Women at the checkout - That really grinds my gears!
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Do not confuse complete stupidity, lack of respect for others, the spatial awareness of a Venus fly-trap and the inability to complete simple tasks orderly for a different pace of life.
There's a line where you may make mistakes in the above and then just have the mental capacity to do them all, always.
I work for a certain retailer which may or may not be mentioned in this thread. Many lols.
Not much really annoys a cashier. On for example a 8h shift they'll see hundreds of people through. Hell, everyone goes through the till. You name a characteristic short of dead and they'll be doing their shopping too. Everyone gets a smile
Even these ones:
-People trying to pass off invalid vouchers on purpose
-People pulling out a massive wad of vouchers after putting through a trolley of stuff then asking you to check if any work... let me tell you, it is NOT automatic and manually searching through 80 items whose screen names do not actually say what the product was is awkward.
-People putting a trolley through the basket tills - a trolley with a little bit in there is permitted but it then attracts increasingly full trolleys and when can you say no without looking like a ****er due to other trolleys already there.
Yes, various groups will arrange to do bag packing for tips from the customers, some are worse than others, not many are that good. They're just kids/teenagers who've only really been shopping with parents. Get about 5 mins briefing on basics of packing then told to stick to a till with a bucket. I have serious doubts on increased processing speed with volunteer bag packers.
lol I never let them pack my bags ...ever.
But I do give them something I'd rather young people were doing sports than acting like yobs.
People inability to use chip and pin gets me. No you don't put it in that way, no it goes in the big slit on the top not the front of the pad, do not just pass me the ****ing card I don't want it put it in the ****ing pad ffs. Manners is another I get loads of people who don't bother to say hello, thanks, goodbye, I love you or anything.
Taking a gun to work tomorrow I'll show em
And yes it's mainly women that's the problem, or men who have to put the petrol on a card and pay cash for their other buys just to get a vat receipt without a can of red bull on it.
Why is your accountant thick can he not ****ing read.
Taking a gun to work tomorrow I'll show em
And yes it's mainly women that's the problem, or men who have to put the petrol on a card and pay cash for their other buys just to get a vat receipt without a can of red bull on it.
Why is your accountant thick can he not ****ing read.
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This really annoys me at work especially when people say "well I could fit it into a basket".
Also working at morrisons when people put their card in the machines for a few seconds it says on the screen that they see "Please wait." some people have actually said to me "It's saying Please wait?" as in they are not sure what to do here. It gets very hard not to sound cheeky when you tell them that they have to wait.
MUST. CONTROL. ANGER. LEVELS.
Must admit I've removed the C&P machine from the customer side a few times because of this.
Just because it says 'please insert card' or 'please wait' does not mean pull the card out and put it back in!
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When walking down a busy street, Say in the town centre and somebody is walking towards you, Do you move out of the way or do you expect them to move?
I find it's always me that takes the side step lol.
I find it's always me that takes the side step lol.
It depends on who it is, if it's a group of 12 year olds I won't budge and they usually evade me in the last moment when they see I will walk at them if they don't go out of my way, for most people I move a little bit to the side that usually makes them move for me a bit too. Though when I'm in a hurry I'm usually zig zagging through crowds...
I hate this too, I work in a small convenience store at the weekends and I really hate people who take forever about it. It's 90% of the time middle aged women, and they get annoyed when you move round them to take the next customers transaction, as we can do in our shop due to the tills being next to each other in a row. It's retarded how long people take counting out money and changing their minds and bagging things up gah.
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This really,really,really,really,really winds me up. It's the same ******* people at the same ******* time of each and every day I get the ******* bus! It's like.....you stand there at the bus stop and then have to go count your change out like a cat trying to peal a banana.
Winds me up even more when they get off only two stops or so after aswell, the bus pulls in and the bus behin us which I'm trying to catch drives right past! Rage!
Oh and people who come upto the till which says CARDS ONLY on the front and dump all the stuff down before looking blankly at you....then get annoyed when you say to wait with the other people. I always tend to say hi,pack my own back and say bye or thanks before leaving any sort of checkout.
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People inability to use chip and pin gets me. No you don't put it in that way, no it goes in the big slit on the top not the front of the pad, do not just pass me the ****ing card I don't want it put it in the ****ing pad ffs. Manners is another I get loads of people who don't bother to say hello, thanks, goodbye, I love you or anything.
Taking a gun to work tomorrow I'll show em
And yes it's mainly women that's the problem, or men who have to put the petrol on a card and pay cash for their other buys just to get a vat receipt without a can of red bull on it.
Why is your accountant thick can he not ****ing read.
