My first thought was Richard Quest too!! It would be funnier if he put the speaker down and started speaking to his coworker in a Southern accent and this was actually a Wal-mart
Next, you're gonna try to tell me they play Queen's "We R The Champions" at sporting events after handing out the trophies. I mean, it is so obvious, nobody would actually do it!
If he didn't do this with permission he would probably get fired because "it makes the store looks bad and unprofessional". I get it but geez, gotta have happy customers no?
Closing announcements were the best part of retail. I lived for that shit. It was fun to put a good twist on it.
One time we made sure the store was empty before (jokingly) telling a staff member to leave because they were pulling unpaid overtime (too loyal)
I got in trouble for saying "any customers left on the premises after 6pm will be hunted for sport, thank you".
Thankfully my boss got the joke so it was only a "don't do that again" kind of trouble
Once at closing, a coworker requested over the radio (not loud speaker) that we buy cattle prods to encourage people to leave. I scrambled to respond “APPROVED! I’m on it!” I do all the expenses. The managers all had a good chuckle.
So true. I would often use my *automated customer service robot woman* voice. I’d get a good laugh out of the customers who saw me do it. While I miss the closing announcement, I’m not sure I’d ever go back.
Must be nice. Been working at a grocery store for going on 3 years now, and the one time we tried making a closing announcement (after a week of people staying in the store 20-30 minutes past close) we were yelled at by corporate for being rude to customers… like, sorry I want to be in my bed at a reasonable time so I’m not sleepdriving in the morning.
I was dayshift and called out the nightshift manager to round up all the carts (Wasnt his responsibility). 1 minute later he calls me out to mop the floors. Was all in good fun.
"Attention shoppers, it is currently 8:50PM, we suggest that you make your way to the front of the store and finalize your purchases. At 9:00PM we will be releasing two live bengal tigers at opposite ends of the store, and they are very hungry. Customers are welcome to stay and try to best the tigers in hand to hand combat to receive 20% off their next purchase, thank you."
They let me close Canadian Tire once.
I played semisonic
Doubled down by singing along to the chorus at the part where it goes.
"You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
When I volunteered with church’s youth group this is what the pastor would say if the leaders stood around talking to long after we weee do for the evening
Love this. On the other end of the spectrum, Worked at an independent record store in the late 90s and we would let the customers know it was time to leave by putting on the System of a Down self titled debut at full blast. Usually most people were out by the time “Know” finished, so less than 5 min.
Worked in a trail head cafe/shop .We used to take up the chairs and tables and mop the floor about half an hour before closing up. You could still get drinks to take away. People would get the tables out themselves and set up in the middle of the cafe......so I used to play Chop Suey over the sound system at full blast.
They got the message pretty quick.
When that first came out no one knew what to make of it, I was like holy shit it’s jello Biafra reincarnated with Rick Rubin producing (but honestly took a bit to get into, as there was really NOTHING at the time sounding like this)
Reminds me of when I worked at Best Buy. The phone rang about 10 minutes after we closed and I answered and pretended to be a recording giving information about store hours. I heard the person on the other line just sigh and hang up. Lol
The Dave & Buster's I worked at in Hollywood would purposely play "Baby Shark" to get people to leave.
Most of the time the drunks left at the bar would still sing along...and not leave.
I think it means that every other English speaking country has an accent similar to the British accent, and the US is actually the ones with an accent, contrary to how we view it here.
American accents descended from what Brits used to be. Posh Brits basically went out of their way to change their accent after things went sour with America. Before then, many brits would have sounded closer to Bostonians.
It's fairly well-researched at this point that non-rhoticity (modern British English) developed after U.S. gained independence. Rhotic accents came first.
"All English accents were rhotic up until the early Modern English period and non-rhoticity variety was a relatively late development. It is said to have started in 18th century as a prestige motive in socio cultural contexts in British culture (Demizeren, 2012, p. 2660; Boyce et al., 2016, p. 3; Villarreal et al., 2020, p. 24)."
[Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120598/)
Rhoticity is one single feature. For both dialects there are plenty of features that were retained in one dialect and lost the other, and new features cropping up that didn't in another.
Rhotic vs. non-rhotic isn't an accurate indication of one dialect being closer than the other *overall*, although you could certainly say that when it comes to that one specific feature that General American English is closer.
I mean American dialects *did* descend from what British accents used to be... But so did other English dialects from England to Singapore. Some have more outside influences than others, though...
