'That's cause it's wal-mart" and other delights

[Crow The Robot]

This being the week before Christmas, we have had a invasion of SCs, like every retail store in the world, and i will now share with you a couple of the persons who helped make the holidays anything but happy:

Story One
The snotty Gift reciept lady
SW=Snotty Woman
CSM=Customer Service Manager

SW: EXCUSE ME!!!!!!! YOUR STUPID CASHIER GAVE ME 11 GIFTCARDS!!!! I NEEDED 12!!!! 12!!!!!
CSM: Okay, let me see what I can do.
SW: <snottily> Oh, do, god you hire such idiots.
CSM: Okay, I'll rering the item she did not give you the gift reciept for and give you a reciept.
SW: I needed 12 gift reciepts!!! She gave me 11!! 11!!!
CSM: Yes ma'am, i'll get you the twelth gift reciept right now.
SW: God,You know why this happened because this is Wal-Mart, and nobody here is worth anything. Nobody here does a real job!!! <yes, she was one of those people>The cashiers are sooooo stupid. I needed 12 gift reciepts!!! 12!!! She gave me 11!!! 11!! Does that make sense to anyone who can think???? My boss told me it would be hard but i didn't think it would be this hard!!!
CSM: We'll i am sorry ma'am.here's your gift reciept.
SW: Oh, and the girl wasn't happy, tell your cashiers to be happy when i come to their lines!!

Story 2
Make sure i get 'em back
DL: DVD lady
ME: Ta da!
<sensor goes off, DL shows me he reciept, so far so good>
DL: Justmake sure i get my Dvd's back i know your kind likes to steal!!!
ME: mm hm. <deactivates DVDs> There you go.
(not as bad as it could be but it made me mad.)

Story 3
We can't do anything

Handicapped lady comes up and complains that a person using a handicapped spot did not look handicapped. The person did however have a tag on their car so they were parked legally. If they are parked legally, there is not a bleeping thing we can do about it! Also not all disabilities are, at first glance, apparant.)

[Geek King]

Handicapped lady comes up and complains that a person using a handicapped spot did not look handicapped. The person did however have a tag on their car so they were parked legally. If they are parked legally, there is not a bleeping thing we can do about it! Also not all disabilities are, at first glance, apparant.)

An excellent point Crow. I used to have the They-Don't-look-handicaped hang up until I found out that one of my friends has a club foot. It is not very obvious (I knew him for 3-4 years before I knew), but he can't be on his feet for very long before they start causing him pain. He recently went through a procedure to fuse the microfractures in one of his feet, and has to keep his walking to an absolute minimum. I'm a lot slower to jump to conclusions now.

[South Texan]

SW: God,You know why this happened because this is Wal-Mart, and nobody here is worth anything. Nobody here does a real job!!! <yes, she was one of those people>The cashiers are sooooo stupid. I needed 12 gift reciepts!!! 12!!! She gave me 11!!! 11!! Does that make sense to anyone who can think???? My boss told me it would be hard but i didn't think it would be this hard!!!

It never fails to amaze me how people who proclaim to hate a store can't seem to stay away from it. Too cheap to shop elsewhere perhaps?

SW: Oh, and the girl wasn't happy, tell your cashiers to be happy when i come to their lines!!

That one cracked me up. Now everyone in the office wants to know what is so funny. I live by Rule #1.

[kerrisan]

SW: Oh, and the girl wasn't happy, tell your cashiers to be happy when i come to their lines!!

She forgot to tell them to get on their knees, kiss her feet, and let the trumpets sound as she is carried to her car on a golden pedistal.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

SW: Oh, and the girl wasn't happy, tell your cashiers to be happy when i come to their lines!!

OK, how about we chain you to the cash register on the busiest day of the year? We'll see how happy you are after dealing with people like yourself for 8 hours a day.

[CanadaGirl]

Something about that 'lady' makes me want to slap her across the face and tell her to "grow the f*** up".

[Jester]

Also not all disabilities are, at first glance, apparant.)

(from the movie Twins)

COP: "Sir, you're parked in a handicapped spot."
VINCENT: "Do I look normal to you?"

[XCashier]

SW: Oh, and the girl wasn't happy, tell your cashiers to be happy when i come to their lines!!

"Okay, we'll only hire masochists from now on." Full of yourself much, milady?

I like Irving's idea, chain her to a register and let's see how she reacts to eight hours of abuse from entitlement-minded idiots like her!

