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Someone Asks Cashiers To Share What Items Make Them Silently Judge People Who Buy Them, 50 Respond
It’s human nature to care about what others think of us. From worrying about our physical appearance to choosing the right words to making certain shopping decisions, being concerned about how others perceive us fills every aspect of our ordinary, everyday lives. Even if we’re not aware of it. So no wonder, then, we get so insecure imagining all the things the employee who is ringing up our 10 frozen pizzas (totally for a party) is thinking about us.
Thankfully, there’s a viral Reddit thread that offers insider knowledge of what products pique the interest at the registers and the opinions that follow. User gracoal recently reached out to the cashiers of 'Ask Reddit' with a very fine question: "What items make you silently judge the people who buy them?" Workers jumped at the opportunity to share a mix of hilarious and eyebrow-raising things they’ve ever scanned at checkouts.
We at Bored Panda wrapped up an entertaining compilation of what store clerks actually ponder as we make those questionable purchases. So continue scrolling, upvote your favorite responses, and be sure to share what embarrassing things you've ever bought right below. And if you're a cashier who has ever judged a customer behind closed doors, we'd love to hear all about it in the comments!
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#1
Not me but I was working with him at the time. This kid around 15 years old came in, late, maybe around 11pm. He was trying to buy condoms. The guy who was traing me took the condoms and said get outta here, you shouldn't be doing that! The kid was embarrassed and left. I told the guy, you probably just caused a teenage pregnancy, that boy was doing the right thing and you embarrassed him. I still cant stand that guy.
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#2
This was about ten years ago, but the only time I judged someone was also when I lost a little faith in humanity.
Guy in his late twenties comes through the line. Belt is filled with junk food; chips, chocolate, popcorn, candy, etc. The whole time I'm ringing him up he's saying how glad he is to be out of the house, that the baby has a flu or something and hes at his wits end.
Fair enough, I suppose.
I get to the total, tell him, and wouldn't you know, he's short a few dollars. So what does he put back? The only non-juck food item: children's cold and flu medicine.
I still judge that man, and I don't even remember his face.
#3
I remember one that everyone loved to judge and I caught a write up cause I finally told them to stfu. This customer came in 4-5 days a week *right* as the store opened (7am). She always paid cash and more often than not there were tons of singles and the smell of booze and smoke on them. It was plainly apparent she was a stripper, and for many more reasons than her payment method.
I was one of the few "young" cashiers who'd open cause I was stupid and dropped my college courses for work at the time (I did end up graduating eventually). So most of my coworkers that early were the near-retirement-age cashiers who'd basically forced their way into being only on regular daytime hours M-F. Since they were excruciatingly slow and I could run three systems at a time in customer service and still check people out they wanted me there to keep the flow.
Anyway sorry just setting the kind of scene this was. These cashiers would talk SO MUCH S**T every time this poor woman left the store. And thing is she'd be buying formula and diapers, regular stuff for meals and cereal and produce. Like she wasn't even buying booze like half our customers who rolled in that early were wont to do (and either way I *would not care* it's their lives and their money I spent half my check on alcohol too at the time). But because she was a schmex worker she was trash and a horrible mom and all this garbage their judgemental selves kept saying.
Honestly that woman was one of the nicest and respectful customers we had, and eventually she'd learned to always come to my line when I was there in the mornings. I can't remember her name anymore--it's been 20 years and I'm a recovering alcoholic--but I hope she's doing good and her kid grew up happy and healthy. And f**k judgemental a*s cashiers.
#4
Currently working as a cashier and I was reading thru these thinking "what was something I really judged people for?"
Then I remembered this one customer I judged wrongly. Every morning this one guy would bolt into the store, go to the drink aisle, and come out with 5-6 energy drinks. He would come everyday so one day, I made a joke and said: "don't drink them all in one setting."
He then proceeded to tell me that it's to help with his ongoing chemo therapy. Stopped judging people based on their items after that one.
#5
The only time I ever judged someone was when this woman and a kid came up to the register. The woman wanted four cartons of smokes and when her little kid begged for a packet of strawberries, she was told no because they 'couldnt afford it'.
This was back in the early 2010's so cartons were around 80 bucks. So she spent 320 dollars on cigarettes but didnt want to spend 3 dollars on a measly pack of strawberries :(. Addiction is a hellova thing, I tell you what.
#6
When I was 20 and moving in to our first apartment with my now ex- wife, we had a pregnancy "scare" (it wasn't really a scare, we were trying at the time, but I don't know the term you'd use.) So I went to Target to buy a pregnancy test. We also, happened to need hangers, and I prefer wire ones over those cheap plastic ones. So I went through that checkout lane with a pregnancy test and a bunch of wire hangers. The cashier was shooting me daggers and I had no clue why. It wasn't until I told my wife, confused, about it and she started dying laughing that I made the realization of what this cashier must have thought.
#7
Not in itself, but I always side eye parents who’ll buy my weight in booze and cigarettes, but then scream at their kid to put the bottle of juice back
#8
Not to be that guy but people with very overweight young children and buying a whole bunch of candy, soda, and make-shift high calorie heat up foods/meals. I am in no way trying to tell people how to live their lives, but it would always make me sad seeing super overweight kids just getting set up like that.
ollie.anid 2 years ago (edited)
I feel bad that some (NOT ALL) of those families can’t afford to buy healthy food. Or at least its much easier and cheaper to buy junk. It’s a pain healthy food isn’t cheaper than all that bad stuff
#9
I was a cashier at a pet store. The main thing i'd judge for was buying way too small of a habitat. Whether it was a gold fish bowl, or a critter trail, i'd be upset. I'd try to use it as a teaching opprotunity when possible but not everyone would listen because "its just a fish/hamster/rabbit/etc".
