| Ele201 |
02-18-2022 06:53 AM |
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Originally Posted by MDLNB
(Post 2062358)
So I am at (you guess) scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened.
Her- why are you double bagging all of your groceries? Me- excuse me?
Her- you are wasting our bags!
Me- if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her- that's not my job!
Me- okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her- why are you using two bags?!
Me- because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me- so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her- exactly.
Me- so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her- no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
Me -pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me- okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
Me- looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her- never mind you just don't get it. And with that she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.
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It’s a form of harassment. This store employee was very likely trained to single bag, and avoid double bagging. So she tried to enforce that with you. Shut down all double bagging! It’s almost fascist!
She’s getting paid to “monitor “ how people bag at self check out. And yes, she has to replace those bags as part of her job so that’s involved here. And Heaven forbid— that she might have to go somewhere else in the store to get more bags once they run out!! I get the feeling that she also resented you in some way. You know what happens when you give the “powerless” some “power”?
Finally, I give you credit for bagging $300 worth of groceries yourself. I would have gone to the regular check out lanes. And you stood up to her bullying, good for you! |
