Aug 06, 2008 07:41
I have to get this off my chest:
What the hell is the point and purpose of yelling at cashiers over prices? I've seen this at my job well enough, that I have to explain several times a day our different prices and why this or that is slightly more expensive (What do you mean its 39 cents! It's suppose to be 33 cents!). I just came back from McDonalds and while I was waiting in line, the guy before me just went off at the poor cashier in training over 11 cents. 11 cents. Is it really that much a big fucking deal to make this girl's get red, and annoyed and then embarassed and at the end of it all, just smile and give the receipt and apologize. She didn't need to apologize, he needed to.
There's a little thing called different towns. He kept bitching that at his McDonalds, that apparently he visits every day, always makes him pay the lesser value. I thought of the streets and his apparent favorite is in another damn. town. There are different taxes in cities, one place may have 7.75% and say, Los Angeles has at least 8.00%. I would understand if the totally was way off and we made a mistake but 11 cents (or in my case, 6 cents)?
That and prices could have gone up for all we know due to gas. Yea, I'm going to use that damn excuse again, but it isn't really an excuse anymore. Trucks use the more expensive diesel, then our gasoline. What were people expecting when our prices went up, that their wouldn't go up here? I don't know about the rest of the country but out here, we're breaking out trains again to transport food, gas is ridiculous.
I wonder if Canada is having this ~gas emergency~ or if they're like the rest of the world, have sucked it up and dealt with it. Gas is twice of ours in Europe, Asia took care of its problem by making actual public transportation (I'm staring at you Los Angeles/Orange County).
rant