Work frustration

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I stopped for stuff to make nachos on Tuesday and the grocery was having a donation drive. Cashiers would ask and if a customer agreed to donate, they had to rattle plastic clackers and every employee up and down the register bank had to cheer. In just the time I was in and out of the store, the whole thing was triggering sound overload and I feel so bad for the cashiers who had to stand there for a 4-6 hour shift while all that noise was going on!

Well done to that store for driving out all their customers with sensory disorders. I don't get why corporate (or whoever) still thinks this is a positive thing to do. I don't even like at Trader Joe's, the way they clang bells. I wonder if I don't have some sort of sound issue, or if I'm just extra grumpy. Anyway, I was at Freddy's and they weren't doing any sort of drive, thank goodness.

The sound probably wouldn't get to me, but the thought that the store considers me nothing more than a walking wallet would.

As for why stores do this, I suspect it's more to make the employees show they are "on board" with whatever promotion/charity drive is going on.

[Shyla]

I would be so pissed if someone told me I had to donate because I was buying food they didn't consider important. I hope as a customer you complain. As a cashier, I guess all you can do is the bare minimum. Do you want to donate? No? Ok thanks. If the boss says there's an incentive say "that's nice." I hate these types of jerky promotions.

[Slave to the Phone]

The serving wenches at Renn Faire food booths ring bells and shout "Huzzah for the big tipper!!!" whilst hopping up and down and jiggling their barely covered bazonkas.

I wonder if corp thought got their inspiration from that. They would have ignored the reasons that made everyone like to hear the bell ring and would have just noticed that almost everyone who bought food also gave money to make the bell ring.

I donate to my favorite charities and I do volunteer work. I don't donate to the flavor of the month at stores, but I also don't explain myself to the person asking. A simple "No, thank you" should be sufficient. If its not, I also don't have favorite stores, but I do have a lot of choices.

[little_miss_springfield]

Cashiers would ask and if a customer agreed to donate, they had to rattle plastic clackers and every employee up and down the register bank had to cheer.

All that fuss and attention would discourage me from donating.

[laborcat]

All that fuss and attention would discourage me from donating.

Me too. What I do with my money should be my business and I don't donate for recognition.

[EricKei]

The Kroger here doesn't have any charity stuff going on at the moment -- they just have little "hotel desktop" bells on every register, and ask that customers ring them if they got excellent service. I mostly imagine the look of abject terror in the poor cashiers' eyes when someone comes through the line with an antsy toddler in the basket's seat...

[snugglegirl05]

Me too. What I do with my money should be my business and I don't donate for recognition.

That is how I feel.

At the Kroger I work at you have to announce over the intercom every time you get a donation.

I do not like drawing attention to myself.

[snugglegirl05]

The Kroger here doesn't have any charity stuff going on at the moment -- they just have little "hotel desktop" bells on every register, and ask that customers ring them if they got excellent service. I mostly imagine the look of abject terror in the poor cashiers' eyes when someone comes through the line with an antsy toddler in the basket's seat...

Those bells are also at the Kroger I work at.

Kids love ringing the bell, sometimes too much.