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  • The SC's guide to checking out!

    1. Roll your eyes at me when I don't hear and ask you to repeat something you've said, even if you are speaking barely above a whisper.

    2. Relax! Don't bother to unload that basket. We're your slaves, remember? And it makes my sore back feel even better, having to lean forward and unpack everything while you watch.

    3. Always remember, LIGHT OFF: come on up and starting unloading! LIGHT ON: Creep up cautiously and ask, "Are you open?" Chances are, I'm just standing there at the register with the light on because my lane is closed.

    4. Ask in a snotty tone whether or not I know how to count when I'm slow counting your change back to you. I'm glad that you're showing your concern!

    5. Remember: there's nothing we find more amusing than hearing such witty remarks as: "You look like you need something to do", "You look bored", 'You were just waiting for us, weren't you?", and "Does that mean it's free?"

    6. Put the card in the wrong way. Don't forget to say, "I guess it doesn't like my card."

    7. Watch me like a hawk when I bag. Remember, I don't know what the hell I'm doing! After all, I might put your Drano in with your Doritos. Then say, "No", and remove something from the bag and place it in another bag. You get bonus points if you change up the contents in each bag!

    8. Grab bags out from under my nose before I'm finished with them. Better yet, snatch it right out of my hand!

    9. Just scowl in silence when I say hi, ask you how you are, and say have a great day.

    10. Please feel free to leave crap anywhere if you don't feel like putting it back! We love finding condoms stashed with the cookies, or tv dinners in the cooler with the sodas. Try bringing up a couple frozen pizzas and make the peons run them back for you! Better yet, leave a gallon of milk sitting on a shelf with the towels! These little surprises are an endless source of amusement for us.

    11. Stroll slowly and casually up to the registers, laguhing loudly with your friends, better yet, at five minutes after close. Stay awhile, maybe even 20 minutes after closing! We love your company. Why on Earth would we want to go home when we can lug your shit around and watch you dig through your purse for change?

    12. Leave your basket or cart sitting for me to put away. Then go stand around for several minutes by the door, waiting for someone, so that I can see that you obviously had better things to do.

    13. Announce you have the change when I'm shutting the drawer, ready to hand you your change. It keeps us on our toes!

    14. Hand me bills that are folded over several times into tiny squares. For even more fun, try handing several bills over all rolled up into a cool little ball!

    15. Hand me your child's slobber-covered bag of M&Ms. Bonus points if your child is sick as a dog and plastered with snot! Colds are fun!

    16. Walk away and leave your ONE BAG sitting at the registers, waiting for you. Obviously your purchases were pretty important!

    17. Coach your children on how a GOOD cashier should do things, and how they should do it when they're grown up. We appreciate your tips!

    18. Decline taking five minutes to open a store card to take 10% off even when you're spending 600 bucks worth of stuff. That makes a lot of sense.

    19. Get drunk. Come in and when you're at the registers, literally SCREAM for your friend who's practically across the store.

    20. Come up with your boyfriend and speak like this, "Yo mutha fucka, I tell you what mutha fucka, what the fuck, fuck that shit,", etc. etc.

    21. Those divider bars are there for decoration, obiously! Who needs 'em? Everybody knows cashiers are mind readers.

    22. If I scan something that's not yours because the person behind you neglected to use a divider bar, say in a snotty, bad-dog-don't-you-piddle-on-the-floor tone, "That's not mine, or "NO, NO, NO, that's not mine!!!"

    23. "No" in a flat or grumpy tone works much better than "No thanks", or 'No, that's okay" when we ask if you want to open a store card.

    24. Take a bag of snacks from the shelf for your kids, then leave the empty wrapper on the shelf with the shampoo. Paying's for suckers!

    25. Come from another one of our stores, loudly declare that you're an employee and "know how it's done" and then in a loud, drunken voice, declare our employees "dumbasses" while standing at the register.

    26. Rip off bits of your reciept, such as the "you're pre-approved, would you like to open a credit account" message and leave them sitting on the shelf where the finished bags are for me to throw away.

    27. Hand me your clothes to scan-even when you're planning on washing them as soon as you get home. And it's not like my hands are filthy or anything...

    28. The object of the game is to place anything and everything that you might consider purchasing in your cart. You can always just dump it on us when you change your mind on half of the items. Why do you think we have those re-shop boxes?

