Plough Chemist staff MISERABLE!!!!

[missse22]

Oh my god, I've been going in there for years and always noticed the Chinese old man who owns / works in the chemist is so miserable!!! But today he just took it to another level!!! My 3 year old son was looking around the shop while we waited for his prescription and the man just glared at him like he was ready to tell him off, so to save him the trouble I kept telling my son to make sure he was looking with his eyes and not his hands, and got him to practice his counting and look for what letters he could see on the products in effort to distract him from touching anything. By now the man is staring at my son and me with the most miserable face ever! So To try and ease the bad atmosphere i said to him , smiling as I said it, "I've been coming here for years , ill get a smile out of you one day" NOTHING!! He just stared at me and totally ignored me!! The poor indian boy who works there looked too scared of him to even comment, luckily the lady out the back who gets the medication was sniggering and nodding at me!!

Has anyone else noticed him, it's a wonder he has any customers , being that miserable has got to be hard work , and possibly contagious as I started to feel depressed from spending 10 minutes in there lol

[lightweight]

Yes he is sooooo grumpy. I only go in there when desperate! On the plus side, there's rarely much of a wait to get a script filled.

[unlurked]

I'll definately go there now I know this as I do not go to shops for smiley happy people meeting. I go to shop and leave. Maybe the chap didn't speak English. Maybe he has a lifetime of heartache. Maybe he dislikes smiley people.

[missse22]

Ahh haa unlurked I don't tend to go to shops to hang out and smile at people, but in chemists you tend to be waiting for prescription or if your really lucky and have two kids ill at the same time, a longer wait for 2 prescriptions , this guy does speak English I've heard him shouting at his staff enough!! As for smiley people, wowza this was me today after waking all night with poorly kids and having probably 3 hours sleep, god help the misery guts if I went in there in a good mood!!!

Lightweight very good point , your right there is rarely a long wait in there lol :)

[Pugwash]

I know someone who worked for him years ago, they left fairly quickly due to his behaviour towards his staff.

I notice each time I go there how the wall paper is falling down. The place is a mess with boxes of receipts/papers etc. The whole place needs redecorating and modernising.

[giggirl]

Is this the place near the bus stop where the 12 terminates? If it is then it needs a good clean - the window is a disgrace.

Edited because I'm tired and waffling.

[missse22]

Maybe that's why he's so miserable, as a way to draw people's attention away from how run down the shop is! Lol As I hadn't even noticed that really :)

Yes giggirl that's the one, perhaps I'd happily clean his windows if I thought it might cheer the miserable git up!!!!

[eddie]

Or maybe he was just fed up of badly behaved children pulling his shop to bits, and so took his frustration on other children as well!!

[lorraineliyanage]

He's refreshingly grumpy. I find a quick trip to Badger Bakery afterwards is the best cure!

[missse22]

Hahaha Lorraine they need a LIKE button on here, love it!

Eddie, even before I had my two boys I would go in there and he was still miserable period!!

[missse22]

Ahhhh just realised Its you Lorraine that used to come to my boxing classes!!! Hope you are well xx

[lorraineliyanage]

Hello hello! All good with me - how's life with the boyz?

I always go in there on my tod and he's miserable. Maybe I'll crack a joke and see if I can get a laugh out of him next time I'm in there.

[dimples]

Always grumpy with me too !

[missse22]

Phew at least I know it's nothing personal, perhaps someone needs to remind him he has a job, a roof over his head etc and there are lot of people suffering in this world who would love to be in his position!!

Lorraine the boys are great, Prince is 3 now and Alex is 1!! Miss coaching but so busy being super mum!! Have a half marathon on the 8th sept too!! Xx

[GinaG3]

I boycott unless desperate after seeing numerous things that really got my back up while waiting 30 minutes plus for prescriptions over the years. The way the staff are treated, disrepair, telephone manner, watching people like a hawk, price changes on the tills, ranting, shouting, swearing. Just completely unprofessional in my opinion.

I stick with Vale pharmacy, even if it means walking from Peckham Rye to Goose Green then back to the other side of Dulwich, nice lot in there and keep a quantity of my prescription ready unlike other pharmacies in the area who have to order it every time!

[missse22]

Amen to that GinaG3 !! :)

I know now I will not be going there again enoughs enough, even though its on the way from my docs to home, I'd sooner walk to lloyds on north cross rd or anywhere for that matter! You are so right about the shouting and swearing and bullying his staff in general, nasty man :(

[SybianTester]

they realy should take some happy pills

[unlurked]

With so many of his customers being so painfully cheery, smiley and looking for more than a relationship of just a retail transaction type I can understand why he's so fed up. Plus uncontrolled kids pulling stuff of the shelves, back stabbing staff, and under performing cleaning staff I sympathise with the boss. With so many chemists around, not to mention the one that was destined for CP Rd that was blocked by ED folk, why don't the whingers vote with their feet and leave the poor chap alone?

[missse22]

Hang on I think I've Sussex it out, unlurked are you the Chinese man in the shop ..... You certainly seem equally miserable! Lol (smiling as I type)

[missse22]

Unlurked it seems on most of your posts you just like to moan or get into disagreements with people .... I will be the bigger person and chose to ignore you.

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missse22 Wrote:

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> Hang on I think I've Sussex it out, unlurked are

> you the Chinese man in the shop ..... You

> certainly seem equally miserable! Lol (smiling as

> I type)

Lol, no I'm not. I certainly will go in there now for all my chemisty needs. Maybe I'll explore the option of a business partneship with him. Then the 'I need a more meaningful relationship with my retailer' brigade will

rue the day!

I could start many threads with the title "staff in the xxx are miserable" and just fill in the blanks eg EDT.

[missse22]

Lol , and even more lol at auto correct putting Sussex instead of sussed