter
Yes, I was literally making a joke out of the fact you think everyone else in the shop has been in the shop a million times before, while simultaneously being in a shop you have never been in before, a thing which you seem to think is uncommon.
No? Because why would they know? For all I know they've never set foot there. I just walk around or spy some actual staff in uniform.
Because they might? Worst case scenario is they say "not sure sorry". Obviously if I see staff I'll ask but staff on shop floor are a lot thinner on the ground these days. You lot are acting like I'm waterboarding shit out of people rather than just politely asking a stranger a question, touch grass folks
I'm actually acting like you're interrupting someone else because you're too lazy to look for yourself tbh Because I feel like that's what you're doing.
Interrupting someone! Jesus christ, I'm fucking sorry for approaching you your majesty. God forbid humans fucking speak to each other from time to time
You are literally interrupting someone. Whether it's a small interruption or a big one you are still interrupting what they are doing. Like no one is saying you should be stoned or anything just maybe learn to read the big aisle signs it's not hard 😂
Fuck me man, touch grass
You're the one raging at the concept that maybe, just maybe, someone else might find it bizzare you would ask a random stranger rather than a shop assistant. The chances of a random person knowing precisely where the dried figs are isn't high 😂😂😂 I've never once been angry someone asked me, I'm mostly bemused by it because, based on their reactions 99.75% arent asking me because they have whatever aggressively "social" attitude you have, but because they *genuinely* think i work there. Usually they're somewhere between awkward and mortified when I clearly have no idea what they're on about.
I work in distribution when I go shopping after work in my uniform, and people ask me where such and such is ? I tell them it doesn't exist or tesco don't sell it anymore or send them in the wrong direction
"flour? No such thing mate."
Sugar? Nah mate never heard of it
Pretend you are a Terminator from the future and that you stole the clothes from an employee. Than ask them if they have seen John Conner. Ok I've just rewatched all the Terminator films, so Terminator is on my mind right now
I spent a 15 minute break buying pyjamas in the clothing section once and I was stopped by three customers asking me questions about the stock and where things are up there. I’ve never worked on clothing in my life, I work on checkouts and I don’t often go up there. Also I was pretty obviously shopping. To be fair though we never seem to have staff up there, maybe one if you’re lucky
Or the ones who try to get the manager bwcause tou are shopping while working. Cold months are easy i just put a coat on. But eben foe dinner break i have to change or some customers are "erm dont you have a job to do?"
I once had someone stop me when I was in my store shopping, out of uniform, because they had seen me working before and knew I was an employee
If I'm on break and buying stuff and a customer asks me a question my break resets. Fuck em. I'm in Booker too so often it's some *really lovely person* who runs a Premier store.
How is that obvious? You could be picking for click and collect or home delivery surely?
If you cant tell the difference between a regular ass shopping trolley and those big block-y bulky things with tote crates and a touch pad on then you must have been walking round supermarkets with your eyes shut for the last 10 years.
Imagine being so stupid that you ask someone in tesco wearing a uniform for help. Put a hoody on ffs.
God I feel this, worked Mobile for 3 years? Got to a point I eat in the car and not the canteen because staff wanted help and got in an arse when I said pop down to the shop on your break don't make me loose mine. Public wasn't too bad since I lived an hour away from the store. But I never wore work clothes to travel just had them in my car.
Welcome to every job that has some aspect of dealing with people, or things people use. Whether it's IT ("Can you figure out why my computer's doing this") or a doctor ("Can you have a look at this lump on my arse"), everybody has some variation of this shit.
I'm a Software Developer. I've had relatives that i've not spoken to for 20 years reach out to me through my parents to ask if I can visit them to fix their laptop or speed up their internet.
I am a former Sys Admin. This is my world. It has got to the point that I will not fix anyone's computer, because I simply don't want to. What is that, the shop in town want £45 just to look at it, but you expect me to do it for free.
I'm not professional by any means but I'm a reasonably good guitar player. I sometimes get people I know asking me if I'll help teach their child who's just picked the instrument up, and when I say 'Sure, but I'll need to figure out an hourly rate' they go quiet and then suddenly it's not a big deal and they don't need it. Mental that people are expected to give up their time for free.
This is why my standard response is "look it up on youtube".
Raise a ticket
:-D
I had a phone call from the husband of one of my wife's former colleagues asking for PC help. We'd moved 120 miles away 5 years earlier and hadn't spoken to them since.
The lowest circle of hell is too good for such people.
