|
SprewellSleeve



Registered: 03/15/09
Posts: 6,315
Loc: USA
Last seen: 1 day, 1 hour
|
How can you make customer service bearable or fun?
#23888977 - 12/02/16 09:04 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I work in customer service in a supermarket full-time, and I dread it. I used to like working there because of my co-workers and I liked the store, but because of taking so many returns and other crap every day, being confined in a small spot all shift, I'm transferring to produce or grocery first chance I get, even if it's part-time. Cashiering sucks too, but in ways it is better, and you do get to go outside and do carts. That can be dreadfully boring, but customer service is terrible to me. It's not even the annoying customers that get to me, it's just the constant stuff in that one little area forty hours a week.
Is there any tips to make this better aside from going YOLO and telling people off?
Job ideas also welcome.
--------------------
Edited by SprewellSleeve (12/02/16 09:06 PM)
|
larry.fisherman
shoulda died already


Registered: 11/03/12
Posts: 36,294
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23888991 - 12/02/16 09:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Short answer - no. Get high and tune everything out, go in your own little world. That was my solution. Make friends with regulars.
|
CosmicCharlie420
Dab Desperado



Registered: 03/06/16
Posts: 387
Loc: Somewhere in the clouds
Last seen: 6 years, 5 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: larry.fisherman]
#23889001 - 12/02/16 09:10 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Bruh u took the words out of my mouth XL.
yeah no easy way to do it, just get super fucking baked and it makes everything way easier
-------------------- Nothin' left to do but, Smile, Smile Smile "Hey don't worry, don't be afraid, ever. Because this is just a ride" - Bill Hicks
|
SprewellSleeve



Registered: 03/15/09
Posts: 6,315
Loc: USA
Last seen: 1 day, 1 hour
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: larry.fisherman]
#23889005 - 12/02/16 09:11 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
XLCaps said: Short answer - no. Get high and tune everything out, go in your own little world. That was my solution. Make friends with regulars.
I've thought about starting to do marijuana because of this job, but I don't want to risk it with handling money and trying to do a great job. I've made some friends with regulars.
Still will consider getting high though. Thanks.
--------------------
|
krishnalove
ᕙ(░ಥ╭͜ʖ╮ಥ░)━☆゚.*・。゚



Registered: 12/11/12
Posts: 343
Last seen: 1 year, 9 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889033 - 12/02/16 09:17 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
lol "do marijuana."
|
shadyy
aHhahhHA


Registered: 09/08/08
Posts: 21,330
Loc: winchestertonfieldville i...
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889039 - 12/02/16 09:19 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
--------------------
ga ga ga eets eets how you gone be mad on vacation? MONICA COULDN'T TELL TIME UNTIL SHE WAS 13
|
SprewellSleeve



Registered: 03/15/09
Posts: 6,315
Loc: USA
Last seen: 1 day, 1 hour
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: krishnalove]
#23889041 - 12/02/16 09:20 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
krishnalove said: lol "do marijuana."
I'm classy. You can have DA WEED.
--------------------
|
g00ru
lit pants tit licker



Registered: 08/09/07
Posts: 21,088
Loc: georgia, us
Last seen: 5 years, 1 month
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889049 - 12/02/16 09:21 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
yeah just go all zen on em, you know? Actually I had a boss that told me he could 'notice me spacing out' and tried to get me to stop doing that lol
-------------------- check out my music! drowse in prison and your waking will be but loss
|
SprewellSleeve



Registered: 03/15/09
Posts: 6,315
Loc: USA
Last seen: 1 day, 1 hour
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: g00ru]
#23889081 - 12/02/16 09:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
g00ru said: yeah just go all zen on em, you know? Actually I had a boss that told me he could 'notice me spacing out' and tried to get me to stop doing that lol
I got this position in May, and was just had a recap with my manager on how I'm doing and one of things is that she said I'm too wordy with customers on the phone or in person and it doesn't make things get done quicker sometimes. Overall she said I'm doing good/great, but yeah, don't want to be spacing out yet .
--------------------
|
g00ru
lit pants tit licker



