ok, we get it. You hate society, you will not conform. Good for you. You cut your hair in the most ridiculous way imaginable because it is one way to “stick it to the man”, the man being the national grocery store chain that signs your paycheck… kind of hypocritical don’t you think? Shouldn’t you be busking on spring garden or living in a commune? Anyways your terrible hair style is not the issue here. You are all incredibly rude every time I happen to end up at your till. I even tried to be extra nice to you because I thought you were unique. You don’t make eye contact, you don’t say hello or good bye, you don’t even smile.
Get a grip on shit.
—Never coming to your till again
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2009.
Maybe they could smell your fake, forced niceness. Why would you be extra nice to someone because you think they are “unique” (Mom?) and then turn around and cut them down for the exact thing you claimed to admire.
I can imagine the girl sitting in the break room saying shit like: “Grocery Stores eat at my dark, depressed soul… the world buys and consumes, and conforms to food standards…” Fuck, I hate Goths. Yeah, they’re so ahead of the curve.
Um, I think I know the girls the op is complaining about and I agree with Mole Rat on this one, I’d also like to point out that they aren’t Goths.
It also sounds like the OP was kinda jealous a bit.
I believe I shop at the same store as OP, and I have to say I sympathize. I don’t care about the hair styles, clothes, piercings, just the attitude. And these two individuals have consistently poor attitudes. I would like to think that I’m treating them with the same courtesy I offer any cashier, consistently. Why then am I always greeted with a glare at best?
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME!!!!!
Hot damn, if I hear that tired phrase once more I’m going to rip them out of their black and purple quagmire and make them prance around in a field of rainbows and ponies. It might burn their skin, but they’ll thank me later.
What does it matter if she is Goth, Emo, Preppy or whatever hilarious category that stupid close-minded people feel that every person somehow falls in? High school is over. Get over it. I am not excusing bad customer service but that is the only thing you should have addressed.
I know who you’re talking about, and the only thing that grosses me out is the fact that she picks at her piercings when waiting for the receipt to print for my stuff. It’s disgusting.
If her “terrible hair style” is not the issue, then why do you spend half of your bitch talking about it?
Anyway, I know which store you are talking about and I don’t find either of the girls rude nor do I expect them to act like they love their jobs, because quite frankly, their job sucks. That store is always way too busy and understaffed. So boo hoo, they don’t greet you with a phoney smile and end with a “sincere” have a great day. if your groceries were rung through in in a timely manner then get over it.
Dr. Fever, you once dated a Goth. Hypocritical, just a bit?
Guh? I’m thinking you’ve mistaken me for someone else.
Why does a hairstyle have to mean someone ‘hates’ society?
OP, haven’t you met any regular-looking rude, angry, society-hating people? There are plenty of rude people in customer service who don’t smile and don’t make eye contact- it happens to me every day, and everyone else I know, as well. Suck it up! There are lots of regular looking people who also would love to “stick it to the man” in one way or another. Don’t be so judgemental!
There sure are a lot of Rastfarians at King’s. I didn’t realize the white part of Southern Ontario was such a hotbed of Rastafarian culture.
are we talking Superstore, Quinpool here? lol
Yep. I bet it drives the old farts crazy.
I’ve got a goth fetish going so I’m enjoying the show.
Goths don’t bother me in the least. But ignorant assholes do.
oh man,
I have been shopping there for a while and knew it was only a matter of time before there was a bitch about these two girls. And as i suspected it was a thinly vailed attack on how they look with a bit of spin at the end to make it about “how they act” to give it some credability.
They don’t seem overly rude when I interact with them, they don’t put on the fake smile most other people do either. I don’t want my cock sucked or my ego stroked when i am in the checkout line, i just want to pay for my stuff and go as fast as possible and they do that just fine.
OP – ever think maybe they just dont like YOU? They probably have a pretty good BS detector and you make it light up like a christmas tree. After all, you are petty enough to actually out them on the coast website rahter than have the balls to call them on it face to face. The true passive agressive halmark of someone who can’t stand that maybe not everyone loves them to death.
last but not least, ITS NOT THEIR JOB TO BE YOUR FRIEND! There I said it. we all have to work with people who we don’t like nor dislike, they are just kinda there. They are not your BFF but they don’t really hate you either. Grow up and get used to this cause every job you have is probably going to have someone who is just a co-worker – no more, no less. Are you going to run to LTWWB and write a blurp about everyone of those peope you meet?
CRY BABY!
lovinglife, without the description of the individual in question, no one would know who they were talking about. That said, if they wanted to vent about the way she looks AND the way she acts, go for it. Two bitches for the price of one.
And I’ve had the displeasure myself of being in this lady’s line, and had a similar experience. It wasn’t so much that she was outwardly rude as it was she didn’t acknowledge my presence for a split second – I could have been a specter with a debit card and she wouldn’t have noticed.
