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Asked By: Giselle - 7/31/2009
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I work at JCPennys and Godiva Chocolatiers. Im fine with Godiva, but Pennys ...wow.

I am a fine customer service associate. I understand most customers think that they are the only person shopping in the store and demand to be treated as such. Thats all fine and gravy, but when they open packages of underpants or pajama gift sets because they think that them not knowing the correct size entiles them to do this, and then if its the wrong size they ball up the merchandise and huck it across the store. Oh and get this ! If they open it and its the right size, do you think they take the package they opened ?'!?! NO ... they take a nice shiny unopened one and the sad part is Im standing right there with a tape measure around my neck offering to give them the correct size and they refuse.

Oh and i hate it when people leave merchandise in the fitting room when they are done trying it on. That is lazy. People think its my job when its actually not .They are just making more work for me. Just like when they leave their food garbage in the clothes racks and just like when they let their children play in the racks and knock things off.

That reminds me, the customer service associates arent your babysitters. you cannot expect up to watch your kids while you try on clothes an run to get something you forgot from upstairs. That is also not part of our job .

My job is to help find you merchandise, not give you vallet shopping service. If you ask me to help you find your size , I can do that . If you ask me to show you everything in your size while you have a seat , I cant do that. You have to remember that I also have a long line of customers waiting at the register that cant see why I have to assist people finding merchandise when I should be ringing them up , because as I already said they think they are the only one shopping in the store just like you !

Unfortunately , I do have road rage and a side effect to dealing with this day to day with a smile. I also wont give lost strangers directions outside of work . Anytime I can say NO or EAT MY F*** outside of work , I do ,and its all because of customers.

d**n you customers . d**n you all to hell !
Answered By: Demonica™² Blood Thief - 7/31/2009
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That they expect me to work

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Answered By: Steve C - Suspended dumbazz - 7/31/2009
My job-right now just about everything.

Sometimes my coworkers, but mostly the fact that right now its boring, and that everyday I come to work the company has implimented a new rule, the surroundings are disgusting and the pay sucks.
Answered By: wadadlichick - 7/31/2009
How fake people can be..
i c many people here smiling n ur face n then talking about u as soon as u leave
Answered By: d - 7/31/2009
That all the chicks here check me out. I'm sick of it. But I don't blame them because I'm a sexy beast.
Answered By: Mr. Left Eyebrow - 7/31/2009
Lol @ steve
the commute(i have to pay a toll) and the amount of stupid people who have jobs.
Answered By: PistolPete - 7/31/2009
I have to listen to people that have the lowest IQ i could imagine, but they get to tell me what to do because their title is "boss"
Answered By: newbein978 - 7/31/2009
I work as a receptionist, so I get asked the most stupid/obvious questions, everyday. I try not to let it get to me but it becomes quite redundant after a while.
Answered By: GETitGIRL - 7/31/2009
Ppl that knowingly do stupid things and expect me to get them out of it.
Answered By: Sam - 7/31/2009
Repetition and i get to see the pain that kids go thro and its hurt breaking everytime! My boss is also an idiot.
Answered By: pretty kenyan - 7/31/2009
Being ordered to do something rudely by your boss.
Answered By: Spaceman - 7/31/2009
The supervisors are hella scandalous. They give certain people special preveledges and they get to sit or stand around doing nothing while everybody else has to bust their a**.
Answered By: Tashi - 7/31/2009
This kind of scenario is what I don't like about my job:

A family comes in (usually with more money than they know what to do with) and the dad has some teen kids who are spoiled and he is buying them all motorbikes. I am usually asked to show the kids various bikes to see which ones appeal to them. And usually these spoiled brats go on and on about how they get everything they want and how they are so much better than everyone else. And of course me being a worker and supposed to be trying to get them to buy as much as possible I can't bust em in the face like I want to.

Than after all this when I'm feeling just the opposite, my boss will say how good I am with difficult customers. It makes me want to bust him one too. I've told thim this and he laughs and agrees with me too...hahaha.

Now then add to this that none of these brats know how to ride their bikes and they often bring them in for stupid reasons...like "how do I put oil in the gas?" and other similar idiotic questions that are fully explained in the manual (AND that any rider should already know anyhow).

Yeah I know this was a rant....but u asked.
Answered By: Andrew Clements - 7/31/2009
Nothing anymore, because I quit. I left that building humming Johnny Paycheck's song--"Take this Job and Shove It"
Answered By: lynn - 7/31/2009
The annoying people I work with who think everything should happen instantly, when we deal with government entities and places that are not fully staffed....

Demanding clients...

Office politics
Answered By: soulflower - 7/31/2009
Not being taken seriously because I'm the youngest (in my early 20's) and my race (btw, i'm not 'pulling the race card', it's obvious, they are this way to all 6 of us, there are 60 employees total). It's annoying because they act like the simpliest task is so hard and try to 'dumb it down' for you. Also the girls in my dept who are 27 and 28, still act like 15 yr old girls.
Answered By: call me McLovin.... - 7/31/2009
That the only time I can get the Black people moving is when I put RAP on the radio. I am in charge of making sure people are working.
Answered By: White Al Sharpton - 7/31/2009
That I have to follow state and federal mandates that often contradict each other at the price of the children I am working with.
Answered By: PuttPutt - 7/31/2009
I work at a new company .... what annoys me atm is all the staring eyes and also hearing someone say..... that's a guy .... soz, but im not ;)
Answered By: Flexy - 7/31/2009
It interferes with my yahoo answers career. (My real job)
Answered By: Trysh The Dysh - 7/31/2009
After spending the majority of my 20s in the accounting field, I can honestly say the most annoying things were the constant complaining and blaming the accountants for every little thing that goes wrong in their working environment. It's like accountants are expected to hold everyone's hands and change their diapers or something.

The main thing that sucked is fixing everyone elses mistakes, be it in the computer or with their paperwork. People just have no clue how to properly file, manage contracts, write business letters, negotiate money or input data into a computer the right ways.
Answered By: ladysonoma - 7/31/2009
When customers don't know their account numbers, that drives me crazy. I don't expect you to remember it by heart but keep it written down somewhere.
Answered By: Cellar Door - 7/31/2009
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