Do any of these experiences resonate with you? Let me know! ❤️❤️❤️

@xxllamaborrachaxx9374

5 жыл бұрын

Wanna hear one of Sale Mishaps? In a warehouse store, they started placing "Two for One Sale" posters a whole MONTH before the product was actually on sale. I was like: "... But why?" Had to go put one of the things back :'( -ended up leaving both because might as well wait.

@rslitman

5 жыл бұрын

Regarding something I heard in #6 - I have begun hearing as I've left stores and my fitness club, employees calling out, "Have a good one!" I am 66 years old, and that phrase is not in my vocabulary. Even if "day" were to be substituted for "one", I understand the meaning more, but it"s still not something I'd automatically tell someone. And it is automatic, like those motion-detecting Halloween and Christmas decorations. I know it's automatic because they say it even when I'm going toward but not yet through the door, not yet ready to leave. Oh, and by the way. the proper response to "thank you" is "you're welcome", not, "no problem", "no worries", or "my pleasure".

As someone who works in retail, let me tell you that we are forced to be this annoying.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

ugh, that sucks!! where do you work?

@regal_chanel

5 жыл бұрын

@@AbbeyHowe In a shoe shop.

@jtoland2333

2 жыл бұрын

It's true. God forbid you be honest with people.

Lol. Usually retail workers are required to annoying and excessively check on people.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Carina riena I know. It’s a catch 22

Scanned a customer in the eyes with a barcode reader for being rude to me....should have seen the look on her face, it was priceless.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Alan Novak STOPPPP with the puns 😂😂😂😭😭🍩

@maddiecawthon2219

5 жыл бұрын

You think you're soooooo punny

@XPrincess30

5 жыл бұрын

Alan Novak I hope you’re kidding cause that’s immature, petty and extremely unprofessional and pathetic

@maddiecawthon2219

5 жыл бұрын

@@XPrincess30 it's a pun

@kristinalauss1496

5 жыл бұрын

When I was in retail I scanned customers and said I was wib, woman in black galaxy defender with a scanner

My job forces you to ask about credit cards and rewards. If we don't ask we get reminded a lot, because higher up wants us to meet our quota, so the business makes more money.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

oh, that makes sense!

Worked in retail before, but I would never lie to a person , if it doesn't fit or makes you look unflattering

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

that's the best.

@mikim7142

5 жыл бұрын

lucette5 it’s a really fine line , but as long as you are honest and always polite it always seemed to work out for me. Nobody ever really got offended , which is a miracle . (Saying it’s not my favorite / let’s see what else you would like to try/ it’s nothing special . etc. ) I always fear people lie to me , that’s why I only go shopping with my mother :-)

I don’t get how something being on sale after someone bought it full price is an employers fault? They don’t make the prices. Most the time we don’t know somethings going on sale till 3 minutes before we go to change the price

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

very true. I'm just joking around!

@AM-xi1lh

5 жыл бұрын

@@AbbeyHowe yes but uninformed for whatever reason take it as fact. I don't know when people use KZread like a library.

The store credit card bit is pressured to employees by the managers by the company by the corporate.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

true!

@alyssasolis5129

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! I worked at a store where every time I started a shift, if you didn't get enough credit cards the last shift, a store supervisor would have to come talk to you and ask why you're not getting any

@Parahelion

3 жыл бұрын

Our company has a whiteboard with all the cards an individual sold in my managers office. We would get in trouble if we had 0 cards sold. We are constantly pressured to give people debt and we are told "it's part of your job", "it's just buisness". Another thing that annoys me is how I constantly get caught by my manager doing something stupid once and all the other good things I do that my manager doesn't see gets overpowered by that one bad thing I did. Giving me anxiety, making me think I will lose my job.

@llarmstrong783

Жыл бұрын

There is this one guy at at TJ Maxx in SC that always harasses people for TJ Maxx card lol

The ghosting isn't always our fault, especially if you work in a large corporate store. They staff us really minimally and then give us a huge list of stuff we have to do by ourselves. I've walked into the back while the store was empty to do something for a few mins only to come back to 10 people on the store and 2 at the counter waiting to check out already because our store leaves me alone so much.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

that makes sense!

My old retail job made us try to have extensive conversations with every customer. We were told to ask about their weekend plans, what they bought at other stores, etc. As someone who likes to shop in peace, I did not like this policy. I’m fine with just being greeted and then sent on my way. Now when I go to my old store or others in the same chain, I just say “I’ve worked here” and they leave me in peace. Also, the store credit card at my store had such an insane interest rate that I didn’t make a huge effort to sell it. My management always pushed for me to sell credit cards, but I didn’t push customers if they said “no.”

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

WOW, really?? I didn't know that was a retail strategy. Was it a big corporate store or a boutique?