Registered: 08/09/07
Posts: 21,088
Loc: georgia, us
Last seen: 5 years, 1 month
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889106 - 12/02/16 09:38 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
SprewellSleeve said:
Quote:
g00ru said: yeah just go all zen on em, you know? Actually I had a boss that told me he could 'notice me spacing out' and tried to get me to stop doing that lol
I got this position in May, and was just had a recap with my manager on how I'm doing and one of things is that she said I'm too wordy with customers on the phone or in person and it doesn't make things get done quicker sometimes. Overall she said I'm doing good/great, but yeah, don't want to be spacing out yet .
see your managers dont care if you're having fun . they just want you to be as efficient as possible.
well maybe you have good ones idk
-------------------- check out my music! drowse in prison and your waking will be but loss
Edited by g00ru (12/02/16 09:39 PM)
|
SprewellSleeve



Registered: 03/15/09
Posts: 6,315
Loc: USA
Last seen: 1 day, 1 hour
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: g00ru]
#23889126 - 12/02/16 09:43 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
g00ru said:
Quote:
SprewellSleeve said:
Quote:
g00ru said: yeah just go all zen on em, you know? Actually I had a boss that told me he could 'notice me spacing out' and tried to get me to stop doing that lol
I got this position in May, and was just had a recap with my manager on how I'm doing and one of things is that she said I'm too wordy with customers on the phone or in person and it doesn't make things get done quicker sometimes. Overall she said I'm doing good/great, but yeah, don't want to be spacing out yet .
see your managers dont care if you're having fun . they just want you to be as efficient as possible.
well maybe you have good ones idk
My leadership is good, but I don't want anything to mess things up especially since I want to transfer departments.
|
hostileuniverse
Stranger



Registered: 05/14/15
Posts: 8,602
Loc: 'Merica
Last seen: 6 years, 7 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889153 - 12/02/16 09:55 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Don't take them seriously and have fun with it, it's retail for fucks sake
|
Enjoywho
Rags to Bitches



Registered: 07/06/09
Posts: 20,880
Last seen: 2 years, 6 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889160 - 12/02/16 09:59 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Fuck if I know. I hate being on hold. I find if you say costumer service for quite some time I can sold my problem in a quarter of the time.
I learned it from my mom. I feel terrible she will make anyone that is involved in cs her bitch. I honestly when I'm dealing with that shit shit when I am states away or right next to her. Give it to ma.. Damn ma rude.
-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
|
SprewellSleeve



Registered: 03/15/09
Posts: 6,315
Loc: USA
Last seen: 1 day, 1 hour
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: hostileuniverse] 1
#23889166 - 12/02/16 10:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
hostileuniverse said: Don't take them seriously and have fun with it, it's retail for fucks sake 
Yeah, but I can't take how much of my life is there doing customer service. I can't be thinking much of other things in my life during my shift because of the nature of the job.
Maybe I'll get even better by not caring how I'd act with some of these customers as if I wouldn't get in trouble though, as long as I'm not being rude.
--------------------
Edited by SprewellSleeve (12/02/16 10:04 PM)
|
OliverJames
Potion Brewer

Registered: 02/28/12
Posts: 3,085
Last seen: 6 years, 3 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889168 - 12/02/16 10:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I'd probably eat a lot of Kratom if I worked customer service. Doesn't fuck with your head as much as smoking, easier to function imo
|
Lucis
Nutritional Yeast

Registered: 03/28/15
Posts: 15,622
Last seen: 1 month, 29 days
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: krishnalove]
#23889234 - 12/02/16 10:29 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
krishnalove said: lol "do marijuana."
-------------------- ©️
|
Canadian Jesus
I'll Be Back. I'm Back.