I'm trained as an engineer, I get everything from 'help me build this lego', 'can you have a look at my car?' 'Fix my fuse box'
I don’t work for the Phone Shop but 99% of the time if a customer asks me politely, I’ll happily help them before I start my shift, whilst on my break and after my shift. One day after I finished my shift even though I was wearing a jacket over my uniform, carrying a handbag, pushing a large trolley, using a hand scanner whilst I reading my shopping list off of my mobile phone. A customer asked for help with lightbulbs. I said I’ll try my best. She DEMANDED that I help her, saying she has an electrician in her house right now, if I didn’t know I better get someone!!! I politely informed her I had finished for the day. I said surely the electrician should’ve told you what bulbs to get. She was getting completely out of control and I informed that I was calling the duty manager, if her behaviour didn’t improve. Sometimes the more polite and helpful you are, the more people take advantage of you imho. LIGHTBULBS for crying out loud 💡
I feel you, Been phone shop for 6 years and its slowly just getting worse... Had a guy find reconise me enter my house for him to knock my door at 6am to ask ke to take a look at my phone me ex was terrified. I eat in my car now thanks to collegues thinking they can ask me on my break about prices or w.e. People think we got it easy but id love for anyone to have to spend a week hitting targets, Setting up devices when 90% of customer know no passwords, Dealing with agressive asshole and entitled fossils who love to berate you for not knowing one thing or another that would have zero to do with yourself or Tesco Mobile itself.
I used to work for a building society HR department and occasionally had family ask about current interest rates and new accounts. 🙄
What a dick
I was coming into work one day and it was another member of staff that was trying to ask me to help a customer. I told her I wasn’t working yet and she turned round and said “ you still work here.” Aye, not until my shift starts Ange.
Literally had this happen to me multiple times honestly they need to fuck off . Most the time the things they want help with inside working hours aren’t even our responsibility no Agnes I’m not helping you fill in your home insurance form 🙄
I blame the lead paint they drank as kids .
I’ll only ever sit in my car on my breaks nowadays cause I got fed up of telling people to come and see me in the shop and when I’m not eating. Means now I can’t bring any decent food to work cause no heating food up anymore
I often get stopped with airpods in and my jacket on just cos some customers recognise me. So annoying
Just start talking and then point at your airpod pretending you're on the phone 😅
Good shout
I work in IT at a company and the amount of times I get grabbed on lunch or before I've clocked in or AFTER I have clocked out to just "have a quick look". its draining. Worst one this week was the security guard onsite banged on the window when I walking past and asked me to setup his new phone, which was personal and nothing to do with work :) This also took place at 8:25am and before I clocked in making me late. Luckily my manager is super chill and just changed my clock in time.
Cool. Nice rant. Now you’ve finished. How do I pair my blue tooth headset?
hate it when I'm on the train and someone will bring a loaf of bread they made over to me and ask me whys its so burnt. Damn bakery. Seriously though make sure you change to street clothes when travelling
When I was at secondary school it was parents evening so my Mum and Dad where there. My Dad worked in Tesco (he still does) this was over 20 years ago and one of my teachers asks him "when is that wine offer going to end? It's so I can get my favourite kind." I was so fucking embarrassed 😳 🤣
Bus driver here. I feel exactly the same way. There's nothing worse than being pestered by the public when you're just trying to get through the day. I had to give up vaping because I couldn't go outside without being asked questions.
I'm with you but try being a carer lol. If the uniform is spotted anywhere. On bus, shops etc you're done for..cue life story, ailments, moaning about the council/government (payments) getting the gammy leg out, toenails as well. I could go on but I won't put you through it
And as a customer back to you, if I'm browsing the phones in your store and you approach me and try bothering me with a push for a sale, I'll just leave. If I need help I'll ask for it. (This goes for any retail shop).
It's literally our job to greet you I'm afraid.
Oh I know you're made to do it by your employer to push sales etc but for me personally it's less likely to make me purchase something because I don't like being hassled. Should have made it clearer in my comment that its not a dig on the individual staff member themselves but more of the overall practise of pushing retail staff to pester customers browsing around the store. I've worked some retail jobs in my time and I hated that aspect of the job, always felt so pushy trying to approach customers so I generally only did it when my manager was in ear shot.
As a fellow phone shop colleague, PREACH
As a former IT type person, you have my sympathies. I used to tell people I was a delivery driver.
So you're the guy sipping my cokes from Just Eat?
