Overnight woes...

[SG15Z]

So last weekend it was my turn to do the weekend overnights. Joy! now guess what? I'm scheduled to do it again next week! NOOOO!! Oh well. This week it was slow so I really didn't have as many SCs as I usually do.

OH MY GOD!
So there I am the first night. Everything has gone well. I finished all my tasks really early. I only have 2 hours left. and no one has called in or been late! It's a good overnight so far right. Darn spoke too soon. All of the sudden the morning Starbucks lady yells at me to come over there. I have no customers yet, and if I do, it's UScan they don't need me there to start the order....most of the time....

So I get there and she's freaking out. Apparently someone outside on the highway adjacent to our store tried to run some one over!!! So I look outside I hear yelling, everyone seems fine, but I figure I should let the manager know in case we need to call the police or something. So I've only been gone maybe a minute or 2. And as soon as I walk back in the door there's a lady standing by my station with that look. You know the one that says I've-been-here-for-ages look.

Then I hear her yelling to the accountant who is at the time behind the booth counter giving the Fuel person their stuff.

SC: Can I get some service over here!!!
Me:
Me: (running back to station) Sorry I'm back. It looked like someone got run over out there.
SC: (In one of those attitudes) I need some cigarettes!!
Me: ok...What kind.

I mean seriously wtf? Some one could of been dying out there and that means nothing to you! No reaction nothing! not even an apology for yelling at my CWs!

Change lady

So the next night. I'm standing at the station and the following occurs:

CL: Crazy Lady
Me:

CL: Do you have a roll of quarters I can buy.
Me: No ma'am I don't.
CL: Well! (Makes annoying sound with lips implying she really didn't like my answer and that I was just refusing to let her buy some.)

Sorry, but I'm not the bank. I'm not required to have change for people to buy. The money in my till is for UScan and UScan alone. I'm not the booth. Go Away!

Stupid guy

Ok not necessarily an SC, but rather me and another customer being Slow and sucky on purpose because this guy is so stupid.

So this lady checks out and pulls out her check book to pay. Now keep in mind that I'm at SCO with 3 other lanes. Granted the one behind this lady was closed (the bill acceptor wasn't working) there are still 2 other lanes that are available. This guy grabs some beer and gets in line at the lane the lady is at. So I simply looking at him wondering if he doesn't see the other lanes and wait for the lady to write her check. She obviously has time on her hands because she notices the guy and writes the check slower. I'm fine with this. In fact she gives me her check and I take twice as long to verify her information. I even put the check crooked on purpose so I would have to do it again.

He still doesn't get it and is still waits at that lane! so I finally put the check in the till. She wrote over so I take my time and give her her change. She then takes forever to gather her purse back in order, then proceeds to slowly grab her bags. The guy waited the whole time! And he didn't complain so points for him, because if he did I would have every right to slap him. Still what an idiot...

Anyway that's it for today. Had an easy weekend.

[Nashida]

Hang on...confused...You gave her change from a check?

[Apathy]

I need some cigarettes!!

Oh no! The world is going to end if she doesn't get those cigarettes right now!

Hang on...confused...You gave her change from a check?

You can overwrite checks at a lot of places. Twenty bucks over is the max I've worked with.

[SG15Z]

Hang on...confused...You gave her change from a check?

Yeah she wrote it over and we're allowed to give change for a check. Although the amount was slightly strange, I think she may have read the total wrong. But that just meant more time counting change.

[Canarr]

The guy waited the whole time! And he didn't complain so points for him, because if he did I would have every right to slap him. Still what an idiot...

Okay, lemme get this straight: all the guy did was enter a lane where another person was already standing, right? And you took that - and that alone - as a reason to do your job extra slow, so he'd have to wait longer than necessary? And if he'd complained about that, it would've been YOUR right to be upset with HIM?

Did I miss anything there?

[marasbaras]

And he didn't complain so points for him, because if he did I would have every right to slap him. Still what an idiot...

So, a guy doesn't really notice other lines open ... and you and the check-writer move extra slow to make him wait? And you're proud of it?

I hope the next month is packed with monumental SCs for you.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Stupid guy

Ok not necessarily an SC, but rather me and another customer being Slow and sucky on purpose because this guy is so stupid.

