Everything You Wanted to Know About How It's Like Working in Supermarket
How it’s like working in a supermarket? I would tell you this.
Supermarkets are noisy as hell or polniy pizdets!
Every time I go there to perform my cashier’s duties, I must interact with my colleagues and customers that make me hear miscellaneous stuff all the time.
Interaction with colleagues is quite boring. It rarely goes beyond greetings and job-related questions. We are all busy or because we are simply afraid to get in trouble for discussing that some customers are nice while others are not (and sometimes they are complete douchebags) depending on what attitude they demonstrate. We rarely do it. But if we may look indifferent or rather look kind and indifferent at the same time to what we hear there is always a place for the impression a customer left. Especially in such an overcrowded and noisy environment.
Supermarkets remind jungles. The only difference is that the monkey’s screams and lions’ growls and other sounds are made by humans. They range from regular greetings and partings to complaints, jokes, small talks between me, them, and with someone, they speak on the phone.
One time a girl came to pick up a pack of napkins. The pack was damaged, and she knew it because before coming she called our store and spoke with the manager who agreed to give her a discount. Good deal, right? But when she saw the item (it looked slightly battered but not damaged) my ears had no choice but to embrace her angry remarks. “It’s horrible!” and “what’s wrong with that store?!” which was so loud it had muffled the background music, so I agreed with her. It’s so wrong we have so quite dynamics.
Another loud moment happened when one old lady yelled “I want to complain! What’s your name?” at me because for a moment (like 5 seconds) I approached another customer to ring him up quickly since he had one item. She then screamed the classic “Jesus Christ!” to what I replied that my name is not Jesus Christ but Tom and that she can speak with a manager if she is upset. Fortunately, she quickly left the store feeling embarrassed about how other customers looked at her.
Supermarkets can be dangerous.
A guy started a verbal fight over a pack of chips he thought I charged him extra. I really did but voided it right away and notified him. The receipt showed the void item which confused and pissed him off. “You charged me extra! Or you can’t read?” he yelled. “Don’t talk to me like that,” after what he asked when I finish my shift. Excuse me? I will (fire you with my Kalashnikov I wanted to say) call cops. “What? No justice! No peace! Persecute the police!” I wish he could say waving his arms because I would laugh my ass off from this. Gladly, I settled the situation. He got he was confused and quickly left the store (for some reason he didn’t want to see the manager). I didn’t let him mock me and stood for what’s right (yet I don’t mind admitting I am wrong when I am wrong). It’ll over, but that evening I must confess I was afraid to go outside. You never know what people are up to when they lose their temper.
So, you got the idea of what it’s like working in a supermarket.
How can you stay positive after this? Sometimes we get good words that make us have a sincere, not corporate smile.