Was working lotto the day the Powerball was at like $600 million…so the line was never-ending and there was always at least 10 people waiting.  But everyone was being so great and patient with me (even when lotto went down because of bad weather, everyone just agreed to either patiently wait or come back after their shopping).  We had made a special line with dividers and put a sign that said “Lotto” with an arrow, so people wouldn’t come up on the other side of the desk and expect to cut the line.

Well…this guy just didn’t care.  He came up on my other side and starts shoving money at me.  I just slowly turned and looked at him and went, “Sir, the line is over there.”  And pointed to the end of the probably 20 person line.

He just goes, “Oh, they won’t care if you just help me.”

I gritted my teeth and went, “You’re going to have to ask every single person in line, then.”

He turns to the line and goes, “You guys don’t care if she just gets me my ticket.  I’m late for work.”

The second guy in line goes, “I don’t think I heard a question in there.”

The annoying guy goes, “Come on, you could’ve already been done with me by now.”

So I forced this smile and said, “I’ll tell you what…you get permission from every single person in line and I’ll help you before them.  But if one person says no, then you’ll have to wait your turn.”

The entire line turned to the guy and went, “NO!”

The guy turned and left.  Like, I don’t care if you’re late for work.  Your poor planning doesn’t give you permission to shove yourself in front of people who have been waiting for at least 10 minutes already.  If you’re really that late, then maybe you shouldn’t be in a grocery store trying to buy a lotto ticket.

Was driving past the Sheriff’s Work Farm today and there was a chain gang out on the side of the road and this sign had been set up saying, “Chain Gang Working Detail.” But I thought it said “Working Retail” and all I could think was “They finally have come up with the ultimate punishment!”

Hello! I work at a green-and-white themed store in the Southeast, that we’re gonna call Derplix, Where Derping is A Pleasure. I’m a front service clerk. I do bagging and cashiering on the front end, and today, I think I heard the single stupidest thing  have ever heard come out of a customer’s mouth.

I’m bagging for my friend J, who’s cashiering. I start bagging the next order and this woman in her late twenties/early thirties comes up and asks J if she needs to see her ID. She’s not buying alcohol, and we don’t require ID for credit cards, so J says no.

Then the woman goes, “No, I mean to show you that I’m from Oregon. Is there tax on this?”

We’re in Florida. There’s not tax on food, but there is tax on non-food items, and this customer was buying a bottle of diaper rash medication with her order.

J kind of goes, “Uh,” and turns to me. I explain to the customer that her ointment is taxed but nothing else on her order is.

And then I got this gem: “Well, I don’t want to pay it. I’m from Oregon. We don’t have tax there.”

I’m standing there absolutely flabbergasted. “Ma’am, there’s no way for us to take tax off an order unless it’s for a tax-exempt thing, like Boy Scouts or a church or something.”

“Well, can you check with a manager?” She’s giving me attitude now, and fortunately T, my CSM, is right behind her.

So I call her over and explain what’s happening and T just looks at the customer and very sweetly goes, “When you’re in a state, you have to follow that state’s laws. We can’t change the law for you,” and walks off.

The customer rolled her eyes and grumbled about it and when J handed her the receipt and told her she’d saved $1.35 (as we’re supposed to) the customer throws her hands in the air and goes “Well, isn’t that just great???” in a voice dripping with sarcasm and stomps off.

Like, why would you even think that a grocery store can change the law for you? Oregon’s tax laws don’t fucking follow you around like a bubble, freeing you from all taxes ever in any state. And the funny thing is, this has happened before with people from Oregon, insisting they should be able to get a tax exemption because they’re from Oregon. Just, what the hell.

It’s almost as good as that one time a customer threw a bottle of wine at me for not being able under county law to sell it to her before 9 AM, but that’s a totally different story.

I have always gotten along with my coworkers, and was just recently promoted from sales associate to supervisor. A few of my coworkers have complained to me that a co-supervisor is not fully doing her job. I too have noticed that she isn’t preforming tasks as well and taking extra long breaks. I spoke to my manager about it and my manager had a few words with her. After that had happened though, my co-supervisor has become hostile with me. Apparently, we’re not on speaking terms and she has chosen to put a personal situation of mine (coming into work early to talk to my boss about an emotional problem where I ended up crying) on Facebook, which I find to be really offensive. Is there anything I can do? I want to bring up the FB post to my manager, but I don’t want to cause anymore drama..I’d honestly just prefer to not work with her at all..

This is what the FB post said, verbatim: 

“I see right thur you. You will do anything for attention and a position. Im not amused by ur fake tears and sob stories your Judas and just like Jesus i know ur cutting deals and kicking my back in. But here’s a reality check you can never be me nor have what’s mines nor kill me And at my weakest im the strongest. You have become my foot stool because you decided to be my enemy. Be clear your a mess that the Diva is about to clean up. Blowing kisses at you bitches ***** *” (blocked her name out)

Any advice would be appreciated..

