⚡️The Retail, Customer/Food Service Sanity Thread.⚡️

[nuthatched]

Have you ever given them instructions on how to use the reader?

" If your card has a chip you can tap it on the center of the screen, or insert it in the slot at the bottom, if it doesn't have a chip, you can swipe it down on the right side....

Customer rubs card all over pin pad....

It taps on the center of the screen....

Customer rapidly beats card on
screen...

Just hold it in the center, please, it's slow today....there...perfect.....ah, it's asking you if you want any cash back today, if not, press the red button.

Which button?

The red button, yes.

............

Bottom right.

Okay, it's going to ask for your pin there.

I don't remember what it is.

If you want to bypass the pin to run as credit, press the green button....it has a circle on it.

Will I still get my cash back?

No, you can't get cash back when it's run as credit, but I believe you chose no cash back?

I didn't mean to choose that.

Ah, well, let me cancel this *looks at forming line* and we'll start over, just press the cash back amount on the screen you'd like.

*I try to call for register back up with our 'better than walky talkies', voice assisted communicators. They're basically hooked up to a really incompetent Alexa with a Canadian dialect.

Register backup!

HHmm, I'm sore-y, I didn't catch that. Please try again.

Register backup!

Rebecca is not logged in.

Regi-ster back up!!

Please say a command.

Register Backup!!!

Calling: Register Backup!

Finally.

Meanwhile, on planet Customer:

Where do I tap? Can I use apple pay for cash back?

 

[Beau plus penny]

To vent or share humorous stories and work related memes.

Our families are sick of hearing it.
We must preserve our sanity.

when a customer asks me if i work here. my vest literally says bomgaars in yellow letters.

 

[BoundlessLove]

when a customer asks me if i work here. my vest literally says bomgaars in yellow letters.

Are you still liking your job and getting the hang of it?

 

[Beau plus penny]

Are you still liking your job and getting the hang of it?

yup got to help co train the most recent new hire if im unsure of something i use my walkie bc i dont wanna lead customers on wild goose chases learned that wasnt good to do on the first week of work

 

[nuthatched]

when a customer asks me if i work here. my vest literally says bomgaars in yellow letters.

 

[nuthatched]

 

[Beau plus penny]

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another tumultuous happening that has occurred has to with my beef with the boxcutters i have currently.

the first one i got was free bc it was one of the free ones they give employees and that thing you have to push on a slidey thing to get the blade out so you can use it when you let go of the slidey thing its supposed to retract and it also gets jammed and doesnt go back in like it is supposed to.

so i decide to buy a new one i made the mistake of buying cheap and bought a 3 dollar black diamond cutter SUCKED EVEN MORE BLADE DOESNT even retrack so its a hazard cant have that

so now ive decided to get a dewalt one . im going to buy 2 different ones so i can decide which i like better theres this smaller compact one

and im also gonna get this one too its a little bigger

i have a feeling im going to end up liking the smaller one more since i have small hands for a guy

 

[Beau plus penny]

yesterday ilene was helping me move a pallet bc the pallet jack was blocked she on the opposite of the pallet after i let it down she goes

"what if i told you my feet where under the pallet"

i was like What

and then shes like

"IM joking"

i was like oh thank god you had be going for a bit

 

[FrostRanger]

Last year I walked into a discount store and had someone ask if I worked there. I was in shorts, a safety vest, a hunting jacket and had on a fanny pack and a bike helmet. I also was wearing a shirt for the hardware store I work at under my jacket which are a completely different color than the shirts the discount store employees wear. So of course I don't work there! Why would you even think that? Even if I did I certainly wouldn't be on the clock dressed like that!

 

[Beau plus penny]

Last year I walked into a discount store and had someone ask if I worked there. I was in shorts, a safety vest, a hunting jacket and had on a fanny pack and a bike helmet. I also was wearing a shirt for the hardware store I work at under my jacket which are a completely different color than the shirts the discount store employees wear. So of course I don't work there! Why would you even think that? Even if I did I certainly wouldn't be on the clock dressed like that!

based on the getup you described i can understand how someone might mistake you for an employee