#10
I was a cashier 20+ years ago. I hated it when people bought frozen kids dinners with food stamps and spent hundreds of dollars on alcohol and cigarettes.
#11
I never judged, but I did notice that if people were buying something they thought was embarrassing they'd also buy some other item. No one bought just a pregnancy test, only a box of condoms, a single tub of lube. No there was always some other item, like a candy bar or bag of chips, as if they were worried I was judging them for buying only the "embarrassing" item. I wasn't, I just found the pattern amusing. I know you didn't come to the store for a candy bar and then thought hey I should grab Plan B while I'm here. I don't care, and if the polite fiction helps you get through the day go for it. But it is amusing.
#12
I once had a guy in his 50s ask me if it was ok to buy his wife a box of hair dye for Mother's Day. I told him it probably wasn't a good idea but he said "Oh well" and bought it anyway. So, yeah, I judged him.
Ladytron 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree with you OP. Never buy a gift that is meant to change your partner (unless they specifically asked for it). That's a gift FOR YOU, not your partner. Very disrespectful and selfish. It's like a friends ex-husband who got her butt plugs and lube for her birthday because HE wanted to have a**l sex (she absolutely did not but he kept bringing it up).
#13
The only time I got judgy was the teenager who was too nervous to buy condoms, so he sent his equally nervous girlfriend into the store to buy them while he paced around outside.
It's like, dude, if you're going to do this, man up and buy your own.
#14
I was a cashier for 3 years, and I can't think of a single thing that anyone bought that I judged them for.
I certainly judged people for their attitudes, for inappropriately asking for a discount, or for various other petty things, but never for the items they were buying.
#15
When I was a teenager a friend and I decided to try and shoot a movie gunfight and wanted to make our own squibs. We read in a magazine that they used condoms filled with fake blood and blew them up with a small explosive charge. We had firecrackers, so off we went to buy condoms.
Two 14-yr old dudes buying a massive box of unlubed condoms? Yeah, boy, we got judged...
#16
I worked at a grocery store for a couple years. An older man probably in his 60's came in, he was with a girl who was in her mid 20's and pregnant. I was ringing them up and he goes hey babe do you need some more cigarette's. He bought her a pack as well as one for him. I usually dont judge people but I judged them.
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
Awkward. But maybe they weren't in the kind of relationship or maybe he was younger than he appeared. Were IDs checked? My ex was a heavy smoker and he always looked much older compared to me, and I've always looked a bit younger for my age. We're only 3 years apart. The looks people gave us, especially when I was pregnant, was priceless. He's about 41 now and looks to be in his 60s. I still look much like I did in my early 30s with a few silvery hairs in my bangs. When we were together and apartment hunting, due to his odd work hours, sometimes his dad would come with me to viewings. One landlord thought his dad was my boyfriend... I could've just died right there.
#17
The double chocolate chip frappuccino for your 4-year-old at 8:32am. You are giving your very small child a chocolate milkshake for breakfast, Karen, just so you can trash your local Target and get 30 seconds of silence and then leave the cup laying down on a shelf, spilling chocolate milk onto a stack of bath towels.
#18
not a cashier, but rather the customer who was judged 😭😂
I decided to buy candy after valentines day since i kno it would be on discount (it usually is). I got like 3 packages of caramel candy and 2 chocolate bars. The cashier looked at the stuff i bought and was like “Didnt your boyfriend get you something or are you buying these for him?” i just stood there awkwardly like “im just buying candy cuz its on a 50% discount… I like being single?” and then the cashier just laughed at me like being single was a bad thing? I mean i dont see being single as a bad thing?
And this kinda caused me to stop buying candy after valentines day.
Lazy Panda (she/her/hers) 2 years ago
The day after the holiday is the best day to buy candy! No shame in a sale on chocolate!
#19
Pity, which is a judgement of a sort. I am overweight myself, but have a job where I still have to do physical labor and I get by, so while I could stand to lose a few dozen pounds, I am not breathing hard from walking down the block, or anything. When I see people who are at the point where their ankles look like they are about to give out, or that barely fit in the mobility scooter, buying a lot of sweets and not much else, I feel genuinely bad for them. I know how exhausted, out of breath, sore, and sweaty I get when I exercise, which is not often enough, and I can't imagine how terrible it must physically feel to be in that poor of shape. I try not to look down on, or scoff at their choices internally, because we all do what we must to cope with a tough and often cruel world, but man do I feel bad for them.
Desert Rose 2 years ago
I have an invisible disability. I'm sure I'm judged when I use a motorized cart. But, you know, what other people think of me isn't any of my business.
#20
woman on a scooter with grey skin and on oxygen buying two huge jugs of wine and a carton of cigs.
on one hand, wtf, you trying to die soon?
on the other, if I was a little old lady shut in all day, I'd drink and smoke a lot too.
#21
I work at a pet store. I judge ppl that get a pet and then buy the cheapest and the most trashy per food there is. A pet is a luxury and costs a lot of money, that's what these ppl don't consider beforehand. If you get yourself one you have to take good care of them and good food is a basic.
I'm not talking about ppl where life happened and are short on money, because this can happen to all of us. Usually those are the ones getting at least something a lil cheaper but still good quality.
Nah, I'm talking about the mf getting a big a*s Rottweiler and buying 15kg of Pedigree for 20€, complaining about the dog being expensive and he's wearing pricy clothing brands from head to toe.
Master Yoda 2 years ago
I silently judge people for putting clothes and shoes on dogs. They must be so hot and uncomfortable
#22
As a waitress I judged the lady who said she needed her steak well done because she had a bad liver and couldn't process rare meat but then proceeded to order a vodka raspberry with her meal.
