Wally World Rant

I know that most people would say you don't have to like your job and I think that as well to a point. However, I'm dreading work every time even more than usual.

I work at Wal-Mart as a cashier and it's pretty nice sometimes (a very small sometimes)... but on days like today, where it seems like everybody in the whole city AND their mother is in the store (which is most times), it sucks. You get a lot of blank and oftentimes angry stares in your line when you're going as fast as you can. Honestly, do people think that we're robots programmed to run everybody's items at the speed of light?

I especially love those people who complain about how there are so many people and how slow everybody is. Hmmm... here's a thought. If you want to get through the line quickly don't buy so much stuff... or if you don't like that the store's so freaking crowded every freaking day (especially on weekends) don't even go shopping there on those days. It's not like Wal-Mart will go out of business or burn to the ground on the days you're not shopping there. And if so, there are many other stores to shop at.

Another type I like, is the person who rearranges everything according to the plan in their head. If I were telepathic there'd be no problem... but I'm not. How about telling the cashiers where you want everything because even though that's annoying too, you do have the right to say you want something bagged a particular way. This seems stupid, but it makes me feel bad and my self esteem goes down a couple notches because you're telling everybody who's watching that I don't know how to bag and I don't have enough sense to know that obviously marshmallows don't go in with bread because marshmallows are junk food or those same light fluffy marshmallows might magically solidify and squish the bread while being tossed around in your car. Maybe that's an exaggeration... but you get the point. 

It's always so busy here. Maybe I should've thought about that when I applied... but unfortunately I did not. Still, the day goes by faster with so many people but unfortunately some customers have complaints and we get a lot of those now that we're doing this remodel of the store that for some reason is deemed necessary. The complaints are mostly due to not being able to find anything... but what do you expect with a remodel.Though, we can do without the new fangled touch screen registers which have been even more if not equally problematic than the older ones. 

And the bathrooms sure are a great improvement on the old ones. I don't know about the men's bathrooms since I'm not a guy and can't enter said bathroom nor do I want to, but the ladies' bathroom used to have two paper towel dispensers, two hand dryers, and stalls whose doors would only be closed when they were occupied. Now, we have ONE towel dispenser, ONE hand dryer, some odd mystery thing beside tampon/pads machine, and stalls that would stay closed even if no one was in it, which means that we have to walk down the line of stalls and sort of check if someone's in it either through the crack between the door and the frame or underneath... which is obviously disturbing.

Maybe after this remodel I'll get back to semi-liking my job again. Sorry, it was hot and I get cranky in this weather. Our store doesn't believe in turning on the A/C it seems.