When she took the job, she signed up to serve people with a amiable attitude. That doesn’t mean she has to be all smiles and make constant chit-chat – I’d actually prefer if she didn’t – but she should at least look you in the eye, and pretend she’s happy. Nobody cares if you don’t like your job – that’s your problem, not theirs. If she hates serving the public, get the hell off cash and clean the store after hours or something.
Mr Man – i am not disagreeing that their personality is non existant, even shiity. My two main points were that
1- who cares about their personality, its not a date. they are just there to put the bar code over the lazer and take my money. End of responsibility. They are not hired to be shooter girls at the Palace ( thank god )
2 – I am calling the OP out as being a cry baby and petty and being a vain snotty bitch/asshole. She/he goes on for about 60% of her post about how their hair looks, then tried to bring it around by throwing in “Anyways your terrible hair style is not the issue here” Only the last few sentences are about thier job perfomance. If you don’t like the way they look thats fine, but just don’t wrap it up in something else to make it sound credible. Just sayin the OP should keep it real and they would have had me at hello.
I wonder how long before they see this?
I’d rather go through their checkout than the one who talks too much.
I’m boycotting their bagless bullshit anyway (and not just because of the lameass bagless policy, either, so don’t jump up and down anyone.)
excuse my ignorance but was does LTWWB mean
“I know who you’re talking about, and the only thing that grosses me out is the fact that she picks at her piercings when waiting for the receipt to print for my stuff. It’s disgusting.”
HAHA AWESOME
Love The Way We Bitch.
Welcome to the club, newbie!
I wouldn’t blame the ‘goth broads’. They’re just looking for a placle that was willing to hire anybody they could. Bitch at the establishment for hiring such lazy schlubs. I don’t care HOW much in need I am for employees. I would never hire someone who a.) isn’t going to try to be effective, and b.) who is visibly rude and indifferent to customers. Major buzzkill.
i wonder if they put in the effort during their interviews
thank you kind person i feel really really tard like
Don’t sweat it paingirl.
If you play it cool, chat to her like a fucking human being, she’d be just fine. If you insist on talking down to someone or expecting gushing small talk (I hate those cheery idiots, especially when I’m buying groceries on an empty stomach), then you’ll only get the contempt you deserve.
I hope you never came to my till, TTFN…I think I could be described as one of those cheery idiots 🙁
I never expected small talk though.
I’d rather someone who does their job quickly and effieciently to those that either gab non-stop or is slower than a snail. And sometimes I hate the fake smiles and friendliness. If they don’t acknowledge you outside of the job (or vice versa) then who cares if they do it in the job.
That’s o.k., PK, I’ve learned in my old age how to be polite to the cheeriness – just take it down a couple of notches though…I just wanna get home and shovel down some chow.
Hmmm….perhaps I do, Dr. Fever. My ex just always had the same username for everything, and sounds a LOT like you. Apologies, of course, if I am mistaken. But I am Goth. Maybe not a fully done-up one, but there really never was any mistaking it. And my ex was actually very supportive at the time of it.
No worries. I’ve been using this nickname since my CKDU days… I don’t hate goths, I just hate the mopey bullshit that some of them sling.
Oh God, any normal one does. They give us a bad name. There are Goths, and then there are emo. Emo are what ruins it for us. Goths are actually very cheerful people (at least the ones I associate with)
Back when I worked in a store, I would have had my ass handed to me if I pulled that shit. I hated my job, but I was always somewhat cheerful. It wasn’t anyone’s fault if I didn’t like my job.
Goths are just artist that are getting started, aren’t they? Sarah MacLaughlin was a shocking Goth and she seemed to pull up- but it is still early…
But they are in the service industry. What part of service don’t they understand?
And besides- Super Store has poor selection and high prices- plus they are not Nova Scotian owned. Try Sobey’s- they sponsor everything around here and keep it real at the same time.
Maybe your post was about their service, but it came off as petty and shallow given how pc and uptight people are, but pretend not to be around here. The majority of people on this post were so quick to defend their self-expression as far as looks are concerned but not at all when it come to things like, attitude, communication skills, etc. So it would seem that the majority of people posting are just as shallow as the one who originally posted. I would like to call one person out in particular, and that would be mrman. “…When she took the job, she signed up to serve people with a amiable attitude. That doesn’t mean she has to be all smiles and make constant chit-chat – I’d actually prefer if she didn’t – but she should at least look you in the eye, and pretend she’s happy.” What the fuck are you babbling about? She should not smile but pretend she is happy, look you in the eye but not chit-chat with you? That’s ridiculous. When I go to pay for my shit, I want the person who is a normal human being ringing me through. The interaction between me and the stranger behind the counter should be no more then what I would have with the same person walking down the street. If they choose to speak to me fine. If they don’t that’s fine too, so long as what I came there to do has been accomplished…buying shit from a huge faceless corporation that exploits it’s employees for slave wages, and expects them to eat shit from every condescending motherfucker who waltzes in. If they hate their jobs and you for that matter, they are justified.
