So that thing y’all do where you come in at 10 minutes to closing, buy half the store, and want to debate prices, super coupon, and price match at the same time is causing retail workers to miss their last bus home a lot of times.
Don’t be that person
Same goes for if you’re in a restaurant
Not only that, but they don’t get to leave as soon as you sashay out the door either. (This goes for restaurant workers as well) The people who work there also need to count and cash out register drawers, clean the store/restaurant, and make sure things are set for the next day when they re-open, then and only then do they get to go home. The managers of these places, who often don’t make much more than the grunts to be honest, have no choice but to stay until every employee has completed their tasks, the building has been secured, and everyone else has left so they can set the alarm.
So after you leave, the employees have to stay anywhere from 15 mins to an hour or more before they can go home. Not only that, but there are far more women and teenage girls working in retail than men and teenage boys, so walking home can literally be a danger to their health. Please don’t stay past closing, it’s really inconsiderate to the people who work there.
Sincerely, a former retail worker
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yup. This goes double for, like, fast food workers cus they have break everthing out and then re-clean everything so you could have a 6-inch sub at 12:30.
Same Goes For Call Center Reps, When You Wanna Bullshit About Your Bill For 45 Minutes. Meanwhile I Can’t Text My Ride Home That I’m On Call Or I’ll Get Written Up For Not “Focusing” On You During Our Conversation. It Irks My SOUL!
That last one.
This goes for library workers as well.
And guess what? We don’t get paid overtime.
The second the library closes we stop getting paid. So every minute you keep us past closing we’re working for free.
Don’t wait until closing to use the bathroom.
Don’t wait until closing to find “just one book/movie.”
Just leave.
Oh my gosh, this happens at the animal shelter, too! You wouldn’t think it would, given that we close all adoptions and interactions 30 minutes before closing time to the public. But the number of times people would pull up at 20 mins past closing and bang on the door is unbelievable. I used to work the closing shift, which is timed to go half an hour past closing to give us time to shut everything down. But when people take til the very last minute up front, bringing us animals at a minute til, it puts us way over that time. Then there’s the people who, I swear, are just waiting for us to come outside to do the outdoor chores. They see the closed sign in the front window, but the two cars in employee parking, and they come over to employee parking and wait for us to open the door. And then sit there and argue with us for 10 minutes about getting their dog out, despite us explaining that we literally cannot do that because we aren’t authorized to do the paperwork we’re already closed, and the people who do that are already gone. And it really stinks because we can’t go over a certain number of hours or the whole shelter might get shut down for legal reasons, but closing crew literally can’t leave until everything is done, including dealing with the people who keep you there an hour past when you’re supposed to be gone.
Don’t be a jerk. When people say closing is at a certain time, make sure you’re gone by then. Or before then. And don’t argue with the poor closing workers when you get there after hours.
This goes double on holidays. I always ended up with customers pulling this on Christmas Eve. We want to go home and spend what little time we have with our families.
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