21. People who don't pick up after themselves.
22. Parents who allow their children to misbehave and make a public nuisance of themselves.
40. rude checkers at stores, and on the other side, rude customers!
44. Rude service people!
50. People that don't have their money, credit cards.. etc in an accessable area so they spend 20 mintues at the check out line looking for their money.
53. People who ask me if I work there when I'm standing in the store uniform putting out magazines (it happens so often it gets frustrating)
196. The cashiers at our local PetSmart...why are there only two??
210. Working HARD for a company ... never calling in sick..... never tardy... working all the overtime.. flexing my schedule...never complaining..and being treated like crap!!!!!!!!
213. store clerks who keep asking if they "can help me " when all I want to do is look around.
214. store clerks who ignore me when I know what I want (and I am in a hurry)
224. Going up to a register then having the cashier tell me, "I can help you down here"... why can't she help me where I am? I don't get mad at her, but I think it is stupid.
WOW! Ok, I am a "store clerk", a "cashier", and also a department manager where I work (the salesfloor people go up and help out with cashiering when the lanes get backed up.)
I can certainly address some of these shopping concerns that everyone has. People who shop like total slobs make me nuts, because they assume that it's "our job" to pick up after them. This is true to an extent, but we don't like to be treated like domestic help. Not everyone working in a discount department store is a high-school dropout with a low IQ, as some people seem to think. I also hate rude service people, and I go out of my way NOT to be one. In fact, I often bring people to task for being rude to me since I know what good customer service is and what I should expect. As far as people asking me if I work there when I'm in full company regalia, I think that's the only way some people know to start the "please help me" conversation. We also have some vendors who come in and stock their own product, and they often get asked for help and don't know anything about our store, so they can't. People want to make sure that I actually work for the store, I guess. Why are there so few cashiers? Because nobody wants to work at a discount department store, but everybody loves to shop at them. We just can't hire enough people to staff the store these days. Why does the cashier say I can help you down here? Because cashiers are often assigned to specific checkout lanes to electronically track their performance, and not all the lanes are "banked" (filled with money) every day - it depends on sales volume. We as cashiers also get frustrated with people who don't have their payment ready, because we have to deal with the next people in line who are fuming mad about the slow checkout lanes, and it's not something we can always control. #213 and 214 crack me up, because I guess store clerks have to have that psychic ability that determines whether you're just browsing or you actually need something. PLEASE, PLEASE, ask for help when you want it. I don't like badgering customers with the "Hi! How are you today? Are you finding everything?" because it DOES get on their nerves, but at least that way we can help someone who wanted the help but for some odd reason would not ask. I also hate when customers stand very near me and talk quite loudly and pointedly about something we're out of stock on, but will not actually talk to me like one human being to another and say, could you please check if you have any more of this. Store clerks are normal, intelligent, regular people just like you, who also shop when they are not working and know what it's like. We have to do all the other tasks, like stocking the shelves so you'll get what you want, and answering the phones so you can find out if we have what you want, so we can't always be staring directly at you anticipating your every need. PLEASE interrupt us from our tasks to ask for help. We actually DO like to help you, at least where I work, and we feel good when we can do something for you. We also feel bad when we can't, especially if it's something beyond our control (like this dockworker's strike). As far as out-of-control kids, the few times I have gotten irritated enough to speak up about it, the parents either DEFENDED their childrens behavior or gave me that "why don't you butt out" look. I also don't like being used as the bad guy to discipline their kids, as in "if you don't stop it, that store clerk is going to yell at you!" Discipline your own darn kids! If they aren't worried about YOUR disapproval, then something ain't right in your house.

AAAAAAAH...........I finally got all that off my chest. I won't name where I actually work, to avoid people boycotting us (ha ha), but #210, you MUST work at the same place I do! LOL

Oh yeah, and a new one: #227 - stores that play THE FOOTBALL GAME loudly! (Maybe this is just a Green Bay Packers thing) I HATE listening to football, so I go out shopping on game day to get away from it in the house, and I am tormented with it over the loudspeakers! I have left stores because it just bugs me.