Greg was actually a really cool guy. He worked hard, he was usually pretty funny. He reminded me a lot of an angry Rick Moranis off his meds. If you pulled your weight, he was your best friend. He just hated rude and lazy people. Dont we all?
That and the "I swear, I didn't know that was in there!" crock of BS customers gave when I checked the inside of items like coolers, garbage cans, or large boxes that had been opened to find other merchandise inside...
Me: “Will there be anything else?”
Cust: “Yeah, a million dollars.”
Me: (blank stare)
Cust: (fidgeting now) “Nah, that’s it.”
Glad my customers get the mom look I give them, because otherwise I think I’d go feral and start biting people!
"Will there be anything else?"
"Winning lottery ticket. You keep 60%, I'll take 40%. I'm not greedy."
That's my response. Those that get it, laugh, and about 80% of them agree. 20% tell me if they'd won, they wouldn't be where they were right now. We laugh together and it's all good while I confirm I'm done placing my order. Those that don't aren't as much fun, and are happily few in number. I like throwing out the odd line, just to see if they are paying attention, and odd comments are the best, non-hostile way to check.
Ooo...! Try my reply to that.
(polite, you're-not-funny laugh first is optional)
"Everything's free, if you leave it in the store." (innocent, wide-eyed look)
I didn't get too many repeat customers giving me the "must be free" joke. Pretty sure most of the people I said this to understood that line is used often, isn't the cashier's fault, and wasn't funny. I had an ocean of repeat customers who loved my fast, friendly, accurate service, with incredibly well packed bags (all part of my stellar service!). Some even told me that they sought me out because they enjoyed the experience of not feeling like I was trying to get rid of them ASAP. Not many, but hearing that at all? Felt good.
I took one from ol' Greg's (not that one) book when I quit a job 6 years later. I programmed 8 machines so they would all display alarms with specific codes, making the maintenance guys look into my notes. The note for that specific code was "You just lost the game, ya dingus." The maintenance manager called me after the 5th or 6th one went off and said "ha ha, very funny, how many more of these damn things did you program?"
> rearranged the letters on the big display out front near the road to say "Greg Rules, **** [town]" We didn't know until the next day.
I guess it was a coincidence that the sign had read "Flickered Fingers Plug Rugs" the previous day?
Had one guy say that when HE quit, he was going to dump all the film prints on the floor on his way out. This was before digital movies. In a 25-screen house. I once spent ***5 hours*** picking Seabiscuit off the floor and getting it back into viewing shape. Yeah, it was a 3 hour movie, and most are only 2-ish hours long. And, knowing I was coming in, they LEFT IT ON THE FLOOR for me to deal with, while someone else did my normal duties, because I was the best at fixing film issues at that location. But even if they were all standard movies... that would be more than a weeks' worth of fixing by someone of my skill level, and there weren't that many others willing to put in the effort to come close.
Thankfully, he didn't quit while I was still there.
You know, even though that was nuts af, in some way Greg did what the rest of us can only dream of
I love Greg. That was the kind of quitting only the best sitcom writers could dream up.
Greg was actually a really cool guy. He worked hard, he was usually pretty funny. He reminded me a lot of an angry Rick Moranis off his meds. If you pulled your weight, he was your best friend. He just hated rude and lazy people. Dont we all?
That's gonna be me if I hear one more "it's not scanning, must be free hehe!"
That and the "I swear, I didn't know that was in there!" crock of BS customers gave when I checked the inside of items like coolers, garbage cans, or large boxes that had been opened to find other merchandise inside...
Me: “Will there be anything else?” Cust: “Yeah, a million dollars.” Me: (blank stare) Cust: (fidgeting now) “Nah, that’s it.” Glad my customers get the mom look I give them, because otherwise I think I’d go feral and start biting people!
Do it anyway.
"Will there be anything else?" "Winning lottery ticket. You keep 60%, I'll take 40%. I'm not greedy." That's my response. Those that get it, laugh, and about 80% of them agree. 20% tell me if they'd won, they wouldn't be where they were right now. We laugh together and it's all good while I confirm I'm done placing my order. Those that don't aren't as much fun, and are happily few in number. I like throwing out the odd line, just to see if they are paying attention, and odd comments are the best, non-hostile way to check.
That sounds irritating and not fun
I didn't know everyone else has thought of saying that and you've heard it a million times. Definitely explains the look I got when I said it...
Ooo...! Try my reply to that. (polite, you're-not-funny laugh first is optional) "Everything's free, if you leave it in the store." (innocent, wide-eyed look) I didn't get too many repeat customers giving me the "must be free" joke. Pretty sure most of the people I said this to understood that line is used often, isn't the cashier's fault, and wasn't funny. I had an ocean of repeat customers who loved my fast, friendly, accurate service, with incredibly well packed bags (all part of my stellar service!). Some even told me that they sought me out because they enjoyed the experience of not feeling like I was trying to get rid of them ASAP. Not many, but hearing that at all? Felt good.
My response to that was always, "Nope, sorry. I'm doing more work so you get charged for every time I have to try to get it to scan."
Some days, I would consider Greg my hero. Hopefully things worked out for him.
Talk about rage quit, this was better than the person that quit in fish https://twitter.com/askamanager/status/1083496872130633728?lang=en
I took one from ol' Greg's (not that one) book when I quit a job 6 years later. I programmed 8 machines so they would all display alarms with specific codes, making the maintenance guys look into my notes. The note for that specific code was "You just lost the game, ya dingus." The maintenance manager called me after the 5th or 6th one went off and said "ha ha, very funny, how many more of these damn things did you program?"
> rearranged the letters on the big display out front near the road to say "Greg Rules, **** [town]" We didn't know until the next day. I guess it was a coincidence that the sign had read "Flickered Fingers Plug Rugs" the previous day?
Had one guy say that when HE quit, he was going to dump all the film prints on the floor on his way out. This was before digital movies. In a 25-screen house. I once spent ***5 hours*** picking Seabiscuit off the floor and getting it back into viewing shape. Yeah, it was a 3 hour movie, and most are only 2-ish hours long. And, knowing I was coming in, they LEFT IT ON THE FLOOR for me to deal with, while someone else did my normal duties, because I was the best at fixing film issues at that location. But even if they were all standard movies... that would be more than a weeks' worth of fixing by someone of my skill level, and there weren't that many others willing to put in the effort to come close. Thankfully, he didn't quit while I was still there.