You’ve been coming here a long time and I’m a “real bitch” eh? Ooo bravo big man, pushing at least 70 and verbally abusing the girl a third of your age behind the counter. Do you feel tough? I’m actually not a bitch as everyone else has liked me enough to keep me around for several years now. Getting minimal service from me? Here’s why. You smoke cigarettes, thus taking out and viewing the package 25 times multiplied by how many packages you smoke, and yet you still come into a store and wave your hand around and say, “I don’t know what they’re called. Just show me all the shelves.” Well actually, that’s illegal. You don’t have the privilege of viewing shelves of cigarettes anymore, and I’m not Vanna White lifting each cover at your leisure. Knowing what brand you smoke isn’t my job, it’s actually your only job as the customer. I also don’t take kindly to people coming in regularly asking for matches when you only make a $12 purchase here every few months. When I don’t have matches and you whine about how are you supposed to light this, and I suggest buying a lighter, you scoff and say “I won’t be paying for a light” as if it’s reasonable to assume a business will provide you a constant free supply of matches without purchase. It’s not. On top of that, frankly, your manners are shit. I’ve never heard a hello, please, or thank you out your rotten old mouth. When you come in and distastefully ask me if my boss is “dead or something?” while he is actually away attending a funeral, you lost all good graces I had left to give. So again, because you didn’t have the balls to stick around and all I’ve got is the bitch board to retort, fuck you. A big fat fuck you. Now I’m a bitch. —A real bitch
This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2014.
The ordeal would be enough the first time for you to recall exactly what the bastard smokes. Open the drawer. Sell them to him. Done.
damn shoddy way to treat afalklands vet. wait til the night rangers here about this and boycaught your shop.
Who’s Vanna White?
don’t start thisv fucking shit again` asshole. it isn’t about me. the person in uestion is obviously an asshole, or they wouldn’t hassle the o.p.
and o.p., that 12 bucks helps to keep you working and or living, paying your bills, etc.
sure, he or she might get pissed off, but is it something like your tude, that is pushing it?
note to mod, i think you should start culling the herd again, if you got the guts.
i got ‘culled’ ls….there are some strange guidelines obviously. (altho i have been called a cow)
as to the bitch…customer sounds like a rude sonovabitch but since its possible he has dementia, just show him the bloody smokes. how you react to a jerk says more about you than it does about them.
boycaught?
really?
… is David James Leblanc out already?
Seems you both deserve each other. Granted that seems like a rude customer for sure, but you don’t make yourself sound like much of a prize as a store employee either.
Interesting that it is not legal to show a customer a ‘legal’ product for sale these days. Weird. Imagine that happening at the NSLC these days!
Also, it has been years since I smoked so I am not sure what amount of gold dust that matches may actually be going for these days, whereas they were once free just about everywhere.
Perhaps these days they come out of your salary at that store where you work. I can see why you would be crabby about that. I certainly have noticed that the once free matches have mostly, if not totally, vanished as freebie ‘adverts’ from restaurants, hotels, general businesses etc.
I can now understand why more smoke shops have recently vanished from various grocery stores. They must have attracted too many nasty customers and created nasty employees.
Yes OB, you are a bitch.
That’s what you get for working in Fairview!!!!
Hmmm! I would have written the bitch title as “blah blah ….you’re barred.” rather than “blah blah you’re banned.” I usually associate “barred” with being prevented from entering a place and “banned” with prohibition of activities or things. Ex. smoking has been banned in restaurants so if you light up you will be barred from the establishment. “Banning” a person doesn’t sound quite right to my ear. Any thoughts?
Could you please tell me where you work so I can make sure you don’t get any of my business?
Do the store a favour and quit