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My Life In A Grocery Store!
I've been lurking for a few days, but finally decided to post a few run ins with SC and maybe a dopey co-worked or two.
A little background: I worked at a grocery store chain for 3 years. It's rather large in a few states on the east coast. We'll just say that the name of said store is a synonym for huge or massive.
I did a bit of everything at this location, and I actually kind of miss it! Who knew?!
Since when is my hair YOUR problem?
I usually like to have my hair in a mohawk style. Nobody made a big deal out of it. The SM never mentioned it, and just one AM would kid me about it, saying that I should shave my head clean like he did. He'd walk by and slowly rub the top of his head and we'd chuckle and that would be it. A few customers would ask me if I had lost a bet or something like that. I'd just smile and say no, I liked having my hair different. Sometimes I would dye it the part that you gel up blonde (my hair is naturally brown..though some say dirty blonde, but it's brown to me. lol) or once or twice I did it black. I just like to experiment with different things and be "weird."
One day a customer asked me what was wrong with my f*cking hair? I just shrugged it off and kept bagging his order. But he wouldn't leave it alone! He told me that if I worked for him he'd get a pair of scissors and cut it off. Now this guy wasn't a regular. I'd never seen him in the store before ever! It really bothered him that my hair was gelled up and cut in a non normal way. I could see how it could be a bit of a shock at first, but to continue to harp on it for over 5 minutes? Chill out buddy! My hair is my choice, and if nobody else has a problem with it, neither should you! Douchenozzle.
Oh hey, I'm sorry I'm not crazy perky in the morning!
I am NOT a morning person. At all. This story is made worse by the fact that my day started at 5 am. I had a 3 & a 1/2 mile walk ahead of me every work day. Which made days even longer, but I sucked it up and dealt with it. It was around 8 am and I was settling into my day and the cashier I was bagging for looked at me and was like "You're awfully miserable today." I looked at her for a minute and it took all I could do to not be like "And your awfully cunty this morning." Being the nice-ish guy that I am, I just told her that I was tired and just kinda walked away. My bad that I'm not ridiculously excited to be at work at 8 in the morning! I'll try to do better to appease someone that doesn't even matter to me!
She was uber annoying and had this weird, almost fake chipperness. I can see right through that kind of bs, so it really annoyed me. She was way too nice to be working in the shithole that everyone else saw the store for. I don't even think she's still there. Maybe it finally got to her!
Is she dead?!
We had this homeless lady that would come in and hang out at the little cafe, or in the store for hours at a time. We all figure she lived in her car, because whenever it was on the lot, it stunk from the outside! How does that even happen? And it was FILLED with garbage. I had seen her around town a few times, and she was always hanging out at different fast food places.
One morning, a bit after 7 I turn the corner and she's sitting in one of those electronic carts that you ride. It's smack dab in the middle of the floor, and of course I have to go around her to finish what I was doing. She was slumped over a bit and I figured she was sleeping. I sure as hell wasn't gonna wake her up! I grabbed a few fellow CW's and we kind of we're just staring at her for a minute or two until the SM walked by & checked on her, woke her up, and told her that she couldn't sleep in the middle of the store. She proceeded to cuss him out as 3 or 4 of us looked on, trying not to laugh. It was rather amusing as the SM was a bit of a weasel. He was a nice guy. He lived and breathed the store, but he was just kind of awkward about things. Just not your everyday kind of happening!
I guess we're a car store now!
A while after the last story, the lady comes back in the store and wants water. I get her a cup and she drives away to get whatever she needs. How she planned to pay for it, I have no idea! A bit later the COC asks me to run to aisle whatever it was to help a customer. Of course, it had to be the old lady! She was looking for a specific kind of motor oil that we didn't have. We only had 2 kinds as we just have that kind of stuff for the people that really need it in a emergency. This enrages her and she starts cussing me out LOUDLY! So I just walked away, and muttered under my breath as the COC walks over and tries to help her but she starts cussing him out too! In the meantime I was taking my break until I was paged to the order room by the COC. We started laughing at how crazy this lady was and how she was still in the store, cussing out everyone around her over freaking motor oil! It was crazy, but funny at the same time. Finally the cops showed up, and escorted her off of the property.
That's all I have for today, but I will be starting a new job in retail next week, and I hope to have a lot more crazy CS stories! The store is one of the 3 biggest big box stores in the country. It's sometimes big, and has a certain letter of the alphabet in front of it's name.
