Assumptions, I love assumptions, assholes all around!

[ShinyGreenApple]

It's Monday. We've just opened, this is my FIRST customer interaction of the day. Old man asks me if we have wrists braces. I tell him yes, and that they can be found on the other side of the diabetic aisle.

OM: "I'm not diabetic!"

"I realize that, but I was only saying that those are located on the other side of this aisle with the diabetic stuff --"

OM: "Look, look. Slow down, you're going too fast. I can't process this."

Okay . . . so I explain . . . slower? Where the wrist braces are located. Once again he pretty much tells me to shut up and slow down.

"I know you don't give a damn, but I need you to help me."

Excuse me? At this point my manager came out and helped him because he's learned to sense when I've had enough. What the fuck ever, you old asshole. I don't know what the hell he wanted me to do, but assuming I don't give a damn? Yeah, I draw the line there. If I didn't give a damn, I would have just turned off my alarm and not shown up for work this morning. If I didn't give a damn, I would have not reminded boss that it was 9 o clock and time to roll the gates up so I could start waiting on people. I actually came in in a pretty great mood today and I do care, but you're sending me well on my way to not giving a damn about you. In fact, I hope you spend Christmas day all alone and open the fridge to find that all your food has gone rancid, and that your vehicle won't start when you try to go to the store.

I'm really just sick and tired to death of asshole people who think I don't give a shit just because I'm younger than they are.

[Lady_Pigeon]

[aurelemsrealm]

My give a damn is busted. You can't help those who don't help themselves.

[thehuckster]

I had an old man who asked where a certain item was, and I gestured toward the aisle, and he screamed at me for "rudely pointing." Some people just look for stuff to yell about.

[ShinyGreenApple]

What I especially love is when I'm the only cashier and I have a huge line of people pouring out into the main aisle and someone comes to the counter to see if I can come help them find something on the shelf.

"I don't want to get it myself, I want you to get it for me!"

Well, thanks for being honest, but the ten people waiting in line won't like it. they get REALLY pissed when I say to give me a moment and I'll get someone else for them.

"I don't HAVE all day!"

[Ezio]

I love the people who ask for help looking for an item without looking for themselves first.

I know the store is big, but if the first thing you do upon entering the store is ask me where the cereal is (we have huge signs over the aisles telling you whats there, heck, we even have MAPS of the whole ding dang store.), I will feel less inclined to help you.

Your SC was a complete and total douche bag. What is it with alot of older/elderly people getting super bitchy if things are don't how they like it and at the speed they like it?

[depechemodefan]

I guess part of his thought processing was "I'm not diabetic so I don't know wher the diabetic aisle is!" even though you meant "see that sign that says diabetic? other side of that." Though that might be too logical for the old man. He probably go into a Grandpa Simpson rant: I'm not diabetic! Back in the old days people with diabetes called it short palls. Not to be confused with short malls, where peopple would turn blue because the taxes went up. So we all went to Washington to protest. There I met the man who invented sporks, but back then we called the "slurteres".

[cashierbex]

I don't mind telling people where stuff is when they first come in. I hate being a personal shopper. Also, if I am in the middle of a conversation with a customer or on the phone, seriously do not interupt.

[Merriweather]

Sorry, our store does not allow us to be personal shoppers as they consider us their exclusive property, and our ability to transport you to the correct location is not available today, so you'll have to manage to find it by either listening to my detailed directions, or by walking in the direction I am pointing. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[PepperElf]

indeed... it's as if people like that think "I'm the CUSTOMER" means that the other CUSTOMERS are not actually customers but people who don't even exist

[An Haddock]

I had an old man who asked where a certain item was, and I gestured toward the aisle, and he screamed at me for "rudely pointing." Some people just look for stuff to yell about.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Two separate Grandpa Simpson references in one thread!

[emax4]

Geez, I'd bet they'd start walking if you offered to drag them by their feet to the right aisle...

[ComputerNecromancer]

I had an old man who asked where a certain item was, and I gestured toward the aisle, and he screamed at me for "rudely pointing." Some people just look for stuff to yell about.

There are cultures where pointing with one finger is a *major* insult. right up there with flipping someone the bird.

And that's why you see things like air folks point with their entire *hand* during the safety lectures.

[aurelemsrealm]

You read my mind. That picture was the first thing to come to mind in reading this thread.