Comments on: Advice to a new head cashier http://www.bipolarlawyercook.net/2009/10/advice-to-a-new-head-cashier/ Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sherry http://www.bipolarlawyercook.net/2009/10/advice-to-a-new-head-cashier/comment-page-1/#comment-5320 Sherry Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:17:56 +0000 http://bipolarlawyercook.net/?p=1765#comment-5320 Here's a little something from a convenient store customer - me. I was in the back grabbing a soda, just about to walk up to the register, and what did I hear? That's not exactly somebody's iPod blaring that's for sure. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked around the store. Nobody else. I stepped lightly until the register was in sight and peered at the cashier. He was serenading me! Ha! He was a local university student, voice major, rehearsing to an almost empty store! I made some easy comment to him about it not being exactly what I would expect on a Friday night in a candy store. We talked a while. He loved singing, he had a plan and he wasn't afraid to belt one out, apparently in front of anyone. He even sang me another song. He was young enough to be my own kid, but it was very sweet, and not something I'll likely forget - ever. Here’s a little something from a convenient store customer — me.

I was in the back grabbing a soda, just about to walk up to the register, and what did I hear? That’s not exactly somebody’s iPod blaring that’s for sure. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked around the store. Nobody else. I stepped lightly until the register was in sight and peered at the cashier. He was serenading me! Ha!

He was a local university student, voice major, rehearsing to an almost empty store! I made some easy comment to him about it not being exactly what I would expect on a Friday night in a candy store. We talked a while. He loved singing, he had a plan and he wasn’t afraid to belt one out, apparently in front of anyone. He even sang me another song. He was young enough to be my own kid, but it was very sweet, and not something I’ll likely forget — ever.

]]> By: Allison http://www.bipolarlawyercook.net/2009/10/advice-to-a-new-head-cashier/comment-page-1/#comment-5319 Allison Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:31:23 +0000 http://bipolarlawyercook.net/?p=1765#comment-5319 Well. Now I want to work in a bookstore. When you lay it all out like that, it sounds like a pretty good way to pass the time and pay the rent. :) .-= Allison´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/apkphotography/4058852500/" rel="nofollow">something wicked...</a> =-. Well. Now I want to work in a bookstore. When you lay it all out like that, it sounds like a pretty good way to pass the time and pay the rent. :)
.-= Allison´s last blog ..something wicked… =-.

]]> By: bipolarbear http://www.bipolarlawyercook.net/2009/10/advice-to-a-new-head-cashier/comment-page-1/#comment-5318 bipolarbear Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:29:57 +0000 http://bipolarlawyercook.net/?p=1765#comment-5318 I think that, working in retail, we have some serious power, being able to influence people's mood, even if only in the slightest amount. You're right; finding the littlest thing to compliment, giving a big smile, treat them like a *human* is something that they most likely wouldn't expect, and may be just the thing they need to get them through yet another miserable day. Remember too, you don't have to go home with them. They will eventually leave your sight. .-= bipolarbear´s last blog ..<a href="http://blog.knit-n-spin.com/2009/10/10/gravity/" rel="nofollow">Gravity</a> =-. I think that, working in retail, we have some serious power, being able to influence people’s mood, even if only in the slightest amount. You’re right; finding the littlest thing to compliment, giving a big smile, treat them like a *human* is something that they most likely wouldn’t expect, and may be just the thing they need to get them through yet another miserable day. Remember too, you don’t have to go home with them. They will eventually leave your sight.
.-= bipolarbear´s last blog ..Gravity =-.

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