Supermarket workers chatting while working...

Cashiers talking whilst scanning your shopping is one of my pet hates. The Dunnes Stores beside me is so badly run and managed that this happens all the time.

This week I've had to listen to cashiers having conversations about Serena and her dominating boyfriend as well as a story of how Sharon in the Home department fell pregnant. :rolleyes:

I think I might just go up to tills listening to my iPod in future- that way I can match their ignorance with some of my own

Some people here have obviously never worked on tills. The amount of **** and abuse you have to take on a daily basis can be astounding particularly in the run up to christmas. Auld wans would come in after collecting the pension and get their few things, and proceed to tell you their life story. Personally I never minded it there appears to be so many lonely people out there, if talking to me helps then so what. Often the under pressure office worker following them would eat me, because in order to keep queues down, I would deal with the following customer whilst still talking to the auld wan. I understood this could appear as rude, but you couldn't tell granny to get lost. Customers sometimes told me I wasn't nice enough, smiled enough and other such bullshit, then which I politely told them to talk to my manager. Nothing was ever said to me because I had gained quite a following of auld wans who would queue specifically for my till.

When I was there the till staff had a system of being able to just look at people and being able to expect the attitude to follow. You had young people who generally didn't speak to the cashier. Same attitude from the young office worker, in-out as quickly as possible. The mother/father doing the weekly shop with children in tow. These are the ones who give you grief. The bitter auld fella was another one. On a Sunday evening we used also get the auld wan bargain hunter.

I couldn't work on tills, I'd kill someone.

Anytime I use the express automatic self service check till thing .. you know what I mean :mad:

I near have a breakdown, damn stuff won't scan, unexpected item message going off, roars at you to insert cash when you are, people tuting behind you .. I'm surprised someone hasn't died.

Anyone get really pissed off by the lack of counter assistants in Spar? Every time I go in there to do the lotto or buy a packet of smokes I am usually greeted by a queue that goes to the back of the shop. Their is usually only 1 person working the till but about 4 working the deli with no customers. CMONNN!!! Actually their isn't a lack of assistants but more like zero management going on here. I have made complaints before but just get the usual shrug of shoulders, It annoys me that not more people complain of this.