What I learned as a cashier in Target

[neoyi]

1. Red is a color I usually can make look decent on me.

2. Kitty Liter is the heaviest shit to lift and scan it's barcode. Whoever thought it was a brilliant idea to put the barcode at the bottom of heavy objects needs to be punched in the face.

3. Feet painage is a given, so get use to it.

4. Money and plastic bags come run out pretty damn quickly, though there are refills.

5. Every single day, there WILL be one screaming/crying child.

6. Sometimes people disobey the under ten express lane and bring up to at least 30 friggin' crap for me to scan.

7. Money/Cashiering is made more complicated then I ever thought it would be. Gift registry, cash, check, REDcards, etc. Head spins.

8. They always run out of chicken buffalo pizza whenever it's lunch time for me. *frowns*

9. Target does not currently have the Wii (like other stores). I is sad.

10. Always buy liquid, too many "Hello" and "Have a Nice Day" can dry your throats--in my case, I suspect sore throats in the near future.

11. Riding a bus isn't all that bad.

12. When someone lines up to get retailed, others will follow like some pseudo "Follow the Leader".

13. Even if you're not carrying DVDs or CDs, sometimes the alarm on the way out goes off for some reason. It can get annoying.

14. Like home, computers hate me in Target. They spit out credit/debit cards when they're not suppose to, get frozen, etc. Maybe I just have a terribly tendency to kill computers.

15. Nobody how many times you say "hi" and be as sweet as possible, little children won't say "hi" back because they're rude buggers (actually, they're just shy).

16. It's ALWAYS when it's break time that customers line up to get their things paid like they know in advance.

17. Like in my previous job (laundry business), I HATE coat hangers. Evil, EVIL contraptions.

Comments

[shdwtorn.livejournal.com]

Working helps you realize a lot of things, doesn't it? LOL...I should do this as well...and red looks decent on you? Haha, I wish red looked decent on me. And forget kitty litter, those little packages are not as light as they look.

[tavalya-ra.livejournal.com]

4. My kingdom for a goddamn roll of pennies!

5. I'm surprised how few of these I saw where I worked considering for whom I worked.

7. I hated dealing with gift cards. But the most fun was definitely a traveler's check. I saw one and immediately thought, "Oh crap." Even more fun? Selling gift cards. Joy!

9. This is funny because Target is where my friend got his Wii. But he camped outside in the cold for it.

14. Goddamn, girl! *has the magic touch with computers*

17. OMG YES!

[darklordkeisha.livejournal.com]

2. Die in a FIRE, Barcode person.

5. And in my case, it's a guarantee that thoughts of infanticide will soon follow (well, not really. I'd rather kill the parents)

6. These people need to go back to school. Either to learn math, or to learn not to be DICKS.

9. *cries for lack of Wii's*

11. I love buses! *sings* Ridin' on the bus, ridin' on the bus, sittin' next to bums, there's an empty seat, hope that isn't pee...

17. Coat hangers = DEATH.

[scribe-protra.livejournal.com]

2. GOD YES. I agree with the heaviness. I have to use half the danm box before I can lift and carry it around the house.

Also, death to the designer.

3. I've been working on concret for a year and three quaters, wear shoes deisgned for my line of work, and yet I STILL have aching foot pain 2 out of 3 days.

6. ...Paaaaain upon those people.

[jeansama.livejournal.com]

Kitty Liter does weigh a ton. It's so bizarre.. but I guess not, since it's a bunch of small rocks.

[neoyi.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you got an lj!

That said, I don't know about Wal-Mart, never employed there nor have I gone in there in years.

Ooh

[hazy-chan.livejournal.com]

I work at Target too, on the sales floor! Peopel steal the weirest things, invisible tape, Butt Paste (no seriously they did), and of course Bakugon (that stuff flies off the shelves