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I was on Uscan yet again and there were a galore of SCs on it and overheard waiting on lines at the registers. Among them were:
-An older woman who shouted out "Can you open another register?!?" because she just couldn't wait in line and we apparently can produce cashiers from out of thin air.
-Another older woman willing to wait on a pretty long line (considering the time of day) because she refused to use bag your own or the Uscan.
-Two old women were outside a register that clearly had it's open light turned on and a cashier standing at the register. They look around for a few seconds and are about to leave (there was no one on the line) and then one asks "Is there anybody at this register?" and then when the cashier says "yes I'm here" and they start putting things on the belt the woman who asked that says she didn't notice that she was there.
-A woman put in 76 cents with her bill into the machine so she could get an even $4 back. However, 26 of those cents didn't go in and were in the return slot. She complains to me that she didn't get 4 dollar bills so I look at her change and it's $3.74. She says she put in the full amount of change and I find and give her the 26 cents that didn't go through. So what does she do? She attempts to put the 26 cents into the machine again to get her precious dollar after her order was finished and change was dispensed. I tell her it won't work the order's already done it'll just spit the change right back. So then she goes "but I want the dollar!" like she's some little kid and I tell her I can give it to her if she waits a minute because I was helping someone scan their items (who was also sucky because along with being clueless and not trying to learn what to do, she would ask about the price of EVERYTHING and kept telling me that this one item was supposed to be a certain price).
-A woman pays with a check (doing checks on Uscan suck). While writing the check and I process it, I tell her I need to check her ID and she needs to write the phone number on it. She claims the phone number is on the check already, but I see it no where. I tell her I don't see it, and she yells at me saying that it's under her signature and she would know because she's been using these checks for year (again, I see NO phone number anywhere so I have no clue what she's talking about unless she thinks the routing number on the bottom is her phone number). To not risk looking completely stupid or being berated, I don't ask again and just put it through. While I'm doing this though, she rants about us having to ask the ID now and she stopped going to a certain store because they started doing that. She says, "I don't see why I should have to pay for what other people do. I've been writing checks for years and never had one bounce."
Well, for one, you're not special. It's a store rule. Second, don't most businesses require customers to provide ID to pay by check? And third, get with the times and use a debit card!
Oh, and while this was going on with this woman, at least 3 people come up to the register trying to use it. One guy asks "well when will it be open" and gives a catbutt face when I tell him I'm processing a check and it'll just be a moment.
-An older woman who shouted out "Can you open another register?!?" because she just couldn't wait in line and we apparently can produce cashiers from out of thin air.
-Another older woman willing to wait on a pretty long line (considering the time of day) because she refused to use bag your own or the Uscan.
-Two old women were outside a register that clearly had it's open light turned on and a cashier standing at the register. They look around for a few seconds and are about to leave (there was no one on the line) and then one asks "Is there anybody at this register?" and then when the cashier says "yes I'm here" and they start putting things on the belt the woman who asked that says she didn't notice that she was there.
-A woman put in 76 cents with her bill into the machine so she could get an even $4 back. However, 26 of those cents didn't go in and were in the return slot. She complains to me that she didn't get 4 dollar bills so I look at her change and it's $3.74. She says she put in the full amount of change and I find and give her the 26 cents that didn't go through. So what does she do? She attempts to put the 26 cents into the machine again to get her precious dollar after her order was finished and change was dispensed. I tell her it won't work the order's already done it'll just spit the change right back. So then she goes "but I want the dollar!" like she's some little kid and I tell her I can give it to her if she waits a minute because I was helping someone scan their items (who was also sucky because along with being clueless and not trying to learn what to do, she would ask about the price of EVERYTHING and kept telling me that this one item was supposed to be a certain price).
-A woman pays with a check (doing checks on Uscan suck). While writing the check and I process it, I tell her I need to check her ID and she needs to write the phone number on it. She claims the phone number is on the check already, but I see it no where. I tell her I don't see it, and she yells at me saying that it's under her signature and she would know because she's been using these checks for year (again, I see NO phone number anywhere so I have no clue what she's talking about unless she thinks the routing number on the bottom is her phone number). To not risk looking completely stupid or being berated, I don't ask again and just put it through. While I'm doing this though, she rants about us having to ask the ID now and she stopped going to a certain store because they started doing that. She says, "I don't see why I should have to pay for what other people do. I've been writing checks for years and never had one bounce."
Well, for one, you're not special. It's a store rule. Second, don't most businesses require customers to provide ID to pay by check? And third, get with the times and use a debit card!
Oh, and while this was going on with this woman, at least 3 people come up to the register trying to use it. One guy asks "well when will it be open" and gives a catbutt face when I tell him I'm processing a check and it'll just be a moment.
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