the night-time is the right time!

It's official. I think I prefer working the evening shift better than the regular day shifts. The customers don't seem to be so asshole-y after 5 PM. Plus, I don't get to work with A. as the CSM as often as I used to when I was still working the customer service desk...which I'm glad I don't do anymore. I hated the service desk! Ugh, having to deal with customer complaints on top of running a regular register, plus more responsibilities (like the Lotto machine, and Western Union transfers), and I didn't even get paid anything extra for it. If I have to directly deal with customers getting angry, I want to be paid more.

But oh boy, did I hate having to work the Lotto machine. You have the customers who are hard-core Lottery-addicts who are there every day to play their Lucky 5s or Daily 3s...or probably ALL of that crap. And they just rattle it off to you and expect you to know that's "their" order and know how to enter it in. Then they act all pissed off when you don't know how. And I especially hate it when they tell you how to enter it into the damn Lotto machine. And you just want to yell at them, "I'M THE F*CKING CASHIER BACK HERE AND YOU AREN'T! DON'T TELL ME HOW TO DO MY JOB!"

You know what else is irritating? When customers come and order a crapload of scratch-off tickets. Then they come and redeem them right away for more tickets. They go and scratch those off, and five minutes later, they're back to redeem those for even more tickets. Before you know it, they've blown about $100 on freaking scratch-off tickets and maybe have won $30 back, but they've still lost about $70 in the process. What a waste of money. And that's called an addiction, folks!

But what I hated the most about working back there was selling cigarettes. Now, I'm very anti-smoking (mainly because I was born with a birth defect--cysts in my left lung, and had to have part of my left lung surgically removed when I was a child), and I don't want to be pushing people to maintain their expensive habit of slowly killing their lungs. Customers would get so annoyed with me for not knowing what "their" brand was, or what brands looked like what (I try not to familiarize myself with that crap). It's like, "Dude, I don't smoke, I don't know shit about cigarettes, and if you knew what was good for you, you wouldn't be putting this crap into your body."

But yeah. Don't really have to worry about that anymore! *ha*