That's really heartening to read @Fairygirl . I've been thinking about it for a while now as the abuse has increased but as my OH is younger than me, i didn't want to be relying on him (Divorce leaves it's mark) but i think the time has come.Thanks for that Â
@Fairygirl and @pansyface , you're both giving me the incentive and reassurance to give up my job,a job i've loved for the last fifteen years,but one which is now reducing me to tears regularly.Life is no fun,not on a work day at least.I will sooo miss the money though.It gives me that knowledge of having a little security incase things go t**s up again.But,wellbeing should come first.A serious talk with OH is needed.Watch this space
@philippasmith2 , People will not wait,will not move back and will certainly not intervene when abuse is being thrown at the assistant.People just stood and watched me being abused today;whats wrong with people..?!
Thanks for your best wishes though.Much appreciated
There's a lady who works in the same s'market as older daughter, and as I usually pick daughter up on a Saturday night, that's when I do my shopping, and I often have a chat with her . Obviously been different recently, and when the buses weren't running, I took and collected daughter and she did the shopping for me instead. I hadn't seen this woman for a while, but she was leaving work one day when I was dropping daughter off, so we had a chat in the car park. I said to her I didn't know how staff restrained themselves from punching folk in the face on a daily basis, and she laughed - and agreed. I think they all feel the same way about some customers, and they have a right good bitch about them in the staff canteen. Some of the stories would make your hair curl.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Klink, if you can afford it, do it. Life's too short to put up with stuff like that. As has been said, l'm sure you won't regret it. I took early retirement having dithered about it for ages. Best thing l ever didÂ
@Klink, I am extremely sorry to hear your plight. It’s such a sad tale and all I can think of that’s not so far been said is to mount a media campaign to jab the silent, spineless onlookers into supportive action when the next example of boorishness occurs. Write to your local paper, contact your nextdoor.com community, post it on local Facebook groups and get people in your area to reflect on their complicity in wrong-doing by not speaking up.
Not in any way diminishing the trauma you’re undergoing and maybe to give you a little smile, customer on customer abuse occurs as well. At the height of the great toilet roll shortage, someone in one of our local supermarkets grabbed a mega-pack out of another customer’s trolley and legged it to the checkout. A Keystone Cops pursuit occurred and the two squared up at the tills exchanging blows. The police were hastily called. What makes this story more enriching is that it occurred in Waitrose in very posh Stamford.
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Your wellbeing is more important.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Being single, I didn't have to discuss it with anyone but myselfÂ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think they all feel the same way about some customers, and they have a right good bitch about them in the staff canteen. Some of the stories would make your hair curl.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not in any way diminishing the trauma you’re undergoing and maybe to give you a little smile, customer on customer abuse occurs as well. At the height of the great toilet roll shortage, someone in one of our local supermarkets grabbed a mega-pack out of another customer’s trolley and legged it to the checkout. A Keystone Cops pursuit occurred and the two squared up at the tills exchanging blows. The police were hastily called. What makes this story more enriching is that it occurred in Waitrose in very posh Stamford.