Retail destroys souls (long)

[He who Attends]

First off i just want to say that i have decided that everyone who enters the store from this point on while be assumed stupid until the PROVE they aren't, it's so much easier to hate people then to hope they wont be complete tards.

A long time ago, in a store not far enough away

This one is from last summer i need to get it off my chest because even over a year later it still makes me mad thinking about it.

i was on cash that day and it was a regular summer Saturday, I'd just gotten back on my register after my break and waved these ladies over from one of the other lines.

in this story SC1 will be the lady actually buying things and SC 2 is her shopping buddy.

now I'd waved them over from a cash behind me so they had to back up and come around to my side and i swear when they were still a good 2 meters away the most rudiculis thing happened.

SC 2: speaking in an outdoor voice "HI!"
Me: startled as to why she hadn't waited to get to my cash to say this "hello?"
SC 2: "yeah i said hello because you weren't going to"
Me: in shock "........"

there are no words for this, i quite literally do not know how to explain not only how ANGERY this made me but how completely STUPID that statement is, i didn't even realize what she'd really said until halfway into her friends transaction. not only was she completely wrong but where in the name of the retail gods did that even come from? my mind just does not grasp to levels of egotistical stupidity need to believe the words coming out of your mouth, I'm sorry I'm not rude enough to yell hello when you are too far away for me to even properly see you with out leaning over my counter!

sorry about that, now onto the paying customer!

the transaction was fine until we got the the debit transaction

i was standing there not even look at her and staring off into the middle distance waiting for her to punch in her info and complete the transaction, every once in a while she would glance at me and look away like she wanted something so after the third glance i looked at her and asked if she needed help.

SC 1: "don't look at my pin number!"
ME serious: "mama I'm not looking at your numbers at all"
SC 2 "you shouldn't look at peoples pin numbers"
Me and the transaction goes through " i have no interest in you pin number, here's your receipt, have a good day"

they both gave me a dirty look as they left as if i should totally want there useless pin number, cause i can totally use that without the FREAKING DEBIT CARD that you have IN YOUR HANDS! nah i;m totally going to follow you to your car and mug you for your debit card, that'd work i swear

Some people just should never reproduce, just sayin

I'll post more when my hands stop shakeing

[XCashier]

i swear when they were still a good 2 meters away the most rudiculis thing happened.

SC 2: speaking in an outdoor voice "HI!"
Me: startled as to why she hadn't waited to get to my cash to say this "hello?"
SC 2: "yeah i said hello because you weren't going to"
Me: in shock "........"

Right, like you're going to yell "hello" across the store, so everyone in the vicinity will answer. And I love how the automatically assume you're going to be rude. Really sets the tone. (And they do know what happens when you "assume", right?)

SC 1: "don't look at my pin number!"
ME serious: "mama I'm not looking at your numbers at all"
SC 2 "you shouldn't look at peoples pin numbers"
Me and the transaction goes through " i have no interest in you pin number, here's your receipt, have a good day"

they both gave me a dirty look as they left as if i should totally want there useless pin number, cause i can totally use that without the FREAKING DEBIT CARD that you have IN YOUR HANDS!

All these TV shows and spam e-mails are making everyone paranoid. You'd think we all walked around with our debit cards, wallets and car keys dragging on a ten-foot string behind us, just waiting for someone to grab and run off. If you're that paranoid that the shop clerk is memorizing your pin number, hold your other hand over the device, duh.

Sorry you had to deal with those idiots. Have a virtual drink on me!

[VenomX]

When we use to sell gas at the place I work I use to have people yell out their pin number even though I didn't need it. We just ran everything credit unless they were out of the car and standing right there and asked for it to be run as debit.

Much less crap that way. They would act like you asked them to do something very labor intensive if they were asked to get out and input their pin.

[LadyAndreca]

the transaction was fine until we got the the debit transaction

i was standing there not even look at her and staring off into the middle distance waiting for her to punch in her info and complete the transaction, every once in a while she would glance at me and look away like she wanted something so after the third glance i looked at her and asked if she needed help.

SC 1: "don't look at my pin number!"

If I'm reading this right...it almost looks like the SC dragged out the debit transaction JUST so you'd look her way so she could yell at you for trying to get her PIN.