So this lady checks out and pulls out her check book to pay. Now keep in mind that I'm at SCO with 3 other lanes. Granted the one behind this lady was closed (the bill acceptor wasn't working) there are still 2 other lanes that are available. This guy grabs some beer and gets in line at the lane the lady is at. So I simply looking at him wondering if he doesn't see the other lanes and wait for the lady to write her check. She obviously has time on her hands because she notices the guy and writes the check slower. I'm fine with this. In fact she gives me her check and I take twice as long to verify her information. I even put the check crooked on purpose so I would have to do it again.

He still doesn't get it and is still waits at that lane! so I finally put the check in the till. She wrote over so I take my time and give her her change. She then takes forever to gather her purse back in order, then proceeds to slowly grab her bags. The guy waited the whole time! And he didn't complain so points for him, because if he did I would have every right to slap him. Still what an idiot...

Way to be a dick. He didn't deserve that from you because he went to your lane and not another open one.

And you would've had every right to slap him? Yeah, okay, whatever....

[SG15Z]

guys guys! jeeze. It was SCO. All he had to do was walk 2 steps to check out. And actually the lady started it (I know lame excuse) but it was too tempting not to do it. Besides she was writing a check and taking forever. In reality I only increased his wait time by about 20 seconds. The lady increased by about 5 minutes or more. Ok I guess I was a little mean, but I so bored and needed entertainment....OMG I am A HORRIBLE person...

OK that was very rude of me. Yes he shoulda walked the 2 extra steps but I should of been nicer. Man being in grocery for 4 years has really made me bitter....

[Bramblerose]

1) My husband won't use a self-check unless there's about 20 other people in every other line. I have yet to find out why, I just know he hates the things

2) I have a 45% chance of making the thing hiccup when I use a self-check machine- nothing I do, as evidenced by the remaining 55%. It can't be my electromagnetic field, I can wear watches. I, too, am disinclined to use the fool things. BTW, go ahead and ask how I feel about the auto blood pressure readers my blood bank uses. I dare ya.

3) surely you've run across those folks who think that 1) the world will end 2) they will be sucked into a alternate universe 3) they will die or worse 4) the machine will break upon touching and somehow this will be their fault and on and on when presented with an obvious computer thingie.

4) some folk prefer to work with humans for their own reasons.

[jerkface11]

I never use selfcheckout. Part of the cost of the goods pays for the cashier. I don't get a discount for being my own cashier. So I use one of theirs. Of course Walmart seems to have countered this argument by simply not training their cashiers anymore.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I use self-check-out. In fact, I even have a favourite machine that I use [#3] and will wait for (for some reason its voice grates on my nerves less than the others, must be a volume thing). Maybe that guy had a favourite machine, too.

[Primer]

Okay, lemme get this straight: all the guy did was enter a lane where another person was already standing, right? And you took that - and that alone - as a reason to do your job extra slow, so he'd have to wait longer than necessary? And if he'd complained about that, it would've been YOUR right to be upset with HIM?

Did I miss anything there?

YES

So this lady checks out and pulls out her check book to pay. Now keep in mind that I'm at SCO with 3 other lanes. Granted the one behind this lady was closed (the bill acceptor wasn't working) there are still 2 other lanes that are available.

( bolding mine) SG15Z was overseeing the Self Check Out lanes. The guy was waiting to go through a self check out lane when there were 2 other self check out lanes available and ready to be used.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Be that as it may, it shouldn't make one sucky to wait in line behind someone else when there are open lanes available.

A brain burp maybe, but certainly not worthy of the employee deliberately going as slowly as possible and feeling justified in doing so.

[sixums]

Some people just plain don't like self scans. Sometimes they can be difficult to work with if you don't know how to work them. I used to have a big problem with self scans because it would get stuck in the "please place your items in the bagging area" screen and just beep at me. It frustrated and upset me greatly and I refused to use them for a while. There are a zillion reasons, and you don't know.

Frankly, if I found out that the cashier was calling me an idiot because I didn't want to use a self scan and was actually going slower, when I was waiting patiently and made no indication of being frustrated or sucky, I would be . I think you should be glad he waited patiently and didn't raise a fuss, because you can see from this site that people can get a lot worse over a lot less.