Would you have said something?

Grimmerick
Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
edited November 20 in Chit-Chat
So my husband came back from the grocery store yesterday and told me about a scene he had just witnessed where a couple were trying to return something at the checkout counter for more than it was worth. The young female cashier was polite and tried to explain the price but also that they would have to do the return at the customer service counter. The woman in the couple starts yelling at her calling her a B and a C and says you're treating me this way because I am black (over and over) and her man says that the cashier needs to treat them like human beings, they are yelling at her very loudly and making a scene and this little girl is near tears. Finally they storm up to the customer service counter and make a scene there before leaving. Things like that blow my mind.......would you have stepped in or minded your own business? I'm not sure what I would have done, because you can't predict crazy.
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  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    _har_T_Swallow wrote: »
    i'd have recorded it and posted it for everyone here to comment on

    lol I will tell my husband to whip out his phone next time
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  • browneyedgirl749
    browneyedgirl749 Posts: 4,984 Member
    People don't understand they look like complete *kitten* when they make accusations like they were and them not be true. I usually laugh at people like that and shake my head. I don't get involved because that would put me in the "look stupid" category with them. I do need to remember to take my phone out though and capture it, so all of social media can laugh along with me.
  • LeGaCyGiAnT91
    LeGaCyGiAnT91 Posts: 405 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    I've been yelled at for ridiculous things as a cashier before. It's not usually helpful for others to intervene (except a manager) even with good intentions. It is nice when the next person in line is like "don't worry you're doing a great job" or something

    I did this a few months ago. It was kind of a similar situation, except the people were trying to use coupons that the store didn't accept. I was sarcastic and was "Fake Yelling" at the girl. It made her laugh (as well as my daughter made her laugh from laughing at her crazy dad)

    People like this are simply trash to the world, and nothing more. Gotta love em. I feel bad for cashiers.
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  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    Nope. :/
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    I've been yelled at for ridiculous things as a cashier before. It's not usually helpful for others to intervene (except a manager) even with good intentions. It is nice when the next person in line is like "don't worry you're doing a great job" or something

    Yep, this. Unfortunately as a well meaning bystander you could get a cap in your *kitten* by intervening with those scumbags
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    I've been yelled at for ridiculous things as a cashier before. It's not usually helpful for others to intervene (except a manager) even with good intentions. It is nice when the next person in line is like "don't worry you're doing a great job" or something

    Yeah your prob right about that
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    edited August 2017
    Me when a customer would remind me that 'the customer is always right'

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    Also me

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  • browneyedgirl749
    browneyedgirl749 Posts: 4,984 Member
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Me when a customer would remind me that 'the customer is always right'

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    Also me

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    Years of customer service experience has proven that this is a lie! LOL!
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    I've been yelled at for ridiculous things as a cashier before. It's not usually helpful for others to intervene (except a manager) even with good intentions. It is nice when the next person in line is like "don't worry you're doing a great job" or something

    I get this serving, when people see others being *kitten* and they are like "we like you" or "theyre jerks" or something. People are good sometimes
  • captainfantastic94
    captainfantastic94 Posts: 1,745 Member
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Me when a customer would remind me that 'the customer is always right'

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    Also me

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    I have had this happen so few times, but we had a regular who was one of those people
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    _har_T_Swallow wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    I've been yelled at for ridiculous things as a cashier before. It's not usually helpful for others to intervene (except a manager) even with good intentions. It is nice when the next person in line is like "don't worry you're doing a great job" or something

    when i was working at the register at walmart before- this one lady screamed at me for like 5 mins because we didn't keep the propane tanks up by the registers

    what if she was right?
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    _har_T_Swallow wrote: »
    MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »
    I've been yelled at for ridiculous things as a cashier before. It's not usually helpful for others to intervene (except a manager) even with good intentions. It is nice when the next person in line is like "don't worry you're doing a great job" or something

    when i was working at the register at walmart before- this one lady screamed at me for like 5 mins because we didn't keep the propane tanks up by the registers

    what if she was right?

    If you're yelling at someone who works for the store and has nothing to do with propane tank placement then there is something not right with you and you are sure as hell not in the right. If you get your panties twisted over propane tank placement enough to scream in someones face then you got bigger problems.....I'm talking mental ones.
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    Nope but I would have alerted a supervisor somewhere of an out of control customer. Been there, done that. People always looking to get something for free and they'll raise a stink trying to do it hoping they can embarrass you until you say yes.
  • WanderingRivers
    WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
    Nope. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    _har_T_Swallow wrote: »
    i'd have recorded it and posted it for everyone here to comment on

    Ha .. good idea
  • michael1976_ca
    michael1976_ca Posts: 3,488 Member
    I wouldn't get involved unless it turned violent. I've seen how bad people can treat other people. it sad to see but I would usually just phone the cops but not if it was in the store
  • eJane13
    eJane13 Posts: 26 Member
    Anyone else work in hotels/hospitality? This happens all the time. Its crazy!
  • dc8066
    dc8066 Posts: 1,439 Member
    Nope, and I wouldn't recommend any interactions with an agitated a-*h*le, unless you are trained to do that. I'd call security and a supervisor.
  • MegBMin
    MegBMin Posts: 39 Member
    Yeahhhh....I can't help myself. I'm going to get myself punched in the face at some point, I'm sure. The latest was a lady at Walgreens who kept yelling and calling the pharmacist, "A Chinese looking b*&ch." I put her in her place and then helped her find whatever it was she was looking for that the pharmacist couldn't help her with right that second. Because apparently I'm a benevolent vigilante. (I know. I'm currently rolling my eyes at myself too). I'm not saying it's always the right thing to do, but I just get so flummoxed by people who get so worked up by things that I deem inconsequential that I have to intervene.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    eJane13 wrote: »
    Anyone else work in hotels/hospitality? This happens all the time. Its crazy!

    I used to, all through college. It was nuts.
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    I wouldn't of approached the situation but maybe find a manager. Idk people are really self serving *kitten*
  • Eat2Brute
    Eat2Brute Posts: 29 Member
    Not sure I would have done anything either besides enjoy the show and let the situation work itself out. I'd probably just have watched to make sure things don't get violent. I definitely don't want to be the kind of person that stands there, recording on my phone, like some doof.
  • FireTurtle75
    FireTurtle75 Posts: 2,014 Member
    I would have walked right up to where it was all going on to record it up close. Probably would have been a snarky butt hole to them on top of it & said don't mind me, I'm just recording so I can show the rest of the world how *kitten* stupid you two look.
    Yep, I don't mind screwing with someone's head when they are being a jack*kitten* for no reason at all to someone that doesn't deserve it.
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