It was 11:30am
#24
I worked as a cashier in high school and college. I only remember one combo that a customer brought through my register.
It was a Friday afternoon, and an older gentleman brought up a large, glass jug of red wine, tye biggest tube of KY Jelly we carried, and two potatoes.
I didn't say anything, but I thought to myself "This guy has plans for the weekend."
#25
Not the woman herself or family that may or may not exist, but the system in place that's supposed to take care of her.
She obviously suffers from dementia and it's pretty bad. Throughout the years she has probably spent thousands of dollars on socks because she's "out of socks". She's obviously not but I'm really judging the system that's supposed to take care of people who are this sick. I always try my best to avoid her buying more socks than she initially came for, but other than that there isn't much I can do. So much money down the drain on socks.
#26
Well I don't know about "judgement", as I have my own vices, as most people do, but...
Lottery tickets. I get that gambling addiction is a problem and why, but unlike drinking or other drugs, it seems like so little reward for so much investment. People pissing away in minutes what it would take me all week to earn, right in front of my eyes, not even waiting to leave the store to scratch off a whole stack. Again, not really judgement, I don't know these people or their lives, but certainly the most upsetting on a certain level I feel.
Ross Warren 2 years ago
I hate getting stuck in line behind these people. They will stand at the counter to scratch off all their tickets and then spend their meager "winnings" on more lotto tickets and repeat the process. That's a separate transaction. Get to the back of the line. Some of us are just trying to pay for gas and coffee so we can get to work.
#27
Literally the *only* thing that ever stood out to me was people late at night buying 6+ bottles of non-mint mouthwash. Absolutely 100% of the time they were drinking it.
Commander Ducky 2 years ago
Is there alcohol in mouth wash or some type of drug? I don't know if I'm stupid for not knowing but im curious
#28
When I was a cashier on the Express lane, I would silently judge the people that told me to wait while scanning their items to "grab a few more things". Normal lane with a giant cart and only missing one thing is relatively okay, but the express lane? Judgement.
Wood Carver 2 years ago (edited)
No. Sorry this has always been one of my pet peeves. You have entered the I am done shopping line.... if you would like to recommence shopping because you have not got everything 2 options exist. If you haven't started checking out, leave the line. If you have, complete check out, put groceries in car, try again. Why do I have to stand while you shop and check out at the same time because you'll "just be a minute" you're the same person who parks in the fire lane out front to run in to grocery shop or blocks the exit ramp to the handicap spot because you just need a little more space..... all of the rest of us did this right and you're taking the one resource you cannot replace, my time, and stealing it for your convenience.
#29
Not a cashier, but this is a fun story. Was in a high end liquor store in LA a few years ago. Guy walks in, goes straight to the cashier and asks for help. He said his boss is a famous rock star, and that he was sent to buy a number of bottles of the best whiskey and scotch they had in the store, but he knows nothing about whisky and scotch. The guy helping him suggests a few bottles in the $50 range, and he keeps saying no. Said his boss would be pissed if he bought stuff that cheap. The cashier gets excited, and goes over to the locked rack...The guy says this was the right stuff, simply because it was expensive. He walks out with at least 10 bottles of booze none of which were less than $500 each. I watch him jam every single bottle into a back pack, and jump on a really nice motorcycle, and speed off.
He paid cash.
My judgement of this guy is that he was not likely lying about working for a famous rock star.
#30
Had a customer buy a pack of condoms and 3 cucumbers. Tried not to judge but damn.
#31
There's a convenience store nearby that prominently sells whip-its, i.e. the little nitrous oxide cylinders nominally intended for whipped-cream dispensers ... which people actually just crack into a balloon, inhale, and get high on.
If I saw someone there buying a few boxes of those, I would judge them as having a high risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Nitrous oxide will oxidize the B12 right out of your bloodstream. Eventually your nerves get all f****d up.
Folks, even convenience-store drugs are actually drugs and can have side effects. Also, don't freeze your face off.
Ashla Delana 2 years ago
Some people buy a lot of those cylinders so they don't have to buy them for a while. My parents currently have two large boxes and I don't even remember when they last bought any
#32
As a cashier at a clothing department store, I don't have a reason to judge anything they buy. But I do judge the ones who force me to answer stupid questions. I'm amazed of how many people will literally start yelling at workers because we didn't have the exact shorts he wanted. One time, this guy asked me repeatedly if I had his size in the cargo pants he wanted. And loudly too, "no but really, do you have it!?" like over and over and over. His family had to tell him to shut up several times. Like, I'm not holding back from giving you the size, we just don't have it.
I hate when people come up to me and go, "look i really like this but it's like $85, so like... what can you do for me here?" Excuse me, do I work for you now? It's a nike item, I can't just give you discounts because you're bitter about the price.
Karl Baxter 2 years ago
I used to get some customers haggle over everything - they were usually Middle Eastern in appearance with poor English so I suspect it’s the norm where they’re from. I had to politely explain that the price was the price and I had no discretion on the price. Not judging - more of a cultural misunderstanding
#33
It’s hard for me to judge any item cause most are pretty tame/ fitting for the person however I do have this one regular… this regular lady comes in multiple times a day and always gets a small bottle of alcohol (like Southern Comfort or Fireball) and she ALWAYS tells me, “I’m marinating chicken, I don’t drink” or other times she tells me, “they are for my husband” and then later in the day she tells me, “I’m so lonely without my husband.” I know she might be going through some stuff but I always think to myself, “I honestly don’t care lady, as long as you pay for it”.
#34
This is going back a while, but I used to cringe inside when people bought those handwash / bodywash brands with all those little microplastic balls for exfoliating purposes.
I'm so glad that fad died out.
