Notice To Challenged Customers

Sent in from Tama, who writes:

I cooked up this vest for the dumbasses through my lane.

On Halloween night, I cut my light off at five minutes before I was supposed to leave for break which we are allowed to do.

I was supposed to leave in an hour and a half to go home, so I wanted to get my break over.

For forty plus minutes people kept coming through my line and refusing to listen to "I need to leave."

So I put up my lane closed sign when I was supposed to leave.

Nothing.

A FULL FUCKING LINE full of supposedly half-educated college students who apparently didn't know how to fucking read a lane closed sign.

It got ignored until a couple more lanes around me opened...

I didn't clock out until almost 30 minutes after I was supposed to leave!

Comments

[Tarula]

I can't believe how many times this has happened to me too! I've even seen a whole queue of people waiting at an empty checkout with nobody operating there which really made my day. How can these people be such idiots?

[Megan]

Oh, I feel your pain. It gets so bad that sometimes the managers have to be notified and physically come down to the registers and herd all the customers to a different line.

[Eric]

You must be under one of those sorts of contracts that prevents you from saying something like "I'm sorry Ma'am/Sir/Both/Neither, my line is closed."

I mean, if it were only because they wouldn't listen to your statements of closure, you could just ignore them and walk away. I do that all the time.

[Wal-mart slave]

Agreed, Eric. I even find the last person to join my line before light's out, tell them they're the last person and have THEM turn other customers away. It's empowering...

[Twink]

I'm with Wal-Mart Slave (me too BTW) on this one. I shut off my light, and stick up the Lane Closed sign, along with telling the last customer in line that they're it, and they have permission to say what they want to anyone who gets in line behind them, in the event I don't see them.

There's this Asian couple who come in all the time, and I love when they're in my line. One night, they were my last customers before I went home. Someone got in line behind them, and before I could say ANYTHING, the man turned and pointed at my light, which was off, and said

"Myiagi say, light on: lane open. Light off: lane closed"

(for the record both of them speak english perfectly).

My entire line literally cracked up laughing, me included. Totally made my night!!!

[Matt]

I can't stand it when people do that. Working at Tim Hortons now (thank god) which is a coffee shop, I don't have to deal with that. But when I worked at a grocery store, I remember people doing this all the time, especially near Christmas. I would tell them that I was closed, often resulting in a sigh, snort, rolling of eyes, and/or rude comment, and then them leaving. But one time, someone came back AFTER I sent them away, and told me "no, I was here BEFORE you shut your light off. You will serve me". I walked away. The look on his face was pretty priceless.

And for the record, we had lineups at vacant registers before. Idiots think that a customer is at a checkout, it MUST be open.

[Kat]

OMIGOD Another timmies worker! *lahvs on* Although it ain't a picnic there, either.... way better than some places though, bahaha xD