I was told to get out of my local grocery store yesterday….

@Matt85 Very.

@jshm2 Yes. It’s a well known fact how lucrative the deli worker profession is in a small town. His time was clearly worth more than mine. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@QueenOfTheNerds I'm telling you, customers clearly make this man unhappy, so you should tell everybody in town to help make him happy.

@LordShadowfire I don’t think he was cut out to work with people.

@beermeplease Maybe I should have! 😂

@Livingwell I did make the store manager aware of the situation before I left. I also gave her my business card and cell phone to pass along to her boss.

@QueenOfTheNerds maybe they were having a breakdown

@SW-User That’s what I wondered, too. Maybe he was just having a rough day and I was the lucky customer to come in at the wrong time. He was perfectly fine with other customers, though. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@QueenOfTheNerds maybe your royal status intimidated him.

@MrSmooTh I don’t have a problem with the business itself. It’s just a small family owned business. The employee seems to be the problem. Hopefully the management there will resolve that problem.

@QueenOfTheNerds A younger millennial, I think that says everything right there.

@QueenOfTheNerds My generational peers really screwed the pooch raising them.

@QueenOfTheNerds I will say if you do start leaving bad reviews, mention him by either name or description. He'll hate you, but by the sound of things, that ship has sailed, lol.

@HannahSky NO MEAT FOR YOU! COME BACK IN ONE YEAR!

@HannahSky

@QueenOfTheNerds exactly 😂

@smiler2012 It’s not even “his” store. He just makes the deli food. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@QueenOfTheNerds well i think you need to have a word then with whose store it is as with an attitude like that trade will diminish fast

@QueenOfTheNerds I have never seen an employee of a business tell a customer that they are lying.
That borders on slander.

@Pfuzylogic I really do hope they have a camera in that area with sound. The whole thing was just weird.

@QueenOfTheNerds For an entire prepared meal, if they offer that service, you'd have to expect to pre-order, but if you were buying meat, cheese, and salad by the pound, it would be crazy to have to pre-order or to accuse someone of lying about having been told that before.

Even if he was having a bad day for something unrelated to you, there's no excuse for intentional rudeness, none, ever.

@Barefooter25 It’s just a small, independently owned family store. I’ve been going there my entire life. There aren’t that many “higher ups” to go through. I did notify the store manager, though.

@InHeaven Who knows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@QueenOfTheNerds ya, he is definitely going through something, and if you look like his “female enemy” he will feel better taking it out on you, if he can’t fight back the other person. This happens often and happened to me too

@JRVanguard It really was. It was a very weird experience.

@Ozymandiaz I got a guy fired from a 7-Eleven doing that once.

@Ozymandiaz I did speak to the store manager before I left and I left her my business card and cell number to pass along. I don’t want to over-Karen the situation. The whole population of the town where I live is 1,700 people, and I’ve lived basically here my whole life.

@QueenOfTheNerds It sounds like you handled it with decorum. Always the best way to do things.

@Dshhh Yes he did, and yes it was.

@caPnAhab Agreed.

@cherokeepatti I’m not sure. Maybe my order was just the last straw in a rough day for him. He was perfectly peachy with other customers, though.

@QueenOfTheNerds He is acting like he owns that store. That very well could get him fired because in a small town word gets out quickly and customers may find other ways to get what they want in groceries.

@cherokeepatti I don’t think most people actually do their grocery shopping there. They’re way more expensive than if you make the drive to a bigger town and a bigger store. It is convenient to have for odds and ends that you need, though. I know the manager rolled her eyes when I told her what he said. She didn’t seem surprised.
Odds are that if he lives around here, I know his mama and most of his family.

@QueenOfTheNerds And she did nothing. What about the owner? He needs to know about this.

@CountScrofula I know! It was just so weird.

@deadgerbil Exactly. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@mindlessdrifter He did look a lot like the Simpsons character in the gif. Just less Simpson-y.

@QueenOfTheNerds Still, that attitude should have gotten him fired

@BlueGreenGrey No. He had it all packaged up, except for the chicken, which was still cooking. He hadn’t handed me any of it before telling me to get out.

@QueenOfTheNerds that sounds fucked up

what did the store manager say?

is there anyone above the store manager? I'd probably be calling them back

@BlueGreenGrey She didn’t seem very surprised. She said she would pass my contact info along to her boss, who I assume is the owner.