Omedchazak613 I had one of the coworkers who was the giant silent russian type. You knew you were on his bad side if while cleaning his knife, he'd stopped only to glance at you.
The old lady asking everything to be put in one bag but demanding that the bag also not be heavy is exactly the kind of person you have to deal with on a daily basis in retail.
My mom was booking vaccines for this old woman last week, and couldn't get an early appointment at her nearest centre, but was told she could get one at another centre that was 7 miles away. Despite owning a car she was too lazy to want to make the trip. Despite being desperate to get one. Instead my mom had to post her forms to her house so she could make an official complaint about it.
Derrick Liu Nah, the union was impotent and really didn't care about anyone who wasn't a 20 year veteran. Every single time the union almost went on strike, they'd cut what few benefits I had and give a pay raise to the older cashiers and deli workers.
I DEMAND double paper-in-plastic; the groceries should be concentrically arranged such that the center of gravity is at the core of the bag, but the top half of the bag's contents should be equal to the bottom half's and the chips, bread, and numerous egg cartons must go on top.
If you can't pack items alphabetized and sorted by color, one left to right, the other up and down, then you shouldn't become a bag-boy. In some countries you need a college degree to bag groceries.
Working in retail, there is a certain type of person who isn't simply dissatisfied with the service/product, rather they go in looking for a problem so they can complain and feel a sense of power. It's pathetic really
When I was getting my lunch at cafe on my work break, this guy grabbed 4 dim sims, then went outside putting his dirty fingers all of them then came back and complained they were all soggy and demanded a refund. He was so condescending to the staff it was disgusting. I told the lady her dimmy’s weren’t soggy and were actually great, she then told me apparently he does that all the time with their products. I’m so sick of people lol. Even where I work I have the occasional customer coming clearly looking for an argument.
Oh yes, I've known plenty of those. My cousin, he used to manage a restaurant. Well, he got pretty thick headed about it, and thought he knew how every restaurant should run. Even though his was a fast food diner sort of place, he thought he knew how to run all sorts of different, more upscale places. Well, he would complain almost any time we would go out to eat for a family meal. It got bad to where people would want to avoid going because of it. They would usually give him some sort of coupon, a free appetizer or something like that. One time though, he did get out entire party free everything. It was close to $200.
Some people have absolutely no life to speak of and any form of power they can get over someone, they will go to extreme lengths to get it I just remind myself how compared against the rest of the universe, they're meaningless
I didn't learn until recently that the full line is 'The customer is always right in matters of taste'; so if someone wants to buy a lime-green fedora with a purple ostrich feather in it, they can buy it. Doesn't mean they can act like- well, like Homer.
That's not actually true, or at least there's no reliable source that says that was the original. "The customer is always right" appeared in the 60s as a reaction to earlier trends where customer complaints were rarely taken seriously and misrepresentation was rife. The "in matters of taste" add on appears to be one of those made up fun facts, like the one with the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" which absolutely is not a real saying and was made up so people could repeat it endlessly on the internet.
The least realistic part is the manager actually telling them to leave instead of kissing ass and giving them a coupon. In my employee experience, unfortunately. 😅
Yep. Customers could spit on you and the manager would be like "oh no, an upset customer. Here's some free stuff and coupon so you can come back and treat us like crap"...and the employees look bad in some cases when a manager does something they're told you not to do...it's like managers can bend the rules, we can't. Why is that hard to understand? Retail sucks on so many levels, but at least it's a job.
Customer: "I'm in a hurry. Put everything in one bag. I'll give you the bread, eggs, chips and bananas first. The last things I will give you are a watermelon and some heavy glass bottles of juice. NO!! That doesn't go like that. Put it on the side. Here, I'll do it, no wonder you work at a grocery store."
Dang I was looking for the part where Lenny goes "No bag boys are gonna stop Lenny from having a casual get together with his friends" then he turns around to Carl in a tux holding a bottle of champagne and he responds "Casual!?" that part get's me every time.
Good for you Brits. :) In the area where I live in, its half-and-half: sometimes we pack our own groceries, and sometimes there's a worker at the store who does it. It varies store to store (and also depends on how busy said store is; a lot of times, if there's not enough work for the cashiers, they bag stuff for customers).
