Situations anyone working in retail can relate to

•  Assistant spends 30 min tidying one section, leaves for literally 5 mins and comes back to find it looking like a bomb has hit it. All you want to do is run into the corner and do this;

• If you work in retail you know how precious your lunch and break is. Assistant looks at timetable, lunch at 12 o'clock. Gets to lunch time and you make your way to go on break and a customer stops you.

Customer: Hi do you work here?

Assistant: No sorry

Customer: but your wearing a badge?

(Assistant rips badge off and rugby throws it)

Assistant: what badge? 

• Every single week they insist on playing the same CD over and over again. You get in car to go home and song from work CD comes on. You then persist to rip radio out and throw it out of the car. 

• You do have one favourite sound that they play on the load speaker though that when you hear you want to cry from excitement. It goes like this:

'Our store is now closing, if you would like to buy anything please make your way to the nearest cash desk, i repeat the store is now closing'

• Your manager asks if you are free to work extra time in the week. Assistant looks in mental diary

Assistant: yeah sorry I'm really busy 

• Get into work at 10 and finish at 6. Assistant thinks to themselves 'ok it only 8 hours i can do this!' What feels like a million hours go by and you look at the clock again and it reads 10:15. A part of assistants soul is removed. 

• 10 mins before you finish work and you have some left over rail that you don't know where it goes.

Assistant goes to co-worker: hey do you know where this goes?

co-worker: I've seen it before but don't know where it goes

Assistant: ok ill keep looking 

waits for co-worker to disappear and shoves clothing item in random rail whilst whispering to the clothing item 'you belong here now'. 

Thanks for reading, if you work in retail you may be able to relate to some of this haha. 

Lysette :)