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a tattle tale
Oh, I almost forgot. Can you please not call me a kid? I've had to fight for hours to stop my grandmother from writing 'master' on Christmas and Birthday cards just so that I don't still feel like a child.
I never called you kid, dude. Oh wait, nevermind, I guess I did. But dont' take it personally, I call everybody kid. It's not a reference to age, just a word I use alot, like dude.
Liar
ETA - you edited before I could post, and now I can't delete. Sorry.
Winkle? Fuck off...
where i work recently escaped prosecution 'cause trading standards (or whoever it is) sent in an underage person and an underage cashier sold them alcohol. they only got away with it 'cause of the ongoing training and crap like that that they say they do.
This nipper's got a mouth on him.
Needless to say if I was buying fags and you give me some lecture I'd be pissed. The law on buying fags is there to stop underage people buying them, not people you 'don't like the look of'.
Well if you buy fags and you have ID, no worries, smooth transaction.
If you haven't got ID and you look like a decent fella - sorry, no sale.
If you are a mouthy little git, I may be inclined to tell you it's bad for your health anyway if you're getting on my nerves.
ETA - and less of the 'nipper'
I sometimes am the only person able to sell alcohol on the floor, which means i'm legally conducting five or six transactions at once, and i'm liable for everyone else's cock-ups.
Most customers I treat with civility and respect. It is only very occasionally that I get customers coming along who're mouthy, hormonally-driven little shitbags. I don't give the industry a bad name because these are the least likely people to complain anyway.
It's not your job to give lectures though is it.
You openly admitted you'd give someone a hard time if you 'didn't like the look of them'. That in my view is a bad attitude, and will quite lieky get you filled in one day.
ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
:yes:
and if i was underage buying alcohol/whatever then if i got a lecture at the cashout when buying the stuff there is no way i would return to that shop.
your job isnot to give lectures, it is purely to sell the shops goods. end of.
Don't tell me what my job is, you're not my manager.
Interestingly enough, I am known at work for being the person who helps the customer 133% in that I help them and then spend ten minutes chatting about something.
no, im not your manager, but i am just saying that if it was me getting the lecture then it would put me off shopping in there anytime in the future.
Aye, she's not your manager, and your not the mother of these people coming in to buy alchohol. If you feel put out at her telling you how it is, then think about how you're making your "customers" feel.
stop acting like one then.
and i always get IDed. everywhere i go, and everything I try to do, they ask me how old I am.
the irony is that i'm a teetotal non-smoker. the last time i got IDed i was buying a bottle of wine for my mum's birthday.
Learn to read.
I never buy alcohol from supermarkets, but I do buy alcohol from pubs and get IDed for some clubs. If I get IDed I just say no sorry, then they may ask when I was born, and if they do I'll make up random birthdate, otherwise I give up, because I look young so there's little chance of getting in/buying alcohol.
Thats what i do!
I already can thanks. It seems that you have a few problems with understanding, though, so maybe you're the one needing a few lessons.
Understanding what precisely?
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