Pros:
- little old ladies that are lonley and want to chat (they remind me of my gran)
- Hot, male customers...
- Being on Express (you have things to do: change baskets, serve on smoke shop, sell flowers, gossip to supervisors and other workfriends.)
- 3 hr shifts (by the time you're sick of it, you go home)
- Doing stock (you don't have to talk to customers and get to subtly shop while putting stock away)
Cons:
- The "I forgot my green bags, they're in the car *que laugh*" speech.
- The calico bags, especially when customers don't help you pack them.
- The smelly customers who buy everything except soap.
- When you are trying to do stuff (read woolies notes, do pickups, change orders especially) and a customer either:
A - comes over and says the whole "you look lonely *que witty smile*" speech
B - in express, they dump their sh*t on the counter and sigh at you, as if to say...well I'm here, jump thru hoops for me.
- The scan rate theory: How the hell do I go from 17.5 items per min and for some reason drop down to 11.8 items/min, especially when I haven't slowed my rate at all! Yet, ppl next to me in Express who scan really slowly have a rate of 16 - 20 items a min....WTF!!!
- 'The angry soccer moms' (I have different genres for customers) they are in their 40s, have like 2-3 kids, think they're hot sh*t and treat checkout ppl like crap.
- For some reason, when opening a checkout, I cant stand ppl asking me if I'm about to open. It's like.....well deeeeerr moron! I'm removing the trolley, taking away the "closed" sign and turning on my lights....wtf do you think I'm doing!
Ok, there are heaps more but I can't remember them.