#35
My mom has a thing about buying cucumbers. If she needs only cucumbers for a salad or something, for some reason, she feels incredibly embarrassed buying only a cucumber. She will buy other miscellaneous things that she doesn’t need just so that the cashier doesn’t get any wrong ideas.
#36
I guess technically not a cashier, but I check people out sometimes. I work in a high-end cheese shop.
Prima Donna is garbage, you can get it at Shop Rite, it's mass-produced nonsense that has gotten its talons in the Italian-American community even though it's a "gouda" made in Holland, they buy it bc it's Italian sounding and that's what they grew up eating.
(I put "gouda" in quotes bc it's a sham of a cheese that uses quick-ripening starter to mimic the aging process other goudas go through to crystallize).
This was an esoteric rant.
#37
Vaseline, cigarettes, wine, and stool softeners. Was helping father by going to the store to pick up doctor prescribed items for him after he got out of the hospital. I never read the shopping list clearly before I left and didn't put two and two together until I got to the register with my wife who was with me. The young lady cashier blushed and said "You planning for a good evening?" I smiled and smiled yes we are without thinking. The cashier definitely judged us that evening. She would smirk every time we came to the store after that. The whole thing went over my head until I was sitting in the car getting ready to go. My wife looked at me an said that was embarrassing.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
The clerk was out of line. You shouldn't have to explain these things.
#38
I've been a cashier for a year now (but worked in stores for over 2) and honestly I've never really judged someone for the products they're buying. Of course I've been in funny situations.
For example when I still worked in our local drugstore: there was this woman who always came to buy pregnancy tests. Like every week she'd buy at least 4. We made smalltalk for a bit and found out that she wasn't even trying to get pregnant, but she had a lot of pregnancy scares. Fast forward 4 weeks. The lady had been back at least six times since I made smalltalk with her. My coworker also heard why she always came to buy the tests and bluntly said: "ma'am isn't it way cheaper to just buy condoms instead of 4 pregnancy tests per week?" Never saw the lady again
Another story: they sell sex toys at the drug store. You'd be surprised how much people buy em. One day this lady bought this toy and kept making eye contact with the cashier, so it was kinda akward. The the woman proceeded to say to the cashier while awkwardly laughing: "well sometimes your hand isn't enough right? Ha ha ha...." And then she left, only to come back 2 days later to complain abt the toy not being strong enough... Yeah the drugstore was fun
#39
Back in high school I was a cashier at a grocery store. I only remember one purchase.
We had a “hispanic aisle” and one of the top sellers were these tall skinny glass jar candles that had stickers of religious people on them.
An older white guy came in and bought EVERY. SINGLE. LUBE we had in the pharmacy section, and 12 of these candles. Nothing else.
#40
I worked at a music store in the late 90’s. We judged the sh*t out of you.
Are buying the latest bubble gum pop mass media produce c**p? You’ve been Judged!
You buying the latest uninspired gangster rap album from a guy that never held a gun until they made the music video? Judgement!
Are you buying a single for $5 and the LP is $6? Cheap a$$, judgment!
Are you buying the next Jeff Foxworthy album that only 15 minutes long instead of the 60 minute full show? Judged!
Are you buying a stack of a 100 45’s from the back of the store? Mad respect, judged!
Are making me looking up Metallica import from Japan in this giant book? I’ll be ordering 4 of those, thank you sir. Judged!
Are you buying all 14 of the Barney VHS tapes, every baby Mozart/Bach/Beethoven album and the TLC album, hang on mom, let me find you a coupon and another discount, those are not cheap. No Judgement!
#41
I bought toilet paper and laxatives at the same time. Teenage cashier looked at it and got the giggles. This got the bagger laughing. I just stood there stupidly pretending it wasn’t funny.
Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago (edited)
Should've gotten an air freshener and a few magazines, too.
John Borodin 2 years ago
I'm kind of immune to that kind of think I'm so old I'd crack a joke about it ,knowing when they get to be my age you need Kikng Kong to squeeze you by the throut to take a d...p
#42
I don't judge you for your items: I judge you for how much of a pain in the a*s you make my life. Sometimes not at all, sometimes it's the worst part of my day. The latter camp is always being judged, and always being s**t talked in the break room afterwards.
Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago
I always say please and thank you to every cashier, and calculate my cash total beforehand with a pocket calculator (tax included). They have enough c**p to deal with, even if I'm not there.
#43
I was a Target cashier, and never really paid attention to what people bought, with the exception of a guy I went to high school with who came in regularly, and no matter what he bought, he would always buy a bottle of Target's generic caffeine pills. I know he was selling them as "white crosses", i.e. speed.
#44
It's the returns that make me suspect. I don't mean things like half eaten food, I mean stuff that's likely just taken off the walls and "returned" for credit. The store has a very generous return policy and we can't say no to someone unless a manager intervenes, so local homeless and addicts take advantage of this by pocketing small expensive items like shampoos and Sonicare brush heads, walking out one of the entrance doors, sticking the stolen items in a shopping bag and walking up to customer service for a big store credit card. I once had to give someone who did this almost $80 on a card and they immediately used it to buy several cartons of Marlboros.
Other than that I can't stand people who will abandon their entire order if just one of their coupons won't work/is expired. Buy $50 worth of two items, and me 20 coupons, one doesn't work and they say "nevermind" and walk away even though they'll only have to pay $3 at this point.
Lily bloom 2 years ago
Where and when can one get "several cartons on Marlboros" for $80? OP must mean packs, not cartons
#45
i used to work at a sex toy store. i feel like people may think we judge everything they buy, but no.
for vagina-havers, i’d judge the tightening creams and not for the reason you think. i wouldn’t be like hahahahahahahha loose pussyyyyyy! i’d tell them that what those creams do is actually cause a severe allergic reaction so your vaginal walls swell so it just temporarily feels tighter. and if they were still down i’d judge. like you’re willing to put your coochie through that for a man!?!? nope nope
for penis-havers, if they bought a sound…… i was just like………… oh he a *freak* freak. he can get down with the get down. i’d be very impressed.
