A cashier called "it"

[Crow The Robot]

My friend who works with me at WM, told me about this charming incident:
LB=little boy
D= Diana(cashier)
SM=Snooty mother

LB: Could you write my name for me?
D:
SM: Never mind dear, IT doesn't know your name.

[dragonflygrrl]

If I were the cashier:
LB: Could you write my name for me?
D:
SM: Never mind dear, IT doesn't know your name
Me: Oh, and look at that. IT just broke all your eggs. Gosh, guess IT is pretty clumsy. IT sure is sorry about that mess, ma'am, and all over your shoes, too. *sigh*

[Tito]

Ohhh, that makes me angry just thinking about it! And she has offspring, besides. Let's hope that he does not grow up to be like his bitch of a mother.

We can only hope karma catches up with that bitch.

[XCashier]

LB: Could you write my name for me?
D:
SM: Never mind dear, IT doesn't know your name.

"No, but SHE doesn't appreciate being spoken about as though SHE were less than human, either."

What a nasty rude bitch. I too hope she gets a good Karmic Smackdown.

[Becks]

Looks like that woman gets a one way ticket to the chipper.

[BiscuitMunroe]

"it rubs the lotion on the skin" and then watch her run away. *cackles evily*

[Kyree]

*Growls* It's funny how a counter seperating us from them makes them "People" and us "things".

[One-Fang]

Was the capitalisation of "IT" your emphasis or hers? If hers, she's a bitch.

If not though, maybe she couldn't tell the gender of the checker? Doesn't excuse it entirely, but it may explain why she chose 'it' instead of 'he' or 'she'. Some people can be pretty ... asexual.

[Misanthropical]

My friend who works with me at WM, told me about this charming incident:
LB=little boy
D= Diana(cashier)
SM=Snooty mother

LB: Could you write my name for me?
D:
SM: Never mind dear, IT doesn't know your name.

One should never tick off or otherwise annoy anyone named Diana. We are a mean bunch who will rip your face off in less than a second. We only look harmless.

[Crow The Robot]

From, D's description of the events "it" was emphasized by the mother, she was also pretty close to D and could probably tell her gender. From what i heard of her both from D and others she was a haughty prick.

[Primer]

maybe she couldn't tell the gender of the checker? Some people can be pretty ... asexual.

My favorite checker at the local Wally World appears androgynous. The name on the tag could be of either gender, and I have not had the courage to ask. It doesn't matter; I'm just curious.

Anybody remember "Pat" from Saturday Night Live?

[Spiffy McMoron]

Okay, this doesn't relate to the post at all, but when I first read the title, the first thing that I thought of was Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue"

[rdp78]

Anybody remember "Pat" from Saturday Night Live?

Yep, I do and I tell you reading the topic's title reminded me of it. Anyway I remember it was a series of skits that took in different places and there is always a different person trying to figure out "Pat's" gender. It was pretty hilarous. (To this day we still don't know.)

Anyway I think the mother was just one of those SCs that think retail workers the lowest form of life and so she just thinks we are all genderless. I mean she would have known that the friend was female since Walmart employees (I'm assuming) do have name tags.

Also there are people who at first look like one gender but then you soon realize there the other and people who you really can't figure out what gender they are. I sometimes have to figure out if I should say "ma'am" or "sir" to a customer because of gender confusion.

[Seanette]

Also there are people who at first look like one gender but then you soon realize there the other and people who you really can't figure out what gender they are. I sometimes have to figure out if I should say "ma'am" or "sir" to a customer because of gender confusion.

At least you have visual cues. It's much trickier on the phone, especially when you also get an unpronounceable name.

[bars.of.a.rhyme]

I got that once.

No, literally, I got called "that" once.

Some guy comes up, says to me "I WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE THE MOVIE VALUE PASS." Verbatim. So I ring him up for it and charge him and he walks off with his movies. I tell him I have to scan them in, and he says "But you just charged me." I explain, he is livid and says that he didn't authorize any charges (so you asked for it, signed the form, gave me your credit card, watched me scan it, signed the reciept, and only figured out after everything was said and done that I was charging you for a subscription plan? Yeah, I can see that. Totally reasonable.). I explain to him again, tell him "you asked for the MVP plan," etc. Still livid. Screaming, etc.

I was a GSR then, so I get my shift manager. As he is trying to figure out a way to refund the MVP (which you can't do...he had to take store credit, which he was very mad about, even though he spent all of it in that one visit - I guess he wanted to hold it and say goodbye before he paid for the movies), I hear the man say "I'm so sorry you have to deal with that...it's not very smart. It just doesn't listen." I was near tears - I'd had a terrible day to begin with, and now I'm an object. As he was leaving, he thanked my manager and said "I'm so glad you were here to help me...good luck dealing with that over there."

My manager didn't defend me at all, which doubly sucks, as he is my boyfriend of over two years.

On the upside, the idiot's daughter, who couldn't have been more than ten, actually came up to me and apologized for her father's crappy behavior. Hooray for kids who know what's what.