Working at Walmart

People are just so friendly... and by friendly, I of course mean assholes, and by people I mean customers.

I work in the Deli at Walmart in Kirksville now... and we were closed today because some idiot in back hit the hot water pipe with a pallet lift and so we had no hot water, and therefore couldn't abide by sanitation regulations...

Now, you'd think, upon telling people this, they would realize that:

A. It's the person who drove the lift's fault.
B. There's not a goddamn thing I can do about it.
C. It was not done out of hate to personally inconvenience them.
D. I am not Satan.

But, of course, they do not... well, I mean, some do, but not fat women. I have started to realize that the most bitter, angry, accusing customers, are always fat women. They usually have a child or two with them too.

This one, today, was like, "Must be nice to just sit back there on your ass all day not havin' to do a goddamn thing while the rest of us gotta figure out what the hell we're doin' for dinner now." and I really badly wanted to say, "Looks like you've got a lot of experience sitting on your ass yourself."

And a lot of people would come up to the counter, behind which I had to stand for this specific reason. "You guys closed?" and I would, while looking at the "Closed: No Hot Water" sign and empty cases, say, "yuuuup." and then of course I'd get a "How come?" and I would still be looking at the sign and have to explain that there was no hot water. "What happened?" "Guy ran into a pipe with a lift?" "How'd that happen?" "Dunno I wasn't here." "Is he alright?" "I don't even know who ~he~ is." "Did he lose his job? I'll bet he lost his job." "Sir/Ma'am... I do...not...know..."

And then, I had a couple of people try to convince me to cut their meat anyway, "I don't need hot water." "I can't wash my hands." "So, just put gloves on." "I will lose my job." "I aint gonna tell no body." (a man actually responded with that, to which I actually responded) "Sir, I can see four cameras and at least 5 other sales associates from here."

Honestly, I think it was just "be ridiculous and make the Deli girl hate her life" day.... people kept mocking/scoffing/commenting on how easy my job was to just have to stand there, and I kept thinking, "I would rather slice a hundred hams an hour than listen to all you jackasses bitch at me all day. Believe me."