howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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......"Speaking about her ordeal Ms Clarke said: "I don't know what she was playing at. I couldn't believe how rude she was. When did she have the right to give me a lecture on checkout etiquette?"......
Ms Clarke obviously has no concept of what is rude, I bet this woman (I refuse to call her a lady) if she was on the receiving end of such behaviour would understand exactly how rude she was being to the cashier.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Basic good manners are more and more becoming a thing of the past, I admire the checkout operator for expecting the same respect she would give the customer after all Ms Clarke would not have tolerated the operator being on her phone.
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
or talking to the till operater next to her.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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sainsbury's have made a bad decision on this one, the vast majority of people back the check out assistant.
why people can't simply turn off their phone for a few minutes whilst in a shop, doctor's surgery etc is beyond me.
Guest 732- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
- Posts: 128
Sorry but Sainsbury's were spot on, all the check girl has to do is her job.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
Its like turning your back on someone when they are talking to you !! Very rude. I sympathise with the check out.
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Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
The worst ones are those that get on buses with the phone glued to their ear yattering away and expect the driver to know what they want. Grrr.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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a shop here in god's own dover put a sign up a few years back to say that they would not serve anyone talking on a mobile phone, i remember congratulating the staff on it.
i have walked out of 2 small shops in dover recently because the owner continued to gabble away on their phones when i was waiting to be served.
If either had said, "sorry won't keep you a moment" i would have accepted it.
Guest 944- Registered: 16 May 2013
- Posts: 57
One of my colleagues at work recently was locking up our yard and found a member of the public standing in there having a mobile phone conversation (probably to escape traffic noise). Jacqui interupted her to say she was just locking up and, you know, didn't want to lock her in the yard. The woman completely flipped, shouting "how dare you interupt me when I'm on the phone!"
Yes, mobiles do seem to be seen by some people as far more important than the people around them. Wish I didn't have to have one (but unfortunately I do).
Andrew Richardson
Guest 937- Registered: 12 May 2013
- Posts: 145
When I read that......It was not Sainsbury's policy for mobiles to be turned off at the checkout......my first thought was, more's the pity. . Poor call by Sainsburys
Guest 937- Registered: 12 May 2013
- Posts: 145
When I read that......It was not Sainsbury's policy for mobiles to be turned off at the checkout......my first thought was, more's the pity.
Poor call by Sainsburys
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Vince Capon wrote:Sorry but Sainsbury's were spot on, all the check girl has to do is her job.
What about all the other people in the checkout queue waiting while this ignorant woman chats on her phone, therefore the checkout girl was doing her job by trying to speed things up.
How anyone can side with Sainsbury regarding such a stupid, ignorant and selfish woman beats me.
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Guest 732- Registered: 8 Nov 2011
- Posts: 128
She's paid to checkout, thats all, she's not the phone police.This snipet is from the Mail
Miss Clarke added: 'There was no one behind me in the queue, it was quite quiet and I just phoned my brother to quickly tell him I was about to leave. He was waiting, so I just gave him a quick call. I couldn't believe how rude she was.'
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
So she doesn't deserve common courtesy then?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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we all deserve common courtesy and in return we should show it to others regardless of their job.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
I agree with what Howard says,i,ve also visited quite a few convenience stores in the Dover area when quite a few of the shopkeepers just chatter away on their phones without even making eye contact like they couldnt care less if you spend with them or not.I also just walk out of the shop and spend my money elsewhere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
good on you andy - can i take the issue a step further?
before the advent of mobile phones if we were somewhere and the phone rang the other person would say "excuse me" before they picked it up.
nowadays we could be having a one to one conversation then find the other person is busy chatting away on their mobile!!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Sainsbury got it wrong
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
This is something that happens all the time where I work,including one young girl who every morning comes to the window and is holding a conversation,yes every morning.I have in the past asked the person to move to one side because they are holding a conversation while people are queuing behind them.
Lots of people just grunt one word like London and carry on with the phone call.my problem is I need to know a bit more than that,and it is almost as if you are disturbing them,so one time I sold them a single to London on the slow train and back they come and started moaning because they wanted the fast train.The other thing that has not been touched is they are so busy they never check their change and several times have come back to say you didn't give me a ticket or change,we look out for this and watch where they put their stuff because the brain cannot manage 2 things while on the phone.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
