personal pictures at work

[candyshopgirl]

I have some personal pictures on my counter/desk at work. I've notice something.People come up to pay and they look at my pictures surprised. Almost like they can't believe that I have dogs/cat and a GASP!!! a husband.It seems to be the hordy tordy hotel people,the students always nice. They always ask about my dogs.I dunno us this normal? Do they think that we live in the back of store and have no life? They seem surprised that I have I have a picture from my New York trip. They almost act as if they think I'm just a poor peaon that they can't believe that I can afford a trip. It shuts their mouth when I tell them .. Yeah my hubby is a big shot in the toy community so hasbro paid for our entire trip.They just stand there like

[hinakiba777]

I don't know., really. I do know that people seem shocked when I mention that I need to close now because I've got to get home for supper. They give me this looks as though they are shocked I have a home.

I think a lot of people dehumanize those that serve them. So, yeah, I think they do believe you live at your desk.

[Bramblerose]

I'd love a job that would pay for a trip- that's cool!

of coures, one of my college profs originally worked elementary music. She had young (like 3rd or less) students who were surprised that she didn't sleep at school.

[jerkface11]

For some reason I was expecting a story about innapropriate pictures at work. Maybe that's just my work though.

[wagegoth]

Has it not been made clear that retail employees/ anyone who works with the public do not have lives? They're not really human, just incredibly life-like animatronics manufactured by Disney in huge quantities and numerous variations in a hidden, slave-labor factory in southern China. They do not eat, sleep or need to relieve themselves. They can be treated abusively and will accept the treatment as their due. They may be verbally and/or physically attacked without fear of reprisal. They receive minimal pay as their needs are few, requiring only a place to plug-in their battery chargers for a few hours a day, and the occasional change of clean clothing. They are easily replaced, being simply cogs that only appear different on the outside. They don't grow old, have families, or any emotional connections beyond the desire to serve their employers and the public to the extent of their robotic ability. Unfortunately, they do occasionally breakdown and begin to exhibit independent thought and behavior. At this point they are "fired," which means they are shipped back to the factory in China for reprogramming, to then return a few months later by slow boat to another employer.

[powerboy]

They do act shock that I want to get home to my loved ones.

[smileyeagle1021]

I get that at work occasionally... part of it is that 2 shifts a week (normally) are graveyard and we are about the size where it's not that uncommon for it to be a family run hotel and just have the owners live in an apartment attached and have them take turns at night (we are 96 rooms, and I've seen the owner living on site arrangement on hotels as large as 98 rooms). So I can kinda see the people thinking I do live here. That said the idea that I have no friends and family or other things outside of the hotel, like school, bogels the mind. yesterday morning when I was getting off work and I was rushing out to get to class there was a guest who commented that he was surprised any of us would be taking a class on saturday morning... well yeah, when that's what works with your schedule you do... especially sense some of us have asperations beyond working 4 days a week at the front desk.

[Bright_Star]

I figured out that when I was a cashier at Wally World & when I was close to my shift ending I'd tell people that whoever was last in line that they were my last customers cause I was closing. Then I'd get people come up behind my "last customer" & when I told them so then that's when all hell broke loose. They'd bitch, they'd rant & call me every nasty word they could come up with. Now I figured out that it was due to most customers treating cashiers as if they were part of the cash register & when said cashier said something other than what they expected to hear then they'd get all surprised cause they couldn't believe that we actually have lives! They would assume we were mindless robots & would treat us accordingly.
I don't know but it always seemed to me that customers must think we have a couple of cots out back where we sleep & never ever leave the store.
Customers constantly complain that they are there to shop & we are to wait on them hand & foot! They want RESPECT cause they're spending money. That's fine BUT up to a point. Retail workers deserve the same kind of respect too. It goes both ways. Treat a retail worker with respect & they'll be more than happy to help you out BUT treat one like shit & they'll return the favor...lol.
The public can't continue to treat retail workers as if we were paid slaves. All of us have our own lives & while we will put up with a lot SC bullshit it doesn't mean that we're going to continue to put up with it. People have their limits so don't be surprised if a cashier bitches out an SC for being an asshole even if doing so will mean getting them fired.

[AirHostess]

I have never understood why SC's think this. Surely most of them have jobs too?

I keep a little folder in my bag, I have the inflight annoucements in here and other such things and also put my roster in there and some personal photos. People seem shocked that you don't spend you're entire life on the plane.

The best one is, downroute, when you are checking into a great hotel and passengers from your flight are there. They always look shocked as if to say 'wow you stay HERE?" because flight attendants obviously don't require sleep. Or days off.

[smileyeagle1021]

The best one is, downroute, when you are checking into a great hotel and passengers from your flight are there. They always look shocked as if to say 'wow you stay HERE?" because flight attendants obviously don't require sleep. Or days off.

oh, I saw a variation of that all the time when I worked at the airport taking the bus home... tourists who would brave the bus system to get downtown (because they were too cheap to get a hotel that provides shuttle... or pay for a cab) would be like "wow, why are you taking the bus here" to flight attendants and they would say something like "well, it's the only way I have to get home" and without fail the person would respond along the lines of "wait, you actually live here"

I've also ran into guests while I'm downtown and they'll recognize me and make comments about how they are surprised to see me... most often this happens at the Gateway Mall... umm, yeah, I shop too...

I think tourists never quite grasp the concept that people do actually LIVE in the cities that they are visiting (and I admit that I am somewhat guilty of that myself)

[TonyDonuts]

In my battery store days a guy came in at three in the afternoon, on a Sunday, an hour before close, with a couple of cordless drill battery packs that needed rebuilding.

I tell him the price, look at the work waiting on the tech's workbench, and tell him the price, and that it should be ready to pick up by five tomorrow.

"Unacceptable," the guy says, "I need them tonight."

"Can't do it," I tell the guy, "We close in an hour, and our tech's out of town today."

A completely puzzled look, "Well, why is that? Why isn't he here?"

"Because it's his DAY OFF, and he took the family to the Renaissance Festival in Shakopee today."

"Well, that's just completely unacceptable, I demand that you get him here, I need them today!"

"Sorry, sir, there's no way for him to get here before we close, he'll do them after the work ahead of yours tomorrow. That's how this works."

"You're refusing my business?" The completely puzzled look again.

"No. I'm just telling you that getting it tonight just ain't happening. You can have it tomorrow."

Demanding again. "Well, why don't you do it!"

"Because 1) I suck at it (the mysteries of the spot welder eluded me) and 2) we close at four on Sunday. There's not enough time. And I'm meeting my folks for supper at five. I'm not going to wait for them to show up after a three hour drive just to tell them to 'Piss off, I'm busy"

"But I need it tonight!"

"Sorry, can't help you tonight."

And on and on it that vein for another ten minutes.

His headmeat just could not handle "Storeguy have folks?" or "Other Storeguy have FAMILY?" The thought of this guy with power tools was . . . concerning.

[Rapscallion]

More of a general work chat topic - moved.

Rapscallion

[wanderingjoe72]

The best one is, downroute, when you are checking into a great hotel and passengers from your flight are there. They always look shocked as if to say 'wow you stay HERE?" because flight attendants obviously don't require sleep. Or days off.

You could always reply "yes, since our regular place didn't have room they are putting us up at this cheap hotel". That would get you some funny looks I'm sure.