I Work At A Grocery Store

in beautiful Anaheim California

[justin-introduction]

Retail Stories

When customers ask, “How do you know you don’t have this anywhere else?”

[ohmyretail]

Customers Be Like:

I see you’re working on something, I’m just going to go through it and undo your work. Don’t worry though I’m not going to buy any of it!

[weirdo-of-the-day]

Passing the Time on Shift Tip #2:

The stickers in your cash register drawer aren’t just for little kids, despite what management might keep telling you. They’re for muscle-bound men in tank tops. They’re for shy teenagers. They’re for businessmen in expensive suits and middle-aged soccer moms and biker guys with long beards and crooked-backed old people. Offer them to anyone and everyone you can. After all, you’ve been given an entire massive roll of stickers for a reason, right?

[talesfromacashier]

Me

[ogaycanyousee]

Hello I’m auditioning for the role of a retail worker and I will be singing “put that thing back where it came from or so help me” from Monsters Inc.

[fuck-customers]

No matter what you have, DO NOT just stick your hand by a cashier's legs to throw it away. Yes our garbages are by our feet, that does not mean you can pass your hand through my legs to throw away your tissue. Ask me & I will bring it out for you.

[lovelifestayingin]

if i had a dollar for every time i mentally told a customer to fuck off i wouldnt have to work this dumb retail job anymore

[realityisonlythebeginning]

If you want to know what Christmas in retail is like, my coworker just walked in to the staff room, screamed, then walked back out on to the shop floor.

[obviousplant]

I left some fake in-store coupons at the grocery store

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

reblog if you’ve ever been horrified by your own Customer Service voice

[c-bassmeow]

she is so FAKE 

[thisisnotharmless]

Speaking of linguistics, there’s one particular linguistic tick that I think clearly separates Baby Boomers from Millennials: how we reply when someone says “thank you.”

You almost never hear a Millennial say “you’re welcome.” At least not when someone thanks them. It just isn’t done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners, but because the polite response is “No problem.” Millennials only use “you’re welcome” sarcastically when they haven’t been thanked or when something has been taken from/done to them without their consent. It’s a phrase that’s used to point out someone else’s rudeness. A Millenial would typically be fairly uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” as an acknowledgement of genuine thanks because the phrase is only ever used disengenuously.

Baby Boomers, however, get really miffed if someone says “no problem” in response to being thanked. From their perspective, saying “no problem” means that whatever they’re thanking someone for was in fact a problem, but the other person did it anyway as a personal favor. To them “You’re welcome” is the standard polite response.

“You’re welcome” means to Millennials what “no problem” means to Baby Boomers, and vice versa.The two phrases have converse meanings to the different age sets. I’m not sure exactly where this line gets drawn, but it’s somewhere in the middle of Gen X. This is a real pain in the ass if you work in customer service because everyone thinks that everyone else is being rude when they’re really being polite in their own language.

[hinallie]

Something interesting to note is also the more literal meaning behind these two phrases and how they themselves differ and oppose each other

‘No problem’, coming from a millenials mouth, within the context of helping someone – whether it be holding a door open/picking up something someone may have dropped/ect. – and, naturally, being thanked for it, implies that the kind gesture was indeed, not a problem, that it was just the thing to do, that they were happy to help and that no thanks was really necessary.

While a Baby Boomer’s ‘You’re welcome’ in contrast, says something miles different, it actually highlights the fact that the person went out of their way to help someone; almost brings attention to it in a way, saying ‘Yeah, I helped you, I did you this favor I accept your thanks.’ which, malicious intent or not, is strikingly different than the millennial downplay of their act of kindness for the sake of helping someone.

[methlick-deactivated20180601]

Grocery stores after midnight r like some magical gateway to an alternate dimension where nothing else is real except for the super noodles on the shelf and the paper clip in your pocket

[squidyword]

*missed phone call from work*

me: ugh if they’re asking me to come in I’m not gonna do it 

*phone call from work*

manager: hey can you come in today

me: yeah, sure I’ll be there in a bit

[retailhell]

Lady, they are called digital deals for a reason. It's not our fault that you didn't understand the fact that they are digital and require the digital code and that you bought all your groceries accordingly to the stickers throughout the store. Yeah, the ones advertising the digital deals. Yelling at us doesn't help you get those deals. Threatening to walk out and leave the three [THREE!] carts of groceries because we won't give you the deals is a bit dramatic and very childish. Sorry that you didn't get the memo on the DIGITAL DEALS.

[customers-r-literally-the-worst]

So when can I pick up my Oscar for portraying the role of “grocery store employee who totally doesn’t want to murder you at ALL and honestly believes there’s no such thing as a stupid question”? Because I really think I’m due …

[fuck-customers]

I hate seeing those posts on tumblr that are like 'Reminder to be nice to retail workers this holiday!' because that shouldn't have to be a reminder.

So much truth!

[customers-r-literally-the-worst]

Shouldn’t just be limited to the holidays, either.