FunkyBlue
Rookie
For all of you who do your weekly shopping at either Coles, Woolworth, Franklins or any other supermarket, here are a few handy pointers for when you venture down to the Deli ........
1. Have SOME idea of what you want before you take a ticket. If there are alot of people, take a ticket and decide what you want WHILE you wait. We have better things to do than wait around while you and your significant other work out exactly how much ham you'll need for lunches for the rest of the week.
2. When you say you'd like "ham", please be specific.... there are 8 different kinds of ham, how are we suppose to know which one you want??
3. PRIMO is a brand of ham NOT a type of ham..... you wouldn't walk into a sports store and ask for a NIKE.
4. When you ask for something, tell us how much you want in the same breath. Once again, we haven't been to ESP 101, we don't know how much you'd like. On this note, saying you'd like "a handfull" doesn't constitute as a specific amount. My handfull and your handfull are obviously going to be different....... ALSO when you ask for "enough for a couple of sandwiches".. oh puh-lease, does it look like we know the ins and outs of your eating habbits???
5. Don't point through the glass and say "I'd like some of that". The tops of the counter are stainless steele, no I'm not Superman, no I can't see through it.
6. When you ask for 2kgs of chicken breasts, with one chicken breast in each bag, it DOES piss us off. Buy some freezer bags, take it home and do it yourself you lazy b*stard.
7. The K in Knackwurst is silent.
8. No we don't know how many cherrios you'll get for $2. Do you think we know the exact weight of each one?? I think not.
9. Don't get p*ssed off because we haven't served you after you've stood there for 10 minutes hearing us call out "customer 33...... customer 34". Yes we work on a numbers system. Don't play dumb and act like you didn't know. You know it's there, you can't fool us.
10. For health and safety reasons we all now have to wear hats, which has since, unfortunately, rendered the use of the eyes that are positioned in the back of our heads useless. If I'm standing with my back to the counter, I can't see you standing behind me. No, I can't "sense" your pressence. You throwing dirty looks at my back won't make me turn around any faster.
11. Chicken roll is ROUND, chicken loaf is SQUARE. We don't have round chicken loaf.
12. It's RASHERS of bacon, not RASHENS. Rashens are what you get in prison.
13. If you leave your groceries in the car while you go and visit with your mother for a few hours, it's more than likely that your fish will go off. If you eat it, don't come back screaming to us that we've given you food poisening.
14. THANK YOU goes a very long way........
Now,I'm sure that next time you venture down to the Deli that it'll be a much more plesant experience for all those concerned.
Thanks for letting me vent..... what a b*tch of a day!
1. Have SOME idea of what you want before you take a ticket. If there are alot of people, take a ticket and decide what you want WHILE you wait. We have better things to do than wait around while you and your significant other work out exactly how much ham you'll need for lunches for the rest of the week.
2. When you say you'd like "ham", please be specific.... there are 8 different kinds of ham, how are we suppose to know which one you want??
3. PRIMO is a brand of ham NOT a type of ham..... you wouldn't walk into a sports store and ask for a NIKE.
4. When you ask for something, tell us how much you want in the same breath. Once again, we haven't been to ESP 101, we don't know how much you'd like. On this note, saying you'd like "a handfull" doesn't constitute as a specific amount. My handfull and your handfull are obviously going to be different....... ALSO when you ask for "enough for a couple of sandwiches".. oh puh-lease, does it look like we know the ins and outs of your eating habbits???
5. Don't point through the glass and say "I'd like some of that". The tops of the counter are stainless steele, no I'm not Superman, no I can't see through it.
6. When you ask for 2kgs of chicken breasts, with one chicken breast in each bag, it DOES piss us off. Buy some freezer bags, take it home and do it yourself you lazy b*stard.
7. The K in Knackwurst is silent.
8. No we don't know how many cherrios you'll get for $2. Do you think we know the exact weight of each one?? I think not.
9. Don't get p*ssed off because we haven't served you after you've stood there for 10 minutes hearing us call out "customer 33...... customer 34". Yes we work on a numbers system. Don't play dumb and act like you didn't know. You know it's there, you can't fool us.
10. For health and safety reasons we all now have to wear hats, which has since, unfortunately, rendered the use of the eyes that are positioned in the back of our heads useless. If I'm standing with my back to the counter, I can't see you standing behind me. No, I can't "sense" your pressence. You throwing dirty looks at my back won't make me turn around any faster.
11. Chicken roll is ROUND, chicken loaf is SQUARE. We don't have round chicken loaf.
12. It's RASHERS of bacon, not RASHENS. Rashens are what you get in prison.
13. If you leave your groceries in the car while you go and visit with your mother for a few hours, it's more than likely that your fish will go off. If you eat it, don't come back screaming to us that we've given you food poisening.
14. THANK YOU goes a very long way........
Now,I'm sure that next time you venture down to the Deli that it'll be a much more plesant experience for all those concerned.
Thanks for letting me vent..... what a b*tch of a day!
