-Unpredictable schedule, sometimes you work morning, sometimes nights. Sometime you clock out at midnight and you are scheduled to work the next day early in the morning, so you don't get enough sleep
-Rude customers, they often come into the store angry already and are disrespecful to you. They make false complaints about you and lie, but since they are customers, they are always right. As a cashier, you are always wrong and must apologize to customer, even if its not your fault (e.g. computer breaks down).
-When you run out of cash, its always a pain to get more cash
-There is never paper tower or spray at the registers
-When you try to close your register, people ignore your close sign, and if you clock out late because people kept coming to your closed register, your name gets put on a not telling you to take a long lunch the next day
-No opportunity to advance to better positions unless you are pals with someone with power.
-Those who are buddies with management (e.g. csms) get away with things that you don't.
-Our customer are thrifty, poor, angry, always in a hurry, and want everything for free. They usually live in apartments in bad neigborhoods and use food stamps, WIC, and coupons, but they expect you to treat them like members of royalty.
-When there are few customers, you are required to organize the shelfs but keep an eye on the registers. If the shelfs are organized, then you must clean the floor or put returned items back. No matter how slow business is at night, they will always find something for you to do. If you are doing something easy, they'll find something harder for you to do (e.g. pushing carts, moving heavy boxes, cleaning, etc)
-Many customers don't like to load their own carts, you have to do it for them. This tires you faster.
-You greet some customers and they don't answer. You ask them if they found everything OK and they don't answer. They finally speak up to complaint and order you to bag things in a certain way. When they leave, you thank them and wish them to have a good day, and again they don't answer.
