This has been really bothering me lately…
The worst feeling in the world is being ignored. Now mind you, I know that being a cashier may not be the most glamerous occupation in the world, but it doesn’t mean I’m not educated. It doesn’t mean I’m stupid, either.
I’m sorry that my career choice is beneath some people who can’t even find it within themselves to treat me like a human being.
I mean seriously, when I ask a question why do some customers just stand there and act like I don’t exist? Like I’m invisible? Like they can’t hear me?
Ghosted…
I must be such a hinderance to them. How dare I ask them a question about how they are going to pay for their processed crap.
Either I just get completely ignored by these folks, or they’re on their damn phone yapping with somebody about rubbish I don’t want to hear, completely unaware of anything else around them. I ask if they have Airmiles, then they look at me with an irritated glare as if I’m interupting their phone call. They attempt to dehumanize me and that is wrong and ignorant.
Sigh…
It makes the world an ugly place. It’s extemely rude. I’m standing on my feet serving people for eight hours a day. What happened to manners? I’m dedicating my time to people who treat me like absolute shit.
Sometimes I dream about snatching the telephone off their neck and smashing it to the floor like Hulk Hogan, but alas, that is just a fantasy.
It’s often times like this I wish we had self-checkout at our store, so they could take their bad attitude and crappy personality with them.
Life is difficult enough. I am a pleasant person. I work extremely hard and don’t want to have to deal with jackasses every day. Unfortunately, they seem to congregate in herds.
It makes me want to squish their bread.
Don’t make me ram my thumb into your Dempsters.
~GW
The Grocery Whisperer 
“Don’t make me shove my thumb into your Dempsters” – the greatest comeback of 2019 😂
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Hahaha. Thanks.
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You made bread squishing sound most ominous indeed
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Spare the bread!
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I think Freud once wrote a theory about thumbing bread. I could be wrong. 😀 Oh what a wicked web we weave, when thumbs poke into soft bread sleeve.
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Haha… its probably a euthanism for ones mother or a dodgy phalic reference
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It’s more of an art. lol
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I have been in those shoes, and you’re right, most people treated me worse than a machine. And a deaf one at that!
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I’m sorry to hear that, it’s not a nice feeling. Everyone deserves respect.
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I have been on lines with them, they are annoying, rude and at the end uptight, and guess how they pay?!!!
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What is…..They pay with coins, slowly, They dig into their pockets or purse and then throw the small change on the counter instead of putting it in the cashier’s hand. They hold up the express line.
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Yes and more
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Probably not the best thing to read on my way in to the convenience store I clerk at on weekends…
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😆
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Sorry man. I feel your pain. lol
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Back in 08 my wife returned to work as a cashier after several months of chemotherapy. Her hair was just beginning to grow back, and she looked like a kick-ass lesbian. Strangely no one ‘dissed’ or ignored her then. But when her femininity returned, so did her invisibility.
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When you work in a grocery store, or retail for that matter, you come to realize how fucked up the world really is.
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Full of fruit cakes too!
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Wow, awesome insight!
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This is a great reminder for all of us to be kinder to each other. The worst I was treated was when I worked on telephones.
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You think they are totally ignoring you? Try overcharging them 🙂 Anyway, I think they are playing out their own insecurities and frailties. But, of course, easier said when you are not at the receiving end.
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Okay, this is priceless. I’m reblogging it to my readers at sister site Timeless Wisdoms and adding it to the reference index at the Foundation for Poetic Justice.
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Thank you. 😀 I appreciate it. ❤
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Ubet
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It’s not easy, but I think it’s great that you’re trying your best at your job. 🙂 Some guys at the supermarket’s cashier counter look so tired of asking everyone how’s their day, it can be hard when nobody replies.
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Yes, it does get tiring.
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🙂 I hear you! You are helping people nourish themselves — that matters! Don’t let the rudeness of the era shake your sense of worth.
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I don’t know who you are,
but I like you,
immensely.
You tell the truth.
You might be my checker friend,
at Alberstons.
Just remember.
Always.
People who “look down” on other people,
feel even worse,
deep down about themselves.
People can be so consistently cruel,
in so many big and little ways.
It is a shining example for me,
to meet someone like you,
who tells the truth to arrogance.
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Thanks, Cindy. Nice to meet you.
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