"do you have an old Navy credit card with us? Are you sure you could get 20%off!!"

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Haylli Stanley 😭😭😭😭

@SuperTRICKst3r

5 жыл бұрын

Dead. I was once asked about a credit card with a promo like that, and it's funny because you pay about 27% in interest. Are you really saving?

@hayllistanley7570

5 жыл бұрын

@@SuperTRICKst3r honestly I don't even know our interest rate

The 3rd one is just a customer who has zero clue in reading the market or choosing to buy things In season and not after season.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Johnny Jacobsen yeah haha. That’s less a retail employee and just a clueless customer 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

@bloodcottoncandy1514

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, I've only lived for 25 years so far but if you like expensive clothes just ask when the next season stuff are coming in because you just wuv their stuff. Come in again a week before the change and watch how low your bill ends up. 😎🍾🥂

Sales mishap belongs on annoying things customers do if you bought it full price yesterday. now its on sale theres nothing the store employees can do for you. Sorry...😒

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

agreed. after we put the edit together, I was like.... dang.

@Napalm_Candy

5 жыл бұрын

Where I live (Midwestern US) as long as it's still new you can return it then repurchase it at the sale price (if the store just won't credit you, which some do to save the hassle).

The credit card is the part I hate about my job. We have to ask EVERYONE.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

ugh, so annoying!

I've been working in retail for 4 years and honestly no one is that enthusiastic. 😂😂 Lmao Our shop seems to be ghosting a lot because we're always on incredibly low staff. Is why. Great video though 😊

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

haha, thanks Bad Wolf. Honestly, I kind of like it when a store is ghosting because I don't feel pressure to buy anything.

@tinahaller3295

5 жыл бұрын

We have one cashier and one manager every day where I work. If the manager is unloading the delivery truck and I get busy you're screwed.

I worked in a store that had its own credit card. You had to know everything about it and if you didnt ask everyone at least twice you would get a lecture! People generally were good about it because they realized it was something we had to do however some used to get really upset and carry on about it!!

1:51 "HOW CAN I HELP YOU?!" Not gonna lie I'm guilty of doing that countless times and giving my customers the fright of their lives.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

hahahaha

For where I work, we have to be overly annoying and peppy for our customers. Clothing stores for ya, if I don’t be super annoying and check on my customers constantly I get yelled at :)

I HATE when employees hover/ask a million questions about what I’m looking for when I have already told them I’m doing fine and don’t need their help!

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

right??

@bleachfanbk

3 жыл бұрын

They are required to do so, and if they don't then the customers complain because they feel like the ghost one

Wait, are you telling me your stores are not usually managed by ghosts? D: lol, Pretty Woman reminded me of that time someone told friggin Oprah Winfrey that a bag was too expensive for her xP (Hey, on the employee's defense, it was in Sweden; it may be hard to believe, but we don't all know her face that well outside of the U.S.A.)

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

RCraz hehehehe are you telling me your stores are usually always managed by ghosts??? 👻 And I didn’t know that story about Oprah! That is too funny!

The one I probably do the most as a retail employee is ghosting. I apologize anonymously to the customers in this comment. As a customer elsewhere, I relate to the rest.

@AbbeyHowe

4 жыл бұрын

hehehehe

Similar to ghosting is the employee who is "too busy" to help you. When I worked retail we were trained to put anything else that we were doing (except helping another customer) down to help make that sale...but today that rarely happens. It seems the customer is bothering the employee just to ask a question...and yes, I understand that the questions are annoying to the employee, but they can lose a sale if the attitude is wrong.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, I've noticed that too

@xilj4002

5 жыл бұрын

We are also trained to do that, but when half the customers hate it and some even yells because of it, then management lectures you for leaving a visibly half-done shelf in the store... You kinda stop doing it.

I love this Abbey!! Super hilarious and I could see me being some of these annoying sales reps 😂😅

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Daniel Chandler hehehe. I have been too honestly. Sometimes I just get so bored working retail. Hope you’re well, Daniel!

The thing about stuff going on sale after a customer has bought it at full price is just something at happens it's really frustrating when customers get addjitated about it

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

So true. I think I misplaced that particular scene.

your videos are literally so clever and funny pls never stop making content

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Katie Allgood 😭😭😭Katie, this comment filled me with joy. Thank you so much.

