[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “ADDITIONAL CASHIERS TO THE FRONT LANES.”

Bottom Text: “NO!”]

Ugh. Let’s just face it. As soon as you submit yourself to being a backup cashier, you know you’re not going to get back to the Salesfloor or whatever you were just doing, for at least twenty minutes. 

Even if my light is off, people pile up their stuff on my belt, and I have to constantly keep telling them that I am closed, so that I can attempt to run off to get back to all the crap I have to get done.

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “SHOES.”

Bottom Text: “SHOES EVERYWHERE.”]

Oh god. The Shoe department. Do I need to continue? Shoes everywhere. On the floor, on the benches, under the benches, stuffed in corners, crap dumped here and there, and shoes. THEY’RE NEVER ON THE ACTUAL RACKS. EVER.

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “EXPLAIN STORE EXCHANGE POLICY TO CUSTOMER BEFORE RINGING UP THEIR ITEMS.”

Bottom Text: “SO HOW MUCH IS IT?”]

this happens to me every time i’m a cashier. i’ll explain the store exchange policy to the customers, and then immediately after they’ll ask me what their total is. like i can just look at what they’ve put in front of me and i can visualize their total without ringing them up

I can’t even express how much this pisses me off. If I need to take off from work to do something or because I have other plans I have to know and put in three weeks in advance even though it is really suppose to be just two. Whatever, it is annoying but I could deal with that except for the fact that they can change your schedule up to the day before so if I had made plans they can fuck them up and there is nothing I can do about it unless I had specifically asked for that day off three weeks ago.

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “Work in outside garden area - no dogs allowed.”

Bottom Text: “Tell customer it’s store policy. “I don’t care”.”]

STORY TIME!

The cashier sees her comes in and asks me to go let the customer know politely that we can’t allow dogs. I go and inform the customer who keeps saying “I’m only looking for a minute, do you not want me to purchase anything?” And after I say it’s store policy she says “I don’t care” and walks away.

So I go back to the cashier and we switch spots since she’s slightly more aggressive than I am.  The cashier does the same thing, saying the dog could bite, etc. and that we don’t allow it.

In the end the customer ignored three of us, continued shopping and a manager couldn’t get out in time to do anything and laughed at our “reasons’ for no dogs allowed (biting, aggressiveness and allergies).

It was just really frustrating. She said she wouldn’t return so that’s something I guess.

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “Carrying toy sword to put away”

Bottom Text: “Are you security?”]

I told him that he better be on his best behavior because we start chopping at the wrists.

This little boy who was no more than 7 or 8 years old said this to me, and I told him “thanks, I do!” to which he added, “I feel bad because you have to work like, 24/7!”

All I could think was OH MY GOD I WANT TO HUG THIS CHILD.

I never even told him I have 2 jobs (one during the day and one overnight), and for a little kid to acknowledge me like that totally made my day. 

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “WORKING AT REGISTER #1.”

Bottom Text: “CUSTOMER STANDS AT REGISTER #2.”]

I work at a women’s clothing store that has 2 registers at the back of the store.   Unless it is really busy, we only have one person on register, and we just use whatever register we want.  For some reason people don’t understand the concept of a line when we only have one person on register. I will be on register #1 and while ringing one person out, another person walks up to register #2 and plops their stuff down.  Even after I am done ringing the first person, I say I can help the next person… these people wont move.  I will have to keep switching registers because people are either too lazy or too stupid to come to the register I am at. 

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “HEAR OTHER ROBINS COMPLAIN ABOUT ONLY GETTING 20 HOURS A WEEK”

Bottom Text: “LUCKY TO GET A SINGLE 4 HOUR SHIFT A WEEK”]

I don’t mean to be a jerk to any people who complain about getting around 20 hours; I understand some people desperately need money more than others. However, it’s still disheartening to see some people are still unhappy with getting about 5 times as many hours as me and some of my coworkers usually get, even with open availability.

This is for all the Robins who have to deal with nasty bra money.