#46
I didn't judge people on what they bought, but I definitely judged them on what they returned. A woman once returned a bag of dirt as "defective" because when she opened it a fly flew out. Like, lady, it's DIRT, just put it in your yard and bugs will go in and out of it all day long. Still one of the stupidest things I ever saw.
LoudMansLover 2 years ago
I can see if it was infested. Potting soil really shouldn't have clouds of bugs shooting out (this has happened to me a few times). If it's for pots in your home that's going to cause problems.
#47
I once bought a paper towel holder from Walmart, the kind that sits on your counter with a base and a long slender tube on the centre of the base. The kid at the register was smirking and giving me side eye. I tried explaining what it was but he didn’t believe me.
#48
Not judged as much as hated when people bought dozens of those individually wrapped snack sized cheese slices. At my store we had to scan each one of them.
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#49
Not so much the items specifically but back in the day working at a Walmart it was very obvious when the welfare checks came in and watching people waste it on video games instead of essentials was quite eye opening.
#50
The pH-balanced bottled water. Not even the fact that it was single bottled water, but that these ones typically have super thick plastic and even massive caps to have a "premium" feel, which makes me feel like the customer is a bit of a dips**t.
[these](https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=core+hydration&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi5.walmartimages.com%2Fasr%2Ffad92161-0a66-464c-887f-a84deae92481_1.d77f6cf066d7b60b71649fd3fee75a10.jpeg)
What do you think ?
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
Posts about social anxiety: Don't worry about going to the shop, I promise the cashiers don’t give a sh*t about what you buy. ❤ --- This post: Lol, We judge everyone and everything and will remember you ever after!
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
Upvote from me because I agree. (That rhymed, and I wasn't even trying!)
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Mark Berry 2 years ago
Have you ever bought beer, condoms and duct tape at the same time? You feel judged then.
Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago
The customers I judged were the ones who'd let their kids run around and destroy things, who treated us like we were servants and our shop was at their disposal, or who were rude and entitled. However, I REALLY judged the customers when I worked doing data entry at a company that ran 1-900 numbers back in the early 90s. At LEAST once a day I'd get some guy for one of the sex lines that 1) wanted to pay by check but 2) didn't have a checking account and 3) wanted me to open one for him. At LEAST three times a week I'd get a dude for one of the sex lines where I could hear a kid crying "Daddyyyyyy!" in the background. And every month, I'd get someone who wanted to directly send us their welfare check to pay for a sex call. I judged HARD for all that. There was still plenty of free porn on the internet in the early days. Go buy your kid food, a*****e.
JMil 2 years ago
Dang. This one is unique to all other customer service threads I've read. How sad.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
The only time I judged a "customer" was that couple that barged their way through the closed gates after closing, refused to leave, ordered a coffee for him and his girlfriend because "we still had pots of leftover coffee" and we "can still technically take their money". They even took down some chairs we had stacked up. I wasn't very assertive back then and was too scared. I have regrets not calling mall security. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me to call them. Tim Hortons doesn't train you for limited hours, mall stores. Just trains you to be all smiley and accommodating to anyone who enters. I actually judge myself back then and made some improvements in my life to not allow anyone to walk all over me like that. But I still judge the couple more for having the audacity to break and enter an establishment, demand to be treated like a customer and take advantage of a 2 man crew at closing.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I was in Target buying sanitary products and chocolate and noticed they had kitchen stuff on sale, so I grabbed something we needed there and got in line. The cashier looked at my order of pads, chocolate and a really big kitchen knife and said " Honey, he ain't worth it!"
Bored Turtle Princess 2 years ago
Umm... What were they thinking the kitchen knife is for?
Load More Replies... Yettichild 2 years ago
I went to Walgreens last week to get a prescription filled, and when it was ready the tech said very loudly "Here's your hydrocodone!" While smiling. I just gave him a WTF look. I was having knee surgery the next day. Currently sitting here icing that knee.
Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago
Please file a complaint about that if this happened in the US. With medical privacy in America being in shambles, we need as many paper trails of people violating our medical privacy as possible. Walgreen's is already on thin ground with this.
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Robert T 2 years ago
I had a customer who judged themselves. Two young girls (18-25) came through my checkout. Their sole purchase was a single large carrot. I must've looked at it quizzically, as one of them chirped up "it's not for THAT". Thought hadn't even crossed my mind, but I very likely went a little bit red!
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
It's not for what? 🤔 Carrot soup? Bribing a rabbit? /jk
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Seedy Vine 2 years ago
I bagged groceries in a store where a young lady would come in, huff all the air out of the whipped cream containers, and then stumble her way into checkout with her two babies!
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I've never judged anyone, one of my first major jobs had been working in am adult store in a big city. Some people were very shy and I honestly didn't care, I'd rather you'd be more informed than anything else. I'm more worried now about people judging me. Most of my grocery trips ate thought out and have lists, but then I have random trips that are normally all about snacks. A fair size random assortment of junk food. I'm always worried I'm being judged and I'm thinking "I swear I don't always eat like a child!"
Krystol Grayson 2 years ago
I used to work overnights at WM and there were these two nursing students who would come in at 2am and buy the weirdest c**p. One night it was drug tests and they gave me this long giggly spiel about it being for some class (sure, fine, I wasn't asking but okay) and I just smile and ring them up. Two nights later it's a bunch of ladies unscented douche. Once again they giggle nervously and say it's for class... Right. A couple weeks later they show up again and one of them has a pregnancy test and gives me this really awkward "Yeah, you probably think we're crazy, right?" and honestly, it was only weird because THEY kept making a scene out of their visits and making me connect them all. So yeah, I definitely judged them.
