I cannot count the number of times than an SC wants to drag me into their tantrums.
The most recent time, I was in Target buying hangers, I think. It was late night on a slow night (like a Wednesday) so there weren't a lot of cashiers. There were 2 cashiers (one was obviously new) and a customer service person cashing people out. I had been in new girls line for a couple of minutes, nothing ridiculous when she began having some trouble. she called over the supervisor and they were trying to work through the issue. They paged ANOTHER supervisor over to try and get it fixed. It had only been a couple of minutes when the guy in front of me (and next in line) began having a fit. He starts *loudly* talking about how lazy the cashiers are, and that look, 3 of them are just hanging out and talking. I was content to ignore him, but he started trying to get me join in his fit. I finally told him that only an idiot would be unable to tell that there was an issue with the computer, and only a dumbass would think that the 3 people frantically trying to fix it were "hanging out talking" and if he couldn't wait, maybe he should get into another lane. They had apologized a group of times for the wait and it really wasn't that long. At least he shut up.
Another time, In walmart, some lady by the entrance was screaming at the greeter because her orange juice was in the bottom of the cart and started leaking. she tried to get me to agree that the baggers were stupid and didn't know what they were doing. In her case, I just looked at her and said "Walmart doesn't have baggers. You load the cart yourself as the items are bagged. I would assume you created your own problem". She screamed some nonsense at me that I can't remember, but my daughter was with me, at the time she was only 3 or 4, and my daughter said, like really loud, "What is WRONG with that lady? She is so MEAN". Which effectively shut the woman up.
Why do people think that everyone is as nasty and entitled as they are? If I don't have time to wait in a slower line, then I'll move lanes. I've never felt the urge to try and get a random stranger to agree that employees are inept. If I really feel they are inept, I'll pull a manager aside to voice my concerns.
The most recent time, I was in Target buying hangers, I think. It was late night on a slow night (like a Wednesday) so there weren't a lot of cashiers. There were 2 cashiers (one was obviously new) and a customer service person cashing people out. I had been in new girls line for a couple of minutes, nothing ridiculous when she began having some trouble. she called over the supervisor and they were trying to work through the issue. They paged ANOTHER supervisor over to try and get it fixed. It had only been a couple of minutes when the guy in front of me (and next in line) began having a fit. He starts *loudly* talking about how lazy the cashiers are, and that look, 3 of them are just hanging out and talking. I was content to ignore him, but he started trying to get me join in his fit. I finally told him that only an idiot would be unable to tell that there was an issue with the computer, and only a dumbass would think that the 3 people frantically trying to fix it were "hanging out talking" and if he couldn't wait, maybe he should get into another lane. They had apologized a group of times for the wait and it really wasn't that long. At least he shut up.
Another time, In walmart, some lady by the entrance was screaming at the greeter because her orange juice was in the bottom of the cart and started leaking. she tried to get me to agree that the baggers were stupid and didn't know what they were doing. In her case, I just looked at her and said "Walmart doesn't have baggers. You load the cart yourself as the items are bagged. I would assume you created your own problem". She screamed some nonsense at me that I can't remember, but my daughter was with me, at the time she was only 3 or 4, and my daughter said, like really loud, "What is WRONG with that lady? She is so MEAN". Which effectively shut the woman up.
Why do people think that everyone is as nasty and entitled as they are? If I don't have time to wait in a slower line, then I'll move lanes. I've never felt the urge to try and get a random stranger to agree that employees are inept. If I really feel they are inept, I'll pull a manager aside to voice my concerns.
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