I feel you on the voucher thing. Reading/listening comprehension is, unfortunately, rather low with the Special Snowflake crowd.
Same with the inventory thing. I was a grocery cashier for 8.5 yrs. Occasionally we'd have a sale, "Four Coke twelve-packs for $10," or something similar. I could see a customer had four separate Coke products in their basket, but they'd only hand me the Coke, and tell me to ring it up four times. Well, if I do that, it screws up the inventory. We end up ordering a metric fuckton of Coke, much less diet Coke, much less Sprite, etc. Then the ppl who like Sprite start complaining about "how fast we ran out" of Sprite, and why do we have so much Coke? If the cashier asks you to give them all four items, so the cashier can ring them all up individually, there's a reason for that! Please just do it...
Yeah. Its a common thing to say the movie starts at 1:00 or whatever when thats when the trailers start and the real thing is at 1:20. It does help with people who are perpetually late tho.
I prefer arriving before the house lights go down, even though it means I sit through fifteen minutes of ads/previews before the actual movie starts. I have terrible eyesight, and it's very difficult for me to see in low/no light. It's much easier for me to find a seat when the lights are still up. I can always send my husband to get popcorn, or we can sit and chat, before the actual movie starts.
Sometimes the previews are important to people, they actually now advertise that a preview for this-or-that is going to be shown in connection with a film. Other times, as OP said, they're a nice buffer so you don't miss your actual movie. Not that it excuses acting like a petulant five-year-old.
I love when I'm the customer instead of the employee now. I love that I can tell off the person acting like an idiot without fear of retaliation. Unless I think someone is insane or dangerous, I don't just make a sympathetic face...I do something because you're wrecking my service too. I love it even more when the rest of the sheep observing were seeming just waiting for someone to take the lead and chide in.
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Same with the inventory thing. I was a grocery cashier for 8.5 yrs. Occasionally we'd have a sale, "Four Coke twelve-packs for $10," or something similar. I could see a customer had four separate Coke products in their basket, but they'd only hand me the Coke, and tell me to ring it up four times. Well, if I do that, it screws up the inventory. We end up ordering a metric fuckton of Coke, much less diet Coke, much less Sprite, etc. Then the ppl who like Sprite start complaining about "how fast we ran out" of Sprite, and why do we have so much Coke? If the cashier asks you to give them all four items, so the cashier can ring them all up individually, there's a reason for that! Please just do it...
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*I know of only one big chain store in town that rings items by price instead of scanning UPCs.
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Yeah asshole, it's not just all about you.
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