Hey! 2 years ago
I heard this story years ago. This was a couple and the lady had a compulsory habit of buying stuff she didn't need and would bring coupons, etc. The man then came back the day after to bring back everything apologizing for every item he brought back. Apparently she did this every time a flyer would go out, so once a week. We're not talking about one toothpaste and some powder - no! we're talking 3 tubes of toothpaste, floss, cream, etc. in quantities each time. The man made an arrangement with the owner/manager (I can't remember) so he'd always go to the same cashier.
WishIWasAFlapperGirl 2 years ago
I love true crime shows and stories and I also love to cook. Went to a local newsagent and bought myself a bunch of true crime mags as well as a couple cooking/foodie mags. Wasn't until I left the checkout that I thought to myself I must look like I'm getting ideas on how to kill someone and then cook them up!!! LOL Made myself giggle at least!!
Patti Vance 2 years ago
only time i got into the 'faces' of judgemental people was when working in family support. we'd have meetings and it was normal to discuss cases. some had a woman with a couple of kids w/different dads. okay. but, coworkers would make some of the most awful comments about those women. one day it just got to me and i stood up and said that we shouldn't judge those women bc we don't know the circumstances. when they started to say more i then added the question: how many of us were virgins on our wedding night? raise your hands. well, not me. so does that make me a s**t? nope.
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
I really hate it that sex education is made something that is either given wrong, stupid or not complete :'( I'm glad I've educated my son and we can talk about everything, even toys and lube... There's nothing to be ashamed about, it's what people make out of it...
Yoga Kitty 2 years ago
I shouldn't have read this post, it just made me angry. Narrow minded idiots judging other people based on their purchases without having even an ounce of background information on them. I expected something funny to read, instead, this was just disappointing...
#iwriteitall 2 years ago
I am judged by the pharmacy staff every Monday Thursday and Saturday morning when I arrive early to collect my meds they look down at me because of one of the medication is, they constantly will make me wait purposefully because I'll arrive early doors to collect it they make me feel a burden and frankly a disgusting junkie when I'm just trying to pick up the medicine my doctor prescribed who trained for 7 years to make that decision they did not
kath morgan 2 years ago
The main thing they do to wind me up is throw down more money after I have rung them up. Are you expecting me to refund the whole thing? It’s not helpful!
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
When I was in my 30's 3 of my male friends were going golfing. They stopped at a local "pharmacy" to pick up some beer. While two of them were getting beer the 3rd one was just wandering around. He found a shower radio with a hook on it and said hey we could hang this on one of our bags and listen to music. This was before even iPods were a thing. It wasn't until they got up to the register that they realized what this must of looked like three men, a bunch of booze and a shower radio. One of them was like we're going golfing, just stopping in to grab a few things for that. And the cashier who had probably seen it all, was like "Hey , I don't judge how people spend their days." When they told me this story I couldn't even breathe from laughing so hard. A list I'd love to see is what is the weirdest purchase of items you've seen. I see so many weird odd combos of items or even like, tons of the same item. Lik 15 half gallons of milk. I just saw this the other day.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
French comedy movie The Corsican file: a bad/goodish guy gets sent by his gang to the local pharmacy to pick up tampons - they need them for a makeshift bomb fuse. He sheepishly asks for them, she proceeds to ask what types because they have these and these and these and he goes well I'm not sure... She looks at him and goes "for bomb fuses?" "Yep" he answers. Unfazed, she proceeds to hand him boxes of this stuff with specific instructions how to use them - for a bomb. Might not be exactly how it goes but still, funniest s**t ever. I highly recommend the movie
over it already 2 years ago
Several years ago one of my coworkers at a hardware store sold duct tape and rope to a guy....that later got arrested for murdering his wife after she was found at the bottom of a small local lake - you guessed it - bound in rope and duct tape. 😳 Still just a normal purchase at a hardware store.
Chich 2 years ago
Years ago I went to help a friend renovate a house in another town. About mid-day I had to run to a store to buy some supplies. I was wearing grubby clothes and was pretty grubby myself from tearing a room apart. One of the items I needed was lysol and I couldn't find it anywhere. Went to the cashier and asked. She got very quiet and I got definite stink eye. I later found out that lysol was the drink of choice for the local wino crowd and they had taken it off the shelves. A manager had to come out and get it for you. Thought they were kidding until I saw a guy spray it into the cans cap and drink it.
JMil 2 years ago
Lysol? Wtf. Maybe they were just testing Donald's COVID cute.
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Aisling Raye 2 years ago
I always get a giggle out of what the cashiers might think when I'm buying some random assortment of items at the grocery store. I'd like to think that odd combinations are fun for them too. I know I'd have a good laugh at something like that, even if it only momentarily broke some of the monotony of the day.
Moses Scott's 2 years ago
ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I am sharing my HEALING Experience on how I got completely CURED of 2 years diagnosed Herpes Virus, after getting in contact with Dr Omole. Dr Omole healing herbs are very effective in healing various disease be Aware. I am still in shock , cant believe i am herpes cured after 2years of being diagnosed and suffering, He told me what to do in order to be cured. I did And now im cured. Contact Dr Omole and live the life you have ever always dreamt of living, A life free from herpes virus. It’s great to know that herpes virus,#HPV,#Warts #Cold Sores, and other STDs can be cured in a 2 weeks(14days)Permanent and complete cure invented by the traditional herbal healers. Contact with Dr Omole On Email; Dromoleherbalhome48@gmail.com Or Whatsapp: +2348066247230.