Especially elderly shoppers with literally impossible demands. And always insisting on paper despite the fact it's the 21st fucking century and normal people stopped using paper bags like 2 decades ago, and insisting on insane speed so they can catch their stupid old-person-shuttle to the senior center, and never EVER EVER parking the electric shopping carts correctly or bothering to plug them back in so they can recharge. And always asking you where items are when the signs over the aisle clearly tell them, it's like jesus fuck you geriatric senile fucks just raise your eyes a tiny bit and read. I've grown to loathe the elderly in my time in the grocery industry.
This happened to me in high school working at Publix in South Florida. This elderly lady wanted me to put everything in 1 brown bag, doubled bagged, and she had canned beans and vegetables plus a half gal of milk, eggs, and a few other heavy items. I told her several times it's not possible. I offered to help her to her car, which she didn't want. She asked for tripled bagged, and I said adding another bag for reinforcement isn't going to make it lighter. I was pulled off to stocking duty. I never wanted to bag again.
In the area where I live in, its half-and-half: sometimes we pack our own groceries, and sometimes there's a worker at the store who does it. It varies store to store (and also depends on how busy said store is; a lot of times, if there's not enough work for the cashiers, they bag stuff for customers).
Like gas station attendants, it's a luxury that I'm pretty sure is a century old or more although it's rather limited today -- and I don't think it is/was exclusive to the U.S.
The Jester yeah, there a store called Aldi and that place is the best because you can do it on your own even Walmart have self checking out for people who hate long lines -even tho it a pain in the butt.😑😑😑-
i remember an old american friend coming to germany the first time. he was honestly shocked when he was expected to pack his bag not only himself but also at the same speed as the cashier. i tell you, you dont get a lot of friends if you are to slow in a german checkout line
I remember Cookie said to Evelyn in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide "You know what they say the customer's always right." and Evelyn replied back "The customers are idiots!" And after working as a bagger for two and a half years I can say that couldn't be more true.
"The Customer is always right" is one of the dumbest lines uttered by humans. Usually the customer has no idea how things work at the place they're at.
From what I remember, the line originated in the restaurant industry and was basically a way of saying "even if you don't think this dish or method of preparation is the best, you shouldn't judge the customer who ordered it because we all have different tastes". Idk how that got bastardized into "cater to every demand of a customer no matter how ridiculous it is".
@@Mothpunk When the phrase refers to the customer, it means the customer as a collective. Like if a dish served at a restaurant isn't ordered by anyone ever/hated by everyone, the item doesn't belong on the menu, because the customer not the owner is right.
The full original phrase is "The customer is always right in matters of taste". If the customer wants to buy something you think is gross/ugly/etc, let them, a sale is a sale.
I love this bit. It's funny that the 3 most likely to be rude characters are all in separate checkout lines at the same time and Homer poking the guy while he's working. Too funny.
This is just ridiculously accurate. I worked in a supermarket years ago and used to have to fill the bags as I scanned the item. Over time you get more and more of these customers and in the end you stop giving a fuck and throw it all in the bag anyway regardless what they say 😂
@@HittokiriBattousai17 i read a comment where someone complained that doing it yourself means you work for the company for free and do their job. Which shouldnt be tolerated. This mindset is complete alien to me.
I only worked as a bagger or the "less offensive" term of "courtesy clerk" for a year making minimum wage when I just got a new job that pays double and I don't have to deal with customers and I only do 1/4 the work, hehe. "Courtesy Clerks" don't get anywhere near the respect they deserve. Next time a "courtesy clerk" bags your groceries, give them 110% of your respect. You yourself is only as good as the person you judged so harshly.
I worked in Costco as a student, and I never met any trouble customer. Saying that, there was a middle eastern/ indian family who somehow managed to slip inside without a costco card and got to checkout with a bulging trolley, obviously without a card they couldn't purchase anything, the lady somehow managed to turn bright red, even though she had a dark complexion. She left the trolley at the till and walked out with her family in a huff even though the manager had agreed to use her own costco card so the lady could purchase the stuff. UK costco.
