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Well, it's me again, here in grocery store purgatory. There have been a lot of stories that have happened but I haven't shared yet, but here goes!
If one more person starts glaring at you, you'll burst into flames
Today I was working the express lane, and a woman who spoke very little English comes through my line. She got $16.75 worth of produce. She argued about a lot of things that I had to make out through mime gestures and an unintelligible accent.
After all that, I had a huge line. And then she got a plastic baggie out of her purse, and proceeded to pay me $16.75....all in change.
And she kept mistaking nickels for quarters and even tried to give me Vietnamese money! Everyone in line was glaring at her and I was trying not to scream. Finally she left.
What is this logic you speak of?
A woman comes through my line and buys a piece of cake. (It's packaged, this will be important in a minute.)
She comes storming back claming I have 'contaminated' her piece of cake, showing me a hair on the cake and demanding a free one.
'Ma'am, I didn't even open your cake, it was sealed.'
'You're lying! You go get me a new piece of cake!'
I decide to pull out the big guns.
'Ma'am, the color of hair in the cake is brown.'
'So?!'
'What color is my hair?'
She sputters for a minute and leaves. Her hair? Brown. My hair? Red.
Dumbest. Scam. Ever.
Please, for the sake of my sanity, just write your congressman.
DISCLAIMER TIME! I have no issues with people on food stamps. I have friends who recieve government aid, I'm glad it's there for people who need an extra hand. However, it does not cover everything in the store, and most people know this. These people chose to scream at me for something beyond my control, and that is the purpose of this rant. I'm blaming the people, not the system.
Are we clear? Good. Okay, here we go:
Two women come in with a huge basket of items, to the point where it's overflowing and heavy enough to break a wheel. This is very common where I work, business as usual. Both of them are on cell phones, having loud moronic conversations with a complete lack of grammar and tact. Sadly, also business as usual.
I start checking them through, offer them our sale item (which they both ignore), and among the items are:
-Diapers
-Toilet Paper
-Tampons
-Hot Chicken frpm the Deli
-Mashed Potatoes from the Deli
-Dog Food
Those items are not eligible for food stamps where I work. You can't get hot food, and no paper products, because you can only get things fit for human consumption. (Thus, no dog food.)
Most people know about the paper products, and most know about the dog food, but the hot deli items are where we have the most trouble. Finally it's all scanned, and the total is well over $200. They swipe the food stamp card, and after that's done, it shows a leftover balance of $35.78.
They flip out.
'What?! What the hell ain't covered on my card?'
I try not to sigh as I take all the hot food, paper products, and dog food out of their cart. I show them.
'What the hell is this shit? We can't get our chicken? Since when?'
'Since over a year ago, ma'am.'
'Don't give me none of your lip, bitch! And how come I can't get no dog food? You want my dog to starve? She want our dog to starve!'
Then they start giving me the same rant about withholding the tampons for them and the diapers for their baby. They are causing such a scene people are starting to stare, and a manager comes over without having to be paged. After many attempts to reason with them, they decide to leave with NONE of their groceries since they can't get some of the items.
This pisses me off, because it's so busy we have neither the time nor the people to put that cart back.
It didn't end there. The lady goes over to the business center and gets out her cell phone. She calls the government aid office and proceeds to shriek at them about their polices for fifteen minutes. Just as we were about to have them be removed by security, they storm out, never to be seen again...I hope.
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Whew! Okay, that's it for now.
If one more person starts glaring at you, you'll burst into flames
Today I was working the express lane, and a woman who spoke very little English comes through my line. She got $16.75 worth of produce. She argued about a lot of things that I had to make out through mime gestures and an unintelligible accent.
After all that, I had a huge line. And then she got a plastic baggie out of her purse, and proceeded to pay me $16.75....all in change.
And she kept mistaking nickels for quarters and even tried to give me Vietnamese money! Everyone in line was glaring at her and I was trying not to scream. Finally she left.
What is this logic you speak of?
A woman comes through my line and buys a piece of cake. (It's packaged, this will be important in a minute.)
She comes storming back claming I have 'contaminated' her piece of cake, showing me a hair on the cake and demanding a free one.
'Ma'am, I didn't even open your cake, it was sealed.'
'You're lying! You go get me a new piece of cake!'
I decide to pull out the big guns.
'Ma'am, the color of hair in the cake is brown.'
'So?!'
'What color is my hair?'
She sputters for a minute and leaves. Her hair? Brown. My hair? Red.
Dumbest. Scam. Ever.
Please, for the sake of my sanity, just write your congressman.
DISCLAIMER TIME! I have no issues with people on food stamps. I have friends who recieve government aid, I'm glad it's there for people who need an extra hand. However, it does not cover everything in the store, and most people know this. These people chose to scream at me for something beyond my control, and that is the purpose of this rant. I'm blaming the people, not the system.
Are we clear? Good. Okay, here we go:
Two women come in with a huge basket of items, to the point where it's overflowing and heavy enough to break a wheel. This is very common where I work, business as usual. Both of them are on cell phones, having loud moronic conversations with a complete lack of grammar and tact. Sadly, also business as usual.
I start checking them through, offer them our sale item (which they both ignore), and among the items are:
-Diapers
-Toilet Paper
-Tampons
-Hot Chicken frpm the Deli
-Mashed Potatoes from the Deli
-Dog Food
Those items are not eligible for food stamps where I work. You can't get hot food, and no paper products, because you can only get things fit for human consumption. (Thus, no dog food.)
Most people know about the paper products, and most know about the dog food, but the hot deli items are where we have the most trouble. Finally it's all scanned, and the total is well over $200. They swipe the food stamp card, and after that's done, it shows a leftover balance of $35.78.
They flip out.
'What?! What the hell ain't covered on my card?'
I try not to sigh as I take all the hot food, paper products, and dog food out of their cart. I show them.
'What the hell is this shit? We can't get our chicken? Since when?'
'Since over a year ago, ma'am.'
'Don't give me none of your lip, bitch! And how come I can't get no dog food? You want my dog to starve? She want our dog to starve!'
Then they start giving me the same rant about withholding the tampons for them and the diapers for their baby. They are causing such a scene people are starting to stare, and a manager comes over without having to be paged. After many attempts to reason with them, they decide to leave with NONE of their groceries since they can't get some of the items.
This pisses me off, because it's so busy we have neither the time nor the people to put that cart back.
It didn't end there. The lady goes over to the business center and gets out her cell phone. She calls the government aid office and proceeds to shriek at them about their polices for fifteen minutes. Just as we were about to have them be removed by security, they storm out, never to be seen again...I hope.
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Whew! Okay, that's it for now.
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