"The New Girl" and the Tuesday from Hell (Vulgar Language)

[Monterey Jack]

This is me, attempting to smile:



NOT an exaggeration.

[Trixie]

Luckily, I've worked on my fake smile and cheeriness enough so it comes off sincere enough. But about being "new", one time I had a guy make a comment that I didn't ask for his store loyalty card and how I must not have been trained to do that. I really just wanted to rip his face off. I'm there over 10 years and I've pretty much trained all the new people for years. Just because I didn't ask doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing. Besides at this point I get more people asking about the card before I can.

Annnnd, I'm coming off a crappy night so I'm just going to go sit in the corner.

[jennie]

I have Asperger's, and find it very difficult to smile even when I'm genuinely happy, so customers telling me to smile piss me off. My attempts at a "fake smile" make me look like a serial killer, so quit asking me to do it!

My daughter has Asperger's too, and when I asked her how she felt about being asked for a smile just gave me the "finger"

[icmedia]

I don't understand why working on a different day would make anyone think that you were "new."

I have worked restaurant, gas station, retail, etc., and at maybe only 2 jobs ever (besides my current job) have I worked the same schedule each week.

[EricKei]

I had a good plastic smile back when I worked retail. I tried to cultivate one that said "I'm not really happy to see you but I have to do this" ^_^ And, while I couldn't always pull it off, actual requests for me to smile would generally be met with my patented "Oh shit I think he's gonna go for my neck" smile.

[KatherineB]

I don't understand why working on a different day would make anyone think that you were "new."

Because you're new to them and clearly, when they are not present, the world ceases to exist. Ipso facto, you cannot possibly have worked there before because they haven't seen you.

[Ben_Who]

Thought of this. For some reason.

o/ Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag... o/

[BrenDAnn]

1) It was probably going to be used as a blunt wrap anyway. I'm sure you can imagine where you should've told him to shove his attitude, though.

2) ID or GTFO, and no I won't let your friend/boyfriend/girlfriend.random acquaintance buy for you.

3) This... this enrages me! I actually had a customer make the remark, "That's what I like. Service with a sneer!" to me the other day. For the record, I have one of those odd smiles that looks like a sneer. I am smiling. Really. Fuck off!

4) Bag lady can go piss up a rope, and mind her own business. What is it with people and bags anyway? The ones who have one item want a bag, and the ones who have ten items don't. Then people like bag lady get involved and you just want to suffocate them all with the damn bags!

[Monterey Jack]

I don't understand why working on a different day would make anyone think that you were "new."

I think that the "oh, you must be new" line is just used by SCs as a blanket complaint about perceived poor service.

[Evannah]

I hate the one's that call you out for looking miserable. I suffer from anxiety and on this particular day I was having a really bad time. I was walking through town when all of a sudden this bloke stared at me and then called me a miserable bitch. Fuck you, arsehole. What if I was grieving? What if I'd lost everything? What if I was suicudal?

[pinky]

3) This... this enrages me! I actually had a customer make the remark, "That's what I like. Service with a sneer!" to me the other day. For the record, I have one of those odd smiles that looks like a sneer. I am smiling. Really. Fuck off!

I think the thing that enrages me the most is that he thought telling me "to smile" would help him get into my pants. I've been told this by a lot of guys before they say "you got a man?"
"No."
"Why not? Can I get your number?"
This happens all the time where I live and in the store I work in. Guys like this give good men a bad name.

Oh, and "service with a sneer?" He should take his entitled arse somewhere else. Who do people think they are trying to control another person's emotions? Scumbag.