A Twist on a Tired Joke

[Dave1982]

I don't need to explain how annoying the jokes to cashiers are. "You look bored" being a good example.

Today, just as I was walking into the supermarket and getting a carriage, someone standing in the express lanes suddenly shouted "NUMBER 1 IS OPEN AND SHE'S BORED!!!!!"

Wow, way to go asshole. Take a tired, cliché joke and make it ten times worse by yelling it so loud half the store can hear it.

[ThirdGenRetail]

Oh man, I hate that joke, and "You look lonely" and "You look like you need something to do!." I'm always telling my mother NOT to crack those jokes, because cashiers tend to find them VERY annoying.

[ExArtShopSlave]

Ugh! As an ex cashier, I can honestly say that joke isn't even funny the first time you hear it. That and "Oh it must be free! Hurr hurr hurr!" when an item doesn't scan.

ExArtShopSlave

[Food Lady]

The whole "you look bored" thing is offensive because it implies all I have to do is stand there, when really I try to get as much done in a shift as possible. It discounts all my hard work, and I will literally say something like, "I have too much to do to be bored."

[dragon_wings]

Today I stood at my register for like 15 minutes watching a customer in one of the isles in my view (that's another story all together). But even though I was standing there watching the one customer in the isle I was ringing up customers, answering questions, answering the phone. Just cause I'm standing in one place for more then a few minutes without an obvious reason doesn't mean I'm not doing anything.

[Ironclad Alibi]

"They also serve who only stand and waite." - from On His Blindness by John Milton (1608-74)