Tuesday, 01 September 2009

  • Work Gripes: Things NOT To Do In A Grocery Store


    These are words of wisdom from my cousin, Joey, about what not to do in a grocery store:

    1. Go through the checkstand on your cell phone. You make the checker feel like they're such an insignificant part of your day they don't even deserve your attention.

    2. Ask for boxes. It's annoying. No, we don't have an endless supply of boxes just laying around in the back. That would take up too much room. Also, just f.y.i. most boxes from a grocery load are totally useless once you cut 'em. Plus I don't care that you're moving. Go buy boxes at U-Haul like a normal person.   

    3. Walk up to a display that someone just faced up and say "Now that you made it look pretty I'm gonna come mess it up." You suck...not funny.

    4. Ask for a buttload of cash back and get all upset when I don't have that much on hand. We're not a fricking bank so chill out if I don't have $600 in my till.

    5. Ask for a manager and when I come up say "You're the manager?" Yes I'm the manager a-hole and I'm probably better at my job than you are at yours.

    Are you guilty of any of these? What annoying things do people do at your job?

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  • Morningstarrising@xanga

    It's also quite annoying to decide you don't want half your groceries when you come to check out.  
  • Shinbi_Belldandy@xanga

    I agree with all of these.


    The cash back especially. I hate when people get made because my store doesnt give it. Or they ask for their change to come in certain bills or coins. I give the correct change based on how my drawer is filled, if I did that for everyone, I'd have to call for change constantly. I hate when people get pissy over ones & pennies. Last I checked, they're still currency.

  • Sammyhellsyea@xanga

    6. Write checks. Get a fucking debit card you old fuck. I'm going to punch you in the face next time I have to wait for your ass to fill it out for ten minutes.
  • xsimplepleasuresx@xanga

    I'm all for not being on the cell phone while dealing with cashiers, but the checker really is an insignificant part of my day.
  • Anubis753@xanga

    I have never done any of these........
  • Shopgirl0393@xanga

    I'm guilty of 1 kinda and definitely 2, although I make sure to end a call or put it on hold and take time to talk with the cashier at least a little, using their first name. I like how it makes them jump oftentimes, but mainly because it's more personal. 2 surprises me--I would think stores have bunches of boxes just ready to trash that wouldn't be much trouble to hand over. Interesting.

    For 5, they could be just confirming who the manager is, regardless of who popped up in front of them..it doesn't have to be taken it so personally every single time. Depends on their tone when they say it, but often if they want to see a manager, it's because they're angry over something, so of course they'll be all bitchy and sarcastic.

    Bottom line: Every job has its pains to deal with..and people who cause them. Can't escape!
  • herecomesthemoon@xanga

    I can imagine how annoying being a cashier can be. I'm in high school so majority of my friends work at a food store and hate it because people are so stupid.


    My friend said one thing that annoys him is when people bring up coupons that already expired, and when he tries to explain to them that they're no longer valid, they get angry.
  • saintofme@xanga

    people who decide they want to do more shopping whilst im ringing up their stuff,


    and people who ask for change,
  • MochaSprinkle@xanga

    Nope :) I give the checker my full attention because it's just polite. And I always ask "how are you" when the person doesn't. It actually bothers me when the checker treats me like I don't exist. Like, uh... I get that you see hundreds of people each day, but come on. Especially if I'm there just as the store opens and I'm maybe the 5th person you've checked. A little smile goes a LONG way. Just saying!
  • xchinkylaydee@xanga

    i'm not guilty of any of those and i'm glad. :]
  • oliviAHHH@xanga

    i can't stand it when people make me scan all of your items then say they only have $10 and make me take most of them off. and when they don't READ signs correctly. if the signs say 3 (EACH) for a dollar it DOES NOT mean 3 POUNDS for a dollar. and then they get mad at me that it's not 3 pounds.

  • subaru3169@xanga

    i don't do any of those things 
  • Athlyx@xanga

    @Sammyhellsyea@xanga - LOL


    I've only done #1, once and it was at Walmart. Does that count?
  • insert_label_here_003@xanga

    I'm guiltily of one. If i'm a rush I'll tell the person on the phone to hold talk to the cashier and then back to my friend. I think what's ruder is going to the cashier with headphones in your ears. I do it all the time but half of the time I'm not playing music so I can hear everything around me. It just looks rude to me. 
  • ThA_sLo_1@xanga

    I started at Kroger yesterday, already all of these things have happened to me.

