I made a gay man get "huffy"

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I like working at Pier One. I actually enjoy working with the customers because they've all been pretty nice. Today I came across a douche.

A customer asked me how much a frame was since there was a sign saying, "20% off selected frames." I told him what I know from my team leader and my manager:

"If you find a frame you like, you can go to the register and they'll scan the price for you."

I find that a little back asswards too but this is how we do it. He went off on how he used to work retail at Saks 5th Avenue and they'd be fired over a travesty (yes, he used the word "travesty") like this. Then he started grilling me over other store policies that I didn't know all the answers to. He ended with, "No wonder Pier One almost went out of business."

I apologized that Pier One had, well, failed him. I forgot how shitty it was to deal with the public and this guy totally made me feel like an idiot. I swear, I didn't realize what I was saying because my mind was blank from having my ass handed to me.

"Well, maybe you'd be happier shopping at Saks!" :smile: [totally sincere smile]

I walked away and I heard him rant to his friend. I kind of hid and waited til he left the store. Then I told my manager what happened. I apologized but she just laughed.

[PapaBear]

I'm sure the gay guy WOULD be much happier with "Saks". :wink:

[jennysmurf]

I'm sure the gay guy WOULD be much happier with "Saks". :wink:

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[PapaBear]

That's what's great about Fuzzy. She can pwon someone while remaining totally sincere!

[Suspect Chin]

How'd you know he was gay?

[PapaBear]

How'd you know he was gay?
I'll take this one for Fuzzy...

He was shopping at Pier One.
He used to work for Saks.
He referred to the problem of finding the price of a frame a "travesty".

Edit: It's cumulative. No individual thing makes him gay. All of them together, do.

[weekapaugjz]

How'd you know he was gay?

maybe he looked homeless and mentioned he was a radio show host.

[keithy_19]

I'll take this one for Fuzzy...

He was shopping at Pier One.
He used to work for Saks.
He referred to the problem of finding the price of a frame a "travesty".

Edit: It's cumulative. No individual thing makes him gay. All of them together, do.

Thank God I've never shopped at Pier One.

[landarch]

Wait, you bought a gay man a bike?

Dibs on the seat if he's not using it.

[A.J.]

I'm sure the gay guy WOULD be much happier with "Saks". :wink:

:clap:

[realmenhatelife]

We once asked a woman to consolidate the amount of space she was using in the cafe and her outraged rant ended with threatening to sue for discrimination (white lady with a grown 400 lbs autistic son.)

Girl with blue hair basically asked to be charged for 50 cents on a 4 dollar drink and when storming out of the store after being denied turned to say poignantly "yknow, I'll bet if I looked more normal you would've given it to me." Which is even funnier if you know what I look like and who my friends are.

Was handed back a soy capucino not made to a guys expectations, he bitched at me a little about it, I sincerely apologized and offered to make it again, he snatches it aways "No no I dont have time. I'm just very disappointed, very disappointed." He then drove away in his bright yellow hummer with vanity plates.

I've broken up a handful of arguments because they were headed to be fistfights. Saw a lady tell an old man "Well maybe you'll die soon." because he asked her not to stand right next to where he was reading talking very loudly on her cell phone.

Retail is like road rage, people take license to act very poorly because they figure it will never seep back into their every day life. They only get more manic as you approach Christmas.

[Earlshog]

[QUOTE=realmenhatelife;2783296]
Was handed back a soy capucino not made to a guys expectations, he bitched at me a little about it, I sincerely apologized and offered to make it again, he snatches it aways "No no I dont have time. I'm just very disappointed, very disappointed." He then drove away in his bright yellow hummer with vanity plates. QUOTE]

That is phenomenal. One can only hope later in the day the disappointment caused by his soy cappuccino, distracted him enough to run a red light and he was subsequently broadsided by a Crate and Barrel truck rendering him paralyzed..

Or maybe he just spilled some hot coffee on himself. That would be funny too.

[TjM]

When I clicked I so thought she was gonna say "Get Wood"

[TjM]

While working at EB I once had a kid while playing the PS2 display pull down his shorts and take a shit right on the floor. The weird thing is it looked like yellow playdoh

[TjM]

Also had a father bitch me out and threaten to kick my ass for not selling his 13 year old son GTA 3 (He was waiting in the car and the kid got him when I wouldn't sell it) I explained what the game entailed and he told me "It's just a fucking game games are for fucking children"

Fast forward 2 days later he comes storming into the store. "What the fuck are you selling my kid this fucking trash for!" I don't think it was because of the games language though

In short retail is like Nam

[Dude!]

so Barnaby Jones shops
at Pier 1

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

How'd you know he was gay?

Papabear pretty much nailed it. I admit I ASSUMED (and we know where that leads) he was gay because he was, well, being an overly emotional drama queen about it. Most men I've dealt with at Pier One are either dragged there by their wives; I've never seen a man at Pier One have a hissy fit.

And, I admit, my comment to him about shopping at Saks was not as innocuous as it seemed. I have a knee-jerk passive aggressive attitude. As someone pointed out in my Walmart scented candle thread, since I work at Pier One then I probably can't afford Pier One. HENCE, the Saks comment. BUT I WAS 100% sincere, if it helps.

[PapaBear]

so Barnaby Jones shops
at Pier 1
It's fun to kid people with comments like that, but you two don't like each other. That makes it a personal attack. Stop it.

[Suspect Chin]

It's fun to kid people with comments like that, but you too don't like each other. That makes it a personal attack. Stop it.

I laughed, if that helps.

[Justice4all]

I'll take this one for Fuzzy...

He was shopping at Pier One.
He used to work for Saks.
He referred to the problem of finding the price of a frame a "travesty".

Edit: It's cumulative. No individual thing makes him gay. All of them together, do.

I would submit he also might watch Dancing with the Stars