Registered: 07/10/16
Posts: 4,447
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 7 months, 20 days
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889283 - 12/02/16 10:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
SprewellSleeve said:
I've thought about starting to do marijuana because of this job
Marijuana, not even once.
On a serious note. Just try to 'get in the zone' while you're working and time will seem to go by faster. I used to work as a cashier at a busy gas station/convenience store. Once you find that zen mode you can sort of space out the day while remaining conscious of what you're doing.
Look into getting into the trades. Construction work is very rewarding and it pays well enough to make a career out of.
-------------------- What's the crime if I snort a line, smoke, toke shoot it up all at the same time?
SunnyD said: Definitely have more respect for sheekle than I do for unjust laws
|
sh4d0ws
LSx


Registered: 02/26/08
Posts: 12,086
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889288 - 12/02/16 10:54 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
the solution is simple -

and
|
LSDollar


Registered: 02/09/15
Posts: 2,361
Loc: Up Up and Away
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: sh4d0ws]
#23889294 - 12/02/16 10:57 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I work at a supermarket too. But I work in a deli section, and there is always shit to do, and I am always moving. I remember telling a girl that moved from customer service to the deli that I would probably go nuts and quit if I couldn't stay moving, like stuck in a very small space for hours on end...Oh man.
Kratom+caffeine helps me, but like I said i would probably go nuts standing there, just talking
|
trees


Registered: 02/08/09
Posts: 9,194
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: LSDollar]
#23889443 - 12/03/16 12:16 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Ive had some brutally boring jobs before, worst was dishwashing at a busy restaurant. Weed helps the first few times but eventually, no ammount of weed or alchohol makes the day go by any faster or less boring, at least for me.
Always keep an eye out for better jobs
|
Great Scott
Trigger Lover


Registered: 05/05/03
Posts: 19,797
Loc: Control Grid
Last seen: 4 years, 5 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve] 1
#23889485 - 12/03/16 12:52 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Just keep grinding until you get to the boss level. Then kill the boss.
--------------------
|
Tripsurfer
Bring Back Asante!



Registered: 08/01/12
Posts: 7,129
Loc: West of Windward
Last seen: 3 months, 28 days
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: Great Scott]
#23889574 - 12/03/16 02:23 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
-------------------- Ach en wee ben ik de klos, met mijn boog schoot ik een albatros... A philosopher is a person who knows less and less about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything.

|
liloldme
( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)つ=D



Registered: 05/15/04
Posts: 5,087
Loc: Zone 8
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: Tripsurfer]
#23889589 - 12/03/16 02:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Maybe If I could play trivia with all the other poor suckers while we wait like on the plane..
|
Jokeshopbeard
Humble Student

Registered: 11/30/11
Posts: 26,088
Loc: Deep in the system
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889655 - 12/03/16 03:47 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I've been in customer service 50% of my 18 years working, and bonding with my clients however/whenever I can is my favourite part of the role. You didn't mention if you do this in OP...
Practice being really social and chatty IMO!!!
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
|
Hobozen


Registered: 11/03/11
Posts: 10,634
Loc:
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889689 - 12/03/16 04:36 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Get into grocery
|
Mescalean
Burke is love, burke is life.


Registered: 01/18/12
Posts: 6,755
Last seen: 6 years, 10 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: Hobozen]
#23889816 - 12/03/16 07:25 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
i second weed. Just remember dude, its not your career choice. dont stress to much over it. also keep in mind it's easier to find a job when you already have one...
-------------------- FREE BURKE
|
do it
Master of temporary solutions



Registered: 06/01/15
Posts: 151
Loc: Korvatunturi
Last seen: 5 years, 10 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#23889852 - 12/03/16 07:48 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
I can feel you with having to be nice and proper around people at all times, haven't worked in a store but a school/institute. I wouldn't recommend weed myself, but if you're OK with smoking or eating it constantly then go ahead. I do believe kratom works for situations like that too, but it has the downside of addiction so I wouldn't recommend that for the long run either.
Have you tried micro/low dosing of harmalas? Or shrooms? Or keeping small amounts of salvia in your gum like chewing tobacco? I feel that if I chew up a small amount, less than a teaspoon, of syrian rue every 3-5 hours I can stay quite calm and nice in most situations. Same thing with extracted alkaloids. Their downside is that one might slowly develop a bit messy emotions, I find if I eat them for over two weeks every day I might get more negative feelings.
In any case, I would say don't do something every single day, just do stuff if it feels like you really need something at exactly that time. And if the stuff you use cloud your mind, steer away from that, the kind of substances that numb your thinking can make your life harder.
A drug free alternative would be strenuous exercise to give you a runners high, couple that with the views on life that George Carlin expressed in his later shows (end of 90s to 2000s) and it might be fun sober. And of course, you need to vent stuff also, try arranging a set day every week with a friend to have a cup of coffee and discuss everything that is shit about your jobs.
|
Patlal
You ask too many questions



