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Store Manager | 20.08.08:
Prettiest Youngest Customer Of The Night, Golden Boys Can Fall And
Break, The Force Is Strong In The Bombshell, Muffled Customers, All I
Ever Do Is Sell Fanta, Tell Me You Have Fuel, Boris Johnson Just
Refuses To Be Evil and Stop Hiding Your PIN Number, Your Secret Is Safe
With Me! So I had a really interesting start to the shift. The first customer I had, I had to ID him. Annoying but it had to be done. He shoved his hands in his pockets and opened his mouth to give an exasperated sigh. I thought I was going to get abuse. I couldn't have been more wrong. He got ID, and said "You're ID'ing me? My friend, I am the youngest, prettiest thing you will see all night!" Then put his ID in my hand. He was 20. His friend then said "You might be young, but you ain't pretty". I laughed at this and told him that he took the words right out of my mouth. The guys took it in good humour and went off. Why can't everyone be like this? ID'ing happens. Get over it. Now, remember yesterday how I mentioned that Pedro's golden boys didn't always do too well after a little while? Well, apparently this morning Pedro and Crack Baby had a little spat. Well, a large spat. Apparently over the fact that Crack Baby doesn't do any work unless Pedro is around. Seems that Pedro began investigating all the complaints about Crack Baby being a lying, trying waste of space, and found out that actually, people in the store weren't lying and that Crack Baby really is useless. I am sure that did a lot to improve his mood. I'm guessing the argument stemmed from my meeting with Pedro, and suggesting that dayshift get 2 weeks retraining. Pedro agreed. I'm guessing it didn't go down well. Tough. I know that The Bombshell can be random, but, tonight he took the biscuit. He came up to me at the beginning of my shift and said to me "Is there a small woman in here?" I told him I hadn't seen one, and he frowned and said "Odd, I can feel a small woman" Now I know the Polish for feel and smell are similar, so I asked if he meant smell, and he shook his head and said "No, I can feel her" then put his hands out like a mystic. I never did get to the bottom of what it was that he meant, or if he has suddenly developed psychic powers. And for some reason last night I got an unfair amount of mumblers. I hate this type of customer. Why is it so hard for some people to just speak clearly. "20 huff n puff" doesn't really tell me the brand of cigarettes you want. Nor does "pump her mer der". I must have had 10 people over the course of the night where I have had to ask them, always to their annoyance, to repeat what they just said. And every single time, I get treated like I am the one being unreasonable. Regular readers of this blog will know that we get some really strange people in at night. People with kittens. People with the inability to keep their inner monologue inner. And people who have legs the thickness of two twiglegs. But tonight I got a real oddball. The kind that you double take them and think "what the fark?" This guy was all suave, then walked away with his girlfriend. Nothing odd there. I figured he was just a regular, normal, well adjusted customer. Not on nightshift. Just as he was leaving he looked at me, looked at his girlfriend then pointed at some Tangos and said "Did you know he works all night until the morning and sells these" Uh huh. That's my job is it? Ok, well, thanks for telling me! The other group of people I had far too many of last night were people who don't tell us they have fuel. It's a petrol station. The reason you came was probably to buy petrol (or cigarettes) so perhaps it might be important to tell the guy behind the counter that you have some. Instead, a surprising amount of people don't say a word, and then get annoyed when we don't charge them for petrol and they have to pay for it on a seperate transaction. Now, some people have argued "Why don't you ask the customers if they have petrol?" Well, the problem with that is that customers get annoyed and sometimes bemused that we ask them. This said, there is the sub species of the non mentioning customer which is the "My cashier is psychic" type. You ask, and they reply with "yup". And that's the most information you get out of them. Now, I found out something somewhat irrelevant to this blog, but since it happened at work, it's getting mentioned. It's impossible to make Boris Johnson look evil or even sinister. I do this a lot at work. I get bored easily. So I colour in people's eyes in the newspapers I am returning. Beats the hell out of paperwork! Anyway, I have discovered that colouring in people's eyes in black biro and then giving them black angry eyebrows tends to make people look sinister and evil. Not Boris! I even used marker pen on his picture. Nothing! For those who don't believe me, look at this picture I mocked up (badly) on an online paint program.  Ok, at first he looks evil, but then, look closer and he more resembles a pig yawning. I even picked yawning to give him an evil mouth. Nope. Just Boris yawning still. Boris, liked you anyway, but now I bow. A politician I cannot make look evil? Kudos to you Boris. Kudos to you. Lastly for today's entry, I want to talk about people who hide their pin numbers. Stop doing it! There are actually a couple of reasons why you should stop doing it. The first being, we can't see which numbers you are typing. Seriously. The plastic isn't really smoked glass. We just can't see through it. Secondly, honestly, we really don't care what your pin number is. Do you honestly think we're going to run after you and batter you to death so we can steal your money? No. Thirdly, and running on from the second point, if we really wanted to steal your money, the cashback system is so poorly designed, we could do it without you even noticing. Some are better than others, but sometimes cashback isn't including in your final price, so we could just whip £50 from your account and you would have no idea. Lastly, if we're looking away, as we should do when you enter your pin, do you really think we are going to sneak a look at what you're doing? I realise this shouldn't bug me, but to be honest, it makes me feel like they think I am going to steal all their money then run off to the Caribbean. Permalink | |
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