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[pauraque_bk]

The antibiotics are doing wonders for my throat, but now I'm back in full blown cold symptoms again, really severe congestion and all that. I think I would have been okay if I'd been able to take time off work, but well... I can't.

At work I was being very quiet and substituting nods and gestures for when I might otherwise say something. Nobody noticed except one freakazoid customer who gave me this move after I rang her up:

her: "Can I say something to you?" <---- NEVER GOOD
me: "Yeah?"
her: "When you rang me up you didn't say thank you, as a person working in a store you should always do that." [instead I had nodded to her pleasantly]
me: [suppressing rage] "I have a bad sore throat and it hurts to talk, so I'm not talking when not needed. I'm sorry if that offended you."
her: "Oh, I didn't know you were sick."

So she somehow missed the incessant coughing and the fact that when I did speak, I sounded like I was being strangled with sandpaper. Very nice.

And you know really, even if I weren't sick? She's still the jerk in the situation for saying something clearly intended to belittle the poor schmuck at the cash register. Didn't say "thank you"? You need to mention this? Why? In what world would it *improve* the outlook of the person you say it to?

People who say things that can only conceivably cause negative responses... they epically fail.

Comments

[kaptainsnot.livejournal.com]

So the lady thought she was doing you a favor by pointing out your failures as a cashier, going out of her way to tell you so when you weren't even being actively rude. Wow.

You sure you aren't wearing a sign of some sort? Christ.
Get as much rest as you can -- I'm glad to hear the meds are working!

[pauraque]

I really didn't do anything weird to her! I would admit it if I did. Though I didn't look up to see if there was a neon sign going like BE A TURD TO ME or something.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I've had customers ask me if I didn't think I was a bit fat to be selling medication. I just can't understand why people suddenly leave their manners at the door when they step into a shop - living in a small town, I meet most of my regular customers outside work, and about half of the bad customers are perfectly nice people when not being customers. The other half are foul all the time, which makes more sense to me!

[pauraque]

Wow, that's vile. My best guess is that people feel they're in a position of control because the employee "can't say anything back", and let their superiority complex run wild.

Woe betide the customer who tries this on my loony boss. If they think she won't say anything back, they find out they are very mistaken. :)

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a power trip - I'm actually a dispensary technician/computer maintenance person but work on the tills as well when needed, and no-one ever says anything like that to me when I'm handling their medication! But someone at a check-out must obviously be put in their place. It's really despicable.

I think every customer might need a dose of your loony boss on occasion, just to keep them on their toes!

[pauraque]

True, people do assume someone at the register is someone they can talk down to. I am certainly treated differently when introduced as the manager who is going to decide whether they can return something. :P

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

This is why I am probably exceedingly polite to cashiers, people who wait on tables and everyone else that probably gets shit on by jerks like her.

She's right up there with people who ask for refunds on free seminars because they feel they're entitled to getting SOMETHING because they are super special.

I wish you could take the time off to get well too. Stupid lack of employees.