The rudest cashier I ever encountered.

[Anonymous]

And, if he does react violently later - won't you feel shitty when you could have taken 5 minutes out of your day to say something. But, didn't for fear of looking silly.

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Anonymous wrote:You should have called him on his behavior and attitude right then and there.

I was a waitress in NYC and one day I had a nasty attitude and a customer told me right then that she wasn't in the mood for my shit and to cut it out or give her table to another server. I immediately apologized and still remember her some thirty years later.

God, I miss NYC. No one gets away with a crap attitude in that city.

+10000

No comparison. None. I think people here tend to think their "attitude" reigns supreme, but this area looks like a bunch of whiny pussies in comparison. D.C. does not do "NYC" right, and never will.

Why should it, and why should it ever? DC is not NYC. It's not, and it never will be. Comparing the two makes no sense. Why do you do it?

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Anonymous wrote:He sounds psycho.

Yes. Mentally ill. I'd talk to the manager though. Something's up.

Same here. I'm pretty forgiving of retail workers who may just be having a bad day, but this is something else.

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Anonymous wrote:I would just forget about it. It wasn't about YOU. He would have been like that to anyone next in the line. And he probably was. He probably had the worst day ever, wanted to quit that very second (akin to the flight attendant who quit by grabbing some beer bottles, cursing up a storm, and sliding down the emergency chute... remember him?). You were just the unlucky victim. Retail jobs are hard. They are. They suck. That's the honest truth.

Shake it off.

Yes. Don't make it about you. And you are upset that he treated you, a customer that way. . .let it go. How would you feel if you were bagging groceries, having a shitty day?

No, sorry. I worked as a cocktail server/waitress/bartender throughout my twenties and that is HARD work - but I never treated anyone the way this cashier treated OP. I went through all sorts of life events but, as a member of the service industry, had to suck it up and provide good service. On my worst days I was mechanical/ unsmiley, never intentionally creepy like this guy. He has serious issues.

"No, sorry"? I worked in retail too. The guy was having a horrible day. He did not suck it up. He reacted differently than you did on your worst days, because he is not YOU.

OP needs to get over it and move on. She was buying some food, he was ringing it up. He was in a pissy mood. She interpreted it as creepy, because she's used to friendly clerks at TJs. Story over.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, please, people. He had a bad day. He wanted to get the hell out of there. Maybe he was working off shift. The problem with retail is the customers never stop. There's an endless stream of them and they are mostly assholes who don't even put down their phone when they go through the line. The guy had had it for the day. Yes, what he did was inappropriate and rude, but I hardly think it warrants the kind of alarm that people have here.

Nope. Not acknowledging a customer or not saying "thank you" is having a bad day. Being oddly confrontational is a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I would just forget about it. It wasn't about YOU. He would have been like that to anyone next in the line. And he probably was. He probably had the worst day ever, wanted to quit that very second (akin to the flight attendant who quit by grabbing some beer bottles, cursing up a storm, and sliding down the emergency chute... remember him?). You were just the unlucky victim. Retail jobs are hard. They are. They suck. That's the honest truth.

Shake it off.

Yes. Don't make it about you. And you are upset that he treated you, a customer that way. . .let it go. How would you feel if you were bagging groceries, having a shitty day?

No, sorry. I worked as a cocktail server/waitress/bartender throughout my twenties and that is HARD work - but I never treated anyone the way this cashier treated OP. I went through all sorts of life events but, as a member of the service industry, had to suck it up and provide good service. On my worst days I was mechanical/ unsmiley, never intentionally creepy like this guy. He has serious issues.

"No, sorry"? I worked in retail too. The guy was having a horrible day. He did not suck it up. He reacted differently than you did on your worst days, because he is not YOU.

OP needs to get over it and move on. She was buying some food, he was ringing it up. He was in a pissy mood. She interpreted it as creepy, because she's used to friendly clerks at TJs. Story over.

I'm beginning to think you're unhinged.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, please, people. He had a bad day. He wanted to get the hell out of there. Maybe he was working off shift. The problem with retail is the customers never stop. There's an endless stream of them and they are mostly assholes who don't even put down their phone when they go through the line. The guy had had it for the day. Yes, what he did was inappropriate and rude, but I hardly think it warrants the kind of alarm that people have here.

