Do You Get Preferential Service?

last SG · 2006-09-18T23:17:30+00:00

either way...the face counts...

dork3d SG

Like what you dress differently, do you get different service treatment?

Me was dressed in a T-shirt and bermudas and went to Creative shop at Plaza Singapura to shop few days back... And when me was queueing up to pay for my item, me was given different service treatment... People who were queueing up behind and dressed more presentable got served first in front of me as the cashier just simply ushered them in front of me... When the queue was cleared, she gave me those "cheapskate" look and put "Counter Closed" sign even with me standing in front getting ready to pay... Me was furious and threw the item onto the counter and walked off... While me turned away, me heard the cashier saying me "So cheapskate! Can't be bothered to serve you!"

Me quickly turned around and scolded the cashier for having biased views on me... Me meant me may looked casual in my dressing but me doesn't require those preferential treatment... She even said me don't even deserve her service... Me got so agitated that me asked for the shop manager and gave my piece of mind to the shop manager... She offered to give me 50% on the item as compensation but she didn't know the crux of the issue wasn't about whether me could afford to pay, but rather the cashier insulted my integrity... Me rejected her offer and told her she's also a moroon who's treating me as a idiot and walked out of the store...

By the way, me wrote an email to Creative to feedback my experience and still waiting for a reply from them...

motoway SG

Ur avatar:

"All Views Posted Are Purely Coincidental & Fictious.. Plus It's Personal."

Real or fake one? Laughing
Aiyah.. Plaza Sing this kind of place is liddis one.. If u dress lau nua lau nua go into a shop they will gif u face de..

ndmmxiaomayi SG

This only happens to me if I'm in a clothes or shoes shop...

Electronics shops aren't that bad, because people can't be bothered to dress properly. Unless there's an ang moh in front of you, you will be served based on first come first serve basis.

nanren4ever SG

50%!!!! I think I am going 2 try my luck at complaining tomorrow at PS..

But that's besides the point. The cashier was wrong, but u are in the wrong for scolding the manager. Frm what u say, it seems to me that the manager is trying 2 pacify u. I had read cases where the manager will side with the staff, so u are lucky that the manager was trying 2 be nice, and settle this matter in a amiable way.

The manager need not take ur abuse, especially when u scold her a moroon. You are taking out your frustration on a lady who has nothing to do with u being frustrated in the first place, and that's wrong

dork3d SG

My avatar is just a quote from a book author lah...

By the way, the experience was real... Sad

missqi SG

HAHA.
Reminds me of Body shop.....
They always ask if u r member first....
Heng i member ah...
so treat me better.
Laughing

Rock^Star SG

Well u definitely deserved better service but it was really harsh to have called the manager a moron…...

dork3d SG

Why me scolded the manager cos she sided the cashier after listening to her side of story and not hearing mine, and her attempt to pacify me with the generous discount offer was to prevent me from making a scene in the shop where there were more than 10 people in the shop...

If you were in my shoes, would you do the same?

motoway SG

Ya.. I tink the manager a bit yuan1 wang4.. U wld haf gotten it better if u nv scold manager..

Imagine boss ask manager:"what happened?"
Manager : "the customer ownself also veri fierce, scold me a moron when i offered him discount."

VS

Boss:" What happened?"
Manager:" I dunoe but i tink the cashier gaf others preferential service to others."

If u scold manager, den like ur fault tt u in wrong first ma.. If u nv scold manager den the fault will entirely be on the cashier..

Kuali Baba SG

You behaved like a twat as well, even granted that you were pissed off by the service staff.

dork3d SG

Well, if you read my last post on why me scolded the shop manager, then you will know why me did that…

comberbache SG

dude, that's not the way to go about it....

you should have written down her name, the name of the store, time and place, taken her picture (or video footage) with your handphone or digital camera, all the while muttering to yourself how you're going to post it on SgForums. Very Happy

Rock^Star SG

I think most people in their life have been slighted by service staff before. Well, the cashier judged u based on your dressing, she's hollow. U don't have to prove her right, isn't it?

If u get so angry because someone judged u based on ur dressing....well.....u do ur analysis. The hollow cashier doesn't know u as a person....

dakkon_blackblade SG

Well, I can’t remember being so unfortunate as to suffer such poor treatment. A couple of months ago I went to Mont Blanc at Ngee Ann City to get a wallet. Although I was dressed rather simply the salesman still treated me very politely, with no airs. So I guess your incident is just a plain unlucky one.

sermodabian SG

Its funny. What do these cashiers gain by giving preferential service? All they do is to teed teed teed the machine what. But shd give the cashier one tight slap across the face. Laughing And tell him/her I probably earn more than yoU! Mad

Darkness_hacker99 SG

At cre8tive ar???? I also want to try leh. Maybe i got 65% dc leh?

sermodabian SG

IPOD Twisted Evil

charlize SG

I dye my hair blonde and speak with a foreign accent.

Always get good service. Laughing

dragg SG

i doubt it happens in singapore.

afterall our standard dress code is bermudas, tees and sandals.

Mr. Green

dork3d SG

She doesn't need to know me but what me's asking for was equal and just treatment...

If she's already had a coloured vision on customers, me believed me's not the only person who got preferential treatment from her...