What amuses me is how people expect people in grocery retail to care about their needs. Their employers don't care about their existence, and with a meagre wage, some of them don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

What's worse is that a majority of the customers couldn't care about the employee, neither, and go out of their way to condescend and add more unnecessary stress in their own lives. Most of the employees don't even care about their own lives because it's simply difficult, and every single person is on their back making demands.

Maybe what most of you need to do is realise that you are talking to a person with emotion half of the time. Or, do what you do and express how furious you are at the fact that they've run out of a certain product. Go on, kick someone while they're down. Push someone too far and before you know t they'll start pushing back, and the affect will be felt.

Go on. Do it.

This may surprise you, but here it is. I suspect that the restraining influence of God was lifted in 1989, as Revelation foretells. I have seen some incredible stuff done by supposedly 'godly' people, including the infamous Chuck Swindle at my church. Then my own family. Stuff out of fiction novels. You are dead on, there has been a major shift in peoples behavior, but it is not only here in America. It is worldwide. Another six years and it will all be over.

Although that i've never worked for a grocery store, i've never experienced something like this over here in germany. Maybe because they always got what we need, or maybe we don't have tv shows like jerry springer. I don't know, to be honest. :/

But i don't think people like this would behave NOT differently in an shortage.





[edit on 13-1-2009 by hackbart]

Originally posted by theendisnear69
What do you guys think? Will we help each other out? Or will we act like we do at the grocery store?

Of course there are still lots of good people out there, but i'm talking about the majority.

Did it never occur to you that you must be one of those good people??

The people like you are what gets us all through it and we will all get through it in the end. It will just take much longer.

I can see society starting to divide again and thats the way that it has to go unfortunately but we will learn much better from this for the future.

Chin up.

It seems to me that people in general are becoming more aggressive. Just yesterday I told my husband that I have been verbally attacked several times in the last week by people in public. From corner stores to grocery stores, to riding a bus people are becoming increasingly hostile.

Not being a person that just accepts someone flipping on me for no good reason, well lets just say I don't passively shrink away. After this last incident Sunday at the grocery store when some woman said she was going to run my white a** over and kick it I had just had enough. As I got loud right back on her (I know not the most mature way to handle it, but like I said I have had enough) the situation nearly became comical. As other customers were looking at this woman like she was out of her mind, my daughter heard me and came back to see what was going on. Here is the funny part.....my daughter is mixed and a big girl, well you should have seen the face of this woman when a big black girl came walking up and said "Mom, are you alright" and looked that woman right in the face and asked was there a problem. Everyone in the area was laughing out loud.

I am going to have to learn to just keep it moving when I run into this sort of thing. I do think that the tension of the entire population is rising and we are going to find this sort of aggressive behavior the norm.

Excellent thread.. I agree with op 100 percent. I work as customer service rep for your favorite cable company. People scream at me all day, because we don't have hd converters with hdmi output. My other favorite call is

"My bill is high"
Do you want to downgrade?
"No I just want pay less and keep the same service"
Sorry we can't do that
"Let me speak to your supervisor your a scumbag and not being helpful"

People are nothing but greedy slime. I can't do anything about it when I am at work. However when I am out and I see a customer being rude to a service person I jump right in and fight for the person behind the counter. As an employee I can do nothing, as citizens we can start a revolution!

Peace
Trustnobody

I think we have been bred by societies rules to have a sense of self-entitlement.
We have been living too good for too long.
I agree that these people would not last in if the worst happened.
I also think the worst should happen just to rid ourselves of these self-entitled bozos.
Do I really care about someone who is screaming that there isn't enough cream cheese on their bagel?
How would someone living in war and squalor feel about these people??

Originally posted by ravenshadow13
Ohh hey, since you work in a supermarket and we're kind of talking about the economy:
I've recently noticed SO MANY parents telling their children "No honey we can't have that" or "Just pick one" or "We can't afford it this week" in the supermarket.

I've never ever ever heard that before the past few months.

never ever ever?


wow spoilt kids in America


maybe that is the root of this "If I don't get my microwave cheese bean burittos right now, Im a gonna start shooting some people!!" crisis you all seem to be living in


in the post apocalyptic cannibal waste land the fat man becomes the prey

People should scare you. Most are as stupid as a sack of doorknobs, and have all the wisdom and common sense of a two by four. Plus, they aren't required to have keepers when they are out and about. Be afraid... be very afraid.