You’re a cashier… you have a job that a fat, hairy, mindless ape could do. Would it kill you to smile and be polite to customers? Your customer service skills have the same level of quality as sun dried dogshit and management has had several calls from customers about you. Not good calls either. Change your attitude or start looking for a new job. You’re days are numbered. Happy Holidays. —Shiraz
This article appears in Dec 16-22, 2010.
I can’t possibly imagine why they wouldn’t be all smiles and full of sunshine every day ?!?!?!?
if you’re going to answer your own questions, don’t bother posting them.
Jealous/pissed off co-worker? Cashier too?
Definately not a job I could do, I’d go postal first day.
*Your days are numbered.
I’ve had plenty of cranky cashiers. I would never call and complain about someone not being perky and smiling at me.
HAHAHA OP, do you realize how understaffed the retail/grocery industry IS? Unless they’re caught stealing, you can bet that crank ass isn’t going to lose their job.
I worked with people a few years back at a store that is super that would hardly ever show up for her shifts, but they’d keep scheduling her anyway *shrug*
Did you ever think of why this cashier was sullen? Maybe she’s got a crummy home life, maybe she’s sick of making minimum wage and serving endless lines of equally cranky Christmas customers. Then there is the possibility she’s just a nasty ol’ cow. Still, why would this be important enough to ruin your fucking day?
A cashier job is to do cash, not to smile at you and make you feel better. Go fuck yourself OP you useless USELESS human being.
When I worked cash all I said to the people was “Hi” and “bye”, customers don’t DESERVE anything else. I don’t own the store, I don’t represent the store, ALL I do is take your money. You need to eat, so you’re going to buy food whether I”m “polite” or not.
Fuck, I don’t even care if you have the right amount of money really, all I care about is how many hours til I’m out of this place where grown adults expect me to amuse their children with stickers, laugh at the jokes I heard a MILLION times, and on top of that DO IT WITH A SMILE? Fuck off OP. You would be amazed how care free I am at work, yet miserable.
I don’t get why people expect cashiers to be super happy ALL the time. Nobody is. It’s ridiculous to expect that. They’re working long hours at a shit job for shit pay and then on top of that they have to deal with some customers treating them like garbage. They’re bound to be cranky sometime.
I don’t mind when they are not happy…but don’t act like I’m inconveniencing you by buying stuff. It’s your job to ring me through…so don’t roll your eyes like I just showed up 10 mins after close. But I expect nothing more than a hello…(maybe even a good evening, afternoon), and a good bye.
More stores should install those self-checkout aisles. Those things are great!
The problem with self-checkouts is that not everyone has the mental capacity to figure out how to use them.
As a former cashier, those things are NOT great, Sebastard. I can’t stand that “please put the item in the baaag” cunt (yes, I used the C word!). Most people who use them are idiots and can’t operate them, yet try to put a whole cart full of crap through them. When you have to inspect each item to find out where the barcode is, go to a regular cash.
But as a former cashier i just can’t put things through fast enough and honestly find the regular cash registers faster.
If you work in public service and you are not working for yourself, then you represent the company that you are working for. Ergo, you should represent it in a way that benefits your organization, or you should be fired.
A smile is the least a Cashier or server is expected to accomplish. If you can’t do that, you shouldn’t be in public offering a service.
I don’t really like those self-checkout things unless I only have a one or two things. They’re way too picky about putting things in the bag just so and then it yells at me about something and locks up and someone has to come over and fix it. I usually always go to an actual checkout.
I don’t care if they smile, speak to me, or even realise, I go there all the time….I just want to be checked through as fast as possible, that’s it.
Get me the fuck out of your store !
Ring through the stuff
here’s your money
See you next time
Hopefully it’ll be even quicker !!!
i’m guessing it was a jar store with the shiraz signature. get in get your libations get out
I still prefer dealing with a live person, cranky or not, than all the automation. We also need to take into consideration the jobs we would lose if every transaction was automated. Just my take on it.
i will intentionally wait longer in a line-up just to get one of my favourite employees, but then i like to gab^^
Shut up, Sebastian. Nobody cares what you think.
o.p., who said that i would want that fucking job. and how do you know that i’m fat, hairy, and an ape. are you the one that keeps trying to get in my bedroom? seriously dude/dudette, chill the fuck out, remember what stressful time of year it is, i do.
