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This has been something I've been doing alot of thinking of. Hell, I typed this on wordpad before I posted
it here. Just to make sure I get my thoughts clear and understanding. I'm not really sure how to word it, so I'll try.
This place has helped me. I've become a better person, and as such a better clerk. However, I'm more worried about
the negative aspect of that. Equal reaction for every action. Not so much as a sling I suppose, but more of a dam.
See, a dam is made to hold water, generate power, etc etc. I have made a dam towards customers. However, overtime, dams
get damaged. Customers, are poking holes into me. Bit. By bit. By bit. Alot of times, its tiny holes. But a repeat, makes
that hole bigger before it can be repaired. How long does it take to repair? Who knows. But its the follow that makes holes
bigger.
1: People who apolgy over and over for change. I don't care. I can count change. Fast even. If saying sorry to anyone,
say sorry to the people behind you. 99 percent of the time, its not me they bitch to, its YOU. However, on that note,
its the twenties, fifties, and hundreds that make the biggest holes. Yes, we have an ATM. Yes it spits out twenties.
However, being a convience store, your are NOT the only one that spends twenties there. Two, sometimes three twenties, and
suddenly my drawer is empty and still have a time limit that is not even close to getting done on the safe, to get out a
grand total of 20 dollars in fives, or 10 dollars in ones. Guess how long that lasts when most of the time, its the next
customer, that onces again gets a dollar item and pays with a twenty. There are several 24 hour big business near here. There
are FIVE banks, all within three minutes from here by car. Do you really, desperartly need that candy bar? Or chap stick? Or
god forbid the cheapest beer in existence. Now, spending 5 dollars, fine, that is reasonable. That doesn't piss me off as much.
On that note: Please, why, why do people act so suprise, and PISSed of that I do not, nor will I be able, to get change for
100??? Or why the pissed off look that in the off beat chance I somehow do, it WILL be 5s, dollars, and quarters. Even though
I just told you it would be in that form, and you said OK.
2: Lottery. Whatever. People gamble. However, do NOT give me foul looks. Do not groan and piss at customers, when they ask you
to please, move one INCE to the left or right, so they can get buy there stuff. No-one likes waiting while you hum and haw
over spending one dollar over a grand selection of 3 differenty lottery scratch it. Yes. We do have 20 dollar scratch it.
If you want scratch it, at least decide which you want. Yes, it could be lucky and have a 1000 dollar winner there. But,
who works there? Who see's people turn in lottery? Me, and I'll tell you, ten dollars is about average. Woo woo.
Also, for online. I will comfirm it first. 99 perchant of the time I'll ask for money first. Its only when I forget to that
screws me over. Do not bitch about me asking for your money. You are going to pay right? So what does it matter if you pay
that second, or thirty seconds later? Only thieves really think that way IMO. However, I cannot void it. So if I ask you,
when you have 5 dollars in your hand, and you say 1 dollar BLAH, and 4 dollar BLAH, and I ask, you say yes, do not scream
NEVERMIND after its printed. Yes. It was my fault for not asking for money first. But be decent. I cannot force you to pay
for it. You don't care. Even had I gotten the money first, you'd scream bloody murder afterwards regardless, so why be a prick?
ON that note, why do you come to us with your 100 dollar winner. Do you really, honest to goodness think we carry that amount?
You don't even tell us the amount, and alot of times its hard to see what you have won. So a little forwarning would be nice.
So guess who gets to wait, since once it goes through we are required to give to you.
3: Matches. Yes. Sometimes we have matches. Alot of times we don't. They're are free, and thus people grab them by the handful.
People also grab whole packs of napkins. Not like 3-4, I'm talking 500 napkins. They are not free for us. We are being nice.
No law stating we are required to provide you with matches and napkins.
4: Cig deals. Yes, sometimes we have a Buy one get one free cigs. Sometimes buy 2 get one free. You buy them. Do you think
only you? Do you think we think you are so special that we hide them just for you? We're going to sell them. Its money for us
regardless. First come, first serve. Also, its not like we order them. Otherwise it'll be all we have. Company gives it to us
as a gesture, not a requirment.
