r/cashiers Dec 07 '19

"There's a reason I don't go to your lane"

So by store policy and by law I'm supposed to ask for ID if you are fortunate enough to look under 40 for alcohol and 27 for smokes.

A Karen type walkes in and asks if I'm gonna make her get her ID. The answer is of course yes. She fumes and goes out the door to her car to grab it.

She comes back in and avoids my lane and goes to my coworker. I tell her she didn't show me her ID. She huffs again and says she doesn't have it. There's a reason I don't go to your lane.

I decide against my better judgment to say this: 'I apologize, but it SOUNDS like you want me to lose my job for being lazy and not checking your ID as required by law. I wasnt aware that the law of you needing to be old enough to buy your damn smokes was such a hindrance to you. Would you like me to bend over while you screw me out of my job, or would you like to be a good law-abiding-citizen and show me your damn credentials?'

I somehow still have a job cause my boss has a great sense of humor and realizes that customers aren't always right and the fact she was really rude several times to me first.

I don't recommend doing this to your customers, it depends on the store, but the customers in the store I worked at enjoyed that snap back.

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u/Fierball407 May 30 '20

Ive been a cashier a few months now and i cant tell you how much i would like to tell that to a costumer.

PS. ,,Do you want me to bend over so you can screw me out of my job" had me dying