Oh, yeah, your job is SOOOOOOO difficult.......you have to be nice to your customers for the entire 5-10 min they each spend around you......I mean, c'mon, you deserve a freakin' medal! And the right to offend people!

Okay #181, I am assuming you have never worked as a cashier before. Everyone who has ever worked/is working as a cashier will agree with me - it's a hard, stressful job. Do you think it's easy to stand at that register for long periods of time, with a few, short breaks in between? It's not. I've had to work up to 11 hours, with a total of about 50 minutes of (unpaid) break time. I know that there's other people who have had worse. We have to stand up for all that time. Have you tried standing up for that long? Maybe you should try it, see how hard it can be. Now the actual job - in theory, it's pretty simple. You scan the items, place them in bags (if applicable) and collect payment for the goods. Sounds easy, right? Well, it's not. What with items not scanning correctly, angry customers, impatient customers, the machines breaking down, being understaffed and unable to serve all the customers quick enough, it quickly becomes a stressful job. Oh, and did I mention how you have to smile and be happy throughout all of this? And all of this for minimum wage? It's frustrating, and customers yelling and abusing you as you try to serve them quickly and just move on. Be happy for five to ten minutes while the customer is around you? You're forgetting the next customer, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one, until you have 8 hours of customers you need to be happy to. It's hard. That being said, I am not saying that ANY cashier has the right to offend people, but all I'm saying is that it hurts just as much when the customers offend US. They don't have the right either. And it happens. Mistakes happen, what this cashier did was wrong and probably could be a fireable offence - or at least a written warning - but he acknowledged his mistake and takes complete blame, and feels guilty. No need for nasty words and threats. I find the bags at work extremely hard to open without wet fingers, so we have water pads in order to open the bags better - but even then it's still hard, and customers have even more trouble, because they don't do it as often as me. Instead of telling them they're useless I normally joke with them that I'm useless at opening them too, or how the bags are designed poorly. This goes over MUCH better.

You're right, I've never worked as a cashier ......You know what I've worked as? A waitess in a bar! I would work 12 hours shifts, so yeah, I used to spend AT LEAST 8-9 hours on my feet (and I would spend that time rushing from one place to the other, not standing in the same place like a cashier does)........Sometimes, I had to "hold it" for hours simply because I couldn't even spare 5 min to get to the ladies room And you have to deal with angry customers? How about dealing with drunk customers ON A REGULAR BASIS.....You know, the kind that believe they are irresistable when they've had one to many....... and then they start offering you one night stands and try to put their filthy hands on you......Imagine how great of a job that is! And my boss didn't allow us to be rude to customers, so I had to decline politely and try to keep them away from me while still having a smile on my face.......while imagining how great it would feel to cut their hands off!!!! Not to mention the fact that EVERY SINGLE DAY I had to deal with at least a couple of clients who thought they had the right to treat me like s**t just because I was paid to serve them their drinks. And all of this so that I could earn some extra money during University........ And I've never ever insulted a customer! So, you see, everyone has to deal with stress at the job........ But not everyone chooses to be an a-hole!

I never said that we deserve to insult people. As I mentioned we shouldn't be able to insult people, and most of us don't - I'm just saying that a cashier job is hard, and I never said that it was the hardest job out there. It's just harder than you think, however knowing you have worked in a bar I think you can empathise with our job, as I can with you. We both have to deal with unruly customers, and we both have to do it with a smile on our face, on our feet for too long and paid shit. (I think, I'm not sure whether you get better pay or not, I don't know and it's pretty irrelevant anyway.) I agree with you that everyone has to deal with stress in their job - but in your first post implied that you thought a cashier job was easy, and I was merely telling you about how it isn't, but I would never dream for a minute it's the hardest job out there. I'm a cashier for a butchery and I am thankful that I am out the front of the store selling, because it's way more stressful out the back. All in all, OP was wrong, but not all cashiers do this. Infact I would be hard pushed to find a cashier would actually did this - at least not by mistake. We all know we have to be nice to the customers, no matter how hard it is, and as do you. I think everyone who has to deal with customers can agree that the job sucks :P But I'm thankful I HAVE a job, and so I'm not gonna rock the boat by being rude, just smile, and smile, and smile... and then be pissed once my shift is over. #188, the first day is ALWAYS the worst. ALWAYS.

Because this could NEVER happen, and never DOES happen, anywhere else in the world. I don't agree with what he did, but I don't agree with you bringing Americans into it. Way to be stereotypical.

It says this post is from Bristol. But yea I agree, I don't understand how we can have so much homework and STILL not be as smart as our neighbors all around the world. (this mostly applies to kids, 'cause the other day someone asked if Canada was a continent, and I'm just appalled.)

How is this stereotypical if he said 'Some' ?

Well, using that logic, #187, I guess I can say that "Some [black/gay/Asian/ethnic/choice group] of people can be [insert insult here]", and actually not got flamed. Yeah. Right. If you haven't noticed, it drives British people up a wall when people say, "Some Brits are really stupid." Same concept. But it's okay for them to sum "Some" of us up like that? Sorry, but saying "Some" before a stereotype is like people saying, "With all due respect, [insert insult here]." Or even better, "Hey Hey Taylor, I'mma let you finish, but...". Just because you say it with a "thought-out disclaimer prefix" doesn't make it any less hurtful. Better off just keeping his mouth shut if, regarding Americans, he's got nothing nice to say. Kind of like this FML. Haven't we learned anything yet?

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