I remember the private company taking over our little staff restaurant in the hospital years ago. And then the "talks" we received for not "upselling" to vulnerable old ladies who had clearly just lost their husband.
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So true.
I drive an extra mile to a different gas station only because I discovered their cashiers don't start a lengthy discussion about why I should get one of those plastic data collectors every time.
I went to an apple store once that buy my dad the basic ipad mini and had something similar.
"Hi, how can i help"
"I'd like this model of the ipad mini with x storage capacity"
"What are you going to use it for?"
"It's for my dad i just need that specific one as it's within the budget"
"What is he going to use it for?"
"Ipad stuff i guess, i just need that specific model"
"Video's? Design? Editing maybe?"
I nearly walked out of there as a result of how annoying that got.
I've literally waved the money at them and said "do you want this or not??!! The stop talking and sell me what I want." Not in the Apple store but Currys here in the UK.
I had the misfortune of working there once at the time they were pushing .Mac accounts hard and being new I wasn't 100% on all the details so I heard a coworker selling it and he mentioned the camera on the laptop wont work without the account. Not knowing any better I repeated that to a customer and the manager hears me say it... Needless to say she was not happy about that lol
I HATE sales with a burning passion so I would basically send people to other stores whenever I could lol want that cable? Best buy has it cheaper.
Also those people are so self absorbed.... The first day starting they give us this b.s speech "congratulations! Getting accepted here is harder than getting into Stanford!" Lol...yeah... Sure...
"Would you like to sign up for our awful credit card?" Nah. "Would you like to sign up for a free trial of our plus service that you'll never use?" No thanks. "Do you want the X month protection plan for your USB drive that's 10x the cost of what you're paying today?" What? No. "Would you like to donate to this charity the company totally could but won't but say we raised all this money for?" Nope.
The employees at my local Walgreens just walk you through pressing cancel like 4 times so you can just pay. Love them, hate Walgreens.
I almost always decline and I always say sorry for their bosses making them do this.
Almost?
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Sears! Dont forget the protection plans on top of this that we had to upsale. Thank you for never coming back.
Funny thing is Sears is dead but the store card (Discover) lived on long after.
Retailers here (Swiss) already understood that "no and good" saves time on both sides. Goes usually like this:
- Do you have a ?
- Nope
- Do you want to create one?
- Thanks, no.
Funny thing, the one job I ever worked before I couldn't work anymore I was supposed to do this, but I'd just shut up the second they said no, never once did the whole thing, and got "demoted" to janitor for it. Turns out the janitors get paid more and they had to give me a raise. I unfortunately had to quit before I got that raise though due mental disabilities getting in the way.
You may be interested in reading Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb.
Is that like Fear and Loathing but like set in a Radio Shack?
We can’t stop here. This is battery country.
Fear and Loathing
I don't know the book but I don't think so. It's about a young Belgian woman who wants to work for a company in Japan in the 90' and have to face a lot of cultural misunderstandings that make her job a nightmare.
So it was a promotion. You've passed.
I purchased something that didn't require any follow-up but they still asked for my phone number and address to put in their system. The cashier and I had an awkward moment when I found out that the 5 digits I had given him wasn't a valid ZIP code and I had to think of a different fake one on the spot.
lol memorize the zip of your local McDonald's and roll with that