deli staff hit back

cats.life

so come on deli staff who have to deal with customers who you would so love to reach over the counter and pull them over it and smack them with their roll:rolleyes::D who is the worst customer?

mikemac

Did you realy mean to post in Television forum?

Maybe pm a mod if you want it moved

mikom

cats.life wrote: »

so come on deli staff who have to deal with customers who you would so love to reach over the counter and pull them over it and smack them with their roll:rolleyes::D who is the worst customer?

Tubridy?

RayM

Hmmm... 'Deli Staff Hit Back'... sounds a bit like an ITV documentary.

Mr E

Moving from Television to After Hours.

aidan_walsh

Mr E wrote: »

Moving from Television to After Hours.

Doesn't do much to disprove the original thread title, does it?

From being stuck in the queue behind many of these people I can categorically say that fat fcukers are probably the worst customers to deal with...


"oooh yeah some chicken, ooh some corn, ohh yeah bit of that and that and that and that"


etc

Johnny Bitte

I had a sack stand there watch me make he's roll and then once it was wrapped up tool it and weighed it in he's hand. Took to ball like a jackass that it was to light.
Not one to give a **** said to hand it back and I ll put more in.
Says no and then says I'm in big trouble when he's friends come in, in the morning for there rolls.:rolleyes:

Then of course there's the "some salad", which ****ing salad :mad:

Thank god I work in IT now where no one complains :eek:

mahamageehad

my personal hated-

the man who would come in and be unbelievably specific about how he wanted everything done in his roll. Eg. Cut the chicken fillet into 5 slices...! Then he'd tap impatiently while you did what he asked.

^ (Time to pay- weigh roll-) that'll be €4.50 please.?
* What?? I had the same roll here yesterday and it cost €4.25. this is an outrage.
^ As I explained to you yesterday sir we weigh our rolls the prices won't be the same everyday
(meanwhile queue is building up)
* Well thats ridiculous. Prices in Ireland have gone mad. I think you should give it to me for €4.
^ As i explained again yesterday sir I must charge the price on the roll
* well i don't want it so take it back

(3 mins pass, guy comes back skippin queue)

* Excuse me I'd like my roll
^ The queue is that way sir
* But you've already made my roll
^ No sir you said you didn't want it, I've thrown it away
* This is ridiculous I've only 20mins of lunch left
^ Sorry about that but you said you didn't want it
* But I only did that so you'd give it to me for €4

Next Please!!!!!

This happened to me 3 or 4 times, the guy was renown for doing it. And this was BEFORE the recession I'd hate to see him now!!!

mikemac

Seen this a few times, person gets a roll but changes their mind
Maybe they decide they don't want it or maybe they are shocked by the price.

To avoid talking to staff they put it on some shelf and walk away.

Sure the staff mightn't check the shelves until the next day and a hot roll is left by the fruit stinking up the place.

Seriously, if you don't want it then hand it back and if you are in a shop and don't want something put it back where you found it.
Our local supermarket you'd find milk, yoghurt and perishable goods left on most rows. Lazy customer grabbing them from the freezer and then just leaving them anywhere

jesus_thats_gre

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

"oooh yeah some chicken, ooh some corn, ohh yeah bit of that and that and that and that"

Nothing characterises a fat ****er like chicken and corn..

Sound Bite

The rude f***** on the phone. Now I never had a problem with the person who'd order "chicken, cheese, tomato, coleslaw & lettuce on brown bread with mayo" and then continue talk while I made it. Thats fine.

But the idiot how comes in on the phone...and it goes like this....

Can I've a chicken sandwich?
Yes sir...would you like it on brown or white?
Continues talking...evetually tells me white...looking pissed off that I interrupted his conversation and that I'm cannot read his mind.
Would you like butter or mayo sir?
Ya.
Which will it be sir, butter or mayo?
What ever's handy...ok...oh no wait..just mayo.
Just chicken then? Continues talking
Just chicken then sir?
No..put salad in it.
What salads would you like sir?
Just the usual.
Stop, Stop, Stop....I don't want cucumber.
Tells caller....listen Joe I'm in the deli here and its talking forever...I've gotta go.
Tells me....right I'm in a hurry...put some cheese, tomato & lettuce in it too.
Ok sir....I begin to wrap roll.
Did you forget the coleslaw?
Sorry sir, you forgot to order coleslaw....

racso1975

I must eat in the poverty deli! Never been called sir!

Sound Bite

racso1975 wrote: »

I must eat in the poverty deli! Never been called sir!

I say sir out loud but in my head it means you w*****.

Usually when someone addresses you as sir or madam.....they hate you

mahamageehad

Sound Bite wrote: »

I say sir out loud but in my head it means you w*****.

Usually when someone addresses you as sir or madam.....they hate you

+1 it means i think you're a twat and/or maybe you're a mystery shopper

My Dad used to have a petrol station for 15 years. After he sold up, and Bebo was just becoming popular, an ex-employee sent me this. We LOLed.

Not strictly Deli staff, but it was a big chunk of the work.

Life of a Londis Checkout girl....

