Why I’m not working Black Friday, reason #492:

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I’m on hiatus from my job until winter break, but I still like to read this strip because there’s rarely one that I can’t look at and recall a time when I’ve been in that exact situation.  Take today’s, for example.  I once had a woman make me get her a specific type and size of men’s undershirts… then go back and get her another pack… then put back the one she’d grabbed by mistake… all while she was browsing the clearance racks a mere five feet from the Men’s Basics wall.  Being relatively new to my job at the time, I was pretty eager to please and so I carried out each request without complaint.  This is a typical rookie mistake.  I’ve sinced learned that it’s much better to simply point the customer in the direction of the desired item and make a quick getaway, lest I get trapped helping one person for hours while the rest of my department gets trashed.

I could easily name a dozen or more stories of customers who feel similarly entitled to special treatment, but I think the blog would implode from the sheer size of an entry that went into detail about all of my crazy-customer anecdotes.  For those of you braving the crowds on Black Friday especially, remember to be nice to your local retail employees, if for no other reason than to avoid ending up in one of their blogs someday.