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**Sableonblonde** · 08-05-2007, 04:25 AM

That is the thing that they always drill into you during each orientation that I've had - the customer is responsible for your paycheck. Which is true enough. But - I'm making around seven dollars an hour. So after I serve one or two customers, which takes less than five minutes, my pay for the hour is already covered. So, really...only two customers an hour are responsible for my paycheck. The rest don't count, and I can treat them however I want

**Nayeli_Sabia** · 08-05-2007, 04:56 AM

This didn't happen to me, but to a friend of mine. Her husband is military, and his mother was whineing that she needed money. She told her son that he needed to give her said money, since she paid taxes, and that was his paycheck, so really it was her money.

Because aparently, only taxes of family members go to the military O_o

**powerboy** · 08-05-2007, 08:05 AM

I truly despise that saying. I don't think that, they should be talking like that. Because somehow, we pay them, also. So why should they talk to their boss like that.

**Knightmare** · 08-05-2007, 09:35 AM

The last time some asshat said that to me, I was working at RadioShack. The guy was being a typical SC; demanding, condescending, oblivious to anything and just plain rude. And then that line came out of his mouth: "I pay your salary!"

I looked at him and replied: "Really? Then dammit man, I want a raise! I don't make enough to deal with this kind of hassle."

**DGoddessChardonnay** · 08-05-2007, 01:27 PM

Frankly, I have yet to see a customer's signature at the bottom of one of my paychecks . . .

If that's actually true, I want a raise AND better insurance than the joke of a policy I currently have.

Of course, as my mom says, want in one hand, crap in the other and see which gets filed first.

**Can I Help Your A$$?** · 08-05-2007, 02:04 PM

No, they don't pay anyone's paycheck. They agreed to pay a certain amount of money for an item, or food, and lo and behold, what's that in their hands? They also received service and convenience. It's called fair trade.

If they want to complain about the taxes, that's another issue.

**Becks** · 08-05-2007, 02:51 PM

Quoth Knightmare View Post

"Really? Then dammit man, I want a raise! I don't make enough to deal with this kind of hassle."

I am going to have to ~~steal~~ permanently borrow that.

Thinking on it, due to the amount of shopping I do at my store, I contribute to my own paycheck. Am I losing money or coming out ahead?

**evilhomer** · 08-05-2007, 04:07 PM

Off subject but in the context, I had a conversation with a public employee that always makes me laugh. During the last strike, he had to cover various essential duties (he was in a different division of the union). Granted he was working 12+ hour shifts, but with double time and triple time, he was getting paid 30-40 hours per day, at his uber-exorbitant salary. He went on to complain about getting $2000 to $4000 chopped of the cheque for taxes. Funny because it didn't occur to him that taxes that high translates to a one-week salary more than most people make in a month (or year), and funnier still that it didn't occur to him that tax rates that high are how astronomical paycheques are paid for.

**aurelemsrealm** · 08-05-2007, 05:45 PM

I had a customer throw that argument at me when I had to card her for cigarettes. "I'm a regular customer, and I pay your wages. You owe me."

*Yeah, lady, I owe you a swift kick out the door for being a pain in the ass. That's all I owe you.*

"No you don't. I've never seen your signature on my paychecks. The company pays my check. You just shop here, but you're getting what you want out of it so thank you, and you're welcome both apply."

She stormed out after I again said that I'd need to see the ID, or no cigarettes. The manager started laughing as soon as I walked in the door the next day. My gracious benefactor had called to complain that I was rude to her and refused to sell her cigarettes even though I knew she was old enough. Yes, I would have guessed that she's about my age, but that's not what company policy says technically speaking. I started laughing, too. "So, she conveniently left out that her ID is still 'lost,' as she always claims." The manager nodded affirmative. Yeah, the woman has a track record of calling in complaints on employees over this issue. The big wigs at the office don't even take her calls any more because it has happened that frequently. Yes, we all know her name as well as the gang at Cheers know Norm, and it brings up that same laughter each time it's mentioned.

This same lady called in another complaint on me later because I refused to trade a pack of cigarettes tax stamped for a neighboring state. That complaint was summarily ignored by management, too. The manager did tell me that we had another call, just thought I'd want to know. A couple of weeks later, the state's Department of Revenue sent a representative to check our cigarette inventory because they'd received an anonymous complaint that we were selling cigarettes tax stamped for a neighboring state. The representative said it was an odd complaint because our company had never had compliance issues before on previous inspections. She found nothing wrong that time either. I happened to be working, so I made sure to mention our gracious benefactor and her previous issue with me. The inspector said that probably was it, but she didn't know the specifics. Moral of the story, it was a bogus tip. No problems were found. Life went on.