Normally the entire store below salaried management would be unionized and in reality if they were to call a strike they would have to get yes votes from all members of the local authorizing such strike action but then again that would ruin the joke
Actually, many fans, by this point in the show in Season 10 onwards, didn't like Homer. This was the era of the show when he was jerkass Homer. The previous seasons, he was a jerk, but he also had compassion.
I used to be a bagger in highschool and early college, after dealing with customers of all types and other baggers, I like bagging my own the best. I work as a cashier for now but I'd rather have a bagger so I can focus on ringinf up everything right and not have some old bat tell me I made a bag one pound too heavy while I'm trying to remember and enter produce codes so I don't hold up a 4 person line
@@shadowspider9 my first job was as a bag boy. It sucked but it's not exactly meant to live off. Its a way to offer an additional service to the customer and allow kids amd other people not fit for regular jobs to make a little money. Similar concept to the greeters at walmart. Also, most places don't do it anyway.
@@shadowspider9 so those jobs have no market reasons to exist, they exist solely because of generous employers wanting to provide experience / spending cash, and I assume at their own expenses, cutting into their profits? I think you're mixing up causes and effects
@@shadowspider9 that may be the case theoretically but a lot of people do that as their regular job now. Cause often there's not a while lot else. You can't just tell an impoverished worker to go learn to code or something.
Actually, all items in 1 bag but not heavy is possible. "heavy" is a feeling term, not a measuring term, the boy can pack all items then lift the bag then claim it's not heavy. It's like the riddle "make this short stick long" then you can bring a shorter stick to make the short stick long.
If I ever had the classical 3 wishes from a genie, I'd spend at least one of them to ensure that the person who coined that phrase would receive one kick to their teeth from every single retail worker that has ever had to deal with the consequences of that phrase.
This is definitely me, but working in the restaurant industry instead. I am a grill cook at Golden Corral, it is pretty awesome but some of the customers are not. Most of them are cranky people with unrealistic standards. For example, I have a couple of customers that get pissy with me and they want their steak well done, it takes about roughly 10 minutes altogether, 5 minutes on each side. The customer tells me they want a well done steak, I told them it would be 5 minutes. He told me "you just said it will take 5 minutes." I said to myself "you can either wait 5 minutes or take your business elsewhere." Customers are so cocky and arrogant at times. They tend to lack common courtesy; there is no please or thank you. It is always that "give me-give me-attitude." So I know this all too well.
@@jasonkim11 I think I may have made my point poorly. Some people like rubber-steak, some people eat their burgers rare, I don't think it's right to judge someone's intelligence on what they personally like to eat no matter if it's gross or not.
As anyone who works customer service will tell you, this is frightfully accurate. Where do these idiots come from though? "Everything in one bag but I don't want the bag to be heavy"?! Seriously? Do these people have jobs? Families? How do they get through life being so awful and having so little common sense? Questions I have to ask every single day I go to work.
Hoo boy. I work in retail, so I know this pain on so many levels. The worst part is that you just have to smile and put up with it and try really REALLY hard not to bite back.
I remember watching this episode the first time and wondering: what are bag boys? Living in Norway, I have never seen a service person who is there to pack your groceries. You pack your own groceries, because anything else makes no sense.
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"I want everything in one bag! But I don't want the bag to be heavy!" This actually happened to me with this lady I was ringing up at the register. She was buying 20 hardcover books.
Bag boys feel like such an anachronism to me. I don't think I've ever had my shopping packed into a bag by a dedicated bagger in my life, outside of bookfests. The rare times I have had my shopping bagged, it's been by the same person that scanned the barcodes and facilitated the payment.
If you ever hear "the customer is always right" ask them to finish the quote and give context. It's "the customer is always right in matters of taste". As in if someone wants to buy something you don't think looks good or would taste nice, sell it to them anyway. Not the customer gets to be an ass to employees and other customers.
A good chunk of the comments are Europeans commenting how weird it apparently is that there are bag boys in the US. Make of that what you will. Seeing this makes me somewhat thankful I work the night shift.
In the UK the cashier sometimes offers to hep pack your stuff (they used to all do it but I notice most can’t be arsed now). But we don’t have people who’s only job is to pack things, that seems extremely demeaning... give people actual jobs.