Registered: 10/09/10
Posts: 44,797
Loc: Ottawa
Last seen: 12 hours, 24 minutes
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve] 1
#23889856 - 12/03/16 07:49 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
SprewellSleeve said: I work in customer service in a supermarket full-time, and I dread it. I used to like working there because of my co-workers and I liked the store, but because of taking so many returns and other crap every day, being confined in a small spot all shift, I'm transferring to produce or grocery first chance I get, even if it's part-time. Cashiering sucks too, but in ways it is better, and you do get to go outside and do carts. That can be dreadfully boring, but customer service is terrible to me. It's not even the annoying customers that get to me, it's just the constant stuff in that one little area forty hours a week.
Is there any tips to make this better aside from going YOLO and telling people off?
Job ideas also welcome.
Man the only way to make customer service bearable is to actually be great t it and take pleasure in it.
You have to think and want to be the best customer service guy ever. Make it your goal to make customers happy. That's the only way you'll like it. Otherwise the job will just suck.
Be the best you can be and eventually you'll discover that it's actually fun
--------------------
|
Enjoywho
Rags to Bitches



Registered: 07/06/09
Posts: 20,880
Last seen: 2 years, 6 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: Great Scott]
#23890043 - 12/03/16 09:34 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
PeyoteZen said: Just keep grinding until you get to the boss level. Then kill the boss.

Pretty much.
-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
|
Prisoner#1
Even Dumber ThanAdvertized!


Registered: 01/22/03
Posts: 193,665
Loc: Pvt. Pubfag NutSuck
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: SprewellSleeve] 1
#23890882 - 12/03/16 02:41 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
SprewellSleeve said: How can you make customer service bearable or fun?

|
PartoftheSource
NAUT GUILTY



Registered: 05/27/15
Posts: 3,023
Loc: MIDWEST
Last seen: 5 years, 11 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: do it]
#23891220 - 12/03/16 04:34 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
do it said: Have you tried micro/low dosing of harmalas? Or shrooms? Or keeping small amounts of salvia in your gum like chewing tobacco? I feel that if I chew up a small amount, less than a teaspoon, of syrian rue every 3-5 hours I can stay quite calm and nice in most situations.
That's the craziest thing I've read all day and yet... I dunno. Does chewing salvia even work? I used a torch lighter years ago because I read it needs a pretty high temperature to activate the chemicals properly. I also used a bong with no water.
-------------------- Shroomery Stickers!
|
do it
Master of temporary solutions



Registered: 06/01/15
Posts: 151
Loc: Korvatunturi
Last seen: 5 years, 10 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: PartoftheSource]
#23891264 - 12/03/16 04:43 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
PartoftheSource said:
That's the craziest thing I've read all day and yet... I dunno. Does chewing salvia even work? I used a torch lighter years ago because I read it needs a pretty high temperature to activate the chemicals properly. I also used a bong with no water.
Yes, it's used by chewing traditionally. Lots of people call it quidding, research it, it's quite different from smoking. When people do that, they usually keep quite a large amount in their mouth, here I'm talking more about microdosing. A really small amount. I would absolutely not recommend using any big amount of salvia in public ever, but a microdose suits me just fine. It makes concentrating a lot easier for me, almost robotic.
|
Enjoywho
Rags to Bitches



Registered: 07/06/09
Posts: 20,880
Last seen: 2 years, 6 months
|
Re: How can you make customer service bearable or fun? [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23891698 - 12/03/16 07:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Prisoner#1 said:
Quote:
SprewellSleeve said: How can you make customer service bearable or fun?


-------------------- "I don't give nothin' to nobody, I just pay the cost to do business." - Riley "Young Reezy"-Boondocks "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." "In the days of kings and queens I was a jester." "And then the great lord created bears... too many bears... shoulda really dialed back on the bears." Squidbillies "Can you start speaking words instead of your damn filthy lies!"- Louise "Bobs Burgers"
|
|