On May 27, 2:36*pm, "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
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> >http://www.recfoodcooking.com
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> > MCINL= My Choice Is Not Listed
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> > Cheers
> > Chatty Cathy
>
> Ahhhh, having once in a former life worked a register, let me tell you how
> paying for groceries works:
>
> You ring up the entire total *....$312.79
> Customer says: *I want to put $75.00 on EBT (food stamp card)
> You key in $75, swipe the card...that will be $237.79
> Customer: I wanna put $25 on my VISA
> You key in $25, swipe the card...that will be $212.79
> Customer: I wanna put $100 on my MasterCard
> You key in $100, swipe card...that will be $112.79
> Customer: *I wanna put $50 on my American Express
> You explain to the customer that the store doesn't accept American Express
> Customer: *What kind of ##@@%%%% store is this, my American Express is good,
> it's because I'm (insert your classification of choice - old, young, poor,
> white, black, Asian, Hispanic.....etc). *I want the manager.
> You call over the manager, who takes maybe 10 minutes to get there the whole
> time the customer and the 8,000 others who lined up behind him/her to 'see'
> what is going on all mumble and curse you under their breath.
> Manager comes over, makes a big deal out of explaining the store doesn't
> take American Express
> Customer: *Why didn't this &&*##3 tell me that in the first place
> You, smiling through your teeth as the manager stands there glowering at you
> ask the customer for remaining $112.79.
> Customer: *I want to put $50 0n my Discover card.
> You key in $50, swipe the card, that will be $62.79.
> Customer pulls out check book, 'You do take checks don't *you'......
> You tell customer with proper identification, yes
> Customer writes check for $50. *You ask for ID
> Customer empties bag on belt, which by the way is still moving, cash,
> change, service termination letters, pictures, lifesavers, sanitary products
> and birth control fall out. *Customer hands you eviction notice as ID.
> You tell customer that although the address on the eviction notice and the
> check is the same, she doesn't look like Bubba Cartwright, does she have
> anythng with HER picture on it.......finally she finds an ID that is
> expired, store rules state it has to be valid. *Customer gives you death
> glare over this. *Finally finds current Parolee ID with picture.
> Scan (frank) the check....register states too many transactions already.
> Needs manager.....Manager formerly breathing over your shoulder walked away
> to 'say 'Hey' to another manager and scratch his balls in public.
> Begrudgingly comes back over....overrides denial. *That will be $12.79.
> Customer starts counting out dollar bills, not the larger ones bumping along
> on the conveyor, but from a wad she pulled out of the waistband of her
> underpants.
> Customer counts out $9.00
> You take $9.00 (praying there is hand sanitizer under your register). That
> will be $3.79.
> Customer reaches even lower in her undergarments and pulls out a ratty sock
> filled with change. *Counts out $2.37, mostly in nickles, pennies and lint.
> You tell her she is .42 short.
> Customer say's 'I aint got no more money (money is still bouncing on
> conveyor). what can I take off, and starts pawing thru the bags.
> Another customer three people behind, throw .42 on the belt and asks why 'I
> couldn't have covered it for the poor woman'.
> The 'poor woman' smirks at me while I ring up ALL the transactions to have
> her say
> "I want your name, I want to file a permanent complaint on you and get you
> fired'
> As tempting as is is to say 'go ahead, then I won't have to deal with inbred
> morons like you', you smile at the next customer who says....
> 'Well, why didn't you cover it for her'
> Answer is: 'She is the third person today to do this, and I don't get paid
> enough to subsidize everyone who comes in this store.....
> At end of the day, manager asks to speak with you, telling you how rude you
> were to the customer, he gave her a complimentary $10 gift card (you think,
> oh boy, another layer of payment) and tells you if you don't stop this
> behavior, you will be terminated. * AND your register had best balance at
> the end of the day.
>
> So, if you get in line and the cashier looks fried, or the little old lady
> in front of you ONLY has a checkbook in hand. *Thank your god and that you
> have a debit/credit card and that you aren't working the register when the
> above mentioned customer comes in.....and believe me....every store gets at
> least one of these a day.....
>
> -ginny

This sounds like a joke, BUT I was behind a person who did just this
in Walmart, and have seen it done other times also, while I was in
line (of course got out the other times, and tried to find another
line that MOVED). It is a shame, but these people don't even have a
sense of embarrassment, or consideration for what they are doing.