No, you didn't make your payment here.

[Dips]

Someone tried it once when I was a bank teller. In our nation's capital, on Sparks Street, which handles the accounts for government bigwigs and foreign diplomats. Major security at this branch. This nitwit decides she'll try to slip behind the tellers desk to grab a pen. She was almost tackled by two guards. She won't be doing that again any time soon.

I wish the bank I used to work at had that kind of security. A lot of our customers thought nothing of walking into the teller area or practically climbing through the window to grab things to try to "help" count money.

We even had one jerk who routinely waltzed into the vault unescorted.

Could we put up locked doors or at least stop them and speak to them? Of course not, that would make us look customer unfriendly. And we couldn't be hurting their pwecious wittle feelings.

[aurelemsrealm]

(what part of NO don't you understand, the N or the O?)

I've never heard it put that way before, but that's hilarious! I think I'm going to start using that one on disagreeable customers.

At my store, the coffee makers are behind the counter. We have pot warmers on the counters for customer access. The counter extends across most of the width of the store. The registers and safe are way inside the employees only area. A few of the regular customers will help themselves to the coffee makers if we get busy with customers. That really doesn't bother me so long as I know them and they stay near the coffee makers. If I don't know them, I will let them know that it's employees only.

[MadMike]

I had one customer that walked into the back room to yell at someone because he was ringing for service in the Produce department, and no one was answering it.

What really sucked was that it happened just as I walked back there to clock in, and I was the one who got yelled at. I didn't even work in that department.

After that little exchange, I found the Produce person in the breakroom having a cigarette (remember, this was the late 80's, back before smoking had been banned from most places like it is today), and I went off on her. Everyone else was supposed to make sure they had someone else to cover the bell before they went on lunch or break, but I guess she thought she was special somehow.

[Andara Bledin]

We don't even run a store, and we've had random people just wander into our warehouse.

Sometimes they are customers or potential customers.

One group is a bunch of gypsies. It's a whole clan, they move around in several beat-up pickup trucks full of junk, and we once bought a box of product that we realized later had likely been stolen from our warehouse.

One time we had a teenager who was trying to unload candy wander into the warehouse.

Another time it was one of the roving sales guys for the closeout warehouse down the street. He didn't like that I told him management didn't allow soliciting, so he went outside and headed for the warehouse. I sicced the manager on him.

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