Ree’s musings

First: I apologise for my previous post. I had a long, amiable talk with one of the people involved and commented back to another. As I no doubt showed, I was frustrated with the way things turned out. Mostly I was pissed off at myself for not saying what I was doing, which might've spared me effort. On the plus side, I learned things about HTML forms I hadn't had to know before. I'm not going to claim I'm doing backflips, but yeah, I'm content. We got it worked out.

Second: Anybody ever check out Customers Suck on LJ? I used to have it on my reading list, but after about a week, it just weighed me down to much. I still check in every now then. The community posters are almost invariably pissed off, but if you can wade through the second-hand trauma, there's some stuff in there about how a customer can treat a clerk right. I like that. I try to be nice to the help -- Golden Rule and all that.

Hot off the presses comes a post wherein a poster gets hot under the collar because of a customer who shopped using a hand basket and did not remove their items from the basket, instead opting to place the basket entire on the belt.

I had no idea that people could get worked up over this. I didn't even know that I, in my attempts to be a considerate shopper, should remove each item individually, that the clerk might handle pick each item in turn and ring it up. That doesn't exactly make sense to me.

Anybody want to voice their opinion, for my future reference? Please? This has me flummoxed now, and I'd like to resolve even such a piddly issue. Hey, I take closure where I can get it.