Sir, can I help you? Can I help you sir? Sir.

[thehilitereel]

Who has walked into an office depot or some other store and get bombarded by their workers asking if they can help you? I walk into that place a couple months ago to check out their notebooks and get bum rushed by their workers asking if they can assist me.. I was like fresh meat to a bunch of punks that had nothing else to do..

I had 20+ different workers come up to me "Can I help you sir?" I was just glad to get out of there, I was looking over my shoulder as I walked out the door though, just incase the drones didn't follow me.

[Luke122]

Happened to me in a stereo shop in Calgary once.. Soundsaround. Everyone rushes you as soon as you get into the store.. it's a real pain in the ass.

So anyways, I went in to buy a stereo system for my car, and had $2500 in the bank to spend. The car audio guy wouldnt even talk to me about sytem components until I filled out a credit app.. I was like "I have $2500 in the bank... why do I need a credit app?" but he wouldnt budge.

So I turned around and walked out.. as I reached the door, a manager says to me, "find everything you were looking for?" and I replied, "I'm only looking for the door after that bull$h*t." The look of panic on his face was unbelievable... the guy actually followed me out of the store, yelling, "come back and talk about it.. I'll give you 30% off anything! ....50%!!! .... 75%!!!!"

When he said 75%, I wavered a bit... so I turned around and told him the story about had just happened, and then left anyways. I'm pretty sure that sales guy was lookin for a job after that.

[Ichbin]

i start babbling techno mumbo jumbo. Usually that scares them away.

[thehilitereel]

I was thinking about turning and running away, but I was afraid they'd shed their human flesh and reveal that they were machines, chase me down, tackle me to the floor and force me into submission.

Maybe I should just stick with Wal-Mart, their workers don't care too much.. You can do what ever you want in there.

[Scotty]

Tis funny, PC World has some adverts hardly any tell you the truth about PCs, but the adverts always show people helping, but it is hardly ever that way. I went into a PC World store (something i rarely do as they overprice everything!), to buy a external hard drive as they had them on offer.

Knowing what i wanted i headed over to the section, picked up the hard drive, only to be approached buy a sales man (once in a lifetime, he must have been bored). So he asks me a the are you ok crap, i say yes, start walking off, he then says 'is there anything i can help you with' (obviously he's thinking im just a kid who knows nothing about computers). So me being me starts thinking (quickly) so i try to think of something difficult to ask him, this guy looked like he knew quite a bit. So i ask him, do you do any cheap external drives that offer 8mb cache (the one i picked up was 2mb) he looks at me puzzled, and replies 'sorry, but hard drives we sell start from 40gb not 8mb'. So i reply 'Not overall size the cache size.' he looks at me again, says nothing, then he says 'i will check with my supervisor' he walks out the back. By the time he is through the door, im at the till, couldn't be bothered to hear a stupid excuse.

Knew PC world staff know nothing.

[NuKS]

I know that in Office Depot the employees are required to greet customers in the store. They would rather get complaints that customers are being asked by everyone than to have them complain that nobody asked if they needed help. Another thing it is helps to lower theft. People tend to not steal if they think they will be recognized. Plus they have "secret shoppers" which are actually people Office Depot pays to do surveys on the stores to see how they are doing, and how fast they can check out and stuff like that.

[CanaBalistic]

Store employee: Can I help you find anything?

Me: No, but maybe i can help you.

Employee: What do you mean?

Me: Have you accepted christ as your lord and savior?

Employee: Umm, i have to go now...

Me: Please do.

ha ha ha... that'll scare off thoes futureshop drones.

[simon275]

Yeah I pretty much have never found a drone in any IT stores that has a blind clue. At one store the guy had been moved out of furniture to cover in the IT department. :dead:

[DaJe]

People don't talk to me when I'm in stores, and that's the way I like it.

[xRyokenx]

All the more reason to get everything but groceries from Newegg. :D

[FPMachine]

You can't please everyone. I work in retail. I got written up for not greeting somone who walked in.... so don't complain it could be their job on the line. Just say no thank you and smile.

[rendermandan]

Dude, if you got written up for that kind of ****, Get a different job!!!

When I look back at all the crap I put up with from empoyers I laugh. If I only knew then, what I know now!!!

[tybrenis]

When I look back at all the crap I put up with from empoyers I laugh. If I only knew then, what I know now!!!

Fight the power, don't let the man get you down! Right on man!

;)

[Xpirate]

CanaBalistic has a good way to solve that, unless they are religous as well.

I did the same thing as Lukifer122 did one time. I had over $1000 worth of stuff and walked out after a rude comment.

However, I can empathize with folks who work retail. Most of the time they work for minimum wage and they are under intense pressure to make sales quotas. I sold luggage and delivered pizza before I graduated college.

