Quote Originally Posted by Zeldy View Post
The ladies section I can blag, same with junior and mens, but when they put me on replica dealing with all the football shirts and the like, I get completely confused when someone asks me "is this home or away?". I don't watch football, I DON'T KNOW.

It also gets incredibly hot at work in the summer. euuuuugh.
If someone is approaching you in a football shirt section of a store and asking if it's the home or away shirt they're probably testing your ability to answer it. Essentially the customer 99% of the time is being a real jerk about it. Trust me, I know...I get customers like that all the time, "Oh can you tell me where to find this artist?" when I counter ask them "Well, I'm not too sure, do you know what type of music it is?" I get the answer of like "Oh it's easy listening" it's at this point I tend to think: 'Well if you smurfing know what section it is going to be in and you're standing in the middle of that smurfing section why the smurf don't you just smurfing go get the CD or ask me if it's in stock not where you find it?' I can't however say this, what I have to say is something along the lines of "Well um, sure that should be just over here..." whilst then basically hand holding them to the CD the other thing I get is "Oh, can you recccomend me something just like < insert random artist > please" often I'll have never heard of the artist or when I have and I reccomend something it's "Oh well I'm not sure I like the sound of this..." or I get the immortal "hmm no, sorry I am not looking for something like that" I end up thinking "man/woman stop being a mother smurfing douchebag and either find something you want to listen to on your own or accept that you asked for my opinion."

As for hot during the summer, I can relate on that my store's A/C has been dying since a good couple of years ago. The company makes up excuses every summer as to why it cannot be fixed or replaced. The system is apparently from like the 60s or something and can no longer be repaired but they won't replace it because the lease is still being renewed (same story as last year funny but I'm one of the only ones to remember this, not to mention the odds of HMV Oxford Circus ever moving from it's current location? Slim to none most likely) It took an e-mail to the head of the company to get the rule about men having to wear jeans/full length trousers to work regardless of the heat reviewed for our store to allow shorts to be worn to work, that being said I would still rather wear jeans to work in because shorts at work means when I have to crawl/kneel on dusty/dirty carpets and flooring every day my knees would look atrocious after an hour or so.