SUBMIT!

It's not just waiters and bar folk that get it hard in December, our brothers and sisters in retail tend to get it pretty bloody hard during the festive period too. In fact it goes on and on for them. Whilst we waiters are counting the floor tiles and pretending to be busy during the opening weeks of the year retail staff have to deal with the sales and 6am starts and then the no doubt delight that are returns. Imagine that, having to deal with the same annoying punters weeks later arguing about the same items.

Little Miss Manuel was stuck behind a woman in Primark just the other day who was trying to return some kids clothes. She insisted that the clothes hadn't been worn. The assistant wasn't convinced so called over the manager who wasn't having it either. The sweets, toy soldier and grass in the pockets of a pair of trousers being the tell-tale signs. Ha, that must be the retail equivalent of eating all your food and then complaining you didn't like it.

Anyhoo I would love to hear from anybody working in retail. I would love to illuminate the Well Done Fillet readership of what it's like working on the font line in a busy retail environment. There must be a thousand funny/shocking stories.

If anybody is interested in writing a few anecdotes for WDF then email me at storiesformanuel [at] gmail.com or use the contact form below. Anonymity assured.

Customer service staff, we gotta stick together.

Except call centre people, obviously. Heh. I'm only messing with you. Well done fillet is an equal opportunity outlet for whinging and as we are currently underrepresented with stories from the Call Centre community we would look on stories from them in a favourable light.

Please use this form for such stories,