Well, my girlfriend tells me that the lady in question was an Assistant Manager. After fifteen fucking years? Better off in the grocery business. My manager at Fresh & Easy had his own store after fifteen years, and drives a spanking new $60,000 automobile. I doubt if the lady in question makes 2/3 of that.
Freelance digital animator/graphic designer/web programmer.
I am unaware that Coont had anything to do with race, and it is no more derogatory that a word I would use if the person in question was a man, in which case I would use the term “prick”.
Yeah, but, um SHE started it. I was explaining to my GF that you can’t rely on people that work at the retail level to do their jobs right, and that generally they are of at best average intelligence, and they need to be checked on. I was overheard by this, apparently very sensitive, assistant manager. She must have been clearing empty latte cups at the table behind me or something before she laid into me.
And she pulled the full power trip!
“I don’t work here to be insulted. I’ll have to ask you to leave or I will call security!”
“Ok. See you later.”
I get up and leave. She follows me, as if I am some Al Qaeda or something, and uses her cell phone thingy to alert security, “CODE 327! Third floor!” and harangues me on my way out with comments like “I have benefits!” As I go down the escalator, she is talking into her phone. As I go down the escalator, sure enough, there is Mr. Security, ready to handle my bad ass. I tell the poor guy, “I’m leaving already!” He just rolls his eyes, as if this isn’t the first time Ms. Assistant Manager has freaked out.
Yes. I picked up from a Brit I work with.
And I totally agree with this. I am, as was pointed out upthread, totally ok with doing menial jobs myself. One of the reasons I temp is to get out of my fucking chair. I run the risk of being a cripple if I don’t do something more physical than type and move a mouse around. My back is fucking killing me. My ideal situation would be to spend 20 hours a week as a hod carrier and the rest of my time in front of my computer.
Except to call chew me out, call security, chew me out some more, and have me expelled from the premises! :rolleyes:
She was a skinny white chick, with nerd glasses. Probably a lit major who is bitter about the jobs the degree qualified her for… 
Dude, multiquote button.
Um, because I have never been in a dead end job for fifteen years?
So, customers who have had their transactions messed up by incompetent employees should just keep mum, or they are assholes? Amiright?
Because Starbucks customers aren’t a bunch of arrogant pretentious pompous asses? 
Ad hominem attack is ad hominem. I should have made it more clear. I was having a private conversation with ONE of my girlfriends.
I was unaware of that connotation. And again, this was “skinny white chick with nerd glasses” so if you can give me a more appropriate epithet, I will be glad to employ it…
This thread was already 4 pages long. By the time you’re finished responding it’ll be 8.
Not that it matters, of course. The appropriate conclusion was drawn early on, this is simply sealing the deal.
Maybe you are doing it wrong. In my brief period of temp work at Fresh & Easy, I would definitely sweat mistakes I made on the job. I always try to do a good job, and I did make mistakes at the grocery. I really felt bad that I didn’t bag that poor lady’s yogurt because it slipped under the bags on the checkout…
You are quite correct. I would never accept any management position. The idea of being responsible for other people is quite frightening to me. I don’t want to deal with crap like that. I could never do it. That is why I freelance, for the most part.
Again, I have worked maybe five years out of thirty in a straight job. Never been promoted. Never worked for the man long enough to be considered for such an “honor”.
B&N don’t sell history books? I have worked as a librarian at a school part-time before, and that’s a valid question to ask.
Oh groovy. You leech off there and you are rude to their staff.
From a fellow web free-lancer: Freelancing is not a dead-end job. I don’t even count it as a ‘stable job’.
Not racist, not homophobic (whatever that means, I like gays ok), not a snob. So here I am. And I don’t believe I have called anyone tardface in my life, so what does that make you?
No, you can complain as rudely as you want about the cashier once you leave, if venting is all you want to do. If you want to lodge a formal complaint with the manager, do so without personal attacks, but by describing the situation and what went wrong. If that still doesn’t get you satisfaction, write a letter to corporate offices.
You can stand up for yourself and lodge any complaints without being an ass.
ETA: People deal with mistakes, get mistakes fixed or simply bring it to someone’s attention without being hurtful every day. I have dealt with so many issues over the years with once being threatened with security or yelled at. In general, they are actually apologetic to me!