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AIBU?

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Original poster

to freeze my customers

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 14:35

by leaving the door open.

they stink.
the loo stinks

I'm. dizzy sniffing hand gel
shop still stinks
and I've run out of air fresher.

help

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Ataraxy · 31/12/2015 16:40

I thought charity shop too.

WipsGlitter · 31/12/2015 16:49

Lots of big department stores could fit this description.

cantwaitfortheholidays · 31/12/2015 16:55

Maybe you could wear a nose peg

thelaundryfairy · 31/12/2015 17:05

Can you light a couple of candles in non-customer areas? That will move the air around and create a fresher smell (they don´t have to be scented candles).

In the toilet, light a few matches and let them burn down before putting them out; that will help with the unpleasant odour there.

Good luck!

thelaundryfairy · 31/12/2015 17:06

Also remember customers will have their coats, etc. on so it´s not as cold as them with the window or door open as for you (presuming you are not dressed for going outside).

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 17:09

They moan anyway. always moaning

they moaned about the smell. then about the spray. then about the door. ...

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OohMavis · 31/12/2015 17:55

I really, really want to know where you work.

Shinyshoes2 · 31/12/2015 17:58

Hey I work in a betting shop a very small shop at that and it dosent smell of farts and ' dropped cargo '

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 18:02

you ate lucky shiny

I swear half of them should see a dr. it's vile.

sometimes the stench of BO is mixed in too. dirty buggers.

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BadgersNadgers · 31/12/2015 18:06

Is it a soft play?

Hissy · 31/12/2015 18:17

Soft play?

FlatOnTheHill · 31/12/2015 18:22

Are you going to tell us what the shop is. Or do you just really like the fact we all want to know and you are not telling

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 18:22

at soft play although I expect toddlers are better toilet trained

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 18:23

It's a betting shop. sorry been busy so mot had chance to properly read it all. bastard customers kept getting in the way

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VertigoNun · 31/12/2015 18:26

Freeze them.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 18:35

I did. one got fed up and left but he's a many git anyway. he will be back tomorrow to moan and fall asleep

the smell had to be smelt to be believed. needless to say I used about half a bottle of hand gel today. both on my hands and as a sub for vapour rub under the nose

not looking forward to tomorrow. I expect the stench if alcohol seeping through the pores will be gag inducing.

unfortunately my request to have some of this bio hazard shower things fitted on the door was denied.

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Potatoface2 · 31/12/2015 18:36

get neutrodol......it really does neutralise stinky thing (my dogs when they come in from the field reek)

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 18:41

is that available In supermarkets. I dint care if I have to provide my own

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StarkyTheDirewolf · 31/12/2015 18:55

Definetly freeze them!

I used to work in a nightclub and at one point one of our customers a regular shit themselves, actually shit himself, it was a grown man, very clever, good job etc....but then stayed for another 4 hours!

He spent a fortune in their weekly so management wouldn't ask him to leave and we had to work around the stench of rancid crap all night pretending we couldn't smell it . It was everywhere too, all over the floor and up the walls in the gents. We had to throw the chair out afterwards. We pretty much had to fence him off from the rest of the patrons! Boak.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 19:01

omg that's disgusting. they must have lost hundreds that might with people refusing to go back.

vom

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AuntMabel · 31/12/2015 19:29

YANBU. Freeze them and put an out of order sign on the toilet door for the remainder of your shift. Is the culprit still there? Wander past and casually Febreeze their arse.

This smell in a shop talk reminds me of a time I was in Clarks. I was at the till paying when another customer who you could smell before you saw came in. Proceeded to remove their shoes, I've never smelt anything like it, I'm sure they'd been dunked in the bog of eternal stench. I was trapped at the till holding my breath willing my payment to process faster. At least I could run out of the shop unlike the poor ladies who had to help them get the shoes on, couldn't do that job.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 19:34

I used to work somewhere and every now and then a woman would come in who smelt so bad we'd cower at the back of the shop and every customer would leave.

I had to spray every chair she sat on with anti bac. I have never smelt a person who smelt as bad as this woman did knows what was going on.

finished a while ago luckily close early on NYE so enjoying early finish while it lasts .

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StarkyTheDirewolf · 31/12/2015 20:48

Sadly not, if he hadn't been a "high roller" he's have been chucked out, but he used to spent thousands on champagne and posh rum/whisky etc it was a quite pretentious club I saw him wet himself on multiple occasions.

Sadly, people shitting/pissing themselves wasn't that unheard of, just that most people, when they get so drunk they lose their bowel control, go home immediately or require an ambulance. Sick but true. Glad I don't work in that industry any more.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 31/12/2015 20:51

Yes I dream of escaping too. except years in these kind of jobs has rendered me unemployable.

so, we take the fun where we can. by freezing customers for example....

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BertieBotts · 31/12/2015 21:49

I used to work in CeX and the customers were VERY fragrant. There is something about a place you can potentially get money and the unwashed. I don't know what it is.

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