That struck me as a little wierd too Nai blanc…it’s hard for me to articulate. I’m just not sure what good it would do me to have someone pretend they’re happy. I don’t want to be scowled at, and I don’t want someone dumping their problems on me (I’m there to get food, not be Dr. Phil), but requiring someone to pretend as if there’s nowhere else in the world they’d rather be? Mehhhhhh.
I appreciate good customer service as much as anyone else, but it’s hard to get behind that kind of requirement. When someone is genuinely happy, grateful for their job, and looks at me as a human being rather than just another face, for sure it brightens my day, and I remember it. But I think we have to remember the person on the other side of the counter is human too, they have a life, and it’s not always easy to believe or pretend checking groceries through is where you wanted to be in life, even if it is your job.
Sometimes I think the requirement for “customer service” is a little crazy/unreasonable. Why is it wrong for me to think that the minimum of my groceries to be rung through in a timely manner and correctly, for questions to be answered, and to not be scowled at, is A-Ok? Why does someone also have to pretend to be happy or to care about me? What’s wrong with removing the artifice that requires someone to be excessively jovial? Isn’t it then more of a genuine interaction? Sometimes I think it can be as rewarding to try to put a smile on a worker’s face rather than expect it from them. Now, if I’m paying $40 a plate in a fancy restaurant and being served by someone who is a professional, i.e. career, server, you better bet they are going to smile at me. As far as I’m concerned, you pay peanuts, you get peanuts.
Having said that; rereading the OP, I think at least greeting/acknowledging the customer should be part of that minimum requirement.
I used to be a cashier: I was the first male cashier at the safeway in 100 mile house BC. A record I hold dear to my heart. Anyways the job sucked; I could be as happy as I wanted but people still treated me like shit. It wore me down after awhile but I still managed to try and be polite to every person, instead of painting them all with the same brush. Basically not charge someone of being an asshole before they even open their mouths.
Hey Richie!
I’ve been there!
Loved all the xx mile houses in BC
you could always change stores and go to one of those “scan this crap yourself” checkouts – maybe they have a Goth scanner too?
ok this tread is bullshit, im a goth myself and have been all my life, i hate socity because of this very reason, i love my life and i hate all you because all you focus on is how screwed up other people are, when your the one complaining. why the fuck does it matter if someone is down, doesnt mean there goth. im goth because i beleive in being different from everyone not because i want to “stick it to the man” what man, the man that made the clothes that i wear to look goth because in the end no one gives a shit
Good one. “I’m expressing my individuality by dressing up and acting exactly like a whole group of people.” Face it, VonDoob, your sheeple just like the rest of us.
Everything is a trend. Everyone dresses like someone ells. The only way we can be individuals is through our personalities.
Mole Rat, I totally agree with you.
If people want happy faces where ever they go, they should get a giant pair of rose coloured glasses and draw a smile on them.
I think you should point the finger at yourself for a little while. Just because you’re so incredibly bitter and broken as to hate anything and everything that is different than yourself doesn’t mean everyone else is that way.
So nothing’s original, nobody is unique and dressing up or down or fitting into or dabbling with a fashion or a clique ends up being more of a uniform than an actual statement of rebellion or individuality… so what?
Who are you to judge? Get off your high horse. You’re no better or worse than the people you’re so high-handedly criticizing. You call people hypocrites when it’s you that is summarily laying blame on people solely based on their appearance.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Oh I said “black.” I must be a goth too. Want to flame me now?
I worked with those cashiers for a short period of time
perhaps they’re sensing the fact that you’re a judgmental, sexist fuck. They don’t get paid minimum wage to be your fucking friend, get a grip already
I know those girls and I can understand what you mean.
they are not “friendly” and maybe they should be in a line of work that does not require them to be in close contact with the public.
But, they are actually very nice and generous people. I spent time wwith them at thier homw once and had a blast, we made sandwiches and hung out on thier roof. Very funny and creative people. And yes, they are unique, though some people may think otherwise because they dress in a way that makes you want to assume that they are sheep. News flash, we all wear clothes, we all have a ” look ” wether we like it or not.
they are people and deserve repect. Also, the superstore hired them, And I know how hard it is to get a job in Fredericton where you can be yourself and not conform to popular fashion, Way to go Superstore, for not being a dick like some of your judgmental customers.
(you shouldnt be picking at your piercings though girls, your handeling money and that could cause and infection )