10 Things That Are Not My Job

[DrFaroohk]

This is a list of things I really wish I could just post at work and let people read them. Now, keep in mind that I do each and every one of these things every day with a smile on my face, because I give ass kicking service, but I just wish people would understand that it's not my job and I'm doing them a favor...

1. I am not a bank. You want to cash in change, fine, but roll it your own damn self. I'll be more than happy to assist you in such a task, but I am not your slave.

2. This is a self-service station. If you just plain don't know how to pump gas I will show you, and if you're in a wheelchair or something I'm more than happy to help out, but do not stand there and tell me its because the fumes bother your asthma as you're buying a pack of cigarettes.

3. I will not play your scratch off ticket for you. Maybe you shouldn't be buying those bingo tickets if you can't or don't want to figure out if you actually won. Our machine for scanning winners has to reboot and redial and download some kinda thing if your ticket is a loser, so I'm not going to hold up my entire line for 15 minutes just in the off chance you won 3 bucks.

4. I am not running a day care. Handcuffs are a perfectly acceptable way to stop your 3 year old from throwing glass bottles around the store.

5. I am not a bus station. Yes, a bus stops here every day at 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. That's all I can tell you. I don't know where else it makes stops, I just know the two places it goes to. I don't sell the tickets and I don't own the bus. When the same person has asked me about this for the hundredth time it gets annoying.

6. I am not your mother. Wipe your own piss off the toilet seat, throw your own sugar packets away and if you decided you didn't want that gallon of milk, don't just leave it in the middle of one of the aisles.

7. Police: I am not your snitch. If you got a picture of someone and he's been in here in the last 10 minutes maybe I can help identify him for you, but don't act all suspicious if I can't remember a specific guy wearing "blue jeans and a t-shirt".

8. While I realize this is not very PC, but if I wanted to work with mentally handicapped people I would have taken a job in a hospital or nursing home or a care center. I don't care that the government sucked out your DNA and put you into another body, and for the love of god, please do not have one of your "spells' and stand out in the parking lot drooling and throwing rocks at people.

9. I am not running a court room. It doesn't matter what law you think you know or what right you think you have, even if you're 100% correct, I am not changing our policies until I someone above me contacts me and tells me to do so. You can argue until you're blue in the face and it's not going to change anything so why don't you just leave.

10. I am not your tour guide. Don't get pissed at me because you failed to read that the BOGO sign on the door said Moutain Dew and you got Diet Coke. I'm not going to escort you back to where you saw the sign and read it to you and explain it to you.

[McSlave]

2. This is a self-service station. If you just plain don't know how to pump gas I will show you, and if you're in a wheelchair or something I'm more than happy to help out, but do not stand there and tell me its because the fumes bother your asthma as you're buying a pack of cigarettes.


Actually Asthma is a good reason to ask someone to pump gas for you. It can be quite deadly for someone to have an attack because of chemical fumes. My wife and son both have asthma ( the main reason I quit smoking 6 years ago) and if they get around some chemicals, gasoline and bleach, and even some perfumes can set it off.

[Imogene]

Actually Asthma is a good reason to ask someone to pump gas for you.

Sure, however, the very end of that line includes, "and then go buy a pack of cigarettes." In other words, in that case, your asthma isn't your major problem.

[Rappunzill]

6. I am not your mother. Wipe your own piss off the toilet seat, throw your own sugar packets away and if you decided you didn't want that gallon of milk, don't just leave it in the middle of one of the aisles.

Arrgh! That used to drive me nuts when I worked fast food. Honestly, how hard is it to throw away your garbage, then put your tray on the trash can?

Furthermore, as an ex-bagger, this anger also applies both to people who leave their carts blocks away from the grocery store (yes, that does happen), and people who leave their carts right next to the corrals. (Apparently, pushing an empty cart those last two feet kills people.) Clean up after yourselves, people! You appear to be grownups, you could at least pretend that this is the case!

[McSlave]

oops didn't see that part.... sorry.

