Complaints of a Cashier

Whoever has ever worked or currently works as a cashier knows that it isn’t as simple of a job as it seems. I have worked as a cashier at a grocery store in my home town all throughout high school and I am currently working at this store again for the fourth summer. Because I work in a small town, I see many of the same customers day after day, some of them I look forward to seeing…and of course there are those customers who I do not look forward to dealing with. I work six days a week in the summer time and it gets very tiring to listen to the same comments and concerns. So how about I have a little bitch fest and share with whoever chooses to read this some of the things I cannot stand.

1.)    I HATE when people ask me how I am and then just look the other way and they don’t even listen to the response. If you don’t care how I am doing, don’t ask. Hello or Hi will suffice. People think that, “How are you?” is something they have to say. I mean, sometimes I will say it and I won’t know the person, but at least I have the courtesy to listen to the response.

2.)    “Don’t squish my bread!” This is what I hear a billion times a day. Old ladies or old men yelling at me about their bread. UM HELLO, I am not a dumbass, I am not going to fucking squish your precious bread, but you repeating that five times kind of makes me want to squish your face (haha joking but it is irritating). I always place the bread carefully in the top part of the cart. Stupid cranks should be lucky they have me to pack their groceries. At most stores, customers pack their own groceries.

3.)    AIRMILES….”How far will that get me?” OMG, heard this joke a billion times. “Well that will get me off the runway”….hahahahahahah not funny anymore…

4.)    Oh the worst, this is when I am on the floor not on cash, but when customers say, “Say a prayer for me while you are down there, would ya?” or “What are you doing, praying?”…omg, when you hear this fifty times a day, it is so hard to laugh. I just wanna scream, “Do I look like I am fucking praying?” oh my, maybe I am just doing my job, stocking a shelf…