blah, I need to blow off some steam, i can't stand judgemental people

Ok, I work at a Superstore (canadian store) and I'm a cashier.
After work, I grabbed my bag and went to go see if we had some snow brushes cuz we got a massively huge dump of snow yesterday. (now we're burried...brrrr). At first, I couldn't find any, so I thought that I would be brave and go try to dig my car out myself. On the way out, the greeter started to look at me all weird while I was zipping up my coat and smelling the flowers by the door and he looks at my bag (it's a messanger bag) and says that he needs to look through it. So he takes it and fishes through it and can't find anything that I would have stollen and says that I'm not to bring my purse into the store anymore. Then he told me to clean up (I have dreads in my hair right now, so I'm assuming that is what fueled that statment).
I WAS PISSED!!!!!!!!!
I called the supervisor later and I asked her what the heck that was all about, and she said that I have every right to bring my stuff into work and that he had no right to say that.
Well, when I went out to my car, I covered myself in snow and decided to go back and try to find the brush again, and I waved the purse in his face on my way back in.

That really bugs me. Everyone else there is really nice to me, and vice versa...this guy's got some issues.
The shitty thing is, though, that the supervisor said that they reserve the right to be able to stop people with large bags and back-packs and search them. But she specifically said that women with SMALL bags will not get searched. i can somewhat see their reasoning, but isn't it just as easy to lift something with a smaller bag? So what, just cuz I'm a pack rat and i happen to like bigger bags, I'm automatically pegged as a theif?
And I still have yet to see someone else with a large bag get searched. Hell, you have to BUY your grocery bags from us (to reduce waste) and people are ALWAYS bringing in tons of big bags.
Blah.

 

hold your head high, you know you didnt do anything wrong

~peace

 

thanx

 

i have dealt with people like that............ if your gonna steal somthing small you wouldnt even need a bag at all......... ask him next time if he wants you to turn your pockets inside out and take off your shoes so he can pat down your socks LOL he will get the msg.

 

What store? I say boycott!

 

i was thinking about doing that! lol
i really wish that i would have!
i'm thinking that next time I'm working, and he's there, when I walk past him, I'll pull out my pockets and stuff.
Hell, they give us aprons to wear that have 5 pockets, my pants have 4 and my jacket and sweater have 2! I could have put anything in there!!!!!!!!!!

 

I swear I think some people take security and customs jobs just because they like hassling people. Actually, I once knew a kid who said he was going to be a cop for just that reason.


It's fun to think about doing stuff like turning out your pockets as you walk through, but if you did it, I think the security guy and maybe the other folks you work with would take it the wrong way. If you take the high road, then he's the only one who looks like he's acting silly. If you make a scene , though, then you're both just making scenes, you know?

I don't blame you for wanting to, though.

 

Yeah, I don't think that I'd have the balls to do it, anyway.
Like you said, though, it's fun to think about!

 

Urgh I hate people like that. It's just like the bouncers/doormen that take AAAGES looking at your ID before they let you in, just because they like having the power and know it makes people nervous even though the ID is perfectly genuine

 

you should put a vibrator in you bag and also lts of condoms and tampons and just lits of stuff like that then give it to him to look through he probably would never want to again

 

that is what i was going to suggest. it would probably make him feel uncomfortable and akward...........hes an asshole.

 

LMAO!
I think that you may have something there......

 

No kidding.
Stand proud.

 

hahaha I agree! Or maybe some really gross things like a used diaper (folded up I mean) or apples core etc etc. But then who really wants those types of things in their bag...still... it would be very funny and worth it I'd say.

 

LMAO

You know what I did once? Just to be a silly pain in the butt? I was going into a concert with a lot of security, and it was one of those all day deals, where you can't leave all day and yet you're somehow not supposed to bring in lots of stuff. (It was Reggae In The Park in San Francisco.) I put tampons in an empty Altoids tin, knowing that they were going to assume it was weed. The security guy acted so grossed out and stopped searching me and let me go with just a peek into my bag after that. Ha ha.


People in line were laughing.