If you have ever purchased anything from a store, please consider following requests from your local cashier. Trust me, they will actually appreciate it more than you know. Cashiers everywhere will thank you if you follow these. Consider it the Ten Commandments from those who have to work in retail, and as far as this cashier is concerned, you will be punished for not following these. Punishment will come in the form of broken eggs and no receipt.
1. As soon as you hear the loud, obnoxious beeping from the chip reader, you can take the card out. Please don’t finish your sentence first. Take your card out.
2. When you are purchasing an entire week’s worth of groceries, don’t also be on the phone. You shuffling around the bananas while telling your friend about your child’s accomplishments as you slowly put one item at a time on the conveyor belt slows me and the ten people behind you down.
3. Don't use the checkout line as time to parent your child. If your kid is crying about the toy you won’t buy them, lecture them after you pay.
4. Don’t put your money on the conveyor belt. It’s a pit of doom.
5. Every time you say “no, but thanks for asking” after I ask “did you want a rewards card” I want to scream I HAVE TOO ASK YOU AND EVERY OTHER PERSON THAT WALKS THROUGH THIS LINE.
6. Don’t ask me how my day is going if you are you going to scroll through your phone after you ask me.
7. When you loose your phone, don’t expect me to remember you or where you left it when you come in the store three hours later.
8. “Sorry I don’t want those” it's a lot easier than playing a game of hide and seek of random items across the entirety of the store
9. If you want me to bag your items nicely, consider placing them on the conveyor belt in the order you want them bagged rather than sending milk, eggs, and bleach next to one another.
10. Don’t use the phrase “I used to work in retail too, I know how it goes” as your excuse to do any of the above.