Message 6/26
Date: 12-Nov-02 @ 03:36 PM -
RE: WSFT and other rants
I've worked in a couple of music shops years ago mainly as a way of getting cheaper gear most of the staff get paid crap and you'd be surprised how many complete and utter arseholes you have to contend with on a daily basis so I have some sympathy with the staff having been on the other side.
9.15 am Saturday morning(me with bad hangover)
Customer appears at counter
"I want a scratchplate screw for a 1962 strat"
"Here you are that will be two new pence please"
"Hold on let me look at it are you sure this is a genuine 1962 screw?"
"Forgive me I have erred that is in fact a 1958 screw hold on and I'll pop downstairs and dig out a genuine 1962 screw for you"
2 mins later
"Here you are"(exact same screw in hand)
"Could I have 3 more?"
(supressing a sigh)"Certainly"
2mins later
"Here you go that'll be 8 pence please"
"Those ones look different"
"I assure you that they're exactly the same"
"Are you sure?"
"As sure as I can be without actually having manufactured them myself"
"Are you trying to be funny?"
"No I'm trying to sell you 8 pence worth of screws"
"I want to speak to the manager"
"I am the manager what do you want to speak to me about"
"I want to speak to the owner"
"He's not here"
"This isn't the end of this you know!"
Storms off in a filthy mood.
I actually had this conversation with a customer this same guy later wrote to Guitarist magazine and castigated the staff of the shop all over 8 fucking pence.I found it very difficult at the time not to leap over the counter and beat him to death with a bass guitar.These sorts of incidents happen fairly frequently when working in music shops(in my own experience of course).