Postcards From the Edge of Sanity: "Do You Work Here?"

The worst part about working in retail, as anyone who has worked retail will tell you, isn't the shit hours or the pittance the company tries to pass off as a living wage. It's not the lack of a regular schedule, or the revolving door of turnaround for employees and management, or even the degrading nature of being attached to a brand name or a corporate Satan for the duration of your employment.

Nope, it's the customers. It's the cussing customers and the idiotic things they do to your store and to you as a person. It's the evolution of the phrase "The customer is always right," from "The customer has a right to be respected" to "The customer has a right to be the center of attention at all times, and can treat the people who work around them like second-class citizens." Most of all, it's the annoying passive-aggression that makes you want to slap them.

This guy probably shops at our store.