Not even solely relegated to old people, either, unless the fediverse thinks 30-40 is old. We had one woman come by our shit little dollar store about 20 minutes after we’d closed. So, long enough for us to start counting out, cleaning, etc., but not long enough to go home yet.
Noticed the door was locked. Noticed those of us not still busy were hanging out and chatting while we waited, surreptitiously watching this person. Visibly read the store hours. Tried the lock again.
Started prying open the door while we all stared in horror, ended up breaking it, then threw a whole fit to boot because we couldn’t sell her anything with all the tills in the back room and we kept trying to kick her out for some reason.
She wasn’t even high. She was just that entitled, because very often for suburban moms, the rules don’t apply if you don’t let them.
Please tell me she was made to pay for the door she broke.
The manager of that store was the same one who, to name just a few occasions:
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Disregarded safety and climbed up the boxes herself when doing truck, resulting in a large container being dislodged from the top and landing directly on an employee’s face, breaking his nose. She begged him not to tell, and he really should have. While I can’t say that she 100% wouldn’t have paid him off, he was also just really nice.
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Made fun of another employee’s weekly pay in front of all their coworkers. It was only in the double digits because they’d had the flu for weeks.
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When a customer bought a candy bar, stood there in line and ate the entire thing, then immediately demanded a full refund because they “didn’t like it,” forced me to complete that refund because the customer is always right.
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Calmed a different customer over the holiday rush by publicly and very loudly threatening to fire me. The complaint had been quite simply that I (quote) “wasn’t smiling enough” and this must have ruined this person’s entire holiday spirit. Unbeknownst to the customer but fully known to my boss, I had just cremated my brother two weeks ago. The PTSD from that year’s rush is just barely starting to fade twelve years later.
In short, the manager of this particular store would do whatever action was the cruelest to others with the least amount of effort on her part, but then fall all over herself to brown nose A Customer.
No, I’m not aware she was made to pay for the door. She very likely would have been allowed to shop if she physically could have.
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In Scotland, supermarkets are not allowed to sell alcohol from 10pm to 10am. Every time I worked in a supermarket, there would inevitably be a queue of old ladies at the tills at 09:57am waiting for the exact moment that they were allowed to purchase their gin or vodka
“I need to use your toilet!”
“…and if you don’t allow me to use your employee toilet and direct me to the public toilet next to the store I’ll flip my shit and start kicking the door.”
Hot take: businesses should have to pay much higher taxes if they don’t have public (including the homeless) restrooms. The default is being allowed to go wherever we want, and now they just expect you to go “somewhere else”.
Lol you allow homeless to use your bathroom, then we’ll talk. How much literal shit do you enjoy cleaning? 'Cause there’s gonna be loads.
The answer is paid toilets. Cause anything available for ‘free’ will be abused.
