I recently started working as a cashier in a general pharmacy in one of the biggest, busiest malls in Israel which for some reason attracts the most foul customers one can get. Every single day in that place is One of Those Days.

Like today. Wherein a woman with her young (4-5ish) kids come to check out at my register. First thing she says to me is "hurry up and finish my things before the chaos starts". They kids are generally misbehaving and don't listen to her at all. We're about to finish when I notice one of the kids is opening and wrecking a chocolate bars carton trying to get to the candy inside. She snaps at the kids, grabs the ruined product, and shoves it back on the shelf.

I inform the lady she'll have to pay for the ruined product. Her response? Yelling "Oh yeah? Why the hell would I do that?! You've got some nerve! It's your fault for not hurrying up like I told you. Anyway it's your responsibility to watch my kids while they're in your store!"

Okay then.

Later that day a customer yelled at me for smiling, since I should after all be serious when I'm working and obviously I'm not taking my job seriously (???)

Afterwards, a customer comes storming back with their check, because to their understanding I charged them 3 times for a 1+1 discount. I explained that the way the computer calculates the discount is to bill both, then negate one

For examples:
"1 Product Name 9.99
1 Product Name 9.99
***1 Product Name -9.99 "

I explained this. With charts. And underlines. And sweat and tears. When they finally gets it, they storm about how stupid the system is and I need to change it right now. Umm, because as a cash register it is well within my job description to program the register. Okay.


Aside from the bad, there was also the plain weird. A kid around 12-13 or so comes by my register and drops his basket on my counter. I greet him with a hello. He growls at me. Literally growls. GRRRRRRR! I would have growled back if not for the glare. o.0

Today didn't as suck as hard as yesterday, except for one happenstance. I left my register for a couple of minutes for a short break. When I returned I discovered a woman changing her baby's diaper on my register. The smell of poop lingered.