Special Needs in charge of checkouts

[Adam]

Shouldn't be allowed in my opinion.

I just had to walk out of one leaving a trolley full of shopping because I was too pissed off to wait any longer. There was a massive queue with just this one guy checking each product and making a comment to this guy who couldn't give a shit. So the queue got bigger - the odd relief did come on but the back of the queue went their first and I was middle, the queue got bigger as less was still leaving as more was coming. I grabbed my stuff off the belt and headed towards an opening one but two people with very full trolleys got there before me. So I walked out.

Its the 2nd time I've walked out of this supermarket after I once was asked for ID and the ID I showed this bitter old women wasn't to her satisfaction.

When you shop at 10pm at night, you want a quick military in and out operation - not a fucking brick wall to bash through.

I am not saying special needs and 100 year old dementia-suffering women shouldn't have jobs there - I'm saying they shouldn't be customer facing. (n)

[faz]

And what did you achieve by walking out, with out your shopping? Did you have somewhere to be at that precise second? Couldn't you just of waited?

[Echewta]

GEEZ, someones mind is on their money and money on their mind.

:rolleyes:

[Adam]

I achieved the satisfaction of not having to wait any longer. I had been in the queue 15 minutes already - I wanted to be in bed. It was getting ugly and tiring. Its my little protest to the management who watched me just walk out because you see them with their headset on trying to manage these situations without actually doing any work themselves. Now they have to find some1 else to put my food back or let it go to waste. Either way FAIL is their word of the night.

I've worked customer facing jobs - you don't upset your customers. Sainsburys will have loads of other custom, the loss of mine and future custom will mean nothing to them. But after that first incident I didn't go back for three months - now I've been a few times since. Today just confirms to me that they aren't too bothered at being efficient.

edit: I should say I have a hate for supermarkets - I find them evil, money grabbing, bad for farming and bad for the economy. I use markets and whole sale as much as possible but sometimes its too inconvenient to do that. But when supermarkets make it inconvenient to try and be convenient, I have a problem

edit II: I know I said I wanted to be in bed and have been posting here - well I am in bed, just doing the last of my emails etcetra. But I had to rant to :D

[paul jones]

At my local Sainsbury's there's a special needs man who collects the trolleys,or did.I haven't seen him for a while though

[HotAndWet]

I've never heard a retarded person with a british accent.

[paul jones]

I've never heard a retarded person with a british accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LukVnNJc6xo

[Echewta]

Beat me to it Jones!!!

[paul jones]

Beat me to it Jones!!!

High Flive(y)

[Pres Zount]

The best thing to do would be to go there at night and spray on the wall outside "Sainsburys will waste your time at the check out". It would make me lol.

Oh, and hats off for not getting mad at the employees. As long as the money is ticking over and the statistics add up, the managers wont really care too much about how many people walk out mad. It most likely makes them more money to have one special needs person (with government help, I'm sure) on their register and have ten people complain or not buy anything, than it does to have an adequate number of registers staffed by fully competent people.

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I would have spat it.

[Fern]

they only let them bag up shit by me. Everyone is in a rush in metro NY. THere would be small staged riots if some window-licker took too long rining shit up.

[trailerprincess]

I keep thinking that this thread is about the Lahndahn band Special Needs.
They were dropped from their label a couple of years ago so I thought they might have new, more mundane jobs.:o