Moses Scott's 2 years ago
ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I am sharing my HEALING Experience on how I got completely CURED of 2 years diagnosed Herpes Virus, after getting in contact with Dr Omole. Dr Omole healing herbs are very effective in healing various disease be Aware. I am still in shock , cant believe i am herpes cured after 2years of being diagnosed and suffering, He told me what to do in order to be cured. I did And now im cured. Contact Dr Omole and live the life you have ever always dreamt of living, A life free from herpes virus. It’s great to know that herpes virus,#HPV,#Warts #Cold Sores, and other STDs can be cured in a 2 weeks(14days)Permanent and complete cure invented by the traditional herbal healers. Contact with Dr Omole On Email; Dromoleherbalhome48@gmail.com Or Whatsapp: +2348066247230
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
Posts about social anxiety: Don't worry about going to the shop, I promise the cashiers don’t give a sh*t about what you buy. ❤ --- This post: Lol, We judge everyone and everything and will remember you ever after!
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
Upvote from me because I agree. (That rhymed, and I wasn't even trying!)
Load More Replies... Mark Berry 2 years ago
Have you ever bought beer, condoms and duct tape at the same time? You feel judged then.
Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago
The customers I judged were the ones who'd let their kids run around and destroy things, who treated us like we were servants and our shop was at their disposal, or who were rude and entitled. However, I REALLY judged the customers when I worked doing data entry at a company that ran 1-900 numbers back in the early 90s. At LEAST once a day I'd get some guy for one of the sex lines that 1) wanted to pay by check but 2) didn't have a checking account and 3) wanted me to open one for him. At LEAST three times a week I'd get a dude for one of the sex lines where I could hear a kid crying "Daddyyyyyy!" in the background. And every month, I'd get someone who wanted to directly send us their welfare check to pay for a sex call. I judged HARD for all that. There was still plenty of free porn on the internet in the early days. Go buy your kid food, a*****e.
JMil 2 years ago
Dang. This one is unique to all other customer service threads I've read. How sad.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
The only time I judged a "customer" was that couple that barged their way through the closed gates after closing, refused to leave, ordered a coffee for him and his girlfriend because "we still had pots of leftover coffee" and we "can still technically take their money". They even took down some chairs we had stacked up. I wasn't very assertive back then and was too scared. I have regrets not calling mall security. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me to call them. Tim Hortons doesn't train you for limited hours, mall stores. Just trains you to be all smiley and accommodating to anyone who enters. I actually judge myself back then and made some improvements in my life to not allow anyone to walk all over me like that. But I still judge the couple more for having the audacity to break and enter an establishment, demand to be treated like a customer and take advantage of a 2 man crew at closing.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I was in Target buying sanitary products and chocolate and noticed they had kitchen stuff on sale, so I grabbed something we needed there and got in line. The cashier looked at my order of pads, chocolate and a really big kitchen knife and said " Honey, he ain't worth it!"
Bored Turtle Princess 2 years ago
Umm... What were they thinking the kitchen knife is for?
Load More Replies... Yettichild 2 years ago
I went to Walgreens last week to get a prescription filled, and when it was ready the tech said very loudly "Here's your hydrocodone!" While smiling. I just gave him a WTF look. I was having knee surgery the next day. Currently sitting here icing that knee.
Mrs. Jan Glass 2 years ago
Please file a complaint about that if this happened in the US. With medical privacy in America being in shambles, we need as many paper trails of people violating our medical privacy as possible. Walgreen's is already on thin ground with this.
Load More Replies... Robert T 2 years ago
I had a customer who judged themselves. Two young girls (18-25) came through my checkout. Their sole purchase was a single large carrot. I must've looked at it quizzically, as one of them chirped up "it's not for THAT". Thought hadn't even crossed my mind, but I very likely went a little bit red!
Bored Retsuko 2 years ago
It's not for what? 🤔 Carrot soup? Bribing a rabbit? /jk
Load More Replies... Seedy Vine 2 years ago
I bagged groceries in a store where a young lady would come in, huff all the air out of the whipped cream containers, and then stumble her way into checkout with her two babies!
LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
I've never judged anyone, one of my first major jobs had been working in am adult store in a big city. Some people were very shy and I honestly didn't care, I'd rather you'd be more informed than anything else. I'm more worried now about people judging me. Most of my grocery trips ate thought out and have lists, but then I have random trips that are normally all about snacks. A fair size random assortment of junk food. I'm always worried I'm being judged and I'm thinking "I swear I don't always eat like a child!"
Krystol Grayson 2 years ago
I used to work overnights at WM and there were these two nursing students who would come in at 2am and buy the weirdest c**p. One night it was drug tests and they gave me this long giggly spiel about it being for some class (sure, fine, I wasn't asking but okay) and I just smile and ring them up. Two nights later it's a bunch of ladies unscented douche. Once again they giggle nervously and say it's for class... Right. A couple weeks later they show up again and one of them has a pregnancy test and gives me this really awkward "Yeah, you probably think we're crazy, right?" and honestly, it was only weird because THEY kept making a scene out of their visits and making me connect them all. So yeah, I definitely judged them.
Hey! 2 years ago
I heard this story years ago. This was a couple and the lady had a compulsory habit of buying stuff she didn't need and would bring coupons, etc. The man then came back the day after to bring back everything apologizing for every item he brought back. Apparently she did this every time a flyer would go out, so once a week. We're not talking about one toothpaste and some powder - no! we're talking 3 tubes of toothpaste, floss, cream, etc. in quantities each time. The man made an arrangement with the owner/manager (I can't remember) so he'd always go to the same cashier.
