Seriously, WTF! I go grocery shopping every week just like your average american. I don't use reusable grocery bags yet.. I know, I know! Can you hold your judgement and just let me vent for a bit? I do use a re-usable bag for my trips to the library and I pass on bags when making small purchases at CVS etc and I reuse my plastic grocery bags as trash bags rather than buy trash bags... so see I'm not so bad.
Now can we get back to the people who are bad? The idiots who bag groceries. What the F happened to the teens in this world? I have had a job since I was 12... yes 12! And I've been doing chores (serious chores, the laundry for the entire family) since 7 (yes 2nd grade people, I traipsed down to the basement and washed and folded the entire family's laundry- to this day, I hate folding! I'm scarred). So what happened? Its not hard to bag groceries. As a child, I bagged the groceries for my mom when we shopped (there were no dedicated baggers then). And it was common sense... Common sense people! So are we not teaching common sense in school? Are we too busy prepping for standardized tests that we aren't teaching basic skills that can be applied to all kinds of situations INCLUDING your afterschool job bagging groceries???
Every week, I dread the checkout line. RJ and I typically go grocery shopping together and at first, he thought I was too hard on the baggers. Don't worry- I don't say anything to them, I wait until we pass through the door to the fresh air and then my rant begins. Although, this week, I almost HAD to say something. And in the past few weeks, RJ has come to my side of the fence on the great "Are these baggers F'N morons?" debate.
And based on google search results, I'm guessing either many of you agree with me OR the baggers are actually trying to improve. HA- sha right! It is not the baggers trying to improve... kids these days, hell college graduates these days are not looking to self improve, they want the answer handed to them... a trophy awarded just for showing up. Well listen up dumbasses; that is not how the world works. I'm gonna give you a trophy alright, a trophy of my middle finger that I'll shove up your butt for you. Ugh!!!!! Sorry, so back to google.. the google search bar auto completes "how to bag groceries" and "how to bag groceries properly"- there are 634,000 and 277,000 results respectively. I'm contemplating creating my own "Grocery Bagging for Dumbasses who will never progress past bagger let alone HS" but to be more efficient, I might take the best of the search results, print them out and just start leaving them near the bagging area of the check out lanes.
I'm gonna lose it! One of the search results is a powerpoint presentation for a gaming simulation to teach people to bag groceries properly. Great lets sit the future of our obese country in front of a computer screen to learn something so freaking basic. Something they could learn by DOING and receiving feedback from a qualified manager... that is a post for another day.
I mean how freaking difficult is it to bag boxes together... to keep eggs safe from breaking.... to keep bread on the top NOT the bottom of bags. And you want to know what makes this even more pathetic?? I ORGANIZE my groceries on the checkout belt in ORDER of bagging. I hold bread, eggs, soft veggies/fruit at the far end of the belt and then I organize the boxes, jars, cans, soda in the EXACT order of how they SHOULD be bagged. And then I watch. And regardless of my streamlined efforts, obtained through years of experience and honing of my organization on the belt... I mean a bystander who has NEVER grocery shopped before might think I have OCD but anyone who has grocery shopped regularly would smile inside and give a little positive mojo my way, hoping my efforts pay off. Especially if they are behind me in line because if it works for me then there is hope for them. HOPE not a guarantee because the bagger could switch between customers or just go back to their lazy ass ways.
Ok so my groceries are organized on the belt. All the bagger needs to do is put them in the bags in the ORDER in which they come off the belt. But NO. This week RJ watched the bagger... I looked away in hopes that I wouldn't jinx it and because I was so close to yelling out WTF- step away I'll bag my own groceries. And what did RJ see? The bagger put the frozen boxes together, yes a small triumph for shoppers everywhere. But then she puts bags of craisins in the same bag.. ok no big deal with the bag doesn't break, we are ok. But then there are more frozen foods coming down the belt and the bagger looks lost. The bagger takes out boxes from the frozen box and craisin bag and replaces the box with the new frozen box... this in and out swap continues for 2 minutes. Thank goodness I was not watching. Then she puts cleaning products in with fruit, RJ reaches in and seamlessly corrects this mishap. I hear all of this and more after the fact as we walk out of the store and I see bread under the cereal boxes and frozen peas. I huff, reach in, take the bread out, try to reshape it and shake my head... I look at RJ with my WTF face and he says "Don't even F***ing get me started!"
FYI- RJ does NOT swear.
I wait a few minutes and ask him what happened.. that is how I learn of what he saw and why I decide to find these sites to print for my next trip to the grocery store. Maybe I can offer a free training class!
This is the best one: 7 quick steps that are so Common Sense that it is a sad, sad day for the world that I'll need to actually print this and tape it to baggers stations. Is this a worldwide problem or a US epidemic of lacking intelligence?
Oh my gosh, there is hope.. 3 months ago, someone looked to self improve through yahoo answers
And in wisconsin in 2008 they held a best bagger contest with pdf for rules and tips. Another pdf recommended you size up your customer to ensure bags are not too heavy which might improve your chances of getting a tip.
