To that one guest

[shortstuffishere]

TTOG: If you are going to tell me that you no longer want an item.. ya kinda need to make up your mind BEFORE you pay and NOT while I'm getting your change. I don't think you simply forgot to tell me beforehand. I had to send you to guest service because you had already paid me. The couple behind you were quite amused.

 

[aj76257]

TTOG: I lose a little faith in humanity when people can't figure out where the bathrooms are and have to ask despite there being a huge sign, but the fact that I heard you ask my coworker "How do I exit the building?" puts you on a whole other level.

 

[SalesFloorSylph]

TTOG: No, I am absolutely not going to take the fitbit out of the box for you so you can look at it. Even if you're gonna get salty with me. "But how am I supposed to see what it looks like? How will I see what the features are like?" Bitch we have displays and that little information video for that reason!

 

[mrknownothing]

TTOG: I lose a little faith in humanity when people can't figure out where the bathrooms are and have to ask despite there being a huge sign, but the fact that I heard you ask my coworker "How do I exit the building?" puts you on a whole other level.

We get that one a lot at my store. Apparently a good portion of our guests are navigationally challenged.

 

[masterofalltrades]

TTOG: I lose a little faith in humanity when people can't figure out where the bathrooms are and have to ask despite there being a huge sign, but the fact that I heard you ask my coworker "How do I exit the building?" puts you on a whole other level.

We have a multilevel parkinng garage, and people can never remember how to get out of the store. It is a facepalm at least 20 times a day.

 

[SalesFloorSylph]

How about when guests ask you where the check lanes are though? YOU LITERALLY SEE THEM AS YOU'RE COMING IN THE DOOR YOU ABSOLUTE WALNUT

 

[StrawberryBanana]

We have a multilevel parkinng garage, and people can never remember how to get out of the store. It is a facepalm at least 20 times a day.

This isn't Target related, but I think people will enjoy this story. I used to work at a large parking ramp (six stories high). It wasn't uncommon for people to forget where they parked and we had a golf cart to drive people around if they couldn't find their car. It happened maybe two/three times a week. One day someone came up to me and said her car was stolen and wanted to use our phone to call the police and she also wanted access to our cameras. I asked her if it was possible that she just forgot where she parked. She said no that wasn't possible and she would just use her cell to call the police. I got a manager because I was guessing that she probably just forgot where she parked and her car wasn't actually stolen. She did call the police using her cell. I'm not sure all of the details because my manager was handling it. Although it seemed like quite an ordeal. But in the end we found her car... it on a different level than she thought.

 

[TallAPGuy]

This isn't Target related, but I think people will enjoy this story. I used to work at a large parking ramp (six stories high). It wasn't uncommon for people to forget where they parked and we had a golf cart to drive people around if they couldn't find their car. It happened maybe two/three times a week. One day someone came up to me and said her car was stolen and wanted to use our phone to call the police and she also wanted access to our cameras. I asked her if it was possible that she just forgot where she parked. She said no that wasn't possible and she would just use her cell to call the police. I got a manager because I was guessing that she probably just forgot where she parked and her car wasn't actually stolen. She did call the police using her cell. I'm not sure all of the details because my manager was handling it. Although it seemed like quite an ordeal. But in the end we found her car... it on a different level than she thought.

Working for my college's PD we would have the same thing happen all the freaking time. It was actually policy for the officer who took the report to drive the person around every aisle of every parking lot before taking the report. Only once in 2 1/2 years working there was a "stolen" vehicle legitimately stolen, out of what had to be a hundred reports.

 

[carramrod]

TTOG: Dude, I was trying to take a shit. I asked you if everything was alright as I walked into the restroom because you looked like you were having an episode. I didn't need to hear a 10 minutes diatribe as I was doing my business about how I'm just a jack-booted thug enforcing the will of the corporations on the proletariat.
And the reason I didn't respond to you was I don't talk to people while I'm on the throne; it makes me uncomfortable.
TLDR; STFU, I WAS TAKING A SHIT.

When I first started at Target, one of my cousins had just started dating a guy who was a hard-core, super paranoid socialist who apparently hated corporations, or really any company bigger than a guy selling flowers out of the back of his car. The first time I met him (at a family dinner BTW), he spent the entire time ranting about how corporations were taking over the world and everyone who worked for one was a criminal, etc, etc. After about two hours of this, he got bored, then looked at me and asked me what I do for work. I told him that I work for Target (which I deliberately referred to as "Target Corporation") and explained that it was my job to catch the serfs who try to steal from us, beat them up, make them pay us money, and then keep our merchandise and send the little guy off to jail. He basically looked at me like I told him I murdered puppies for fun and never talked to me again, which was really my goal in the first place.

