Little Shit

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AIBU to be a bit cross that a member of staff at Tesco called a school boy a Little Shit. Granted the Boy was messing around at the self service till and he should have known better. But the reaction from the staff member was rude and unprofessional towards a year 7 child.
Member of staff grabbed some receipts boy was messing around with and said to him aggressively "think your funny do you, you little shit". Yes the boy was in the wrong but it didn't warrant the reaction.

she shouldn't have said it TO him, she should have saved it for her colleagues. year 7s can be little shits.

I'd get a rare bollocking if I swore at a customer and I certainly have wanted to

Year 7 is 12/13 or slightly younger? Age 10 is the age of Criminal Responsibility in the UK so I don't think I agree with the handwringers who thought that he should have been spoken to in respectful terms like a small child.

If so, unfortunate and unprofessional use of language but he probably was being a little shit and there is probably a back story.

NEVER appropriate? Really? Fine I can sort of see that argument for young children, even though I'm not sure why, but 11-18 is still technically a child but it's often certainly appropriate.

No back story to this. I had already dropped off my ds to school and popped into the Tesco Local. There was about four or five senior school kids in there. A que of five adults at the main till and this Boy was at the self serve till messing around with some receipts. The member of staff was already serving a customer when he quickly moved across to the self serve til leaned over and grabbed the receipts from the boy saying what he said in op.

He leaned over and took the receipt, that's not excusable that he's 'just a child'. He did behave like a shit. I've seen kids really harass the staff in some shops, the little shits.

it's not very professional no but if kids didn't feel they were so untouchable these days they would behave so much better. if it was my child I wouldn't complain about her being called a little shit if she wash behaving like one. when I was younger any member of the public would have told us off and we would have listened in case they told our parents and we got in trouble. these days the adults get in trouble for daring to open their mouths to someone's darling baby.

Horrible expression. Would it be acceptable to call an adult "you shit"? For the heinous crime of fiddling with receipts?

If the boy was shoplifting or being a nuisance they must have procedures to deal with it. I'm sure the Tesco training material doesn't say:

"Call the police / security and in the meantime feel free to use whatever expletives you feel would be justified in a non-customer facing role. Remember this only applies to teenage boys "

The child was not damaging any property, pulling shelves over or being dangerous to others. At the time the staff member was serving a customer in the middle of a transaction. Maybe he should have finished serving the customer and then asked the boy to stop. His reaction was a tad ott

If more little shits were actually told they were little shits maybe they'd stop being little shits.

MissYamabuki - has hit the nail on the head. It is a horrible expression and an ignorant response to the situation on the part of the Tesco employee.

"If more little shits were actually told they were little shits maybe they'd stop being little shits."

Where do we draw the line? Shall we scream "Little Shits" at noisy children in a restaurant or children behaving badly in parks, or when they accidentally kick their ball at your car? How is calling them a little shit going to help them moderate their behaviour?

Ye gods!

So he shouldn't have used those words, definitely a no no!

But you all know that the boy was indeed being a little shit and needed to be told to eff off out of it. Just with less emotive language.

And you all know the man was just being human, maybe had been pushed to his limits by similar behaviour before.

Either way, it's not a capital offence.

He was being a little shit!
He shouldn't have said it really but come on he's only human and probably fed up with badly behaved school children day in day out...give the man a break.

If someone in work was deliberately annoying and bothering someone else and that someone else snapped 'will you stop being such a shit' I would certainly not expect that person to be disciplined.
In fact I would think anyone who reported such an incident was being a precious eejit.

Not professional, but totally understandable.

'You little turd' might have been a better choice, or 'shit for brains'.
still
every little helps

No it's not acceptable as I am sure they would find out if they were reported to management. No doubt the 'young man' needed telling but not with that particular word.

Love the ageism at play here

If it had been a grown man or woman and the staff member had called them an arsehole or something (even if they were being one) people would be saying it was completely unprofessional but because it's a child he's fair game and adults can go around calling them names.

It's not acceptable and i'd report the staff member to their manager. They need to be told it's not ok. I'm sure the company would rather not have that language used by a representative to their customers.

I also wonder how supportive of this some of you would be if it was your child being a 'little shit' and someone else came and called them it. Would you just stand there and agree?

How do you get ageism, STOP? If an adult in a store is acting like a dick and a staff member told them so I'd say well done. And I think most people wouldn't even contemplate reporting the staff member if they'd said it to an adult.

Of course it's not acceptable to call anyone a little shit.

I'm a bit surprised anyone thinks its ok.