Being a cashier is a unique job. You spend up to thirty hours a week in the same place, doing the same thing. You see the same customers on a daily basis, who tell you the same knock-knock jokes or complain about the same product every day.
Well here’s some news, loyal shoppers: we get sick of the same conversations you guys insist on making with us.
Here are 12 things cashiers are just sick of hearing:
1. If it doesn’t scan, it’s free, right?
Yes. How did you know? That’s how supermarkets work. Take the whole store while you’re at it.
2. Can you check in the back for me?
I want every shopper to know that when you ask us this, we walk to the back room, answer a text or two, walk out and tell you we don’t have the product #sorrynotsorry.
3. Can you double bag?
Are you aware you have bags on your side to bag your own order?
4. Can you break a one hundred dollar bill?
Normally this question doesn’t bother me, but when it's 7 a.m., you saw me get my till two minutes earlier and you ask me this, expect me to serve you some attitude.
5. *hands you one hundred dollar bill* I just printed it, hope its dry!
Please stop this. One day we’re going to snap and call the cops on you for this horrendously bad joke.
6. Are you open?
No, one of my hobbies is to dress up in the store’s uniform in my free time and stand at a register with the light on, just to confuse people.
7. *cashier looks for PLU number on produce* that is an apple
Wow. Thank you. We could have been here for HOURS if you didn’t tell me that.
8. You told me the bread is in aisle 7 but I can’t find it, are you sure?
Trust me, I live here. I never go home and I know where every single product is located. Go look again with your special eyes.
9. I want a manager!
I promise you, they’re going to tell you the same thing I did. Let's not waste our time or cause a scene.
10. Can’t you open any more registers, these lines are ridiculous!
We never thought of that!! OPEN MORE LANES TO ALLEVIATE LINES???? You’re a revolutionary thinker, lemme tell you.
11. You rang that item up for more money than what the sign said!
Okay, let’s get some things straight: I did not ring anything up for you, the computer did and the computer is right 99.9% of the time. You might have possibly looked at the wrong sign.
12. I DID NOT LOOK AT THE WRONG SIGN I SAW IT
Just know when you do this, we have to call someone to check the sign, wait while they find the product, walk all the way back to us and tell us that the computer price is, in fact, correct and you are wrong. Know that the rest of the line now hates you.
Be nice to your local cashiers, people.