[Bliss]

SW: Oh, and the girl wasn't happy, tell your cashiers to be happy when i come to their lines!!

Sure ma'm! *hands whip to cashier* "Wip this woman!"

"What are you doing? stop stop!"

"i'm just making my cashier happy!"

[Seshat]

Story 3
We can't do anything

Handicapped lady comes up and complains that a person using a handicapped spot did not look handicapped. The person did however have a tag on their car so they were parked legally. If they are parked legally, there is not a bleeping thing we can do about it! Also not all disabilities are, at first glance, apparant.)

Thank you. I'm grateful that people realise this.

I look perfectly normal - unless you put your hand on my knee while I bend or straighten it. Anyone who's doing that can feel the arthritis.

Of course, I don't actually WANT random people putting their hands on my knees to check whether I'm entitled to use my walking stick//use a parking space//whatever.

(As it happens, I don't use the handicapped spaces. Yet. But I've accepted the reality that unless a medical miracle comes along, I'll need those spaces later in my life. And I'll still look perfectly normal.)

[simplyanother]

I bet that one woman was the type that polices the handicap restrooms too. Even though ANYONE can use them (at my work, there are only two stalls in the restroom anyway. If someone is in the smaller stall, I'm using the larger one. And if I have my kids with me and I'm shopping, I'm going to go for the larger room too. (I get that bathrooms are way different than parking spaces. and it is a shame that people don't understand that not all disabilities are visible. "You must appear this disabled before parking in this spot"...)


You can't satisfy some customers. We had someone complain that a cashier was TOO happy. WTF? "Oh, I'm sorry, I'll be a grouch from now on.."

(Or the woman who got mad because I only gave her a 25 dollar gift card..."I WANTED 50!". Well she gave me a gift card that was for 25 dollars. It's not like there wasn't a HUGE 25 right there on the thing. Stupid head. )


I actually went to walmart today and it wasn't a madhouse. Then again I was on the grocery side, I dared not venture to the GM side--for fear for my life. The cashiers looked exhausted, but they have to deal with assholes all day long. At least on my job, most days I can get off the register to do go backs and other stuff--(where I'm on the floor and people expect me to know stuff..ha, jokes on them!), the cashiers at walmart don't, do they? (Other than breaks and lunch, I assume. I don't know, Walmart wouldn't hire me. LOL).

Bah, some people are just rude and toxic and don't realize that the reason people are bitchy to them is because they are bitchy.


To the OP, ya'll should have taken a pic of the "make the cashiers happy" lady. When asked why... "oh, so we can post them by the registers, so they know when to be happy". What a beast.

Sorry about being so verbose ya'll.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

She forgot to tell them to get on their knees, kiss her feet, and let the trumpets sound as she is carried to her car on a golden pedistal.

You left out the part about the spreading of the rose petals and the servant girls with the large plumage-like fans to cool off Her Highness so she doesn't overheat

Oh, and make sure there are curtains on the pedestal so Her Highness doens't have to look out at those peasants who are not worthy of viewing her person.

But we need to get real here. Preferably with a good swift kick to her butt.

[DesignFox]

ha. this post makes me think of something that happened at work...a strange song came on over the Muzak that reminded us of "Swing low sweet chariot"...you know...sounded like a slave song from the pre-civil war... deep south...I started picturing people in retail store uniforms working at registers with their legs chained to the counter/each other...

Your cashier should be happy... geez... I'm sure she was really happy that you berated her over a very human error that took you all of two seconds to have corrected...

and oh..gift receipts? How STUPID are those anyway? if the person returns the product, they are going to KNOW how much it cost, even though the price isn't listed on the receipt when they get it...not to mention the fact that if the item is on their holiday wish list, I am sure they are DAMN well aware of what the item costs...because they looked at it and wanted it to begin with!!! Morons.....

[Lace Neil Singer]

I once had an SC complain nastily to a supervisor cuz I was looking unhappy... well, seeing as this was the day after my granny's funeral, it was obvious I was looking unhappy! True, she didn't know, but it would have been better to just assume I was having a bad day and leave it, rather than go whinging. I'd already told the supervisors what was happening, so the supervisor didn't tell me off or anything; just informed me of the complaint.

[Maevis]

That reminds me of the time when one of the customers was "joking" with my SM who's normall fairly cheery and he said, "Geesh...what's wrong with you today, your dog die or what?"

"No, my cat died"

Oh, man did that guy feel bad. After he left, he called the store like 3 times to apologize.