Useless Garbage

[Gaki]

Gas station. Had my last day last week. Too bad I'll be back next summer.

LEAVE. L. E. A. V. E.

I arrive at my store and a very inexperienced girl is running the lottery machine and there is a gaggle of women getting daily three digits and four digits and just overall harrassing her. I assume that when I walk up at five to the hour that the register will be closed down and the person there will be counting it down for me to get onto it.

When I get up there they are STILL harrassing her.

Me: I TAKE NONE OF YOUR SHIT!!!
SC: Blathering lady.
CW: Frazzled.

Me: CW, you're leaving. NOW.
SC: She can't leave, she's gotta fix these numbers for us!
Me: She's leaving, she had to be gone FIVE MINUTES AGO. She has to count down this register because this is a shift change, I will be able to print out all your precious tickets after she's GONE.
SC: I don't understand why she has to leave.
Me: Because this is MY time, not HER time. Her time is over, this is MY time now and nothing is going to happen on this lottery machine until she is out of here.
SC: Well I never... *turns to the gaggle of ladies and bitches about me.*
CW: Thank you so much...
Me: No problem.

Go Die.

Guy hands me a 100 dollar bill.

Me: I can't change that.
SC: What?
Me: I. can't. change. that.
SC: Well I want to use it.
Me: No.
SC: *hands me a ten*
Me: *proceeds*
SC: *puts down the $100 and stares at me.*
Me: Yes, sir?
SC: I want change.
Me: ...*snicker* I don't have that kind of money in my drawer, if I did I would have used this in a transaction.
SC: I just want CHANGE for this!
Awesome Manager: Sir...we're not your bank.
Me:

Whuh...?

"I'd like five powerball. Oh, and supersize it."

Don't. Have. Children.

I had this happen twice but this was the sucky one.

Guy parks at pump one, puts the pump in the car, I'm not paying attention, so I don't see anything or notice anything unusual. He came INSIDE the store, which is ILLEGAL, you cannot legally walk away from the pump. When he goes back out he realizes that it has not printed a receipt because apparently he was not out there when it was supposed to ask for one.

When he comes in for it I cannot find a receipt for pump one using a card out there so I look for prepays. The last prepay I have is for an American Express card. I print it out and he claims it's not his card...this is how this goes:

SC: THIS IS NOT MY CARD!
Me: Sir, this is the only transaction I have on record for pump one, normally these things do not just disappear into the system, we have every receipt recorded for everything.
SC: Well this isn't my card, I put my card in out there and GODDAMN IT I EXPECT A FUCKING RECEIPT.
Me: .......Well, sir. How much did you pump?
SC: I don't fucking know!
Me: It should have stated out on the pump how much your car took and how much it costs.
SC: Well fuck! *stomps outside, stares at the pump, walks inside.* 23 dollars!
Me: On the dot?
SC: Yeah on the dot, did I say any cents?!
Me: *slaps down the receipt for the AmEx card.* That's this receipt.
SC: Well that's not my card!
Me: Sir...did you even PUMP gas?
SC: Duh!
Me: You put the pump in the car but did you actually PUMP any gas?
SC: ....

You can see him doubt himself in his brain and he stomps outside and does the whole process again and this time actually pumps his gas and leaves. The other lady who did this was nicer, just a little scatterbrained.

Liar.

So many people do this.

Me: Do you have a [store] Reward's card?
Liar: No.
Me: *points* I see one on your keychain (wallet, pocketbook, etc.)
Liar: I don't want to use it.
Me: You should just throw it out then, it's worthless if you don't scan it.
Liar:

Eat my Rewards.

SC: I'd like to use this card.
CW: Okay, *swipes rewards card* That'll be $20.00.
SC: What? That's a GAS CARD. I shouldn't have to pay ANYTHING.
CW: ...sir, this is a rewards card.
SC: I have 20 dollars on that card! Are you telling me I can't use this to pay for my gas?!
CW: This is a rewards card, it doesn't hold money, it holds cents off of gas. So technically it does take money off of gas but this one doesn't have any points on it yet.
SC: *yelling now* I HAVE 20 DOLLARS ON THAT, I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS CARD WAS GOOD TO BUY GAS WITH!
Me: *walking by* Sir, this is a REWARDS card, this is NOT A GIFTCARD.
CW: This is what the rewards card looks like, this is what a gift card looks like *holds up a giftcard.* They do look similar but they're not the same, that one there can't hold money.
SC: I CAME IN HERE, PERHAPS THIS VERY STORE AND BOUGHT THIS CARD AND PAID 20 DOLLARS!
Me: That's impossible, the system can't charge you for a giftcard until the money is already on the card itself. The rewards cards don't act like that, you cannot "charge" them with money, they will state "unknown card" on the system computer. You should never have given money. If the cashier slipped that card in with your giftcard you should check your bag because she may have given you two different cards and you could have made a mistake.
SC: SO YOU'RE SAYING THIS IS USELESS?!
CW: It's not useless, you can use it for points.
SC: IT'S USELESS, THIS IS FOR IDIOTS.
CW2: *under his breath* Okay, so everyone's an idiot but you.
SC: THROW AWAY THIS USELESS GARBAGE. *throws the card at CW and misses*

Listen to the words coming out of my mouth...