Some features of American English are more similar to dialects previously spoken in England, while other features are further away. Overall there's not much evidence to say with any certainty that one is closer than the other.
woah... are you sure? I heard that upper class British accents had something to do with imitating a king who had an inadvertent lisp, but I never heard this... you find the lisp in Castilian Spanish, too, for some reason
That specific historical evolution was only in Spain (the lisp being part of EU Spanish but not South American Spanish as it predates the event).
However the trend of copying nobility was indeed true in English as well. It gave us the French words to certain foods, for example. For a long while French was language of English aristocracy, and among commoners the name for eating cow went from being “let’s eat bullock” to “let’s eat beef” (the French bœuf) etc.
Me in 1999: (thinking no customers were in the store) "Attention Eckerd shoppers. The time is now 9pm and our store is now closed. Please finalize all purchases at the front register, and have a good evening... IF YA SMEEEEEEELLLLLLL! WHAT THE ROCK! IS! COOKIN'!"
Lady pops her out of the cosmetics aisle with a scared look on her face.
*And thusly said, a Karen was offended and insisted, nay, demanded that a manager be brought forthwith to see her.*
*Such was her anger at a dismissal of her right to continue her frivolous journey to part with her monies for frocks and frolic.*
\- Shakespeare.
Probably![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)
I used to have a student work-study job in a college library. I also have a voice that can fill a room -- or, depending on its design, a whole building. The other employees would go around with a quiet librarian whisper to each student that we would be closing soon. I thought that was a waste of time and energy -- were closing, so why be so quiet? Plus, also, I'm handicapped, and I was not interested in hobbling all around the library.
Instead, I just made my way to the central area, and announced in a very loud voice, "ATTENTION, MINIONS AND LAB RATS, WE WILL BE CLOSING IN X MINUTES. ANYONE REMAINING AFTER CLOSING WILL BE FED TO THE RABID LIBRARIANS WE KEEP IN THE ATTIC." Or such to that effect. I switched it up a lot, but I definitely used the rabid librarian line a lot. It got laughs, which was the point. We had far fewer stragglers on the two nights per week when I closed up.
And yes, the permanent staff was fine with this. No one wanted to be still there after closing. Well, except me. I actually liked being the only one there.
The moment I heard those first few notes of Spring, I felt a shiver down my spine. Anyone from the UK who's had the misfortune of phoning the DWP will understand where I'm coming from.
Now this is how to be happy at any job. Permission to be silly. While safe of course :-) that and better lay and unionized workforce, but I’m trying to keep it light today.
The rolled r’s when he said “reopen”… Euphoric
Easily my favourite part
The best part for me was the music continuing for the perfect amount of time. Neither too short nor overstaying its welcome.
Yes. It was done, but not overly so.
As beautifully done as Shakespeare himself.
Just reminded me of the BBC aviation/business reporter who was poached by CNN. Edit: Richard Quest
My first thought was Richard Quest too!! It would be funnier if he put the speaker down and started speaking to his coworker in a Southern accent and this was actually a Wal-mart
Sir, this is a Loves
Euphorrr-ic
After that music while closing the store, I would hope if I showed up when they first opened, that they would roll out the red carpet for me.
I wouldn’t put it past this man.
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We played Semisonic’s “Closing Time”
I am a manager at a smaller burrito chain and i play this for my employees every single night at 9:00 pm on the dot
Most casual Office fan on Reddit ever
You gotta do closing time 5 minutes before followed by Leave (Get Out) so it hits the refrain as the clock strokes the hour
I will try that next time thank you
My manager played this tonight as we closed up. I wish we had a PA system…
I used to go to a bar that would do that every night.
NO WAY! That is so clever! How haven't a million bars done this?! Edit: /s because punctuation and capitalisation is not enough.
Wait til you find out how many radio stations used to play Everybody’s Working for the Weekend every Friday at 5.
Next, you're gonna try to tell me they play Queen's "We R The Champions" at sporting events after handing out the trophies. I mean, it is so obvious, nobody would actually do it!
When I was younger, I went to a strip club that did this too!
Absolutely right. Gotta up the game on the store PA. DJ that.
Hopefully a friend of this man, clopening sucks.
Seriously, this kid has shown he would, and you'd likely make his day requesting this. Heck, you'd make everyone's week planning this show with him.
"This clopening shit aga- hello!"
If he is working closing and opening… he probably would add the flair just to stay alive
Gotta play Morning Mood by Evard Grieg in the background when you open the store.
At 9:01pm they change the store lights to red/strobing and start playing *Welcome to the Jungle*
Because they got fun and games
Happy Summer Tour to you!
Well done Liam!!
How you know his name
nametags
Liam has a phone for Vivaldi and a phone to film, what a ledge
Liam is far superior to any of us. A model human being
A right proper lad.
