There are a few money/paying/spatial etiquette items I would like to discuss:
1. When you are looking for change, and you find it, remove it from your pocket or wallet, and place it in the cashier's hand. NOT on the desk, or table, or worse - on the conveyor belt. The cashier does not have the cooties, and she/he probably doesn't want to pick up each coin separately off the counter. I have seen instances where the hand is out, yet the customer bypasses the hand to put in on the counter. This delays the time that you finish the transaction, get your receipt and can walk out of the joint. It also delays all of the people behind you. I remember having to take apart the frickin' conveyor belt because idiots decided to put coins on there and then moved an item so that the sensor started and dropped the money into never-never land.
[Johnny's Burgers is excluded from the above. It's all part of the experience there. Beware of flying coins.]
2. If you are a cashier, and I don't know why I even have to say this, put the CHANGE IN THE CUSTOMER'S HAND FIRST, and then slip them the bills and receipt second. Don't put the bill face down on the customers hand and drop the change on top. The bill is a FLAT surface and change will not stay there. It will fall side to side and this will delay you at the cash from serving the next customer. I don't even know why people do this. It seems that 8/10 cashiers seem to follow this routine. Makes me want to pay by debit every single time.
3. If you are waiting in line to pay for something, don't wait until you get up to the cash to pull out your wallet and look for money. Have it ready. Same goes for the TTC. If you are waiting for the bus (when I say waiting, I mean not having to run for it), don't sit there like a dumb-ass until the doors open, and get on the bus, and THEN DIG FOR YOUR TICKETS/CASH/PASS. You delay people from getting on the bus behind you. Oh yes, and it's ignorant. You obviously had the time to be prepared for the bus to arrive since you were standing there for a few minutes until those doors opened.
I REALLY have a problem with people that don't see how their presence affects others. It seems so blatant and common sense to me. Don't stop your cart in the middle of a grocery store aisle. Keep it to one side. If you are walking with friends on a sidewalk, and you see someone approaching, move so that you are in single-line format. I actually hip-checked this little teenager bastard the other day because he refused to move. I was ready to rumble at that point. Seriously. Come on your little shit - I'll CRUSH YOU. Don't walk with traffic in a mall, and then STOP dead to have a conversation with your friend. Move to the side. If you are sitting in a two-seater on the bus, and someone gets on that may want to sit in that second seat, don't keep your bag there. Move the effen thing, before someone has to ask you to do that.
So the lesson to learn here, is to be aware of how you can speed up processes. Be aware that it's not only about you. Other people are waiting. Other people are working hard. Time for you to take notice of others around you. And move the hell out of the way.
Mental note: Time to get a car.
2 comments:
Thank you and amen to every single one of these observations.
The whole change issue is the main reason I now usually pay by credit card.
As far as the sidewalk situation goes, I tend to always come up against the Sex & the City wannabees who seem to believe they're strutting the catwalk in Milan rather than schlepping along Queen St. Beeyotch, I WILL HEADBUTT YOU before I allow you to force me onto the curb!
If I might be so bold as to add another observation:
Once you reach the bottom/top of the escalator or have successfully made your way through the subway doors PLEASE GET OUT OF THE WAY as there are other people behind you. It amazes me how many people are still confounded by this concept on a regular basis.
Speaking from experience as a salesperson cashing people out, I would like to say that I sometimes LIKE when people take time to search for their change. It gives me a moment to breathe and re-group, and and if the person behind doesn't like waiting, I can always blame it on the customer giving me all of their change:)
However, having said that, I always yell at Greg for taking his wallet out at the last minute to get his Costco card out to show at the door.
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