    I also cannot stand when someone doesn't have their check already written out when they get up there, so they sit there and write the whole check out and hold up the line. >_<

    I could rant for days about the bothers you get working in retail/grocery.

    To add to my joy, tomorrow is senior citizen day at Kroger...guess whose working? :)
  • freeeker@xanga

    Penny pinchers piss me off. Like the people with 10 coupons and they get enraged when one of them is not valid. And food stamp cards that don't swipe. Its fine if they don't swipe, really, just please don't shove it in my face and say "You have to punch the numbers in."


    Also, people who grossly underestimate how much everything is going to be, and wait until I scanned it all to decide what to put back. I can't void out anything over $5 so my manager has to do it. Or when they decide to write a check after watching you scan all $400 worth of your groceries. Couldn't you have been filling out the recepient and signing it?! Sheesh.
  • ProudToBeAChristianFruitcake@xanga

    I usually ask the cashier if they take cash
  • Dargon@xanga

    I worked retail long enough that when I pull an item when shopping, I tend to pull forward and front face the item behind it.

    Fortunately, in my time in retail, I was only a cashier when they needed cashiers.

    I worked lumber at Home Depot, and I suppose the most annoying thing was when people would try their damnedest to find the lumber with no knots. We sold B grade lumber, you need A grade for no knots (we could special order it). I once had a customer demand that I bring down another bundle of lumber, despite the nearly full rack, because these pieces have too many knots. Then, of course, I'm the one who got in trouble for pissing off the customer by telling them the god damned truth. Fucking corporate bullshit.

    The boxes one, I do not know about grocery stores, but our boxes at Home Depot went straight into the box compactor, so at any given time, there would be maybe five uncompacted empty product boxes in the store.

  • TianaSuhdi@xanga

    oh my god don't get me started on the grocery store rampage. . .
  • averyswife@xanga

    When I worked at Old Navy we kept a lot of boxes on hand at any given time so we didn't mind when people asked for them.


    Not to be rude, but if you're a cashier, you ARE in the customer SERVICE industry.  Be happy to serve and have a job!  Not to say what customers do isn't rude, but I can't stand a rude cashier either.  Like one who doesn't know how to accept valid coupons (I'm a couponer) or doesn't know how to price-override an item when it rings up wrong.  And then they act like I'M lying or trying to cheat the store or something.  WTF?  If I have a coupon, the store is going to get reimbursed by the manufacturer (plus postage)!  If anything I'd be "cheating" the manufacturer, not the store!!


    Gahh...
  • e_equals_f_flat@xanga

    how about when they dont realize they got organic food and bitch when they see its a higher price! look at what your buying!
  • e_equals_f_flat@xanga

    i just also want to add when people go crazy over coupons. my store doubles them and people have it down to a science! it gets old.
  • cllns_smm@xanga

    Me, I work at a grocery store in Houston, Texas, and I must say about all my fellow coworkers do is find fault with one of my managers, this woman named Rodessa, who has a boyfriend. Every day, they gossip about her in the break room. Well, then again, they're all a bunch of old pea-hens.


    Other than that, in spite of this one bimbo named Ralyn who gets on my case with no provocation at all, my job is rather interesting, though not high in matters of salary. A lot of these young women work there, and if it weren't for their company, I'd already be calling it quits.


    By the way, my name is Sammie. I work at an H-E-B grocery store. Ever heard of those particular stores? Well, not many people outside Texas ever do, and that is why I ask this of you. peace out


    S.C.
  • Hopeless_Nonsense@xanga

    Seriously, if you come up to me in a grocery store and say my name just because you see my nametag, I want to punch you in the face.  I wear it because I have to, not so some asshole that I've never seen, nor care to see again, can talk to me like I'm their long lost cousin.  I don't like you.  I don't want to be your friend.  I'll help you find your groceries.  I'll ring your order.  I'll even be polite.  But nothing makes me hate you more than when you come up and talk to me like I'm a three year old, crooning my name or making up some ridiculous nickname.
  • jmgbme@xanga

    Having been in retail a few months now, I can say that we get all of these, except for the boxes. The thing we get that would "replace" that on the list would be people leaving the clothes they tried on and didn't want in a pile on the dressing room floor...or turning the clothes inside out and leaving them that way. Granted, sometimes people have a busy schedule and have to hurry. But somebody has to pick that up, too.

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