How long would you last in the retail/service industry?
How long would you last in the retail/service industry?
Have you every complained about your service or grew impatient waiting for someone to ring you at a cash register? Those who work in the retail/service industry fall under much scrutiny and criticism for not providing good enough customer service or taking too long to revisit your table. This judgement is passed despite lacking a clear understanding of the outside factors that effect an employees ability to do their job. So you can dish it out, but can you take it? Find out now...
Have you every complained about your service or grew impatient waiting for someone to ring you at a cash register? Those who work in the retail/service industry fall under much scrutiny and criticism for not providing good enough customer service or taking too long to revisit your table. This judgement is passed despite lacking a clear understanding of the outside factors that effect an employees ability to do their job. So you can dish it out, but can you take it? Find out now...
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1 Week
1 Week
Clearly you are not cut out for this. You quickly realize how horrible customers can be sometimes, especially that one week of Hell you experienced while working as a seasonal associate at Walmart during Black Friday. You vow to change your ways and cut a little slack to the overwhelmed employee the next time you're out and about.
1 Month
1 Month
You are a sinking ship. You enter the game confidant and determined, especially after how much you criticized that waitress for failing as "such an easy job." Unfortunately, after the 2 weeks of training are over, you face the reality that your indestructible ship is heading straight for an iceberg. Despite your best efforts, you are forced to suck up your pride and apologize for all the days you have ruined for other people by being a stuck up turd!
6 Months
6 Months
Solid effort, but like the 2015 Cubs, you found out that it takes a little more to make it in the big leagues. A customer can be rude or even insulting to you. Your boss could play favorites and ignore you. But dammit! You refuse to clean up that bloody tampon some gross trash box just left in the fitting room!!! Nice try rookie, but this industry is not for you.
1 Year
1 Year
Like a one hit wonder, you proved that you had the chops to deal with the bull and get the job done... at least for a year. However, when that round two bell rings, you are nowhere to be found. But you learned all you needed to know that retail or service work is not your forte. In the end, however, you earned a great deal of respect for those in the industry and will certainly think twice before destroying a freshly folded stack of t-shirts. Good job, my friend!
Consider it your new career!
Consider it your new career!
Fold the t-shirt table destroyed on Black Friday in 20 minutes- check! Take a family of five's food order by memory- check! Upsell a pair socks with those shoes- check! Carry 24 32-oz mugs of beer to that table of hairy, drooling men trying to look up your skirt- piece of cake! There is nothing people can throw at your that gets you down. At the end of the day, you are good at what you do and you enjoy it. Keep that attitude up and, believe it or not, you could have somewhat of a lucrative career. You are the real deal!!!