This is more of a reply to that other guy (Bryan E) who was complaining about the tobacco purchase…read more
I am that guy. I don't work there anymore, though, but I wanted to provide some context that he left out, so that people reading these reviews get a better idea of what actually happened.
I had just lost my mother to lung cancer just a few scant months prior to the interaction that he is referring to, and it was weighing heavy on my mind. Rather than be a civil person and actually ask about it, he decided to just assume things and get all huffy and then come on here to write a review. I did not "act like an a--hole", I might have rolled my eyes, but because it was deeply hurting me inside when I started to realize just how many people are addicted to tobacco, like literally 90% of the entirety of Elderton and the surrounding area. This crap killed my mom despite me asking her and asking her and asking her over the years, begging for her to quit it.
Maybe, someday when he's laying on his deathbed with cancer, he will understand, and regret his actions. Hopefully he quits before it is too late, but I doubt it.
Some people would say "well don't work at a job you gotta sell tobacco then" ... getting another job takes time. And yes, I hauled out of there as fast as I could because selling tobacco was bothering me greatly. I didn't like the idea that I, myself, was contributing to people not only killing themselves, but also putting their loved ones through what I had to experience. Some day, maybe 20, 30 years down the line, if this guy has children, one of his children will stand over him laying on a hospital bed, wishing he had quit the tobacco years ago.
So, if this guy ever reads this, I would not only urge him to quit that nasty junk, but to also try to consider that there might be a story behind something like that, if you'd only give the other person more than 2 seconds thought and stop thinking about yourself all the time.
EDIT: I will also point out that I had forgotten about this detail until after I posted the review, but we were highly understaffed at the time. I was being asked to pretty much man the entire store myself, and every single time I tried to do anything, I was interrupted, and being interrupted is one thing, but being interrupted by the one thing that I had so strongly loathed (tobacco) was incredibly frustrating. I was in a very bad place mentally and emotionally at the time, and yes it's wrong to take that out on customers, but we're all human. Again, if he had given more than 2 seconds thought that the person on the other side of the counter is a human being too, then maybe he'd understand, or heck, at least go "hey, what's up with that?" .. if he had, he would have gotten an apology.. "sorry, man I'm just not feeling today, I'm over worked, we're understaffed, I didn't mean to be mean, I'm sorry if you misunderstood my intentions".