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I just wrote this story about Dave working at Walmart based on this Not Always Right Post.
http://notalwaysright.com/dont-take-customers-at-face-value/8512
Dave really hated his job. He hated the dress code of black pants and white or black shirt. The day he quits he is buying himself a shirt so bright in colour it will make a person’s eyes bleed from looking at it. He hated the blue vest. He hated the name badge. He hated the minimum hourly pay. The management was idiots and assholes, so were most customers. The only part good about the job was that most of the other employee’s were okay and if he didn’t like them, he just and to remember they were in the same hellhole as he was, working at Walmart sucked ass.
Dave was a cashier, he had to deal with a good percent of customers and every time he worked he had an average of three people yell at him. These people made him wonder why he has never heard of a cashier going ape-shit and shooting up a Walmart. Not that he wanted it to happen.
He had to smile at each customer and say, “Hi, How are you,” “Did you get everything you needed,” “Do you want to put this purchase on your Wal-mart mastercard?” They would talk to him and he had to pretend he actually gave a shit. What he really wanted to say was nothing. He didn’t really care if the customer was happy or not. He was just there to do a job.
One day a customer came to his till and he smiled a fake grin and started his little script by saying, “Hi, How are you?”
The customer looked at him and gave him a once over before telling him, “You look like a serial killer!”
Dave blinked at what the customer just called him, “Um… I’m sorry?”
The customer nodded, “Yeah, you look exactly like you’ve killed a someone,” Dave’s eyes widened as the customer went on talking, “then locked them in your basement.” Dave’s mouth fell open slightly at the description of himself, “But maybe that’s just the kind of person you look like. I don’t know, I’m not here to judge.” After that Dave didn’t really say anything to the customer. It wasn’t an everyday thing that he got told that he looked like someone who would chop someone up for the heck of it. The guy also had a really fucked up name. Who the fuck name’s their kid Klaine Kummer anyway? Because of guys like Klaine Kummer, Dave Karofsky really hated his job.