When did cashiers become your personal janitors?

[Despina83]

Everytime I cashier I get people leaving their trash sitting next to the card reader, because they assume that it's my job to throw their garbage out rather than for them hang on to it and find a trash. Or they'll hand it to me and say something like "Can you throw this away"? with NO thank you, unbelievably. Or they'll say "This is trash" or "you can throw this away" and either hand it to you or flick it at you. Nice.

[blas]

People are just way too entitled. Period.

But then again, if you didn't throw it away for them, it would probably end up all over the store, the parking lot, or the shelves.

[tigger222]

I have a lot of people get upset at me when I tell them that that is what the trashcan right outside the door is for and that it is crappy customer service or I am in a hurry. Yeah you are in to much of a hurry to walk the two feet to the trashcan that you will probably pass on your way back to your car.

I do remember one older lady telling me about one time when she was working a beauty pallor and had one snotty spoiled rich girl who was sitting under the dryers look at her and say in a really snotty tone where do I put this and that she wanted to tell her exactly where to put it.

[fireheart]

Most people just ask me "do you have a bin?" but I get people who leave it in the bagging area. I'll throw it away provided that it's food and ONLY food, or a toy or cosmetics that we sell.

[Mouse]

got this last time i worked, woman renting her movies crumbles up what i guess was a flier and just sets it on the counter.

She says to her son "she (meaning me) can throw that away"

I kind of glare at her as she heads out the door

her son, bless him, stares incredulously at her retreating form, looks at me for a second, then picks up the wad and politely asks "would you mind throwing this away please?"

I Smile at him and chearfully tell him of course i can it's no problem and he thanks me and is off.


I have no problem throwing stuff away as long as it's within reason but you had sure as hell better be polite about it!

[Melmo]

What I just 'love' is when people come in the store with a huge handfull of garbage, ask if we have a trash, then just go back out and leave.

Why, I didn't realize my store was a car cleaning service....

[RecoveringKinkoid]

People would hand it to me and usually ask if I could toss it for them, but then there was a big ol honkin' trash can clearly visible right behind me. And I would rather they do that then trash up the store with it.

On the other hand, if it was something nasty, I'd just quicky wheel the thing over so they could toss it themselves. I'm not taking someone's snot rag in my hand. No.

Some of them would actually throw it in over the counter. Again, I didn't mind that too much, it was better than them leaving it lying around. Heck, at least they were trying to dispose of it themselves. They would even apologize if they missed. What was funny was that you kind of had to give it a little power to get it over the counter, so if they missed, it would hit the side of the copy machine, clunk loudly, and fall on the floor. Most of them had the sense to be really embarassed when that happened.

And no, nobody ever hit me while doing that.

[Anakah]

I tell them no. Technically at the casino we're not supposed to take anything through the bars. BUT then they just leave their crap on the counter and walk away, like drinks in glasses that we really don't have any where to throw.

We're not even allowed to throw tissue into the trashes next to us. Our trash gets thrown into a bigger trash can that gets tied off and I assume incinerated.

You shouldn't have to touch their disgusting trash anyway.

[NateTheChops]

Or when they leave their drinks there.

I had a woman come in an hour after she left her iced tea there and tell me, "I'm really thirsty, did you throw my iced tea away?"

No ma'am, I turned it into the lost in found. It might be a little flat after all this time so watch it...

[mcnally817]

Not necessarily about trash,but still janitorial...

I work at a grocery store,and i was walking down the aisle when a man politely asked me where some kind of gravy was. I politely told him what aisle to look in. Not 5 minutes later,my name was called over the loudspeaker to go clean up a gravy spill. Sure enough,it was the same kind of gravy.

[Ill_Used_Heroine]

I hate when people say, "throw this out for me, willya?" and leave like, used tissues or something ... bleah! I always point out the trash can that's 4 feet behind them. Most people will throw out their own trash after that.

That's in the library. When I was a cashier it was different, but I got tired of touching people's rubbish, so I would pick up the trash can and hold it for them to toss in themselves.

[MelodiousBubbles]

Whenever that happens to me, and they just hand it to me without asking me nicely first, I just hand it back, point at the trashcan near the podium no more than 10 feet away and say, "Well, there's a trashcan right over there."
They usually just go throw it away themselves, but some will look at me like I have three heads before doing so

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Not necessarily about trash,but still janitorial...

I work at a grocery store,and i was walking down the aisle when a man politely asked me where some kind of gravy was. I politely told him what aisle to look in. Not 5 minutes later,my name was called over the loudspeaker to go clean up a gravy spill. Sure enough,it was the same kind of gravy.

At least it was that kind of gravy and not stinky ass gravy.

[Mnemjian]

Granted, we don't have a trashcan readily available (it's in the back of the store for some reason) but often you get people saying, "will you throw this away?" and then handing your their ABC gum out of their mouths!! No I will NOT touch your spit gum. And don't throw it on the carpet either (yes it happens ).

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Or they'll hand it to me and say something like "Can you throw this away"? with NO thank you, unbelievably. Or they'll say "This is trash" or "you can throw this away" and either hand it to you or flick it at you. Nice.

At least these people are making an effort to get the trash to the right place.

A really sad and pathetic one, but an effort none the less.

Today, as I was straightening in HBA, I came across somebody's discarded, crusty, bloody booger rag.

I gingerly carried it to the nearest trash can, threw it away, and drenched my hands in hand sanitizer.