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In reply to the discussion: She wouldn't touch my bacon. [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1) Supermarket clerk is not a career choice for most people. I imagine this includes hte lady in question; I may be wrong, but odds are she's behind that counter because she needed work, and this store gave her a call back on her application.
2) The store obviously has a policy allowing her - and one imagine, other employees - to call in a supervisor or other employee to serve a customer for certain products.
3) In this day, the store was apparently so busy that the supervisor was unavailable, so she asked the customer to take the very brief, very minor action of whipping that bacon over the scanner.
4) Which he did, with no complaint. Bacon was received, a small courtesy was performed, and life went on with absolutely no one anywhere being harmed at all.
Remidnsm e of a job I had in Alaska, working at AC (the local supermarket.) being the bush, people would bring in game to be processed, and one day this dude brings in a black bear. I tell my supervisor that I can't butcher a bear. Did he fire me? No. Did he howl and rage at me? No. Did he throat-punch me and throw me bodily out the bay door? Nope. he said "okay, I'll get Alvin to do it," and I went and picked up what Alvin was doing instead. Didn't even ask why I wasn't touching the bear (I can best describe it as "religious reasons." But the bear did get butchered, and the hamburger got made at the same time.
Where I currently work, we have a packing line and a production line. Early mornings on the packing line is a guy who can't operate the forklift. he's not physically unable, and there's no religious reason, he's just really scared of smashing into the wall or product or something. So when it's forklift time, he comes and asks one of the guys on the production line to handle it. And they trade up, so that forklift guy is doing production while production guy is doing forklift. Our stuff is made, and the end result gets loaded on a truck.