Open Letter to Malmart Customers (Language)

[Tama]

I quit Malmart almost 2 months ago, due to a mix of reasons but also because I couldn't stand the work anymore and the SCs.

Hopefully I'll be getting a new job (weekend shift at a new place, 12 hour shift, but only 2 times a week, absolutely no SC contact because it'd be in a distribution center) soon, but until then...

Here are my complaints over my job the last few years.

Coupon Freaks

It is not the end of the world because your 50c coupon is expired and therefore ineligible for redemption. Yes, I realize you are a customer and that you are always right, but coupon fraud is not something I wish to be written up over.

Bargain Hunters (species Cartman)

I realize that you think the Super Duper Awesome Light Bulbs (an example, only) are $4 and not the $7 they rang up for. I can call a CSM to come and verify whether or not they are really $4.

What's that? You don't want to wait? Well, I'm sorry. The gap is more than $1. (If the price they say it is, is in difference less than $1 we are encouraged to just change it) I am not allowed to make exception to that unless there is a HUUUUUUUUUGE line. Like, Black Friday-line or first-of-the-month type of line.

Mold-Lovers

I've posted about these people a couple of times, and encountered just a few of them...but they made a heckuva impact on me. Do not yell at me because I am trying to stop you from getting horrifying food poisoning!

I'm just turning the case of fruit over looking for mold so that you do not have to sit on a toilet all night, and the next day, or wind up in the hospital.

"Deaf" People

I told you that I am closed, asshole. Don't look the other way and pretend you didn't hear me.

And no, these people are not deaf. They looked me in the eye as I was saying I was closed, they seemed to comprehend (because they were all huffy during the transaction).

And Last Of All...

People who cut in line.

You are not the only person here.

I had a handful of these, and luckily most of them were 1-item holders who I could check out in less than a minute before the person before them could notice.

I would always end up apologizing to the people behind them, because these line jumpers would never, ever ask. They'd just jump.

[sweetj82]

oh i have been there for 10 yrs I could write a book

[ravevolution]

Mally-Mart was my first job, out of high school and during my first year of college. I lasted about over a year and it thoroughly a learning experience, at times a unwanted experience

My last day was oddly on new years eve, its just how my last 2 weeks landed when I put in my notice. Afterwards I did not step into any Marts stores for like about 5 years and still to this day only make limited runs.

[Tama]

I just walked in and quit. (Thank god, right-to-work state!) I think it surprised people...

On the downside the job has killed how defensive I am of myself. Hopefully I can work to correct that.

I learned a lot...including respect for the poor sap on the other side of the counter and how hard he/she has to work if I decide I don't want something.

Oh, the days I would be on a register, clean its aisle, only to find some idiot has left a GUN (even if it's not one of the big ones) OUT ON THE SHELF where the gift cards are.

[Jester]

I'm just turning the case of fruit over looking for mold so that you do not have to sit on a toilet all night, and the next day, or wind up in the hospital.

Fuck 'em. Anyone who doesn't inspect their produce themselves when they are selecting it deserves whatever shits, runs, pains, diarrhea, gas, tummy aches, farts, queasiness, nausea, digestive distress and/or exploding internal organs they get.

[Kogarashi]

Fuck 'em. Anyone who doesn't inspect their produce themselves when they are selecting it deserves whatever shits, runs, pains, diarrhea, gas, tummy aches, farts, queasiness, nausea, digestive distress and/or exploding internal organs they get.

This. And only partly because I am, myself, one of those who checks carefully for the right package of produce before going to check out. I would probably find it redundant and a bit irritating for the cashier to check over my produce as well, rather than just ringing me up.

However, I won't harass the cashier over it, and everything else you've covered I wholeheartedly agree with, having been a WM cashier myself several times.

[Andara Bledin]

I told you that I am closed, asshole. Don't look the other way and pretend you didn't hear me.

We had one of these come up behind us at the register last time we hit the store. We made a point to confirm that we were ok, and that the line cut off after us. She told him she was closed and he just nodded and stood there. So we told him that she was closed and he'd have to go to another register. He just sort of stared off in space and acted like he wasn't paying attention. Finally, we all got him to move, but he was really trying to feign being oblivious to not have to get into another line.

As an aside, this is the same sort of guy that will see you trying to merge onto the freeway, and he'll speed up and stare resolutely ahead as if he actually doesn't know you're there. >_<

^-.-^

[Dips]

I was in line and the lady behind us tried to play dumb that the register was closing. She continued unloading her cart while I was trying to explain it to her.

I had my back to the register where my husband was finishing up and paying. It turned out while I was talking to the lady the cashier was able to make her escape after my husband was done. The lady was so focused on unloading her groceries and me, she didn't notice the cashier had disappeared until it was too late.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I told you that I am closed, asshole. Don't look the other way and pretend you didn't hear me.

I've had people do this to me when I worked at the wholesale club. The worst case was when I was in the act of pulling out my till when she zipped up and started unloading her stuff onto the belt as fast as she could, straight-up ignoring my insistence: "Ma'am, I'm closed. MA'AM, I'm closed! MA'AM!"

It took my actually putting her merch back in her cart for her to finally whip around and glare at me, but I stuck to my guns and told her "Ma'am, I'm closed. You'll have to go to another line." And then I picked up my till and walked away.

[Kogarashi]

I had a variation on that, once.

I'd shut off my light because I had to go cover for the garden center cashier, and mentally noted who the last person in my line was (and told them so they'd know they were last). When that person was still two customers away from being rung out, another lady got in line behind her. I said to the newcomer, "Excuse me, but I'm closed," gesturing to my turned off register light. The woman sort of huffed and stomped off to the next register over, which was still open.

Just as I got to my last customer, two more people piled into line behind her, once again ignoring the fact that the light was off. Before I could open my mouth to inform them that I couldn't ring them out, the woman who'd stomped over to the other register huffed even louder and snarked, "Sure, now she's open!" I just gave the lady a pointed look and then pointed out the customers' error and sent them to another line.

And then I still got three more people trying to line up, never wondering if there was a reason my line was only one person deep when the rest were reaching into the clothing department. But at least the one lady stopped griping about my "obvious ruse to keep her out of my line."