How To: Not Completly Frustrate Your Cashier.

I have been working in retail since I was about 15, and especially since I began college and needed a part time job to be able to afford to actually go to school. Well while finishing my masters, I have picked up more hours for the obvious reason that going for you masters is outlandishly expensive. In fact it kind of makes me sick to think about how much I pay to be taught and read out of text books.

So, in my time of retail I have become overly frustrated by consumers. 

Yes, I realize my job is easy, and I am not complaining about the work that I do by any means.

I am however, complaining about how people treat other people.

So here is my list of How To: Not Completely Frustrate Your Cashier:

1) Do not cash out while talking on the phone/ answer your phone while being cashed out. 

This is one of the most rude things I have ever encountered. Not only does it make it difficult to ring people out due to not being able to talk to them, find out if they found everything okay, or how their service was. But you don't even get a hi, hello, how are you from them. You literally have to interact with your cashier for couple minutes top. Put down the cell phone for 5 seconds and actually acknowledge that there is another human being in front of you and be respectful.

2) Do not cash out while texting.

Along the same lines as number one. This is super rude and quite impersonal. You can't possibly truly focus on what your cashier is saying while telling your friend how great  your butt looks in the new pants you bought. I could ring you up for 14 things instead of the 10 you bought and you would never know because that text your sending is just so much more important that the 20 seconds it would take to cash out. 

3) Do not throw your money at your cashier. 

This may seem like a no brainer, but I can not tell you how many times a day I get money thrown at me. I'm not talking wind up and literally chucked, but people very carelessly just toss their money, causing it to go all over and at times the change even rolling off the counter and on to the floor. Again, we'll go back to manners. Its polite to wait two seconds and put it in my hand. 

  

4) On that same note, do not put your money on the counter when the cashier is holding their hand out for you. 

We're not holding our hands out for a reason. It is hard to pick up 99 cents of change off the counter. So please just place the money in our hands!

5) Act remotely polite.  

Don't ignore us when we ask you how you found things. Don't look at us like we are crazy. When we ask you to sign up for things, just humor us and let us finish. We have to ask, its not like we enjoy it.

Smile. 

Your shopping!

Hahah, thanks for letting me vent ya'll.

What can you not stand that people do while checking out?

xoxo.