Poverty in America 2014: At the Market, Very Late http://t.co/qrk53zFPxD via @feedly
— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) May 8, 2014
He said, "Maybe twice a week. When it happens, it happens most often on the late shift. But usually, they swear the card is good and our system is screwed-up. They get angry at us, like it's our fault they can't pay. Sometimes, customers like you pay for them. A couple of times, I've felt so bad for the people that I've paid for them. That's if it's only a few dollars. I couldn't have paid for this woman. Not on what we get paid here."*
The next person in line said, "If you pay for them, do they come back the next night figuring you'll pay for them again?"
He said, "No, never. We never see them again. That woman who just left here…you will never see her in this market again. It's too painful. It just reminds them of how bad off they were that night."
*Icing on the cake of irony. The checker/cashier was no doubt hired after the U.F.C.W. (Assumption; one union or another.) had to agree to a two-tier wage scale.
3 comments:
You tweet?!?!?
Get off my lawn!
All snarking aside, that story is devastating. I do most of my shopping around 1:30AM, but it's in a suburban supermarket (the only one open later than my shift these days). I have yet to see this happen.
Bye-bye.
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