I'm reaching the end of my tether now (with a couple of sightings thrown in)

[Jetfire]

Fetch Me The Cans, Slave Girl!

We have a deal on where you can get 5 cans of drink for the price of 2, and sometimes the customers don't realise, so we inform them at the tills. This...gentleman...had picked up only 2 cans from the stack next to him. The fact that the stack was next to him is important here.

Me: Hi, those cans are 5 for the price of 2 if you'd like to get three more.

SC: Really? OK I'll have *this brand*, *this brand* and *this brand*

Me: Sir could you just pass me them over please to save you time.

SC: Erm I DON'T THINK SO! It is YOUR job!

Me: OK... *walked round the till, manouvred round people, stood right NEXT to him, got 3 cans and walked round back behind my till*

SC: Now THAT wasn't so hard, was it?

Me: Have a nice day.

Hindsight and all that but I would have answered something like "My job is to record and total up the items that YOU have selected to purchase and then take your funds to pay for those purchases. So if you do not select those items and put them on the belt here for me to ring up, you will not get those free items."

But all in all ugh, talk about a bunch of a-holes overall.

[Syriilord]

Wow. You have WAY more than your fair share of these jerks.
I'm a little curious about the paracetamol limit you have where you are. Where I am, it's against the law for supermarkets or anyone else who isn't a licenced pharmacy to sell more than one pack per person/group.

[Miss_Stress]

Wow. You have WAY more than your fair share of these jerks.
I'm a little curious about the paracetamol limit you have where you are. Where I am, it's against the law for supermarkets or anyone else who isn't a licenced pharmacy to sell more than one pack per person/group.

Yes it is because we aren't a pharmacy, so therefore we can't sell anymore than 3 packs, according to policy. It isn't so much that they're upset that they can't bend the policy that bothers me, it's the silly off-handed remarks about suicide that upset me Some people just don't think I guess.

[MoonCat]

That's the worst collection of asshats and idiots I've ever seen in one place! Hugs and cookies for you!

Re: the medication, I understand that policy. Whether you agree with it or not, you still have to follow it, why can't people see that?

Re: the bus thing....I take the bus everywhere, and I hate people who park in the bus stop space! Inconsiderate idiots! It's not the bus driver's fault, though. Stupid woman. I think it's cool that you told her off. Maybe next time she won't whine at the driver for something he can't fix.

[Mikkel]

Re: the bus thing....I take the bus everywhere, and I hate people who park in the bus stop space! Inconsiderate idiots! It's not the bus driver's fault, though. Stupid woman. I think it's cool that you told her off. Maybe next time she won't whine at the driver for something he can't fix.

Oh yes, my brother was a bus driver many years ago and he used to complain about a car which always parked at the bus stop outside an embassy, it was a diplomat car so the police couldn't do anything. The ambassador kept on parking there until one of the other drivers almost not on purpose stepped on the gas instead of the brake and totalled the nice Mercedes . Since it was parked illegally the driver wasn't blamed for the "accident".

[jjc927]

These are people who need help out to their car (they bought a single carton of eggs and demanded it be doubled bagged)

Ugh, I hate unnecessary double baggers also! I've seen people double bag for this, and even for 1 single loaf of bread! Like a loaf of bread is going to make the bag break in any way!

Maybe next time she won't whine at the driver for something he can't fix.

Oh I'm sure she will.

[Shalom]

Oh yes, my brother was a bus driver many years ago and he used to complain about a car which always parked at the bus stop outside an embassy, it was a diplomat car so the police couldn't do anything. The ambassador kept on parking there until one of the other drivers almost not on purpose stepped on the gas instead of the brake and totalled the nice Mercedes . Since it was parked illegally the driver wasn't blamed for the "accident".

Few years ago, probably during Giuliani's tenure, the City Of New York totalled up how much money they were losing on unpaid parking tickets from diplomatic plated cars parked illegally, and decided to do something about it. (Some of those embassies were running up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, so this isn't chump change here.)

They started towing the cars. Now the DPLs didn't have to pay the tickets, because of diplomatic immunity, but they still had to stand in line with the hoi polloi at the car pound, plus they had to pay the tow fee (because that was for services rendered, not a fine, and not covered by DI).

