I Am Rare Like the UNICORN

[Gaki]

I did two third shifts in the past week.

SC: What store are you from?
Me: This one.
SC: Well I'VE never SEEN YOU before.
Me: I don't work third. If you only come in between ten and six then you wouldn't see me, would you?
SC: ...oh...


SC: Are you new?
Me: I've been here 5 years.
SC: ...well I've never seen you before.
Me: *siiiiiiigh* You've never come in on MY SHIFT before then.


SC: *hands me a 100 for a 2.00 item*
Me: I can't break that.
SC: Aww come on.
Me: What time is it?
SC: Um...like two in the morning.
Me: And do I look stupid to you?
SC: *leaves*


Back to my normal shift:

SC: Your pump isn't working. I slid my card and I set it up and it never started pumping.
Me: You actually pulled the trigger on the gas pump and it never pumped?
SC: Yeah. I went into the store and when I came out it hadn't pumped anything.
Me: ...you never pumped any gas.
SC: But I set it all up.
Me: If it didn't reset these numbers here then those are the transaction before you. You'll have to redo the transaction and DON'T WALK AWAY FROM IT. *points at the huge sign telling people not to walk away from pump*


I'm sitting in the office off the clock without my hat on and I'm talking on the phone to my friend who needs a ride.

SC: KNOCK KNOCK!!!
Me: *turns around to find him hanging on the doorway LEANING INTO THE OFFICE*
SC: PAPER TOWELS IN THE MEN'S ROOM.
Me: Not on the clock. Ask the guy who's working.
SC: ...AUGH.
Me: *slams the office door.*


SC: Excuse me. I paid 5.99 for this but the tag says 5.89.
Me: Okay. Would you like a dime?
SC: YES I WOULD.


SC: These are three for three.
Me: That's if you order them on the kiosk.
SC: EVERY OTHER STORE DOES IT THERE'S A BUTTON BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Me: ...*wastes time running around trying to "figure out" if it's true and find the sale and blah blah blah* Sir, if it doesn't ring up that way then it's for the kiosk only.
SC: BLANFDKNASNVEGTK:AMGFDSKKLVNSADFKNVJHAFGL:KFJVKNFD ASKLFvj
Me: ...*rings it up on the kiosk and rings it out that way to get him out of my frickin' face*
SC: EVERY OTHER STORE BLARGH
Me: Then they're doing it wrong, sorry to say. All 50 of them. We DON'T do that.

If he tries it again I'm invoking the power of "The manager said so."


SC: This person has been at that pump for a really long time and I want to use it.
Me: I'm not sure what you want me to do.
SC: ...... *slowly walks away*

There are eighteen goddamn pumps.

[smfrazier]

I use to get customers like the first two after I'd been at the store for about. 10 years. "Are you new? I've never seen you before." Then the someone else would come in and say "Don't you ever go home? You're always here no matter what time of day or night I come in."

[Food Lady]

"Do you not want me here? I can go home right now...."

[mjr]

SC: BLANFDKNASNVEGTK:AMGFDSKKLVNSADFKNVJHAFGL:KFJVKNFD ASKLFvj

That's probably really what they said, too...

[Shironu-Akaineko]

SC: This person has been at that pump for a really long time and I want to use it.
Me: I'm not sure what you want me to do.
SC: ...... *slowly walks away*

There are eighteen goddamn pumps.

I don't get it, is it like slot machines?
They have a lucky pump and it pays out more than the other pumps? what?

[cashierbex]

The first two reminds me when I got my hair cut short for the first time. Few people recognized me.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I use to get customers like the first two after I'd been at the store for about. 10 years. "Are you new? I've never seen you before." Then the someone else would come in and say "Don't you ever go home? You're always here no matter what time of day or night I come in."

Same here and I've been at my current store for almost 7 years.

My stock answer is "There's a reason they keep me hidden in the backroom . . ."

[the_std]

SC: *hands me a 100 for a 2.00 item*
Me: I can't break that.
SC: Aww come on.
Me: What time is it?
SC: Um...like two in the morning.
Me: And do I look stupid to you?
SC: *leaves*

[/snip]

I'm sitting in the office off the clock without my hat on and I'm talking on the phone to my friend who needs a ride.

SC: KNOCK KNOCK!!!
Me: *turns around to find him hanging on the doorway LEANING INTO THE OFFICE*
SC: PAPER TOWELS IN THE MEN'S ROOM.
Me: Not on the clock. Ask the guy who's working.
SC: ...AUGH.
Me: *slams the office door.*

Are you really allowed to talk to customers like that? Holy moly, that would get you straight up fired in any job I've ever worked.

[Gaki]

Are you really allowed to talk to customers like that? Holy moly, that would get you straight up fired in any job I've ever worked.

Hell if I know. It's come to my attention that people often know that what they said or did was stupid or they even know before they even do it that it's stupid so they just kinda roll with the punches and admit it to themselves afterwards.

I'm convinced that's why nobody ever complains about me. They knew they were doing something stupid (like try to break a 100 during third shift or swing right into an employee's only area) and they did it anyway.

[Ophbalance]

I don't get it, is it like slot machines?
They have a lucky pump and it pays out more than the other pumps? what?

I actually can sorta see this one. Not that they would complain, mind, but liking a specific pump. The station I frequent has an outlier pump that I use because it has a slower flow rate. And I can then get an additional gallon, gallon and a half into my tank because of it. Which to me is a good 60-90 miles of additional travel between fills. If it's occupied, I just move to a different pump.

Maybe it's some sort of anxiety disorder?

[BrenDAnn]

People don't pay attention, plain and simple. It took a lot of people a year or more to realize I had moved from one store to another. Seriously. I still have people coming in going "Oh...when did you move up here?" and it's been almost a year and a half now!

[Jay 2K Winger]

I still got that kind of reaction from some customers when I still worked at the wholesale club. You know, where I worked for NINE AND A HALF YEARS.

Them: "Are you new?"
J2K: "What? No. I'm not new."
Them: "I've never seen you here before."
J2K: "I... don't know why that is. I've been here for nine years."
Them: "NINE YEARS?!"
J2K: "I guess you're usually in on my off days."

[Trixie]

I have a few customers that give me the old "Don't you ever leave??" But I don't mind because they're nice about it. I just say I have a bed set up in the stockroom and we all have a jolly laugh. As far as never leaving, well my shifts either go from 8-4 or 3-11 and there are weeks that I feel like I never leave.

[RealUnimportant]

"Are you new? I've never seen you before..."

"Fancy that, I've never seen you either - have you just moved here?"

One time, someone actually answered "yes" then suddenly had that glazed look when they realised this answered their original question...

[PepperElf]

SC: This person has been at that pump for a really long time and I want to use it.
Me: I'm not sure what you want me to do.

Apparently you're suppose to kick a paying customer off a pump so the EW can use it cos he/she never learned about "wait your turn".