I worked 8:10-6:28. Yay.
I was filling yogurt and this woman asked for some raspberry yumberry carb masters. First she asked for a case, then she was like, "If you have two I'll take two." We didn't have any, honestly. So I told her so and she got all upset and huffy. I told her I could special order her some to make sure she got it. No response, just more huffy "Well you normally have lots of it!" Not on first of the month. You come in first weekend of the month and expect there to magically be two cases awaiting you? She asked when more comes in, I said tomorrow but I don't know how many will come in so if she wanted me to special order her some... she was like, "Will it be here by tomorrow?" No. Duh. And if you wanted it by a certain date you should have maybe thought of this before the day before you needed it.
I was checking and my left arm had been hurting and actually kinda numb feeling so I really didn't want to lift it much. The way the checkstands face is so your left arm is towards the first belt and your right arm is towards the bagging area. And cruel people insist on loading the belt wrong.
1. Do not ever ever put something on top of something else. Do not stack.
2. Do not load the belt so all the groceries are on the part that's furthest from the checker making them lean over the belt to reach stuff. This made my arm pain even moreso.
3. Put packs of soda and water so that all I have to do is drag it across the scanner. I don't want to have to pick it up, try to stop the belt from advancing, pushing all your other groceries back, to turn it so I can scan it.
4. Put other things decently faced. Make sure all scan bars are face down, make sure things like boxes of cereal are faced the right way to just slide across the scanner instead of having to turn them. Imagine a square. And the box of cereal/crackers/hamburger helper/whatever is across it like this: | - | See, the two outer lines are the outside of the square and the horizontal like is the box. That is how the belt should be loaded, same with the soda.
5. Load it how you want it bagged. If you put your bread up first and then your canned goods don't be surprised if your bread is squished. If you want your cold food together put it on the belt together. If you want your produce together put it on the belt together.
6. Let me repeat: Put food as close to the side the checker is on as possible and do not ever put anything so far out that I have to stand on my tiptoes to reach across the belt to try and get. I don't check often but if I did I probably would have lost the ability to use my left arm due to this one.
This one woman had her dogfood balanced precariously on the edge of her cart so I reached over to scan it with our handy scanguns and she let me. She watched me stand on my toes to reach over and scan. She had two bags so I scanned both. Then as soon as I finish that she says in a slow, I enjoy torturing others voice, "Oh, those go on my other order, I have two." So I have to reach back over to take them off. Just barely done with that she rushes out that she wants some cigarettes or other and we were out so I had to walk all the way back to tell her that and offer one of the other kinds we did have.
To the person who wanted double paper for her order: I can't wait for the day when your grandchild will come up to you like, "Gramma, I saw this word in a book and I don't know what it is..." and you're all, "What's the word?" and the kid's like, "Tree."
Same to everyone else who asks for paper. There is no reason for paper.
"So it doesn't roll around in the car." Yeah cause those tall bags of paper aren't going to fall over. Since plastic kinda, you know, settles in and stays put.
"Cause it's got handles!" Guess what, plastic does too! And unlike paper bags the handles aren't held on by scant amounts of glue, and they don't rip off at the barest touch.
"Cause I got cold food." Any elementary science teacher can tell you plastic works better for cold food.
"Cause they're sturdier than plastic." Wait, what's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of this paper bag ripping as I open it.
Also, people who want paper often have orders that are impossible to get into paper correctly without using four times as many bags as you would with plastic. And sometimes they're old ladies who want them loaded light. Which means about a good 2/3 of the bag is empty. All that wasted paper.
And then I checked out the trashy overweight couple who bought a 337 dollar foodstamp order. And they got some singles of beer. ...which they kept out to drink on the way home.
I was about 10 hours in and this older guy was by the eggs and I was doing yogurt and he said, "What's this!?!!" and gestured at a case of eggs someone had left open that had some broken ones in it. I said, "Well, looks like there's some broken eggs there." and went back to work.
Also, how hard is it to read the signs over the aisles? If you want car air fresheners and all the grocery items appear to be on one side of the frozen aisles and all the nonfoods items on the other side of the aisles why not try reading all three of the non-foods signs? I believe car air fresheners would fall under that handy sign what says "Automotive".
Turns out corporate isn't coming in till 11 tomorrow so I skipped sweeping and mopping. I'll do it in the morning. I worked 10 1/2 hours today that's good enough for me. I went ahead and got an overpriced markdown sandwich from the deli for my break today cause I really wanted one. It was markdown cause it was expiring today.
Oh, and I was doing the grocery shelf review and this woman was apparently having trouble finding something. So she ignores my presence and doesn't ask me anything and instead walks by talking really loudly about how much she hates this store because she can't find anything anymore. I was amused. I was even more amused when the woman who was behind her came over to me and, quite politely and nicely, asks me where something was, to which I politely and nicely answered.
Reminds me of another time with a similar situation where they were talking about not being able to find something or other. Then they walked away muttering something about rude. So I'm rude if I eavesdrop but I'm rude if I don't? They're the ones who chose not to address me with human courtesy. It's not my job to magically overhear everything you say and turn to you with sparkling smile and tell you where it is without you having to *gasp* ask me.
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