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Bring the FB post up to your manager, then report it to HR. Discuss her behavior with your manager. If they agree that what she is doing is insane/uncalled for, you can discuss talking with HR to them.

-L

just sayin’.

I used to work for a grocery chain back when I lived in California and let me tell you the most annoying part of being a grocery cashier for me was those damn irresponsible, impatient, ADULTS who got into my line, and would always, ALWAYS interrupt whoever’s transaction I was processing at the time to rudely impress upon me that I should speed up the process because THEY’RE “in a hurry/running late”.

Simmer down bitch, and lemme explain you a thing.

I am 18-years-old and I am living on my own. I have bills to pay, a mouth to feed (my own), college tuition to afford, and responsibilities to uphold. I live almost 2 hours away from this job and I have to take a train and a bus and walk to get here. And, I predominantly work morning shifts so I can go to school at night, which means my ass has to be up and out the door and on the train by 5AM. And here I am ON TIME every single day taking care of my responsibilities and I still remembered to put on my manners this morning.

So why the hell can’t you?

Everybody’s got those days. I get it. We all get it. But DO NOT come into my line bouncing up and down like a 3-year-old doing the potty dance and then interrupt my current transaction just to BE RUDE TO ME AND TELL ME HOW TO DO MY JOB. It’s not my fault you didn’t set your alarm 15 minutes early today and you forgot you had to buy coffee for the office. If you need to complain that you’re late, fine. I can listen to people complain, that doesn’t bother me. But don’t you DARE take your circumstantial irresponsibility out on me. You are a grown ass adult, ACT LIKE IT.

I was on the registers and in the line up of customers there was a mentally handicapped man talking to no one in particular quite loudly, not using real words. He wasn’t bothering anyone and no one was rude to him while he was waiting. When he was at the front of the line I saw that he wasn’t buying anything. He stood at my register talking to me, not even stopping for one second, just talking non stop. I was smiling and even though I couldn’t understand him I replied by just saying “yeah”whenever he asked a question.. and I didn’t want to seem rude but there was lots of customers lining up behind him AND people waiting to do returns but he was just standing there talking to me, not buying anything either. He stood there talking for like 5 minutes and I managed to serve some of the customers behind him but still…….. I didn’t know what to do.

I wanna add that NO ONE was rude to him and everyone smiled and was friendly the whole time. 

I’m sorry if this is offensive or rude in any way but I just wonder, what should I of done/could I do if this ever happens again?

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It sounds like that man should have had a caretaker. He may have wondered off away from them. My suggestion is to call up your manager and see if they can get the person some place out of the way and try and find out who they are or if they are there with some one.

-L

I made a rant earlier on Amy’s Baking Company,I just wanted to spread my message.

(And don’t worry,I’m not a supporter of the company.)

So. I work at a New England grocery chain. And every month we do a cause we ask our consumers to donate a dollar to. Last month it was Child abuse prevention.

This month, because its may, it’s Breast cancer prevention.

I had an elderly man come through my line and, because we are monitored to see if we ask or not, I went ahead and asked at the start of his order, he said sure, so I finished scanning his items and went to scan the paper thing, for donation. His wife came up so I said “could you sign this for me ma’am?”

She lifted the pen to sign it, before she dropped it in disgust and shoved the paper back at me

“Take this off my order. I refuse to donate to them. THEY give money to PLANED PARENTHOOD”

I quietly took it off the lady’s order, rage filling inside me

The rest of her order she was glaring at me, because I dared ask her to donate to a cause.
planned parenthood, gives birth control out. They help mothers and families, or even teens in need.

They don’t just do abortions.

Later I found out they were rich christians with his huge church up on a huge plot of land given to the state after the owners of this land died(Darling hill)

And had this huge cross they constantly lit up at night and kept people up. And when people complained they got their ass in a twist

Now before I get some form of hate over “discrimination” most of my family is Christian. My grandfather was a pastor before he died. And I am friends with my family’s pastor. But the fact that they REFUSED to even donate to breast cancer because of planned parenthood made me so enraged.

I’m really nervous to go back to work after being away at school. We kind of have a reeeally high turnover rate so only my managers are going to still be there when I go back. I will know next to no one. Plus, any time I see their page on facebook, or google them, there is just an abundance of awful reviews. And I want to set things straight with these dipshit customers because they don’t know shit. But I obviously can’t. Plus it makes me nervous that something has gotten worse while I was gone, and oh god I couldn’t handle that. 

I’m sure everything is going to be fine. I just needed to say this to some people who might understand.