>over explaining their life story for the product they need >asks for location when they're right next to it >interrupts worker from stocking shelves Christ, this is my hell in game form
And your managers giving you shit for not finishing your tasks despite you constantly being interrupted by customers and you would get shit for ignoring them to do your tasks.
I don't work in retail, but I connect with that first point. I ask a simple yes/no question, and they tell me their life's story instead of letting me forward their call to someone who actually can help.
There isn’t enough hands to count how many times I’ve told a customer where there item was, and it was either right behind them or literally right in their faces
Dude, literally last night: Customer strolls into the Circle K, asks where the lighters, I tell them right there by the 5-Hour Energy stand in front of the pizza warmer. Guy spends five minutes walking through store looking for it. Why do we even bother?
Darn and if only Greg was here he was talking about a whole game where you just work a job and that's the horror game lol anyway wonderful fun classic oldish game
The tech for this game is to leave the boxes in their respective aisles first and then stock them after. The timer only starts when you start stocking. I seem to miss all the crazies at my job. Weird.
"Sure, but that would require a blood sacrifice - which is not covered in the duties and responsibilities section of my employment contract. I'll refer you to our director and see what they can do."
One of the first things I learned in customer service that they never tell you about is apathy towards the customers is equally as useful as empathy. Sometimes you just got to look them in the eye and admit to yourself you don't care if they're inconvenienced.
Coming back to this video and oh yeah, hard agree. I work the front desk for college _academic_ advisors. People conveniently forget that the first word exists so people come up with all kinds of inane questions that we don't cover and then get mad when I direct them to the proper department. I learned a totally blank face (Not frowning) is just as effective as reassurance when getting them to go away.
As a guy that's been working in Randalls for 3+ years now as a courtesy clerk, I *TASTE* the horror this game's trying to recreate. I swear nothing gets me more than people that asking dumb questions, leave carts in parking spaces (even the *older* adults) instead of where they belong on the cart returns, take electric carts despite being *100% ABLE TO WALK* and waste the battery. And my mom wonders why I *don't* wanna be a cashier...
Y'all should've played the new version of this game, it updates somethings and adds alot of new content into the game, there's also going to be multiple nights too
Man, I work overnights at a Circle K and while it's nothing like working a supermarket - there are times where it gets legitimately weird enough to make you go, "What the F is wrong with people?" EDIT: Just to give context, the week before I started work there, there was a guy performed a murder suicide in our parking lot at like 3 in the morning. Then this past week, one of our sister stores in the next town over was robbed for like... $50. So, a reminder - if you're gonna rob a gas station, don't. Especially at night. Cashiers are trained to keep at most about $50 in the till at any given time.
@@breloompauncher5593 I understand your concern - we just had a store 15 minutes from us get held up. I will say it's usually not as bad in smaller towns, especially if cops frequent that particular store... but the fear of it happening is always there. And I've worked overnight at hotels where it can be just as bad... Had to worry more about drunks or belligerent hypochondriacs than gun violence thankfully, but I've had to call the cops or EMTs like 5 times at my last job because of fights breaking out or someone passing out in the lobby from OD'ing...
Speaking as a courtesy clerk for 3 years and counting in Randalls, is your position similar to mine? Do you have to take care of carts, bag for checkers, and put stuff back on the shelf that people don't want?
You know what I imagine when I think about the manager in this game? I think of the manager in Dead Rising 1. Except not necessarily trying to kill you...
Now this...This I wanna see again, just for the pure relatable-ness of it. Also if we can't get people to experience a piece of retail....just have them play this game. Same thing!
The "excuse me" from the customers reminds me of some voice lines from Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia. I believe it was the Ghouls in the game that sounded very similar to the customers here. That game had some issues, but it was really fun and cool, and I feel I am very alone about knowing of its existence.
thats pretty much me as a whole, i started working retail in 2011 and just stopped recently after picking up a Factory Job making Cheese lol. I will never again do Retail/Stock work
I've worked three retail jobs so far (on my third), and literally every single one has cut the hours of the workers, and gave them all to the lead manager. My first retail job was so bad that I got to the point where I could only get one day a week. I was part time. My manager at the time just told me to quit because there's nothing he could do to get more hours for me. It's genuinely disgusting how many stores do this and get away with it.
@@greenyoshi777 Eh not really. Bank robberies are quite rare. Anyone who robs a bank usually just pass a note demanding money. They wanna be in and out without drawing attention to themselves. You give them the money and then the bank contacts the authorities and they take it from there. It's usually never worth escalating a bank robbery like trying to take money from the vault or holding hostages cause it'll just end badly for the robber.
I'm looking at this, and I noticed that there's signs, but no one's looking at them, because they're actually for the employees. That hits me right at home.
8:35: So that game that's being put on the shelf is the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc! It's a project that shows off demos for various spooky and horror indie games in the style of the PS1. I'm pretty sure Bloodborne PSX was a part of this project at one point. I wouldn't be suprised if this game was in there too.
Also, holy shit! This is some realism based horror shit. I'd imagine most retail workers having an experience like this. Customers being unrelenting Karens? Check. The manager being a supercritical asshole? Check. The store itself being a hellish maze? Check.
Some do... I'd say it happens more when you're focused on doing sidework like stocking or cleaning than it does out of the blue. Never worked a grocery, but work at a Circle K and it does occasionally happen.
Working with/around customers, for someone like me, is a constant jump scare. And to think at once point, I thought retail would help improve my social skills. But with night shifts, it just stagnated lol
I'm always told "if we were all the same, it'd be boring"... but man, if only EVERYONE was nice and considerate. ... As soon as my first job, I've developed a habit to say "Good luck" to other workers instead of just "Have a nice day" x)
Part of the ridiculousness is that the customers need to know where the aisles are despite the huge signs for each that you, the player can clearly read.
To be fair as someone who worked at a small local business retail is not always the worst but the pay has to be ok. The reason so many people make games about it cause they all live in California
@@ShadowkingSonic Best case scenario: densely populated areas have stores that have to serve a constant stream of people, so they're always busy and scrambling to fulfill orders. Also, urban areas tend to have high crime rates, which adds to the stress. Worst case scenario: OP is taking digs at workers wanting a living wage for, on paper, "easy braindead work that's just constant". Likely more realistic reading is somewhere in the middle.
@@shelbyherring92 OP said the pay has to be okay so I think they understand that much I just gotta ask why single out California. Like, I worked retail in one of the shittier tourist trap-y parts of Florida, not sure what makes California so special.
@@shelbyherring92 More talking about the first, and the let's be honest cultural monopoly of California. And the fact that urban areas have alot more stress
