Let me stop you there, bitch. I'm lucky. Um, nonono. You're lucky. Because without the 5p you found in your bag, you'd have been carrying your shit out in your hands.
I don't give a single micro-particle of an iota of a fraction of a fuck whether you have a bag. Being bolshy achieves nothing, because your options are thus:
You know what happens if you don't pay for a bag? You don't get one. I don't give them away for free because I can be fined £250. And the company would be fined in the thousands. I would lose my job.
It really isn't! I just. Don't get it? It's not like we're alone in the country in charging for plastic bags. It's a law. It's been a law for over a year at this stage.
The exceptions to the rule are when you sell certain items (fresh fruit and vegetables, unpackaged meat, razorblades and axes(???)), if the bag is made of paper, or if the company is an independent or small-time shop with less than the aforementioned 200 staff.
I don't get everybody's problem with it. Even if you hate the idea of it, you have known for over twelve months that it's a thing now. You should be used to it and, if you have such a major issue with paying for a bag, carry one with you.
though do they train you to say sir/ma'am? At my sister's store, they train them to not use any gendered pronouns, and I wonder how many people don't like being called sir/ma'am. I feel like they might be getting some bitch fits over that
Yeah, it's not a thing here. You might get it if you go to a sort of high-end boutique type place, or a posh department store, but those aren't the sort of places people who get funny about gendered pronouns tend to shop.
In England, unless you're one of the posh middle-class idiots who expects one-on-one service (which you're entitled to if you're spending two grand on a coat), we don't want to be approached.
No but seriously, if I want help, I'll ask. If I can't find/reach something, I'll ask. Nothing puts me off shopping more than HELLO CAN I HELP YOU TODAY?
It's why I refuse to ask if people want any additional shit at the counter. I've told my manager I'm not doing it, because I hate when people do it to me in shops. I'm already spending money, stop trying to upsell.
I hate "did you find anything okay?" the most, because like, if I didn't, I either asked one of the employees wandering around the store, or I gave up. What are you, stuck-to-the-till person with a long line of customers, going to do about my failure to find stuff?
Funnily enough, working in the same area for years, I know a lot of the staff in surrounding shops, so when I go in, I don't mind them asking how I am, because I half know them anyway. XD
that's fair enough. The one I dread is veteran's charities, because some of them are borderline scams, but people act like you're an asshole if you don't immediately shell out at the word 'veteran'
We don't really use the word 'veteran' here. Veteran has a very specific meaning and it doesn't mean "anyone who joined the army at any point in their lives"
One year one of my coworkers was doing one of those stupid runs for idk some medical cause, and asking all of us for money. I went nope, and she was like "You can't do that!!" YES I TOTALLY CAN >8D
There's like, the annual poppy thing, which is fine. And Help for Heroes, which I never give to, because I object to referring to any idiot who joined the army as a 'hero' as much as I do 'veteran'.
They're a group of people who are REALLY, REALLY pushy about trying to get people to sign up for shit? Usually about shit charities, like SHELTER (homeless) or something.
I have done so in Finnish. Just mangle something that sounds vaguely like "no English" ("No Englanti!") with an apologetic look on your face and they fuck off.
Oh yeah, also the worst: the whole "Hi, how are you doing?" "Fine, how are you?" "What would you like to order?" conversation I always have with customer service people. I really need to figure out a better way out of that.
Or make America adopt a word, like we have, which could either mean "Hello!" or "How are you?" and requires just the repetition of that word to get shit out of the way.
2: Don't pay, carry item out in your hands.
3: Bring a bag with you.
Them: HI! CAN I HELP YOU TODAY?
Me: JUST LOOKING THANKS
Them: OKAY WELL IF YOU NEED ANY HELP COME TO ME! =D =D
Me: /bumble, leave
"CAN I INTEREST YOU IN--"
"NOPE. JUST THESE."
"Uh.."