"Hey, dude, I stopped for coffee this morning and I figured you might want some so I picked you up some." *hand coffee with a whole bottle of laxatives dumped in it to coworker* "Enjoy your day!" *Wait to steal the customers*

Yea, maybe talk to the boss and explain "I did the sale then became sick and he did the paperwork because I was unable to at that time. I understand he helped but I made the actual sale" depends on how awesome your boss is, but it should be yours dude.

I don't think there is much choice when the alternative is to crap your pants in front of your customer. Somehow, I doubt they'd see that as being professional. I work in sales and I wouldn't do steal another coworker's opportunity.

Sorry, the customer is there to make a purchase not to ensure that you get the commisson. Unless I am buying a car, if the sales person is gone more than a couple minutes, I'll ask someone else to help me. If I was told I would have to wait for my original salesperson, I would take my business elsewhere.

People are so entitled. If they have to wait more than 5 seconds they throw a fit. Grow up.

I agree with kasmol, the customer is there to buy what they want/need, I wouldn't wait for the sales person to come back if they left for some reason like that while another sales person came over to help, unless it was a really big purchase

Exactly. The customer always comes first. If anyone is acting entitled, its kbecks. With a wonderful attitude like yours, I'm sure you have lots of loyal customers. **** off.

This one time I was at the park and got my frisbee stuck on top of the pavilion. I asked an employee to get it down for me and he said "sure, one second" and disappeared for 45 minutes. I proceeded to remove parked benches and tables from around the park and build a staircase/ramp to climb up on top of the pavilion.

I don't think there had to be a choice of going to the bathroom or ringing up the sale. A good coworker would have rung up the sale and added OP's number so he gets the commission, like he's supposed to. In my retail store if an employee was helping someone at the cash but didn't help them with the sale then they would ring up a customer and than they were supposed to ask "did someone help you with this?" So that proper credit would go to the proper person. Just because you ring the customer up does not mean you helped at all with the sale.

That's why OP should wear a diaper. That way he can move the merchandise and his bowels at the same time. Haha.

Kbecks is on point here. People can't seem to wait a few minutes for something. ITS MY MONHEY I WANT EVERYTHING NOW DO IT MY WHAY OR A TAKE MY BUSINESS ELSEWHERE!!!!! I don't know if it's a cultural thing, or a personal thing, but I take my time and get to know my servers and salespeople. I'm not too worried if something is going to take a few minutes longer or cost a few dollars more. Because of this I get taken care of a lot better when I go back to the establishments I am a patron of; e.g. at my local McDonalds its just common understanding that I get large fries no matter the size of the meal I order. This is because I was always patient with the albino kid when he was training and he now runs that joint. It pays to be understanding; the worse thing that happens is you do take your money elsewhere, but this way you do it without looking like an entitled cockmongler with a stick up his ass.

I usually just blame it on the dog, but for some reason that never works...

Well it should have felt as good as $350 or more to be worth the missed sale.