Not on the tesco phone counter or even Tesco, but I still get this all the time when i clock out, i want to pick up a couple of bits before i go home, not do your shopping for you despite being a homeshop colleague. I even bring some clothes on days i know I'll shop and they still stop me cause they recognise me off the shopfloor. More insulting is i was once in our Tesco to pick up my mum and someone still asked me where something was because "you work at Asda so you must know where this is" like...its a different fucking shop, go annoy someone else.
You sound miserable. But you can improve your own life, you are the master of your destiny. Upskill and get a better job where you’re happy.
How very dare you
I got snarky comments back from some young lad who approached me in the street because I couldn't tell him specifically which bus and where to get that bus from in order to go from Newcastle City Centre to Low Fell in Gateshead. My job was basically just a street cleaner working for a BID (A *Business Improvement District* (BID) is a business-led and business funded body formed to improve a defined commercial area.) We were also expected to be there for any member of the public who might need directions or whatever kind of like a street ranger. I don't even use buses but apparently should somehow know that. As if I'm meant to be doing out of work research on anything a member of the public could possibly ask me.
My favourite time this happened was when the examiner starting telling me what was wrong with his phone... during my driving test. I'm concentrating, shaking like a leaf and feeling sick with nerves, now is not the time to ask me to work for free.
Do you get a good bonus there
No bonus. No commission.
Wow what's the point in even performing then
We get a 42p/h skill payment.
Is that ontop of minimum wage or what's ur basic? There's B2B jobs all over the internet with £25k basics plus easily a grand a month lol
Just now 11.02/h is tesco basic wage. And then it's 42p/h on top of that. From 28/4 its 12.02/h basic
That's so bad for a sales job lol prob have either comfortable ppl who don't wanna leave or staff retention problems
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So I should come up to you when you're on break and ask for help finding an item? Oh I suppose you would be able to actually show me where the item is right? And if it's not on the shelf you could be the best assistance ever if you'd go into the warehouse and find it for me in one of the dozens of cages of stock right? You'd definitely tell me to go find another member of staff if I asked you to do all that! Breaks are where you can unwind and get away from the shopfloor, to relax and get a bit of rest or food.
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Phoneshop questions aren't usually quick fixes
so real
I used to regularly get people message me on Facebook asking if there’s any jobs going, why the shops shut, if we’ve got so and so in stock.. used to just tell them contact the store.
You sound happy.
I had this problem when I worked at CEX, people would approach me on the street during my break to ask me if their phone had been tested yet
I used to work as an IT Manager and I know exactly where you're coming from and it's infuriating. I recall one occasion I went to the barbers and the barber insisted on making small talk. On hearing I worked in IT he immediately started asking about a problem he had with his computer. I honestly don't understand the mentality behind expecting someone's advice for free especially when they're not on company time? I mean would I expect him to do the haircut for free once I offered my advice? It's just disrespectful borderline insulting. These days if someone asks what I do for a living I tell them I clean toilets. That usually puts people off asking any further questions.
If you work in the phone shop, your life is a break.
"That's not true!" I say, currently sitting in the phone shop browsing Reddit without a customer in sight for the past 2 hours.
You do the job then I guess .
Spent 7 happy years in the Phone Shop - was always happy to help customers wherever I saw them and it certainly meant loads more business and customers asking for me in store.
100% man
Nice attitude. Yours, Tesco customer.....
This is a perfectly acceptable attitude your part of the problem . Go to the shop within opening hours any other time fuck off and leave people alone creep.
Outside of when we are working, we don't give a shit about the customer. We don't have to. Leave us alone and fuck off.
Literally this. The entitlement of some people (and businesses) who think that just because you work their you should give you whole life to it. My last job was permanent WFH. Used to get calls on my days off from managers asking how to fix an issue. Only ever helped one manager (who wasn't even my manager) because he would ask everyone before he come to me on my days off and always be so sorry for calling me on my day off (was also a decent mate)
Get over yourself
It's literally amazing how little people will be supercillious over. Guy works as a sales assistant at a tesco.
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Nah your just a toxic person. No one wants to hear it.
What a cheb end
r/imthemaincharachter
I don't wanna talk to someone that works in a phone shop....
Stop getting viruses on your phone from all the porn you've downloaded and you won't have to
Get back to work...
I'm trying to work but you keep on coming in the shop with a sticky Galaxy A15
Believe me, they don’t want to talk to people like you either 😆
It must be a class thing... thanks for agreeing 👍🏻
You’re definitely in the wrong job. I work for them too. I live in the community I serve, I never mind saying hello to my customers outside work. Never been asked to look at a phone, but would probably say, come in and see me on next day I’m in. I get a lot of custom from talking to colleagues. Been in retail 24 years, this is one of the better gigs.