Nope. Not acknowledging a customer or not saying "thank you" is having a bad day. Being oddly confrontational is a problem.

+1 I worked a lot of retail/restaurant type jobs and I worked as an office CSR. This guy's behavior was completely out of line.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would just forget about it. It wasn't about YOU. He would have been like that to anyone next in the line. And he probably was. He probably had the worst day ever, wanted to quit that very second (akin to the flight attendant who quit by grabbing some beer bottles, cursing up a storm, and sliding down the emergency chute... remember him?). You were just the unlucky victim. Retail jobs are hard. They are. They suck. That's the honest truth.

Shake it off.

Yes. Don't make it about you. And you are upset that he treated you, a customer that way. . .let it go. How would you feel if you were bagging groceries, having a shitty day?

No, sorry. I worked as a cocktail server/waitress/bartender throughout my twenties and that is HARD work - but I never treated anyone the way this cashier treated OP. I went through all sorts of life events but, as a member of the service industry, had to suck it up and provide good service. On my worst days I was mechanical/ unsmiley, never intentionally creepy like this guy. He has serious issues.

"No, sorry"? I worked in retail too. The guy was having a horrible day. He did not suck it up. He reacted differently than you did on your worst days, because he is not YOU.

OP needs to get over it and move on. She was buying some food, he was ringing it up. He was in a pissy mood. She interpreted it as creepy, because she's used to friendly clerks at TJs. Story over.

I'm beginning to think you're unhinged.

Maybe I am. Better watch out. Something violent and awful is going to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:He's a cashier earning minimum wage in an expensive zip code. You are really asking a bit much, OP.

+1. The pearl clutchers here really blow me away. Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:He's a cashier earning minimum wage in an expensive zip code. You are really asking a bit much, OP.

+1. The pearl clutchers here really blow me away. Get over it.

There are tons of retail workers all over the area who go into work everyday and treat customers professionally. In fact, their customer service skills are often a lot better than the interpersonal skills of higher skilled, higher paid employees elsewhere.

Do not paint retail workers with a brush like that. So not fair.

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Anonymous wrote:He's a cashier earning minimum wage in an expensive zip code. You are really asking a bit much, OP.

+1. The pearl clutchers here really blow me away. Get over it.

There are tons of retail workers all over the area who go into work everyday and treat customers professionally. In fact, their customer service skills are often a lot better than the interpersonal skills of higher skilled, higher paid employees elsewhere.

Do not paint retail workers with a brush like that. So not fair.

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Hand honestly, OP, your description of his behavior is making me sick to my stomach. That's how my bipolar brother used to present as he skidded into a depressive state. Yuck, yuck, yuck - this brings up all sorts of bad memories. Please call his manager. "He was saying all the right words, but his tone and actions were menacing. I didn't feel safe."

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:He's a cashier earning minimum wage in an expensive zip code. You are really asking a bit much, OP.

+1. The pearl clutchers here really blow me away. Get over it.

There are tons of retail workers all over the area who go into work everyday and treat customers professionally. In fact, their customer service skills are often a lot better than the interpersonal skills of higher skilled, higher paid employees elsewhere.

Do not paint retail workers with a brush like that. So not fair.

You quoted me. Indeed, what you say is true. But this guy was not one of those. Because there are so many great retail people out there, this jerk really stood out to OP. And that was all there was to it. He was a rude asshole. There are rude assholes in life. She encountered one of them. The end.

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Are you usually this thin-skinned? I thought you were going to say that he cursed at you or crushed your eggs.

If he did that, it would have been much less disturbing. This encounter seriously gave me the chills - just imagine a stare of pure hate, again, hard to describe in words.

You should really call the store manager. This is scary and totally uncalled for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's a cashier earning minimum wage in an expensive zip code. You are really asking a bit much, OP.

Nothing justifies a person threatening or intimidating anyone, anywhere, ever.

[Anonymous]

It's not acceptable behavior. Report it. If I were store manager, I'd want to know.