I’ve been having the strangest experience at work lately. I’m in the process of switching from evening/dinner work to morning/lunch work via the register. I’ve been pulling 11-hour days to make it happen, starting on the register, and clocking out after 10 from the dinner shift. I’ve noticed a couple things working as a cashier, something I haven’t done in six years:
- If you tell people you just started, 9 out of 10 times their demeanor totally changes from hungry, hurried, stressed out people, to comrades, friends that remember their first few weeks of work.
- More people choose bread with their soup in a bread bowl than you could ever fathom. Bread with my bread? Sure!
- This is the one that’s been weirding me out: Most people do not wait for me to tell them their total on their order before the shove money into my hand, be it cash or credit.
It’s been throwing me off. Now, I work where I do because it’s a product I feel good selling (benefits are nice too), so I can imagine wanting to get your food as soon as possible. But shoving money into a cashier’s hand. That never happened when I worked at a software store, not even when the X-Box and the Gamecube came out, two days when we had lines forming outside the store before we opened.
I’m still trying to rationalize why people push their money to me the way they do. I understand emotional attachment to food, being overweight and all. I understand being in a hurry. But couldn’t you wait one second for me to tell you your total?
Grant
Also, we get a lot of Zune guys in the store. Our store is near their facility. That’d explain the laptops with the Zune stickers. I’ve yet to see anyone not employed by Microsoft with a Zune stick on their, well, anything. Not in person.
