Why do people treat cashiers with such disrespect?
472328
WOW...you made me laugh..not that i was making fun of you or anything but I was a cashier for a short time and am glad to be out of that job.\n\nYou are not alone..I had the same issue at lowes. I think that they don't see us cashiers as people but rather as machines who will take the abuse because we can't fight back or we will lose our jobs.\n\nCards thrown, change tossed (I had to chase after a quarter while my "customer" laughed..they were the one that tossed it half way across the building), irate customers, stupid management.  Horrible management.\n\nI think that in order to be allowed to shop anywhere you must be a cashier and other department employees for at least one week..so you know what its like and know that the person behind that counter is a human and not some machine.
101498
Yes.  Ive actually walked out of several places or complained to a manager and if I dont do that I just dont go back.  The way I look at it is, customers are paying your salary so you better show some appreciation.  If you are that miserable in customer service, find a job doing something else!
992982
It's only the old conception that those well dresses older people have the money and will purchase the most expensive items! The shop keepers were told to go where the money is! It's not you, they do that to everyone, except me! I look like a bum because I recently lost a front tooth in a car accident and I like to wear big, long comfortable dresses and have my hair twisted up in a ponytail, so I guess I look sorta like a bum, but when I am ignored, I don't like it and I make my self noticed! Example: I might stand there and say something real loud like: HELLO? are you in there? Then I might turn to a customer and ask: Can you see me? And when they say yes, I say real loud: THANK GOD, I THOUGHT I WAS INVISIBLE!!!!!! Don't just take it, make your self known!!! It works!! You are just as important as everyone else!
1158432
Yeah, the service staff need a course.\n\nBut, so do the consumers. Why don't you try to put up a happy face when everyone treats you like crap all day?\n\nAnd if you say "but that's their job!", it's not. Any more than getting verbally abused by their employer is a part of any office worker's job.
1166347
I try to not let them have their way too often. It is good for them to know that they are not the only dare you kind of people in the world.\n\nAs a matter of fact if someone is complaining and just plain old making all manner of stupid commotion over some picky thing,(this is the ultimate in rudeness to me) and I find out it bothers them I will do it all the more to see if I can make them leave.\n Who needs somebody who can't bend a little bit and let the world have its own way of flowing.\n\nI also hate the rudeness of standing in line and the people in front of me know the cashier or  teller and they are visiting about a personal matter and letting everyone behind them shift from foot to foot and if you are supposed to be somewhere at a certain time they are causing you to be late. I used to just smile and wait and not say anything, now that I am a grown up and know that they are absolutely the ones in the wrong, I will say ma;am excuse me is there someone else you could call to open another register or pehaps you could take a break now and visit, while another person checks us out. I have things to do today and I do not know who these people are you are talking about, but I do know I have to pick up my kids in about 5 minutes and I am now late because of you and this other person chatting.\n\nThey get red in the face and either call someone else or they get rid of the relative before I have the chance to get management over there.
1168487
Maybe pressure from other people to abide by social norms. So many times when someone does something rude or offensive, people just let it slide. No one confronts them about it. Maybe if everytime someone did something rude they got called on it, they'd think twice and be more respectful next time.
767422
I work at tesco cafe I feel u get no respect at all. People just demand and no thanks some can also be rude and complain for the sake of it.
111822
Because they have low self-esteem and no self respect.
1155913
Im a cashier and at my job, people who use the self checkout do the STUPIDEST things!!  When Im thinking to myself how stupid they are and are laughing at them in my mind they are so sweet to me as they leave and say have a nice day and stuff.  Makes me realize I shouldn't judge people and be mean to people like that, even if they can't hear my thoughts.  I feel kind of guilty
521201
because they are rude people.
261042
b/c people don't want to honor or respect wife beaters.
49785
People who lack manners...customers who treat my store like a garbage can...people who don't say goodbye on the phone when hanging up...people who talk on their cell phone while in line...people who don't hold doors for each other (men or women)...the list could go on.
772908
Most businesses think "customer service" is a department instead of the job of every employee.  Worse, they expect the customer to fit into their "thinking" instead of adapting to the customer.  \n\nThe idiots pander to you when you don't want them, and when you do want them around, they bugger off.  In some places, they follow you around like you're a shoplifter, yet if you wave to somebody stocking shelves to come and help, they ignore you because "we're busy".  What ticks me off the most, though, are idiots who are more concerned with selling anything that with selling me what I want.  \n\nIf I go into a store and ask for (as an example) 100% cotton dress shirts for work, they will waste my time showing me cotton/polyesters, or t-shirts, or polo shirts, or anything else, instead of doing the intelligent thing and showing me what I want or just saying, "We don't have any 100% cotton dress shirts" if they don't have any.  If they had the brains to tell the truth, I wouldn't be annoyed, but they're so busy whoring for dollars that they don't care.  More than once I've thrown polyester shirts (among other things) on the floor and said, "Is that what I asked for?"\n\nRead Peters' and Waterman's book "In Pursuit Of Excellence" to understand what real customer service is about.  It's a lost art.\n\n\n.
916342
I work in a shop and parents should keep their children on a leash or out of the store if they will not control them. I am sick of hearing "don't do that or the lady will smack you", meaning me. Smack your own damn kids, don't make me out to be the monster here. And yes, if my kids needed a slap when they were in a shop when they were little, they got one. If I can do it, so can they.\nPeople have NO idea how to behave when they are shopping, they open boxes (usually tearing it) then buy the box behind because the one they opened is damaged, they pick stuff up then put it back in the wrong place ( so the next customer demands that £10 item for the £3 label on the shelf where they found it), and they treat the staff appallingly.\nParents and inconsiderate shoppers should pay for all breakages and damages, you are absolutely right. Also, bring back national service, but forget the army, 2 months in a shop on shop salary every couple of years would be enough to show people what it is really like for those of us who do this work rather than be on unemployment. The salary is rubbish, the hours are antisocial (who wants to work weekends?) and we don't deserve the abuse we take.
98121
Yes..  what goes around comes around.  It's a weird thing but you do the right thing and when you least expect it boom someone does the same to you..    Plus, the money will probably come out of the cashier's pocket.  And if you return the money it will make someone's day.   Peace.
1160488
It is annoying when that happens. I am frequently mistaken for my daughter's sister, and once a cashier refused to sell me a lotto ticket. I get asked what high school i go to, and while I may appreciate it later, right now I want to slap people.It takes a long time to grow up, you want to be acknowledged when you do!
391572
I love to give the cashiers too much money AND a handfull of change. And then talk to them at the same time! They get all screwed up!!