WishIWasAFlapperGirl 2 years ago
I love true crime shows and stories and I also love to cook. Went to a local newsagent and bought myself a bunch of true crime mags as well as a couple cooking/foodie mags. Wasn't until I left the checkout that I thought to myself I must look like I'm getting ideas on how to kill someone and then cook them up!!! LOL Made myself giggle at least!!
Patti Vance 2 years ago
only time i got into the 'faces' of judgemental people was when working in family support. we'd have meetings and it was normal to discuss cases. some had a woman with a couple of kids w/different dads. okay. but, coworkers would make some of the most awful comments about those women. one day it just got to me and i stood up and said that we shouldn't judge those women bc we don't know the circumstances. when they started to say more i then added the question: how many of us were virgins on our wedding night? raise your hands. well, not me. so does that make me a s**t? nope.
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
I really hate it that sex education is made something that is either given wrong, stupid or not complete :'( I'm glad I've educated my son and we can talk about everything, even toys and lube... There's nothing to be ashamed about, it's what people make out of it...
Yoga Kitty 2 years ago
I shouldn't have read this post, it just made me angry. Narrow minded idiots judging other people based on their purchases without having even an ounce of background information on them. I expected something funny to read, instead, this was just disappointing...
#iwriteitall 2 years ago
I am judged by the pharmacy staff every Monday Thursday and Saturday morning when I arrive early to collect my meds they look down at me because of one of the medication is, they constantly will make me wait purposefully because I'll arrive early doors to collect it they make me feel a burden and frankly a disgusting junkie when I'm just trying to pick up the medicine my doctor prescribed who trained for 7 years to make that decision they did not
kath morgan 2 years ago
The main thing they do to wind me up is throw down more money after I have rung them up. Are you expecting me to refund the whole thing? It’s not helpful!
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
When I was in my 30's 3 of my male friends were going golfing. They stopped at a local "pharmacy" to pick up some beer. While two of them were getting beer the 3rd one was just wandering around. He found a shower radio with a hook on it and said hey we could hang this on one of our bags and listen to music. This was before even iPods were a thing. It wasn't until they got up to the register that they realized what this must of looked like three men, a bunch of booze and a shower radio. One of them was like we're going golfing, just stopping in to grab a few things for that. And the cashier who had probably seen it all, was like "Hey , I don't judge how people spend their days." When they told me this story I couldn't even breathe from laughing so hard. A list I'd love to see is what is the weirdest purchase of items you've seen. I see so many weird odd combos of items or even like, tons of the same item. Lik 15 half gallons of milk. I just saw this the other day.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
French comedy movie The Corsican file: a bad/goodish guy gets sent by his gang to the local pharmacy to pick up tampons - they need them for a makeshift bomb fuse. He sheepishly asks for them, she proceeds to ask what types because they have these and these and these and he goes well I'm not sure... She looks at him and goes "for bomb fuses?" "Yep" he answers. Unfazed, she proceeds to hand him boxes of this stuff with specific instructions how to use them - for a bomb. Might not be exactly how it goes but still, funniest s**t ever. I highly recommend the movie
over it already 2 years ago
Several years ago one of my coworkers at a hardware store sold duct tape and rope to a guy....that later got arrested for murdering his wife after she was found at the bottom of a small local lake - you guessed it - bound in rope and duct tape. 😳 Still just a normal purchase at a hardware store.
Chich 2 years ago
Years ago I went to help a friend renovate a house in another town. About mid-day I had to run to a store to buy some supplies. I was wearing grubby clothes and was pretty grubby myself from tearing a room apart. One of the items I needed was lysol and I couldn't find it anywhere. Went to the cashier and asked. She got very quiet and I got definite stink eye. I later found out that lysol was the drink of choice for the local wino crowd and they had taken it off the shelves. A manager had to come out and get it for you. Thought they were kidding until I saw a guy spray it into the cans cap and drink it.
JMil 2 years ago
Lysol? Wtf. Maybe they were just testing Donald's COVID cute.
Load More Replies... Aisling Raye 2 years ago
I always get a giggle out of what the cashiers might think when I'm buying some random assortment of items at the grocery store. I'd like to think that odd combinations are fun for them too. I know I'd have a good laugh at something like that, even if it only momentarily broke some of the monotony of the day.
Moses Scott's 2 years ago
ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I am sharing my HEALING Experience on how I got completely CURED of 2 years diagnosed Herpes Virus, after getting in contact with Dr Omole. Dr Omole healing herbs are very effective in healing various disease be Aware. I am still in shock , cant believe i am herpes cured after 2years of being diagnosed and suffering, He told me what to do in order to be cured. I did And now im cured. Contact Dr Omole and live the life you have ever always dreamt of living, A life free from herpes virus. It’s great to know that herpes virus,#HPV,#Warts #Cold Sores, and other STDs can be cured in a 2 weeks(14days)Permanent and complete cure invented by the traditional herbal healers. Contact with Dr Omole On Email; Dromoleherbalhome48@gmail.com Or Whatsapp: +2348066247230.
Moses Scott's 2 years ago
ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I am sharing my HEALING Experience on how I got completely CURED of 2 years diagnosed Herpes Virus, after getting in contact with Dr Omole. Dr Omole healing herbs are very effective in healing various disease be Aware. I am still in shock , cant believe i am herpes cured after 2years of being diagnosed and suffering, He told me what to do in order to be cured. I did And now im cured. Contact Dr Omole and live the life you have ever always dreamt of living, A life free from herpes virus. It’s great to know that herpes virus,#HPV,#Warts #Cold Sores, and other STDs can be cured in a 2 weeks(14days)Permanent and complete cure invented by the traditional herbal healers. Contact with Dr Omole On Email; Dromoleherbalhome48@gmail.com Or Whatsapp: +2348066247230
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