@@OriginalAkivara You can't compare those two. People go to a restaurant because food is prepared for them, because they don't know how to make it themselves or for other reasons. People go to grocery stores to buy groceries, not because it is bagged for them. For as far as I know bag boys are an American thing. I don't know if they have them in Canada as well, but here in Europe you can bag it yourself and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Years of working retail has taught me a valuable lesson, the customer is usually wrong.
I've learned it slightly differently. The customer is usually a dick.
Sean Ripper The customer usually represents the horrible side of people.
Omedchazak613 I had one of the coworkers who was the giant silent russian type. You knew you were on his bad side if while cleaning his knife, he'd stopped only to glance at you.
Though the nice people you encounter in retail are usually the ones that worked retail at some point in their lives.
The customer is always wrong and most of the time stupid to boot
The old lady asking everything to be put in one bag but demanding that the bag also not be heavy is exactly the kind of person you have to deal with on a daily basis in retail.
My mom was booking vaccines for this old woman last week, and couldn't get an early appointment at her nearest centre, but was told she could get one at another centre that was 7 miles away. Despite owning a car she was too lazy to want to make the trip. Despite being desperate to get one. Instead my mom had to post her forms to her house so she could make an official complaint about it.
Her name is Agnes, and you know it’s Agnes! It means Lamb! Lamb of god!
Also, you have to double bag it or that will break when the old lady is crossing an intersection and that is messy in more ways than one...
That's skinners mom lol
I spit in someone’s food like that once, downvote me all you want.
The manager calls Homer “Mr. Simpson”. I wonder if he is used to Homer coming into the store and causing a scene.
Just once I want to be called sir, without hearing you're making a scene
Saying the customer is always right would be like Saying the visitors at the zoo always know how to take care of the animals the best.
Lol
It's third strike this month. And it's only the 4th
Homer might’ve had a membership at the store which would allow the guy to just read his name off the computer at the register.
"You tell 'em, JUMBO".
I love how Agnes supports Homer' s stance while simultaneously insulting him.
That’s Agnes for ya
She's pretty good at doing that.
@@predetor911 Hate to be her son.
She's the most hateful human being on the show
As someone who worked as a bag boy for three years, I can attest to the truth of this clip.
And did you go on a strike?
Derrick Liu Nah, the union was impotent and really didn't care about anyone who wasn't a 20 year veteran. Every single time the union almost went on strike, they'd cut what few benefits I had and give a pay raise to the older cashiers and deli workers.
I DEMAND double paper-in-plastic; the groceries should be concentrically arranged such that the center of gravity is at the core of the bag, but the top half of the bag's contents should be equal to the bottom half's and the chips, bread, and numerous egg cartons must go on top.
If you can't pack items alphabetized and sorted by color, one left to right, the other up and down, then you shouldn't become a bag-boy. In some countries you need a college degree to bag groceries.
I can't believe how lazy people are that they can't bag their own shopping. Apart from the elderly and the disabled of course
You think this a joke until you work in customer service.
It isn't a joke it's wrong
No it is still a joke. I feel whoever wrote this worked in retail for sometime. The punchline is people actually behave like this.
"I want everything in one bag! But i dont want the bag to be heavy!"
what is a rich skinny old woman
@@beinghonest9433 the Bag Boy should've told her that if the bag is heavy for her they could do 2 bags.
PhantoMace2012 I don’t think that’s possible
What are you, the Possible Police?
I've had customers who wanted everything in separate bags. Literally one item one bag😂
Working in retail, there is a certain type of person who isn't simply dissatisfied with the service/product, rather they go in looking for a problem so they can complain and feel a sense of power. It's pathetic really
When I was getting my lunch at cafe on my work break, this guy grabbed 4 dim sims, then went outside putting his dirty fingers all of them then came back and complained they were all soggy and demanded a refund. He was so condescending to the staff it was disgusting. I told the lady her dimmy’s weren’t soggy and were actually great, she then told me apparently he does that all the time with their products. I’m so sick of people lol. Even where I work I have the occasional customer coming clearly looking for an argument.
Oh yes, I've known plenty of those.
