To the cashier at a certain pharmacy. Yesterday an elderly lady asked for help with her bags as the pharmacy no longer has a back entrance. Sure you are tired of standing on you feet…its obvious why, but when an old lady asks for help with her bags, and all you can do is offer her the opportunity to drag her bags along on two trips to her car, you are a dirt bag. I’m sure you could have paged someone to help her with her bags? You are either too lazy or too uncaring to show the minimal amount of common decency to a fellow human. Old people don’t ask for help because they are lazy…but because they actually need it and if it weren’t for the young blonde customer who swooped in and picked up your slack that old lady would have been stranded. Someday that will be you and your ugly heart will stop anyone from approaching to even offer help. Remember that.
—Second in Line
This article appears in May 28 – Jun 3, 2009.
You should have told her manager. She would have been reprimanded for sure.
This makes me ill to think this lazy twatflap could do this to an old lady. Whenever I’ve found myself in the situation to help an elderly person I do it, and with great pleasure. Why? Because I know one day I’m going to be where they are (hopefully, anyway) and I’d like to think someone would offer to help in the kind of circumstances you’ve described. There’s a lot of younger people out there who think once you’re over 70, you should be thrown on an iceflow, to quote Rick Mercer.
YES rick mercer..shaw wow, I agree.
why didn’t you help op?
(s)he just said why – the blonde in front swooped in?? Maybe the op didn’t have time to get there first / was too busy picking their jaw up off the floor.
I’m going to skim over this bitch with a Cold Hard Mike’s.
I was going to ask the same question F & L. Did the OP offer to help? If not they are no better then the person working the counter. It doesnt actually say ” the blond in front” IPNAC, just says “if it weren’t for the young blonde customer who swooped in and picked up your slack that old lady would have been stranded”. So who knows where she was standing.
I have to be devil’s advocate- maybe the cashier isn’t allowed to leave the counter unattended. Were there other employees about? Plenty of people have those little carts to carry stuff in…
I agree with Guyute — I don’t know the particulars of this situation, but most cashiers can’t leave their cash — especially if they have a line up of people behind them and most drug stores have carts.
There should be someone to help with her bags, however a lot of stores just don’t have the staff to leave the store — OP would be the first one to bitch if they only had one cashier on. Places like this are VERY understaffed and can’t really afford to take someone off cash to help customers with bags when there are customers waiting to have their purchases checked out. It sucks, but until more people put in applications, the service sector pretty much has their hands tied.
Maybe she was holding out for a tip, like all the other lazy service people.