‘I'll show you!’: The most satisfying awkward silence ensues after entitled lady attempts getting snarky with retail employee but ends up proving herself wrong

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    Building - MenKind TOPSHOP Sto TOPSHOP
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    Font - ņ Apparently we dont know our own hours.. Posted by u/thespbian 1 day ago
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    Font - Been in retail for 10 years, ive seen some sh. I could tell a million stories. This is one of my favorite recent ones of just pure dumba ery. One of our (entitled) customers (who we put up with because client service despite her ick.
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    Font - Shes never been degrading or abusive. Just rich white woman syndrome of the world is mine) came in 5 minutes to close on a weeknight. We are in a mall, and we close earlier than the mall itself. It reflects that on our website. The gate was pulled a bit down, to
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    Font - showcase that we were nearing close, and she comes in and says "are you guys closed?" i said well we close in 4 minutes but youre good what can i help you with? She goes "No. i googled it and you close at 9pm." I said, lighthearted, "ohh no ma'am the center closes at 9 but we close at 8. But youre good!
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    Font - What did you need?" And she continued to back fire with "no i googled it. I drove 45 minutes to get here. I need to shop" to which i replied okay and let her.
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    Font - She finally picks out her item, and comes up to the counter 15 minutes after close. She then brings it BACK up how she KNOWS we are not closing at the correct time. I said it must be a mistake, as we have closed at the same time for years. She then said
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    Font - "watch. I will show you" and asks her siri "hey siri when does soandso close?" Yall Siri replies "soandso is already closed. They close at 8pm. They will reopen tomorrow at 10am"
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    Font - It got really quiet and we all just looked at each other, and she simply replied "well. Okay" Also found out she did NOT drive 55 minutes. She came from a center that is 15 mins max from the shop. She just wanted to hiss. Retail man....
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    Font - colt45mag 1 day ago I would've broken the silence with "As you were saying?" and stared at her. Let her know the depths of her failure and how stupid she was.
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    Font - LennyDark 1 day ago When I worked at a mall people would come in at closing almost every day to try on multiple things and mess up the store. I think it's a weird power trip.
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    Font - voxam72 - 1 day ago Google once listed my location of an office supply chain as being open 24 hours. People trust it so much that they don't bother using their brain at all.
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    Font - Catinthemirror. 12 hr. ago People trust Google enough to drive into lakes right in front of them. Store hours isn't even a stretch.
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    Font - thetrolltoller. 1 day ago Ohhh man just reading that I could picture the whole exchange. That's the kind of person I see a lot where I work, although rarely so overtly wrong
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    Font - Where I work we can usually get all the customers out by 10-15 after close, occasionally we have a high maintenance straggler that manages to stay longer. Kind of annoying
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    Font - but pretty rare someone digs their heels in about staying. But I've been both an opener and a closer and even though we keep the door locked when the store is closed and we're working the truck but at my old location sometimes
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    Font - people had to go out the front door to wheel empty racks etc to the dumpster area. So door might be open for a few minutes at a time when doing that.
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    Font - People loooove to try and walk in when they can and they always stroll in and call out "are you guys open?" And it's like...there are pallets and cardboard literally everywhere. It's a
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    Font - complete mess and not at all resembling what the store looks like when open. Like...no...we are so obviously not open, you know that, you just want us to put everything down and make an exception for you.
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    Font - VampAngel247 22 hr. ago I love when people call my after hours emergency line on Friday when I'm not open and go 'Your website says you're open'. I don't even have a website.
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    Font - And when I ask WHICH website, the answer is always 'Google'. 'Sir/Ma'am, if Google was MY website, I can guarantee you with 100 percent certainty that I would NOT be busting my
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    Font - derrière running a clinic and praying for insurance companies to reimburse and people to pay their bills.' Other people's children make my head hurt.
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    Font - Rachel Silver 23 hr. ago "I have trouble with cringe comedy, and this situation is suddenly too much for me. Can you please leave now?"
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    Font - ETA Alternately, "I'm not allowed to mock you to your face, and I'm not sure how much longer I can hold it in. You should probably go."
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    Font - 11015h4d0wR34lm 9 hr. ago One of my biggest frustrations was when asked a question and I gave them a response they then responded with "No..I was told ..." Had to bite my tongue not to say oh just f off will ya.
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    Font - SkirtNo6251. 8 hr. ago Any time a customer tells me a period of time I just assume they're lying. "I waited 20 minutes!!" Sir, it takes me 2 minutes to walk from aisle 4 to aisle 6, no you didn't. They just overestimate and exaggerate all the God In time. d

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