"Would you like a bag?"
No, don't worry. I've only just given you a basket full of shopping, but I am going to carry it to my car/home on my head.
"Would you like a bag?"
No, don't worry. I've only just given you a basket full of shopping, but I am going to carry it to my car/home on my head.
"Would you like lids?"Originally Posted by Jess
Nope. I just bought 5 orders of ice cream from you and I'm alone in this car right now. I'm either going to eat all of this on the drive home or spill it all over myself. That's my plan.
Snapping fingers at me was one of the most annoying things ever working in a restaurant. I'm not a dog. Along with people not reading the menu and asking for sides we didn't even have.
"I'll take green beans with it."
"We don't have green beans, sir"
"Oh then I'll take corn."
"We don't have that either"
"Well what DO you have!?"
*Proceed with listing all 20 other sides we do have even though they're in bold print on the side of the menu*
"Hi there, do you have a minute?"
I get asked this question pretty much every other day on my way to work by charity muggers. I have nothing against these people or the charities ( I actually already give to half of them) I just can't stand this approach. My responses to this question has changed a lot over the years. Here is a list of the phases I have been through.
First two years
Chugger: "Hi there, do you have a minute?"
Me: "I'm sorry, I'm in a rush"
Third year
Chugger: "Hi there, do you have a minute?"
Me: "No, I'm sorry"
Fourth Year
Chugger: "Hi there, do you have a minute?"
Me: "No"
First week of fifth year
Chugger: "Hi there, do you have a minute?"
Me: "Samahani, mimi si kuzungumza mjinga"
Present day
Chugger: "Hi there, do you have a minute?"
Me: *Doesn't respond but stares creepily at them until I've gone past*
Last edited by Bubba; 07-15-2014 at 06:33 PM.
XD
I know why they say that, it's policy in some places because they're trying to encourage customers to reuse bags. Asking whether you want one is meant to gently remind you that they'd prefer you had your own. Environmentalism and all that (because the squillions of tonnes of plastic used for just about every food packaging ever is okay, but those flimsy carriers where they manage to stretch out about 0.0001g of plastic are the root of all evil, apparently)
They've got the government behind them here as they're going to be forced to charge for bags soon..
I keep meaning to be all environmental and bring my own bags, but it's super hard. Who remembers to dig out some old bags and stuff them in their pockets before they go shopping.
If they charged something more substantial like £1/bag, we'd very quickly learn. But as the charge is going to be something like 2p, it's pretty obvious it's just a tax / government fund raising thing.
Twice I've had the opposite happen to me. Both times it was @ Walgreen's on my break, & I think it's because I was wearing a blue polo & had my work ID hanging from my belt loop.
You guise are just cranky pantses
Its sweet helping a couple or some friends get a picture memory, we don't know if you're off the clock, some people carry their own bags, some people are socially awkward so they ask things like "do you work here" because they don't know another ice breaker, waiters sometimes have bad timing but it would probably be creepier if they stood there waiting for you to finish before asking, plus they have other tables and at least they are checking on you, and someone somewhere is complaining about something you do all the time!!!!!1!11!1!1
(I'm teasing in case that wasn't clear by all the !!!!s)
I hate when someone asks me if something is wrong and I say no and they proceed to ask me 20 more times. Either I'm not upset but you're making me upset, or I am upset but clearly don't want to talk about it and asking me repeatedly is only going to make me want to talk about it even less
But what's wrong?You guise are just cranky pantses
Its sweet helping a couple or some friends get a picture memory, we don't know if you're off the clock, some people carry their own bags, some people are socially awkward so they ask things like "do you work here" because they don't know another ice breaker, waiters sometimes have bad timing but it would probably be creepier if they stood there waiting for you to finish before asking, plus they have other tables and at least they are checking on you, and someone somewhere is complaining about something you do all the time!!!!!1!11!1!1
(I'm teasing in case that wasn't clear by all the !!!!s)
I hate when someone asks me if something is wrong and I say no and they proceed to ask me 20 more times. Either I'm not upset but you're making me upset, or I am upset but clearly don't want to talk about it and asking me repeatedly is only going to make me want to talk about it even less
I just realized this is meant for work, and not in general? When I think of grinding I think of just doing general shiz.
