What is your view on queue jumping?

[bluebellforest]

Just that really, it happened to me today and I was wondering how other people deal with it, ignore or confront?

Depends what the queue is for.
If it's the bus/tube, I'm not so bothered as everyone seems to just congrugate at the doors and I tend to stand back as I hate people being too close.
In a queue to pay for something, it annoys me, pre pregnancy I'd have internalised my frustration... Right now, at almost full term, I'm highly irritable and would say something.
What happened to you op?

I was in a queue to pay for one item and someone cut in front with a basket. It really pissed me off.

Yes, I would have said something, that's just plain rude.
Did you give them what for?

I am ashamed to say that I didn't. My little boy was with me.
If I had been on my own, I would have told them to fuck off basically.

There should be a trapdoor in the floor to deal with them imho.

Excuse me, there’s a queue, usually works !

Just makes me think of this .

Rude and selfish. I usually say something like "excuse me, there is a queue", most times the jumper looks sheepish and goes to the back.

On a good day, "Excuse me, there's a queue"
On an average day, "Actually, we were all here first if you don't mind, the end of the queue is there"
On a bad day, very loudly, "Excuse me, are you blind and didn't see the queue or are you just unbelievably rude and think you don't have to bother like the rest of us?"

And yes, I did actually say that once. I'd seen them earlier in the shop being a right cow to a staff member and they had a huge air of entitlement and I really enjoyed being rude to them. Shameful of me.

I don't mind if I have a shipping order and they just have a loaf but crucially I have to offer. Assuming and pushing in are heinous crimes, I need the payoff for my generosity

I cannot fucking stand it. It is absolutely the norm in my husband's home country and it makes me want to slap the shit out of everyone who does it, especially as they literally shove you out of the way. Sadly, as it's a norm, there's nothing to be done.

In the UK, I can't accept it. So I just tell people there is a line.

It's so bloody rude. I hate it and have no qualms pointing it out.

I would (and do) nearly always say something like ‘there’s a queue’. I’ve found this at the till or whatever are usually brilliant about doing this anyway so often no need to speak up.
Bus stops agree - queues pretty much non existant. I remember when we all stood in single line along pavement in really rigid queues for buses but shelters have made that impossible.
Only time I wouldn’t say anything would be if fearful of something kicking off - ie queue jumper looking drunk/drugs affected.

I always call it out

Usually with a "did you realise you've pushed in front of me?"

Sometimes "Why didn't you join the queue?"

Occasionally "There's a queue you know".

One of my bugbears is when the person in front of me lets someone else in when they are buying just as much if not more than me. It's always women and they always let a poor ickle harassed looking man in. And they never ask me if I'm happy about it.

Everyone else has nailed it on the head. I'm okay with letting someone go ahead of me if they only have a few things and I have a weekly shop in my trolley. But I have to have offered!

I would definitely say something.

"Excuse me there's a queue and I'm next" is all you need to say.

A man barged straight to the front of the airport check-in queue where there had obviously been a problem. I said excuse me, there's a queue to which he announced, "I'm a gold member". I said "Of what? The rude queue barging club?" A bloke somewhere behind me burst out laughing and the rude bastard got in line with the rest of us.

'Excuse me, the end of the queue is there', gesturing, every time.
It's done constantly to people in wheelchairs and needs calling out if the person can't.

You don't need to jump afraid to "fuck off", a simple reminder that there's a queue with a point to where they need to go is all I've ever needed.

@Sicario
Gold member of the rude queue barging club had me in stitches

I detest queue jumpers but fortunately it doesn't happen very often. I have in the past said something loudly like 'oh dear!' They turn and I said 'I must have turned invisible again, how annoying, because otherwise I'm sure you wouldn't have rudely pushed in front of me if you had seen me'. Cue silence and a move to the back of the queue. It works

I hate queue jumpers and will, depending on how bolshy I'm feeling and possibly how big they are, either mutter or say out loud "There IS a queue, you know..."

When I've done it out loud, the people usually do look sheepish and go to the back of the bleeding obvious queue that they've just walked around.

Sometimes I don’t say anything

There was an elderly gentleman who may not have seen where i was queuing in the greengrocers so I certainly wasnt going to call him out (he probably does it all the time and gets away with it )

But usually i will say ‘excuse me there is a queue’ politely

Once though a new till opened and the woman behind me virtually flew over there and i said ...louder than I intended.....goodness someone is in a hurry. And she turned round and said ‘oh im sorry would you like to go first’

And i was like ‘ nope 😳’

I would always say something but if I was of the personality type to avoid confrontation then I would expect the check-out assistant so do their job here and kindly point out that they are not next to be served. If they failed to do so I think I'd be equally as annoyed about that as the original queue jumper!