im trying to buy my food!

[Ljt09863]

so the other day at work, i was going on my break. i went and got some Bagel Bites and got a manger over to cosmetics to ring me up. so im standing at the register with my item on the counter, my money in my hand, and the manager at the register about to ring me up.

a customer comes up from behind me, goes to my LEFT, and throws her stuff on the counter. the way the register is set up, and where i was standing, made little space for to actually put her stuff on the counter. she didn't care, she wanted to be rang up beforeme, so she pushed her way there. she starts sidestepping so i have to move out of her way. so pretty much, she pushed me out of the way. i was livid. i may be an employee, but i was trying to take a break and eat something.

oh, and what does my manager say? "did you find everything you need ma'am?"

after she left, i was like, hey, you should have rang me up first!

i really want to say that i was there first.

[blaubent]

Sounds like you work at Walgreens. It's happened to me before. My growling stomach did not much appreciate it.

[dispatch]

she's obviously more important than you are, her husband is a really important junior exec of a blah blah blah you should really learn some respect for your elders blah blah blah, the customer comes first and is always right blah blah blah *COUGH* bullshit! *COUGH*

[Ljt09863]

Sounds like you work at Walgreens. It's happened to me before. My growling stomach did not much appreciate it.

let me bake you some cookies. yeppers. i work at "greenwals" ,as my fiancee puts it....

[Becks]

Now I know why I seldom buy anything for lunch/break at work, and if/when I do, I make sure customers are nowhere nearby.

Some people.

[garth1]

That's why I always use the selfpay stations at work when I can.

[ArenaBoy]

I cook my food and I bring it to work so I can avoid the concession stands because too many SCs have shoved me just so they can get proper treatment.

[Jester]

Folks, remember, they are not doing this just to you, the employees....they are doing this in general, to anyone they can.

On my recent vacation, it happened to me and I saw it happen to others on various different occasions in various different locales.

SC's are somewhat equal opportunity in the people they step on.

[Lace Neil Singer]

That's why I only buy food in the staff canteen. Thank everything that where I work has one; in my old job at the pizza place, I used to walk down to the Somerfield down the street and buy food for lunch cuz working in a pizza place makes you hate pizza! I only ever had pizza for lunch if I was financially embarrassed; I'd get a free pizza if I was working all day. Anyway I always took a couple of minutes to do the following first:

1. Take off my hat and shirt/jumper.
2. Pull on a t-shirt/hoodie

This meant that when I went in the supermarket, I was treated as a human being by customers; when I went in in full pizza place regalia, I got shoved out of the way, pushed and generally treated like a subhuman. The few minutes used by changing were well worth it to get my food quickly without being barged out the way by idiots.