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Have you noticed how incredibly SLOW(not talking about brain capacity, I'm talking about movement) some people can be. I went to the grocery store sunday to buy a bag a charcoal for a cook out and I was there 20 minutes in the check out line with ONLY two people in front of me. The cashier moved slower than any human being I have ever seen before. I know some of the reason for it is that I am always in a hurry but my god why cant people go a little faster. It just seems like everyone is just SO lazy anymore and the worst part of it is that its getting worse or at least it is in my opinion.
(Also if there is any typos in there, its because its about 2:35 AM here which is a time I'm usually asleep but I am sick right now and can't sleep)

Im not sure about that.
Most people I see, are always in a hurry to go somewhere.
Even if its to a red light, while driving.

Im not sure about that.
Most people I see, are always in a hurry to go somewhere.
Even if its to a red light, while driving.

Ditto.

In fact, I love it when people ARN'T in a hurry. Everyone's always rushing about, they need to calm down a bit, bring it down a notch, you know?

I just got served at a sandwich bar by a guy who very obviously wanted to be anywhere on earth but working there. If he wasn't the slowest person I've ever been helped by, he was among them.

I agree. Many people in the service industry behave as though the customer is making a severe dent in their social schedules. And I work in the service industry, so I would know.
I have to say it's a generational thing. A lot of young people have no respect for ... er, well, anything really. It's either that or the checkout person really was slow, meaning, mentally handicapped. In which case I guess you have to blame the liberals for having the audacity to give the person a job as opposed to having them institutionalized or out on the street panhandling.

Funny though, I went to the grocery store today and the guy who was bagging my $175.00 worth of foodstuffs (when did inflation go up so much so soon BTW? I haven't spent more than $110 in an outing and I buy the same garbage every week.) ... was retarted. Literally, he had Down's Syndrome I think, though I'm no expert. Anyway, we had a hoot bagging my groceries. He's like, "I'm fast. I have two bags done."
Mind you, I was still putting crap up on the belt while he was doing this. So I decided to have a race.
"I'm fast too." I said. "I used to bag groceries too, you know."
And it was a game until we both reached for the same box of Da Vinci spaghetti and he smacked my hand out of the way so I cocked back my right fist ready to.... okay THAT didn't really happen.
But, the checkout girl during all of this was so unresponsive to polite coversation and I could tell by the look on her face that all she cared about was getting out of there so she could screw her boyfriend in the parking lot and then go have her nails done at the Korean place in the Mall.

I'm not exactly sure what the moral of the story is here, execpt that I have a lot more repect for people with mental handicaps, than those who don't, who are in the service industry.
Which I suppose says a lot about me.
Hmmm...

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Until recently, it was assumed in the UK that you 'd bag your own shopping, but in the last couple of years they've started asking "Would you like help with your packing?" - which really annoys me. They're not allowed by their internal rules to use their own judgement about who they offer this to - so instead of customers being treated as individuals we're just boxes to get ticked.

I hate other people packing my shopping - they've no idea how I like it done, they keep wrapping things up in more and more layers of plastic (why on earth does a couple of baking potatoes need to be bagged?) and put it in all the wrong order for an easy unpacking and putting away session when I get home.

I wish they stop trying to copy the Americans and just ask when it looks appropriate. Customers Services says it's Head Office, Head Office say that "Customers like it" - though I've yet to meet one who does.

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I always bag my own groceries because I've found that I'm the only competent bagger in the known world. If I don't personally put every single thing I purchase in a bag, invariably some bread product is crushed.

Being a checker is dispiriting work. The same old repetitive task, the usually distracted customers who are more concerned that they may be overcharged, the same lousy paycheck at week's end but with bills going higher all the time. It's not a realm with a whole lot of creativity or growth involved. More to be pitied than disparaged.

Who wouldn't rather be elsewhere, especially if the alternative is banging your bangee or doing something pleasing?

If you'ld rather bag your own why not preempt the conversation and just say so from the beginning? If you place your items on the counter in the order you would like them bagged then it works pretty well, especially if you bag your own. If not still put the bread, eggs & such up last. Been doing it for years & it works for me.

Have you noticed how incredibly SLOW(not talking about brain capacity, I'm talking about movement) some people can be. I went to the grocery store sunday to buy a bag a charcoal for a cook out and I was there 20 minutes in the check out line with ONLY two people in front of me. The cashier moved slower than any human being I have ever seen before. I know some of the reason for it is that I am always in a hurry but my god why cant people go a little faster.

