I know for a fact it will take it!

[batmoody]

So this couple comes through my line with WIC and other groceries. The girl was not a problem at all, in fact i felt really bad for her. She had her vouchers all ready, including her WIC I.D. and her drivers license.

Girl - Girl
Me - Me
Sucky boyfriend - SB

SB: (condescendingly to the girl) You don't need your drivers license, just your WIC card. Didn't you listen at all during the class.

Girl: i just want to be sure

SB: (Still yapping at the girl) You don't need it, put it away. It is illegal for them to ask you for you license for WIC. All you need is your card. They have no right to ask you for that. Who is the better checker here. Oh wait i am the only checker here so I know what I am talking about.

He continued lecturing her about it and I didn't say a word. I almost felt like he was trying to get me to chime in that he was correct but he was being such a douchebag to her I said nothing. Ya he was right but whatever.

SB makes his way down to the end of my checkstand where my bagger, Sam, is bagging the groceries.

SB: (to Sam) Go find something else to do, I can do this faster.

Sam walks off with a WTF look and SB starts bagging. What a jerk!

So I get to the end of the order and start scanning their coupons. We have a sale, 3 six-packs of coke bottles for $10.00 and there is a $3.00 off coupon in our add. In addition to it being in our add, which isn't mailed out anymore (You have to get it in store) there are $3.00 off coupons also taped to the six packs for customer convenience.

So this guy has 2 of these coupons and wants $6.oo off his 3 six-packs.

Me: You are only allowed to use one of these coupons.

SB: What?

ME: They are both store coupons, you can only use one per transaction.

SB : You're wrong. I use coupons like this all the time!

ME: No, (pointing out the fine print) It says right here one coupon per transaction. Now, if one was a manufacturers coupon and one was a store coupon, you could use them both, but you would have to get 3 more six packs for the computer to take this coupon.

SB: I know for a FACT it will take it!

Me: (I scan the coupon just to show him that the register wont accept it) See, it won't allow it. I tried. It's not allowed.

SB: I want you to get your manager!

Me: Gladly!

I call up the manager and guess what!? She tells him the same thing lol. SB gets all pissy and wants the Cokes taken off. I take them off, cash out his order and tell him to have a nice day.

aaaaahh...the satisfaction!

So much for customer convenience

[EricKei]

If this particular turd is such a "great checker", he would have known how coupons WORK, and also that you can't use WIC to buy Cokes (at least, not everywhere)...

[Titi]

The SB reminds me of son's father and also a factor in why he is an ex. He once went with me and ridiculed me about having my both my WIC ID and State Issued ID out because he knew the law and all that they needed was my WIC ID (which didn't have a picture on it just a signature that I wrote) well I went off on him that due to carpal tunnel my signature never looks the same so at times I was asked for additional ID and always had mine out and ready. And he had to nerve to tell me, "NO THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED! YOU ARE JUST STUPID!"

[elsporko]

If you need government assistance then you shouldn't be buying pop anyways.

I got really angry one day when I saw a family with a bridge card (similiar to WIC) buying premade sandwhiches from the deli, potato salad, and chips. Okay, they must be going on a picnic or something, but come on. They easily could have bought the ingrediants and made it themselves for alot less. Hell, I'll even give them the potato salad and chips. Just the sandwhiches though, they easily could have bought lunch meat, bread, and whatever else was on them for half as much as they paid for the premade sandwhiches with my tax money.

[tropicsgoddess]

If this particular turd is such a "great checker", he would have known how coupons WORK, and also that you can't use WIC to buy Cokes (at least, not everywhere)...

It's always the SC's and their bullshit claim(s) that they know customer service/retail/hospitality/ tech support (etc) better than the CSR when in fact they don't know shit and don't work in the public sector. I love when douchebags like that SC get their asses handed to them!

[MadMike]

I'd like to remind everyone to focus on the sucky customers, and not turn this into a debate about welfare, WIC, etc. If you feel the need to discuss that particular topic, please take it to Fratching.

[batmoody]

If this particular turd is such a "great checker", he would have known how coupons WORK, and also that you can't use WIC to buy Cokes (at least, not everywhere)...

He wasn't trying to get the coke on WIC. The coke was from their other order after the WIC.

I just hated the way he acted like a Mr. Know-it-all, degrading his girlfriend/wife in the process.

It felt good to tell him no.

[fireheart]

The guy is a jerk. sadly, why is it that the nice girls seem to fall for the assholes?

[tropicsgoddess]

The guy is a jerk. sadly, why is it that the nice girls seem to fall for the assholes?

That's what I'd like to know, same with the good guys and the bitchy women.

[mattm04]

If you need government assistance then you shouldn't be buying pop anyways.

I got really angry one day when I saw a family with a bridge card (similiar to WIC) buying premade sandwhiches from the deli, potato salad, and chips. Okay, they must be going on a picnic or something, but come on. They easily could have bought the ingrediants and made it themselves for alot less. Hell, I'll even give them the potato salad and chips. Just the sandwhiches though, they easily could have bought lunch meat, bread, and whatever else was on them for half as much as they paid for the premade sandwhiches with my tax money.

In my state those premade deli/prepared foods are taxed and therefore will not work with Food Stamps, which only work on non-taxed items.

[NightAngel]

*dusts off Mod Hat*

MadMike already said that we aren't discussing WIC, welfare, etc. here. It's a Fratching topic.

Keep the discussion to the SC.

[EricKei]

And he had to nerve to tell me, "NO THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED! YOU ARE JUST STUPID!"

My roomie (and ooooold friend) tends to do this... He's a smart guy (which I know because he likes to remind me often...show, don't tell, dude)...but he goes by the POIDH mentality -- put simply, for any given event, if it has not happened personally to him, it must not be true. Another way of putting this is "If you don't agree with his opinion, you must be both wrong and stupid". Fortunately, he doesn't pull the latter on me (or, at least, not often enough to get decked for it), but it's still incredibly annoying.

One of the more disturbing things is that he even extends this to things like food safety, thawing out meat, etc : "I have never gotten sick from doing it this way, therefore it must be safe" is the way he thinks. Long story short -- this person, who has studied physics and has a B of Science degree, sees nothing wrong with defrosting things like pork out on the counter by just leaving it out there for hours. When I object, he dismisses tiny little things like Board of Health evidence that This Might Be a bad Idea with the above "argument". I'm worried that this will indeed come back to bite him in the ass someday. Sad.

[smileyeagle1021]

I got really angry one day when I saw a family with a bridge card (similiar to WIC) buying premade sandwhiches from the deli, potato salad, and chips.

That may not be true that it costs more... at least at the deli at the grocery store I've gone to it came out being roughly the same to buy the sandwich from the deli as to make it myself (and by roughly the same I mean I think it might have cost a quarter more, if that much, for the deli).

Though back to the sucky boyfriend... I would have asked which store he was a checker at to make sure that I never made the mistake of shopping there.

[Anakah]

Sorry just read the top. But I'm not sure why its illegal. But the guy really didn't have to be so mean to her. Jerk.

[Megg]

There sure are an awful lot of guys around like my (for a reason) ex, hu? Holy cow, I had no idea the "I am right always, better than everyone, smarter than Einstein, and if you don't agree with me, there is obviously something wrong with YOU" mentality was so prevalent. I get more depressed about the state of humanity every single day.