 

[TallAPGuy]

When I first started at Target, one of my cousins had just started dating a guy who was a hard-core, super paranoid socialist who apparently hated corporations, or really any company bigger than a guy selling flowers out of the back of his car. The first time I met him (at a family dinner BTW), he spent the entire time ranting about how corporations were taking over the world and everyone who worked for one was a criminal, etc, etc. After about two hours of this, he got bored, then looked at me and asked me what I do for work. I told him that I work for Target (which I deliberately referred to as "Target Corporation") and explained that it was my job to catch the serfs who try to steal from us, beat them up, make them pay us money, and then keep our merchandise and send the little guy off to jail. He basically looked at me like I told him I murdered puppies for fun and never talked to me again, which was really my goal in the first place.

LOL. That's hilarious.

 

[redeye58]

Wish I could like that more than once

 

[SalesFloorSylph]

Ttog: look buddy we geddit. We're not a Pfresh store and that offends you. But there's no reason to walk around the store yelling at every team member you come across about this, including the planogram team for whatever reason.
I'll tell you though. It was HILARIOUS watching you sitting on one of the red orbs with your arms folded across your chest and scowling like a little kid who didn't get another slice of cake while an ETL tried to reason with you

 

[BeelzeBecky]

TTOG: let me recap our conversation

me: hihowyadoindidjafindeverthingokaydidjadoyawannasave5%

her: *mumblemumble*

me: *furiously scans 5000 one spot items, pencils and notebooks*

her: do you know if these are on the list?

me: huh, list, what?

her: are these on the list???

me: maam, to what list are you referring? is this for a baby shower or bridal registry?

her: *looks at lowly cashier as though I am a developmentally disabled ex convict*
her: NO. Is. This. On. The. List. For. School.

me: oh, I have no idea. I don't have school aged children. Surely the school has provided you with a list?

her: *grating mean teacher voice* I'M A TEACHER!!! There should be a list!!!

me: *bites tongue*
me: maam, you'd have to check with your school in order to find out what class supplies you need.
me: you can swipe your card now.

her: I DID! It's for USD XXX look it up!

me: *thinks stop yelling at me*
me: maam, we don't have a list of what teachers need to purchase and that will be $xx.xx and you can swipe your card at any time
me: you can come back if you need more supplies, we're open until 10

her: I really don't want to make another trip here but I'll check my list.

me: *almost has aneurysm from biting tongue*
me: uuuhhh.......

her: It's at home.

me: uuuhhh......that'll be $xx.xx please swipe your card

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Needless to say, I wanted to punch you.

 

[SalesFloorSylph]

Is it just me or do people who buy a gazillion One Spot items have the nastiest attitudes??

 

[BeelzeBecky]

Is it just me or do people who buy a gazillion One Spot items have the nastiest attitudes??

Especially when they're buying a $3 item and insist it's in the dollar bin. I'm like bitch, it says THREE DOLLARS right on the package.

Okay, I need a nap.

 

[Deli Ninja]

Is it just me or do people who buy a gazillion One Spot items have the nastiest attitudes??

Funny story, I had a guest and her adult daughter come in one night when I was backup cashiering and she wanted to write a $20 check for her less than $5 worth of One Spot items.
Me: I'm sorry, I can't do cash back for checks. It has to be the exact amount.
Guest: (mildly annoyed) Why?
Me: Uh... (can't think of a rational answer on the spot) Because corporate says so.
Guest: Oh... Okay.
She was surprisingly fine with my answer... Still annoyed, but was probably just as flabbergasted with what I had just said as I was.

