After reading Smiley's thread today, I'm reminded of an incident with SCs at my job recently.
As I've stated in the past, on weekends, I work in LP at a wholesale club, cashiering the rest of the week. As our club does charge membership, your receipts get checked as you leave the store. Periodically, we'll get people who'll raise a little bit of a stink about the whole thing. One time I had a woman accuse me of checking her receipt more carefully because I was a racist, never mind that she had a much longer receipt than the last four people I'd checked.
Anyway. This particular incident. This couple walks up and try to push straight on past, so I of course stop them.
SH: Sucky Husband
SW: Sucky Wife
J2K: Yours Truly
J2K: "Excuse me, you have your receipt?"
SH: "She does."
*he tries to keep going, so I stop him*
J2K: "I need to check your receipt."
SH: "No you don't."
J2K: :???: "Yes, I do."
SW: *handing over receipt* "It's against the law."
J2K: :???: "Sorry?"
SH: "There's no law in the state of Virginia that says I have to let you check my receipt."
I check their receipt and let them go on their way, a bit irritated that I'm dealing with this sort of nonsense again. All I said was, "Well, feel free to take us to court, then," fairly confident that they won't do so, this being typical SC "wah wah I don't feel like following your rules" jabber.
Usually, the accusation is that we're conducting "illegal search and seizure," which we (my fellow FDLP coworkers and I) always respond by saying the Constitution protects citizens against illegal search and seizure by the government, not private companies.
Sadly, my brain was not fast enough to come up with valid rejoinders for this couple's remark:
"That's right. It also means there's no law stopping me from making you show your receipt."
This whole thing kinda soured my mood for the rest of the day.
As I've stated in the past, on weekends, I work in LP at a wholesale club, cashiering the rest of the week. As our club does charge membership, your receipts get checked as you leave the store. Periodically, we'll get people who'll raise a little bit of a stink about the whole thing. One time I had a woman accuse me of checking her receipt more carefully because I was a racist, never mind that she had a much longer receipt than the last four people I'd checked.
Anyway. This particular incident. This couple walks up and try to push straight on past, so I of course stop them.
SH: Sucky Husband
SW: Sucky Wife
J2K: Yours Truly
J2K: "Excuse me, you have your receipt?"
SH: "She does."
*he tries to keep going, so I stop him*
J2K: "I need to check your receipt."
SH: "No you don't."
J2K: :???: "Yes, I do."
SW: *handing over receipt* "It's against the law."
J2K: :???: "Sorry?"
SH: "There's no law in the state of Virginia that says I have to let you check my receipt."
I check their receipt and let them go on their way, a bit irritated that I'm dealing with this sort of nonsense again. All I said was, "Well, feel free to take us to court, then," fairly confident that they won't do so, this being typical SC "wah wah I don't feel like following your rules" jabber.
Usually, the accusation is that we're conducting "illegal search and seizure," which we (my fellow FDLP coworkers and I) always respond by saying the Constitution protects citizens against illegal search and seizure by the government, not private companies.
Sadly, my brain was not fast enough to come up with valid rejoinders for this couple's remark:
"That's right. It also means there's no law stopping me from making you show your receipt."
This whole thing kinda soured my mood for the rest of the day.
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