I’m a full time cashier and take offense to the whole mindless ape thing, Not only do I receive compliments on the speed of my service all of the time or how I chat up the customers and genuinely care about their well being, Now you try standing on your feet 45 hours a week on a cement floor, I don’t plan on doing this the rest of my life I am only 21 however, I have met a lot of nice people who worked cash, The worst are the customers like you who act like your somehow better then us, Well listening to people like you all day long while standing on a cement floor, and besides, we aren’t robots, Someday’s, someones gonna have bad fight with their boyfriend or girlfriend maybe personal problems, and they aren’t going to be as perky, but that’s human nature, Most of the cashiers I know are hard working students or semi retired adults who work really hard to make you happy. and I have to say most of my customers are great and I love you guys. Not everyone has what it takes to be a cashier, can you just be friendly with random strangers, you’ve never met? Can you stand on cement floors all day and count money. Don’t be so rude to total strangers, Yes I notice bad cashiers too, but most are not. Try being a little nice be friendly say hello, My family is pretty well off I had a nice car when I was teenager, I probally will not have to worry about things for a long time, and honestly I have friends from all walks of life, and to me it doesn’t matter so grow up and take your childish small minded, passive aggressive comments and shove them up your ass!
I’m thinking, from reading the OB’s comment, that perhaps the reason the cashier was pissy was because you were pissy. That’s what it comes across as.
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lol painie, I was wondering about that.
What Calico & Grace said.
Keep the humanity in business, resist the machines.
You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. I say hi, ring in your groceries, and say bye. That’s it.
I think there are actually people that get offended if you don’t make conversation, I can’t believe it! It’s a store, not a social gathering!
(I also roll my eyes at people when they have too much stuff or bring cloth bags LOL get over it!)
Maybe they are so unfriendly because they have to deal with pretentious assholes like you all day long? “you have a job that a fat, hairy, mindless ape could do”… yeah, you’re an asshole.
If you want to chit-chat, get yourself some friends. I am fine with “hello” and “thanks” and that’s it.
I bet the OP has a real fancy job
I have actually never seen a fat or mindless ape. People on the other hand, however, can be pretty fat and mindless at the same time. I think OP fits at least one of those descriptions.
Anyone else find it somewhat discriminatory, that they have to be “fat ,hairy , mindless apes “.
What about the skinny, alpecia suffering , dizzy apes ?
After all I’m an equal opportunity type guy.
I too prefer cashiers to just get my shit through as fast as possible so I can get out of there as fast as possible. Sometimes replacing the attitude with a quick hello and smile would be nice, though. Don’t like the crappy pay? Move to Alberta!
A fat, hairy, mindless ape could do my job? Dude! Sweet! Thanks! I’m feeling better about my job as a cashier already.
This bitch would have been way more legit if you had cut that bit out. A little degrading there, bud.
as a lifetime member of the fat, hairy mindless ape union 1001, we resent that and will get your i.p. to sue you. if the fire dept. can do it, so can we. to all the rest, fuck it.
I’m a cashier. The past few shifts have been loaded with mostly high-strung customers rushing last minute and chewing me out for their own poor planning.
Soo…forgive me if I’m not all smiles this holiday season.
Some lady was flipping her shit at me today because her Lotto Max ticket “should have been $5, not $15”. She had filled out the slip herself…
Calvin…You and your many asssociates now have the joy of cranky people RETURNING the gazillion presents that don’t fit, aren’t wanted , or they just want the money…. l o l
As someone who works retail, I always try to treat everyone with a smile, ask them how they are doing, and wish them a nice day. I want customers to have a good shopping experience so that they come back, thus, keeping me in a job, and it’s nice to see the same faces everyday. I do work with people who are completely miserable to customers and it’s more than embarrassing to be in their company. Being pleasant is part of being in customer service and if you can’t be nice, get a job working somewhere else. I hope that Shiraz has called to the store and complained to the manager because that’s the only way that anything will be done…if anything will be done at all from what I’ve experienced with my miserable co-workers.