Comments on: Halloween

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:35:29 +0000

Roy – Yeah, for all the problems with Japan, I think this makes it a bit clearer why I think the country is SO polite in comparison.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:27:10 +0000

Interesting. I guess I’ve been away from western “civilization” for too long.

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:33:03 +0000

Shari – I totally agree with you. It never ceases to amaze me that workers in clothing stores are amazed when I put clothes back…WHERE I FOUND THEM! And I even refold. Yes, there is very much the attitude here of “I am going to give you money, kiss my ass.” It’s sad.

By: Shari

Shari — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:14:33 +0000

Don’t you think that that sort of attitude is pretty pervasive among customers in the U.S.? They think they own you because they are considering giving you money.

I’m sure people in other parts of the world are the same as well but I think people in the U.S. act out on it more because of the way money and entitlement are viewed there.

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:51:01 +0000

- Costume didn’t fit the woman, it was obviously too small for her, we told her we recommended the next size up, she insisted on the smaller, it didn’t fit, she threw the costume at my head and screamed “Your costumes are crap!” and stormed out.

- Girl rented a Little Bo Peep costume, went to a frat party, it came back in…let’s say “an unsanitary” condition….oh fine, it was obvious she had had sex in it. We told her she wouldn’t be getting her security deposit back, as our rental agreement stated, and that she had signed. She cursed us a blue streak you wouldn’t believe.

- Guy started yelling at my mother because he hadn’t been waited on yet, there were still 4 people in line before him, called her the “c word” that sounds like “punt” when she said he had to wait his turn. We had him removed.

- Had a fist fight break out over a mask, those guys were removed.

- Had people show up after we closed, we were about to leave, they pounded on the door and told us “Open this f***** door or we’ll bust it down!”, couple minutes later “Open this f***** door! I have a knife and I will cut you as soon as I see your sorry asses!” We called the cops.

Just your basic customer/employee abuse, and I have another couple dozen stories easily. As to the “why”? Who knows. We were always polite, they would just treat us like slaves and be generally abusive to us.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:04:23 +0000

Why were they abusive to you? What kinds of things happened?

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:07:14 +0000

I thin my current job is NOT sucking my joy of Anime out of me mainly because I have very little face-to-face interaction with my customers. My comic shop totally killed my love of comics after doing it for 15 years. I could barely stand to look at a comic any more.

Of course, I have now cursed myself and will probably never watch an Anime again.

By: Shari

Shari — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:47:55 +0000

One of the problems with any job that revolves around something you enjoy is that it will almost always suck the pleasure out of the experience for you, no matter how much you initially enjoyed it. All businesses have customers who lose it during the busiest times and abuse the help (as it were).

Part of the reason is that, once someone else calls the shots, you have to start doing things in a way you may not like and that often kills the joy of the creative experience.