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  1. Elizabeth says:

    I don’t know if anyone’s calling that progress, but YES it has happened to me, and YES it is very annoying!

  2. Em Rohrer says:

    Transactions like that drive me INSANE, oh my word it’s ridiculous!

  3. LolaLoo says:

    I hate transactions like that! I would have been tempted to just say “I’m going to be late to pick my kids up if we can’t hurry this up”

    OMG.. it happens on this site too.. I try to post, no, have to sign up, fine.. sign up, then get The e-mail address you specified is already in use. (Do you already have an account?)..

    So much for fast…

  4. Tara a. says:

    It’s like Target… “Do you want it all on this card?” No, Einstein. I’m going to split the cost of this $1.07 bottle of Coke between multiple payment methods.

  5. Karen in Dallas says:

    I become embarrassingly rude extremely fast in those situations. Friends and family pretend they don’t know me.

    Payback is returning w/change. Lots of pennies and nickles. Then have them count to make sure it’s the correct amt. (Taking care there isn’t a line of impatient people behind you).

    • Litenarata says:

      People who become rude like that are what makes working in retail so horrifying for employees. A former fellow cashier gets laid out by stomach viruses on a regular basis now, because she switched to working childcare. But even all that icky sickness isn’t enough to convince her to be a cashier again.

  6. Tiffiney Little Smith says:

    That’s how I felt at Value Vet today. Just picking up meds already prescribed. Slow! Asking all kinds of info she already had on screen. I swear she was playing me.

  7. defmum says:

    I totally get it… but the ace in my pocket is that I’m deaf… so I get out of all those annoying questions by just saying “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” and smiling sweetly. That is guaranteed to get me a deer-in-the-headlights look and a hurry-up-get-through-this mode from the cashier. ๐Ÿ˜€ (also helps to have KeyRing app on my phone.. it has all my reward cards etc so the cashier can just scan it and we can move merrily on.

  8. Brenda W. says:

    WORD. I have a hard time not snapping back at cashiers when they ask for all my personal information.

    • Litenarata says:

      Just remember that it’s not THEIR idea to ask all that stuff. I worked as a cashier and it’s no more fun for us than it is for you. They are just the cashier and they do as they are told. If you snap at them for asking, you’re just going to make them feel like crap. If you must snap at someone, ask for the manager. (though often, there’s nothing they can do about it either, if it’s company policy)

  9. Litenarata says:

    I understand the pain of long, drawn out transactions and being asked annoying questions. They drive me nuts too. But I used to work as a cashier, and some of the commenters are giving me unpleasant flashbacks of working retail. We don’t ask those questions for the fun of it. And customers who get all rude and huffy just made our work lives miserable.

    • suburbanturmoil says:

      Of course, it would be GREAT if everyone were polite- but I’ve been on the other side as well, and I went into all of those jobs knowing that I’d have to put up with some rudeness and condescension from people in order to get a decent paycheck.

      I never, ever take it out on the cashier- but some businesses (Toys R Us, Macys and Justice, I’m looking at you) have turned the process of simply buying something into the most ANNOYING, long, drawn-out exchange. It’s unbelievable that their higher-ups think this is a good idea!

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  11. HAHAHAHAHAHA. It’s funny because it’s true.

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