Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Once again, I hate Canadians!

There are so many in town every single day now. What kind of jobs do these people have that they can be down here every day?

Yesterday, I heard that Food Ave got 5 BUSES full of Canadians! Five buses! That is insane! Well of course they were rude. It got to a point that they were telling them the wait was 40 minutes simply because it's a snack bar that isn't equipped to handle a large mass of people. There is only room for 8 hamburgers on the grill (leaving no room for anything else), 4 single-serve fryers, and one microwave. And everyone was ordering pretty much everything off the menu, usually the whole group gets soup or burgers or whatever, but this time everyone was getting everything. Right after they were told it was going to be a 40 minute wait, they walked over to where you pick up your food and stood there expecting it to be ready. They gave them order numbers and the stupid fucks didn't know their number, so people that had just ordered were taking other people's food. There was a total of 8 employees over there at one time, and they still couldn't keep up. The Canadians also wiped out the deli because all of the pre-made salads and sandwiches are gone.

My question is, why don't you go to an actual restaurant!? They are equipped to handle a lot more people than the snack bar in Target can. There are 4 actual restaurants within walking distance of our store, and so many more if they would just drive one block down.

And these people rarely buy anything from the actual store. All they do is eat and leave. Why are you stopping at Target to EAT!?

Then they told some of the Canadians to tell the bus tour director that they need to call at least 30 minutes before they get to the store so that they can prepare for all the people. I doubt they will tell them because Canadians are self-centered assholes. So the next time we get buses, we are gonna write down the bus company they are with, and call them to tell them that they NEED to call if they are stopping to eat.

I've also been asked so many times if we exchange money. NO! As far as I know we haven't done that for YEARS! And yet, it never fails I am asked at least once a day if we exchange money. One day I had a short shift and was asked over 30 times. It was bad. It's to the point where I just say no. Usually I tell them no, but that we take their paper money at the tills, but after being asked so many times I just said no. One even asked if we exchanged at par. Ok, this means if they gave us $20 Canadian that we would hand them $20 US, and then he bitched that we used to do it. Uh, no. Why would a business take a loss on their money just because they want Canadians to shop in their store? That is the stupidest thing I ever heard. Then there was this guy who bitched that the exchange rate was better in Canada. Well then exchange your money at home!

We also had a Canadian that wanted to return something, but he only had his receipt. Yes, he wanted us to return an item off his receipt and he promised he would mail the item to us. And he didn't understand why we couldn't. Ok...

Well I cashier today and I'm sure I'll hate every minute of it like usual.

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