When we call your number, you need to be here!

[greensinestro]

I went to Publix yesterday and visited their deli, where over half of the excitement happens, I think. I took a number, which is common when I go. My number was 60, and they were on 56, which meant I had to wait for at least four other people. Next, a lady came up after me, and she was 61. Well, in the middle of this, they then called "57", and nobody answered. Then it was "58", then "59" and finally "60". I got my stuff ordered, and noticed the electronic sign was still on "56". When the deli employee was slicing my meat, another free employee called out "57", then "58", then "59", when all of a sudden, the lady who had
"58" spoke up. This caused the lady with "61" to get upset, because technically, it was her turn after me. Due to the person helping me not changing the number like they're supposed to, this caused a bit of a scene with the woman who disappeared to do some more shopping and the woman who took her number and patiently waited her turn. Of course, "58" had to be helped, because she had no idea her number had already been called.

There's another Publix near where I work, and the other day when I stopped in there, I saw a sign that said, "When we call your number, you must be present or you lose your turn in line". I guess it hasn't caught up with where I live yet.

[depechemodefan]

This reminds me of a library I worked at. If you want to use a computer, you have to go to a stand alone computer to log in the wait in a queue until it's your turn. When your number appears, you have about 8 min. to get the computer assigned to you before it goes to the next person in the queue.

As a courtesy, us librarians will call out numbers because we know people go browse for books and sometimes people on a computer will log out and a person who is waiting has their number show up faster then expected.

Of course, it's a courtesy. The fucktards who use the library thinks it's a right that we call out their numbers. And sometimes we don't because we are busy helping people and we arn't monitoring.

One little shit had the audacity to say, (with her nose up in the air, the little fucking 11 year old) "I had to log in again because no one called out my number." I wanted to tell her, "You're the one who has to pay attention, not the librarians. It's not our job to watch out for you."

Oh, and I remember I was helping out at a library when an old man bitched that "at other libraries the librarians call out numbers!" I told him, "and I was busy helping someone so I couldn't monitor the numbers" and he kept on going about how he lost his turn and I should have been paying attention. This was a tiny library, the public area was no more that 1,000 sq ft. He could have been going back and forth checking for his number.

[greensinestro]

depechemodefan, maybe it's time people like this need to buy their own computers. I don't even use the ones a the library for reasons like this.

[jedimaster91]

Those are usually the ones who are too busy trying to hook up with underage girls on MySpace to hold down a job to pay for said computer.

[Becks]

"When we call your number, you must be present or you lose your turn in line".

That is how it should be.