Oct 25, 2010 7:46 AM GMT
paulflexes saidNice to see a cashier that actually enforces the 10-item rule.
It would also be nice to see a store that does NOT put the slowest cashier in the express lane.
JR84 saidThat's probably why I don't make a good living with photography. I have no problem telling clients to go fuck themselves when they piss me off.paulflexes saidNice to see a cashier that actually enforces the 10-item rule.
It would also be nice to see a store that does NOT put the slowest cashier in the express lane.
Ok, as a person that used to be a cashier in a grocery store, I can't tell you that when you deal with people it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. I said something, the managers got on my ass, If I didn't, the customers would bitch. So, just be a good civil person. I am sure you notice the the sign.
Right before I quit my job, a guy got pissed off because I asked what he was using to pay. I could see he as holding a card, but I needed to know if it was a debit, credit, food stamp card, gift card, or relia card. "doesn't your computer tell you?" he said. I said, "No, sir! I need to know so I can push the right button." Since he wouldn't tell me, I just pushed the bebit button, and thankfully he paid with a debit. When I handed him the receipt, he violently grabbed it from my hand and clearly said, "Fucking spic." I, said right back, "well, fuck you, too." What were they gonna do? fire me. I'd already put in my two-week notice. The asshole must've not complained because I never heard anything. Anyways, do people think we are fucking mind readers.
My favorite question of all, "Excuse me! how much is your..." well, I don't know, but I'll check." "You work here right," "yes I do, but we have thousands of items in the store, and they pretty much change prices every week (weekly sales)."
Another one, that ticked me off so much was when people would take items that clearly needed to be tagged before they brought it to the check-stand, and when I would send the item back to be tagged, they would say, "Well, it was this much, why can't you just punch into the computer?" Sure, I'll put a tag out of my ass and do it ok.
Besides, when people pissed me off, I would squish their bread, or break their eggs while bagging them. You know that saying that says be nice to the people that serve you...Well it's true.
Art_Deco said"Yes, sir, you are," she answered, looking a bit startled by all this uproar, but also giving me a smile of encouragement. I made my purchases, all the time this witch behind me creating a furor and actually butting me with her shopping cart.
Art_Deco saidReminds me of a visit to a Publix supermarket in Hollywood, Florida over 10 years ago. I waited patiently in line at the checkout, until I was next, my items already on the conveyor belt. Suddenly I heard this commotion in the line behind me.
"Let me past! I need to get ahead of you!" snarled this 60-something woman, and the other shoppers, also older themselves on a mid-afternoon of a weekday, all got out of the way for her as she forced her cart forward. Then she got to me.
"Got out of my way!" she demanded. Not even asking, just ordering.
"Why" I calmly asked. "I'm next."
"Because I'm old!" she snapped back at me.
"And I'm disabled," I replied, holding up my cane.
"But I'm old, and I can't wait in line!" she nearly screamed back at me.
"Well, neither can I. If you're more disabled than me there's the special handicapped checkout over there," I pointed to her, when Publix had those in some stores, though it wasn't staffed at that moment, why I had stood for some time in my current regular lane. She wasn't using a cane and looked fit enough to me.
She started getting hysterical at my refusal, and some of the other customers behind us started to protest: "Let that old lady through!" Well, she wasn't all that old, and I stood my ground. Had she been polite, and at least said "please" at some point I might have, but this ordering of people out of her way (and in a most grating New York accent) just rubbed me the wrong way, so that I was in no mood for it.
I turned to the checkout person: "Am I next in line?"
"Yes, sir, you are," she answered, looking a bit startled by all this uproar, but also giving me a smile of encouragement. I made my purchases, all the time this witch behind me creating a furor and actually butting me with her shopping cart.
As for 10-item express lanes in US supermarkets, I & my partner always do a count to make sure we qualify, if we're not certain. It's not like the Express Lane Police will come to arrest us, but there's such a thing as playing by the rules, and having consideration for others.
res_ident saidNEVER underestimate the arrogance and stupidity of the typical human.
NickFit saidI would have threatened to call the police and have her arrested for assault and battery.
Art_Deco saidNah, I'm actually quite reserved and excessively polite in public (or at least pretend to be), not the hothead I can be online here with political arguments.I can vouch for that.
paulflexes saidArt_Deco saidNah, I'm actually quite reserved and excessively polite in public (or at least pretend to be), not the hothead I can be online here with political arguments.I can vouch for that.
PS. I've been at the Manor for the past three Saturdays in a row and haven't seen you there. Ya'll need to get out more often.
Art_Deco saidYep, I was there three weekends ago, but I was busy playing psychiatrist for a friend who was/is having [chronic] relationship problems.paulflexes saidArt_Deco saidNah, I'm actually quite reserved and excessively polite in public (or at least pretend to be), not the hothead I can be online here with political arguments.I can vouch for that.
PS. I've been at the Manor for the past three Saturdays in a row and haven't seen you there. Ya'll need to get out more often.
We rarely go to The Manor, not one of our regular hangouts. Last time was 3 weeks ago on a Thursday for a costumed theme fundraiser, some pics posted here. Were you there when Al had his party on the second floor in the main hall?
We usually join a group of friends at the Alibi around 8 on Fridays, but haven't since our New England trip last month. We might start that again, I think most of them have returned from their own trips they were taking at that same time, and other commitments they had. But the Key West bike ride is almost here, so that'll take us out for a couple of weeks in November, too.
So let us know. We often decide at the last minute, everything being so nearby, depending on whether any of our friends are showing up on Friday night. Otherwise we just go out to a restaurant. But we do go out most nights, just attended a big fundraiser gala on Thursday, so we're hardly hibernating.
Buffhunk64 saidThe self-check out lanes are great...scan...bag...pay...leave. No human interaction.Sometimes, yeah. But all it takes is one dumbass who can't figure it out and has to call over the helper person, who also doesn't have a clue. Then it takes longer than waiting on the slow checker in the express lane.
paulflexes saidBuffhunk64 saidThe self-check out lanes are great...scan...bag...pay...leave. No human interaction.Sometimes, yeah. But all it takes is one dumbass who can't figure it out and has to call over the helper person, who also doesn't have a clue. Then it takes longer than waiting on the slow checker in the express lane.