Saunter Is My New Favorite Word

[TruthHurts]

I was walking to my work yesterday morning when I saw my least favorite sight in the world. Someone sitting in their car waiting for me to open. Sure enough as soon as I unlock the door the guy gets out of his car and starts walking towards me.

I immediately lock the door and start with my opening duties as the guy shakes the door and then paces back and forth. He leaves about five minutes later. 7 am rolls around and I open the store and start my day. The guy comes back about 2 pm and learns that the newspaper he wanted is sold out.

SC: I was here before 7 am and you locked the door in my face
Me: I'm sorry sir but we don't open until 7.
SC: I know that and I was here before 7 and you locked the door in my face.
Me: We are not allowed to open the doors until 7.
SC: I know that, you came sauntering in here at 7 and you locked the door in my face.
Me: No, I came in at 6:30 am and I did open the store at 7.
SC: I wanted my paper and you just sauntered in here and locked the door in my face. And now I don't get a paper
Me: I'm sorry but I am forbidden by my boss to open the store before 7 am

At that the point the SC stormed off. What part of we don't open until 7 is so hard to comprehend? Yes I locked the door on him but that is what the owner told me to do. I love how he was the one who was too impatient to wait a few minutes but then blames me when he saunters in at 2pm and find the papers are gone.

Luckily for me we have cameras in the store that will tell the boss exactly what time I came in. So if the SC tries to get me in trouble I have proof.

[flyinghi]

that's precisely why I used to come in the backdoor when I worked openings

[Auto]

SC: I wanted my paper and you just sauntered in here and locked the door in my face. And now I don't get a paper
Me: I'm sorry but I am forbidden by my boss to open the store before 7 am.

You should have told him, "Tough shit, sir. I really don't care that you missed your paper. We open at 7am and not a second before."

He can't buy a newspaper anywhere else in town?

[ShinyGreenApple]

I could never understand the mentality behind dragging one's self to a store at some ungodly hour (I used to be opening cashier for my WD, we opened at 6 x_x ) to get a paper. If you need it that badly, why not just take out a subscription so you can read it in the coziness of your own home while wearing jammies and drinking your own coffee?

[blas]

Imagine this:

Our newspapers were delivered way early at the gas station. Before the opening cashier came. And they just sat outside waiting.

And I agree, TH.....if I saw someone waiting for me to open when I pulled up I'd be instantly pissed.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Imagine this:

Our newspapers were delivered way early at the gas station. Before the opening cashier came. And they just sat outside waiting.

Yeah, ours too.. every once in a while we'd come in to find 50 cents sitting on top of the pile. We could only assume which one they took since there are several that were 50 cents....

[Sheldonrs]

The ones that pissed me off were the ones that would open up the paper bundle and take what they wanted, leave some change and the rest of the papers out at the mercy of the winds and the thieves.
Unless the headline reads"End Of World Coming Soon" there is no reason you need a paper that bad.

[Heid]

The same thing has happened to me, especially on half-price sale days. We are told to close the shop early at the end of the day on promotional days in order to give us plenty of time to cash up as we make up to 3 times what we would make on a regular day.

So the amount of people that forgo the "CLOSED EARLY" sign written in black pen and highlighter and rattle the doors two or three times is immense.

"Oh, are you closed?"

What does the FUCKING sign on the door say???

Seriously, some people shouldn't be allowed outside without a carer. Or at least someone who can read.

[Trayol]

Unless the headline reads"End Of World Coming Soon" there is no reason you need a paper that bad.

If the headline was that, I wouldn't want a paper in the first place. Of course, I'm not an SC...

[daisychain]

Once a customer insisted that they be let in early because they just had to get a quick thing. I explained that the registers weren't on so it didn't matter how quick she was because they wouldn't come on until the store opened. She insisted so I let her in.
When she came up to the counter I informed her that she couldn't purchase the item until the registers were on so she would have to wait... evil yes, but I DID tell her...

[unclejampuff]

I open on Saturdays. I get there earlier than most because I like to make sure everything's set up before I start my breakfast. Whenever I start eating, whoever is waiting out front stares at me like they haven't seen food for a week.
My favourite part is when I finally let them in and they demand how I got in. They can't figure out how I got in while they were staking out the door. There is (DUH) a backdoor that I go through, but I like to tell these people that it's an "Ancient Chinese secret."

[Madhatter_67_85]

Saturdays were always the worst about people sitting in the parking lot waiting for us to open. I would cringe everytime I pulled in 15 minutes before opening and see cars all ready there waiting. And yes invariably we would always have at least one asshat come in the employee door and demand we open early. I would always tell them, no not going to happen because we don't start getting paid until the store opens; therefore, we are not going to do anything before then. Some would complain to which I would tell them how about you tell me where you work and I will come up and demand you start working early with no pay. I had a few try to come back with well I am the customer and I would cut them off and tell them no you ARE NOT until 9:00 am.

[wagegoth]

Sauntering is moseying with style.

[Samaliel]

[...] we don't start getting paid until the store opens; [...]

Really ? Sounds bad. I'd have thought that, since you're on site and actually working in the store (getting it prepared for opening), you'd get paid... And that wouldn't change a thing about opening time. Anyway, most likely the store insurance won't cover customer presence before opening time, so if anything goes wrong, the one employee who let the customer in is toast.

[customersruinmylife]

On a few occasions when I have been doing stock take, I have come into the bar at about 6am just to get it all done. I am amazed by the amount of people who come knocking on the door asking when we open.

Slight change of subject, but has anyone had to deal with SC's when you open a couple of minutes late? We have about five sets of doors to unlock when we open, and it amazes me how annoyed the SC's get when I get to their door last.

SC: You open at 9am! It's 9:02!

Yes, because two minutes is enough for dehydration to set in.