The unfriendly ones^^

Philippines
January 5, 2011 9:25am CST
When I go to malls, the first thing that I do not like to encounter are those very unfriendly salesladies or salesperson. Those who should be assisting you with your shopping queries and the like. It's not unavoidable to meet such people, but I just wish that they would realize that "we are still customers" and they should not be rude on us.
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13 responses
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
5 Jan 11
Our life effects to our work time all the time. Bad is that some people can't separate their time the way their time has to be separated - if you work with people you have no right to be rude, in bad mood or useless, specially if your work is to help the others with their decisions. I've worked with people in whole my life and i know what you mean with that story. If people who has to help in the shops are not useful, it probably effects to their earnings. If it doesn't effect to their earnings, it effects to the earnings of the owner of the business, which is too bad. Strange sometimes is that the sellers in the shops doesn't take % of their sales. May be this is the reason they have no motivation, because they work on low salaries with something extra when they sell some product.
• Philippines
5 Jan 11
Owners don't realize that they are losing more if they have those kinds of employees. If someone experiences bad accommodation in a store or an establishment, then he would not go back to that same store again. And the news that "the store has rude employees" will grow exponentially through the stories of those who have encountered a bad treatment.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
5 Jan 11
I know that hun, the most important people in one business are the employees. But i'm always trying to look the things in their different point of view. If you were working in one shop, where you don't receive extra money with your sales and your boss doesn't care so much about your business like it is here in Bulgaria (lots of shops who doesn't have customers, with no reason - girls are kindly and nice there), with the minimum salary, you still work there, because you have no other (better) choice, what would you do? Some would say - i would change the company, will leave that work and will find another. But it's not that easy everywhere, sometimes jobs are not so easy for finding.
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
5 Jan 11
What i want to say is that businessmen has to think about their workers enough, so the workers would be happy to work where they work with the salary with the atmosphere on their work places and everything.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
8 Jan 11
Hehe..that also my impression that I have notice to those salesladies. If I go to mall I don't like a saleslady coming to me. I much prefer to called them when I need assistance... When do you visit us in nork,mabel?
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
12 Jan 11
Ok...mabel, study hard and hope your doing the best of it. Take care my friend and have a great day always... Didn't you know that all earnings, nork is reseted to zero?
• Philippines
8 Jan 11
Be back there soon. Our school days have become so hectic that I can only manage to post some threads here in mylot.
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
This reminded me of one nasty incident last December where I had a close encounter with a very obnoxious saleslady in one of the known malls here in my country. I was a little sick that day (my asthma was acting up) and my mother had asked if I could accompany her because she needed to buy something. So, even if I was feeling a little woozy I went out with her. She needed to go to the ladies room and since I had no need to go, I stayed in the ladies' handbag section. I asked one of the salesladies for a new item for a bag and she needed to get it from their stockroom. So I stood there, waiting for her to return. Then Ms. Obnoxious approaches me, asks me if I was waiting for something then told me to stand in an area away from the bags section. And since I wasn't feeling well, I moved to that area where she pointed. It was only when the other saleslady came back that I realized the rudeness of Ms. Obnoxious that I asked the saleslady who assisted me if its a crime to stand in the ladies bag section while waiting for what I wanted. Ms. Obnoxious heard me and realized her mistake when she saw that I was actually purchasing something. And before I could confront her or get her name so that I could report her, she disappeared. Its people like these who really don't deserve their jobs as salesladies.
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
So, you weren't able to report the saleslady? Well, she must have felt much shame when she realized that you are not just a by-stander. Serves her right for doing that to you.
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
6 Jan 11
When you go shopping, you may have a specific purpose in mind. It is so much easier when you come across a friendly salesperson. it makes the shopping experience seem more worthwhile. unfriendly salespeople take all the joy out of shopping; It is their job to there for you and help you with your shopping needs. When they are unfriendly, they are not doing their job.
