at the circuit city in bradenton, florida (which i envision something like this) one anonymous employee reports that much of the staff’s downtime is spent obsessively playing guitar hero 3 in the store’s break room. they even have a 42-inch wall-mounted flatscreen expressly for this purpose. or at least, they did, until about a month […]
Entries Tagged as 'retail hell'
in-game placement would have scored much higher in user engagement
January 21st, 2008 · 61 Comments
Tags: CAPS LOCK · exclamation-point happy! · florida · now that's management · retail hell · visual aids
to the victor goes the bile
January 17th, 2008 · 59 Comments
ruben in oregon works for an apple reseller where the managers like to fire up the sales team with little competitions. (iphones don’t sell themselves, people! for that, you’ll have to hold out for version 2.0.) when josh, the store’s very own dwight schrute, was pronounced the winner of a recent contest, things unfolded pretty […]
Tags: confusion??? · group bitchfest · office · oregon · retail hell · whiteboard
more like hardly working
January 9th, 2008 · 130 Comments
mara in minneapolis ( average temperature in january: 12° F/-11° C) says the worst job she’s ever had was at a local thrift store – and not because of the crazy customers and their indiscreet use of the fitting rooms. no, like many workers, the crazy person driving mara crazy was her boss — […]
Tags: "helpful" advice · crazy boss · minneapolis · now that's management · retail hell · temperature
when nature calls
January 2nd, 2008 · 104 Comments
i thought it was pretty crazy when jessie sent in this sign from a thrift store in wilmington, north carolina a few months back…
then ashley sent in this eerily similar note from a thrift store in barnegat, new jersey. seriously, what is it about thrift stores that makes people want to shit in the fitting […]
Tags: jersey · north carolina · retail hell · that shit is disgusting · wilmington
just plane rude
November 28th, 2007 · 112 Comments
writes deanne: “because orlando prides itself on being a friendly city, we tend to do most of our dirty work via passive-aggressive notes and signs. this one is from the front door of a tacky tourist shop on international drive. i can get past the reference to ‘plane rude’ but the ‘macdonalds’ analogy is a […]
Tags: clip art catastrophe · etiquette · exclamation-point happy! · florida · orlando · questionable logic · retail hell · smiley · spelling and grammar police