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I hate people. That's the conclusion I came to after the last two nights. I thought last night was busy, until tonight. When I arrived at work at two this afternoon, things seemed fairly quiet. I was told kitchen had been dead, and up fron was only busy in spurts. For the first few hours, everything was fairly quiet. Then 5:30 or so hit and all hell broke loose. Customers started piling in, and poor coworker C in the kitchen was inundated with pizza orders left, right, up, down, and every way in between. Coworker T had to go and help her out, which left me up front to deal with the masses. Joy. Allow me to make a few observations.
1) I know you're laughing inside when you act like you pity me for working on Thanksgiving. Don't give me that fake ass smile when you try to give me the equally fake ass sympathy act.
2) How the fuck do you mix up iced tea and coffee? I had a guy get to the counter, and only when I asked him what he had to drink did he realize that he had iced tea, when he'd actually wanted coffee. I...buh...wha...HOW? As if my brain wasn't fried enough by then, he had to make it explode completely.
3) Listen, wise ass, you're not funny. No, those fuses you're buying for your car aren't discounted. Neither is your pizza. I've got less than two hours to go in my shift, I'm exhausted, and you need to pay for your shit and GTFO. Now.
4) To the poor guy that came in late into my shift looking for a place to buy a turkey, I am truly sorry. I'm sure your wife really was upset. However, you should have PROBABLY thought that through before tonight. What happened was, he hadn't even considered getting a turkey, and when his wife got home from work tonight, she started yelling at him because she wanted turkey and he had none. Poor dude.
5) For fuck's sake, people, know which pump you're on, or at least how much gas you have or which vehicle is yours. I can't always keep track when I'm slammed with customers inside the store and outside at the pumps!
6) We had two phone calls within minutes of each other asking for pumpkin pie spices, one on the kitchen phone, and one up front. To those people, I'm sorry, but why didn't you think of this before today? Also, I'd laugh if these people were in the same house, and turned to each other and said "Well I just called <C-Store> and...Hey wait a minute, so did I!"
7) Please control your children. Okay, let me elaborate. Control your children in some manner besides standing and yelling across the store at them to 'hurry up' or 'come ON' because that really isn't helping, and it's making my head hurt. Really.
8) When did my C-Store become a liquor store? I sold an alarming amount of alcohol tonight. Thankfully, everyone cooperated with being ID'd again.
9) Have ALL of the things you're going to buy picked out before you come up to the counter. I don't have the time or the room for you to set a whole pile of stuff there and wander off to find more. This is just an annoyance in general to me, and didn't help my night any at all.
All in all, my night was chaos. I briefly considered driving down to the city south of where I live to check out the midnight Black Friday stuff but you know what? I'd rather get some sleep. Thank GOODNESS I have tomorrow off!
1) I know you're laughing inside when you act like you pity me for working on Thanksgiving. Don't give me that fake ass smile when you try to give me the equally fake ass sympathy act.
2) How the fuck do you mix up iced tea and coffee? I had a guy get to the counter, and only when I asked him what he had to drink did he realize that he had iced tea, when he'd actually wanted coffee. I...buh...wha...HOW? As if my brain wasn't fried enough by then, he had to make it explode completely.
3) Listen, wise ass, you're not funny. No, those fuses you're buying for your car aren't discounted. Neither is your pizza. I've got less than two hours to go in my shift, I'm exhausted, and you need to pay for your shit and GTFO. Now.
4) To the poor guy that came in late into my shift looking for a place to buy a turkey, I am truly sorry. I'm sure your wife really was upset. However, you should have PROBABLY thought that through before tonight. What happened was, he hadn't even considered getting a turkey, and when his wife got home from work tonight, she started yelling at him because she wanted turkey and he had none. Poor dude.
5) For fuck's sake, people, know which pump you're on, or at least how much gas you have or which vehicle is yours. I can't always keep track when I'm slammed with customers inside the store and outside at the pumps!
6) We had two phone calls within minutes of each other asking for pumpkin pie spices, one on the kitchen phone, and one up front. To those people, I'm sorry, but why didn't you think of this before today? Also, I'd laugh if these people were in the same house, and turned to each other and said "Well I just called <C-Store> and...Hey wait a minute, so did I!"
7) Please control your children. Okay, let me elaborate. Control your children in some manner besides standing and yelling across the store at them to 'hurry up' or 'come ON' because that really isn't helping, and it's making my head hurt. Really.
8) When did my C-Store become a liquor store? I sold an alarming amount of alcohol tonight. Thankfully, everyone cooperated with being ID'd again.
9) Have ALL of the things you're going to buy picked out before you come up to the counter. I don't have the time or the room for you to set a whole pile of stuff there and wander off to find more. This is just an annoyance in general to me, and didn't help my night any at all.
All in all, my night was chaos. I briefly considered driving down to the city south of where I live to check out the midnight Black Friday stuff but you know what? I'd rather get some sleep. Thank GOODNESS I have tomorrow off!
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