To think shop assistants shouldn't server customers with the straw of a carton of juice rammed in their mouth?

[MrsWinnibago]

Before you have a go at me for picking on shop assistants I've worked in retail as a shop assistant for ten years before having children and changing jobs. I know what it's like.

I got served today in the CoOP by a girl who was sucking the arse out of a carton of Ribena. She didn't take the straw out of her gob and did the transaction with one hand. She went SLUUUURRRP all the way through.

Then when it was done, another staff member asked her where something was so she took them to it with the carton still stuffed in her face and slurping...she removed it for one second to say "Oh I know..." and then rammed it back in.

Sorry but it was both gross and rude imo. Don't they have rules about eating and drinking behind the tills any more?

She could of been pregnant / diabetic etc etc take a deep breath and forget her drink carton

Well lots of xs and vs you can work a till faster with two hands than with one.

usualsuspect Let me tell you the secret. I am much nicer and more easy-going in RL than I am here. A lot of things which bother me when I think about them at the keyboard pass me by out there.

I suspect that I am not alone in that.

She said it was the drinking not the one handed till operating that annoyed her. If it was one handed till operating that was the annoyance I'd say next time suggest a longer straw and wedging the drink inbetween her boobs.
That'd have op laying on the floor gasping for air.
Since when was coop posh anyway? I've seen much worse in coop on my old estate.

Seriously life is too short to get so worked up and enraged by minor trivial crap like this.

Don't shop there if their staff aren't trained to your standards.

Wouldn't bother me really, esp on a hot day.

I can't believe anyone cares about this.

I've worked in retail for a long time (varying levels) and sometimes things happen where you have to skip breaks or you come back early to help out...or whatever.

It's only a shop. She served you, right? Maybe she should have still been in the staff room finishing her lunch - lucky for you she came out and you got served.

Who knows what happened...

Most of all, who cares!

I work at a competitor and we are absolutely banned from eating/drinking on the shop floor. It doesn't matter if you're thirsty/hungry you go to the kitchen and have a snack or drink there.

I work for the Co Op, I work three days doing eight and a half hour shifts, Two of those are untill 10pm [closing]

On those two later shifts I never get my full break entitlement as we usually only have 3 staff members instore, Sometimes only 2 if someone is off sick or on holiday. one being a supervisor who has many jobs to complete and the other a ctm like me,

Working untill closing is much harder than any other shift as there are so many things that have to be done before you can close up and leave, On Monday we had a 24 cage delivery turn up at 5pm as this week is promotion change, same amount of staff as the Monday before yet on that Monday only 7 cages, Still expected to complete delivery 100%, Work milk, bread and back up chilled, face up and serve the customers with a big smile on our faces,

We are not allowed to have drinks behind the tills and if caught having one would be in serious trouble, I am a smoker and have been known to smoke a fag in 2 minutes as I feel bad taking the full 15 minutes i'm supposed to have as that would mean leaving only one person in the shop and if anything happened I wouldn't know as nothing can be heard from outside the back gate,

It's the company that you should be having a go at, not us assistants that are just doing our best to keep our jobs.

If it was sugary ribena she could well have been a type 1 diabetic dealing with a hypo & trying to keep it low key (rather than crunching on chalky dextrose tablets spraying sugary powder everywhere as she spoke to you). Thing is, you can't be sure that she wasn't diabetic, so if it makes you feel less wound up, assume she was & be glad she hadn't just collapsed in a diabetic coma at the till. Probably not something worth getting wound up about tbh...

You know what, all, mine of 19:48:37 was OTT, consider it unsaid, at least the first line.

I still think shop-floor staff must do without their phones!

I wouldn't care.

She probably gets cheesed off serving folk who continue chatting on their mobiles whilst she's serving them, that used to piss me right off.

I'd just be happy she served me without too much faff.

Lol I am defo not your DS Usual but at least you know I am not talking ballshit,

No, really can't say I'd care either.

I'd only care what they were doing if it was holding me up in any way.