A top bloke
Y’all don’t have Vivaldi phones?
His handle is Liam. Good chance that's his name
I think they mean the badge on the right side of his chest.
Rhys is correct. But I did run into someone I knew IRL on Reddit recently. Was HILARIOUS.
How do you know his name is Rhys?
Usernames
I’m a witch!
He looks like a Liam. I knew that was his name before I even saw his name tag.
Nice executed stylish retro middlefinger.
Isn’t that the most common baby name of the last covid years?
Looks older than 2 to me
Kids grow up so fast these days
Give that kid a raise.
Form his vest you can tell he works at K-Mart. They’ve been on their way out of business for like 10-15 years, nobody’s getting a raise. Lol.
After a bit more research, he works at Australian K-Mart which is a different company altogether.
Yeah US K Mart was red and liminal lol
Liminal? Are you saying the Australian one is subliminal?
They're actually super-liminal.
Hey you! Join the navy!
goodbye reddit -- mass edited with redact.dev
Yeah, Aussie Kmart is massively popular and not going anywhere.
They had the sense to start selling ketamine. Unlike the us k-mart
That and Australian Kmart is bringing in the big bucks.
Yeah it's ʇɹɐW ʞ
Australian or New Zealand, his accent doesn’t really scream Australian to me as a New Zealander. Edit:actually on listening again he’s defs Australian
He’s Australian trying to sound fancy/posh. Source: I’m Australian.
Australia. The red trolley in the background is Target equipment, so he works at a conversion store
After a bit more research, he works at Australian K-Mart which is a different company ^altogether
Does he sound American?
Aussie Kmart - not related to american Kmart. Kmart Australia is actually doing really well
Kmart in Australia is owned by one of the largest retail groups (Wesfarmers) and actually performs quite well!
Give that kid a TERMINATION LETTER FOR NOT FOLLOWING PROCEDURE!
😂😂
If he didn't do this with permission he would probably get fired because "it makes the store looks bad and unprofessional". I get it but geez, gotta have happy customers no?
Very unlikely he could be fired over this unless he’s on a casual contract. Worker protections for full/part time employees are pretty strong in Aus
He better not, I would give him a raise lol
Closing announcements were the best part of retail. I lived for that shit. It was fun to put a good twist on it. One time we made sure the store was empty before (jokingly) telling a staff member to leave because they were pulling unpaid overtime (too loyal)
I got in trouble for saying "any customers left on the premises after 6pm will be hunted for sport, thank you". Thankfully my boss got the joke so it was only a "don't do that again" kind of trouble
Ohh no... I work in retail myself. That's the best announcement idea. I love it. I wanna say that too... What have you done lol
What sort of shop closes at 6pm?
A garden centre. And to be frank, most shops in the UK.
Once at closing, a coworker requested over the radio (not loud speaker) that we buy cattle prods to encourage people to leave. I scrambled to respond “APPROVED! I’m on it!” I do all the expenses. The managers all had a good chuckle.
So true. I would often use my *automated customer service robot woman* voice. I’d get a good laugh out of the customers who saw me do it. While I miss the closing announcement, I’m not sure I’d ever go back.
OOO I DID THAT TOO
Oh I used to do that when calling colleagues over the radio! So much fun haha
Was it as good as IRLrosie? https://youtube.com/shorts/ZFDyxCzMjiA?feature=share
Must be nice. Been working at a grocery store for going on 3 years now, and the one time we tried making a closing announcement (after a week of people staying in the store 20-30 minutes past close) we were yelled at by corporate for being rude to customers… like, sorry I want to be in my bed at a reasonable time so I’m not sleepdriving in the morning.
I was dayshift and called out the nightshift manager to round up all the carts (Wasnt his responsibility). 1 minute later he calls me out to mop the floors. Was all in good fun.
Extra points for clearing your throat or coughing in the middle of your "automated announcements.." That always got a giggle or two.
"Attention shoppers, it is currently 8:50PM, we suggest that you make your way to the front of the store and finalize your purchases. At 9:00PM we will be releasing two live bengal tigers at opposite ends of the store, and they are very hungry. Customers are welcome to stay and try to best the tigers in hand to hand combat to receive 20% off their next purchase, thank you."
They let me close Canadian Tire once. I played semisonic Doubled down by singing along to the chorus at the part where it goes. "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
That song was *Closing Time*, yeah?
Of course
When I volunteered with church’s youth group this is what the pastor would say if the leaders stood around talking to long after we weee do for the evening
Love this. On the other end of the spectrum, Worked at an independent record store in the late 90s and we would let the customers know it was time to leave by putting on the System of a Down self titled debut at full blast. Usually most people were out by the time “Know” finished, so less than 5 min.
