A co-worker and I were chatting, discussing, comparing and we both agree.? Of all the customers from all the different countries (America included) who come into our store, the Russian customers are the nicest.? Personally I’ve found them to be polite, patient, courteous, etc.? We even had one customer, who is Russian, who purchased a money order for one amount but received a money order for 10x the amount she requested.? I’ll be the first to admit that if I had no ties to the store… I’d probably have had a hard time returning that money order to get one in the correct denomination.? This customer, however, did bring it back.? Eastern Europeans are also extremely nice.? Pretty much all of the customers from outside the US are very nice to the employees and other customers.? It’s the American customers who aren’t.? They’re the ones who try to rip us off, who treat us like we’re there for them to walk on.? They treat the employees at the grocery store as if we are so far beneath them that we are not entitled to the simple courtesies that our mothers took such pride in teaching us when we were children.? Whatever happened to a thank you?? Now I’m not saying that all Americans are like that, but I’ve noticed that the customers who walk around and act as if every employee in the store owes them something, or who decides that because they want something for a lower price… or to get a refund on something that they ate in its entirety… or anything else like that… well we should just bend over and take the loss because they deserve it.
What is it with this sense of entitlement that Americans are developing?? This whole “the world owes me” attitude?? No wonder people hate Americans.? As I said, not everyone has it, but so many people who come into my store on a day to day basis do.? There are days I just fuckin hate people.
I’ve said it before… I’ll say it again.? Randall (from Clerks) said it best when he said “This job would be great if it weren’t for the fuckin customers.”
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