If I intend to actually blog on a regular basis - which I would like to do, at this very moment, but that might change even tomorrow - then I'm afraid there will be possibly many entries regarding my job, and all the monotony that it encompasses. Basically, in other words, it might be a lot of nothing!
Working at Best Buy has allowed me to be exposed to the general public, much as I was with the job before that (a McDonald's manager....horrible job that). The general public is such a ....general term? Excuse the pun, but it's used so lightly. "General"... so vague obviously.
I would like to enter into the thesaurus of all thesauruses:
"General Public Synonym: IDIOTS"
I can list many other unflattering words, but my goal here isn't to sound like a pompous ass, although I am sure I would to many people. They just don't know... no really, you don't know. Maybe the IDIOTS just all flocked to Louisiana? Or maybe it's something in the water that turned them that way. Maybe it's our educational system, or the way the parents raised their children. It could be the media and it's efforts to brainwash our children or the expectations of society to favor vanity/materialism over brains/common sense. Perhaps our wits are diminishing, being eaten away by a lack of desiring of bettering oneself and replaced with ... air?
And perhaps ... I am over analyzing what caused people to become the way they are today.
Why do they act the way they do though? Seriously!
"Oh mister customer, you'll have to exit right out through this other door, please sir. That one does not open from this side you see..."
"But it says EXIT above the door!"
"Yes sir it does, but that label is there to indicate that it can be used as an emergency exit only."
"Well that's misleading, I'm gonna call yer corporate office!"
*internal monologue kicks in*
"Yes well, it also says DO NOT ENTER on the door, right in front of your face you dumb bastard, why don't you read it? You can read the EXIT sign above it right? So why not read the sign ON THE DOOR as well? Oh I see, you have selective sight, much like your selective hearing*
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A woman last November sees a sign in our store in the form of a poster that reads "I am Legend Starring WILL SMITH, Available Tues Nov 18th!"
"Do you got that I AM LEGEND?"
"No ma'am it isn't released yet, it comes out Tuesday."
"But I saw in yer ad that it was out!"
She then points to our poster
"Yes ma'am, but the ad and the sign both say Tuesday Nov 18th is the release date"
"Well that's false advertising!"
Woman leaves in a huff, angry and threatening to call "Corporate"
Please note that it was obviously not Nov 18th yet.
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Man wants to return a Zune because it "doesn't work" ... okay, fair enough right? It doesn't work, of course he should be able to return it. He asks the first sales associate that he sees if he can indeed return it to our store, even if he purchased it at another store. The associate reassures him that it's perfectly ok to do that, assuming the customer was talking about another BEST BUY branch. We get this question on almost a daily basis, so it's natural to assume that the customer was referring to another Best Buy store. It's also natural to assume he has half a brain, right? ... right? ... no, not really. He proceeds to customer service with his Zune, and of course the employee asks for his receipt. He claims he has none, so the customer service rep proceeds to ask him questions that would assist her in finding the receipt for the sake of returning the product. He then admits he bought it at Wal-Mart. He is denied the return on the product.
*internal monologue: NO SHIT!*
"I wanna speak to yer manager!"
"Yes mister customer, my name is blah blah manager, how can I help you?" -.-
"blah blah customer complain bitch moan whine, they said this, and he said that and she says this, and my dog did that, and it goes like that, and who done it!"
(translation: "I want to return an item to your store that I clearly admit to purchasing at wal mart, and I dont underastand why you won't let me")
"Sir I am sure our sales associate probably thought that you were referring to another Best Buy branch whenever you asked him/her that question. I am sorry, but I have no way of returning an item to our inventory that you clearly bought at another store"
"You mean to tell me that you don't stand behind your product?!?!!!"
*gasp*
"No I won't, because it's NOT my product!"
"I'm gonna call corporate on yoooou!"
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And of course there are so many of these stories that the list could go on forever. You see, I realize these things are little. They are trivial! They are tiny, I know. They are certainly not things that ruin my day. I've seen people behave this way everyday. But then again, that is the problem. It's every day. Each and every day... people are getting more and more stupid. Add up all the tiny, trivial things and you get one big picture of how the south ... sucks.
Yes, I am prejudice. I can't stand the south. Most of my customers that are from up north speak coherently, have intelligence, possess patience and exhibit the fact that they have BRAINS, not to mention manners. People in the south (especially Louisiana) seem to be lacking in all these. I can tell my customers apart, when they are not from here. It always comes about in conversation, and only confirms my suspicions.
I get people in asking for the strangest things as well....
"Where is your grocery department?"
"Where are your throw rugs?"
"...pet collars?"
"...cigarettes?"
"Where are your ELECTRONICS?"
*Wait, WHAT??!!!!*
THAT....that last one.... that has to be the worst one. It differs from the others in the obvious sense that it is one genre of merchandise that we actually carry. However, when I hear that question, I feel like flailing my arms about wildly and asking them if they are blind. Are we not in Best Buy? Are you living under a rock and haven't realized we are the largest electronics retail chain in the United States? Did you fall into this store by accident, unaware of where the aliens dropped you after they took your brain?! It wouldn't be so bad also if the customers weren't asking me this AFTER they'd walked around the store. Truly, words fail me.
Stupidity abounds. It floats freely through the air of Louisiana and its surrounding parts like a disease, claiming victim after victim. It seems to fall at my feet, in my lap, on my head and in my hands...it accumulates... at Best Buy.
Oh and one amusing thing I was told by a customer today, one more little thing before I go.
A lady told us she was going home to play her "DSL game on her Super Nintendo" ...
I am sure she meant she had a Nintendo DS game she wanted to play, but hey....a DSL game is better, and playing it on a Super NES no less? Now that's truly special.
*brain explodes*
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