The rudest cashier I ever encountered.

[Anonymous]

I hate this type of posts.

So the guy was weird/creepy/sad/rude.

Get over it.
You have no idea what battle he's facing today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at a supermarket (TJ) and I had the rudest person at the checkout line. And I don't just mean "unfriendly" or "bad manners" or "bad customer service" - I mean, the guy was staring and every single one of his words were dripping with pure hate.

I came up to the line, and right off the bat - he just stared at me with a death face, and said in a mocking voice "And how is your day, just absolutely wonderful I hope." It wasn't what he said, it was the way he said it, dripping with sarcasm. I ignored the attitude, and just said "Good thanks." Then he said, "Great. Oh I'm having a wonderful day, thank you SO much for asking." Again, said with scathing sarcasm and a death stare that creeped me the f*ck out. Then he proceeded to bag my groceries in complete, uncomfortable silence.

In the meantime, I'm running through my head of what I might have done to offend this guy. Was I in the express line? Was his lane closed? No. No. Maybe I'm just imagining his abhorrent attitude?

And then I paid, and when I went to leave, he says with the same evil death stare, and "Well this has been absolutely fun. Let's do it again sometime, shall we? (pause) Say goodbye now (said in a long drawn out way, like you would to a slow person)" At which, I was just stunned. I wish I could put his expression into words, my description just does not do it justice. Dripping with hate and sarcasm. I ignored his attitude, and said bye and left.

I think I was just in such shock and disbelief that an employee would treat me like that - I didn't even respond. I wish I had said something, but still don't know what I should have said.

WWYD??

Paranoid much? Still don't see the menace, the fear, the terror. An evil death stare? You sound like you are doing a review for World Wrestling Federation. He even bagged your groceries for you.

When someone looks at you with unmasked fury and talks to you in such a pissed off way - yeah, it makes you wonder WTH. It is totally unnerving and I can understand why Op was so taken aback that she said NOTHING at the time but wonders about what on earth that was about.

I would first try to figure out if I did something to make the other person react like that towards me. Maybe he was getting ready to go on break and was closing down his line when I steamrolled in. Yeah his reaction would have been over the top. But I could also see why he would have been aggravated by *my* behavior. There would have been a tangible reason for his irritation.

If he just looked at me and got enraged that would be kind of scary.

[Anonymous]

"You have no one to blame for your lot in life except yourself" pretty much applies to all adults, no?

If you don't love your job, do something about it.

If you are in a miserable relationship, do something about it.

If you hate the city/town you live in, do something about it.

Doing something to change your situation is typically a far more effective strategy than playing the victim or berating customers at work.

And just to make this super clear: nobody is pretending to know anything about the rude cashier other than the following:

1. He's a man
2. who is a cashier at TJ's
3. who hates his job (and customers) so much that he's aggressively berating them multiple times
4. So the obvious conclusion based on his own behavior is that he hates his job

And only he is equipped to change his lot in life--ie: his job.

'Na meannnn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate this type of posts.

So the guy was weird/creepy/sad/rude.

Get over it.
You have no idea what battle he's facing today.

+1000
Funny how we put up with rude metro managers and pay a fortune for the priviledge, but a cashier? No way, man!

[Anonymous]

Almost certainly a mentally disabled person, who is going to get sent straight back to a sheltered workshop, which disability advocates are all trying to close, so he will be good and fucked when you report this. Nice job, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He sounds hilarious!

I would have laughed every step of the way and asked if I was on a hidden camera show. If he didn't laugh and loosen up, then I probably would have sunk to his level and said something like:

"Dude, I know it sucks to be a cashier when you are a grown ass man, but you have no one to blame for your lot in life except yourself. And you're damn lucky I feel sorry for you so I won't report this to your boss."

OMG. How patronizing are you? You have no idea what his story is. I had a master's degree when I worked at a bookstore. Sure, he's rude, keep it at that. You sound like a Republican. Gross.

Actually, I'm a bleeding heart liberal who firmly believes that every job is honorable if you do it well. Truly.

But this guy isn't doing his job well. He clearly has a chip on his soldier as evidenced by his completely inappropriate behavior. I most certainly would not pick a fight with anyone--let alone a rude cashier--but like I said before, I would proactively try to play along and diffuse the situation with humor...but would likely say something if he didn't come around. What's wrong with that, pp?

Fwiw: I actually work in the anti-poverty advocacy arena, and I can assure you that you aren't doing anyone a favor by enabling their victimhood. People need to take responsibility for their actions and recognize that they are the only ones capable of improving their situation.

In the real world it's not okay to be an asshole because you have a crummy job or shit going on in your life. Period.

Can you...get a thicker skin and move on from this already?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He sounds hilarious!

I would have laughed every step of the way and asked if I was on a hidden camera show. If he didn't laugh and loosen up, then I probably would have sunk to his level and said something like:

"Dude, I know it sucks to be a cashier when you are a grown ass man, but you have no one to blame for your lot in life except yourself. And you're damn lucky I feel sorry for you so I won't report this to your boss."

OMG. How patronizing are you? You have no idea what his story is. I had a master's degree when I worked at a bookstore. Sure, he's rude, keep it at that. You sound like a Republican. Gross.

Actually, I'm a bleeding heart liberal who firmly believes that every job is honorable if you do it well. Truly.

But this guy isn't doing his job well. He clearly has a chip on his soldier as evidenced by his completely inappropriate behavior. I most certainly would not pick a fight with anyone--let alone a rude cashier--but like I said before, I would proactively try to play along and diffuse the situation with humor...but would likely say something if he didn't come around. What's wrong with that, pp?

Fwiw: I actually work in the anti-poverty advocacy arena, and I can assure you that you aren't doing anyone a favor by enabling their victimhood. People need to take responsibility for their actions and recognize that they are the only ones capable of improving their situation.

In the real world it's not okay to be an asshole because you have a crummy job or shit going on in your life. Period.

Can you...get a thicker skin and move on from this already?

Can you...read the dcum handbook and note that this sort of back and forth is part of the awesomeness that is dcum? How much fun would dcum be if you could only post your opinion once?

PS - If you're reading each and every comment closely enough to *think* you can tell when posts are authored by the same person, then you're doing it wrong. Read the original post, skim the next few posts, then jump to page 9 and post your comment. Easy peasy.