A Day in the Life of a Sales Clerk

Stupidity is Infinite

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anyoneseenick: sherlocked-inside-the-tardis: mrpondismypatronus: deduce-me-e: gomenne: girlthrualookingglass: Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn. He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife. “He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says. As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.” The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome. “You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says. Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth. “The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’” “No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’” Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?” “Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said. Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says. The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to. When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ‘cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.” The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.” Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.” Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.” “I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.” FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED ALL THE SLOW CLAPS GO TO YOU I reblog because I checked the sources. Word for word from npr.org (National Public Radio). http://www.npr.org/2008/03/28/89164759/a-victim-treats-his-mugger-right

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Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.

But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.

He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.

“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.

As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”

The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”

Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.

“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.

Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.

“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”

“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”

Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”

“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.

Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.

The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to.

When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ‘cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”

The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”

Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.”

Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”

“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”

FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED

ALL THE SLOW CLAPS GO TO YOU

I reblog because I checked the sources. Word for word from npr.org (National Public Radio).

http://www.npr.org/2008/03/28/89164759/a-victim-treats-his-mugger-right

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Next In Line

“Next in line please?”

No one comes up, the line is getting longer.

“Next in line please!”

No one comes up. I know I’m sort of quite but not THAT quite.

“NEXT IN LINE PLEASE!”

Someone finally walks up, cutting the dumbass thats just staring at nothing. My boss walks up right as I yell, stares at me and tells me to be nice.

What. The. Firecracker. 

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Panhandling Kids

Kids are great I suppose. I don’t really like kids, but I can get along with them perfectly fine. They just aren’t my choice of company, unless they’re nice and polite.

Kids that walk in my store? 75% of them are not good kids. They unfortunately are neglected by parents or ignored and such so they are raised under a bad influence. This in turn gets them into bad habits.

Like stealing, begging, and/or panhandling.

We have a group of kids that have it down to a science. For stealing they have the little girl (no older than about 8) come to the register and distract the cashier while the boy and the other girl steal some candy. 

Fortunately we are aware of this once they walk in the door and one of us will stop what we’re doing and walk onto the floor to watch them.

For begging and panhandling the pull on that cute face and repeatedly ask, “How much is this?” for various items. If they show me how much money they have I show them items they can get, but they got smarter and no longer do this so I have to keep saying no or ask if they have any money. Sometime they drop money onto my counter and all bundled up (I HATE THAT SO MUCH) and I have to count it and hold up the line.

This is when adults come in and pay for the item themselves since they’re “just kids”. After they leave, or while they are there I do now say that they do this all the time.

There is no wrong in telling them to go get more money, or leave because they do not have enough, because letting them do this is not a good way to start of life. Everyone now and then, sure, but these kids are doing it intentionally.

So I do ask that if you know a kid who is doing this intentionally, try and stop them. It  just promotes the bad habit and reinforces begging for the rest of their life. Inform them kindly, with a smile, that they need more money, they should bring their parent to pay for it next time, or just show them a cheaper item.

It’s the sad truth unfortunately, but I prefer to help raise a better generation because it’s obvious their parents aren’t doing the job.

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That Moment

When you have a warrant on somebody and you see them across the street.

I start whispering to my co-worker saying, “Come across the street. Come on . PLEASE step in our parking lot so I can call the cops on you. PLEASE come here I dare you.”

I can’t lie I do wish they walk in the store so I can call the cops on them. It’s so very adrenaline inducing to finally take revenge on a—holes sometimes.

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I Do Apologize

For several things. I run two blogs; this one and my one I share with a friend. Both are on the same account so if you see stuff from my other blog on your dashboard I am sorry. Some stuff is just plain funny and needs to be reblogged.

Another thing. For my failure to update daily and such, I also apologize for. I am pretty lazy when it comes to blogging unfortunately. I’ll try to pick it back up.

Cheers!

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Dear Customers,

slave-to-my-register:

Instead of leaving your wallet in the car how about you leave your cell phone in the car, maybe your screaming child and your husband/wife as well. But you know what you could seriously leave in the car… that attitude. Stuff it in the trunk and kill it because it’s not needed.

Love always, Cashiers 

True. Story.

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Convenience > Quality

People just don’t understand some things.

My store is not a grocery store, not a WALMART, not Target.

We have good quality items, we really do… for a convenience store.

This means our prices will always be high, there won’t be great deals and “great low prices”.

We may have a sale or two on a few items.

But for some reason people come into the store and expect to have grocery quality food or other items for a low price.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. We are open because you as a customer need it now and don’t feel like driving to the grocery store.

I’m sorry you’re lazy and it costs more to be lazy. 

-A

Also, there IS a grocery store down the road from us. 

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Collateral Damage

This is a little personal. I’m not calling anyone out or trying to be “oh woe is me”, I’m just trying to prevent this from happening to someone else.

If a co-worker of yours really makes you angry, you need to take it up with that co-worker, don’t take it out on everyone else.

I’m a relaxed worker, because after the infuriating event happen I just laugh at it. I’m nice to all my co-workers and my customers (it’s when they start getting a serious attitude with me is when i start not being nice). I try to be as fair as possible to everyone.

Unfortunately not everyone is as level headed as the rest of us.

I was stuck working alone for 6 hours with my boss one day. While it may not seem bad in a busy retail store I work in two people is almost needed at all times to get everything done. Boss also has to do his work that’s very important so he unfortunately has to force me to work by myself.

This all happened because apparently one co-worker had a vendetta against the other and decided to just NOT show up to work. Well, it wasn’t revenge if that’s what they were aiming for.

I was the collateral damage. I end up having to keep the store up and customers happy by my self as work that needs two people piles up.

They thought someone would come in for them, no one did. It was a very hard day on me since I had no one to call for help when the line was backed up or when a customer had a problem.

So please, if you have issues with your coworker, get you, the coworker and your boss to talk it out, don’t let it hurt other people like me in that situation, especially if they’re not as leveled headed as I am. It could start a circle of revenge that just causes an unhappy working environment.

-A

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I WANT YOU

To share with me your stories.

I don’t care if you’re a customer dealing with other less educated customers, a retailer, a customer complaining about their cashier, a flying ninja monkey.

I want to hear these stories, or listen to your complaints about bitchy cashiers. Trust me, I’m a customer too I see them everywhere and man they make me mad.

Post it anonymously in the question box, post on your own blog, do whatever you want.

Rant about your work if you want, once you do, you’ll laugh it off later.

Share the love,

-A

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Remind Me

To never complain or ask for weekends off.

No one does shit over the weekends, contrary to what I thought.

And I can’t stand being in this house for 24 hours.

Please, Boss, please never give me Saturday off again.

Much appreciated,  

-A