Make it stop please, just make it stop!

[SG15Z]

Thank the retail gods I'm off on Thanksgiving. And thank the gods it's my only day off so they can't call me in!

Ugh

So I had one of the express lanes close down for their break and while she was gone I decided to fill her coin dispenser. Now let me put together this image. I'm standing at the bagging end of the register with the till in front of me putting coins in the dispenser. The light is also off and no one else is getting in my line. I'm probably not open right? Not according to this guy. He runs right up and puts his stuff on the belt before I even blink.

Now also all of the other lanes are open. ALL OF THEM. Except this one of course. Most of them don't have a line. But he picks the one register without a light on. sigh.

Me: Um, sir I'm not open.
SC: *Gives that "Oh come on!" look* Well you should put a sign up then! *storms off*
Me: sigh

I finish what I'm doing after that put the till back in and walk to somewhere else. Of course when I walk by him checking out he glares at me. Geeze dude There are 14 registers, and 13 were OPEN! Most only had 1 person in line if even that. Calm down you didn't wait that long!

Plus we don't put signs on our registers that are closed. We think the light system works fine, maybe you should look at those since just about every grocer store uses those. Very few grocery companies have a Lane Closed sign for the registers around here. People would probably ignore them anyway.

Double Ugh

I'm out at the Fuel station giving them a break when this guy comes up.

SC: *pratically yelling* I need a receipt!
Me: Ok what pump were you on.
SC: Pump 7! And you need to fix that so it will print the reciept.
Me: *with the line I've been having? Yeah right like we have time for that*
Me: *I see that the last trans for that pump has a time stamp for 10 minutes ago so I want to make sure it was his* How much was yours?
SC: PUMP 7!
Me: I know that sir, but do you remember how much yours was?
SC: NO I DON'T! IT WAS PUMP 7!
Me: *I just print the last one for that pump.* Ok sir I just wanted to make sure I give you the right receipt.
SC: *grabs his receipt* You need to fix that! *storms off*

Geeze dude it's just a freaking receipt! Calm the f*** down!

ETA: Also why don't you know how much you just paid? You'd think someone wanting his receipt would also keep track of how much he just paid for the gas.

Still at fuel...

The customer walks up and puts a $20 bill down.

SC: 20 dollars in diesel!

Ok I have like 4 pumps with diesel and all of them had cars at them.

Me: Which pump sir?
SC: Diesel!
Me: Ok but which pump?
SC: Over there.

Ok I know what direction that narrows it down to two different pumps. Neither are being pumped at the moment but both have cars.

Me: Ok but which one?
SC: That One!!
Me: Ok but which one!
SC: I don't know it's over there!
Me: Which side.
SC: Over there!



Me: This side or the other side.
SC: The green truck!

OMG THEY'RE BOTH FREAKING GREEN!!!!!!

Me: 5 or 6!
SC: I'll go look! ............ 6!
Me: Ok there you go.

My goodness people I can't keep track who's on which pump when I have 10 of them and they're all full! You should see what this song and dance is like when it's just unleaded. My goodness have you never bought gas before? Look at the number before you pay it's not that freaking hard!!!!!!!




I hate the holidays.

...Is it January yet?

[jackfaire]

It's a good thing I am not present at these situations I tend to point out other people's idiocy. When I am a fellow customer of course.

[lupo pazzesco]

One of the bonuses for not owning a car: Not having to deal with gas station stupidity! Woo hoo!

As for the light system. Well, I understand it perfectly well, it does make sense. and now that you mention it, I can't think of any grocery stores I shop at that uses a lane closed sign. Huh, learning something new every day!

Have a good day off. Tomorrow's probably going to suck.

and I'll be right there with you, too, having to go in myself, as we start our holidy spirit gear sale. The hoodie whores are going to be coming out in droves. >.>

[SG15Z]

Have a good day off. Tomorrow's probably going to suck.

Oh it sucked alright. It sucked hard...

[lupo pazzesco]

Oh it sucked alright. It sucked hard...

<shares wine> I feel your pain...

[SG15Z]

<shares wine> I feel your pain...

