why are foreign women so much pushier than the average working gal? i swear, they have this large chunk of their brain solely devoted to being an aggressive lunatic when it comes to sales.

at work today there was this belgian lady — her name was beluga or something equally ridiculous — who looked about 20 or so working alongside myself and three other co-workers. first she tried to get all chummy with me, but i wouldn’t have it. so she shifted into cow-drive and began complaining about every single move i made while in the store. and it was doubly irritating simply because of her accent. at first, i thought it was just me to whom she was being pushy. but later on i realized that she was treating the customers in the same bipolar fashion. she kept shoving clothes into their faces and when they wouldn’t try them on she would become this horrible beast of a retailer, yanking merchandise out of their hands and whatnot.

this isn’t the first time i’ve come across pushy foreign sales-women. as i have walked into various stores throughout my lifetime, there always seems to be at least one pushy foreign woman in each establishment. perhaps the managers think it’s beneficial to have these take-charge employees behind the counter. but not if you have to talk to them, buy from them, or work alongside them. it’s one thing to have a nice accent; but if you start morphing into a crazy harpy who spreads terror among the customers, you aren’t making any positive impact and are thus spreading shame upon your homeland.

damn that belgian waffle.