Coffee Custy Lets Self In After Closing, Demands To Be Served

Not even going to say it.

Call me LadyLatte, cause I make a mean one, no matter how convoluted you try and make it just for the pleasure of tripping me up.

As you can guess from my name, I work at a coffee shop cafe part-time. The food rocks and the boss feeds us for free when we work, the boss rocks and so do some of my coworkers, and I really like the money I make. That said, I have a short tale of WTF to tell.

It was a Sunday, and we closed at 1 p.m. It was 2:15, and I was still there because we clean the place TOTALLY after every shift. The chain was up on the door, of course, and the signs were flipped to close. All lights were off. A woman walks in and sits down at a table, and as soon as I notice her I tell her we closed at 1.

"What?? That's way too early! I want lunch!"

I informed her that on Sundays we don't serve lunch at all and only have a breakfast menu. I - politely as I can - ask her how she got in "As I'm sure I put the chain up on both doors."

She says "Well, I took it down."

Sure enough, she did.

The chain was lying on the ground.

WTF???

Why do people do that?

Isn't that a really obvious symbol for closed, go away??

--LadyLatte

 

Comments

[The Last Archimedean]

I would have, as gently as I can, guided her back to the door, closed it and chained it, and suggested that she was lucky I didn't have her arrested for trespassing.

If she took the chain off again, I WOULD call the cops and have her arrested for trespassing. That's completely insane.

I know the hours my favorite places open and close and would never dream of wandering in an hour late, removing a chain to get access, and demanding to be served. I'd go somewhere that was still open instead.

[trekkiebabe]

It blows my mind how some people just ignore stuff like that, or when they're in a store that does three seperate closing announcements and yet they act surprised when we approach them at 9:35 to let them know we're closed. At my old job, there were people who would yank hard on the locked door and bang on the glass, even when the lights were off.

[Burger Bitch]

People used to go through the DT at my old job and lay on the horn at the window until someone told them we were fucking closed. I hate people.

[Kiddo]

Maybe they think the chain means VIP serving hours, where only those bold enough to remove it get service?

[Crazy Cashier]

One time we had put a cart in front of my lane (as a sign that it wasn't open) and a customer went around it !

[Skittles]

@Kiddo
Shhhh be careful where you say that some of those crazy bastards will take anything as encouragement.

[Soft Ice Girl]

@Crazy Cashier: I am afraid that a cart in front of a lane is not sufficient to let people know that it is closed, as another custy could have left it there. Don´t you have these "lane closed"- signs?

[LegalMinion]

When I worked at the bank, our nameplates had "Next Teller Please" on the other side. So if I wasn't open at my window, I would turn it that way. I had people come up to my window at least once a week and then act surprised when I told them I was either on break, or preparing to leave. People be dumb.

[NC Tony]

Why did you not beat this woman with the chain?

As we all know, the entitled assholes of the world think the signs or announcements don't apply to them. At my job we have the fifteen minutes to closing announcement, another announcement when we close, and half the lights in the store go off. People still continue to shop, the closing manager has to go around and as nicely as possible tell people to finish up, pay for their crap and GTFO.

[Skittles]

@Soft Ice
Not sure about other places but those signs aren't being used in my area. As it was explained to me by a checker in my favorite grocery store: "apparently corporate thinks those signs are too hostile and they want us to be welcoming". Pretty fucking stupid right?

[bellflowermoonfish]

@Skittles: I'd say! But it's the same reason we couldn't toss people out of BigBeautifulWashcloths no matter HOW LONG it was taking them. And at Snears our GM decided all on her own that any "x minutes til closing" announcements were "disgusting, pushy and rude. You're not going anywhere. The customer comes first and your commitments can wait until they are ready to leave." Yeah, fuck that fat twat, we did them when she wasn't around.
@BurgerBitch: I got that shit ALL the time at Smendys (including the guy who was cussing us out the MINUTE he crossed the speaker line, but that's another story!)

[Ariana]

@bellflowermoonfish I worked at Sears for a while, starting about 10 years ago. While it was pretty bad working there, I will say that my store tried really hard to hustle customers out before closing, even getting security to patrol the store starting a half hour before we closed to move people along. I guess the managers hated it enough to want to get out of there ASAP too!