[xRyokenx]

Having a sales job like that would drive me nuts (http://www.drmcninja.com/images/mennuts.gif), I couldn't take that crap... fast food is bad enough, lol, but I do a good job and get the occasional tip, so I'ma be happy until I have to pay rent. :neutral:

[nil8]

I don't mind too many, more often it's better than too few, but I don't have this experience often. Most places I go I get one or two people asking and that's all.

[Crimson Sky]

Its better that walking into a big store and you can't find anyone to help you AT ALL, especially when the stuff you want is behind THE SACRED GLASS CABINET. hate that.

[xRyokenx]

Me too... waiting 20 minutes with my bro for some crap game he wants from Walmart, lol... not fun.

[simon275]

In Australia Spray Paint is behind bars at Hardware Stores so you have to find one of the few available staff in the hardware store to open it up for you after checking ID. As you got to be 18+ to buy spray paint here. While this does hamper new moders it does stop kidies decorating freeway overpasses.

[Omega]

If you can't find somebody, yell.

That's what I do.


But then again, I have a LOUD voice when it needs to be.

[xRyokenx]

I, too, have a loud voice, somethetimes... and it always seems to be at the bowling alley and pissing my brother off, lol... maybe part of my German genes or something... who knows, lol.

My mom was getting pissed at my bro because he wouldn't get his stupid arse off WoW to take out the recyclables, and he played all day when he was supposed to do his homework, so I went into his account and made it so he can only play from 3-9:30 on weekdays. :twisted: That solves most of that problem, lol.

Is it just me or does everybody blame video games for people getting stressed, etc? They blame it for shootings, violence, people snapping, etc... don't you think that it's more or less people just not getting along for that? I was stressed all last week from having family over that didn't all get along and they blamed WoW for that, I was just getting depressed and crap due to allergies, hormones out of whack (don't ask, I have some *inconvenient* medical disorders :neutral:), family, etc.

EDIT: Also, is it just me or is this post waaaay OT? lol

[a.Bird]

They are required to ask you for assistance by the corporate heads. If you can't do everything possible to sell the company's product, you are no good to them. You must expect it from any big name retailer. If you don't like it, as has already been said, newegg is a great online retailer for almost anything office depot would have.

[Wasabisam]

lol i hate when they come ask you somthing and then don't know what there talking about. Last week i went into Rebel Sports for a new pair of shoes. Me and mum were looking for the right size and then the guy comes up:
Guy " Hello do you need help finding a shoe?"
Mum " Yeah we are looking for any shoe his size"
Guy " What size?"
Mum " He is a size 15 at the moment but they have holes in them"
The guy just stared at me and mum then goes " Well if you find a pair of shoes tell me "

Got me laughing because he wants me to find him once i have a pair of shoes. In the end i walked out. They didnt have one pair of size 15's under $200.

[arsenic480]

i work in retail (unfortunately) and i really only ask people that look like they NEED help... ie; looking up and down every aisle, looking at something and then me and back, or they just stand there like the living dead-...

a lot of the time, when employees rush you its cause if they dont, their managers will yell at them to. this is my case. i ask people who need help if theyd like it, and a lot of the time they say yes and that no one has helped them yet. if i dont ask every person that comes into the store, my manager, his manager and the store manager all get on my a$$ about it...

its frustrating for me to go into another store-... i get rushed as well, but i respond with "look, i know youre being forced to do this, but its making it really hard for me to steal what i need."

usually shuts them up and keeps them away from me so their LP (loss prevention) will watch me. good thing i only jack stuff from stores i dont often frequent ^_^

EDIT: sorry, this is basically what a.bird said.

[xmastree]

I used to get annoyed by the sales droids in the Philippines. They would follow me round the store, and name everything I picked up, or even looked at.
"That's a stapler, sir"
"That's a Barbie doll, for a girl"

FFS! Do I look that stupid that I need telling it's a Barbie doll?

OTOH, the one thing guaranteed to make me lose it is being ignored when I obviously need help. That also happened in the Philippines, when sales girls were embarrassed to speak to a foreigner, as they would have to use English, a talent which the job required in the first place.

Remember that line in Pretty Woman? The one in the posh clothes store, about commission. I've used one similar to that:

Me:"Do you get commission on sales?"
Sales: "Yes"
Me "So why are you ignoring me?" turns and walks out.

[arsenic480]

Me:"Do you get commission on sales?"
Sales: "Yes"
Me "So why are you ignoring me?" turns and walks out.

oh, snap!... haha :bunny: you used to live in the phillipines? thats pretty cool... what area? (never been there, but was considering planning a trip somewhere, any suggestions?)