As a retail worker, I'm totally guilty of hovering. Usually you can kinda tell when someone just doesn't want to be helped, but I'm surprised that "hovering" is on the list because what most people want is human interaction. Someone to help them find the piece they don't know they need or wanted. Finding a balance is difficult. Retail is in a tough place, but 90% of shoppers are in discovery phase. ALSO asking for a price adjustment A MONTH, after you purchased something is just ridiculous, and I'm amazed at how many people do it. If you wreck your piece because, 1. You washed it incorrectly 2. Got a snag somehow 3. It's more than 2 years old and you suddenly decide it didn't wear well it's not the brand/store/retail workers fault.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Totally get it. I think, for me, I get anxiety when I shop so it is stressful when someone is around me hovering. I also feel like they think I might steal something?? Also, the price adjustment one does not belong in this list. After it was edited, I was like... oh dang it. It should go in the annoying customers one!

I feel like the sales thing is not necessarily the employees fault. I mean if I bought something a week before and it was on sale for a lot cheaper when I came back I wouldn't ask for compensation because that was my choice to buy it before (I get that you don't know it would be on sale later) and I wouldn't think the employees are the ones setting up the sales and what goes on sale so it's not their fault. I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong or explain to me why it's the employees fault? (If that's not what's being said please tell me that too, I'm genuinely curious)

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

It's really not the employees fault. I probably should've included it in this video instead: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKNoy9GGnNu5ZLw.html

My man in the back looking like a manniquin 😂😂😂 tryna hide

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

trying so hard!

I really dislike the hoverers. That's why I take my husband with me when I shop. He loves to talk, so he distracts the sales person while I do my shopping 😁

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

oooh I need him to help me too! haha

@Arbysroastbeefjuice

5 жыл бұрын

No wonder your husbands look miserable, while you spend his money on useless shit you don't need.

I confess, I pull the 'ghosting' move whenever it's one minute before the end of my shift. :P I swear, even if I decide to use that last minute to ring up a customer or take a call before I clock out, I'll always end up with a difficult customer doing a 20 minute return or an overly chatty-person on the other line who wants me to order a million things for her. ;-;

Most of these are for places that work on commission. Stop shopping in those places if you don’t like how they treat you. The sale thing just return the expensive one and buy the sale one. The credit card thing is annoying and it’s annoying to those of us behind the register too but we are forced to do it. I am sorry I really wish I didn’t have to.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

totally understandable. thanks for your comment!

I'm not a wealthy person but apparently my clothes give of a rich vibe which can make any store trips a nightmare. Once stumbled into Karen Millen by accident and the lady tried to sell me a 700 dollar jacket because i looked vaguely in its direction. Told her i was just a broke college student and she laughed at me. Needless to say i ran for it.

@AbbeyHowe

4 жыл бұрын

funny story Princess!

I'm six days late, but this is hilarious and super relatable😂

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Pat Malia better late than never! And thank you, Pat!!

@justanotherpat

5 жыл бұрын

@@AbbeyHowe That's true :) and no, thank you for posting great content!

The hiding one reminds me of the employees in our clothing dept. Hahaha. The hoverer. I swear bug you to make sure you didn't die in there from indecision. No one likes to be bothered in their underwear. Corporate needs to stop this. And I work retail.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

NO ONE likes to be bothered in their underwear. a truer statement never uttered.

I used to work retail and we never had to lie like in the first scene . #7. Also number #6 would never happen . I like how the lady was like I have money to spend in here . Then she says it’s $300 and yells saying how could you let me look at a $300 !!! This video is so fake.

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

fake? or funny?

I hate pushing credit cards, but if I don't push it my managers will pull me aside and chastise me for not working hard enough.

@AbbeyHowe

4 жыл бұрын

I think your customers know it's just something you have to do! 🙄

The second one, don't get mad at the worker because you didn't see the 300$ price tag!

Keep making these videos. They’re priceless!

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks KeiAnna!

I have the same keychain in yellow

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

the rabbit???

@arielblair3953

5 жыл бұрын

@@AbbeyHowe yeah! Its great, i spend way too much time petting it on the bus commute lol

Just sign right there in blood😅

Love it!

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Zachary Hallett you did good, you crazy Aussie

Ok but that first outfit was such a look

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

I do not want to shop there

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Sam Stockwell hahaha

yea! this is soo funny! it happens a looot)

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

thanks, Sandra!

BIG mistake! BIG! HUGE!

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

the biggest!!

I actually liked that first outfit lol

I'm so sad I fall for all of these ...

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

I mean... same

I AM the employee in the sale Mishap skit 😂

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Gabi Marie hahaha I mean... it is annoying when people do that. It’s like... what can you do??

Like 11x. Your videos are awesome

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

Jozabad Sanchez thanks Jozabad!

I have Pretty Woman on the tv right now!!! ❤️

@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

No way!! That’s crazy!!

Awesome Abbey! Your videos are super amazing!

3 is the funniest one ... retail employees don't control the prices or sales. "Well is there anything you can do for me???" Yeah I can lick your eyeballs

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@AbbeyHowe

5 жыл бұрын

F

60th like omr lol