Don't take it out on the check out girl/boy

bod86

The Op has good points
One thing i have learnt from and still learning from working in supermaket (i am a student)


i worked at woolworths for 3+ years (got some of the worst people ever)
now sainsburys

people who work or have worked in retail know hows it like to be treated like **** by abusive
customers. so they know how to treat others when they have issues when they go out shopping.

Mini_Bear

I worked at Mr T's all thru my student years and used to get the odd customer who would take out all their aggression on me. u learn to get a thick skin.
i just hate the fact u hav to sit there and take it, i think these evil little people kno that and get a warped sense of satisfaction from belittling u.
if i saw sum1 be nasty to a checkout person i wud definately stick up 4 them!! i can be as horrible as i like, i wudnt lose my job from it, the checkout person might if they stuck up for themselves!

fizzlebottom

Glad I came across this thread so I can vent my spleen. Library I work in now provide free IT access. The word free seems to send people into 'mad mode' I have had to stand there and 'take' some young girl shouting about my attitude etc. etc. and her rights all because I asked her to produce her library card - which is a stated rule for using IT. The really awful part, as others have said, is having to stand there and take it. If anyone spoke to me like that out in the street I would ********** them. Feeling slightly better now, thank you:A

Freddie_Snowbits

An aside last night. two spotty moldoons drinking vodka were walking through local Sains, hurling abuse at everyone.

One answer to people like this, a baseball bat.

But one thought, as the store itself serves up cheap vodka, most hours of the day, it reaps what it sows!

Now, who would you use the baseball bat on first now?

adouglasmhor

Dave101t wrote: »

i often get mistaken for a salesperson in asda or tesco because im young and always wear a shirt and tie.
i usually say 'sorry i dont work here' and they dont smile and say 'oh, ok then' they just hmph and walk off.
working up the courage to walk them round the perimeter of the store next time....

I have had that a couple of times. A new Lidl opened across from my work and a bloke in his 50s (about 10 years older than me) waved something across my face and said "is there any more of these?” "I replied sorry I don't know" and before I had even finished speaking; I was going to tell him I didn't work there, he lunged at me screaming "You don't Know, You don't Know, what do you mean You don't Know". I then said "Maybe you should ask someone who actually works here; they are the ones in uniform with the name of the shop on it". He then turned his back and went back to what he was doing like nothing had happened. I had to stand on his foot to get him to acknowledge me so I could demand an apology.

Dave101t

in that circumstance id have to give him a retort, no need to go off on one for nothing.
id probably say 'not for you you fat fooker' or the like!
maybe let him accompany me to the shop manager before telling him he is also a stupid, fat fooker for not realising i was a shopper!

Jo_F

A few years ago, when I worked at Asda, I was in the local Co-Op doing some shopping, again it was near christams and the woman in front of me was giving the checkout girl grief about the fact the store was closed on Boxing Day, and that;s it's just not good enough etc etc, As the poor girl couldn't speak up for herself, I stepped in, and asked the woman when she finishes for christmas, sure enough Xmas Eve, and then I asked her when she went back, and it was 4th Jan or summat like that, so I said so you have nearly 2 weeks off and you are begrudging shop staff all of two days off, she then started abotu what does she do if she needs something on Boxing Day, to which I replied, buy it before Christmas or go without. She wasn't happy and carried on ranting about it, and I just let her get on with it, and then again pointed out that two days were not going to kill her, and the staff deserve at least that for having to put up with silly cows like her.

a couple of people behind me cheered when I said that, and after she had gone, the checkout girl was very grateful.

eyelinerprincess

andyrules wrote: »

Now I cannot understand this - if a store wants to make it clear what the offer is, why not have the important part in large bold letters? Or is it because they know customers haven't got time to read every bit of small print (maybe even having to fumble for reading glasses?) and capitalise on this? And very often, it is another similar-but-different- item that is stacked immediately above the sign. Presumably put there in error by staff who have been misled by the sign. :rolleyes:

The bit that describes the offer is slightly smaller than the big screaming "Buy One Get One Free" part, but is still readable to the majority of people. And most of the time the people who try to argue haven't even taken the thing from anywhere near the place where the sign is sitting. It's just selective reading.

z1985m

Jo_F wrote: »

A few years ago, when I worked at Asda, I was in the local Co-Op doing some shopping, again it was near christams and the woman in front of me was giving the checkout girl grief about the fact the store was closed on Boxing Day, and that;s it's just not good enough etc etc, As the poor girl couldn't speak up for herself, I stepped in, and asked the woman when she finishes for christmas, sure enough Xmas Eve, and then I asked her when she went back, and it was 4th Jan or summat like that, so I said so you have nearly 2 weeks off and you are begrudging shop staff all of two days off, she then started abotu what does she do if she needs something on Boxing Day, to which I replied, buy it before Christmas or go without. She wasn't happy and carried on ranting about it, and I just let her get on with it, and then again pointed out that two days were not going to kill her, and the staff deserve at least that for having to put up with silly cows like her.

a couple of people behind me cheered when I said that, and after she had gone, the checkout girl was very grateful.

:T i like!!!

dacouch

Obviously the staff in Tescos who put the price labels up are highly intelligent and never make mistakes

http://www.bitterwallet.com/tag/tesco-yellow-label