I decided to be a sucky customer...

[manathemute]

Now I know I hate it but don't you hate it when someone comes in and gives you rolled up money and throws the change on the counter? that is EXACTLY what I did.

Now I don't normally do that... but.. I feel I had a good reason.

Now, it was a few days before my pay check, and I had to get diapers I was running on four and that would not last me til monday and it was saturday. I walk into the local kroger because their diapers are cheaper. My dad gave me 11 because usually a small pack is 9 99 well.. also being VERY sick I didn't look and grabbed the pack for 15.

It came up to 17 bucks and I groaned and the lady gave me this weird look. I told her I was sorry but I didn't have it.. She gave me this look like I was a criminal! I hadn't realized I picked the wrong pack til I had left. I then turned back around and went to grab the RIGHT pack about five minutes later.. I ended up right back at that same cashier. She glared at me and gave me that same sneer and "your a horrible person look" so.. when the total came up. I threw my money on the counter, the dollars were rolled up and she had to fight to pick up the change. I felt so much better after that....

Excuse me for being sick and the other pack was hidden behind a display. I can't help it I was running on 5 dollars and needed diapers. I could justkeep a wet diaper on my daughter yeah thats nice x.x

[anniesbar]

Take a deep breath -- realize you aren't alone --- take another deep breath --- stress can make you edgy -- it's ok once in awhile. We've all been there!!!

[manathemute]

Usually I am really good about handing my change to people or something, and being friendly saying thank you and please and smiling, but it just she really pissed me off. I was so freaking sick.. I still am sick and its not my fault that the stupid people who hung the display hid the diapers I wanted x.x I looked and well just forgot to look at the price doesn't make me a criminal or a bad person makes me human

[Broomjockey]

First, wrong forum. Moved to sightings, since you weren't at work.

Second, you let some random person get to you, and take out your frustration at making a mistake on that person. I don't care if you're sick, you made a mistake, you apologize, fix it, and move on. You don't act out like that, just because some random person gives you what you perceived as attitude (you were sick after all, thus in a bad mood, you sure you saw what you thought you saw?). Bad form on your part. This forum is where we come to bitch about people who do exactly what you did, your normal behaviour notwithstanding.

[laundryhater]

How do I put this...

Someone looks at you a little funny and you get all bent out of shape about it Seriously? How old are you, 10?

And sick or not, you still need to use manners. It's not the cashier's fault you're sick and you shouldn't take it out on her.

If it had been the other way around, you were the cashier and she was your customer in this story tell the truth you'd be on this board venting about it because some woman threw money at you just because she thought the look you had on your face was a dirty look, which in reality could very well have been indigestion from the burito you just ate for lunch or nausea because you were sick and your boss wouldn't let you go home.

In conclusion, "dirty looks" are perceived rudeness and not real rudeness. Give the benefit of the doubt and don't act on it unless they say or do something rude.

[katie kaboom]

Come on guys, give the OP a break. Everyone has a bad day. No one is perfect and i think we need to keep that in mind going forward.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Now I know I hate it but don't you hate it when someone comes in and gives you rolled up money and throws the change on the counter? that is EXACTLY what I did.

Now I don't normally do that... but.. I feel I had a good reason.

And that reason is...you were sick, you made a mistake, and you read too much into a cashier's facial expression?

Good grief. Nobody's perfect, but you're better than that. Or maybe not, since you seem to think you were justified to act the way you did.

[Melicious Motormouth]

I agree. Not that I wanna give the OP too much of a hard time, but if an SC used that as an excuse, I'm sure all of us here would find that unacceptable. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've often seen this sentiment expressed here about SC's: "If they're having a bad day, they shouldn't take it out on us."

I can TOTALLY understand misinterpreting a look - I've done it too - but unless she was outright rude, the OP wasn't in his right. UNLESS it was one of those "you had to be there" situations.

[Broomjockey]

Come on guys, give the OP a break. Everyone has a bad day. No one is perfect and i think we need to keep that in mind going forward.

So you won't vent about the next SC you get, because they may have just been having a bad day? One of the things I've always liked and supported about this community is we know when one of our number has screwed up, and we let them know it, especially when they come off as proud of their actions.

[One-Fang]

While oddly, one of the driving forces in my vacation from CS was because I was freaking sick of the hypocrasy here in supporting what would be seen as sucky behaviour on a customer's side, but from our own ranks. I used to call people out on it and got sick of being verbally beaten down for not being more supportive, and it was one of the reasons I left.

If it has changed since, I shall look forward to that.

[Ree]

I really don't know your reason for posting this.

Were you expecting everyone to just go along with you and tell you your behaviour was OK?

We all have bad days, and I think that's what was happening here. You were sick and you had a clerk who made you feel stupid because of a simple mistake.
Fair enough.

I think what a lot of people have issue with is that you knew your behaviour was unacceptable based simply on the title of this thread.

You admit right from the start that you chose to behave badly.

That's the difference.

This wasn't one of those threads where people act impulsively and then fret that they could have been perceived as sucky, so they post here asking opinions from others.
You appear to be bragging that you acted in this way.

I think the redeeming fact is that you know this was wrong, and you probably wouldn't act that way again.

As for those who are calling her to task, I would remind you that, even though she behaved badly and is admitting to it, she is still a member after all.
It's OK to educate her on where she went wrong (but I think she already knows) as long as it is done respectfully. She did, after all, open that door by posting her admission to being a sucky customer.

For those who are pondering that we are now allowing attacks on other members, I would say that there is a difference in someone posting their confession of suckiness and getting negative feedback on it, and in someone simply posting an experience, not realizing that their own behaviour was so bad, and being raked over the coals as a result.

[iradney]

A "Weird look" is not a reason to be sucky.

Believe it or not, facial expressions are open to interpretation. A look you may have interpreted as "You're a criminal" may have been the cashier thinking "Shame, I've had days like that too."

As an example, whenever I'm deep in thought, I look like I'm pissed off. I'm not, but for some reason, some people interpret that expression that way.

Honestly? You decided to be sucky, and then came here to brag about it. Betcha 5 bucks if you'd been the cashier, you would have come on here and posted about the horrible woman who threw money at you.

You don't get a pass on this. It was mean, and honestly? it was childish.

[katie kaboom]

So you won't vent about the next SC you get, because they may have just been having a bad day?

Honestly? No. I rarely vent on here because of situations exactly like this one. I''m better off keeping my mouth shut when something pisses me off.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Even as someone who's faceblind and Aspie, sometimes you can tell a mean look when you see it. Trust me, I see and give plenty. Without having been there to see exactly how the clerk was looking at the OP, I can't say I wouldn't have done the same thing. Sometimes you don't even need to see the face to very easily catch a vibe that someone is giving you the same look they'd give to poo on the bottom of their flip-flop.

Was her reaction appropriate? Nah. But she doesn't strike me as "bragging" either. To me it sounds more like "Yeah, here's what I did, I felt like it was right but I know it's what an SC would do so it wasn't." I guess maybe I just don't have the hang of taking tone from written word yet.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I really don't know your reason for posting this.

Maybe posting the story here is like going to confession. She was an SC and posted it here. Others have done the same on this forum. Go forth and be an SC no more.