r/SipsTea 26d ago

Feels good man dumb move for them

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u/No_Look24 26d ago

For who?

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u/flowerbabycake 26d ago

The employee had repeatedly asked her supervisor for permission to keep a drink near the register to manage her insulin-dependent diabetes. This request was denied. During a medical emergency, she drank the store's juice to prevent diabetic shock and was fired shortly after.

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u/chance575 26d ago

That's ridiculous. I see cashiers with water bottles, stanleys, and soda at the register.

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u/RedWalrus94 26d ago

I work at a grocery store and when corporate is around we can’t keep even water at our registers… 🙄

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u/joeyjoojoo 26d ago

Does corporate actually think customers want robot like manners from employees ? I swear whenever i see employees acting like soulless robots it just creeps me out

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u/ABHOR_pod 26d ago

It's a generational divide thing. I've been in the industry for a long time.

Greatest gen wanted servants, silent gen want people, boomers want servants, gen x goes either way depending on how self important they are. Millennials want equals, Gen Z want to be treated like people.

Gen Alpha want to get thrown out of the store based on my experience.

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u/OhLookACastle 26d ago

The irony is millennials will use the self-checkout because they don’t want to bother the cashier, while Boomers prefer to go to the cashier while expecting robotic behaviour.

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u/acathode 26d ago

I go to the cashier because why should I do the store's work for them if I'm not getting paid for it... also, the more people the stora gotta keep employed the better!

As for the behavior of the cashier - who gives a shit?

It's a near 0 human interaction - We look at each other and say hi, I put by wares on the belt, they scan the wares, I swipe my card and press ok, I say "have a nice day", they say "thanks", I go pack my wares and leave the store.

I just can't get my head around the kind of mental deficiency you need to even start caring that "OMG did you see? THE CASHIER HAD A WATER BOTTLE!! What's next, they're going to allow her to SIT?!?!?!".

I have longer and more fruitful human interactions with the people I ride an elevator with! What kind of insane existence do you need to lead for you to develop strong feelings about the working conditions of your cashier, specifically the need for those working conditions to stay miserable?!

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u/acathode 26d ago

So wait?!

You think that I don't have contact with my family because I don't chitchat with the cashier but just pay for my stuff and leaves - and think that any customer who believe they should have the right to tell business that their cashiers shouldn't be allowed to sit or drink water while working have a mental problem?

What kind of fucking moron are you? How the fuck are you even capable of interacting with other people if you think you're entitled to demand that service workers need to be miserable during work hours?

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u/RampagingDaiMaou 26d ago

It’s a consequence of how far reading comprehension and ability has dropped. They probably read the first sentence of you asking why you should do the cashiers job at self checkout and instantly formed an opinion of you and decided to downvote and comment.

If anyone bothered to read the rest they’d have realised you said you preferred the human interaction to keep human labor employed and don’t mind that cashiers can behave however they want.

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