@gondwanalon I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you either <hugs>. I didn’t know you worked in a lab, that is very specialised work, and it must need a great deal of care, not to mention expertise and serious concentration, I’m appalled at the idea that your co-workers act this way. Even more so at the fact that you have to then pick up the slack, and so increase your own workload, from their being so… well I’m sorry thats just unprofessionial! They shouldn’t have their jobs if they choose to act like this! and probubly wouldn’t have them if you weren’t covering their work for them. Please accept my apology, I have misunderstood your original post entirely, and I so wish I could just smack your co-workers for you. They really don’t deserve their jobs. What you’re doing is serious work, with consequences if test results are misdiagnosed ect, they should keep their phone calls and gossip for break times or non working hours. sending hugs xx
@Augustlan aw thank you honey! it’s so nice to hear that customers appreciate honest friendliness. I work with a couple of girls on checkout, bear in mind that its a huge supermarket so there are, as i said 19 main bank large checkouts, as well as the self scan ones going, so lots of us there, but I can think of a couple of co-workers who irritate me terribly at times. They can be very rude to customers, by either not bothering to interact at all, or worse, by being downright openly rude to them by 1.scanning their shop too fast for the customer to have a chance to pack (might as well just be throwing their shopping at them IMO) and 2. then demanding payment when the customer (by then very frazzled and stressed) is still trying to pack this mess the co-worker has created! I once saw one co-worker not even bother to tell the customer how much her shop was, she just pointed quickly at the display on the checkout, then extended her hand towards the customer and snapped her fingers! how rude!! I know how I feel as a customer when I’m treated like this, I have a couple of stores I go out of my way to go to, simply because the service is so friendly. So, again honey, thank you so much for saying that, it means the world to me. I love doing my silly wee minimum wage job :-) It’s also so nice when I see any of my ladies “out and about”, ie: when i’m not in my uniform, on my days off while getting my own shopping or whatever, and getting to have a proper chat without a queue developing lol.
hugs honey xx