I came damn close to snapping at a customer

[Lingering Grin]

I came damn close to snapping a customer in half

FIXED

and ... ewww.....

[Kyree]

Can cashiers get away with/ get in trouble for refusing to ring something up that has someone's slobber all over it? I've worked in the deli so long without a register that I don't know. And when I worked a register I've never had it happen to me.

And to the OP. Ewww After having a bad day, you handled that as well as I would have. Probably better, since I don't think I could have finished the transaction without yelling at her.

[Becks]

Baby slobber IS not the source of peoples' powers.


Well...I hope not.

[Music Mo-Gal]

You may think it's on overreaction, but scroob came here to vent and get some support.

ITA. I always get frustrated when I see one of these threads where someone complains about something a little kid did, and all the moms have to jump in and attack the original poster.

Nobody working retail should have to touch the bodily fluids of another person. Bottom line. I don't care if it's some cyoote widdle kid. It's gross and the OP should not have to put up with that.

[bainsidhe]

I once asked managment if I had to accept wet money. Yeah, I find it gross also. And the answer was, yes I do.

That's when the plastic glove/bag gets involved, but only if you know it's wet beforehand

[malmalthekiller]

hmmm.

I think this borders on overreaction.

Definitely not. It's the same principle as when people hand you trash that they've had their mouths all over, or their dirty tissues and things of that nature.

I don't want to touch your kid's spit.

[Belari]

I dunno if I was allowed to, but when I worked at a family-owned (not my family) convenience store, I used to refuse slobbered on money and coupons. Some adult holding coupons in her mouth while digging through her purse...oh looks like you're paying full price. Someone tries to hand me money straight out of his kid's mouth, sorry but do you have another way to pay for that? I could probably have gotten in trouble for that, but I consider it a health hazard for me to touch someone else's bodily fluids.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

It's too bad that when somebody hands you merchandise or money that's been slobbered on, you can't tell them "We have ways of dealing with people like you" and lick and drool all over their merchandise, bags, money, etc.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right?

[WageSlaveofDoom]

(((((((((((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))) ))))

Dealing with ignorant SCs is rough when you're not close to your breaking point!

Make management buy hand sanitizer/lysol spray and the next time it happens('cause you know it will!) generously apply in sight of EVERYONE, including mom & child...

Also, I'd like to point out that sometimes kids just get into stuff in the second that you aren't watching them... When I was a nanny, I spent about $50 on clothing that came off of the rack as we were passing & into baby's squishy clutches... did I mention he was a drooler? Once I realized it wasn't his bib he was playing with... into the cart it went!

The CSRs were at least sympathetic...

[chinashirtgirl]

Here a lot of cashiers wear little white gloves. Even money that hasn't been noticably drooled on can be full of germs (maybe someone wipes his nose then takes his money out for instance). It seems, after I read this post, to be a good idea. (The gloves, not the nose wiping)