What part of the fire alarm going off and being told "attention all customers, please calmly exit the building" repeatedly over the intercom do customers not understand? It's like half the customers are deaf, and the rest are morons. A lot of customers just kept shopping and as I was heading out the exit, a customer stopped me to ask "we have to leave now?" "yes, we have to evacuate." "We have to go??" "Yes." "We're leaving the store?" "Yes..." this was all from one customer and I was already walking away from them. And then I had another guy stop me and angrily ask "what about my meat? I can't leave without it!" What about it?? I just told him to exit the building.
A few years ago we had a combination tornado/lightening storm that knocked out the power. The whole city was down. We had to corral the customers to the back hall of the building; it lasted for about 1.5 hrs. During that time, an hysterical woman was screaming that she had left her one year old baby in the car. I seriously almost punched her in the face.
When the emergency was over, but the power was still out, all these people---musta been 200 of them---went right back out to the sales floor, grabbed their carts....and went back to shopping. They all hit the vacated cash registers at the same time, and they were PISSED! "Hey, I'm ready to check out now!"
UH, HELLO? THE STORE IS DEAD!
Over a decade in this business later, I truly believe most people are fat, stupid cattle that deserve what ever bad things come their way.
Nocturnia, so typical of these a**holes. Seen it a million times. Over the years, I've made it a habit to put a hex on them while they leave and only hope I'm there to see it when Karma tears them a new one.
It wasn't an emergency, but last year a ton of people kept stubbornly shopping while we were trying to close on Christmas eve, despite the fact that there were plenty of warning announcements that we were going to close within the hour. Eventually all the registered closed though, so the people taking their time were screwed. They weren't very happy, but it was the only way to get them out of the store.
Eventually all the registered closed though, so the people taking their time were screwed. They weren't very happy, but it was the only way to get them out of the store.
