Dear James, if you find your job unpleasant and if it physically hurts to smile, then please get out of customer service. I walked in at 6:23 pm. They close at 7, so plenty of time. I didn't walk in at the last minute, and I just got off of a 13 hour shift so I feel your pain (I, too work with customers). I struggled with the door a bit. I had 5 packages and the door is a bit heavy and sticks, which for a place that ships packages is crappy. Anyways, not James fault. He looked at me, I looked at him and I said "hi" with a smile. Not too big of a smile, not too small, just right...
He said nothing. Not even a crack of a smile. In fact, I felt like I was bothering him. Maybe I was? He's probably getting his closing stuff done and he probably saw my five packages and thought "great, look at all those". Whatever. 4 of the 5 were pre-paid, so easy peasy. He scanned the 4 pre-paids and then the phone rang. Without an "excuse me" or "hold on" or "I need to grab that" or "dammit the phone just won't stop ringing today"...nothing. He just picked it up and started taking to Wayne. Poor Wayne didn't even get a hello, so maybe it's not me, maybe he just doesn't like to greet people. I know these type of people exist. I've met some, actually I've met many.
He starts taking to Wayne and walks to the back of the store. Again, no "excuse me", no "hold on, I'll be right back", no "hold on Wayne I'm with a customer", no "I'm helping someone and I'll be right with you", no nothing. From the way he answered the phone and by his conversation I'm guessing Wayne works there or at least for UPS, so it's that much more annoying because Wayne would have understood.
He finally comes back and GASP! He actually apologized and continued to ship my final package that I actually had to pay for. And this is why I gave them 3 stars, because I was really only going to give them 2, one for helping me and the other for being so quick (he's pretty fast). But after the apology and then requesting that I have a good night I decided he earned a 3rd.
So, thank you James for assisting me. I appreciate it. You seem to know what you are doing and you do it quick. Please just give us a smile and a hello when we come in, it's called customer service.
And for the record, in case someone hasn't told you yet today: thank you, I appreciate your hard work.
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