So I am at work yeah, the sales are in and everyone is buying Christmas decorations and crappy clothes that are now 50p and other such items that have a short lifespan.
So I am scanning away at these fake pine things for this one moody lady and all of a sudden she says “Oh those decorations are meant to be 1 pound aren’t they?” (They scanned as 2). I look on the back and saw that it had been reduced from 5 pound. So immediently I thought ‘My god…it’s already been reduced and this woman is moaning about the price?‘ It was a pretty big decoration really and come on, when does Primark reduce prices, seriously?
So I turn around to this woman and say “Well it’s scanned as 2 pound and it’s already been reduced.”
And she stares at me as if this is all MY fault. I mean what? I don’t make up these prices and I’m no barcode either. All I do is scan and take their goddamn money.
So she leaves, thank god, without much of a fuss accepting the fact that it’s not the price she wanted.
But then later, as my till is being checked, another women turns up to my friends till. Buys some boots and something else costing 2 pound. Can’t remember what it was. So she pays with a 20 pound note and my pal gives her her change and she’s like “I gave you a 20 pound note…”
At this point I feel like clapping. Well done. I am glad she knows what note she gave.
“Where is my change?” She then adds.
“That’s it.” My pal replies. “It came to 17 pound.”
As expected there is now a flurry of hands looking for the recipt. The woman, confused as to why she has not been given more change and my friend looking out for his own back. The boots cost 15 pounds and the other thing she bought cost 2.
“Oh but those boots are meant to be 6.” She points out a scribble on the label. At this point my friend turns to me and says:
“Can you read what that says?” Points the scribble to me.
“No. It’s just a mess.”
The woman insists the boots were 6 pounds. Mike, the supervisor doing my till, looks up, sees the scribble – obviously annoyed he says: “Well you’ll have to go to customer services for a refund as these tills don’t do them.”
Our tills cannot physically do refunds. They are not programmed to do such things. But this woman looks at Matt and Mike disgusted, makes a noise which sound like a laugh and a annoyed gasp and walks off.
I mean come on! It’s not our fault that prices screw up on the tills. It annoys me when people look at us as if it is our fault. They are so ignorant D:<
I want to slap them!
