PMS and retail do not a healthy combination make

[tinhuviel]

I pernear lost my temper with this dumbass woman trying to use her EBT card today. All she had to do was swipe the friggin' card and follow the instructions on the pinpad, but I had to walk around the register and help her do it twice before she realised that she didn't have enough money to buy the food she was attempting to purchase. I wanted to scream at her "STUPID PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE TO EAT!" and slap her upside the head with a loaf of bread. I mean what's so difficult about pressing a four-digit pin number and then pressing OK? What was this woman's malfunction? I know that part of it is my PMDD not being treated at all for the past four months, and each month I get a little closer to wanting to exact physical violence on the unsuspecting public, but I wouldn't be inclined to do so if the Great Unwashed weren't so bloody infuriating! I had to get the assistant manager Andrea to help me help this moron in shoes. Once everything was paid for, the woman kept spinning the bag rack and looking at all the empty bags. Then she asked, "Iz awl mi stuuff in wun baig?" And I said under my breath, "No, I put one item in fifteen different bags, then hid them all in plain view, you freakin' idiot." I thought Andrea was going to swallow her tongue to keep from barking laughter right then and there.

Oh, and I've discovered the first sign of Retail Insanity: it's when you start talking to your scanner when it won't scan a piece of merchandise, basically begging it to comply so you can get the fool in sweatpants out from in front of you before you reach out and rip its throat out with your bare hands.

I hate people.

**cross-posted to misanthrope_inc**

Comments

[booraven22.livejournal.com]

A second sign that retail insanity has set in? Scanner gun wars. Seriously. I once threatened to burn a customer's retinas out because he was pissing me off. It must have been Yuletide. Always brings out the worst in me.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

You're my kinda woman. I have told you that lately?

[booraven22.livejournal.com]

Heh! ::Snogs you on principle::

Lets go get some scanner guns and take over this miserable world, one scorched set of retinas at a time!

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I'm with you, chica! I just came home from using a scanner gun on my new job, which rocks like a freakin' hurricane. Whee!

I don't do retail, but had to mess with you

[waterdawg.livejournal.com]

Pernear in TX is Pertnear (ducking flying loaf).

Thing is these people fly though life barely touched... yea they don't have much, but seem to get all the handouts...

Good come back answer - luckily you got Andrea on your side...

Deep breath & hope tomorrow is better! {{{hugs}}}

Re: I don't do retail, but had to mess with you

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I got that pernear from a book called Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, which is the unnofficial inspiration for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and many a Shriek song. Definitely a book you should read if given half the chance.

[falkenna.livejournal.com]

"No, I put one item in fifteen different bags, then hid them all "

Ah, now see, the fact that this is sarcasm shows that you are still a retail amateur. Professionals actually *do* it. I've got so used to the lack of baggers in UK that I actually find it annoying in the US not to do it my way, especially when they use one bag per item.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Don't think it doesn't stick in my craw that I have to stand on my lack of knees to check these bozos out when I know for a fact that everyone in the UK is doing the same thing I do, but sitting down while doing it. Why American employers think that you have to do certain jobs standing in one place without a break, or a very short one, makes my brain want to burst wide open.