Typically, always excellent. Except for the girl with green hair who shouted "sir" three times to stop me to check my card before I entered the self-serve checkout. I had glanced at the other lady standing there to let her know I was going to the kiosk, then to her. The green haired girl tracked me down in ten feet and wasn't having me cross some imaginary line before I displayed my card. After the third, SIR, I told her she didn't have to be rude after she was so close to me. She asked if I wanted to speak to a manager. Since she asked, I said yes.
The "manager" arrived, another young girl, who immediately told me, "I am not going to let anyone be rude to my employees." No greeting, no help, no open questions. I asked her to get her manager. This was getting out of hand. I am at the self-checkout still. The manager arrived. I explained that the girl was rude and what happened, then I said the manager was threatening and rude as well. He said he would look at the video. He was cordial, and we ended it. I checked out, fumed for a minute while checking out, then asked to see him, the manager, again.
He came out, and we talked, and he had a better understanding. I said, who needs this? I shouldn't be here having to speak with you. I want to be relatively invisible. Hello, how are you, I am fine. Have a nice day. Goodbye ~ and that's it.
Obviously, I am still fuming because I am writing on the www where this will go into oblivion. Ruined my night, drive home, and dinner. Why? Why did they feel they had to be confrontational, insulting, and intimidating? I'll do whatever they wish, and if I don't, I can choose not to be there. Except, I have been there, and I do what they want and need to be done. It's their "house."
This makes me question myself that somehow I sparked this? I didn't. This shouldn't make me feel this way (only momentarily). Maybe I should have just accepted it, grit my teeth, and moved on? No. However, I don't want to be, nor am I going to accept being threatened, or assaulted (in any way) by something so trivial and inane.
Mr. Costco, this is a deeper problem when you have employees that are confident enough and somehow trained to be rude and threatening for breaking one of your rules, and no other reason. read more