Just because I am at the Register does NOT mean it's open!!!

[Ravendjinn]

there is a saying 'treat others s how you would like to be treated'
I treat customers like shit immediatly if they start on me, noe of this 'sir and 'im sorry'
nope just straight 'LEARN SOME MANNERS THEN I'LL SERVE YOU'

[Dreamstalker]

Oh, the times I wanted to say that to a select few game store customers...dude, lack of other social graces does not excuse you from waiting your turn. Most people learned that in nursery school.

[Imogene]

I think I'd have reenacted a scene from wanted right about then, if you've seen it, you can probably guess which one.

Haven't seen the movie, know the scene anyway. Damn you, 4-chan for your tempting Gif board!

[Shamus]

"Next Register Please" signs are often worthless. I've seen customers go up to closed registers and pile their purchase on the counter, never noticing the sign that is literally in front of them. Others actually push the sign aside and start waiting. The worst part of such incidents is that the stupidity simply piles on, and a line will ultimately form at a register that is not even open.

[Chattyaholic]

I agree, you definitely need a "register closed" sign.

My husband and I were at Cabela's (huge sporting goods store) in Dundee a few months ago and we were ready to check out. At each checkout they had a light, if the light was on the register was open. We walked up to one that had the light on and started to put our items on the counter. The woman says "sorry, my register is closed." I said "oh, I'm sorry but your light is on so we thought it was open" as we gathered up our things and moved back to the line waiting for an open register. A few seconds later she sighed and motioned for us to come back over. She said she didn't realize her light was on, so she would go ahead and check us out. It just felt weird. But I bet she double checks her light from now on.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've had this happen to me sometimes, or seen it happen, as well, at my store.

Sometimes one of the MODs will hop onto a register to ring up the club-use merchandise (paper towels, cleaning supplies, pens, food court supplies, etc.) and despite the register's light not being turned on, and the MOD reading numbers off a SKU list, customers will still try to get in their line.

Likewise, I've had coworkers pack up their tills at the end of their shifts at their registers. If I see them doing this, I always tell them, "Pack your tills up in the cash office. You won't get people bugging you in there."

Then there's my own version of the above, which I might have related already, but just in case:

End of my shift. My light is off, I am pulling my till out of the drawer and starting to turn away. Woman rushes up to my register and starts throwing her things onto the belt, ignoring my repeated warnings of "Ma'am, I'm closed." Finally getting fed up with her ignoring me, I start putting her things back into her cart, and when she glares at me, I tell her, pointedly, "Ma'am, I'm closed. You'll have to go to another register," and don't back down when she turns up the ferocity of the glare and gives me the CBF.

[hotelnpa]

Reading some the these takes me back to my movie theater days. You know, people forming lines where there wasn't one to begin with, people getting pissy because you won't help them even after informing them that the line of over here (where all the people are standing).

Our management wouldn't allow signs either. It was against company policy to have a hand made sign (computer or written) too.