What's the latest in people's lives?

[Mikey]

Exactky.

Anyway picked up a girl at the bar so win-win for me.

Did you put her down again? Better question: where is that? The bars I go to only serve drinks.

[McAvoy]

Yeah I had to put her back down. She was getting heavy.

I was at the bar talking to the girl and somehow I didn't make myself look like a drunken idiot. Or maybe I did but she didn't care.

Got a major hangover today. Got a date with the girl tomorrow.

[Tsukiyumi]

I was at the bar talking to the girl and somehow I didn't make myself look like a drunken idiot. Or maybe I did but she didn't care.

Got a major hangover today. Got a date with the girl tomorrow.

Nice work, man.

[McAvoy]

I'm happy. Now I have to clean out my car of the empty beer cans and dead hookers.

[Tsukiyumi]

[Lt. Staplic]

I was just part of this.

It's the second year we've done the "Black and Gold Spirit" Game (the alternating black and gold sections when all the cards are down) and the first year we did the cards, it was awesome.

EDIT: another/better video here

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

*Sigh* Woman comes up to me in the store, shoves a package of drapes into my face and demands to know why the price checker is scanning it at nineteen bucks. There's s sticker on it for thirteen, but it's the wrong UPC... and there's another sticker on it for nineteen as well. I scan it and try to explain to her someone mislabeled it and she stormed off. "I understand, you just don't wanna help me."

And I honestly wondered, "Would it be worth it to yell back? Would it?"

[Mikey]

To yell back? No, it wouldn't. To calmly and snarkily ask, "By 'help,' you seem to mean 'give you something you don't necessarily deserve,' is that right?" Yeah, that would be worth it.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Yeah, Mikey. That'd be worth it. Honestly, the vast majority of customers I deal with are nice people. I actually don't mind helping them when I'm out on the sales floor and not in my 'cave' in the stockroom. Some of them though, like this one...

[Reliant121]

Oh, I get this a lot. Mainly with customer views on clothes. For our American friends, Argos (my company) runs a system where you use a catalogue to select an item you want, go to a till with it's item number, pay for it and then the "Argos Elves (me)" scurry around a stockroom to get it for you. They can request a view too, to see before you buy. We've just started stocking clothes and people don't seem to understand that since the items are returned to stock if unwanted, we can't let them try clothes on. Nor do they understand the bit about "with all due respect, if you bought clothes in Debenhams that had already been worn by multiple people, you would be somewhat annoyed."

No matter how or why, I (not Argos) am still ridiculous and unhelpful. I'm young too, therefore I am stupid and lazy.

[Griffin]

... "with all due respect, if you bought clothes in Debenhams that had already been worn by multiple people, you would be somewhat annoyed."...

I thought they were?

[Reliant121]

Whether they aren't or not don't really matter; most people don't really think about it or realize it

[Tinadrin Chelnor]

*Sigh* Woman comes up to me in the store, shoves a package of drapes into my face and demands to know why the price checker is scanning it at nineteen bucks. There's s sticker on it for thirteen, but it's the wrong UPC... and there's another sticker on it for nineteen as well. I scan it and try to explain to her someone mislabeled it and she stormed off. "I understand, you just don't wanna help me."

And I honestly wondered, "Would it be worth it to yell back? Would it?"

The things I miss about working in retail...

[Mikey]

Oh, I get this a lot. Mainly with customer views on clothes. For our American friends, Argos (my company) runs a system where you use a catalogue to select an item you want, go to a till with it's item number, pay for it and then the "Argos Elves (me)" scurry around a stockroom to get it for you. They can request a view too, to see before you buy. We've just started stocking clothes and people don't seem to understand that since the items are returned to stock if unwanted, we can't let them try clothes on. Nor do they understand the bit about "with all due respect, if you bought clothes in Debenhams that had already been worn by multiple people, you would be somewhat annoyed."

No matter how or why, I (not Argos) am still ridiculous and unhelpful. I'm young too, therefore I am stupid and lazy.

#1 - Your job title is "elf." I can't say anything to make that better than it already is.

#2 - You make people go to an actual brick-and-mortar store in order to shop from a catalog? The entire reason for buying clothes from a store rather than online or from a catalog is so you can try them on.

[Reliant121]

Oh, I get this a lot. Mainly with customer views on clothes. For our American friends, Argos (my company) runs a system where you use a catalogue to select an item you want, go to a till with it's item number, pay for it and then the "Argos Elves (me)" scurry around a stockroom to get it for you. They can request a view too, to see before you buy. We've just started stocking clothes and people don't seem to understand that since the items are returned to stock if unwanted, we can't let them try clothes on. Nor do they understand the bit about "with all due respect, if you bought clothes in Debenhams that had already been worn by multiple people, you would be somewhat annoyed."

No matter how or why, I (not Argos) am still ridiculous and unhelpful. I'm young too, therefore I am stupid and lazy.

#1 - Your job title is "elf." I can't say anything to make that better than it already is.

#2 - You make people go to an actual brick-and-mortar store in order to shop from a catalog? The entire reason for buying clothes from a store rather than online or from a catalog is so you can try them on.

The elf thing isn't the title, it's just something a comedian said of us.

As for the clothing, that is a relatively new thing and one that isn't really working. We tend to stock electrical products and furniture far more than clothes, which is far more successful.