Tuesday 27 October 2020

Have a nice day


I went into a bank last week and was heartened to see that the two cashiers who were working there were well over standard retirement age. The woman was in her 70s and the man not far behind her. I was heartened because the current crisis is beginning to make me feel that I am approaching the scrapheap, but I have to remind myself that I am far from alone in this. 

Our Waitrose staff are all trained to be very respectful and tolerant under what can be difficult circumstances, although I have noticed some of the younger members gritting their teeth when dealing with stroppy customers, and I don't blame them for that.

Recently I was going to the self-checkout and saw one of the much older, veteran Waitrose employees staring at the back of a middle-aged male customer who was leaving the shop by the front entrance.

As I got up to her, I heard her say quite loudly and viciously, "Yeah, that's right. Fuck off."

She immediately went up in my estimation, not least for making my day by giving me a good laugh.

23 comments:

  1. when the waitrose staff are swearing
    the country is in trouble

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    1. This happened before lockdown and this woman is what you might call 'local colour'.

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  2. Some customers are the pits! It is even worse now, even in Waitrose and Sainsbugs they treat the staff rudely..or just ignore them. A kind word doesn't cost anything.

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  3. HaHa! Great! Bless!
    I'm a Lidl's shopper..at least in there
    you can swear in most languages..! :).
    Don't use the self~checkouts..l break
    them for a pass time..well..not break them,
    but get charged 100's for twenty quids worth
    of groceries..! :(.

    Oh! And..you must have a laugh when shopping,
    l do, l often wonder why the staff disappear,
    upon my arrival..even wearing a mask, they
    recognise me..wonder how! :o).

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    1. I use Lidl as much as possible, but Waitrose is literally my corner shop.

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  4. I find both staff and customers are very friendly during these difficult times

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    1. This happened before the difficult times started.

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    2. Difficult times have improved some things.

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    3. True, but not in popular bars.

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  5. Scrap heap...no way! You've got edge and swag. Cashiers are dealing with all walks of life and they see it all. They should get front line battle pay.

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  6. I read a group of eight millennial men commenting about "killing off Grandma." Not one of the men stood against the comment. We are in trouble if that's the way they think of us.

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    1. Kill off grandma and pocket the inheritance. That's the way they see it. They think we're excess baggage, of no use any more, a drain on the tax payer, loaded with money that will only go on the care home fees when it could be used better to prop up their lifestyles. Frightening.

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    2. Uccidere la Nonna...Killing off Grandma..!
      What ever next..Where l'm from..Nonna is
      'HEAD' of the household..!
      Nonna is the true head of the Sicilian family,
      she's old and wise, sometimes she's called
      Nonnina (little grandmother)...! ;)

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    3. I have circumvented these difficult situations by engineering it so I have nothing to leave but a car which needs more money spent on it than it is worth.

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  7. Once we went to an Italian restaurant. The waitress was a pisser. She was furious when she got to our table. She was sharp and rude. The final straw was that she had forgotten our bread. When I requested bread, she stormed off and came back with the bread basket which she threw on the table. We left a small tip. She followed to the parking lot screaming

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    1. I went to an Indian (Bangladeshi) restaurant once where the waiter was so rude that when he delivered the chapattis he threw them on the table so hard, the slid across, hit the window and landed under the table.

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  8. In the days when the business phone was on the wall, my sister kept her customers in a card file. Next to a few names was a circle with a dot in the middle. I asked about it once and learned she disliked that person. The symbol was "asshole". Now that phones are in our hands, I asked what she used to indicate a hard to deal with person and she said, sadly, all she's come up with is a zero. 0

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    1. I think that you can get an emoji for that these days.

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  9. A man is at the checkout at the supermarket..
    He gives the cashier his groceries..
    1 chicken breast, 1 potato, 1 carrot, 1 tomato,
    1 bread roll, and 1 beer..

    The cashier asks "are you single?"

    He says "yes, how did you know?"

    She replies "you are really ugly!"

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