This happened toward the end of my shift. I had been on register for 4 hours (so my back was not good--ironically moving/lifting fixes it), had my intelligence insulted a number of times (predictably, the SC was always in the wrong) and had finally been allowed to finish the project J gave me a week ago (every previous time I tried to finish it, AssMan didn't believe someone had given me something to do).
I'm in the (employee only) back hallway wrestling with a bundle of bags. My back is to the salesfloor so I don't see this guy. I do hear someone going "Hello, hello, HELLO!" but as I can't see him I assume he's talking to someone else (there are presently 4 coworkers out on the floor that one can ask for help, where I am is not visible from the floor unless you're trespassing into a prep/staging area). Then as I finally get a grip on the bags and start to turn around I see someone moving toward me...not a CW. I step back, still holding the bags in front of me. Big guy wearing an Uber shirt (UA) is glaring at me and I'm momentarily cornered in the returns/bag area.
Me: "This is an employee area and you need to leave NOW. If you want something there are employees on the salesfloor five feet behind you."
UA: "Can you hear me? Do you speak? Where is--?" (his accent was extremely thick and he was mumbling to boot, so it took me about two seconds to parse that he actually meant "bathroom")
Me: "BACK of the store past the meat department through the double doors. Leave this area now."
UA as he's walking off: "You are stupid. You not mute, answer me!"
Me: "ExCUSE me, what?!"
J: "ExCUSE me, what did you say to her?" I thought he was going to chase UA down and smack him.
I wait until he's out of sight and then tell S, whose jaw hit the floor.
UA later passes me as he's leaving (not buying anything, as J was on register then), I'm on SCO and so have to be by the door.
UA: "You know, you can be nice if you want to. Show some respect for the men." (yes, he went there )
Me: "You know, respect goes both ways."
J commented that technically our bathroom is for customers only...as in, people who actually buy stuff. K had been hoping that UA had some kind of ID on him...classy, a driver treating other service workers like dirt.
I'm in the (employee only) back hallway wrestling with a bundle of bags. My back is to the salesfloor so I don't see this guy. I do hear someone going "Hello, hello, HELLO!" but as I can't see him I assume he's talking to someone else (there are presently 4 coworkers out on the floor that one can ask for help, where I am is not visible from the floor unless you're trespassing into a prep/staging area). Then as I finally get a grip on the bags and start to turn around I see someone moving toward me...not a CW. I step back, still holding the bags in front of me. Big guy wearing an Uber shirt (UA) is glaring at me and I'm momentarily cornered in the returns/bag area.
Me: "This is an employee area and you need to leave NOW. If you want something there are employees on the salesfloor five feet behind you."
UA: "Can you hear me? Do you speak? Where is--?" (his accent was extremely thick and he was mumbling to boot, so it took me about two seconds to parse that he actually meant "bathroom")
Me: "BACK of the store past the meat department through the double doors. Leave this area now."
UA as he's walking off: "You are stupid. You not mute, answer me!"
Me: "ExCUSE me, what?!"
J: "ExCUSE me, what did you say to her?" I thought he was going to chase UA down and smack him.
I wait until he's out of sight and then tell S, whose jaw hit the floor.
UA later passes me as he's leaving (not buying anything, as J was on register then), I'm on SCO and so have to be by the door.
UA: "You know, you can be nice if you want to. Show some respect for the men." (yes, he went there )
Me: "You know, respect goes both ways."
J commented that technically our bathroom is for customers only...as in, people who actually buy stuff. K had been hoping that UA had some kind of ID on him...classy, a driver treating other service workers like dirt.
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