shop assistants

mazza111

On the shop front, when I worked in one of the big supermarkets, we used to have a guy that would drop dog ends into your hands from his pockets. Did I want to touch his hand to give him his change, no way?!?!!

Grossed me out everytime he came in. No gel on checkouts for hands in those days, we used to use the glass cleaner for the scanners on our hands.

So I can understand why many shop assistants don't want to touch you, they don't know where you've been.

vyle

meritaten wrote: »

Where did I say that?

You said it here:

meritaten wrote: »

some assistants have always done it! I find it offensive too.

As an agreement I presume to OP who said:

maybe its just me but i find a lot of shop assistants now wont physically put your change in your hand but want to literally drop it in case they touch you

Yet you just said yourself while explaining the "correct" way to do it:

meritaten wrote: »

then starting with the amount owed you drop the coin from about an inch above the customers hand

Dropping is dropping be it an inch or a mile. OP specifically complained about dropping (no distance specified) and you agreed that dropping was, indeed offensive. Hence why I deduced that you agreed that all dropping was offensive and only expected nothing but the most gratuitous physical contact to assure you that change had, indeed been placed into your waiting appendage.

I hope you can see where this confusion may have arisen.

meritaten

vyle wrote: »

You said it here:

As an agreement I presume to OP who said:



Yet you just said yourself while explaining the "correct" way to do it:



Dropping is dropping be it an inch or a mile. OP specifically complained about dropping (no distance specified) and you agreed that dropping was, indeed offensive. Hence why I deduced that you agreed that all dropping was offensive and only expected nothing but the most gratuitous physical contact to assure you that change had, indeed been placed into your waiting appendage.

I hope you can see where this confusion may have arisen.

talk about taking quotes out of context! training to be a 'spin doctor are you'?

vyle

meritaten wrote: »

talk about taking quotes out of context! training to be a 'spin doctor are you'?

Nope, but if you didn't quote who you were replying to, it normally means you were replying to the OP.

Am I wrong?

There is no extra context needed if not. Your opening gambit was "some assistants have always done it! I find it offensive too."

What other meaning could be taken from that? Please elaborate.

I do concede that OP did later mention two inches as an offending drop distance, but both of those are tiny distances.

A distance of, say, six inches would begin to reach troublesome territory, because the coins would have enough chance to start bouncing around, and the margin for error increases as you go further, but even so the fact remains:

OP found dropping offensive.

You agreed.

You changed your position and said dropping is allowed, nay, it is ideal.

You asked where I got the idea from that you were favouring OP's point of view, and I gave you the answer, no quotes taken out of context, no spin applied.

chewynut

Considering that 9/10 people I hand change to have sweaty hands and the coins are uncomfortably warm, I'd rather not touch them, thanks.

thriftymanc

fluffnutter wrote: »

Couldn't agree more, particularly with regard their actually listening to your answer. I find my local Co-op the worst. Despite their corporate policy (apparently) of not having bags on the counter and always asking if you need one, every time I go in they start stuffing my shopping straight into the bag they have ready to their side. I then go through my spiel of 'I don't want a bag, thanks', 'I've got my own bag, thank you', 'I don't need a bag, thanks', 'I DON'T WANT A BAG'. They're deaf to it, really they are.

I always seemed to get the customers who were like this, I'd ask if they wanted a bag - no answer. Ask again a bit louder and gesture to a bag in case they didn't hear or don't speak English. Blank stare, still no answer. Start packing a whole basket's worth of shopping into three or four bags. Finish packing everything. Customer suddenly gives an angry glare, huffs and yells "I DIDN'T ASK FOR A BAG" and makes me unpack everything. YOU JUST STOOD THERE WATCHING ME PACK THE BAGS FOR WHOLE MINUTES YOU CRETIN. You had more than enough time to say something!

Or the alternate scenario, ask if they want a bag about six times, no answer so I don't bother packing anything into bags, then when they've paid they just stand there and stare at me blankly - I ask if I can help them with anything, they grunt "Yeah I need a bloody bag don't I". Gosh, did I forget to ask...?!

naughty_10382

Generally, if someone hands me their money, I will hand them their change. If they put your money on the counter (often ignoring my open palm) then I will put their change on the counter. Sadly I would get into trouble for throwing coins at people so I don't but I hate when people throw their notes at me.

Middy

I cannot believe some people are offended by cashiers touching them because they are handling money.

Next time you have a 1p or 2p minted in 1971 in your purse, think about the number of hands it has been through. Say on average, the coin changes hands 3 times a week on average - that's 5000 people!

I am saying 3 times a week on average as 1 year, it may have changed hands everyday and the next year, it could have been abroad as been in the possession of a foreigner who travels to the UK once a year.

meritaten

vyle wrote: »

You said it here:



As an agreement I presume to OP who said:



Yet you just said yourself while explaining the "correct" way to do it:



Dropping is dropping be it an inch or a mile. OP specifically complained about dropping (no distance specified) and you agreed that dropping was, indeed offensive. Hence why I deduced that you agreed that all dropping was offensive and only expected nothing but the most gratuitous physical contact to assure you that change had, indeed been placed into your waiting appendage.

I hope you can see where this confusion may have arisen.

jeez - ok, I further explained that I dislike being handed the note first then the change dropped onto it! read ALL the post instead of picking bits out to be pedantic over!

and btw - It DOES make a difference dropping coins gently into an open hand and dropping them from a height! Try it!

vyle

meritaten wrote: »

jeez - ok, I further explained that I dislike being handed the note first then the change dropped onto it! read ALL the post instead of picking bits out to be pedantic over!

Well to be fair you said you "also" dislike that... so that's a second item on your checklist of don'ts.

It's pleasantly ironic that you said I should read the full post when you argue:

and btw - It DOES make a difference dropping coins gently into an open hand and dropping them from a height! Try it!

When I said in my post:

vyle wrote: »

I do concede that OP did later mention two inches as an offending drop distance, but both of those are tiny distances.

A distance of, say, six inches would begin to reach troublesome territory, because the coins would have enough chance to start bouncing around, and the margin for error increases as you go further,

My point being that OP has a zero tolerance to dropping, regardless of distance, which you agreed with (as well as bringing in your distaste for the coin on note scenario) whereas I would propose a sliding scale of drop-tolerance that would consider a short drop okay, but a long drop (one where the inegrity of the landing may come into question) would be considered bad form.