It's pretty charming to see in how much contempt you folks hold your paying customers. A lot of these customer questions/actions seem totally harmless.

Isn't it your jobs to help the customer -- even the stupid and rude ones? Great work being ambassadors for your places of employment. If I ran those places, I'd fire you all.

So now it's your turn, fair customer. How have you been mistreated by store employees?

By the way, store employees, go ahead and have a meaningless personal conversation with your fellow employees while you complete my order and take my business for granted.

"That'll be $10.79."

MajorEverettMiller wrote:"That'll be $10.79."

I meant someone other than the person from whom you purchased your last automobile.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

MajorEverettMiller wrote:"That'll be $10.79."

I meant someone other than the person from whom you purchased your last automobile.

Oh, sorry.

"Can I take your order?"

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

MajorEverettMiller wrote:"That'll be $10.79."

I meant someone other than the person from whom you purchased your last automobile.

I was thinking blow-job.

¿Querría usted fríe con eso?

MajorEverettMiller wrote:"Can I take your order?"

Well, I can see this is going nowhere. God bless the unerring and evercheerful service worker.

Vegetable rights and peace!

Brad. Vegetable rights.

marvellous

Intern_8033 wrote:Sometimes I have this thought, and then I feel foolish for expecting these people to actually care about doing their job well. I think if employees are behaving unprofessionally, the problem is typically that the employer has not created an incentive for them to take their work seriously.

Baloney.

It is not foolish to expect people to treat their jobs seriously. This is called being an employee. This is called being an adult. This is called using common sense and practicing simple etiquette.

No matter how "bad" my jobs were, I took the approach that there was a simple dignity to performing the required task to best of my ability, and that this approach would translate to later "better" jobs.

This, plus my desire to eat food that my job paid for, was my "incentive".

Intern_8033 wrote:I am grateful that there are people who are able to tolerate a career as a Walgreen's clerk. If they were perfect in every way, they'd probably be doing something else.

That's a repugnant sentiment -- that Walgreen's employees as a class are somehow flawed.

I've worked many, many jobs, some of which I despised, but I never viewed it as my place to take out my frustration or dissatisfaction on the patrons. If I was dissatisfied, then it was my decision whether or not to quit and find something else, which I sometimes did. In no case did I view it as my place to launch passive aggressive battles against my employer's customers.

How childish.

Onward, American service economy!

Intern_8033 wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:By the way, store employees, go ahead and have a meaningless personal conversation with your fellow employees while you complete my order and take my business for granted.

Sometimes I have this thought, and then I feel foolish for expecting these people to actually care about doing their job well. I think if employees are behaving unprofessionally, the problem is typically that the employer has not created an incentive for them to take their work seriously.

I am grateful that there are people who are able to tolerate a career as a Walgreen's clerk. If they were perfect in every way, they'd probably be doing something else.

-Andrew

the best part of working in a record store or driving a cab was dealing with the customers

the worst part of working in a record store or driving a cab was dealing with the customers

restaurants, the best part was free food

many people feel entitled to be treated deferentially by service employees, which gets old VERY FAST. people don't work service jobs b/c it's their life's goal, most of the time. and very often they are looked at as a renewable resource by their employer, which breeds indifference.

i never assume i'm doing someone a favor by allowing them to serve me. i'm grateful if someone is providing me with a service in a competent manner. i still can't believe i can call someone on the phone and have food brought directly to my house.

i say this as someone who had a chernobyl-of-the-brain the other day when i forgot my 'shopper card' at dominick's and the cashier wouldn't swipe a generic one for me