Questions I hate! (ranty)

[Aggravated Associate]

Mine is an oldie but goodie...

I work in a retail store which has five cash registers in a line. More often than not, only about four people are scheduled per shift, 1-2 of which are specifically there to cashier. This = 4 blatantly empty cash registers (with half-page SIGNS standing on them saying, "REGISTER CLOSED"). Yet somehow, at LEAST once per day...

SC walks up with cart. Looks around. Eyes each register. Turns to me, the only person AT any of the registers. Waiting patientily behind it. Making eye contact.

"Do I check out with you?" / "Are you open?"

WTFWTFWTFWTFWTFWTF.

[draggar]

Didn't you know, AA? The "Register Closed" sign means that you actually are open you are just lazy and don't want to work. It also means that when you're about to leave someone has to run up to yor register with some smart-ass comment like:

"And you thought you could leave"
"Wow, no line here!"
"I just have one or two items (full shopping cart)"
"I don't want to have to wait in the other lines"

Followed by some really REALLY bad laugh.

I saw it the other day in Sams. Cashier put up the "Register closed" sign. He was done with his customers and was about to leave. One customer came up wiht two items, cashier agreed to take him. Next thing you know he has SEVERAL complaints about this since he refused other customers, some crying racism (cashier was black, BTW).

[IHateStupidCustomers]

The question I hate the most is, simply, "WHY?"

9 times out of 10, the answer to the "why" question isn't going to change anything, so WHY waste our time?

This is a little off topic...but I cannot STAND it when customers say rude comments to cashiers etc when they are trying to leave after their shift is over (usually has been over for awhile) or when they are trying to go to lunch (usually way late).

"OH, she's going to LUNCH. She won't help us."

Yeah, buddy, I have to eat too. How'd you like it if your boss told you you can't eat anymore?

[AmericanZero8503]

The question I hate the most is, simply, "WHY?"

Yesterday:

SC-Do you take Western Union money orders?
Me- No. We do not cash them.
SC- Well then, why do you have signs for Western Union?
Me- We sell their money orders, but we do not cash them unless they are our own.
SC- Buy why do you have this? (Points to Western Union forms for money transactions)
Me- Those are for the Western Union money transfers. For sending and receiving money.
SC- uh....I didn't ask for an explanation! (and walks off)

...Still the worst over all question..."Well where can I go to get this?"
Sorry...I'm not the freaking yellow pages over here.

[greensinestro]

In the internet industry, a dreadful question asked is, "Well, where are my e-mails?". I usually get asked this when it's a customer who is used to getting 500 spam mails, and have the balls to complain when it stops, or slows to a trickle. I don't know where your e-mails are. I can access them, and I see exactly what you do.

In the phone industry, a favorite of mine is "why did you turn my service off?" I didn't do it. The computer did, and you most likely already know the answer to that.