A little background: I worked at a grocery store chain for 3 years. It's rather large in a few states on the east coast. We'll just say that the name of said store is a synonym for huge or massive.
I did a bit of everything at this location, and I actually kind of miss it! Who knew?!Since when is my hair YOUR problem?
I usually like to have my hair in a mohawk style. Nobody made a big deal out of it. The SM never mentioned it, and just one AM would kid me about it, saying that I should shave my head clean like he did. He'd walk by and slowly rub the top of his head and we'd chuckle and that would be it. A few customers would ask me if I had lost a bet or something like that. I'd just smile and say no, I liked having my hair different. Sometimes I would dye it the part that you gel up blonde (my hair is naturally brown..though some say dirty blonde, but it's brown to me. lol) or once or twice I did it black. I just like to experiment with different things and be "weird."
One day a customer asked me what was wrong with my f*cking hair? I just shrugged it off and kept bagging his order. But he wouldn't leave it alone! He told me that if I worked for him he'd get a pair of scissors and cut it off. Now this guy wasn't a regular. I'd never seen him in the store before ever! It really bothered him that my hair was gelled up and cut in a non normal way. I could see how it could be a bit of a shock at first, but to continue to harp on it for over 5 minutes? Chill out buddy! My hair is my choice, and if nobody else has a problem with it, neither should you! Douchenozzle.
Oh hey, I'm sorry I'm not crazy perky in the morning!
I am NOT a morning person. At all. This story is made worse by the fact that my day started at 5 am. I had a 3 & a 1/2 mile walk ahead of me every work day. Which made days even longer, but I sucked it up and dealt with it. It was around 8 am and I was settling into my day and the cashier I was bagging for looked at me and was like "You're awfully miserable today." I looked at her for a minute and it took all I could do to not be like "And your awfully cunty this morning." Being the nice-ish guy that I am, I just told her that I was tired and just kinda walked away. My bad that I'm not ridiculously excited to be at work at 8 in the morning! I'll try to do better to appease someone that doesn't even matter to me!
She was uber annoying and had this weird, almost fake chipperness. I can see right through that kind of bs, so it really annoyed me. She was way too nice to be working in the shithole that everyone else saw the store for. I don't even think she's still there. Maybe it finally got to her!
Is she dead?!
We had this homeless lady that would come in and hang out at the little cafe, or in the store for hours at a time. We all figure she lived in her car, because whenever it was on the lot, it stunk from the outside! How does that even happen? And it was FILLED with garbage. I had seen her around town a few times, and she was always hanging out at different fast food places.
One morning, a bit after 7 I turn the corner and she's sitting in one of those electronic carts that you ride. It's smack dab in the middle of the floor, and of course I have to go around her to finish what I was doing. She was slumped over a bit and I figured she was sleeping. I sure as hell wasn't gonna wake her up! I grabbed a few fellow CW's and we kind of we're just staring at her for a minute or two until the SM walked by & checked on her, woke her up, and told her that she couldn't sleep in the middle of the store. She proceeded to cuss him out as 3 or 4 of us looked on, trying not to laugh. It was rather amusing as the SM was a bit of a weasel. He was a nice guy. He lived and breathed the store, but he was just kind of awkward about things. Just not your everyday kind of happening!
I guess we're a car store now!
A while after the last story, the lady comes back in the store and wants water. I get her a cup and she drives away to get whatever she needs. How she planned to pay for it, I have no idea! A bit later the COC asks me to run to aisle whatever it was to help a customer. Of course, it had to be the old lady! She was looking for a specific kind of motor oil that we didn't have. We only had 2 kinds as we just have that kind of stuff for the people that really need it in a emergency. This enrages her and she starts cussing me out LOUDLY! So I just walked away, and muttered under my breath as the COC walks over and tries to help her but she starts cussing him out too! In the meantime I was taking my break until I was paged to the order room by the COC. We started laughing at how crazy this lady was and how she was still in the store, cussing out everyone around her over freaking motor oil! It was crazy, but funny at the same time. Finally the cops showed up, and escorted her off of the property.
That's all I have for today, but I will be starting a new job in retail next week, and I hope to have a lot more crazy CS stories! The store is one of the 3 biggest big box stores in the country. It's sometimes big, and has a certain letter of the alphabet in front of it's name.
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