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Post by Alecto on Aug 23, 2009 20:13:58 GMT -5
When I'm standing all by myself, at my register minding my own business and some customer comes up and goes. " Wow, you're so quiet" or "Smile".
What am I supposed to do? Talk to myself and smile like an idiot?
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Post by 1one1 on Aug 23, 2009 21:56:52 GMT -5
They're just people with good intentions trying to give you advice. You can either take their advice, or give them the kiss off gesture. Bottom line is, who cares what they think?
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Post by MrNice on Aug 23, 2009 22:56:31 GMT -5
since we live among other people, interact with them and depend on them
it is foolish to claim that we don't or should not care about what they think of us
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Post by jenkydora on Aug 24, 2009 1:55:11 GMT -5
I wouldnt even give it the energy of worry. That is so weird. Customers just dont talk to each other, unless they are shopping together because they are friend or family. This person saying this to you is the odd one or perhaps they know you from somewhere else they see you alot at. Even then and if it is so, it is none of their business. Give them the fuzzy look, like they just dropped out of the sky and they are the freak.
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Post by Alecto on Aug 24, 2009 9:07:49 GMT -5
lol.. its not something I worry about and if it's advice it's strange. Why would you tell some one they're quiet when they don't have any one around to talk to anyway?
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Post by Astroruss on Aug 24, 2009 12:59:55 GMT -5
lol.. its not something I worry about and if it's advice it's strange. Why would you tell some one they're quiet when they don't have any one around to talk to anyway? I was, and at times still are, a cashier for many years. Part of being cashier is to engage customers in small talk when they approach. You are expected to break the ice.  It's not easy for a shybie, I know, but customers often expect cashiers to be a kind of greeter and wave them over for checkout or help. I still work for HomeDepot and I was the Outside Garden Cashier for a couple of years. I was expected to not only check out the customers but also to answer Garden related questions. And because I was capable of it, I loaded all their stuff in their vehicles too.  Now, I mainly work in the Rental section as a tech, but we function a lot like cashiers in many respects too. We greet customers and answer questions, particularly ones on the phone too a lot of times. Talking to people like this is tough, I know, but it just takes some getting used to. |
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Post by Alecto on Aug 24, 2009 13:20:41 GMT -5
I don't have a problem addressing customers. Its just the few that come out of no where when I'm not paying attentin and go "wow your so quiet" that I find funny. Made I didn't explain myself to well I meant it as a funny thing rather than a "poor me" thing |
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Post by Astroruss on Aug 24, 2009 13:27:36 GMT -5
I don't have a problem addressing customers. Its just the few that come out of no where when I'm not paying attentin and go "wow your so quiet" that I find funny. Made I didn't explain myself to well I meant it as a funny thing rather than a "poor me" thing Oh sorry. Well, you could make up a fake excuse to them. "Oh, I'm always quiet on Tusedays between 1and 2pm." Disarm them with your Alecto charm and you cannot fail. |
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Post by Astroruss on Aug 24, 2009 13:29:25 GMT -5
Didn't you used to live in Florida too, Alecto?  |
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Post by Alecto on Aug 24, 2009 14:16:08 GMT -5
I did live in Florida. Now I'm here in Wisconsin. I'd love to move back some day, but the cost of living here is so much cheaper. I figured we'd need to make almost 3 times as much to live there to pay for a place and day care. Having the in laws across the street helps a lot, lol.
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Post by audio on Sept 15, 2009 14:23:22 GMT -5
I was, and at times still are, a cashier for many years. Part of being cashier is to engage customers in small talk when they approach. You are expected to break the ice. Strange, I'm the one who is usually engaging the cashiers in the small talk (usually at the grocery store, but non-food stores also). Either there are some really shy cashiers out there who might be better off pursuing another line of work and they're only doing this perhaps because the work they want is unavailable to them in some way, or there's another reason why they're not talking when my turn comes up in the line to be waited on. |
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Post by agenericgirl on Sept 23, 2009 23:43:02 GMT -5
Sometimes I think people think we're up to no good because we don't talk to them, so they don't know what we're thinking and think the worst.
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Post by madiocre on Sept 27, 2009 6:39:44 GMT -5
i find it really hard to make the small talk sometimes i just try and be friendly with customers and smile and say hi how are you.
when i m a ci\ustomer though i have bit of a pet hate. lots of cashier go along the lines of
cashier - hi how are you ?
Me I'm well thanks how are you?
cashier.......no reply
that really bugs me just because there isn't a continuing script dosnt mean they can be rude.
sorry gone off on a tangent....
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Post by audio on Oct 2, 2009 16:48:52 GMT -5
sorry gone off on a tangent.... ha ha don't worry about it - i do it all the time, lol ;D! yeah, i get that too with the cashier not continuing the line of convo  |
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Post by arizona on Oct 6, 2009 19:55:27 GMT -5
I got going on the subject of small talk on other threads. I won't repeat, it will just make me frustrated.
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