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17 Things All Retail Workers Will Understand

If you had a dollar for every time these happened to you, you wouldn't even need your job.

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1. When customers make this joke:

2. Or this one:



3. When you straighten things on one shelf, and a customer immediately messes it up.



4. When you're standing behind the register and get asked this inevitable question:



5. When you close at 9, but a customer walks in at 8:55.



6. When you have to wear a name tag, but you still get this question:



7. When a customer asks to speak to a manager, and the manager says the same thing you did.



8. When a customer asks you to accept an expired coupon.



9. When you tell a customer that what's on the shelf is the all you have in stock, but they still ask you to check the back.



10. When you ask a customer how they're doing and they reply with this:



11. When you do your job so well, your reward is actually punishment.


12. When you're racing to clock out before a customer can ask you something.



13. When you need extra money, but you also hate being at work.



14. When a customer complains about the prices as if you set them.



15. When the problem customer says they'll never return.



16. You don't know the meaning of the acronym T.G.I.F. because you work weekends.


We all know our job can suck sometimes, but there's one thing that makes it worthwhile...

17. When you work with your best friends.

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