public service announcement

[pauraque_bk]

You know, when you go to a store, sometimes they have merchandise hanging from those two-pronged straight metal things that stick out of the wall? Next time you see one, take a closer look. You'll see that all the merchandise is hanging from the bottom prong. You know why that is? Because if you take an item off the hook and try to put it back on the top prong, it WON'T GO ON.

If you're trying to put something back on the hook and it doesn't go, *don't* try to force it. You're damaging the merchandise and creating unnecessary work for the employees. Stop for a second and *look* at what you're doing. Is it really so hard to see which prong the other items are on and put it there?

Jesus.

Comments

[maria-futura.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. You could be working for Toys R Us.

Just imagine. C'mon. I know you can.

I lasted five months.

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[pauraque]

The horror. On the other hand, though, at least kids have an excuse for not knowing any better.

I actually had a customer do the Wrong Prong thing while I was standing there talking to her. It was even the kind with a big old metal rectangle on the front of the top prong, meant to hold a price tag. There's no *possible* way the item could have fit over that, but she just kept trying to jam it on there, over one of the corners!!!!!! Eventually I just took it out of her hand; I couldn't stand it anymore.

God. Come on, even trained monkeys can put the square peg in the square hole!

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[maria-futura.livejournal.com]

No one ever said humans were bright. At least scientists have bothered to measure monkey inteligence.

Please, don't think to hard about the fallability of the above statement.

The parents were worse than the children. At least the kids were happy to be there. The pissed, surly parental figures took their frustrations out on us.

[darkkitten1.livejournal.com]

I so feel your pain.

I also reserve a special circle in hell for those who manufacture ill-designed prongs that don't accept the merchandise you stock - and those who buy them, put them in planograms and force you to use them anyway. Also poor package designers, who make items so large or oddly shaped that you cannot fit more than one or two on a prong, precariously, even under the best of circumstances.

*hugs pauraque*

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[pauraque]

The people I hate are the ones who design racks that are just a *little* too big for the merchandise. It seems to go in okay when you stock it, but as soon as anyone sticks their hand in there to grab something, everything falls out all over the goddamn place.

This working six days in a row thing is not for me, I think.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I read that as Bottom!Prongs.

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[pauraque]

No, that's a very different mood.

[aretina.livejournal.com]

Howzabout when the customer acutally uses the top prong to punch a new hole in the plastic or cardboard of the item's package-- aside from being completely asinine, it also renders it no longer a collector's item.

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[pauraque]

Grrrrr. Yes.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

I'm *so* with you here. Part of my wretched job description is to sort these bloody things - we call them clipstrips. I HATE, LOATHE, DESPISE these things and I don't care they bring in extra sales, we need to rid the world of them! I once watched a customer pull a product off one thinking I suppose that it's like those peanut hanger things . She pulled the entire stip off along with the ticket edging!
Now I need to go and calm down, it's my day off!