If your'e gonna work in customer service, then lighten up, damn!

[TimTheEnchanter]

Ok, I shouldn't be complaining about this, but last night I went out with two of my best friends. It was like 11:30 pm or so, and we went to Wal-Mart. Being stupid, my firend pushed around my other friend in a shopping cart. When we went to the check out line, this bitch was like, "You need to get out of that cart, right now! That's mindless and immature!"

This lady, or girl, I should say, was about our age, and was trying to act like she was better than us. We were not being stupid, breaking things, driving it fast or nothing to that nature. We were just riding around in it.

Second, after we left Wal-Mart, we went and ate at Steak N Shake. It was about 12:30. We got some food, and we were tired, so we were pretty quiet. When we left, the waitress said we were "Outspoken, and should learn some respect for the public."

What the fuck!? We were really quiet. All we did was eat, and we left her a nice tip too.

I have worked in retail before, and I know how much it sucks to work with the public, especially when they're assholes! I can imagine that working a 3rd shift would suck, but come on. We were just being kids, and having fun. We weren't causing any trouble, or being annoying at all.

Some people just suck.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Having been in retail for a long (too long) time, I'd have to side with the sales clerk in Wal-Mart. If for no other reason than the potential lawsuit if your friends got hurt.

I have no clue about the waitress, though.

In another thread, you lament about going into your last year as a teenager, add acting like a 10-year-old to your list of things you shouldn't do anymore.

[Forbin]

It's damn difficult to believe your side of the story Tim.
I'm siding with the waitress and the sales clerk.

[Eutychus]

I strongly suspect there is another side to this story that we're not hearing.

[LolaCocaCola]

Originally posted by TimTheEnchanter
We were just being kids, and having fun. We weren't causing any trouble, or being annoying at all.

Well, how old are you?

I think the last time I rode in a supermarket trolley, I was 3.

[Guinastasia]

Ok, I shouldn't be complaining about this, but last night I went out with two of my best friends. It was like 11:30 pm or so, and we went to Wal-Mart. Being stupid, my firend pushed around my other friend in a shopping cart. When we went to the check out line, this bitch was like, "You need to get out of that cart, right now! That's mindless and immature!"



Oh jesus.

You're right, you shouldn't be complaining about this.

I'm definitely going to side with the clerk-and not because I work at Kmart. But because you're being an ass.

[belladonna]

Sure sucks when your OP comes back to bite you in the ass, doesn't it Tim?

Live and Learn. :)

[Larry Mudd]

"Ignorance! Get it!"

[TimTheEnchanter]

LOL- Ok people. I'm being dead serious. I will even have my other two friends post on here. We were doing aboslutely nothing wrong. Seriously.

Some people are just assholes, k?

I used to work on that Wal-Mart, and I know.

[The Wrong Girl]

So let me get this straight: the waitress said you had "no respect for the public" for absolutely no reason at all?

[BiblioCat]

Originally posted by TimTheEnchanter
... We were doing aboslutely nothing wrong. Seriously. You were doing nothing wrong? The carts are not for grown-ups to ride in. That's what you were doing wrong.

[Larry Mudd]

The carts aren't even for children to ride in. Bottom line, if your mommy or daddy doesn't put you in the cart, you ought not to be there.

Keep an ear out for other seemingly inexplicable comments such as those you've recently noticed. Once you become more attuned to people's perceptions of you, you may find it to be a revelatory experience. Once you realize that you are in fact, behaving like a drooling moron, it's that much easier to make the necessary adjustments.

[Mudshark]

People don't just yell at other people (especially strangers) unless they have a good reason to do so.

[Larry Mudd]

Usually.

(Is lack of medication a good reason?)

[Duckster]

Originally posted by TimTheEnchanter
We were doing aboslutely nothing wrong. Seriously.
Umm, check out this site (http://www.darwinawards.com/).

You're far from an honorable mention, but well on the way to filling out the application. :D

[Angel of the Lord]

. . .hey, Tim, do you live in Valparaiso? I'm not trying to be all creepo-stalker or anything, but what you described sounds very much like the town I go to school in, both in attitude and geography (Wal-Mart in an Indiana "hick" town with a Steak N Shake nearby). My apologies for the hijack if you don't.

