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  • A couple quickies from yesterday...

    In addition to the royal screw job I got at work from SOMEONE, I also had to put up with my first lengthy line of assholes. They're quick stories, not really even worth mention most times, except that I really need to let off some steam. Note that I'm working the express line for my shift.

    Encounter 1: Old Man comes into my line and buys just a couple items, but insists on paying part of his total with goddamn pennies. He has a couple pill bottles filled with pennies. I can't say no to this, so I have to stand there and count out the pennies. After spending like 3 minutes counting out the damn things, he's still a couple bucks short. So what does he do? He goes out to some other person he came to the store with, and pays the rest with a credit card! Meanwhile he's held up the line something bad (after he's done there's like 4-5 people in line). Oh, and to top it off I missed something about the mass of change he paid with: buried in all the pennies were two foreign coins, one from Canada and another from Romania. I hated missing those.

    Encounter 2: Was a pretty short one. Another Old Man came back for a return. Had a receipt. His complaint? He had gotten Expensive Cheese but had wanted Cheese that's Half the Price. If you've ever gotten those blocks of cheese at the store you know that the cheese is wrapped with the price and UPC printed on the wrapping. There's no mistakenly entering a PLU like with produce. Oh, and did he have the cheese he didn't want? If you really don't know the answer, look at what site this is. My front end supervisor took this guy over to her register on the other end of the store so I don't know if he got his money back or what. Wouldn't surprise me if he did.

    Encounter 3: This is more of an annoyance than people being truly sucky. For the last few weeks my wrist has been hurting like hell. Hurting like having to wear a wrist strap and having to lift heavy weights making the pain worse. Yesterday was particularly bad, because the pain had found a way to also inflict itself upon my shoulder. This is also a week my chain decided to put watermelons on sale for like $0.20/lb. Customers constantly come through my line and look at me like they expect me to lift the damn things out of their carts because they can't be bothered to do it themselves. And the strap ain't exactly invisible or hard to spot. MANY of these same customers have to ask about whether I've got carpal tunnel (hope not, I go in to the doc on Tuesday).

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    Hey, I'll buy that Romanian coin out of your till. (I once got a rupee coin...in a roll of quarters from the bank. I just bought it out of the till and took it home to add to our foreign coin collection.)

    Seriously, though...I can get that you want to unload your pennies, but you're holding up the line. Go use a Coinstar.
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    • #3
      Quoth ThanosIsKing View Post
      MANY of these same customers have to ask about whether I've got carpal tunnel (hope not, I go in to the doc on Tuesday).
      "Well, I didn't before I had to lift all of these watermelons ... "

      Wonder if they'd take the hint.

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      • #4
        Quoth ThanosIsKing View Post
        Customers constantly come through my line and look at me like they expect me to lift the damn things out of their carts because they can't be bothered to do it themselves.
        I'd just smile politely and wait for them to lift it themselves. If they complained, I'd probably say something about management not wanting to have to pay me workman's comp for hurting it even worse on the job. Bonus points if you say it loud enough for management to hear.
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        • #5
          One thing about wrist pain - I had that when it was actually tennis elbow. Not that yours is, but just pointing out that that was true for me and I spent time trying to solve something that was further up my arm instead of getting help for the stupid elbow.
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          • #6
            Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
            Hey, I'll buy that Romanian coin out of your till. (I once got a rupee coin...in a roll of quarters from the bank. I just bought it out of the till and took it home to add to our foreign coin collection.)

            .
            We have a bunch of foreign stuff, coins and bills - other than the euros which we will recycle any time we end up in europe we have norwegian kroner, some british stuff, some french stuff, some gibralter stuff, german stuff and italian stuff from Rob's navy travels and my european wanderings.

            Quoth RootedPhoenix View Post
            One thing about wrist pain - I had that when it was actually tennis elbow. Not that yours is, but just pointing out that that was true for me and I spent time trying to solve something that was further up my arm instead of getting help for the stupid elbow.
            I just finished up PT for tennis elbow, though I haven't played tennis for decades, I twisted it funny a few times transferring off my chair. You have my sympathies, it is amazing how often one uses their arm - just like when you pull a tiny muscle in your back!
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            • #7
              I used to buy rare-ish coins out of the register. Mostly just got the newer dollar coins, but one person payed with three half dollars and another with one of the old style silver dollars, which was kind of cool. Only worth face value, mind, but kind of cool nonetheless.

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              • #8
                I have carpal tunnel. The best thing you can do is what you are doing - pay attention to the warning signs, and see someone early. If it is that, then good physical therapy can do wonders for it.
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                • #9
                  I once found some Korean coins in the register at my old job. They were the same size as quarters, so I guess whoever handled that transaction didn't see them.

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