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This happened many years ago, before I escaped retail but it still pisses me off when I think about it.
I was 18 or 19 and worked in a supermarket while I was at college. I often worked a Sunday morning and one time I was especially bored, sticking tickets on reduced to clear items. As usual there was a crowd around waiting to see what would be on offer today. I must've had my resting bitch face on because this old guy came up, uncomfortably close and said,
"Bet you wish you'd worked in school now."
As I remember I just looked at him in shock, actually I got good grades in school and was working on a diploma, but no, he'd made a judgment on me that I was a dropout and they was why I was working retail... even if he's thought that, why SAY it to someone? Customers suck...
I've said it before and i'll say it again; it's the Mc-Job complex. Meaning that since you work retail or any service industry job, you must be an idiot. Well jokes on them, when i worked grocery retail I had a retired paratrooper for a meat department manager. Army medic for his assistant, a girl working on her PhD in neuroscience at the coffee stand, multiple nursing students in working as cashiers and myself with an associates degree in computer engineering technologies. Trust me, people don't realize just who they're talking to and i think if we all were allowed to stand up for our dignity; we might just change the whole " Rude customer" issue so rampant in retail today.
Quick someone stop me before i really get on my soap box :P
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hopefully not the ones with the holes in the middle. :P