Is that everything?...sigh!!

Discussion in 'Truck Stops' started by thunderbird, Mar 25, 2009.

  1. thunderbird

    thunderbird Bobtail Member

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    How often you walk into the cashier counter in a truck stop,particularly Flying J,to pay for something and are being asked this: "IS THAT EVERYTHING?" ???

    I don't know about you folks, but I consder that very insulting. Many cashiers have the mindset that truckers are bums. What they don't know is that truck drivers make 2 to 5 times more than they do, and often haul loads that are worth more than their entire store.

    I've started to react by minimizing my spendings at Flying J, talking to cashiers,and if they really piss me off I just leave the stuff there and walk out the store.

    Fellow truckers don't let clueless truck stop workers question our integrity like that and make a habbit of it. Please take a stand. Good luck.
     
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  3. dancnoone

    dancnoone "Village Idiot"

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    I don't find it insulting, in the least.

    I got checked out last week, only to discover I had forgot the very thing I stopped to get. I apologized to the cashier, and everyone behind me. But I was the least of everyones concern, as the cashier failed to grasp "That pack there" and went searching for "other" brands and sizes.
     
  4. starcommander

    starcommander Light Load Member

    I seriously believe you have a problem if you take the ? they ask you as a personal attack. Just maybe that is part of their training and they are only doing their job. OBTW I take offence at your supposed superiority to your fellow human beings. In these hard times that everyone is experiencing they at least have a job and are doing it to the best of their ability and trying to support or help to support their families. If everyone took such great offence to such an innocent ? then this world is deffinetly in a sorry state of affairs. And ATTITUDES such as yours does little to help us try and project a better image of our industry. JMHO
     
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  5. lostNfound

    lostNfound Road Train Member

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    Of all the things to get your panties is a wad over... :biggrin_25526:
     
  6. ordinaryguy

    ordinaryguy Light Load Member

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    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, cry me a river you big baby.....it's called being nice. They ask you this incase you forgot anything, and it's obvious that you did, you forgot to take your panties out of a bunch.
     
  7. RickG

    RickG Road Train Member

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    Imagine how he'd feel if a lot lizard asked him that !:biggrin_2552:
     
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  8. heyns57

    heyns57 Road Train Member

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    On the other hand, cashiers also have their pet peeves. I noticed the small sign at Flying J in Benton Harbor: "Please don't hit on our cashiers."
     
  9. Bumpy

    Bumpy Road Train Member

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    If he gets in a roar about that,-how in the world does he put up with everything else???? I dont understand,but at least I am having an average day.......
     
  10. thunderbird

    thunderbird Bobtail Member

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    Obviously some of you drivers are used to be treated and perceived that way. I'm not cause I'm a new driver, and I've found many stunning things happening in this industry. Like the way trucking companies take advantage of the drivers and lie to them like they're babies. If you take "MY" point offensive then you deserve the treatment, and more is coming...
     
  11. RickG

    RickG Road Train Member

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    Get used to it , thunderbird . The fun hasn't started yet and you're not going to change the world . If you stay with it with that attitude you're the one getting what you deserve .
     
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