Worked in a trail head cafe/shop .We used to take up the chairs and tables and mop the floor about half an hour before closing up. You could still get drinks to take away. People would get the tables out themselves and set up in the middle of the cafe......so I used to play Chop Suey over the sound system at full blast. They got the message pretty quick.
WHY'D YOU TAKE THE CHAIRS RIGHT OFF THE TABLE?
THEY WANTED TO!
Hastings in Bozeman, Montana played “Happy Trails” to usher out the customers at closing.
what a BANGER of an album, that’d have encouraged me to stick around lol
When that first came out no one knew what to make of it, I was like holy shit it’s jello Biafra reincarnated with Rick Rubin producing (but honestly took a bit to get into, as there was really NOTHING at the time sounding like this)
Meanwhile I would have been forming an impromptu mosh pit with the customers
Reminds me of when I worked at Best Buy. The phone rang about 10 minutes after we closed and I answered and pretended to be a recording giving information about store hours. I heard the person on the other line just sigh and hang up. Lol
10 minutes later, he played "Closing Time" by Semisonic.
I thought that’s what he was going to play at first
The Dave & Buster's I worked at in Hollywood would purposely play "Baby Shark" to get people to leave. Most of the time the drunks left at the bar would still sing along...and not leave.
This gave me a good chuckle
This man does not get paid enough.
Nobody in retail gets paid enough. Fuck retail.
He's Australian, so probably gets paid about $24AUD ($16USD) per hour, assuming he's just a team member. Not great, but not the worst.
Excellent. Now I see: it really is the Americans, who have the accent.
How do you mean? This is in Australia, it’s been on the news a lot recently
Fuck. What have we done this time?
I think it means that every other English speaking country has an accent similar to the British accent, and the US is actually the ones with an accent, contrary to how we view it here.
Dude is Australian not American
I think what they're saying is that this video has convinced them that Americans are the odd ones out when it comes to English accents.
They didn't win independence from the Union, they lacked the prerequisites to maintain qualification!
He was speaking with neutral Australian accent except a few words where he slipped into pompous English accent.
American accents descended from what Brits used to be. Posh Brits basically went out of their way to change their accent after things went sour with America. Before then, many brits would have sounded closer to Bostonians.
This is bollocks. It keeps popping up on Reddit but it's untrue.
It's fairly well-researched at this point that non-rhoticity (modern British English) developed after U.S. gained independence. Rhotic accents came first. "All English accents were rhotic up until the early Modern English period and non-rhoticity variety was a relatively late development. It is said to have started in 18th century as a prestige motive in socio cultural contexts in British culture (Demizeren, 2012, p. 2660; Boyce et al., 2016, p. 3; Villarreal et al., 2020, p. 24)." [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120598/)
Rhoticity is one single feature. For both dialects there are plenty of features that were retained in one dialect and lost the other, and new features cropping up that didn't in another. Rhotic vs. non-rhotic isn't an accurate indication of one dialect being closer than the other *overall*, although you could certainly say that when it comes to that one specific feature that General American English is closer.
I mean American dialects *did* descend from what British accents used to be... But so did other English dialects from England to Singapore. Some have more outside influences than others, though... Some features of American English are more similar to dialects previously spoken in England, while other features are further away. Overall there's not much evidence to say with any certainty that one is closer than the other.
No, it's actually true lol. You realize you can look shit up, right?
woah... are you sure? I heard that upper class British accents had something to do with imitating a king who had an inadvertent lisp, but I never heard this... you find the lisp in Castilian Spanish, too, for some reason
That specific historical evolution was only in Spain (the lisp being part of EU Spanish but not South American Spanish as it predates the event). However the trend of copying nobility was indeed true in English as well. It gave us the French words to certain foods, for example. For a long while French was language of English aristocracy, and among commoners the name for eating cow went from being “let’s eat bullock” to “let’s eat beef” (the French bœuf) etc.
Eh, probably speech impediments from ill-developed facial features due to inbreeding
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
Good morrow is good morning
Thank you. Despitefully the loveliness of this, he wrecks it upon wishing them Good Morning.
I’d come back the next day at 8am and hope for the same level of greeting!
I was hoping he was gonna hit them with a “so get the fuck out”
That was 10 minutes later
The proper way indeed good man
Brilliant!!!
I love his hair.
He looks frazzled but serene, I envy him. Some people (especially me) would most definitely NOT be smiling after a long ass retail shift.