Things that annoy me;
>People who ask have you the slicer washed at 5 to 10..when you're actually washing it (no I'm just spraying it here for the craic..wanna go..it's gas)
>People who constantly ask for their ham THIN..but don't have it broken. Then they think they are mechanically minded with slicers and start telling you to cut it at 5... I'm not in the profession of cutting gammon steaks don't worry!!!
>People who come up to the counter with their groceries..you scan them through then they feck off for something else..end up chatting to Betty next door...and your left their with Johnny & Mary up the road staring at you waiting to be served.
>The cough.... it magically appears the second someone comes to the counter and if you aren't there within a second it turns into some sort of colic and next thing the money's falling on the counter...(okay okay i hear ya jeeez)
>People who ask for yesterday's newspapers...coz ''the washing machine broke'' they then take a variety just incase the absorbancy is different ''aragh shur ill take ..the mirror, the sun, the star, the mail, the independent, the times...''I know what yer upta ye scabby feckerz!
>People who try and get out of paying for a plastic bag i.e; ''Have you a paper bag, or an auwl box'', ''I want a bag but i don't want to pay for it''...''I hate buying them I have loads at home...''(Like wat the ****?! )
>People who ask is the hot food there all day...no it isn't its been there since 9 and it's still hot, grab it fast before it's gone. I'm expecting a crowd at 6 now any minute..
>People who keep walking around the floor when you have washed it, saying ''ohhh im ruining your lovely floor'', they look down at it and smile and then they tell you how they hate it when people walk on the floor they have just mopped...) get off it so.. )
>The most common question ''How much is this and if i got two of them and three of these would i have enough to get another 1 of them''!OMG!
>People who ask you to go out and fill petrol for them in the freezing cold and then don't even have the car parked properly...they then stand beside you while you fill the petrol telling you how they are never able to work ''them feckin things'' properly and they will have to start learning how to...(just pull the feckin handle!!)
>The creepy guy who asks you to find something for him all the time and he walks down the aisle behind you even though he knows well where it is because he's always in the shop and you have seen him get the item before...(the girls know who I'm on about!)
>People who knock on the door at 10 o'clock when the lights are off and everything is locked up....they then ask ''Are ye closed?''...wonders never cease to amaze me!

Things that make me laugh;
>Young ones getting ready to ask for fags..they huddle ouside the shop, keep looking in and eventually one of them plucks up the courage...strolls upto the counter..as tough as nails, the face goes all red and they put on this huskie voice as if they have been smoking for years...they then ask for none other than the auwl 20 Benson...I ask them for ID their whole world goes crashing down...the smoker voice doesn't work so they give the roughest cough and say oh I am 18 I just forgot my ID, you can ask the lads outside...now honestly are 'the lads' outside going to say 'no he's only 16 don't serve him'? They want to scab a fag too like! I get the dirty look, 5 mins later there's a 20 year old in who is obviously a very heavy smoker ...well I pressume so since he's just after buying 80 Benson
>When someone's looking for condoms they have that shocked face on them, they walk round the shop for ages looking everywhere...they have a good root at the toiletry section but alas no sight of them...they then go to the counter and mutter the dreaded question...''Have ye any Durex??'' I turn around grab the two boxes hold them up and reply ''Extra Safe or Extra Performance''...they look at me in shock..grab the extra safe....and i get to keep the change!woop woop!hehehe
>The gang of lads who come into the shop for a sandwich and try to slag us Londis girls...but obviously they don't know who they're messin with.haha
>Also the lads that wander in from the pub...coz us women would never do such things...they stroll in really drunk buy a loada ****e they will never eat...then take a quick snooze on the atm and decide they want a sandwich with 3 slices of bread LOTS of salad cream, ham, turkey, red sauce, scallion, cheese and potato salad! yuuuck. I'm sure there are a lot more original recipies i have forgotton ... Ahh how i love working at the weekends.haha
>The purchasing of alcohol is also very funny...it's much the same as the fags...but this time they act pure serious make eye contact the works...I had one lad come up to the counter before with the Buckfast...obviously getting smashed was on the agenda..I asked him for id, he whips out the wallet and hands me a card...now I had a bit of blonde in my hair but come on... !!! He had given me his Safe Pass card as a form of id! i just started laughing, the poor lad was mortified!! Yes, I know I'm so mean...it comes naturally!!
>People who come in when we're singing or dancing to a song on the radio...

Trevor451

what the hell is this thread about

number10a

The funniest for me when I worked in deli servitude was the morbidly obese ones who'd come up to the counter all good-intentioned with their brown multi-grain roll and a can of Diet Coke tucked in a roll of fat somewhere and ask for no butter, a small bit of chicken (or ham with the fat trimmed off), some lettuce and tomato (all going well so far) and then loads of coleslaw and potato salad. But of course, it's fine because it's salad like - doesn't contribute to the tyre around your waist at all love.

Of course, there's the usuals who'd come in asking "Is that ham fresh?". Seriously like, do ye think that I'm going to tell ye that it was taken out of it's vacum packaging five days ago and would have stayed fresh for 18 months if it was left in it?!?!?

Also, asking - "Is the slicer cleaned?"
- "Yes it is. Sorry we can't slice any more meat today."
- "Ahh but all I want is two slices of ham. You can do that much for me, can't you?"
- "Oh that's no problem. Sure the slicer is immune to becoming dirty from the first two slices. Hang on a sec, I'll get you your two slices of ham which you won't eat until tomorrow cos it's nearly 11pm now and I'll spend ten minutes of unpaid overtime cleaning the fùcking thing after we close. Thank you come again."

Deli customers - ye're the biggest bastàrds going!!! At least where I worked anyway. Thank god I don't work in one anymore.