I hate one word answers

My favorite is when they come up to you and just scream what they want

«SALT!»

«um… hi… aisle 22…»

When I’m in a bad mood, this might happen:

• «Salt!»

• I look at the guest in pretend confusion. I take a few seconds to make the situation awkward. I might give a nod to tell them I understand they’re making some sort of attempt to speak English. I respond only with «Okay» to acknowledge they know at least one English word.

• «Where is the salt?» (Oh my god, by this time they almost always say a full sentence! It’s amazing how quickly they learn.)

• «Salt is in aisle [letter/number].»

It’s my way of trying to communicate they’re disrespecting me, but I think most people are too stupid to understand. A minority of people seem to get embarrassed because they catch on that they were being disrespectful.

Alternatively, asking «What about salt?» can be fun.

I have gotten to the point where I don’t mind those kinds of answers, when its not yelled at me. I deal with dozens of people every hour. I am not happy about most of them. The short and direct moments just shorten the time I have to deal with you.

I still have to stifle the urge to shot back at them when they shoat at me.

AIRPODS

WE ARE OUT

Back in the midst of Q4 my favorite way to answer the phone was “Target electronics, yes we are sold out of AirPods. What may we do for you?” That made answering the phone so smooth.. also happy cake day my electronics comrade!

I guess I’m an asshole or anti social but I love when guest are like this. I rather have someone one word me and say “Automotive “ instead of someone say “hi, yes my sister just moved to Florida and she needs new dishes but she doesn’t know what color she wants so I’m lookin for her just to give her some idea but while I’m here I realized I need light bulbs so anyways where’s the lightbulbs?”(a lady actually said this to me yesterday )

Someone gives me a one word reply I tell them where it’s at, they say thank you and we both moved on with our lives taking no more than 5 seconds.

I can understand liking efficiency, but if I’m gonna spend 8 hours here helping guests I’d like them to at least use full sentences. I do agree with you, however, that I don’t care for their whole life story leading up to this very moment when they are in dire need of a phone case.

«Can I help you find anything?

«BREAD.»

like damn ok what about it bitch

Mine goes more like

«Can I help you find anything?»

«Yes»

«What are you looking for?»

guest waves me off and says they’re all set 🤔

«You’re standing in my spot»

When I worked at Walmart I was putting something up on a high shelf and I’m on a ladder. Some man stands behind me, silently, unmoving, and almost literally up my butt. Finally I turn around to get down the ladder and the dude scares me so much I almost fall down. Just for him to scream “DIAPERS!!!”

Your reply should’ve been «DEPENDS!»

Or when you’re like «Hello! How are you today?» and they go «Where’s ____?» Like oohhh-kaaay then I’m great as well thanks for asking!

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t ask back when I’m a «guest» anywhere. I’ll say «good, thanks» if you ask me, but that’s the end of my obligation. «Good, thanks! Do you know where I can find ___?». I don’t think it’s rude, honestly. In this case it’s a greeting rather than a question, and my response is short-hand for «You don’t care. I don’t care. And you’re not allowed to answer me truthfully anyway. We both have things to do, let’s not slow each other down.» I feel relieved when I’m on the employee side of a «move along» conversation, so I hope you don’t think every customer is not-asking-back to be rude. It’s actually more considerate in my opinion.

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2013-06-15 00:00:45

God, is it just me or is this kind of annoying.
If I’m trying to talk to someone through, I dunno, text or something, it just makes the other person look like they don’t give a shit about what you’re saying.
I’ll type a bunch of stuff and try to elicit a response, but it seems like there’s always that one guy that completely dead- ends anything you try to start talking about. It’s like I know my nerves are awful and I don’t have the best social skills, but holy hell, at least I make an attempt.
This is even worse when the other person starts talking to you and dead- ends when you talk back to them.

Tl; dr: assholes that respond to everything with «ok» or «yeah».
Anyone else have this happen?

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2013-06-15 00:09:20

Pretty sure this has happened with anyone

It usually means the person doesn’t want to talk to you, or doesn’t like texting…

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2013-06-15 00:11:16

Grab their cock. You’ll get their attention.

Sexy Yes? I would think so :3

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2013-06-15 00:11:29

At 6/15/13 12:11 AM, Mumbo wrote:

At 6/15/13 12:09 AM, alternativesolution wrote:
Pretty sure this has happened with anyone

It usually means the person doesn’t want to talk to you, or doesn’t like texting…

Way to break the trend. Dickbarrel.

k.

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2013-06-15 00:14:46

At 6/15/13 12:12 AM, Mumbo wrote:

At 6/15/13 12:11 AM, alternativesolution wrote:
k.

No its not the same. Ruined. All ruined.

yeah

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2013-06-15 00:17:06

At 6/15/13 12:05 AM, Scintillating wrote:
yeah

okay

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2013-06-15 00:26:15

It dawned on me right after I posted this that this would happen.

This is funny as hell, keep on you guys lmao

yeah.

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2013-06-15 00:32:58

At 6/15/13 12:08 AM, anyapple wrote:
brb

Funny.

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2013-06-15 00:34:14

At 6/15/13 12:00 AM, Mattcat454545 wrote:
Anyone else have this happen?

Yeah. That’s one of the reasons I only text one person. He actually says things other than «ok».

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2013-06-15 05:21:38

i hate one word answers so fucking much!!!!

FUCK YOU!!!!!!

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2013-06-15 08:01:15

Yeah, I hate that. Some passive aggressive bullshit.

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