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At a grocery checkout earlier today, I moved my stuff out of my shopping baskets (I had two) and put the shopping baskets on the floor next to the counter. The clerk said in a loud and really angry-sounding voice "could I have that basket?" I handed them to her and she did not say thank you but instead kept grumpily entering stuff in her machine. There was this awkward silence.
What's a good way to handle this kind of minor but still really annoying rude behavior when it's happening? I don't feel like ignoring such surliness and I'd like to call it out.
This happened to me twice yesterday afternoon, after I got out of work, except much worse. I couldn't buy two items at the store and the odd employee that had been staring me down since I walked in lied and said that they were waiting for new machines to come in. The cashier was obviously stupid and couldn't operate the machinery. And then a similar incident at a gym, which I will never go to again. They even had the nerve to call me that evening because they hadn't recorded that I had stopped by. Then some AT&T b*tch said all of my modems and routers were broken before I even tried them. She told me to pay for $100-an-hour at-home services. I refused and configured my home set-up in 1 minute. These customer svc idiots try to play me for a fool.
I'm surprised nobody brought this up -- if the clerk is rude to one person the clerk is likely to pull the same [stuff] on another customer and there are enough customers who will complain that management will know about it. If the store typically has good customer service, it will be addressed and in obviously abusive instances, one is unlikely to see the rude clerk again.
I recall one time at a WF, asking for a kiosk item without the sauce. Since I was customer scum, the server dumped as much of the sauce as possible on the item, and followed up by "nice daying" me. No need to complain, since the manager probably got the equivalent of all 9 pages of this thread in one day, and either the server got a job as a hedge fund manager or (more likely) at a store that addresses those issues their own way.
The reason why she probably gave the OP an attitude is because she was probably tired of lazy shoppers who leave their baskets laying around instead of putting them back where they originally got them from. Common decency and courtesy goes a long way. If more people did the right thing and did basic esteemable things they wouldn't end up catching an attitude. What if those baskets on the floor tripped an elderly person or child and injured them? Next time just put them back where they belong. The cashier was willing to do that for you and yet you still complain. SSS=Special Snowflake Shoppers, lol.
Last edited by dk1111; 06-25-2019 at 06:41 PM..
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