A TIP... A TIP...I'm not tipping you for doing your F'N job.... do we need to revisit the freaking trophy? pull it out your ass, look at it, say "oh yeah, I forgot she covered this already", stick it back in there and go back to your daily life.
Now can we get back to the people who are bad? The idiots who bag groceries. What the F happened to the teens in this world? I have had a job since I was 12... yes 12! And I've been doing chores (serious chores, the laundry for the entire family) since 7 (yes 2nd grade people, I traipsed down to the basement and washed and folded the entire family's laundry- to this day, I hate folding! I'm scarred). So what happened? Its not hard to bag groceries. As a child, I bagged the groceries for my mom when we shopped (there were no dedicated baggers then). And it was common sense... Common sense people! So are we not teaching common sense in school? Are we too busy prepping for standardized tests that we aren't teaching basic skills that can be applied to all kinds of situations INCLUDING your afterschool job bagging groceries???
Every week, I dread the checkout line. RJ and I typically go grocery shopping together and at first, he thought I was too hard on the baggers. Don't worry- I don't say anything to them, I wait until we pass through the door to the fresh air and then my rant begins. Although, this week, I almost HAD to say something. And in the past few weeks, RJ has come to my side of the fence on the great "Are these baggers F'N morons?" debate.
And based on google search results, I'm guessing either many of you agree with me OR the baggers are actually trying to improve. HA- sha right! It is not the baggers trying to improve... kids these days, hell college graduates these days are not looking to self improve, they want the answer handed to them... a trophy awarded just for showing up. Well listen up dumbasses; that is not how the world works. I'm gonna give you a trophy alright, a trophy of my middle finger that I'll shove up your butt for you. Ugh!!!!! Sorry, so back to google.. the google search bar auto completes "how to bag groceries" and "how to bag groceries properly"- there are 634,000 and 277,000 results respectively. I'm contemplating creating my own "Grocery Bagging for Dumbasses who will never progress past bagger let alone HS" but to be more efficient, I might take the best of the search results, print them out and just start leaving them near the bagging area of the check out lanes.
I'm gonna lose it! One of the search results is a powerpoint presentation for a gaming simulation to teach people to bag groceries properly. Great lets sit the future of our obese country in front of a computer screen to learn something so freaking basic. Something they could learn by DOING and receiving feedback from a qualified manager... that is a post for another day.
I mean how freaking difficult is it to bag boxes together... to keep eggs safe from breaking.... to keep bread on the top NOT the bottom of bags. And you want to know what makes this even more pathetic?? I ORGANIZE my groceries on the checkout belt in ORDER of bagging. I hold bread, eggs, soft veggies/fruit at the far end of the belt and then I organize the boxes, jars, cans, soda in the EXACT order of how they SHOULD be bagged. And then I watch. And regardless of my streamlined efforts, obtained through years of experience and honing of my organization on the belt... I mean a bystander who has NEVER grocery shopped before might think I have OCD but anyone who has grocery shopped regularly would smile inside and give a little positive mojo my way, hoping my efforts pay off. Especially if they are behind me in line because if it works for me then there is hope for them. HOPE not a guarantee because the bagger could switch between customers or just go back to their lazy ass ways.
Ok so my groceries are organized on the belt. All the bagger needs to do is put them in the bags in the ORDER in which they come off the belt. But NO. This week RJ watched the bagger... I looked away in hopes that I wouldn't jinx it and because I was so close to yelling out WTF- step away I'll bag my own groceries. And what did RJ see? The bagger put the frozen boxes together, yes a small triumph for shoppers everywhere. But then she puts bags of craisins in the same bag.. ok no big deal with the bag doesn't break, we are ok. But then there are more frozen foods coming down the belt and the bagger looks lost. The bagger takes out boxes from the frozen box and craisin bag and replaces the box with the new frozen box... this in and out swap continues for 2 minutes. Thank goodness I was not watching. Then she puts cleaning products in with fruit, RJ reaches in and seamlessly corrects this mishap. I hear all of this and more after the fact as we walk out of the store and I see bread under the cereal boxes and frozen peas. I huff, reach in, take the bread out, try to reshape it and shake my head... I look at RJ with my WTF face and he says "Don't even F***ing get me started!"
FYI- RJ does NOT swear.
I wait a few minutes and ask him what happened.. that is how I learn of what he saw and why I decide to find these sites to print for my next trip to the grocery store. Maybe I can offer a free training class!
This is the best one: 7 quick steps that are so Common Sense that it is a sad, sad day for the world that I'll need to actually print this and tape it to baggers stations. Is this a worldwide problem or a US epidemic of lacking intelligence?
Oh my gosh, there is hope.. 3 months ago, someone looked to self improve through yahoo answers
And in wisconsin in 2008 they held a best bagger contest with pdf for rules and tips. Another pdf recommended you size up your customer to ensure bags are not too heavy which might improve your chances of getting a tip.
A TIP... A TIP...I'm not tipping you for doing your F'N job.... do we need to revisit the freaking trophy? pull it out your ass, look at it, say "oh yeah, I forgot she covered this already", stick it back in there and go back to your daily life.
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