Well, then keep in mind, 99.99% of everybody else is either retired or a student, and if you’re in Miami, 70% are immigrants.
Not answering for Annie, but the people I know who work retail hate their jobs but need the money and lack viable alternatives.
Also, you know, this is the minirants thread which is a place for people to come and vent. Not necessarily representative of one’s complete view, don’t you know.
Ugh, SNOW. What really sucks is that we’re coming off a few days where temps had been in the 50s. The other day it almost got to 60. Why can’t it stay like that? Why do we have to have SNOW?
OK, my dogs are thrilled. They’re huskies. But still.
Way to go, State University employers. Snow predicted for morning drive time, plenty of announcements made well in advance by every weather and news channel in the state and online. So…their answer to that is to wait until frigging 7:45 to cancel classes and inform non-essential employees like me that we don’t have to report until noon.
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I’m glad I got here on time and missed your alert text while I was fishtailing all over the place. IDIOTS.
Yes, but to bitch about receiving change when you work retail is just odd.
No, it isn’t. I hate this attitude, like “Clearly you receive X in this job, and X is useful, so how dare you complain?”
It is a royal pain in the ass when customers stop everything and make your entire line grind to a halt because they just need to fish out the last three dimes, two nickels and a penny from the depths of their purse. I speak both as a customer and as someone who’s cashiered. Yeah, change is useful, but when my line is ten people deep and I want to move things along and am trying to be super efficient, that is not the time to suddenly decide you want to dump the entire contents of your purse on me.
Plus, change isn’t really that great, for all people say it is. Yeah, I need to have some change, and I need to pay people, but at the end of the day, I gotta count that shit.
The absolute worst is the little old ladies who look back and see that the line is ten people deep and they just do not give a shit. They have all the freakin time in the world, since they’re retired, and cannot possibly conceive of anyone else having anyone to be.
One argument I haven’t seen floated yet is just to “relax”. To take your tiiiiime. To chill out and see the roses or whatever. This is bullshit, too. I’ll relax on my own time. When I am out and running errands I like efficiency.
See the thing is, I actually do have a lot of patience. But at the same time I like to be efficient. I do constantly try not to inconvenience the people around me. I like to be aware that I am in a society. All I ask is that others do the same. But apparently asking that is some kind of asshole thing.
Anyway. Rant over. That being said, I mostly liked being a cashier, when I was one. Just because I occasionally complain about aspects of my job doesn’t mean I hate my job or hate people or want them to die. I like my job nowadays lots, too, but once in a while - oops! A complaint will escape. And I generally do it online, because my job is a very social one and I have to be careful who hears me complaining. So maybe you might see a complaint and think I shouldn’t be in my job. But that’s just venting steam.
I’m going to go out now. I will probably deal with a cashier. I might deal with an old lady who needs to count all of her change, right then. I won’t yell at her or give her dirty looks (though I might sigh a little). And maybe I’ll come back here and bitch, and I will probably empathize with the cashier.
My strategy, and I make no claims about its true efficacy but it gives me peace of mind, is to prep the crockpot the night before and stick it in the freezer. Then when I leave for work in the morning, I pop it in the base and turn it on low. In my mind this slows the cooking down enough to spread what would otherwise be done in 6-7 hours to 8-9. I’m probably wasting my time though.
Oh please, I’m having flashbacks to my cashiering days :mad:
A big reason why I’m so happy I left front end work is because of people like this, and they’re not all elderly. People think nothing about emptying their pockets, their purses, their what-have-you to get rid of their change. If you’re the only person in line, that’s one thing. If there’s a mob of people behind you, yeah, I’ll be pleasant because I have to, but you better not look into my eyes unless you want The Stare Of Utter Death which has been known to actually frighten people (I’m not kidding, btw).
I’m willing to be patient, but up to a point.
For instance, I had a snag while paying for something the other day. After both the cashier and the supervisor tried and failed fixing it, I noticed that the line was getting pretty deep behind me, so I just canceled the order. I didn’t have many items nor were any of them a necessity. The woman behind me thanked me profusely. it was obvious she valued efficiency. If those items had been a necessity, yes, I would’ve been upset, but I didn’t have to buy them at that particular store.
I do something similar; instead of adding broth, I add ice cubes plus a bouillon cube. It probably doesn’t do a lot, but still.
I am staying with my mom for a week taking care of her as she recovers from surgery. I am doing my best to make her comfortable and relaxed while she recovers. But, for the love of God, this means having the TV tuned to Fox News 16 hours a day and having to listen to Bill O’Reilly and Greta What’s Her Name and Smarmy Asshole Reporter Guy until I want to stab my eyes out with forks. And Mom is a staunch Democrat…I don’t even get why she watches this crap! But I have to hold my tongue as she is not feeling great right now…
Ma, I love you, please get better soon…
I enjoy working retail, and it took me two years to find this job. But the change diggers drive me nuts.
I had one little old lady who tried to find a penny after I had the nine cents of her change counted out in my hand. I handed it to her, and she complained about how I made the line “go too fast.”
Ten cents, okay. But find 87 cents while everyone else in line is waiting? Damn rude in my book.
It’s your mom, you can’t say “turn it”?
When my mom came out of heart surgery she managed to croak “All… the channels here… biased. Want to go home… so I can watch Fox News…”
Why, yes, I did laugh. And said “Well, you certainly don’t have an irony deficiency.”
As a change digger, I do have to defend myself here. I carry my change in one pocket, easily accessible, I can usually tell at a glance if I have the right makeup to offer exact change (if I don’t it goes back in my pocket and I do not dig around any more), and I usually can count as fast as the cashiers. So I don’t see me slowing down any lines appreciably.
Sure, and she would, but since it’s her house and she’s in pain and not feeling well, I would feel like a real slime insisting she watch what I want and not what she wants. Right now she has a college basketball game on. Thank God.
I wasn’t sure how my dad was going to recover from his leg amputation a few years ago until my oldest sister texted me to let me know he was watching TV and complaining about Hillary Clinton. I knew then that he would be fine and he still is.
I don’t understand that either. If your mother is a staunch Democrat, why does she watch a “news” channel that is biased against Democrats? I thought that only staunch Republicans dug that stuff.
I am scratching my head too. I am not sure she’s actually paying attention to it most of the time. I suspect that she likes the background noise…and they certainly are noisy. But why that channel and not something else, I don’t know.
Why is job hunting so bloody difficult! I have experience, skills, an education, and interview well… I just can’t get an interview for anything except part time work.
Just applied for a job in Chicago, if employers in FL aren’t interested, I’ll cast a wider net.