it's a two way street. Plenty of customers are rude to the sales help.

-talking on your cell phone, ignoring the sales staff trying to help you. Believe we don't want to know about your kids' infection, or how stupid your spouse is, or what tee off time you have

-throwing your money/credit card at the checkout person...as in here..take it

-taking out your bad day on the sales staff

-calling female staff "sweetie" or ''honey'' or chickie..its degrading

In many stores, it is part of the cashiers' job description to answer the phone, regardless of whatever else they may be doing. Often there is no one else posted to answering the phone. As this is part of their assigned duties, employees may be reprimanded by bosses for not answering the phone. Have a little patience, we will get to you.

For real, I don't know what else a person would expect, because rarely would voicemail be installed to pick up later.

There's a reason retail and customer service typically have such high turnover rates. A lot of people have a really hard time putting up with the crap being flung at them from the customers and the employer. I've seen more than one cashier reduced to tears because of something a "valued customer" or their boss had said or done. It's not easy to take shit all day, and smile while you're doing it.

When I'm King of the World, being a crappy boss or a rude customer will be a punishable offence. The punishment will be to be a dish bitch for 6 months, then a bathroom jockey for the next 6, then a cashier or waiter for another year. See if they ever treat service employees like shit again.

I have had a customer literally throw her wallet at me. Not a gentle toss, either.

EVERYONE should have to wait tables, I think it should be a requirement by law. So many people would get what assholes they are, if they had to stand there and be asked if, the meatloaf "taste like Mom's?".

The worst was at holidays at Toys R Us when we had to ask people to donate to charity. Nothing like asking folk to be generous in the midst of their overzealous consumption to bring out the worst in people. The stories I could tell...

OH MY GOD, toys-r-us is HIDEOUS. we were just there this summer, and they had a long-ass list of add-on/promotion garbage they were asking us. what's our zip code? did we want a toys-r-us credit card? did we want to purchase a gift card today? it was just way too much, completely unacceptable. if i knew who to complain to about the kind of things store clerks are forced to do to customers, i would be bitching up a storm on a regular basis if i thought it would do even a morsel of good.

OH MY GOD, toys-r-us is HIDEOUS. we were just there this summer, and they had a long-ass list of add-on/promotion garbage they were asking us. what's our zip code? did we want a toys-r-us credit card? did we want to purchase a gift card today? it was just way too much, completely unacceptable. if i knew who to complain to about the kind of things store clerks are forced to do to customers, i would be bitching up a storm on a regular basis if i thought it would do even a morsel of good.

We always cheated on the zip code thing. Once a month, one of the managers would ahnd the head cashier (me) a phone book and tell me to glean our list from there. I'd pick randomly, I'd make some up. The computer doesn't know the difference, and neither does head office.

We always cheated on the zip code thing. Once a month, one of the managers would ahnd the head cashier (me) a phone book and tell me to glean our list from there. I'd pick randomly, I'd make some up. The computer doesn't know the difference, and neither does head office.

what the hell business is it of theirs anyway? it always creeps me out. i hate it when radio shack asks me for my phone number. you better believe i tell them the wrong number. what does my buying a damn adapter have to do with you knowing how to contact me? uh uh, forget it!

We always cheated on the zip code thing. Once a month, one of the managers would ahnd the head cashier (me) a phone book and tell me to glean our list from there. I'd pick randomly, I'd make some up. The computer doesn't know the difference, and neither does head office.

I get pissed off when they ask for my phone number, but I never care if they ask for my ZIP code. I figure they're just trying to determine which areas their customers come from so they can work out how to advertise and where to put a new store location.

Of course that's what it is for! Just is a bit time-consuming with all the other add-ons.