Several of the employees who work here are very difficult to deal with. On a recent visit we needed a few simple cuts of fabric. The woman who 'helped' us was unpleasant from the start, greeting us with a huffy "Yes?" when we requested her attention, as if the last thing she wanted to do was help someone.
She cut our fabric and didn't seem to be listening when we told her the measurements we needed, despite us repeating it many times during the exchange. It wasn't until the next day when we took out the fabric that we realized all but one piece had been cut incorrectly, most with more than a metre less than what we asked for. I understand that when dealing with numbers things can be misheard, but we'd done our best to be clear.
Upon taking it back to explain the issue, we were grilled repeatedly by another associate about why we didn't see that the cuts were incorrect when we'd bought it. (It's because they cut them quite fast and we assumed they'd do their job correctly.) The employee who'd made the cuts in the first place was brought into the discussion and refused to apologize even once for screwing up our entire order. She made it crystal clear that she thought it was our fault for 'not knowing what we wanted', and that she'd heard us correctly and hadn't done anything wrong. She rudely and persistently argued with us about what had happened that evening, telling us that we were wrong multiple times. I work in retail; even if you know that you're right and the customer's wrong (which wasn't the case in this instance), don't argue with them or insinuate that they're lying.
We were then told, upon scrutinizing the initial receipt, that we'd walked away with free items. The associates kept returning to the sale prices and having them focus instead on cutting us more fabric was nearly impossible.
After all was said and done, they somehow managed to incorrectly measure the fabric yet again. We made do with what we had, too frustrated to attempt a third trip.
All in all, disastrous customer service blanketed by a sense of elitism. The employees we dealt with gave us the strong impression that if something goes wrong it's because of the customer's presumed incompetence, no matter what. This seems to be the norm for this Fabricville, as many people we've spoken to regularly encounter similar treatment.