Customers suck

I had to work with customers for years in order to pay bills, I hated it. Here's some food for thought to chew on: unless you have valuable experience or skill most available jobs will involve dealing with the public. So if you don't want to make a career out of customer oriented jobs you need either get a skill, get educated or join the military. (If you already are in college, then let these bad experiences be a motivation for you to do well in school. Remember: if you fail out of school, this is the work that awaits your return.)
 
Yea no shit man, Working the register is a bitch especially when you get some little old person that just has to have the fucking lottery ticket for themse3lves and every person in their fucking family and friends address book. then you have 30 pissed off cu's because of one, and you have to rush to get them out before the next rush. And then theres clean up, which everyone in the store is responsible for except the day shift.

We really need to put these fuckers on their asses and make them pay better. Or just shut down the entire fucking machine.
 
Dude, people there are a percentage of assholes in any scenario you can think of. It has nothing to do with the retail trade (well maybe a little, people are assholes when parting with their money). It is simply a matter of statistics.

I can't pin-point numbers for you, but I'm certain that if you had an optical device to look through that shows assholes in a different color, and you stand on any city street; you'll spot more than a few. It's like the Romper Room looking glass. "I see Steven, and Marty, and Kyle, and Gemma.......oh and there's Josh, and Jeff..........".
 
I worked at Big Town Hero (a sandwich shop similar to Subway) for about a year, and I hated the customers. We had ridiculously inflated prices for VERY mediocre food, and some customers definitively let you know. Also, our store was so anti-busy that we only had one person on each closing shift, so we were supposed to start the cleaning and everything way before we actually closed. This way normally not a problem, except when people would come in RIGHT before we were supposed to close, and then most of the stuff I had done in advance had to be redone. I guess this is more of a boss complaint, but it always seemed like the late customers' fault at the time.
 
I had one time when the cashier was being a bitch to me. I tend to be anal how I put the groceries on the conveyor belt. I make sure they are in groups and in order...all nice and neat to make it easier on the cashier when my food reaches them.

Well the conveyor belt, one time, didn't stop on time and the customer's stuff, who was still before me, had a crap load of stuff piled on the belt. Everything tumbled down my way knocking down boxes and other such things I had so neatly placed. Well after his stuff was cleared up it was my turn. I didn't have time to rearrange my stuff. The cashier snapped at me (not the other customer mind you) about not having my stuff neat for her to pick things up. She told me to my face, "couldn't you have this easier for me to pick up?" I was so pissed off. I was already annoyed the the guys stuff was so disorganized that it stumbled on to my stuff, but that she felt it necessary to snap at me when it wasn't my fault. Luckily I didn't have any eggs that time because she kind of tossed my stuff into the bags.

Look, I know it's not easy work. I've never been mean to a cashier at a grocery store. I didn't even say anything to this cranky cashier, but that was uncalled for. All I said in return was, "It was neat until that guy's stuff spilled over." I don't think she cared. I'm still nice, but I just keep thinking about that incident. I think at the time, I was starting to feel my efforts to be more than nice were going unnoticed in other parts of my life, and that was the last straw.

I became a cashier at Nobody Beats the Wiz sometime after college. I tell ya, even they don't get any breaks. The customers were ok for the most part. My problem really was with my supervisor. But sometimes the customers weren't so easy to deal with.
 
Yea I know my work sucks as well I work at a grocery store as well, I have an asshole as my manager who fucking complains that I am not working fast enough, the franchisee is a dumb bitch who sits idly by as I complain about Jon.

Co-workers think I have a poor additude and they think I treat customers poorly, if Jon and customers treat me poorly think how I am going to treat the customers.

Now I have four fucking days straight of work because they won't fuckin promote me to full time, they won't give me file maintenance, they won't let me work in produce so fuck 'em I am changing jobs/trying to get myself fired...
 
As most of you know I used to do senior Tech support for an isp who's initials are P eople PC. I had only one limit, format and reload. Now I do cs/level one tech for T_V_ [aeiou pick two] and Damn it all if I didnt agree with one customer today. Although he was totally pissed off and I knew exactly why.
But he didnt have to speak to me like I own the fucking company. If he wouldve been a live person in front of me I would of crammed every fucking sylable down his throat so hard he woulda shit paragraphs.

What I shoulda done is fucked up his account.
 
Ugh. It was raining on the busiest day of the week (Saturday) and no one was in the store. Believe me, we made up for it. In the midst of the chaos, some lady asks me for a box for this small vase that she bought. We're not supossed to give out boxes or anything, but I was trying to be nice. I give her a wine box I had near me, and she's all "Can I have a smller box? I have to wrap that." So I go get her the smallest box we have, which is still too big, then she says "Oh I don't want that one. It doesn't look very nice. It's for a christmas present."

So I smile, apologize, and think to myself, 'what a bitch.' I mean, why the fuck ?!?!? Go buy your own boxes bitch! And don't fucking complain when I break store policy to give you one!
 
Harris Teeter is the same way as Nobody Beats the Wiz. The customers were usually really calm elderly folks from a subdivision across from the shopping center but the managers that were above us...they were all assholes. One would pick favorites and only give them breaks when they needed them; otherwise you'd have to just wait until she felt generous. Another one called everybody "young man" and asked for really awkward favors, like mopping the freezer, which is at a constant temp of -4 degrees Fahrenheit. Finally we had this one new guy before I quit who didn't give a shit about what days you needed off, he would just schedule you to work whenever the fuck he wanted.

I only worked at HT for nine months because I got paid $8 an hour. I decided to quit shortly after all of my friends left that shithole.
 
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