Having PMS doesn't mix well with customers

[jillofall]

So ladies, I guess when you're PMSing, you're moody, bitchy, and rather selective about who you help with?

I'm helpful all the time and the sheer stupidity of customers just flies by my head, except when I'm PMSing and not in the mood for stupid customers. It is sooo hard to bite my tongue on those days and not say snarky things.

[Insomnia]

*slowly backs away*

[Jay 2K Winger]

So ladies, I guess when you're PMSing, you're moody, bitchy, and rather selective about who you help with?

I'm helpful all the time and the sheer stupidity of customers just flies by my head, except when I'm PMSing and not in the mood for stupid customers. It is sooo hard to bite my tongue on those days and not say snarky things.

Guy talking here, so I don't PMS myself, but, like any person, I have days where my "Suffer Bullshit" meter is already close to the top, and it doesn't take much to put me in a really foul mood. (Well, more foul than it had been.)

So I don't think it's just ladies that have to deal with those days.

[emax4]

Ironic that I haven't yet read a post about a customer having PMS and getting away with stuff in a store.

[Seshat]

I think everyone has what I call a "stress bucket". It has a drain at the bottom, and an open top where the stress comes in.
The drain represents everything we do to let off steam: meditation, playing with pets or children, art and music and games and talking with friends.

When the stress bucket overflows, we freak out in some way - that's when we're completely overwhelmed.

Pain and illness put stuff in the bucket. PMS puts stuff in the bucket. Even some good things put stuff in the bucket.

As the bucket approaches 'full', our body and mind warn us.

[Zellie Crescent]

I'm thinking I'm the only person that would want that. I don't get many people who get on my nerves when I'm PMSing, J said I give off this "don't fuck with me" vibe. She however has quite an impressive one.

[TimmyHate]

, I have days where my "Suffer Bullshit" meter is already close to the top, and it doesn't take much to put me in a really foul mood.

I have those too! I call them 'Weekdays'

[Kit-Ginevra]

*hides in a non-missile-accessible corner and points out that in the UK,we still call it PMT*

[Jay 2K Winger]

I have those too! I call them 'Weekdays'

Amateur.

I have them on days that end in 'Y'.

[XCashier]

I don't think it's PMS (or PMT ) so much as having a functioning brain in a world full of idiots.

[Kit-Ginevra]

But for one quarter of the time,it's a chance to unleash hell with horrible customers and being able to justify it by Mother Nature hates SC's too so she's sending reinforcements...

[Food Lady]

My stress bucket exploded tonight.

[XCashier]

My stress bucket exploded tonight.

Ooh, ouch.

Relax, unwind, have something nice to eat or drink, and when you're ready, we're here to listen.

[Gaki]

One of my coworkers states whenever someone is an a-hole, "He must have been PMSin'."

I try to think about it that way because I'm the meanest recluse EVER when I'm PMSing.

My sister suffers from PMDD which makes her a total hormone MONSTER. I mean I'm not kidding, PMDD is the wildest thing ever. I used to think my sister was the craziest piece of crazy pie ever but as soon as she was on birth control (Yaz) or pregnant with my niece, she was as sweet as sugar all the time. She was the rare pregnant chick who was emotionally stable and super nice.

I'm NOT on Yaz or any generic of Yaz (which my doctor thinks is a mistake but it's free with the other stuff) and I'm not on the PMDD level yet but my PMS turns me into a hermit. I will go hide away and do all the other chores so I don't have to deal with any customers at all. Yesterday I told the cop who always comes in that he would have to come back later because I was going to brain someone with the stapler. He seemed to know what I was talking about so maybe it wasn't my PMS and it was just that it was Asshole Day.

[Food Lady]

I may have undiagnosed PMDD.