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Well today was not a good day! People irrated me, and get on my nerves. I am not a nice person today and I can admit that. I chose to be alone right now, because what I am feeling could spread. My daughter saw it in my eyes and my body expression when I came through the door. I cant shake it and I don’t think I want to shake it. Im in one of those funks where I want to stay here for a minute. Sounds familiar. Sometimes I like to write from these places to let out my feelings, and I know that others go through and feel the same way at one point and time of their lives.
It stared today at work with all these different rules. I work for Walmart and I cannot stand different rules to apply for that day, or the way management feels. I am a person who finds out what works for the system and use that. But at work its a new rule everyday, makes me know that I am working with unstable people. I have come to admire and accept change in anything, but my job……………………………..they get on my nerves.
Today Im working the 12 items or less lane. Keep in mind the counter is tiny, no belt to pull the groceries down or nothing. And thats cool because………………………………..its made for 12 items or less right? Well, Im ringing up people and I look in my line and there are people standing there with goo gobbs of groceries, and Im like “Ahmmmmmmmmmm excuse me maam but ahmmmmmmmmmmmm this is 12 items or less”. And she says “Oh I didnt know that”. So my coworker who is working the lane over from me, says “Oh Debbie took the stickers off all the 12 items or less lanes down here. Im like what??? that’s why all these people in this lane with all these items and the people that are use to using these outer registers are down here staring at me like “dang aint she gon say something to these people”. So I looks at the sign for myself and yelp, its gone. Our store manager removed the signs. So Im pissed. People are staring at me, people are getting into it with each other because they are ready to leave.
So for those who knows me………………I dont talk to the other cashiers or run my mouth about things, so I went straight to the Debbie and said “May I talk to you for a minute are you busy?” She reads my facial expression and stops in her tracks, and says No im not busy go head.” So I say Debbie did you take the 12 items or less sticker down from those lanes down there? She says yes, because blah blah blah and yada, yada, yada. So Im looking at her like hurry up and finish so I can say my little bit. So I say well Debbie, its hard to work that lane when people are use to that as being 12 items or less, and people are getting in that lane with 2 baskets full of stuff and there is no room with only 3 bag spinners. I said and on top of that people are staring at me like “hurry up”! I have to go and get an extra basket to put that stuff in, and while Im ringing the 3 bags are filled up, and instead of the customer getting a basket and putting that in the cart, she is steady trying to put groceries on that little as counter. I WAS SO IRRATED! So she goes into all this stuff I dont understand, cause I look at it like this. Im the cashier, you are the manager, dont sit your ass in your office with all these MAN MADE ON THE SPOT rules that don’t apply to you, BUT to me the person who has to deal with the customers. I feel if she took that sign down that was there since the store opened 5 years ago, and she just been here 5 months (if that much) then you are trying to say something different from what was on that sign. Right? If she agreed to that sign, then she wouldn’t have taken it down. Anyway she saw how I wasnt feeling her. I have learned to make UGLY faces before I open my mouth and say something foul. Then she says do you understand? And Im like NOPE. She wanted me to get it so bad, but I wasnt feeling her, and the way my face was looking told her to just stop talking, cause Im never going to understand her decision, especially if she aint the one working that lane.
I have come to the conclusion that I have rules in my house, in my car, in my office, in my room. That store is her store. She has her own rules, you can either deal with her rules, or leave the premises. I understand that to the fullest. Everyone have rules as the owner or person in charge of any situation. So, what saying that, if Debbie wants to keep the signs down, thats cool with Lacrease. I cant do anything about it. I even told her that I wasnt trying to change her mind on it, but that I wanted to understand the motivation behind her decision. Im not a person who wants to change a persons mind, but if it in any way effects Lacrease, I want to know the motivation, even if I dont understand it. But the bottom line is we all have rules that we must follow. There is no reason to get bent out of shape about it. Thats why we must always pray for understand, wisdom and knowledge. So for now on……………… Lacrease will not be working from that register again. I feel that if I have to scan the items, put them in only 3 bags, go and find another cart to put those bagged items in as the customer fills the counter up, then I have to go back and start scanning, put 3 more bags into the cart and repeat this routine over and over and over with the same customers, than I rather you put me at a register with a long belt, and 8 bag racks. Lets stop playing! I dont have time for that mess.
((((( Deep Breathe))))))
Then this woman came through my line and asked me how many batteries does this thing take? Am Im like maam I dont know you have to look at the box! Thats just deep to me, you sit here buy this stuff, and right on the box it will tell you all the things you need, especially batteries. It was just amazing how people expect for you to know about all the items you ring up. Then this kills me they say. ……………… “Maam I left my bag…………. YOU didnt give it to me!!!!!!! And you know me. I said “Maam…..NO YOU LEFT YOUR BAGS………. YOU DIDNT PICK THEM UP!!!. You paid your money and walked out without your grocerys. I always say, I grab my grocerys when I shop!!! And I say it in a way where they laugh. Whats the use in saying something and they dont receive it? I am sarcastic, but I say it in a way where you understand where Im coming from. Cause you just aint gonna blame me for YOU leaving your groceries. But do you know when you say that to them, they get mad???? They rather blame you. Thats just deep. Just admit that you forgot your dayum bag.
Thennnnnn this gurl come through my line taking forever. I am a fast cashier. I ring fast, and I pay attention to everything I ring up. Every now and then I may not hear the beep and ring 2 times, but I always catch it. But this gurl got on my nerves so bad, till I rung her stuff up so fast it made her head spin.
She wanted to ramble through her items in the basket, and there are 50 people in line behind her. Im like gurllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll if you don’t hurry yo ass up!!!!!!!!
Then she wanted to talk to me, as if I am Amening her behavior. And you know me………..nothing saying a word, not responding, no eye contact, and face looking ugly. I cant sit up and talk with someone who is taking their time as if to say……..its my time, forget all yall, its my money, my merchandise. NO! You cant do that in my line, you can’t act like you’re the only person who needs ringing up, you cant act like its just me, you and your stuff. NO, you will not treat my customers like that. Then when she realized how I never responded to her “game” she decided to take a looooooooong time getting her items off the bag turner. So you all know me by now, I grabbed a whole stack of bags, and rung up the people behind her. Then she just wont go away. She asks me if I can page her daughter to the front. Im saying to myself…………..she just wont be done. I never looked at her, but I ask my coworker if she could page her daughter for her, because I didn’t have a phone at my register.
Whew people can work my nerves sometimes. But you know as I look back on my day, I know 90% of my bad day was me. I am sooooooo friendly, I love kids, people, but today I was off the hook. Now in my good day, I wouldn’t have a story to tell because I handle everything in a positive way, even if they make me mad, I can always see light in the situation. But today…………………………it was not a good day for Lacrease.
Where works of the flesh exists, there is NO joy