5: Yep, we don't have any on the shelf. Your curious as to why? Do you not see the 12 other people in the store? I have to
watch those. Maybe you have never had the privage of having stuff stolen from you, but its an act I see too many times a day.
It is BUSY here. I do NOT sit on my ass all day, and you are NOT the only one that buys it. So, we run out, when I don't have
any customers, I can stock, but its so rare not to have at least two or three in my store at at time, and sinec I'm the only
worker here? Hmm. Wonderwhy? I am sorry about it, but its really nothing I can do.
6: Again, its busy here. So, as a human being, I have needs. Like bathroom breaks. So pounding on the door, nearly breaking
our windows when you have to wait a grand total of 1 minute and 52 seconds (My average to go, wash, and run), is not a crime
against humanity, or as someone once put it, against the law. That beer you despreatly need can wait.
7: Beer and cigs need ID. Yes, you have to be 18 for cigs, 21 for beer. Take as compliment as worst. If you really think you
look over 30 when your 19, then I feel bad for you. Perhaps your face is aged, but your brain is fazed.
8: Yes, I take my job seriously on that carding. Bitching that at me, big deal. Just like you, I need money to pay bills.
Do you break the law at your job? Well, since your a MAN since you have a two sons and a daughter, at 19 years old, selling
drugs because thats what a MAN does, I'm just going to have to disagree on our intreptions of what manhood implies. To me,
a man follows the law. A man who keeps his promises. A man who supports his family. A man who, you know, knows common sense
and does not hassle a freaking clerk over a fucking cigar your going to stuff drugs into. I don't do that crap. Honestly,
it does bother me, and doesn't bother me. A man should be clear headed for his children and wife. But whatever. I'm a clerk
who takes his job /too/ seriously by refusing sell to someone with no ID. I'm not on commision. I sure as hell don't wanna
be 'cool' in your eyes. I like me. I don't like you. You are not important to me nor is your thoughts on a cool bro. You
need a cigar? Carry your ID and show it. Don't cry. Be a man.
9: Beer and Cigs are my least favorite. However, I can understand why people like it. I've been drunk. Never smoked, but
whatever. I don't like that feeling of lungs ripping out of me by a back scratcher being used by a blind man in a wheelchair
and no back. Some do. However, I feel sorry for people who NEED that 18 pack of beer a day. Who drink in and drink out, smoke
3 packs a day. Life sucks. It really really does. I won't go to the extreme of saying your just trying to commit a long
term and painful suicide, but I've been in those shoes. I just tried a much quicker and graphic exits. This one is more of a
WHY question rather then a thing that just annoys me.
10: In the tiny cases where I've been in the cooler stocking, do NOT freak out and start screaming for me. Do not say how you
thought I was shot and dead. Nor do you say I thought I could have everything free. Yes, clerks do get shot and killed. For
the most part, you'll hear it. Wanna know why you hear it? Because its not as common as you'd think. Thats why its on the
news when it does happen. Is it scary here? It can be. I've been stabbed. I've been hit, by fist and glass. I've had guns
pointed at me. But I remember those the most, because its not only exciting in a morbid fashion, but because it happens alot
more rare then I proclaim it to be.
11: Math. I'm smart at it. Not the best, but I can make mistakes. However, the register cannot unless I screw it up. Perhaps this is just too hard for you to grasp. (Lets see our CS follow along!)
Customer buying:
1.65 in beer.
7.00 in lottery.
8.65 total.
She is returning 4 dollars in lottery, so credit 4 dollars.
8.65 - 4 = 4.65.
She pays in a twenty. I hand her 15.35.
Do not start bitching at me that I did NOT give you your 4 dollars from lottery return. Do you truly expect to be able to get THAT much lottery and beer, for .65 cents? Please. Dear gawd almight PLEASE use some common sense and MATH skills. Minumal price for lottery is a dollar even! You got THREE of those, and TWO $2 dollar lottery. Is it that hard a problem?
... Well, I rattled on a little too much. I'm just asking, the dam is almost to the breaking point. How do you people relax?
Its just all that above, happening every. Freaking. Day. OVER. And OVER. And OVER.
it here. Just to make sure I get my thoughts clear and understanding. I'm not really sure how to word it, so I'll try.
