Did I suck?

[Anakah]

Okay it was unbelievably busy today. My buy alone (at the end of the night after all my transactions was 57,500).

Well, as we all know it's my job to make sure that the people in my window are of age. Okay, this girl comes to my window and she looks 12. So, I card her.

ME
SC-kind of sucky girl

Me: Can I see your ID?

SC: Are you serious? I'm 21! I may not look it but I swear I'm 21! My boyfriend has my ID.

ME: Unfortunately since I already asked, I can't. I need to see your ID. (I look over at the ticket redemption machine) It looks as though they're almost done fixing the machine--you wouldn't have to wait in line...

SC marches off and I take care of the next few people. In the middle of one of my transactions the SC comes back and has her ID.

SC: I have it now!

Me: Hold on...

HELLO, I'm in a middle of a transaction, shut up! I wanted to say but alas I didn't...

I finished with the customer and the SC was still there.

SC: I don't think I should have to wait in that line again. (The line was out to the moon) I already waited. And I have my ID! I really don't think I should have too...

Her constant whinning got the better of me and I took her in my window ignoring everybody else who grumbled.

This old man who I didn't call up was practically up the SC's butt because like everybody else ran up to my window before I was ready and before I said next.

The SC had to explain to the old man why she was infront of him. Ha ha. The old man was pissed but I didn't care I just wanted the SC to go away.

Should I have kicked her sorry butt to the end of the line because she was one of the many dumbasses who look 12 and leave their ID with their boyfriends? She just turned 21 like last month and was shocked to be carded. Ha.

I can't stress this enough--Have your ID on you at all times! It's NOT that hard!

[Kara]

No, you didn't suck at all. You were overwhelmed and she was obviously not going down without a fight, and it sounds like you didn't have the energy to have it out with her.

I probably would have let it slide myself. Although it would be fun to be evil and make her go back to the end of the line, it probably wouldn't have been worth the ensuing conflict. Plus, then all the people in line would have to wait that much longer at the scene she was certain to create. Was it unfair to others in line? Sure, but in the end it was the best thing for them.

A guy I worked with came in one time with this girl I hadn't seen him with before. I asked him if she was his little sister and he burst out laughing. It was his wife! She had a tiny frame and everyone who saw her thought she was like 12 (she was 26). It wasn't that she was just short, the way her facial features were made her look like a kid. I think she probably had the teeny-bopper hairstyle on purpose. He told me she always gets carded and he gets a lot of disgusted looks when they're out shopping or doing things together because they think he's some kind of pervert.

People know when they look younger than they are, and are used to being carded, so this woman should have been carrying her ID to begin with. I had the opposite problem. I looked older, so movie places stopped carding me when I was 15. And the first time I ever bought an "Adult" beverage on my 21st birthday, I didn't even get carded!

[reformedwaitress]

You didn't suck. If you look young, you need to have your ID with you at all times. Hell, I'll be 25 tomorrow and I STILL get carded all the damn time! (well, haven't gotten carded this week, which is shocking the boy to all hell, but I think it's cause everyone around here knows him)

I get carded everywhere and for everything. It gets annoying, but you know, the person is just doing their job. I wouldn't want someone serving my kids or nieces before they're old enough, so I really can't complain. When will people learn that if you just take your ID and show it to them it'll all be over real quick? If someone fights me on it, I always just assume it's cause they're too young and refuse them service. And if they hand over an ID after that, I always inspected it REALLY carefully.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I personally would have sent the SC to the back of the line. Why should everybody who has their ID ready, or has no need for it since they're obviously old enough not to be carded, have to allow somebody who didn't have their ID ready to cut back into line?

So what if she makes a scene? The other people would be mad at her, not at you. You're just doing your job.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't believe in caving in to somebody just because they're potentially a ginormous pain in the ass.

[customersruinmylife]

Nope, no suckage on your part. I would have made her wait in line for being such an idiot.

I dont understand why people who HAVE ID get so annoyed when they are asked. Sometimes I get drivers licences thrown at me, I feel like keeping them to teach them a lesson.

[bigjimaz]

If you ask me, and you didn't but I'm gonna tell ya anyway, if we quit caving to these asshats, eventually they will get the message. To do this would require an agreement from everyone in the chain of command tho. Once we are allowed to treat them the same way they treat us, things will change rapidly.

Imagine being able to say "F**k off, I'm assisting someone who has a clue" without fear of retribution. Ahhh, sweet bliss!

[jagerofdarkness]

Nah, you didn't suck. Technically, those in line didn't loose any time, since she was there before anyways.

Personally, though, I think she should have been sent back to the end of the line. It's her responsibility to carry her ID with her, especially when she looks young (and she's got to know), and it just kind of makes everyone else a little more mad when they're already waiting in line.

JOD

[XCashier]

People know when they look younger than they are, and are used to being carded, so this woman should have been carrying her ID to begin with.

If you look young, you need to have your ID with you at all times....When will people learn that if you just take your ID and show it to them it'll all be over real quick?

You would think they would figure it out, it's as logical as 1+1=2. And it's not like it's a huge strain to carry and show an ID; it's a little rectangular piece of lightweight plastic, not five miles square and made of lead. Yet these folks never remember their IDs and always pitch a conniption fit when asked for them.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Nah, I don't think you sucked, but I also think making her wait in the long line again would teach her a valuable lesson in not acting like an effing dumbass in public.

She wants to be a grownup? Fine. Grownups are grownup enough to bring their ID and have it ready when needed. So she was still green enough to have forgotten it. Not a hanging offense, but some inconvenience was owed her to help her remember next time.

But no, I don't think you sucked.