Not too long ago I started working in retail, and let me be up front and honest, I thought it would be a walk in the park. I thought I would breeze in and it would be the easiest job I've had to date, because how hard hard could it really be? Well, this is the side of retail hell that you, as a shopper, aren't faced with in your heaven where you boss people like me around for a solid hour sometimes because you feel entitled that since I work here, and you shop here, you alone pay my salary.

I'll be the first to say it, I love shopping. I love everything about it. The trying on clothes, the falling in love with a new brand, the walking that I -shouldn't, but do- count as cardio, the smells of perfumes as you walk through a department store, the neat piles of jeans, to me is heaven. So, I've been on the side where everything is rainbows and puppies, and my favorite place to be, but in all my short nineteen years of life I have never wrecked a display or just blatantly been rude to an employee.

In fact, I try to limit what I say to the people who work in stores because I know one simple fact: they are not my servant. Working in retail for about a week and half now, I've got stories. People, are rude, mean, and downright disrespectful. I will try to help you in any way I can, but please note, that it's not actually part of my job description. If you're nice and pleasant, I'm going to try and help you as much as I can and will literally walk around the store looking for my manager to help you as well, but if you're on the phone while you ask me a question and when I go to answer you, you hold up your hand and say, "Could you not speak for a moment, this is important." I about lose my temper, which is short in the first place.

So, for those of you who read this, please note that the people in stores are not beneath you, in fact I can afford to not work, I choose to so I can save up a little extra on top of being full time student (with a 4.0) and having another part time job. So, give the people who ring up your clothes a little bit of a break next time and realize they have been standing for 6-10 hours and have redone a display about four times on any given day. Just treat them in the way you want to be treated, it's not that hard. We don't make policies, we just carry them out.

And for the love of God, your child isn't going to be young forever. They're acting out because they want your attention. They wreck my displays because they want you to just spend a little energy on them, and is that really too hard to ask?

Have a great day and we hope you shop with us again!