18 Problems All WHSmith Employees Will Understand

13. If You Work In A WHSmith Travel Store, Your Job Is A Nightmare

If you think working in a high street WHSmith is bad enough, think again. The Smiths stores in airports and train stations are even worse: every customer is always in such a hurry to get somewhere that they seem to lose any sense of intelligence they might have had outside of the shop. They don't know if they want this Jonas Jonasson book, or if they want a few magazines for the flight. They shout loudly about the prices of bagged gummy sweets. They complain about the newspapers and how you don't stock the one they want. They get stuck at the self checkouts and have to begrudgingly come over to your till to be served by an actual human being who they've got no manners for and don't want to talk to. And goddamit, they don't want to buy a one pound galaxy either. You literally can't believe that you spent your life thinking Smiths was a kind traditional book shop, when it's actually hell on earth.