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Working in retail sales was a big shock after retiring from 30 some years of engineering. Sometimes it's a real pain in the dupa but there are occasions when it seems worthwhile.
Like the other day, a little Chinese lady asked for help to find something for a project. She was telling me how hard things were since her husband passed away. When I thought about her project and worked out what would be best but not too expensive, she said, "Oh sank you, sank you! You make me SO happy."
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Working in retail sales was a big shock after retiring from 30 some years of engineering. Sometimes it's a real pain in the dupa but there are occasions when it seems worthwhile.
Good work.
After 27 years in the telecommunications world I have been a retail merchandiser for several years now. Helping someone that is in need and voices their appreciation helps make it through the following days.
09 America, some modifications
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2013 Speedmaster Matte Black
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Worn Saddle
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Working with the public can be a pain. Especially nowadays. I helped run my Dad's bicycle shop for nearly 30 years and it seemed like every year the public got more and more demanding and rude. My dad continued after the shop closed with a little retirement business selling small toys and novelties out of a nice trailer at local festivals. Kids would routinely walk around and try to steal a small toy and when Dad or Mom would catch them, their parent would finally notice their kid and swoop in and yell at my parents, dragging the kid away and cussing my parents. 
Fidelis et Fortis
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Monkey Butt
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Working with the public can be a pain. Especially nowadays. I helped run my Dad's bicycle shop for nearly 30 years and it seemed like every year the public got more and more demanding and rude. My dad continued after the shop closed with a little retirement business selling small toys and novelties out of a nice trailer at local festivals. Kids would routinely walk around and try to steal a small toy and when Dad or Mom would catch them, their parent would finally notice their kid and swoop in and yell at my parents, dragging the kid away and cussing my parents.
Now that we have the internet and a way for the nastiest among us to libel others anonymously, complete jerks can treat retailers and their employees like dirt and then make up nonsense and post it for all to see. I've actually had a few people try to extort me by threatening to write a nasty review. To this point I have resisted the temptation to rearrange their facial features. I do fire a customer about once a year and suggest they take their business down the road. I usually suggest a particular competitor who has not endeared themselves to me. 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Worn Saddle
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I do fire a customer about once a year and suggest they take their business down the road. I usually suggest a particular competitor who has not endeared themselves to me.
 Reminds me of the old Bill Murry film "What about Bob?". With the psychiatrist who secretly hated his more successful counterpart, Dreyfus, and foisted Bob on him.
Fidelis et Fortis
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