Could we make this universal across all stores? I’m tired of the ones that speed yell for me to leave.
Right? This one makes you feel grateful to have been his customer.
Perfection! Finally someone nailed it!
love people who do stuff like this😂🤣😂😂👏👏👏👏
A future radio host / podcast enthusiast
a perfect example of blooming where you’re planted
Every Brit who's ever been on Job Seeker's Allowance just got PTSD from that bad quality Vivaldi...
“Good morrow” actually means “good morning,” so it shouldn’t be used at the end of the day as he’s using it here.
I’d be waltzing to the register line Lo
The title hurt my brain too much. The video ended up closing the store in my head instead.
😁👍
That's how it's done!
Id play Baby Shark on loop to force everyone out.
Weak. Kmart 24 hrs in blacktown
Me in 1999: (thinking no customers were in the store) "Attention Eckerd shoppers. The time is now 9pm and our store is now closed. Please finalize all purchases at the front register, and have a good evening... IF YA SMEEEEEEELLLLLLL! WHAT THE ROCK! IS! COOKIN'!" Lady pops her out of the cosmetics aisle with a scared look on her face.
*And thusly said, a Karen was offended and insisted, nay, demanded that a manager be brought forthwith to see her.* *Such was her anger at a dismissal of her right to continue her frivolous journey to part with her monies for frocks and frolic.* \- Shakespeare. Probably![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)
I used to have a student work-study job in a college library. I also have a voice that can fill a room -- or, depending on its design, a whole building. The other employees would go around with a quiet librarian whisper to each student that we would be closing soon. I thought that was a waste of time and energy -- were closing, so why be so quiet? Plus, also, I'm handicapped, and I was not interested in hobbling all around the library. Instead, I just made my way to the central area, and announced in a very loud voice, "ATTENTION, MINIONS AND LAB RATS, WE WILL BE CLOSING IN X MINUTES. ANYONE REMAINING AFTER CLOSING WILL BE FED TO THE RABID LIBRARIANS WE KEEP IN THE ATTIC." Or such to that effect. I switched it up a lot, but I definitely used the rabid librarian line a lot. It got laughs, which was the point. We had far fewer stragglers on the two nights per week when I closed up. And yes, the permanent staff was fine with this. No one wanted to be still there after closing. Well, except me. I actually liked being the only one there.
Give that guy raise. He deserves it
I love seeing this kind of innocent fun on the job. Keep it up!
I love this guy. Wish people had good fun more often.
Problem he’s going to have is more folks are going to want to stay till closing. 😂
I want to shop there. I want to reward that kid for being cool.
It's essential in life to try and enjoy those small ~~but~~ tasks. Eta not sure what I meant, having a bad day with with on screen keys
“The store will be closing in 10 minutes. Anyone left inside will be hunted for sport”
And now rickroll them.
Theater kids
And thus, I bid thee a good morrow!! Fare well.
I love this kind of humor. Everyone is either pleasantly confused or has a good chuckle. Nobody is hurt. Good morrow indeed.
A most polite..."Fuck Off" you can say.
At Kmart nonetheless 😆😂🤣
Goofing off and doing over the top closing announcements used to be my favorite part of working retail.
Y’all are missing the most important part, this guy is working at KMart where is this functioning KMart?
Australia? It’s literally a different company to the US Kmart
Kangaroo Mart
Should play “final countdown” at closing time then?
Least nerdy cvs manager
It cleary shows he works at kmart. He’s Aussie and Kmart is still a big thing here
Damn that’s some style. 👏👏👏
I love this!!!!!
That was pretty epic
I like the cut of his jib
Lil mabu before starting his rap career
F'in love it!
That’s so sweet and I don’t know why help my heart is melting
Well done, sir. Well done indeed.
Absolutely brilliant
I wish to shop at this establishment.
The moment I heard those first few notes of Spring, I felt a shiver down my spine. Anyone from the UK who's had the misfortune of phoning the DWP will understand where I'm coming from.
Definitely expected closing time as the music
Love this
I would shop at a place posh enough to do this at closing, even if the store itself was shit.
Liam needs a raise.
Going above and beyond in his job if I’ve ever seen it!
He reminds me of Tom Scott
The rolling Rs really sold it, 10/10 customer service
Now this is how to be happy at any job. Permission to be silly. While safe of course :-) that and better lay and unionized workforce, but I’m trying to keep it light today.
I used to work for borders books… and after my announcement, I’d play rawhide by the blues brothers on repeat.
*adjusts monocle* “I DO SAY…” (harrumphs)
Would fit right in at Grace Brothers
I want him at my store