WAIT YOUR EFFING TURN

[TravisRB69]

This is a complaint against no one customer in particular, but rather to both customers and co-workers alike, as a whole.

If it is BLATANTLY obvious I am helping someone else at the moment, and we are within a reasonable distance of each other (i.e. it's easy for you to SEE that it is blatantly obvious I am helping someone else at the moment), either stand off to the side, WAIT YOUR EFFING TURN and don't butt into our conversation, or find someone else to help you that ISN'T blatantly obviously helping someone else.

Side note for co-workers: Those walkie-talkies we use? Everyone can hear what everyone is saying. Everyone KNOWS that everyone can hear what everyone is saying. If I get paged to help out with something, I KNOW YOU HEARD IT, so don't page me for something else in a completely different area of the store within 5 seconds of me being paged somewhere else. YOU HEARD ME get paged, call someone else for anything else in the immediate future. That means MORE THAN 5 - 10 seconds.

[powerboy]

Side note for co-workers: Those walkie-talkies we use? Everyone can hear what everyone is saying. Everyone KNOWS that everyone can hear what everyone is saying. If I get paged to help out with something, I KNOW YOU HEARD IT, so don't page me for something else in a completely different area of the store within 5 seconds of me being paged somewhere else. YOU HEARD ME get paged, call someone else for anything else in the immediate future. That means MORE THAN 5 - 10 seconds.

When I worked at both Walmart & OfficeMax, I had to carry a walkie-talkie. It was cool for the most part. I understood why, we needed to wear one. But if I call for help with something, then don't act like you didn't hear me.

[dispatch]

You mean you aren't willing to help out customers and co-workers? seems like an attitude problem to me /sarcasm

[queenbb]

yah i get this all the time, im helping someone and since i am suppose to greet everyone with in 10 seconds of seeing them they get confused and think im going to help them.

they will walk up and start telling me their problem,

i have since changed my greeting, hi there, i will be able to help you in a moment, there are a few people a head of you, the line is over there (and point to the line that is ususally hiding behind a display)

[chainedbarista]

line stormers/i need help NOW types are a pain; wait your damned turn, already; we were taught this concept in kindergarten, so it should be nearly automatic.

if a clerk is busy, i don't butt in; often, i can figure it out myself, or need to wander around a bit to think on things.

yah, i'm weird like that.

[Namrepus221]

I HATE when I'm ringing up someone for cigarettes or groceries or something and someone just walks past the line and throws a couple of bucks and says "$X on pump Y"

honest to god it pisses me off to no end.

[ravenrose]

And here I was, thinking I need to start a topic on this.

I work in a round booth, where it is sometimes not obvious that there is a line. But when there is only 1 of us in the booth, it gets *really* obvious, as there's only 1 place they can go: behind the person we're currently talking to!

But it's not uncommon for someone to come up *behind* us, and start yelling at us for ignoring them. (Because, you all KNOW we have eyes in the back of our head!) Or the ones who come up on the other side from the line and throw stuff on the counter and start chattering on, as if they're the only ones there.

(Note: this doesn't count for the ones who just want to know where the bathroom is. For some reason, that doesn't bother me, maybe because all i have to do is point and say "down the hallway". And that is usually a more urgent situation, expecially if there are kids in tow.)

[Andara Bledin]

YOU HEARD ME get paged, call someone else for anything else in the immediate future. That means MORE THAN 5 - 10 seconds.

As someone who has been both the pager and the pagee, unless the page is for a specific person, there is a good chance that anyone else who heard it, wouldn't retain it.

You hear a page start and you listen long enough to determine whether or not it applies to you, and when it doesn't, you just completely disregard it.

I've had many times in my office where the receptionist would page someone for a call, and the other person in this room would ask if I caught who it was for, and I wouldn't be able to tell her.

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[SongsOfDragons]

The only time I can think of off the top of my head of queue-butting being appropriate is a friend of someone going into...hypo...hyper...erm, diabetic coma-ness and they need to feed them sugar LIKE NOW.

If that's what happens. *scratches head*

[karma_gypsy]

If it is BLATANTLY obvious I am helping someone else at the moment, and we are within a reasonable distance of each other (i.e. it's easy for you to SEE that it is blatantly obvious I am helping someone else at the moment), either stand off to the side, WAIT YOUR EFFING TURN and don't butt into our conversation, or find someone else to help you that ISN'T blatantly obviously helping someone else.

I *hate* those people!! If it's a relative, family member, friend standing nearby - it's no biggie ... but when you're helping a customer and a complete stranger comes up, it's hella annoying ... Then they get upgraded to super annoying when they do butt into the conversation or even try and help me test an item.

[Broomjockey]

hypo...hyper...erm, diabetic coma-ness and they need to feed them sugar LIKE NOW.

Hypoglycemia. And frankly, it rarely gets to that point where it'd be an emergency, as most people (unless distracted or some such) feel it coming on.

However, I have a situation where I line jumped, and I think I was in the right. Waiting for a bus. Bus pulls up. Bus is not the bus I want, but I still wanted to ask the driver a question. A large number of people are getting on said bus. I felt it was appropriate to walk up to the side, and sort of call my question to the driver. So I walk past the people filing on the bus (not really a line, more of a cloud of people). A guy steps directly in front of me and says "There's a line!"

Me: That's fine, but I don't want to get on, I just want to ask a question.
Guy: You wanna get a punch in the face?
Me: You wanna back the hell down?

The fact that I was at least 6 inches taller and 100lbs heavier persuaded him to see it my way. I asked my question, and did NOT get on the bus. And it saved time for everyone, because the driver could answer it while people were getting on, rather than having to wait the extra minute for me to ask.

[Andara Bledin]

The only time I can think of off the top of my head of queue-butting being appropriate is a friend of someone going into... hypo... hyper... erm, diabetic coma-ness and they need to feed them sugar LIKE NOW.

As Broomjockey said, that's not really something that is an issue. Besides, if a person really needs a quick sugar fix, they can eat or drink whatever they have and pay when they get to the front of the line. And those who truly have issues with low blood sugar would have an emergency syringe filled with ... whatever it is they need it filled with. My ex had one of those and I was instructed in what to do if his sugar levels ever got so low he wouldn't respond.

However, any time it's a true medical emergency, it trumps other issues. No question.

Waiting for a bus. Bus pulls up. Bus is not the bus I want, but I still wanted to ask the driver a question.

That's a slightly different situation. All a bus driver needs from his "customers" is for them to either drop their fare in the box or to flash their pass. Or, sometimes, they actually take fares and give change. But it doesn't require a huge amount of interaction or concentration.

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[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Side note for co-workers: Those walkie-talkies we use? Everyone can hear what everyone is saying. Everyone KNOWS that everyone can hear what everyone is saying. If I get paged to help out with something, I KNOW YOU HEARD IT, so don't page me for something else in a completely different area of the store within 5 seconds of me being paged somewhere else. YOU HEARD ME get paged, call someone else for anything else in the immediate future. That means MORE THAN 5 - 10 seconds.

We used to have walkie-talkies at my store. They did a better job of picking up the drive-thrus at nearby fast-food places than our intra-store conversations.

It's pretty unnerving to hear something that could be your name or the department you're assigned to, followed by some unintelligible gibberish, whether it's over a walkie-talkie or the PA.

"Blurg, zum firmal o damahstex peez, blurg zum firmal o dahmahstex. Tangu."
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