Move to New York. We still have slow people but we have lots more people who get mad about it. :headbang:

Lots of people say New Yorkers are rude because they're so impatient. I say they're politely offering encouragement to those who lack the energy to go about their day with requisite vigor. :D

The pace of life is too fast. People need to slow down... *sighs* I'd want to live in Okinawa, and far away from those noisy US bases...

Why do people walk into the road just because some silly green sod says they can? That gets on my wick. If I ever see the Green Man I tell you...

People move slow when they need to be moving fast - and people move fast when they need to be moving slow.

Lotsa American chains have actually gotten systems that allow you to check your own stuff out. Its actually kinda cool.

Move to New York. We still have slow people but we have lots more people who get mad about it. :headbang:

Lots of people say New Yorkers are rude because they're so impatient. I say they're politely offering encouragement to those who lack the energy to go about their day with requisite vigor. :D

With all that "city that never sleeps" its no wonder they dont have any vigor, I havent been to New York in forever, but one thing I remember was that the noise made by the city, even at night, was terrible.... I couldn't sleep it was so loud.

'course I've always been a suburb person.

Being a checker is dispiriting work. The same old repetitive task, the usually distracted customers who are more concerned that they may be overcharged, the same lousy paycheck at week's end but with bills going higher all the time. It's not a realm with a whole lot of creativity or growth involved. More to be pitied than disparaged.

Who wouldn't rather be elsewhere, especially if the alternative is banging your bangee or doing something pleasing?

If you'ld rather bag your own why not preempt the conversation and just say so from the beginning? If you place your items on the counter in the order you would like them bagged then it works pretty well, especially if you bag your own. If not still put the bread, eggs & such up last. Been doing it for years & it works for me.

Your bangee? That's great.

I had to resist the urge earlier today to beat the living crap out of three slack-jawed dickheads in my local supermarket who thought, because they were a goup of three, they could bring 24 items through the "8 items or less" express lane.

Read the f**king sign, morons! That big, illuminated sign that says 8 ITEMS OR LESS. I felt like throwing a can of soup at the back of their heads...

People move slow when they need to be moving fast - and people move fast when they need to be moving slow.
Actually, I move at just the right speed. Most others are too slow, and the remaining group is too fast. ;)

Actually, I move at just the right speed. Most others are too slow, and the remaining group is too fast. ;)

First rule of driving in Massachusetts: Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac.

Cut us cashiers some slack. (Thankyou Slap Happy Lunatics)

I put up with constant bullshit for hours, even though i'm in training, I am constantly reminded how worthless I am...How slow I am...and how not to pack eggs with soft drink (No shit, Sherlock...). It still happens to the people who have been working there for years.

I actually had a person BREAK my conveyor belt by loading it with 20+ bottles of softdrink. I copped the blame, despite it being my second shift and was warned not to let it happen again or I pay for the damage (though, the more senior manager told me not to worry about it and it was all cool). Not to mention the irate customers that followed, one of who told me that the service was "fucking pathetic".

Then, the time when I had a person pull up with 2 trolleys (217 items, most of them large) and get flustered when I was taking a while...

Oh yes, and there was the child who got his finger stuck in a donation tin....once again, I cop the abuse from the customers for holding up the line. And all this time I have to put on a happy face, apologise humbly, and never lose my cool. (it gets easier with time)

I love people.

Now Enodscopia, It was probably the poor bastard's first shift, possibly of his first job...I've only been working at a supermarket for a bit over a month and i've already put up with all this crap.

So people, just remember that when someone offers to pack your groceries, it's just their job, they don't mean to intrude on your life or insult you. And personally, now I work at a supermarket, I can totally understand why some service people are rude at times. Yes, it's a dead-end job and some of you may enjoy feeling superiority over someone who packs groceries for some scab money on the side...but bear in mind that a lot of people who work there are university students and could have a better education than you do :p

(Though I have to say after all that, the pay, being a casual employee and especially in comparison to other jobs available for people my age, does go some way to alleviate the frustration...I can stand a few hours of hardship in exchange. ;) And not everyone is rude, most people are nice, but naturally, you remember the arsehole customers more)