Tales From The Video Store...

The video store I work in seems to have some of the most clueless members to EVER hire movies. These are some of their stories

This person doesn't get a name, they are just an idiot. Today this woman came into the store and asked if "Indian James and the Curse of The Crystal Temple" was out yet.............................................................

When I tried to explain that that movie didn't exist, but "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull DID, she told me off, saying that "I didn't know what I was talking about and I should find another job that didn't require me to use my oh so tiny brain".

I love customers.................... they rule.

Quick update, the people who were harassing my customers and chasing off all my perverts yesterday are back. And after being nice and just getting them to leave after much huffing and puffing on their part today I got mad, like Hulk mad, if I had the power of gamma radiation I'd go green! After being so sugary sweet nice to them yesterday they have the nerve to come back! I may be shorter then the average bear but im by no means a pushover.

So I called the cops. They have just been hauled off, thank goodness im only working till 9 tonight, I don't think I could handle much more of the crazy

Ok, so with it being a bright sunny Sunday afternoon, with Labour Day tomorrow people are grabbing overnight DVD's like they are women at a shoe sale, so once again im left with many many small unattended children left in my store while "Mummy pops into the pet store/ cafe/ chicken place with FKC in the title. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *rips out hair*

Then to make matters ever better I had a pair of young not so gentlemen harrassing my customers with "the good word". Ok religion is someone's own personal deal, no one should ever have the right to tell a person what to believe, but these kids were standing like not even a foot away from my customers and asking them way personal questions, one of my favourites being to a young teenage couple "Are you having pre marital fornication, because in *Insert religious icon's name here* eyes you are both going to hell and will burn forever." D= WHAT??!! Don't tell my customers that!!!!!

The only thing these kids did that was worthwhile was scare the creepies out from my porn room. Why do all the crazies come to my store lol

1) It's a rule that you cannot eat or drink in the store, so if I tell a customer they cannot bring their food/ drink/ beer (really wtf!!) into the store i usually get one of three responses.  
A: "oops, sure i'll just finish this outside and then i'll come back in, sorry about that etc etc.

B: What?! Where does it say that? F*$k off Bitch *mumble mumble bitch mumble*. At this point they usually leave mumbling about how im evil devil spawn because I wouldn't let them drip subway juice around my beautiful store I just cleaned.            And the one that really surprised me.......

C: What did you say to me????????!!!! *insert angry face here* F&*K YOU *Slams remainder of food/drink/beer onto floor* Have fun cleaning that up! What really annoys me is when customers are finishing off a drink or food and i don't catch them bringing it into the store, instead of asking me to throw their food/ drink scraps out they just leave it in the store on a shelf for me to find! I'd hate to see how they treat their houses if this is how they treat my store!

2) When groups of children, sometimes as young as 3 years old just rock on into my store and are throwing dvds being loud, messing up my shelves and being soooo annoying as only children can be, for anywhere from 5 mins up to an hour. Then Mum/Dad/Auntie/whoever strolls on in and yells "OI KIDS HURRY UP" and then strolls out with their devilspawn in tow. WTF? Im not a babysitter, this has happened when parents go into the post shop, bank, pet store, any of these things can take anywhere from 5 mins to an hour. Im so tempted to start charging these parents, how much is the rate for babysiters now?

3) Now number 2 directly affects 3, because this has happened twice in the store now, where a couple of kids will be left in our store, and they need to go to the toilet, but there are no parents around to ask, so they just go in the store. Yep I'll repeat that, these kids will just go to the toilet in the store....................... Twice now we've had kids poop in the store, and instead of telling the staff, they just walk away and leave it for us to find! G.R.O.S.S!!!!! Now if a kid pees, it's not such a big deal, all that requires is a mop and hot water with an array of disinfectants, nice smelling soaps and my trusty "CAUTION WET" signs. Poop however, is a different matter alltogether!

I feel much better for that little complaning session.....

I post about some of the more sucky and stupid customers, but I never mention how great it is working at my store, and some of the customers that totally make my day/afternoon/evening.

First of all this is the first place I've worked where I adore all of my co workers. I understand that having to work with people you don't get along with is something everyone has to do, I know I've had my share of co worker sucks with other jobs, but at this *Video Store* it's honestly a pleasure to come into work and shoot the breeze with everyone. I have a boss who's so nice and friendly, a general manager who's a laugh riot and treats everyone like an equal unlike some managers I've had to deal with at other jobs, and all my co workers do their job to the best of their abilities and are just really great friendly people.

The customers, although I get my share of crazies and special snowflakes they are actually for the most part really nice and friendly. I get to talk movies with people all the time, I can recommend flicks or advise people to run far far away from certain movies (Meet the Spartans). You get to know a lot of the regular families and individuals that come in, get to know their tastes in films and help find flicks they might enjoy.

I'll end with a customer awesome instead of a suck. This actually happened at my old *Video Store* store AGES ago lol but it makes me smile to this day. I had a regular customer come in one day, I'll call her L, and through general small talk I mentioned it was my birthday in a couple of days which was a big deal because I was turning 21 and way really excited about it, so L wished my happy birthday and we chatted a bit more about this and that, one of the things we discussed was that I collect cute pens. The next day I had only just started my shift when L came back into the store with a small present wrapped in purple wrapping with an adorable little white bow on the top (I was stunned she remembered my fav colour was purple), inside was the cutest pen shaped like a glossy pink lipstick and wrote in fluro pink.

I still have that pen, I carry it with me everywhere and every time I see it I smile and it helps me get through any particularly tough days.