There was a pretty big drop in the amount of illegally parked DPL cars shortly thereafter. Unfortunately the Department of State butted in about 2002 and told them to stop the tows. The City wanted the Feds to pay the parking tickets in that case. I don't recall the outcome of that.

[Anakah]

Find a new job. It's not worth you dreading each and every day. Life is short, enjoy it. People suck, they really do. I know its hard to find any jobs out there, but its worth a look just so you don't feel dread everyday. I've had jobs like that, I hope things get better. Just remember, they're idiots and karma will bite their ass!

I hate the line: You look bored, as well. Don't they realize even standing for 8 hours is hard!? *sigh* Fuck 'em.

[Lots42]

What is the point of having lower-level employees if the manager needs to come over to the register for every damn thing? Just hire a bunch of managers. Your bosses suck butt.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Hire a bunch of managers? They'll give everything to the SCs, and the store will be out of business in a week.

[XCashier]

Hire a bunch of managers? They'll give everything to the SCs, and the store will be out of business in a week.

Precisely. Maybe then Corporate will get the idea that their ideas aren't terribly good.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

I love it! You're brilliant XCashier! This is the solution! We have a winnah!
:shakes XCashier's hands and gives them a check:

[XCashier]

I love it! You're brilliant XCashier! This is the solution! We have a winnah!
:shakes XCashier's hands and gives them a check:

Thanks, but that was Ironclad Alibi's idea. : passes check to IA:

As for me, I'd love to see the Corporate suits on the front lines for a week. Let them use all those clever ideas they come up with in a real world situation. Let them see what we have to deal with: sucky customers, misplaced merchandise, having to ask every customer to sign up for X and getting yelled at because of it. And let the employees have a pool on how long the Corporate suits last and which one will be the first to crack.

[smileyeagle1021]

it's the silly off-handed remarks about suicide that upset me Some people just don't think I guess.

I am right there with you on that one. My father killed himself, and I have no problem telling people, rather bluntly, that their suicide joke is NOT funny in any way.

The ambassador kept on parking there until one of the other drivers almost not on purpose stepped on the gas instead of the brake and totalled the nice Mercedes .

That driver is my hero

[bunnyboy]

My First £50 note

I'd just got back off a break and I had had a new float put into my till. The floats are £50 in £5 notes, £1 coins and some change. The first customer I had wanted to pay with a £50 note, and said he had nothing else (remember this part!)

Me: I don't have the cash in my till to break the note, but I can get a supervisor to get you some if you wish.

SC: THIS IS DISGUSTING! I'll wait but I hope you know I'm not happy!

Supervisor D came, got the change, and asked for the note to check it. The customer pulled out the £50 AND a load of £20 notes and £10 notes

I know your pain here, a similar thing happens at my 8-twelve* Sunday morning, 6 am, meaning I've been slowly going insane from the lack of human contact since about 2 am, I decide that since it's always slow on a Sunday (lack of people going to work, the people going fishing or catching have already stopped by, and the regulars are few and far between) I drop my till down to low about $60 total, and get rid of any 20's that may have been stashed just in case someone has a big winner lotto ticket (that and people coming immediately from our ATM are all the $100 in $20 bills tube drop is for). Guy pulls up in one of those cars that just screams I'm important (in my own head) wants to buy a pack of cigs, and a bottled water, total is less than 10 dollars, now mind you I would have taken the hundred, had I not seen the HUGE ammount of money in his wallet when he pulls out a $100 bill.

me: bunnyclerk
SC: I AM IMPORTANT BEN SAYS SO!

me: sorry I don't have change for a hundred.
SC: what kind of business is this, you don't have change for a hundered?
me *thinking to myself* one that hasn't been robbed for one, because just about everyone in town including the druggies and drunks knows it's a fruitless exercise that will end them up in more trouble than it's worth, and it's also sunday morning, did you notice the lack of cars bot in our parking lot and on the roadway, just how much change do you think we have?
SC: I don't have the 10 dollars.
me:I'm sorry sir, but I can't break it, pulls cigs back from being on the counter.
SC grumbles pulls out 2 $5 bills and says, this is no way to run a business, can't even break a hundred.

Too bad he owners weren't there, they've actually told people that they don't have the change, and have no way of getting the change, and it always seems funny that suddenly they have another way to pay for it.

just my two cents, or pence or smallest available coin.

*name changed. If you can't guess it...