 

[RunForACallBox]

TTOG: let me recap our conversation

me: hihowyadoindidjafindeverthingokaydidjadoyawannasave5%

her: *mumblemumble*

me: *furiously scans 5000 one spot items, pencils and notebooks*

her: do you know if these are on the list?

me: huh, list, what?

her: are these on the list???

me: maam, to what list are you referring? is this for a baby shower or bridal registry?

her: *looks at lowly cashier as though I am a developmentally disabled ex convict*
her: NO. Is. This. On. The. List. For. School.

me: oh, I have no idea. I don't have school aged children. Surely the school has provided you with a list?

her: *grating mean teacher voice* I'M A TEACHER!!! There should be a list!!!

me: *bites tongue*
me: maam, you'd have to check with your school in order to find out what class supplies you need.
me: you can swipe your card now.

her: I DID! It's for USD XXX look it up!

me: *thinks stop yelling at me*
me: maam, we don't have a list of what teachers need to purchase and that will be $xx.xx and you can swipe your card at any time
me: you can come back if you need more supplies, we're open until 10

her: I really don't want to make another trip here but I'll check my list.

me: *almost has aneurysm from biting tongue*
me: uuuhhh.......

her: It's at home.

me: uuuhhh......that'll be $xx.xx please swipe your card

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Needless to say, I wanted to punch you.

I wouldn't have even stopped you.

 

[SalesFloorSylph]

My favorite is when we had a lot of Christmas one spot crap on clearance last year and people were like "hey this is kn clearance! How much is it?". I'd scan it for them and then they'd decide that 30 cents wasn't cheap enough and they'd leave their cart worth of junk and never come back

 

[redeye58]

My favorite is when we had a lot of Christmas one spot crap on clearance last year and people were like "hey this is kn clearance! How much is it?". I'd scan it for them and then they'd decide that 30 cents wasn't cheap enough and they'd leave their cart worth of junk and never come back

And the 90% off crap they DO buy winds up in a garage sale when it turns out not to be what they wanted but it's too late to return.

 

[BeelzeBecky]

My favorite is when we had a lot of Christmas one spot crap on clearance last year and people were like "hey this is kn clearance! How much is it?". I'd scan it for them and then they'd decide that 30 cents wasn't cheap enough and they'd leave their cart worth of junk and never come back

Oh yeah, those people. I can't imagine being that cheap and pissy. How rude. I've had to hold back at a few of these assholes. I remember one where stupid tin buckets were 37c and little gift bags were a quarter and they wanted ALL of them, and complained when their cart of well over 100 items amounted to 40 bucks.

They had me price check most of it.

Again, I wanted to punch a mofo.

 

[redeye58]

I gots room in my walk-in freezer.
And LOTS of degreaser.

 

[mrknownothing]

I gots room in my walk-in freezer.
And LOTS of degreaser.

I've got room in my freezer too........until the next FDC truck.

 

[SalesFloorSylph]

Actual conversation
Guest: *looking around at our Ava Viv section and grumbling a lot under her breath*
Me: Hey you need help finding anything?
Guest: Is this REALLY all you have?
Me: Yes and I'm sorry but we have a bigger selection online-
Guest: *glares at me as though this is my fault* WELL I GUESS TARGET HATES BIG WOMEN THEN *stomps away*
Look lady I probably make a lot less money than you. I fold shirts, I pick shit up off the floor, I jump on a lane when you can't be assed to wait in line and I set aisles and push stuff. I don't control the inventory so shut up

 

[Dc26]

TTOG-Thank you for not telling anyone your kid peed all over the floor in toys. And on the toys he was holding. It was a real joy to clean pee up tonight that had been tracked through multiple aisles.

 

[Doglover89]

Guest on phone: Hi, there was a vacuum I'm interested in and when I was in earlier, you didn't have any left. Can you tell me if any other area stores have one?
Me: *checks mydevice, it says there is one in the backroom. calls backroom, backroom tm confirms he has it.* Ma'am, we actually have one here. Would you like us to hold it for you...
Guest: You must mean the display. I don't want the display!
Me: It isn't the display ma'am. It is in the backroom, in a box.
Guest: *still not convinced* Oh ok...

(We have a broken oven in food ave)
Guest on phone: Is the pizza oven back up yet?
Me *talks to GSTL* No, it should be in about a week.
Guest: *loud sigh* that's what they told me last time!
Me: Sorry...

(GSTL makes me cover food ave, there is a sign up re: the oven)
Guest: I'll take four pizzas please
Me: We do not have an oven, no pizzas, sorry.
Guest: (looks about ready to cry) Ohhh...

Are everyone's guests food ave pizza obsessed? Like seriously, the stuff is okay once in a while or if a guest needs to grab something real quick for their kid or something, but is Target a foodie destination or something?