As for riding in the cart. . .there are liability issues. I mean, I know you're reasonable enough not to sue at the drop of a hat, but some people aren't, especially when they see Wal-Mart $$$ floating before them. If your friends somehow got hurt, even through their own stupidity and even though it's not all *that* likely, they could potentially sue Wal-Mart. The employee's probably been told not to ever let people do that as a result. She was bitchy telling you that, but that's probably 'cause she really doesn't want to work there anyway. I mean, working a cashier's job probably isn't her life's ambition, and her disposition towards her customers is probably the LEAST of her worries. Just give the lady a break and get outta the cart until she can't see you if it bothers you so much.

[Troy McClure SF]

Tim:Being stupid, my firend pushed around my other friend in a shopping cart.

Angel:She was bitchy telling you that, but that's probably 'cause she really doesn't want to work there anyway.

Or, because you (Tim), as you say, were being stupid on her watch.

My two cents, from behind the supermarket counter.

[Drastic]

Ok people. I'm being dead serious. I will even have my other two friends post on here.


Joooy!


Fuck, how long does summer last again?

[sugaree]

Yeah, take it from someone who is immature enough to sometimes end up in shopping carts herself late at night. It is stupid (if fun), and when we get busted and yelled at by employees, well, all we can do is grin sheepishly and try to salvage some dignity as we climb out, cause we deserve it.

[Larry Mudd]

Are you sure you deserve that dignity, sugaree? ;)

[dave316]

when i worked at Wal-Mart i seen the adult in the cart lots of time wait till you see a adult in a cart being pushed by a automobile maybe she yelled at you for not being original

[Cessandra]

Yeah, he was being stupid, but I don't see a need to be rude about it unless she asked nicely first and they refused. But the waitress, that sounds very weird. Are you sure she wasn't joking?

[Eonwe]

originally posted by Larry Mudd
Once you realize that you are in fact, behaving like a drooling moron, it's that much easier to make the necessary adjustments.


Hey! There's absolutely nothing wrong with riding around in a grocery cart if you're not hurting/breaking anything. However, I would absolutely expect anyone working at the establishment to give me a talking to if I was, and wouldn't call them a jerk for it; that's their job.

[sleestak]

Somehow, after reading the OP, I think that TimTheEnchanter has no clue about what is acceptable. He claims that his hi-jinks were harmless but, if the hi-jinks were harmless, people wouldn't get pissed.

TimTheEnchanter,, it seems to me that you are too stupid to understand why people think you are an ignorant teen. Grow up.

Slee

[anya marie]

I find the waitress's comments puzzling and would certainly like to hear from another side, as well.

[Rilchiam]

Tim's profile says she's a "chic".

I would like to know what prompted the waitress' comment as well.

As far as the cart...Last year, I worked at a kiosk in the mall. I had to use a cart as part of my closing duties. A man came along and asked if he could push his pre-school aged son around on it. "Sorry," I said politely, thinking, I don't want to have to chase them down to get it back. Only later did I think of the additional risk of injury leading to lawsuit.

But my initial reaction was, I think, equally valid. If you give some people an inch, they will take a mile. Sorry, Tim, but that cashier didn't know what else you guys might do, if you started out messing with the carts. Perhaps you weren't out of hand at that moment, but she probably felt it was better to issue a warning before you became so. Similarly, the McD's where I once worked would boot people who thought it was funny to pop ketchup packets, because if that behavior went unchecked, someone would eventually try to top it.

[Miller]

What the hell is wrong with kids these days, dammit! Riding around in shopping carts and complaining when they get yelled at. The whole point of riding around in shopping carts is the risk of being yelled at! If it were allowed, it wouldn't be any fun!

That aside, I have zero problem believing Tim's account of her interaction with the waitress. Has no one else here never encountered random hostility from strangers? Especially when you were a teenager? I recall my friends and I once being thrown out of a shopping mall because some one had complained about an entirely different group of teenagers making trouble, and the rent-a-failure* couldn't be bothered to figure out if he was hassling the right kids. Which makes me ask, Tim, was there another group of people your age who were acting up in the restaurant? Maybe the waitress just assumed you were all together.


(*Thanks to Anthracite for my new favorite vocational epithet.)