    29. Short on bread? Try a nice scam. How about the old, "You know what, why don't you give me my hundred back and I'll give you..." It's all in good fun!

    30. Twelve items shwelve schmitems! What are we gonna do, turn you away?


    Am I missing anything?
    Last edited by Despina83; 11-13-2007, 02:13 AM.

  • #2
    Quoth Despina83
    10. Please feel free to leave crap anywhere if you don't feel like putting it back! We love finding condoms stashed with the cookies, or tv dinners in the cooler with the sodas.
    Silly cashier...everybody knows that customers would never leave perishable or frozen items in the cooler! They always hide them so as to ensure they're spoiled before anyone finds them!
    "Well, ergo cogitum daltitum e pluribus shut your piehole." -Mike Rowe

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    • #3
      Quoth Despina83 View Post
      If I scan something that's not yours because the person behind you neglected to use a divider bar, say in a snotty, bad-dog-don't-you-piddle-on-the-floor tone,
      Or, do as I did, only I was the one next in line (I think I used a divider, but it's been so long ago now I can't remember), "That's MY sausage." No, I didn't raise my voice much above my usual talking level, I just kind of overemphasized it.
      "I call murder on that!"

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      • #4
        7. Watch me like a hawk when I bag. Remember, I don't know what the hell I'm doing! After all, I might put your Drano in with your Doritos. Then say, "No", and remove something from the bag and place it in another bag. You get bonus points if you change up the contents in each bag!
        Interesting you should mention this. My very first job was as a stocker. Apparently some kid who was working as a cashier (and a very jaded, uncaring one at that) was bagging up some groceries for one of our off duty managers who he apparently didn't know worked at the store. He proceeded to put the following items in the same bag:

        - Bread
        - Bananas
        - Toilet Cleaner
        - Drano

        In fact, instead of just letting it happen, the off duty stated...

        MG: "Um, are you sure you should be putting CLEANERS in with FOOD?"
        CS: "Huh? Uh, it's alright. Whatever."

        Yeahhh...didn't see him after that.

        10. Please feel free to leave crap anywhere if you don't feel like putting it back! We love finding condoms stashed with the cookies, or tv dinners in the cooler with the sodas. Try bringing up a couple frozen pizzas and make the peons run them back for you! Better yet, leave a gallon of milk sitting on a shelf with the towels! These little surprises are an endless source of amusement for us.
        I've never understood how you can leave delicate perishables (meat, milk, ice cream, etc.) out in the aisles. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've seen stuff like that...and it's ALWAYS disgusting. Not sure what your guys' policy is on that, but I'm certain it can't help your shrink.

        17. Coach your children on how a GOOD cashier should do things, and how they should do it when they're grown up. We appreciate your tips!
        "Hey kids! Let that bitch of a mother run your life and maybe you'll end up like me!"

        I kid. Being a cashier isn't easy, that's for sure. Gotta love it when people say IN EARSHOT..."Now see, Timmy? THIS is what happens when you don't study and get straight As!" with the kid's mouth dropping. Zat right, biatch?
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        • #5
          Quoth gunsage View Post


          Gotta love it when people say IN EARSHOT..."Now see, Timmy? THIS is what happens when you don't study and get straight As!" with the kid's mouth dropping.
          You could always respond with "Actually ma'am I go to (the prestigous university nearby), this job pays my tuition.

          It doesn't have to be true and unfortunatly won't work for me since I work for my university
          How was I supposed to know someone was slipping you Birth Control in the food I've been making for you lately?

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          • #6
            You forgot one!

            Once you've purchased about $300 worth of groceries, block the line by carefully reading your mile long receipt so you can complain loudly and make a scene to the poor cashier about how they rung something up incorrectly, as if they deliberately tried to cheat you!
            "I used to be Snow White... but I drifted."~Mae West

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            • #7
              You also forgot . . .

              It's ok to come to the checkout if you're not done shopping yet! The cashier and customers behind you don't mind at all when they're stuck waiting 15 minutes while you run to the other end of the store for 'one' thing that you forgot. Bonus if it's crap you didn't need, like a frozen pizza or bags of chips.
              The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

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              • #8
                As the scanner belt is moving toward the cashier, pick up your item and continue to move it back 6 inches at a time as the belt might suck it down into oblivion.

                But at the same time, put your credit card or greeting card on the belt and watch them disappear!

                Hand the cashier the tag from whatever you decided to wear out of the store.