I still don't know why it's hard for people to get chip and pin. The idea is we don't touch your card. So put it in the little machine, yep now read it and do what it says. No don't put it in and start pressing keys. Let it read your card. ..... are you going to enter your pin now? No your talking to your friend.... excellent. It's not like I have other people to serve. OK now you need to pull out your card. No I cant do anything on the till until you pull out your card as my till is telling me YOU NEED TO REMOVE YOUR CARD!
lol. I'm a barman so I get assigned to one till. Customers dont seem to understand that I can't put a order on hold. So no you can't go for a **** while I poor your pint as I have already put it on the till and I'm not waiting for you while I have other customers... oh you have gone anyway. OK well I will just void off your order, put the pint behind the bar and you can order again
I'm such a **** lol.
Arghh i can relate to many of the things in this thread.
I find women incredibly slowwww when it comes to paying/buying things.
Always with the handbags at the till, it's like they have to dig for buried treasure before they find their money/cards. Whats wrong with getting it out beforehand? -_-
Bus tickets! It aint hard to get the right amount of change ready BEFORE the bus arrives.
Nothing more annoying than being stuck walking behind a pair of women nattering away walking at a snais pace either -_-. .
I find women incredibly slowwww when it comes to paying/buying things.
Always with the handbags at the till, it's like they have to dig for buried treasure before they find their money/cards. Whats wrong with getting it out beforehand? -_-
Bus tickets! It aint hard to get the right amount of change ready BEFORE the bus arrives.
Nothing more annoying than being stuck walking behind a pair of women nattering away walking at a snais pace either -_-. .
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Handbags annoy the hell out of me.
I can get my coins, cards, keys, mobile phone, condom, secret chocolate bar, headphones etc. in < 2 seconds.
I can get my coins, cards, keys, mobile phone, condom, secret chocolate bar, headphones etc. in < 2 seconds.
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This! I tend to walk fast but having to slow down(which is pretty hard to do imo) and they actually turn and look at you before continuing on their merry way. Wtf. Worse than that is women who just stop suddenly in busy streets. I at least try to move to the side or look behind before stopping dead! Keys,phone and wallet is the check I do before setting off. Keys left pocket,phone right pocket and wallet back pocket/jacket pocket. Soo much more simple than massive handbags.
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Me too, in fact they infuriate me, the amount of crap they often keep in them is beyond belief, my mum oddly never used a handbag and still to this day never does, but then I guess that's because she doesn't wear make-up.
Whats almost as bad as this is when overly friendly, just out of how to be a good employee training cashier person meets overly talkative/old women customer.
They will not only talk rubbish and take their darn time while scanning and packing, then spend a further minute or so about buying a reusable bag and how good the one she got out of M&S is, then natter as they slowly hand over cash (they cant seem to hand over money/receipts mid conversation) and when they should have been on their merry way they continue to blabber about the price of scones for 2 minutes.
Nothing against a friendly 'hello how are you?' and so on but sometimes just...
They will not only talk rubbish and take their darn time while scanning and packing, then spend a further minute or so about buying a reusable bag and how good the one she got out of M&S is, then natter as they slowly hand over cash (they cant seem to hand over money/receipts mid conversation) and when they should have been on their merry way they continue to blabber about the price of scones for 2 minutes.
Nothing against a friendly 'hello how are you?' and so on but sometimes just...
It doesn't always work like that unfortunately, in fact C&P annoys me to some extent because of this. For example some shops STILL use signatures, others (including some big supermarkets) put the card in a seperate chip reader on the till screen, and get you to type in your pin in the C&P reader, then other C&P readers have the slot at the top, or at the bottom, and if the checkout person is slooow you need to take the card out and put it in to get it read properly. Then there's the random problems that don't appear on your screen, but on the checkout persons... I just gave up ages ago and just show them the card and see if they point or take it...
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I prefer it when the other half's got a bag to when she hasn't, because all the pockets on her clothes are either pretend, or too small to fit anything in.
So it all goes in my pockets and I look like a clown.
**** off, get your own pockets, these have got my stuff in! I PLANNED AHEAD
So it all goes in my pockets and I look like a clown.
**** off, get your own pockets, these have got my stuff in! I PLANNED AHEAD
Woman in the queue at WHS did nearly the same thing as the OP mentioned. I had a 30 minute lunch break and 10 minutes of the was taken up by this stupid biddy ****ing about at the checkout. What is it with wimmin and bags?
Only wanted a newspaper, WHS used to do an honesty bin where you just dropped the coins in, I would have got my paper, dropped the money in and then got back to work.
Only wanted a newspaper, WHS used to do an honesty bin where you just dropped the coins in, I would have got my paper, dropped the money in and then got back to work.