This place has helped me. I've become a better person, and as such a better clerk. However, I'm more worried about
the negative aspect of that. Equal reaction for every action. Not so much as a sling I suppose, but more of a dam.
See, a dam is made to hold water, generate power, etc etc. I have made a dam towards customers. However, overtime, dams
get damaged. Customers, are poking holes into me. Bit. By bit. By bit. Alot of times, its tiny holes. But a repeat, makes
that hole bigger before it can be repaired. How long does it take to repair? Who knows. But its the follow that makes holes
bigger.
1: People who apolgy over and over for change. I don't care. I can count change. Fast even. If saying sorry to anyone,
say sorry to the people behind you. 99 percent of the time, its not me they bitch to, its YOU. However, on that note,
its the twenties, fifties, and hundreds that make the biggest holes. Yes, we have an ATM. Yes it spits out twenties.
However, being a convience store, your are NOT the only one that spends twenties there. Two, sometimes three twenties, and
suddenly my drawer is empty and still have a time limit that is not even close to getting done on the safe, to get out a
grand total of 20 dollars in fives, or 10 dollars in ones. Guess how long that lasts when most of the time, its the next
customer, that onces again gets a dollar item and pays with a twenty. There are several 24 hour big business near here. There
are FIVE banks, all within three minutes from here by car. Do you really, desperartly need that candy bar? Or chap stick? Or
god forbid the cheapest beer in existence. Now, spending 5 dollars, fine, that is reasonable. That doesn't piss me off as much.
On that note: Please, why, why do people act so suprise, and PISSed of that I do not, nor will I be able, to get change for
100??? Or why the pissed off look that in the off beat chance I somehow do, it WILL be 5s, dollars, and quarters. Even though
I just told you it would be in that form, and you said OK.
2: Lottery. Whatever. People gamble. However, do NOT give me foul looks. Do not groan and piss at customers, when they ask you
to please, move one INCE to the left or right, so they can get buy there stuff. No-one likes waiting while you hum and haw
over spending one dollar over a grand selection of 3 differenty lottery scratch it. Yes. We do have 20 dollar scratch it.
If you want scratch it, at least decide which you want. Yes, it could be lucky and have a 1000 dollar winner there. But,
who works there? Who see's people turn in lottery? Me, and I'll tell you, ten dollars is about average. Woo woo.
Also, for online. I will comfirm it first. 99 perchant of the time I'll ask for money first. Its only when I forget to that
screws me over. Do not bitch about me asking for your money. You are going to pay right? So what does it matter if you pay
that second, or thirty seconds later? Only thieves really think that way IMO. However, I cannot void it. So if I ask you,
when you have 5 dollars in your hand, and you say 1 dollar BLAH, and 4 dollar BLAH, and I ask, you say yes, do not scream
NEVERMIND after its printed. Yes. It was my fault for not asking for money first. But be decent. I cannot force you to pay
for it. You don't care. Even had I gotten the money first, you'd scream bloody murder afterwards regardless, so why be a prick?
ON that note, why do you come to us with your 100 dollar winner. Do you really, honest to goodness think we carry that amount?
You don't even tell us the amount, and alot of times its hard to see what you have won. So a little forwarning would be nice.
So guess who gets to wait, since once it goes through we are required to give to you.
3: Matches. Yes. Sometimes we have matches. Alot of times we don't. They're are free, and thus people grab them by the handful.
People also grab whole packs of napkins. Not like 3-4, I'm talking 500 napkins. They are not free for us. We are being nice.
No law stating we are required to provide you with matches and napkins.
4: Cig deals. Yes, sometimes we have a Buy one get one free cigs. Sometimes buy 2 get one free. You buy them. Do you think
only you? Do you think we think you are so special that we hide them just for you? We're going to sell them. Its money for us
regardless. First come, first serve. Also, its not like we order them. Otherwise it'll be all we have. Company gives it to us
as a gesture, not a requirment.
5: Yep, we don't have any on the shelf. Your curious as to why? Do you not see the 12 other people in the store? I have to
watch those. Maybe you have never had the privage of having stuff stolen from you, but its an act I see too many times a day.