I was depressed because I thought I hadn't said anything rude on my last day at work. Then I remembered I had, TWICE even.

Phone rings.

Me: Thank you for calling [store] at [location] home of [store] Rewards, how may I help you?
Confused lady: *click*

Ring.

Me: *spiel*
CL: *click*

Ring.

Me: *spiel*
CL: ........this is....[store]?
Me: Is that what I SAID?
CL: .........*click*

#2:

SC: *slaps a 100 on the counter*
Me: I won't be able to break that today.
SC: You mean with all the people who come in here and get fifty or sixty dollars worth of gas, you don't have enough money to break this? Come on, girl.
Me: I don't have access to that money.
SC: Oh for Christ's sake, your REGISTER?
Me: (imagine this as though I'm speaking to a three year old) That money doesn't STAY in the register. It goes in a safe. We don't have ACCESS to the safe. If I had that much money in my drawer, where I could break this AND tend to everyone else who comes up to my counter, I'd be FIRED.
SC:

I'll be back during the school year to tell you all about being a waver on the corner...and MAYBE about an internship or a different job if I can get one.

Wish me luck!

[Whiskey]

Come on, girl.

*whiskeys gears grind to a halt*

I literally go into default crazy mode when I get called "GIRL."

You can SEE it happen. Whats the point of a name tag?

[Kristev]

Corporate control over the work force. Consumers don't need to know our names. They only use them do to us harm . . . just like managers.

[Bright_Star]

Corporate control over the work force. Consumers don't need to know our names. They only use them do to us harm . . . just like managers.

Then why do we wear name badges?

[Whiskey]

Then why do we wear name badges?

because you need a name to vilify. a single person is easier than a corporation.

[OfficeSlug]

Then why do we wear name badges?

I hate wearing name tags. I'm not important enough to get paid more or even get the hours I need to live, but CS can call me by my first name?

[AtDIelement]

Then why do we wear name badges?

I get yelled at all the time at work because I refuse to wear mine. Though I always introduce myself when I sit down with a customer. The name badges just look tacky.

[Gaki]

Actually on my last day my nametag didn't even say my name. One of my coworkers put a sticker over my name and wrote "Bruiser" on it. So my name was Bruiser for the entire day and I barely even noticed. So I can't totally blame the guy but it was so obvious he was being condescending.

There are some names I can handle being called and most of them come from old ladies: Sweetie, sweetheart, honey, lovie, etc.

Hot button words: Girl, babe, and baby. Baby is okay when it's not in a certain tone.

What I don't get is this: How can you be rude to the girl who's nametag says "Bruiser"? Obviously my coworker put that for a REASON. I may be small but I can be terribly intimidating.

[jedikuonji]

I'm surprised places bother with names. I fully expect to one day be handed a new name tag that just has a number and barcode on it.

[AtDIelement]

I'm surprised places bother with names. I fully expect to one day be handed a new name tag that just has a number and barcode on it.

Nah, they'll just tattoo the barcode on your wrist to make sure you never try and get a job elsewhere.

[Rhania506]

There are some names I can handle being called and most of them come from old ladies: Sweetie, sweetheart, honey, lovie, etc.

Hot button words: Girl, babe, and baby. Baby is okay when it's not in a certain tone.

I'm from Louisiana where it is the norm for everyone to call you honey, sweetie, darlin', baby. I am guilty of this, just because it is easier than remembering everyone's name. I agree with Gaki that it's all in the tone. It is easy to tell when someone is being nice and when they are just being condescending.

That being said, I almost reached across the counter and choked a guy for calling me "Girlie" in that tone.

~Rhania

[MoonCat]

Y'know, just a thought. People who have never worked retail likely don't know that you can't keep over a certain amount of cash in your register. I wasn't aware of that before I started reading sites like this. However, once you tell a customer "I can't cash this," that should be the end of it and they shouldn't give you a hard time.

[TelephoneAngel]

I have an uncommon first name.

Many times on the sale floor I have witnessed customers looking at my name badge with a puzzled look, then either attempt my name and get it wrong or else give up and call me "miss".

[emax4]

Not to offend illiterates, but if someone doesn't address you properly (by saying "girley, honey, etc), simply say "ok, dummy". They have an attitude? Just point out that they must not be able to read since your name tag is visible.