15 Struggles Every Retail Worker Has to Face This Black Friday
1. When you see a swarm of people coming for you as soon as the store opens.
2. When customers don’t put merchandise back where they found it and totally mess up your beautiful display.
3. Having to print out a bazillion gift receipts.
4. When a customer is telling you their life story.
5. When a customer complains that a non-sale item isn’t discounted.
6. When customers come in right before you close and insist on browsing.
7. When someone exclaims “It doesn’t scan, so it must be free!”
8. When you can’t leave because customers keep accosting you on your way out.
9. When you have a throng of customers asking you questions all at once.
10. Having to stay and work overtime once your shift is over because if you don’t your manager and the team will hate you forever.
11. Having to work this day in the first place because all your requested days were denied.
12. Working with temporary staff who don’t know what they’re doing.
13. When you have to pander to rude customers.
14. Having numerous colleagues call in sick and consequently being understaffed.
15. Hearing the same awful seasonal CD over, and over, and over again.
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