Posted:Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:38 PM CST
shhh....please....just....stop talking
Don't you love it when you're trying to buy something in a store, but before you are allowed to pay ("here! I have actual money! in my hand! take it!"), the retail clerk first has to reel off some rehearsed corporate script in an attempt to "upsell" you and try to get you to spend even more money buying stuff you need even less than whatever it is you're already buying (which is hard to believe...until you hear those fateful words..."Would you like to buy our Extended Warranty Plan for that Winnie the Pooh nail clipper?").
Now I've worked in retail before, and so I know it's their job, and not really their fault, because they're pretty much forced into reading this little script like 500 times a day, or else they risk losing that precious and highly coveted minimum wage/no benefits/mind numbingly repetitive job working for the corporate bohemoth.
But still.......it bothers me just the same.
Maybe it's just me, but...wherever I am, whatever I am doing, I would like the person in front of me to be an actual human being with some degree of warmth and thought and personality, rather than some sort of robot who's speech is made up of nothing but ad copy.
I guess I'm just picky like that.
So, please do me a favor and think about this before the next time you try to "suggestive sell" me on the incredible value of that Super-Duper-Popcorn-Tub-Combo, which will enable me to buy not 1 but 2! Giant Tubs of popcorn for only 12 and 1/2 cents more than the one tub alone would have cost me.
Oh, be still my beating heart...