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14/12/23

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Originally posted by rebel1: ↑

So I am at Woolworths scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee on $32 an hr monitors me and then this happened.
Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - excuse me?
Her - you are wasting our bags!
Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - that's not my job!
Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her - why are you using two bags?!
Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her - exactly.
Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
*me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her- never mind you just don't get it.
And with that, she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.

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I had a similar situation with a self-checkout which kept coming up with "wait for assistance" after every item I put in the bag. The supermarket woman came over with her fed up look several times, swiped her tag to reset then stormed off. On about the fifth time she had a go saying "you are doing it wrong".

I informed her "all I am doing is scanning the barcode then placing the item in the bag" then she muttered something unintelligible and stormed off to one of the 5 other customers having the same problem as me and left me waiting with the issue unresolved. When she eventually came back I said "you do it and lets see what happens". Sure enough the red light flashed and she got the same error. She quickly swiped her card to reset hoping I wouldn't notice.

I said "interesting .... maybe you are doing it wrong !". She glared at me and said "if you are rude to me I don't have to serve you".

I responded "Thats fine but I bet you do have to clean up after me if you piss me off !". After 5 seconds of silence I walked out the door and left her to pack up all the groceries and put them in a trolley to go back onto the shelves.

Never saw her again so I bet she is now working in govt department where "customers" don't have a alternative.
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