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Sometimes, I mess up orders.
As the cashier, I forget to see if their card payment goes through.
Often I can’t hear the person on line, which is the position that serves the food, announce the customer’s order, so that I can ring it up promptly and correctly.
Sometimes, I blank out.
I don’t know what to say.
When that happens, I go back to the basics.
“Hi, so you are getting this and this. Would you also like chips or drink or anything else?”
As easy as it may sound, at times I struggle to get the words out.
Sometimes I get customers with strange requests, which is fine, but it just shakes things up.
Sometimes the customer is in a weird mood, not a bad one per se, but just one that shakes me up.
Sometimes the customer is in a bad mood and treats me like I’m their !@#$
Not fun.
Sometimes, it isn’t the customer giving me some weird, I wouldn’t say shit, but there’s some strange energy, requests, or sometimes with work in general that just shakes up my day.
Today I even had a customer who who wasn’t even a customer because she wasn’t buying anything, just hanging out…