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
And they don't have to stay with you all the time that you are shopping. At least they should be ready to attend to your needs when you needed it. Like when you needed a stock of a certain item.
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
6 Jan 11
Yes, that is right. Sometimes they see us as the unlikely buying customers and snob us. I think they were trained that way.
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
10 Jan 11
Yeah, I really think they were trained that way, to recognize money when they see a customer and not to bother nor waste time with customers who do not look like as having money to spend.
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
Some of them judge us by the way we look. If we look rich, they would be friendlier to us. Sometimes they think we can't afford to buy an item.
@syoti20 (5292)
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
I understand you how you feel. But we should also understand that they are just doing there job. I don't like to consider them unfriendly but an irritating one. Actually they are very friendly. Its just that they don't know put limitation in sales talking to person which goes to the extend they are getting irritating to shoppers. I do understand their situation because they also like to receive an incentives from their company. Yes, they have a quota to reach before incentives will be handed to them. I pity those salesperson who aren't able to reach their monthly quota.
@syoti20 (5292)
• Philippines
11 Jan 11
I agree. Those saleslady aren't doing there job accordingly. They are consider lazy! I noticed that kind of attitude. When I receive that kind of attitude I give them back what they deserve and complained them to their supervisor.
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
The others who assists us in shops sometimes are not very accomodating. I mean, do you sometimes notice that when you ask them to look for another size of a certain kind of shirt, they look like they are irritated? Well, we are not so insensitive about what others feel, right? Actually, its easy to know if they really don't like assisting you with your shopping needs.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
5 Jan 11
they also need to realize that if it werent for us as customers, they wouldnt have a job either!
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
5 Jan 11
In America I noticed some very friendly sales assistants and I could say something similar about shop assistants in Canada. Perhaps the most friendly sales assistants are Australian. Even bank assistants and immigration officers seem friendly there. When I arrived they said to me welcome to Australia and I went to open a bank account there. The bank assistant was ready with magazines showing Australia's beauty. Wow! In England I sometimes encounter unfriendly sales people. They should realize that we are the customers and if they don't have any customers none of them will have a job there.
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
You are such a great observer! Well, it's nice to deal with friendly people. Then, may all employees be like the employees you met in Australia.
• Canada
5 Jan 11
yeah unfriend salesperson so i just igore them
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
Ignore them and get out of that establishment. Look for a better place to shop.
• Philippines
5 Jan 11
I find that very irritating. I have encountered such salespersons in malls. I am a short-tempered type of a person, so when somebody doesn't treat me nice, well it could be the very last thing they'd do. When a salesperson treat me that way, I always complain and tell them stuff but not in a rude manner, most of the time, I just report them, and that's all. I just hope they realize what you thought of, "we are still customers, and their job is to assist us at their best and friendliest manner". It's never an excuse to be rude at their customers just because they're having personal problems in life or exhausted. I hate them.
• Philippines
5 Jan 11
Yeah, they should not include us with their personal worries. I've never tried reporting them. Maybe I'll try that next time if someone did not treat me right.
• Australia
7 Jan 11
I agree with you.If sellers want to sell their products,they should give enough respects and fantastic services to the customers.One of the key factors in sales promotion is high quality services. If they are rude, they will give the customers bad impression.It is difficult for them to sell their products.It is very easy to provoke the customers and lead to quarrel.
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
Same here..When I go to malls, I don't like to be asked by the salesladies, I hate it...
• Philippines
6 Jan 11
I have experienced the same thing.. Once when my mom and I bought bread at a local bakeshop and mom handed a 500 peso bill to the saleslady.. Then when the saleslady turned it over to the cashier, she suddenly dropped the bill and declared that they don't have any change for that amount... To my irritation, I told the saleslady to tell the cashier that if not for us costumers, the owner of the bakeshop will not be able to pay their wages. Then I demanded for their manager so that he would be aware of the unfriendly behavior of his workers... In the end, the cashier took the effort of doing her job..