Bizarre grocery store experience

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not the employee's fault that the self-checkout doesn't work, OP. The good employees know to respond constructively to any client needs, but perhaps this one does not have the mental or emotional bandwidth to do that. Perhaps it was a bad day, perhaps she's always like that. Who knows? You can notify management, of course.

I choose to be lenient with employees who earn less than I do.

Why do I feel like OP took a less-than-decent attitude with the poor clerk, over her issue with the automated teller?

Don’t look here for validation, OP.

Go home, look in the mirror, and ask yourself how you can make yourself a better, kinder, person?

OP here. I’m not looking for validation. I sort of feel bad. I couldn’t believe it when she just left!

Ah - ok. Thanks; that changes things.

No way of knowing what’s going on in her life.

My partner had an experience somewhat related;

she went to yoga. Then someone new showed up late to the class, really upset about traffic and her navigation app. A few minutes into the class, she couldn’t hold it together, started crying, and left.

I mean, everyone felt bad for her, but things happen to people.

Traffic and navigation apps are highly frustrating.

Topping it off with yoga, an exercise that makes tons of people sob like babies for some unknown reason, was too overwhelming for her. There is something about stretching that starts the water works whether you like it or not. She should have stayed and cried it all out, her body needed that release.

[Anonymous]

I see no shame in talking to the manager. How hard is it to help people at the self checkout? The stores need to do a better job training their employees on basic skills of the job and employees need to do their job. Otherwise, people complain, go elsewhere, and rightly so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not the employee's fault that the self-checkout doesn't work, OP. The good employees know to respond constructively to any client needs, but perhaps this one does not have the mental or emotional bandwidth to do that. Perhaps it was a bad day, perhaps she's always like that. Who knows? You can notify management, of course.

I choose to be lenient with employees who earn less than I do.

Why do I feel like OP took a less-than-decent attitude with the poor clerk, over her issue with the automated teller?

Don’t look here for validation, OP.

Go home, look in the mirror, and ask yourself how you can make yourself a better, kinder, person?

By avoiding you. Can you print out this post and pin it to your coat? It’s kind to inform people who they’re dealing with.

I’m curious. Literally everyone, even people on food stamps, even homeless people who find a $5, shop at the grocery store. Why should a grocery store employee be allowed to act poorly just because they are making only $15 an hour? I don’t understand this mindset, but I’m feeing open minded. Can you explain?

If you can’t put these puzzle pieces together, no one can explain it to you. I wish people like you could live in extreme poverty for at least a month. It’s the only way you’d ever get it.

So, are you saying that the generally grossly underpaid childcare and nursing home workers should be able to act unkindly and unprofessionally at their jobs because of the low pay?

All of these people deserve to be paid much more.
Conflating a cashier who may have been rude to Karen with someone abusing children or the elderly is a false equivalence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Huh?? Need more details. And why did you share this with your boss?

Better yet, why share it here? No one cares, OP! Stop being such a main character.

Why are you even commenting? Nobody cares about your opinion.

But we all care, deeply, that OP did a routine errand that was less fun than usual.

[Anonymous]

OP, this might sound like a weird question but are you this person worked there?

I ask because both my husband and I have had 'customers' engage with us while we were out shopping and for some reason they thought we worked at the place. So at this point rather than repeatedly tell them we are not employees, we do things like smirk at them... walk away etc. It's really funny to watch people flip out. If they actually ask 'do you work here' we answer normally and move on, but otherwise, we become actors. A few times managers have been brought over to give us a lecture and then they have had to tell the person we don't work there.

I feel a new acting role coming on though... it sounds like fun to arrive late to a yoga class, all stressed, then profoundly start to lose your sh!t to the point that you cry and leave. I mean it would be hilarious to watch but it would be really freeing to act out.