[BookstoreEscapee]

How bout when people bring in carts from other stores and then leave them in the middle of your parking lot. Store2 is in a shopping center (strip-mall style), and 2 of the other stores have shopping carts. They are both in the middle of the line; Store2 is at the very end. So they walked halfway across the (large) parking lot to get that cart to our store. It's a bookstore; the aisles are NOT meant for shopping carts.

And OT but some old lady once brought in what had to be the squeakiest, screechiest cart I have ever had the misfortune of hearing, and proceeded to use it as a walker on her long, slooooow meander through our store. I had to stop what I was doing and go elsewhere until she was finally out of my section.

[JustADude]

8. While I realize this is not very PC, but if I wanted to work with mentally handicapped people I would have taken a job in a hospital or nursing home or a care center. I don't care that the government sucked out your DNA and put you into another body, and for the love of god, please do not have one of your "spells' and stand out in the parking lot drooling and throwing rocks at people.

To be perfectly honest, I'll agree with you there, I've got no problems with people who are a little... differently brained... but then there are people that shouldn't be allowed out in public, or on a phone. Ever. Period. End Of Story. Fin. If someone is a threat to themselves and others (I'd say throwing rocks as people counts), they need to be in a nice, comfy padded room, not out on the streets.

[Namrepus221]

I just started working at a 7-11 (Yeah I'm a wage monkey)

Here's some things that I've come up with in my week of working there.

1. If you have a ton of lottery numbers you want to play. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SPEAK UP!!!! It's hard to hear you want some set of number for this day with this configuration, and some other numbers for another configuration with tons of bells, buzzers, and other stuff going off from my station as well as the mcdonalds next to the cashier.

2. Even better, if you really have alot. WRITE THEM DOWN. It's a ton easier on me to look at a piece of paper with all of the instructions than listen to you try to wheeze and whisper your way through 15 different numbers.

3. If I card you, DON'T GET MAD. Namely cause I A) Don't have a good memory, B) Our store policy is to card ANYONE under 40. C) If you're wearing sunglasses, I can't really tell if I've seen you before, and I don't care if you worked for 7-11 before, if I can't easily recognize you from before. GUESS WHAT YOU GET CARDED!

4. My register locks up when I've reached a certain ammount of money. Roughly $160, give or take. If I'm the only person there, and the other register is closed...DON'T GET OFFENDED THAT I'M HAVING TO PUT CASH IN THE SAFE!!!! One woman came in and said "this is taking too long" and left because I had the gaul to tell her "one second ma'am my register is locked up. let me just place this in the safe" 30 seconds to 45 seconds at most to get the piece of paper, slide teh money in the sleeve, and drop it in the safe...

5. If you come in to prepay for someone else, please tell them to wait till you get back to the car before they start pumping gas. That will mean I've taken their money and put the ammount on your pump. If they start pumping, I can't set the prepay and you have to wait till they are finished before you can give me any money.

6. If you come in to pay for gas. Don't just drop the money on the counter, dont' tell me which pump you are on or which car is yours, ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM WITH ANOTHER CUSTOMER. More than likely I won't see it, or know which is yours if you and someone else both pump $15.04 and they are waiting in line while you just jumped ahead and laid your money on teh counter cause you couldn't wait. I've had 1 person almost turned over to the police because they droped money on teh counter, didn't make any sort of noise to let me know they were leaving it and I nearly wrote them up as a drive off. Which means we call the police, and you probably will lose your license.

7. If you have a "perks" card of any kind. Make sure that you are 100% sure that we will take the card BEFORE you pump gas. We arent' affiliated with ANY sort of card program right now. Just because you have a card from some grocery store that says it works at a 7-11 that you live near. Doesn't 100% guarentee that we'll take it. If you look at the back of teh card or when you signed up for it, it says "At selected 7-11's only" Guess what, whining that we arent' affiliated won't help you.

8. If we dont' have your type of cigarettes, don't yell at me. Also don't tell me they are too expensive. Or attempt to return them because they are too expensive, once you open the pack, they are yours.

9. If you intend to pay with a credit card inside. WAIT TILL I SAY "Credit or Debit" before you slide your card. If you slide your card, it freezes the pin pad they you just used. Also I have to scan the card if you want credit because the pin pad is for debit only.

