I say this sentence pretty much every other day. That is because I seem to work every other day. I'm a cashier for one of the biggest retail corporations in the entire world. If you cant guess where I work, I will give you a hint, it rhymes with "fallmart." Now, I should be grateful that I have a job with the economy being as bad as it is, but most of the time I want to punch people in the face for telling me that. Like, being a cashier at 25 years old is not a choice, this is not what I aspired to become, it just shows that I am still a college student. The thing I cannot stand most about the job, is the way people treat me. This goes for both customers and other employees who tend to treat me like I am a teenager. Granted, I do look young for my age, but that doesn't mean people should just assume that I am someone who has that potential to suffer from 'Bieber-Fever.' Customers like to treat me like I am a moron, and they become impatient if something is not done immediately, and a certain supervisor who I will just refer to as "Gollum" likes to disrespect me in front of everyone (I'm sure there will be many future posts about this monster). I honestly think Gollum gets a kick out of making me push carts around in the heat, or by sticking me on register 1. I think the little monster is just waiting for me to snap one day so I will get fired.
As for the way customers see me, I think they think I am one of those people who has totally failed at life. Like, they probably think "Oh look at this sad human being, lets harass her because she works in a grocery store!" I am always the cashier who gets the worst type of customers. For example, I was working customer service because the usual person was out sick, and there was a problem with the register that only a manager could fix. So I was unable to ring anybody's order up until it was fixed. I had this ridiculously impatient girl complaining about why I was not dropping my entire life to cash her check. She was going on and on about how there should be another person to work behind there (when we only have one customer service person at a time) and how I was being rude, even though she was the one who cut a bunch of people in line and started bitching at me....She works for McDonalds so she has no business being rude to anyone. I eventually told her off (it made me smile!) If she wanted to report me to management she could have but that probably would have taken to long for her anyways.
Word of advice to anyone who may read this--Be nice to people who work in grocery stores, because otherwise you may go home with broken eggs and flattened bread.
Until next time, Peace & Love
--K
