Another wee rant about working in retail...

Scroll on by if you don't like people bitching about their jobs. Because that's what I'm going to do now.

#1 People Who Stay Past Closing

If you are one of those people who liked to go into a store ten minutes before closing and not leave until quarter after, I enthusiastically encourage you to light yourself on fire. You make my life suck. I deal with stupid people who don't know their ass from their elbow all day long, and then YOU come along, mess up all the walls and tables that I cleaned (because you know, we're closing in ten minutes), and then you keep on shopping even when you watch us turn off the music and PULL THE DOOR ACROSS. Then, you keep trying stuff on, even when we've TOLD you that the store is in fact closed, and then you don't buy anything and leave a giant mess for us to clean up.

When people keep shopping even ten minutes after the store is closed, we usually have to stay an average of 20 minutes later because we have to clean the whole store in addition to RE-cleaning everything that you messed up, and put away all the clothes you didn't want. Honestly. Don't you know that we have lives that we'd like to get back to sometime tonight? When the store is closed, the store is closed.

#2- Stinky Families

Several times a week, entire groups of people come into the store together, and they all STINK. They stink like body odor! The kind of body odor that smells like a cross between wet feet and onions. You know what I'm talking about. Entire families. They stink up my fitting rooms, the point where OTHER customers complain to me about the smell, and then they try on clothes and make the CLOTHES smell.

Stinky person, I ask you: HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU STINK? How long do you have to forgo showering until you reach that level of stench? It almost makes me want to experiment, but I'm pretty sure that I am conscious of what I smell like, and take active measures to ensure that smell is pleasant. It just boggles my mind, how someone could smell so bad that people around them have to breathe through their mouths.

To add to this stinky business, what is with people who don't take care of their oral hygiene? There is a lady who frequents the old store I used to work at, and we actually nick-named her "Death Breath" because that's what she smelled like. She smelled like a rotting carcass wrapped in tinfoil and left in a field on a sunny day. I hope you're not reading this close to mealtime. It doesn't make sense how someone could completely ignore the state of their teeth to the point where they're brown and they smell like my dad's farts.

I beg of you, people of the world. If you smell bad, don't go to public places until you have fixed the problem. It's not a difficult thing to do. Soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant. All of these things are widely available in Canada and for affordable prices.

This has been a Public Service Announcement brought to you by me.

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Monica