Just...wow

[pageantmama]

I was looking through posts in a forum and someone made a post about being a retail worker. She put things like be respectful to me and I will respect you, don't be a known shoplifter and expect cash for a "gift" return, how she will go above and beyond to help you if you are nice to her but if you come at her yelling then the answer is NO. A lot of people posted how she is just bitter and they hope they don't have to deal with her, which are of course the people she is talking about, lol. Others that have actually worked retail sympathized with her. This response just really got to me though, and there are actually people that replied to this agreeing. I am sad for society How does this person expect to ever shop if everyone that works as a cashier got a more "respectable" job, lol.



"If you work in retail, i assume you make minimum wage and are on food stamps. If you are my cashier, it is your job to respect me, it is not mine to respect you. Again, i assume you are poor and worthless. Get a respectable job and i will respect you. Until then, STFU and take my return or check me out, I have better things to do then waste any more time then i absolutely have to with your kind. "

[cashierbex]

Sad people don't believe that respect goes both ways.

[Zellie Crescent]

It's those people that I seriously hope have to work those jobs 1 way or another, and get twice the attitude so hopefully they'll see the light.

[42_42_42]

Part of me wants to believe that that response was just someone being a troll. The cynical part of me, which is the by far larger part, knows that there really are entitle asshats like that out there.

[bainsidhe]

Ugh, these types of attitudes make me so angry and sad. I've seen similar comments on other boards where someone complains about a store and cashier and brags how they behaved like an ass when the store refused to do something, like take a coupon. Of course they get a lot of congrats and pats on the back for their bad behavior. And then when someone very politely points out there's another side to the story and that the OP was acting rude, they get a lot of flack for "being a sellout" or they get told "Well, I'd never want you as my cashier"!

[Mytical]

Respect (to me) is earned not given. I always treat people better then I want to be treated, but I don't automatically respect anybody. Especially people who think all cashiers are on welfare and foodstamps. Hey, if everybody left cashiering for a 'real job' (by this persons definition of such) wonder how they would be checked out / etc.

[Amanita]

Wow indeed. I really hope that person was a troll. People that hateful and entitled need to be caged..Or perhaps to lose their "respectable job" and have to work retail, because nobody else is hiring, and it's that or go hungry.

I've lost count of the number of people I've met working security, who are either putting themselves through school, or who have worked successful jobs, retired, and are now doing the job for something to do, and supplement pensions.

[Marmalady]

Well you know what they say, what goes around comes around. Given the breadth and depth of the recession, these people may well find that the job they're sneering at today is the one they themselves will be doing six months down the line. Working in a department store wasn't ever on my list of dream jobs, but it pays the bills and puts food on the table.

[RealUnimportant]

I moved from an office to retail, and my wife's just done the same, and despite the odd SC and EW we're both SO much happier. "Real jobs"? You can keep 'em!

[Dr.Diarrhea]

I moved from an office to retail, and my wife's just done the same, and despite the odd SC and EW we're both SO much happier. "Real jobs"? You can keep 'em!

I feel the same way... I did the corporate office thing for years. It's what is known as "cubicle death". It did pay well, but it also gave me high blood pressure and that in turn finally put me in the hospital. It was miserable. Got a job in retail (district level) and LOOOOVVVVE IT!!!

Terrible customers are easier to deal with than the folks you meet in the corporate world. Trust me! And I have never had so many nice co workers as I have in the stores..retail folks are awesome.

[Gizmo]

I hate this - its totally become Customers Revenge around here and a lot of places seem to advocate making the cashiers life hell just to get to the companies behind them who are 'profit making, laughing all the way to the bank, customer hating organisations'. Every time a price goes up or a policy changes its like the companies are only doing it to spite them! I don't think a lot of SCs think stuff through and realise if the company stop being profitable a lot of people can lose their jobs and it might impact on what those people can buy from the SCs workplace etc.

You can still get your way (as long as it fits with company policy and a load of other caveats) while being perfectly polite to the staff involved!

[PepperElf]

"If you work in retail, i assume you make minimum wage and are on food stamps. If you are my cashier, it is your job to respect me, it is not mine to respect you. Again, i assume you are poor and worthless. Get a respectable job and i will respect you. Until then, STFU and take my return or check me out, I have better things to do then waste any more time then i absolutely have to with your kind. "

Since when has returning stolen goods for cash turned into a "real job"?

And... is it bad that I say "fine, be like that. by the way you think you're too good for us, you must not want to shop here. bye bye"

[Brojekk]

Well it pays the bills and puts food on the table.

I use that line quite often.

[Zoom]

Cashier != minimum wage;
poor != worthless;
assholes != respected.

[EricKei]

Respect (to me) is earned not given. I always treat people better then I want to be treated, but I don't automatically respect anybody.

Same here. When I was a child, acted as a child and respected as a child -- growing up in the Deep South, that meant "If they're older than you, their name is 'Sir/'Ma'am'. Anything less is assumed to be an intentional insult. This goes double for family members, even if they're assholes. Especially if they're assholes." .... When I became a man, I grew the hell up and started thinking for myself

I give people the benefit of the doubt, I treat customers and strangers with common courtesy...but Respect-with-a-capital-R must be earned, family or no.