"I immediately wanted to call in sick," this video game store employee wrote. What made them feel so ill? An advertisement!
For those who have spent time in the trenches of retail work around the holidays, you know exactly how this person feels. No matter how much you enjoy your retail job during the year, when the holiday season comes around, customers begin to act feral.
A few years back, I enjoyed working at a clothing store for much of the year. It was mainly folding clothes, working the cash register, helping customers, and putting clothing back in the correct section. It was easy to pass a shift with only minimal customer interaction, and usually, the customers would be kind and patient.
But, the holiday season made monsters of these people. Why do shoppers lose every ounce of patience and understanding during this season? It's like they don't understand that there will be longer wait times and fewer employees to help them, since Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the times everyone is shopping. Just because you suddenly realized you need to get presents for everyone on your list right now, that doesn't make it an emergency for the rest of us!
These days, Black Friday and its' newer sister holiday Cyber Monday stretch longer and longer, with many stores offering pre- and post- sales. I do hope this helps retail employees keep their sanity… but you know how these entitled customers act.
This person, u/SushiThief, shared a story from several years back, when they were working at a game store. There was a sale on the Wii system (which they refer to as “Woo” in their story) which customers just couldn't get enough of. It was advertised in a way that was too good to be true, and worse, designed to be misleading and confusing for the average shopper. Check out the OP's story below. Then, these people reminisced on their most cringe moments ever, like one person who was sure the best way to woo a girl was to show her his Groot impersonation.
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