So SAD

angelburst29

The Living Force
I happened to be going through local news reports when I came across this one. It's "real life" stories like this, that reminds me to be courteous and patient with others, especially in social settings. No one likes to stand in a long line at a check out, especially around the Holidays. Tempers often flare and people get impatient. Sometimes, it's best to stay "calm and cool" without adding to the problem.

In this short video, this woman is sitting in her car, in a Walmart parking lot and describes an experience she just went through at the checkout. A young male Cashier (16) was having problems and a customer started yelling at him. The situation intensified - when the Customers Card was rejected - due to lack of funds and she took her anger out on the young Cashier.

From the article:

Facebook user Paige Yore says she was at the store waiting in line for about 20 minutes when she witnessed a young cashier having a hard time. As she stood there irritated, a female customer began yelling at the young man. “You suck at customer service. I don’t know how you ever got hired here,” said the female customer. Paige tried helping the woman bag her groceries so that she could get her out of the store.

After the woman attempted to pay for her purchase, her card declined. According to Paige, the woman really began yelling at the boy as if it was his fault. “Maybe you should just step aside and let us cash out. This young man is obviously having a bad day,” Paige told the woman.

She was right.

The young cashier stopped in his tracks and began crying. He came from the bagging area and began hugging Paige. He told her that his mother committed suicide that morning. He said he had to work because he has to pay rent and bills. “This woman is yelling at me and I don’t even have a mom anymore,” said the young man.

Paige began to cry and told him to hang in there. “Life is so hard and it’s going to be okay.”

The rude female customer stood there absolutely humiliated.

Paige says she gave him all of the money out of her purse.

“That just showed me that no matter what, even if you’re customer service sucks, even if whatever happened, somebody is rude to you, don’t jump down their throat because they are fighting a battle that none of us knows about.” She continued. “We have to be thankful to be alive and treat other people like you want to be treated.”


A woman’s heartbreaking post about her shopping experience at Walmart has gone viral.
http://wnep.com/2015/12/07/womans-terrible-shopping-experience-at-walmart-goes-viral/
 
Thank you for posting that angelburst :( I just shared it on facebook, it's a good reminder to stay aware, we can so often be absorbed by our own issues we don't even think about what the other person may be going through...
 
angelburst29 said:
“That just showed me that no matter what, even if you’re customer service sucks, even if whatever happened, somebody is rude to you, don’t jump down their throat because they are fighting a battle that none of us knows about.” She continued. “We have to be thankful to be alive and treat other people like you want to be treated.”


A woman’s heartbreaking post about her shopping experience at Walmart has gone viral.
http://wnep.com/2015/12/07/womans-terrible-shopping-experience-at-walmart-goes-viral/

It gave me a lesson for today, we really don't know what hell people are going through and we sometimes are just immersed in our own life bubbles... we really have to make an effort to smile every day to other people and not be rude, maybe just one good morning and a smile can make a little change, thanks a lot for sharing the video Thorn, its this things we don't pay attention too that can make us better people and grow our conscious with the environment we live in.
 
Poor boy :( I can't imagine what he's going through.


That lady though... I just don't understand how people can be so self-entitled .__.
 
I am so sorry for the cashier to have such uncalled for treatment. Perhaps rude customers should deserve to deal only with robots until they realize the value in being assisted by fellow human beings.

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Ina
 
Very sad and human story... Thanks to share it.

When I am in front of cashiers now (I changed) I am very cool and patient. I used to be impatient. Not anymore. Now I see the cashiers and I used my imagination: they are tired, feed up, exploited, they have their little problems, like us, their ailments, their fatigue, their sadness... It is very hard to be a cashier, all day long enduring people, all day long in front of a machine, serving machines also. When I look at them I think maybe their bodies are hurting them, their feet all day, their backs, their arms, always doing the same gestures is terrible. The noise in the store... Maybe they have migraines. Any way, to be patient and compassionate is so important when you wait your turn. A smile to a cashier, a little joke, sympathy, you never know their story that can be a nightmare. So a smile can be very helpful for them and for us. A smile and patience for both of us, cashier and client.
 
Amazing, WalMart now claims, the video and incident never happened? Am I surprised, NO!

The girl in the video, to me, seems sincere and the incident "really" happened, as she described. I don't see her gaining anything - other than sharing her experience. It's not like - she was asking for donations or setting up a "GoFundMe" account for the heart broken Cashier? Which considering, the video went viral with over 25 Million views, I don't think he would have to work at WalMart any more?
Shame on WalMart!


Walmart customer hits back after company says her story about a cashier isn't true
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-customer-hits-back-company-165758895.html

A Walmart customer is defending herself after the company said her account of an interaction with a cashier wasn't true.

Walmart made the claim after Paige Yore recorded a video about her interaction that went viral, with more than 25 million views in four days.

"What I am doing is not about the fame, it's not about the money, it's not about being on ABC," Yore told KRDO News in response to Walmart's claims. "It's about touching people's lives in a world where we all forget what the meaning of Christmas is."

Yore claims in her video that she was standing in a Walmart checkout line when she noticed that the cashier was having trouble ringing up customers' items. He seemed distraught and appeared to be having trouble remembering the codes for certain items, she said.

A customer started shouting at the cashier for being slow, and Yore stepped in to try and calm the woman down, she claims.

The cashier then hugged Yore and told her his mom had committed suicide that morning but he had to report to work so he could pay the rent and bills, according to Yore.

"Even if your customer service sucks, even if whatever happens, somebody is rude to you being your customer service, don't jump down their throat because they are fighting a battle that none of us know about," Yore says in the video.

Walmart has since claimed the video is a hoax.

The company told BuzzFeed News that it reviewed video footage from the store where the interaction allegedly happened and found no evidence of Yore hugging her cashier.

The company also reached out to the cashier and says his mother is still alive.

Yore is standing by her claims.

She said her experience "just happened to go viral."

"Did I plan on it? Absolutely not," she told KRDO News. "Did I want that? Probably not."
 
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