Friday, August 20, 2004
Today's Rant
Not much happening at the store today... well, actually lots of stuff is going on because our regional manager is coming to see the store on Wednesday. He's checking up on me, since I've been "acting manager" for 3 weeks now. But I didn't have to deal with a lot of stupid customers today because i spent half my shift drving to a mall across town to pick up stuff from my old manager's new store.
My first customer of the morning was a woman pushing, as usual, a ginormous stroller. Why can't people just buy regular sized strollers anymore?? But I digress. I knew she wanted her baby's ears pierced before she even got all the way in the store. You can always tell. It's the look on their face, their determination to cause extreme pain to their own offspring, under the guise of "It'll save them the pain later." Not so much. I don't know anyone who had their ears pierced as an infant and didn't have to eventually get them repierced. Either they close up, get infected, get ripped out, or they're uneven.
I hate piercing babies. First of all, it's almost impossible to get the dots even. And then the parents start freaking out and making you re-dot them eight times, which just makes the baby more fussy and makes it harder to make them even. I try to find any excuse to get these people out of my store. I tell them every bad thing that could possibly happen, I quote them the most expensive price possible, and sometimes I even tell them it's cheaper elsewhere. If none of that works, I pray the parent doesn't have an i.d. If they do, I'm committed. Unless....... The baby's ears are too small!!
This is a fact, some baby's ears just aren't big enough to be pierced yet. And you think parents would be aware of this fact, but apparently they could care less. So the baby this morning was twelve weeks old, and had NO lobes to speak of. Nothing. So I told the woman I couldn't pierce them, and she got all huffy with me! Sorry I don't want to disfigure your child ma'am. Grrr....
My first customer of the morning was a woman pushing, as usual, a ginormous stroller. Why can't people just buy regular sized strollers anymore?? But I digress. I knew she wanted her baby's ears pierced before she even got all the way in the store. You can always tell. It's the look on their face, their determination to cause extreme pain to their own offspring, under the guise of "It'll save them the pain later." Not so much. I don't know anyone who had their ears pierced as an infant and didn't have to eventually get them repierced. Either they close up, get infected, get ripped out, or they're uneven.
I hate piercing babies. First of all, it's almost impossible to get the dots even. And then the parents start freaking out and making you re-dot them eight times, which just makes the baby more fussy and makes it harder to make them even. I try to find any excuse to get these people out of my store. I tell them every bad thing that could possibly happen, I quote them the most expensive price possible, and sometimes I even tell them it's cheaper elsewhere. If none of that works, I pray the parent doesn't have an i.d. If they do, I'm committed. Unless....... The baby's ears are too small!!
This is a fact, some baby's ears just aren't big enough to be pierced yet. And you think parents would be aware of this fact, but apparently they could care less. So the baby this morning was twelve weeks old, and had NO lobes to speak of. Nothing. So I told the woman I couldn't pierce them, and she got all huffy with me! Sorry I don't want to disfigure your child ma'am. Grrr....
# posted by Claire @ 4:36 PM 
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I won't even get into piercing babies' ears, why not give them the damn choice when they're old enough to decide for themselves. And who the hell needs another thing to clean, wipe, disinfect, etc... on an infant, aren't drool, puke, and shit enough?
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