*headdeskheaddeskheaddesk*
Work. Ah, work.
I work in a place that sells school supplies, so as it is 'back to school' time we're extremely busy. And being that many of my co-workers do not feel the need to actually come to work I'm relegated to cashier duty cover shifts when not doing my normal job. This experience has taught me something about people. I hate them. Okay, well, not all of them, some are very nice and sweet, but mostly they suck. This woman came in the other day and had me ring all of her kids separately. Why? Because they were to spend only a certain amount and her son, who went over on his backpack purchase, had to cough up twenty-five bucks at one point. You could say perhaps she didn't have the money to spend on her three children and she was just being conscientious. The woman in the Guess and Gucci with a brand new Blackberry and a two thousand dollar purse. Um...no. She was just that much of a bitch.
Then we have people who come in and are pissed that whatever the hell they want the store to do or to have isn't there and yell at us. Because we, who are on average no older than 20, run the entire million-dollar corporation and it's our fault when the store policy does not conform to your ideals. Please do yell and scream at us for twenty minutes and refuse to believe that the seventeen year old behind the counter cannot in fact change the price of the items you have purchased. It's really the only way to behave. So rational and logical. Yes, exactly how you should act.
So, I have learned that the reason my future career plans never included the public is because apparently I have a deep-seeded hatred for the public. I mean I don't plan on going postal anytime soon, but I'm just, wowed by how incredibly ridiculous people are in real life. You read about it, see it on television, hear about it from time to time, but never can you truly believe that people are that stupid. Yet I see them everyday, they come in and buy school supplies. Where did they learn this behavior? Who taught them it was okay to treat people this way? And where can I find them so I can hit them with something heavy?