Then, a few months ago, one of our other clerks flipped out on this customer big time. This clerk is one of those nice grandmotherly types, but she won't put up with much crap either. I was working in the coolers at the time, so I didn't witness the events leading up to the argument. However, our gracious benefactor comes back to the coolers to tell me that the other clerk on register just flipped out on her for no reason, and asked me to ring her up.

My response: "I doubt that it was unprovoked given your pleasant disposition. How many times have we went round and round now? I don't have enough fingers and toes to count that high."

I did go up there to see what was going on because I figured the other clerk would be upset. A couple of customers were chatting with her at her register.

I waited on our gracious benefactor at the other register, and she proceeded to tell me that she didn't really complain on me. I just shrugged, "I'm not stupid. I just don't care. I do my job, so I have no worries. Don't bother trying. Just pay for your stuff and go."

The other clerk made a comment, and our gracious benefactor started making a case out of it. "See how she is! I am going to complain on her.....blah, blah, blah..."

I gave her a dirty look, "Drop it already! I don't want to hear it! You can do whatever you want when you leave."

The other clerk made another comment, and I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing. I turned to her, "Okay, I got it under control. Just take care of your line, and I'll take care of this."

Our gracious benefactor actually said thank you to me and left without another word.

A couple of customers had been standing off to the side, and I hadn't noticed them. They told me that our gracious benefactor had been less than gracious to the other clerk. "Yes, I'm sure. I've dealt with her plenty of times."

They proceeded to tell me what had lead to the big blow up. I traded places with the other clerk because I figured she'd want a break from the register for a while after that mess. She was happy to go to the coolers for a while. So, several other customers did come back to tell the manager what really happened the next day, and they also bragged on me for diffusing the situation. Yes, our gracious benefactor did call in yet another complaint, but she did say that I fixed it. Since then, she has actually been half way friendly toward me. The assistant manager and this woman used to be on friendly terms, but they did have an exchange of some kind after that last incident I described. I don't know what all was said, but apparently our gracious benefactor was not happy with the outcome and called in a complaint on the assistant, also. The assistant definitely does not converse with the customer as readily as she had previously.

**BookstoreEscapee** · 08-05-2007, 05:55 PM

Quoth aurelemsrealm

I had a customer throw that argument at me when I had to card her for cigarettes. "I'm a regular customer, and I pay your wages. You owe me."

All you owe her is: following procedure and the law in selling restricted items so that you keep your store's ability to sell said restricted items at all.

You should hide all the cigarettes and next time she comes in tell her an employee was caught not checking ID and now the store's been fined and is no longer allowed to carry cigarettes.

**katie kaboom** · 08-05-2007, 11:54 PM

Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post

You should hide all the cigarettes and next time she comes in tell her an employee was caught not checking ID and now the store's been fined and is no longer allowed to carry cigarettes.

ha ha ha, and be sure to get a picture of the look on her face when you say that, so we can all point and laugh together.

**Shengirl** · 08-06-2007, 02:43 AM

"Ma'am, your taxes paid for the circumstances that allowed this law to come about, the one that requires I check your ID before selling you cigarettes. So, I owe it to you to follow that law, to honor your sacrifice."

**aurelemsrealm** · 08-06-2007, 04:50 PM

What's really funny and sad at the same time is that she has called in a complaint over this very same issue on virtually every clerk throughout her glorious reign of terror as a regular customer at our store. You'd think she'd get a clue at some point, but it's become such a running joke now.

The icing on this cake is that she suddenly managed to find her long lost ID shortly after she realized that the constant complaints have gotten her nowhere. It just miraculously reappeared in the glove compartment of her car one day, amazing, but true!!!! Yeah, I was so happy for her that I was finally able to check her ID and get her those precious cancer sticks.

I guess she did need them, though. She was under a lot of stress because she's a single mother raising four kids from four different deadbeat dads who refuse to cough up child support, and that's why she sometimes acts out in anger. Yeah, I can understand how that would be frustrating, but go bust their balls instead of taking it out on the rest of humanity. Some of us are struggling equally hard against issues of our own, and don't need any additional aggravations. When someone provokes me, I tend to go for the jugular of the antagonist(s) when possible, but that's just me. I have no interest in inflicting my problems on innocent bystanders when there are plenty of grudges to repay in kind.

**AirHostess** · 08-06-2007, 05:19 PM

I used to have passengers tell me that. Yeah lady, you paid £5.99 for your airfare, that doesn't even cover my hourly pay

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