Yeah you would think a grocery store and a college bookstore with no big sales going on (compared to other companies at least) wouldn't be that busy. In fact we were dead in previous years. I'm so confused. What changed? Why was I so busy!

[fireheart]

Oh it sucked alright. It sucked hard...

Well it sucked so much that your day blowed.

I feel your pain on the whole "is this register open" thing. Old store used both signs and lights. New store is going to use just the lights I think. (there's only a grand total of 7 registers plus the service desk)

[brucetiki]

Last weekend there was a lane at my local supermarket that was closed yet the light was still on with someone behind the till. Caused a bit of understandable confusion.

[MilitantLibrarian]

It's a good thing I am not present at these situations I tend to point out other people's idiocy. When I am a fellow customer of course.

Hey, that's just about my favourite pastime, I've lost count of the number of times I've been behind some loser complaining at the counter, and found myself saying "Don't take your frustration out on that member of staff, isn't it obvious that she/he is doing their best, and what you're asking for is unreasonable" or words to that effect, especially when the Real Person (TM), as I would call us customer-facing guys has no control over the situation they feel they have a right to have resolved in their favour.

I have had an instance where a customer asked at our desk for a 5-day weather report, not a totally unreasonable request for a reference library, and we weren't busy at the time, so I thought I'd take the time to make a one page precis of the information from 3 different websites (to save trees and printing prices). Big mistake, when they returned from their Mediterranean holiday a week or so later, who was to blame for the rain they had on a couple of days ? Me of course. I had deliberately edited the information to say that the weather would be fine. No mention of the fact that they'd booked the holiday months before anyway. I really though they were just joking and trying to put a brave face on their (slightly) washed out experience, but that was until I found out that they'd written a complaint to my manager. Fortunately he realised that since I am not the God of Rain, it wasn't my fault, but the unrealistic expectations of SCs still surprises me after all my years in working with the subnormals we call the public.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Eons ago, supermarkets here used to have a light system and yup, customers still ignored said light system. XD Now it's signs up and ribbons accross and what do you know, customers still ignore them!

I feel your pain with the petrol station woes; people do that all the bloody time. Why is it so hard to LOOK AT THE EFFING PUMP NUMBER before you go and pay? It's not rocket science. And here, if someone didn't get a receipt when they asked, I have to write one out so they would have to remember how much they paid. And yes, people do whinge at me all the time cuz of that. *sigh*

I'm working on Christmas Eve this year, what fun. -.-

[jackfaire]

Why is it so hard to LOOK AT THE EFFING PUMP NUMBER before you go and pay? -

Not only do I look but if I get all the way to the door realize I forgot I will go back and look again.

[SG15Z]

Well it sucked so much that your day blowed.

DAMN YOU! And yes it did blow.

I'm working on Christmas Eve this year, what fun. -.-

I'm sure I'll be working too. I don't mind it as we get holiday pay after working there so long, but a part of me still doesn't want to work.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm working on Christmas Eve this year, what fun. -.-

You poor thing...

Not only do I look but if I get all the way to the door realize I forgot I will go back and look again.

I've done that sooo many times.

Usually when I'm chatting with Nekojin and we get halfway to the door and I look at him and ask "Wait, what pump are we at again?"

^-.-^

[protege]

When you see as many numbers as I do during the day...I sometimes "zone" a bit, and actually forget the digits. But, at least you can easily see them through the gas station building's large front windows. Only problem is, that I'm nearsighted, and even with glasses, some numbers occasionally get blurred...especially at the larger stations. In that case, I'll say something like "the little orange sports car out front." That way, there's no confusion as to which car I'm referring to

[SG15Z]

When you see as many numbers as I do during the day...I sometimes "zone" a bit, and actually forget the digits. But, at least you can easily see them through the gas station building's large front windows. Only problem is, that I'm nearsighted, and even with glasses, some numbers occasionally get blurred...especially at the larger stations. In that case, I'll say something like "the little orange sports car out front." That way, there's no confusion as to which car I'm referring to

Except when they say "the red truck" and there's 2 red trucks in that direction.