I'm just going to list comments/questions I got constantly at work and sometimes my responses to those questions.
*Lights in the mall shut off, warmer lights in the store shut off, clear lack of product in the warmer.*
Customer: Are you open yet?
Customer: Can I get change for the candy machines/stroller things/etc.
Me: Sorry, the registers are set up so I can't open them without a cash purchase.
*Customer proceeds to cuss me out, flip me off, threaten to beat me up, etc.*
Customer: What do you do with all the pretzels at night?
Me: We donate them to Salvation Army.
Customer: "Oh that's cool... I was just curious...." OR "Well why don't you donate them to my belly instead?"
Customer: What can I get for free?
Me: Nothing.
Customer: *Chuckles at his last question* I'll take a strawberry lemonade
Me: Here you go. Here's what you owe me.
Customer: Oh, you mean it wasn't free? Smurf that!
Customer: I'll take a frozen lemonade.
*pours them frozen lemonade*
Customer: I change my mind, I'll take the frozen strawberry.
*pours frozen strawberry*
Customer: Since you already made that last one, can you just give it to me for free.
Me: No, I'm sorry.
Customer: Man, you're just going to throw it away. There are starving people in this world. You personally are the reason for everything wrong in this world.
*I hold the money up to the light to find watermark*
Customer: Yeah, I just made that bill this morning
*Customer laughs thinking he made the greatest joke in the world. Every customer after him whose bill I check proceeds to make the same joke*
*I'm rolling pretzels while my only other coworker is on register. A large line forms*
Customer: HEY YOU! WHY DON'T YOU GET OVER AND HELP US OUT OVER HERE? WE DON'T WANT TO WAIT THIS LONG! HEY ARE YOU STUPID? GET OVER HERE! ARE YOU EVEN WORKING?
Coworker: He's rolling pretzels right now so we can make sure we have product ready to give you.
Customer: I don't give a smurf. Get him over here.
Customer: Do you have any raisin pretzels?
Me: No, we haven't had those for about 4 years now.
Customer: I was just in here last week and got one. You're lying.
Me: Sorry, we don't have them.
Customer: *said sarcastically or in a belittling tone* Don't work too hard.
Customer: *arm reaching over the little trash can we have on our counter right in front of them* Can you throw this away for me?
Ok, I'm just going to stop this here. I could go on and on.
That being said, I love my coworkers, and the people who work in the stores around me are all wonderful people. I also get enough customers that are just generally pleasant or a little kid will say something like "You're a really nice guy!" Those are always nice moments in between the annoying stuff.
Every single morning my boss walks in and says "what kind of shampoo is this?" He will then proceed to tell you 5 minutes later how he has been running this company for 30 years and knows everything. Yet and he can't figure out what shampoo I'm cutting by looking at it. While opening a mold last friday he tried to tell em it did not smell correctly and it took everyone in the shop saying "No Jim, that's how they smell when we open them"
A lady asked on Facebook if any of our shampoo contain tree nut oils since she is very allergic to them and of course he completely leaves out our Virgin Coconut bars that contain Argan oil which states on the bottle "Argan Nut Oil. Contains Tree Nuts" And then I clarified that saying it did contain a nut oil to which she responded "Coconut isn't a tree nut" Gee thanks, I wasn't aware of that or even talking about coconut oil which is in every one of our recipes...
This.
Or even "If you don't like your job, why don't you just quit?"This.
Because literally everyone else in the world is working their dream job and are so so happy to be going to work everyday. I'm working here because I like to be unhappy, not because there's bills to pay.
"I'm gonna have to ask you to come into the office Saturday"
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