It is BUSY here. I do NOT sit on my ass all day, and you are NOT the only one that buys it. So, we run out, when I don't have
any customers, I can stock, but its so rare not to have at least two or three in my store at at time, and sinec I'm the only
worker here? Hmm. Wonderwhy? I am sorry about it, but its really nothing I can do.
6: Again, its busy here. So, as a human being, I have needs. Like bathroom breaks. So pounding on the door, nearly breaking
our windows when you have to wait a grand total of 1 minute and 52 seconds (My average to go, wash, and run), is not a crime
against humanity, or as someone once put it, against the law. That beer you despreatly need can wait.
7: Beer and cigs need ID. Yes, you have to be 18 for cigs, 21 for beer. Take as compliment as worst. If you really think you
look over 30 when your 19, then I feel bad for you. Perhaps your face is aged, but your brain is fazed.
8: Yes, I take my job seriously on that carding. Bitching that at me, big deal. Just like you, I need money to pay bills.
Do you break the law at your job? Well, since your a MAN since you have a two sons and a daughter, at 19 years old, selling
drugs because thats what a MAN does, I'm just going to have to disagree on our intreptions of what manhood implies. To me,
a man follows the law. A man who keeps his promises. A man who supports his family. A man who, you know, knows common sense
and does not hassle a freaking clerk over a fucking cigar your going to stuff drugs into. I don't do that crap. Honestly,
it does bother me, and doesn't bother me. A man should be clear headed for his children and wife. But whatever. I'm a clerk
who takes his job /too/ seriously by refusing sell to someone with no ID. I'm not on commision. I sure as hell don't wanna
be 'cool' in your eyes. I like me. I don't like you. You are not important to me nor is your thoughts on a cool bro. You
need a cigar? Carry your ID and show it. Don't cry. Be a man.
9: Beer and Cigs are my least favorite. However, I can understand why people like it. I've been drunk. Never smoked, but
whatever. I don't like that feeling of lungs ripping out of me by a back scratcher being used by a blind man in a wheelchair
and no back. Some do. However, I feel sorry for people who NEED that 18 pack of beer a day. Who drink in and drink out, smoke
3 packs a day. Life sucks. It really really does. I won't go to the extreme of saying your just trying to commit a long
term and painful suicide, but I've been in those shoes. I just tried a much quicker and graphic exits. This one is more of a
WHY question rather then a thing that just annoys me.
10: In the tiny cases where I've been in the cooler stocking, do NOT freak out and start screaming for me. Do not say how you
thought I was shot and dead. Nor do you say I thought I could have everything free. Yes, clerks do get shot and killed. For
the most part, you'll hear it. Wanna know why you hear it? Because its not as common as you'd think. Thats why its on the
news when it does happen. Is it scary here? It can be. I've been stabbed. I've been hit, by fist and glass. I've had guns
pointed at me. But I remember those the most, because its not only exciting in a morbid fashion, but because it happens alot
more rare then I proclaim it to be.
11: Math. I'm smart at it. Not the best, but I can make mistakes. However, the register cannot unless I screw it up. Perhaps this is just too hard for you to grasp. (Lets see our CS follow along!)
Customer buying:
1.65 in beer.
7.00 in lottery.
8.65 total.
She is returning 4 dollars in lottery, so credit 4 dollars.
8.65 - 4 = 4.65.
She pays in a twenty. I hand her 15.35.
Do not start bitching at me that I did NOT give you your 4 dollars from lottery return. Do you truly expect to be able to get THAT much lottery and beer, for .65 cents? Please. Dear gawd almight PLEASE use some common sense and MATH skills. Minumal price for lottery is a dollar even! You got THREE of those, and TWO $2 dollar lottery. Is it that hard a problem?
... Well, I rattled on a little too much. I'm just asking, the dam is almost to the breaking point. How do you people relax?
Its just all that above, happening every. Freaking. Day. OVER. And OVER. And OVER.
I guess I lead a sheltered life.
) and gaming. It's a lot easier with MMOs, as you've got a community of friends there as well - beat stuff up and chat about the bad day you had.
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