I didn’t have to pick up the carts, but someone else did. I didn’t have to put away the stray items, but someone else did. At the end of the night, it ended up taking up everyone else’s time, since we worked as a team to get everything done after closing.

Half the time, those half-melted fudgesicles ended up being lost revenue for the store, since we couldn’t put them back on the floor. It would have been unethical. What if someone had bought them and kept them frozen, but went to open them, and found that someone else had left them out to melt before they had been bought? So we pulled them and we had to mark it as lost revenue.

Sometimes we’d try to get the 2nd or 3rd person in line when we opened a new lane, but they’d already have all their items on the belt. Sometimes, we’d open an express, and follow the directions of our supervisor and take the next person (who ended up having 50 items) and someone would walk up and complain to me, asking why I had taken someone with so many items. Well, I know this wasn’t something that they knew, but it wasn’t really my decision either. The checkout stands didn’t really have room for 50 items. All I could do was stutter asking for another cashier.

Some things in that business made it nice, some made it annoying. I had a lot of patience, so I lasted a lot longer than some people do. I don’t miss it, but, it was a job, and being unemployed right now, I’d do it to have an income. I would, though, prefer if the customers were a little nicer sometimes, because cashiers put a lot into their jobs, and they deal with a lot every day!!

I do think it is awesome when I am at the end of the grocery line and that checkout opens next to me, and the checker looks right at me and says “I can help you over here”

Yeah that’s awesome.