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Wednesday, October 9

Crow Shit.

Grocery shopping this morning. I behaved myself very well, no eye rolling or sighing while a gaggle of geese had a chat in the middle of the produce section [p.s...there is TOO a right way to get the seeds out of a pomegranate. Go look it up at you tube. You're welcome, I love those lil suckers too] I finally got to checkout...a long line, all the other registers were closed [no this was not walmart :X ] I finally get to loading my haul onto the conveyor belt, and the guy in front of me starts bullying the cashier. It was true, she was VERY slow, and did not appear to care either way about her job. He was really nasty, "Could you PLEASE go any slower, I want to stand here all day! ". And then he said it. "You are dumber than a monkey !"  My first thought was, "I thought monkies were smart what the hell is he talking about?" THEN I got the racial slur. I am an adult in full and will step in when I see bad shit going down. Usually just a word or two is all it takes. But I had just HAD IT, that blew me away. So at the top of my lungs, and that is considerably loud, I yelled "Would you just _SHUT_THE_FUCK_UP ?" People started running over. One guy, I think he is the manager, I recognized. The bully tried to get in my face. I don't like that. I told him, "You repeat what you just said to her" He said "I called her dumb." I said "You did NOT, REPEAT what you said to her." He would not. So I did. As soon as he was done with his purchase, the manager escorted him out of the store, and I know no more about what happened to him. I hope 47 crows full of early morning worms shit on his head. I understand emotion. I dig worry, and hurt, and anger, and depression. I do NOT GET taking them out on other people. That guy could not feel very proud for making another human cry. I am never going to roll my eyes or sigh over long lines again. If I am so inclined I will drop the corporate shills of a store that keeps me waiting a note, to voice my displeasure. I was a cashier. I was very good and very fast, and took as much shit as any other cashier does. I don't know what it is about people, they can be just as nice as pie, but get them in a line in a store and they act like they grew up under a rock with troglodytes for parents.
We're heading into Holiday Season now...in which cashiers regularly have abuse heaped on them. Please  treat them right. They're not paid enough to be anyones psychologist. And you don't have the right to abuse them for staffing and training gaffes in-store. Take it to the managers.


October: Emotional Intelligence Month
October 9: Stop Bullying day [second Wednesday]

"Never be bullied into Silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life: Define Yourself."
        ~Harvey Fierstein


9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good for you ! I hate people like that . They make shopping a miserable chore . Hope all is well for you !

Joan

Gail said...

Joan HI ! Long time no see! All is great here, wish the same for you and yours! I am kind of ashamed of the way I behaved, I could have been more tactful, but I was just blown away by that guys mouth.

Anonymous said...

I thought you would be posting more now lol and I look forward to that . I need a laugh some days .

Gail said...

There are 2 things going to happen in my life soon. One not good, one very good, but I can't discuss them yet. I feel like Im lying by not disclosing this stuff, so I am restraining myself. I know, that's quite the concept, Gail and restraint in the same sentence, but there you go. You know I talk to Katie and Lily at FB, why not join us there?

Anonymous said...

Having been a cashier for far too many years...I THANK YOU!!!!

Carrie :D

Gail said...
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Gail said...

Good Mornin Carrie, glad to see you :-) I think it ought to be a right of passage EVERYONE should be forced to do a 6 month stint as a cashier, it would change their attitudes pretty damn fast! I have a theory about kids who never had to work a job like that, and kids that did. The ones that did seem to have a level of maturity and empathy on them that the privileged kids do not.The thing that bothered me the most, I think, was the assumption that cashiers have no brains. My I.Q is probably higher than any customer I rang up, but they SWEAR that shirt was 10$ and they will get me FIRED if I don't ring it up RIGHT NOW @@ @@ @@ But from the other side of the counter, this is what happens when I see people abusing cashiers, I simply can't stand there and listen to that shit. And I won't ;-)

Anonymous said...

I thought , under pain of death , that we were not allowed to discuss your I.Q results ? I remember the day we got them in class ,and how people looked at you . I don't remember the exact number , except you are a unicorn in this society :-) As far as Facebook goes, we have family members who don't use it because of their jobs. [which I think is bullshit] A few times, they have read my fb and responded to other family members,using my account. It did not go over well . A trust issue . If it's OK with you, I'll talk to you here instead :-)
Love
Joan

Gail said...

Joan! I have some of the same issues here as well. Yes, pain of death :-) It's just a number.