10. Also we don't offer cashback. Wait till the pin pad says "Slide Card" or till I say "Slide your card, please" before you do. If you do while I have to exit past the Cashback prompt, you will freeze the pin pad and I'll have to start again and tell you "Please wait sir/ma'am.... OK you can slide your card now"

11. If you are paying with a check card or a credit union card and it get's declined. Don't yell at me that you just put money into your account. These things take time to clear, even if they say 'Money instantly available' it still takes some time. 30 minutes might be "instant" compaired to a day or 3. But it still means there's a delay between your deposit and the availability of your money.

[Soulstealer]

7. Police: I am not your snitch. If you got a picture of someone and he's been in here in the last 10 minutes maybe I can help identify him for you, but don't act all suspicious if I can't remember a specific guy wearing "blue jeans and a t-shirt".

Guy wearing a t-shirt and jeans? Sorry officers, al our customers wear tuxes and evening dresses.

[i4wolves]

{QUOTE} Actually Asthma is a good reason to ask someone to pump gas for you. It can be quite deadly for someone to have an attack because of chemical fumes. My wife and son both have asthma ( the main reason I quit smoking 6 years ago) and if they get around some chemicals, gasoline and bleach, and even some perfumes can set it off.[/QUOTE]


Ture, I have asthma too, and certain things can set it off but that's why I carry an inhaler, and a breathing machine in the car just in case something goes wrong. But if a person with asthma can have an attack while pumping gas, so can driving your car, while you breath in some of those toxins. Depending on the weather I can start whizzing while driving because of the fumes. Having someone pump your gas is not really going to stop an attack if you are going to have one, and you should have an inhaler on you if you that sensitive. Also if you are healthy enough to get out of your car while breathing in all the chemicals that are out in the air when other people fill up thier tank and tell someone to pump your gas then you proably can do it yourself.

[Shengirl]

Namrepus: Yes, there are many customers that will never learn how your credit card machine works. And even ones who do will sometimes say, "Every one is different!" which will make you twitch when you hear it enough. My store has a pretty odd machine, so I got into this habit:

::Immediately notices that they're pulling a card from their wallet:: "Credit or debit?"
"Credit."
"Slide your card, and if it asks for a PIN, press cancel."

People who don't listen will still put in their PIN, but the point is that jumping the gun and giving instruction usually avoids the kind of confusion and inconvenience you're experiencing. "Hold onto that card a moment, sir! ...Ah, now, credit or debit?"

Also...people can pump gas without prepaying where you are? That's awful! Here you either have to insert your card into the pump or go inside to prepay - no chance of a drive-off there.

[Namrepus221]

believe me Shen, when this place was built there wasn't any real problem of it..

Heck we won't even be getting video camera's on the pumps to make sure they don't drive off because it's simply not worth the cost to install them

And yes. I do have the habit of asking once they pull a card to ask.

It goes more like this

"Credit or Debit sir/ma'am?"
"Credit" *swipes card before I can push button on register*

Apparently no one is patient enough to wait 4/5ths of a second for me to push the proper button...or that the pin pad on the counter is for debit only while I have to slide the cards for credit at the register.

[Shengirl]

That's funny; I get the opposite. You can slide your card at basically any point in the transaction, but people start to...then stop, poised over the machine, and look at me like I'm going to slap their hand away from it. Then ask if they're allowed to slide their card.

But yeah, I guess it would be a bit more of a pain, but maybe, "Okay, I just need to input credit or debit before you slide that... okay, no go ahead," would work for the impatient ones. Good luck in either case.

[Becks]

Now that I think about it, I'm honestly shocked no one ever asked me to drive their car through the car wash when I worked at the gas station...

[queenbb]

Sure, however, the very end of that line includes, "and then go buy a pack of cigarettes." In other words, in that case, your asthma isn't your major problem.

actually it is possible to have reaction to chemicals and still be a smoker, im very sensitive to alot of chemicals but i smoke just the same, most of the time ill start caughing pretty badly or start to get a bad miraine. i have to have my boyfriend clean the house because of it, on days while im at work when hes home, even if he finishes hours before i come home i still get sick from the fumes. gas sets me off every so often, but not enough for me to have to have someone else pump gas for me.