Posts with tag: kindnessmatters

I genuinely think every customer who comes to Walmart becomes an ungrateful granny. No matter how old they are or which stage of their lives they're in, after seconds of coming to this place, they all become ungrateful grannies, and you know there is no way that you can make them feel satisfied. It's so frustrating as an associate who works his a^s off for these guys and no matter what you do, they always find the one thing that you didn't do and they make you feel like nothing that you did for them matters, just because you didn't do that one thing. Also, they think you're a magician. They expect you to create items that are not left in the stock. When you can't do it, you're just guilty and it's your fault that every other customer bought that item and there is nothing left of it. You should have kept one for one specific customer. You are so careless!! And the kindness have you been showing the whole time during the conversation? Well, means nothing. It doesn't matter if you answered kindly to their question and tried your best to help them even if you were in the middle of something else, you didn't get the job done, you didn't deliver the item that they were asking for, so you su^k. The stuff that I'm telling you right now might feel like a fairy tale or some guy complaining online about his job but this is literally what I experience every other week, at least once. Last week, for example, I was zoning the he^l out of someplace and this lady walked up to me asking for some brand of cereal that I didn't know existed before. Anyway, I wasn't sure if we even sell that brand of cereal but I didn't want to give her no as an answer immediately, so as you can guess I went back there and asked some associates whether we sell the cereal or not and it turns out we do, but we have none left. I came back to tell her that actually there was nothing left of the cereal that she was asking about. You should have seen the look on her face. She just looked at me like I was a waste of life. Believe it or not, I started laughing my a^s off. I never felt like these types of situations were funny, but I just realized how silly she looked. The look on her face was so funny that it almost changed my view on life. That's how insane it was. Like ma'am, I didn't hurt you or one of yours. We just don't have the cereal and it's not my or your fault that we don't have it. It's nobody's fault. We just don't have the damn cereal. It feels like being kind becomes harder and harder every day. I don't think I will give up on being kind anytime soon because that's who I am. I am fundamentally a kind person no matter the circumstance. As you can imagine, it doesn't feel good to not have some kindness back. I'm not even asking for the same level of kindness, like even a small amount would be fine. Anyway, I don't know if I'm being sensitive or not but this is just how I feel and I wanted to share. Thank you.