Did you really just say that?

[Retail Ninja]

So I work at a tiny little mall shop. Work part time, not too much suck, thank goodness! Until yesterday.

The players: Awesome Assistant Manager (AAM), me, idiot customer (IC), and idiot customers wife (icw).

AAM is checking out ICW in the till, and her husband IC wanders about, ending up behind the till. This is where the suck starts.

Me: *firmly* you can't be back here.
IC: what it's not like I am going to assault* you or anything.
Me: *glare of death*
IC: *sulks off, to ICW* I'll wait outside.
ICW: what did you say to him.
Me: just told him he can't be back here.

After she left AAM turns to me, and asks me what he said. I repeat it, she promptly pulls our cart across to block people from coming back behind the registers.

So yeah. I'd like to thank that customer for making me feel unsafe in my own store.

* he didn't use the word assault. He used the r word but I am trying to be polite.

[bainsidhe]

* he didn't use the word assault. He used the r word but I am trying to be polite.

Some people need a

[Retail Ninja]

I agree with you there. It.... it was skeevy.

[XCashier]

* he didn't use the word assault. He used the r word but I am trying to be polite.

You don't need to censor yourself unless you want to. Some of us cuss like sailors after an awful day at work. And some of the customers are worse. You can post verbatim what was said.

Regardless, IC had no business being behind the till, and he knew it. That's why he said such an awful thing.

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[flyonthewall]

Wow, that's hella weird. I've only had young toddlers do that and when they do, their parents are understanding why we don't want them back there.

[MadMike]

You don't need to censor yourself unless you want to. Some of us cuss like sailors after an awful day at work. And some of the customers are worse. You can post verbatim what was said.

True, although we prefer you don't overdo it, i.e. every other word in your sentence is "fuck." Unless, of course, you're quoting what the sucky customer said.

[RealUnimportant]

I don't think this R word is necessarily impolite, but it can be upsetting. As for the context, it was a bloody stupid thing to say & I hope his car gets hit by every loose shopping cart in every mall car park for the rest of his days.

[gerund]

I agree with you there. It.... it was skeevy.

It is always skeevy and repulsive and sickening.

I worked at a company where we went overseas to a very primitive country where the native women often still wear their native dress. One pig of a man who had worked in that country for years was looking at a photograph of native women lined up and he said:-

[Country] "is the only place in the world where you don't think of raping the women because they are so ugly." This was in front of 3 or 4 women who worked there and about 5 other men.

There was a shocked silence. I think that all of us didn't know what to say to this man. He was older than all of us and he should have known better, but he didn't. The worst thing was that I reported it to the owner of the company along with the comment from one of the women there, that she would not work overtime with that man in the building as she would not be left alone with him.

That owner did nothing about it. Soon after that I left that company. That man's continued employment there was one of the reasons I left.

[Rosco the Iroc]

Some people have no sense of bounds. Even when I go back to a old store I used to work at and know the people there, I don't just go busting behind the counter.

[sirwired]

I'd ask for your manager's permission to lower the banhammer if he comes in again and says anything so skeevy/creepy.

[Monterey Jack]

Anyone who uses the term "rape" in casual conversation is an asshole.

[taxguykarl]

No kidding, this SC deserves a ban.

BTW, someone inform Lord Helmet that his deserter has been spotted.

[Rosco the Iroc]

Anyone who uses the term "rape" in casual conversation is an asshole.

What about 40lb of it.

[Trixie]

We have a door to block off the sales floor from the registers, well, more like a half door but it opens out into the floor instead of behind the counter so we leave it open because there's really no room to move when it swings open. The only one that come behind the counter are overactive children and old people who don't look where they're going. They usually realize their mistake and move on out.

[Retail Ninja]

To the people who said he should be banned, I agree. However not likely going to happen. My manager and I were talking about the situation, and the manager finally heard what the guy said to us!

Me: did you hear about what happened Sunday?
Manager: *teasing* yeah heard you were about to beat up a guy for coming behind the register.
Me: did AAM tell you what he said to us?
Manager: no.
Me: *tells him*
Manager: what a douchebag!

And then I found out we have to be really careful about banning people.
He ever comes into my store again, and I am alone? I am calling security.

It's retail and not worth getting attacked over....