                Let your children ride on the belt. Don't forget to say " The lady is going to tell us how much you're worth" in a sing songy annoying voice.

                Let the cashier listen to your child scream for candy while you repeatedly say, " l said no and i meant no" only to cave in at the last second and let them get something.

                Do let your child swipe your card for you as a fun game. Especially if there are many people behind you waiting. It's more fun if your child is too young to know all their numbers and colors so what everyone hears is " no, the big green button. Do you remember what a two looks like?" Again in a sing songy voice.

                When you bring an item to the cashier without a tag and she says she needs to call someone to get the UPC, just tell her the price. Obviously she never thought of that.

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                • #9
                  Quoth LadyBarbossa View Post
                  You also forgot . . .

                  It's ok to come to the checkout if you're not done shopping yet!
                  Aaargh! This is what annoys me when I go grocery shopping with my mother. She will get me to mind our spot, so to speak, when the customer in front is within about thirty seconds of finalizing his/her purchases. I admit she usually does just take a moment, and it's generally for something she actually needs, but it's still embarrassing if she doesn't make it within the thirty second window.

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                  • #10
                    I agree with all, except #s 18 and 23.
                    Since I have been on both sides of it, I know how important for cashiers/workers go get those credit app numbers. I hated asking, even when the spiffs were good.

                    But as a consumer, why would I want to ding my credit to save a few bucks? A couple of hundred, maybe. $60? $50? $10? No thank you. I don't want those inquiries on my credit report. Too many of those and I may be paying a higher interest rate for something I really need, like a car or house.

                    But I am always polite to the cashier when they offer their card. But when they get obsessive about it, then I get grumpy. One time the guy kept asking, like 6-7 times, if I wanted to sign up for the store card. After politely declining 4 times. I just left my stuff on the counter and walked away.

                    No means no, not "keep asking until they cave."
                    Age and wisdom don't necessarily go together. Some people just become stupid with more authority.

                    "Who put the goat in there? The yellow goat I ate."

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Despina83 View Post
                      18. Decline taking five minutes to open a store card to take 10% off even when you're spending 600 bucks worth of stuff. That makes a lot of sense.

                      Actually this DOES make sense, especially if the customer is paying with cash or a check or even a low interest credit card. Most, if not all, store cards charge between 20-25% interest, which means the 10% off is no bargain, unless the store card also has a grace period of some sort.
                      Last edited by LifeCarnie; 11-13-2007, 05:35 PM.
                      Just because a customer expects you to put some effort into your job, that does not make them an SC.

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                      • #12
                        I hated when they would leave ice cream in the drink cooler. They were too stupid to know that a refrigerator and a freezer are not the same thing. The ice cream would melt all over the coke bottles.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Knightmare View Post
                          But as a consumer, why would I want to ding my credit to save a few bucks? A couple of hundred, maybe. $60? $50? $10? No thank you. I don't want those inquiries on my credit report. Too many of those and I may be paying a higher interest rate for something I really need, like a car or house.
                          actually, having your credit checked only hurts your score if you get turned down or chose not to take the card... won't hurt though if you actually get the card (that was actually the topic of my personal finance class last week).
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                          • #14
                            Quoth smileyeagle1021 View Post
                            actually, having your credit checked only hurts your score if you get turned down or chose not to take the card... won't hurt though if you actually get the card (that was actually the topic of my personal finance class last week).
                            I was under the impression that too many inquiries, whether you took the card or not, is a bad thing...
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                            • #15
                              Quoth chops View Post
                              Silly cashier...everybody knows that customers would never leave perishable or frozen items in the cooler! They always hide them so as to ensure they're spoiled before anyone finds them!
                              I actually found an exception to that one. At Wal-Mart in Forsyth someone actually put a gallon of milk in one of the little pop coolers at the checkout.

                              I was amazed.

                              Quoth Despina83 View Post

                              25. Come from another one of our stores, loudly declare that you're an employee and "know how it's done" and then in a loud, drunken voice, declare our employees "dumbasses" while standing at the register.
                              I apologize for double posting, but, on this one: I actually got a cashier from another store busted and put on probation for something similar (except for the drunken part).

                              I did find it great when I transferred over to the store she was from and was instantly her supervisor.
                              Last edited by Broomjockey; 11-13-2007, 11:54 PM. Reason: multi-quoting
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