Can I Just Buy It?

[King Shizzo]

The people at the mall who harass you to shine your shoes/boots as you walk buy drive me nuts.

The 30's called, they want the time period back. Was that place hiring? - asking for a friend (Wiggs)

[Eric2]

when i buy an item, can i just buy it without being asked if i want to sign up for something, if i want to make a donation, if i have a points card, what my email is, what my postal code is or anything else? Can I just buy it and leave? Fuk sakes

Might come off as a dick. Yet I just don't respond to the question if verbally asked I just slid my card and move on. I never explain myself or give them anything but payment

[Blockingback]

Might come off as a dick. Yet I just don't respond to the question if verbally asked I just slid my card and move on. I never explain myself or give them anything but payment

this is the way

[Lartinos]

I worked at the mall 21-29 as a SM at the closer to the end. It was definitely fun at times, but also just like an office job with the normal corporate tensions.

They don’t always have tons of metrics to measure behavior so the more credit card sign ups or large sales or whatever the metric you have to ask a lot of people to buy things as your job.

I personally respect that people are just doing their job. It doesn’t mean I enjoy the experience, but I wouldn’t be at thar store unless I wanted to be there and that person is only doing what the store is making them do.

[Irongrip400]

I hate the “it’s just going to ask you a few questions” as they turn the iPad around and it asks about tip and if you want a receipt. I know there’s jokes about this, but I really get irritated by it. The expectation on tipping now in America since Covid blows my mind. “We’re all in this together, take care of your servers and service people because they’re the most affected”. No fuck you cu nt, me and my fucking $100k a month in debt service and we ain’t working is more affected.

[Methyl m1ke]

Annoying AF.You walk into the shoe or clothing or any other store and F ..g vultures are  all over me like dead rabbit asking if I need anything million times.
I’ll go to Home Depot and know exactly what do I need and someone who wants to help me doesn’t even know what that is because he  had dropped  McD job last week. Getting in and out is a war .Few times you have older guys who been working certain  trades and know exactly  what I’m looking for .Those guys are rare and usually very knowledgeable.

Home depot should can all their retail staff and make the place self service. Attempting to find help, for anything, leads to suffering. A few months ago I was repairing some rotten t1-11 and needed a couple pieces so I go to home depot and after spending 30 minutes on a journey around the store and into the back parking lot i finally found the only employee who worked in lumber. We get to where the t1-11 is stacked and I notice that the pieces are like 8 feet long and I need 9. So I ask the guy could they order the 9 footers for me he goes "9 foot? Of what?" I go t1-11, he says "uh, i can take your number and tomorrow my manager will call cuz I don't we I don't know if we even carry that." I say you don't carry t1-11?? He shakes his head no, and starts staring at his phone. He was literally leaning on a stack of t1-11 as he says all this. They're only lumber guy in the whole store. Scary.

[Humble Narcissist]

Might come off as a dick. Yet I just don't respond to the question if verbally asked I just slid my card and move on. I never explain myself or give them anything but payment

The employee probably appreciates you. They hate being forced to do that shit.