My cousin, he used to manage a restaurant. Well, he got pretty thick headed about it, and thought he knew how every restaurant should run. Even though his was a fast food diner sort of place, he thought he knew how to run all sorts of different, more upscale places. Well, he would complain almost any time we would go out to eat for a family meal. It got bad to where people would want to avoid going because of it. They would usually give him some sort of coupon, a free appetizer or something like that. One time though, he did get out entire party free everything. It was close to $200.
Some people have absolutely no life to speak of and any form of power they can get over someone, they will go to extreme lengths to get it
I just remind myself how compared against the rest of the universe, they're meaningless
I didn't learn until recently that the full line is 'The customer is always right in matters of taste'; so if someone wants to buy a lime-green fedora with a purple ostrich feather in it, they can buy it.
Doesn't mean they can act like- well, like Homer.
Tell that to every Karen and Kevin in the world
Well today I learned something knew. Thank you.
That's not actually true, or at least there's no reliable source that says that was the original. "The customer is always right" appeared in the 60s as a reaction to earlier trends where customer complaints were rarely taken seriously and misrepresentation was rife.
The "in matters of taste" add on appears to be one of those made up fun facts, like the one with the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" which absolutely is not a real saying and was made up so people could repeat it endlessly on the internet.
The least realistic part is the manager actually telling them to leave instead of kissing ass and giving them a coupon. In my employee experience, unfortunately. 😅
I think Homer is just that annoying.
Yep. Customers could spit on you and the manager would be like "oh no, an upset customer. Here's some free stuff and coupon so you can come back and treat us like crap"...and the employees look bad in some cases when a manager does something they're told you not to do...it's like managers can bend the rules, we can't. Why is that hard to understand? Retail sucks on so many levels, but at least it's a job.
Note he actually calls him 'Mr Simpson' without being introduced. This is likely the billionth time Homer has been stirring up shit in his store.
Knows him by name. Manager has been down this road with homer before...
Lol cuz its usually better just to kiss ass and get the customer out without making a big ordeal
Customer: "I'm in a hurry. Put everything in one bag. I'll give you the bread, eggs, chips and bananas first. The last things I will give you are a watermelon and some heavy glass bottles of juice. NO!! That doesn't go like that. Put it on the side. Here, I'll do it, no wonder you work at a grocery store."
Dang I was looking for the part where Lenny goes "No bag boys are gonna stop Lenny from having a casual get together with his friends" then he turns around to Carl in a tux holding a bottle of champagne and he responds "Casual!?" that part get's me every time.
Get is?
Here's that clip: czcams.com/video/CuM9rSG7fcY/video.html
This concept is unusual to me. Bag packing is something people do to raise money for charities in Britain. Most of the time we pack our own.
Good for you Brits. :) In the area where I live in, its half-and-half: sometimes we pack our own groceries, and sometimes there's a worker at the store who does it. It varies store to store (and also depends on how busy said store is; a lot of times, if there's not enough work for the cashiers, they bag stuff for customers).
In Australia where I live, its the cashiers responsibility to pack bags after scanning the products. Interesting how it varied across the world
We also drive rascal around the store, so we don't have to walk. True story.
I know right? Like, 'bag boys'? Not a thing.
Here in Argentina the cashiers have the charge to pack bags.
Yes, I can absolutely confirm that there are people like this who come into my store ALL the time.
if you pull your wienner out they would leave you alone.
Matthew World the fuck you live where baggers get tips. Say that to a bagger in real life and get home with broken eggs.
boiiiiiiii, i went and seen some of your other comments and seen you're b8ing people. actually some really good b8.
@@MrBeast1901 They don't let them get tips a Publix, but you can get tips at Kroger
Unfortunately this is not too far from the truth...
Especially elderly shoppers with literally impossible demands. And always insisting on paper despite the fact it's the 21st fucking century and normal people stopped using paper bags like 2 decades ago, and insisting on insane speed so they can catch their stupid old-person-shuttle to the senior center, and never EVER EVER parking the electric shopping carts correctly or bothering to plug them back in so they can recharge. And always asking you where items are when the signs over the aisle clearly tell them, it's like jesus fuck you geriatric senile fucks just raise your eyes a tiny bit and read.
I've grown to loathe the elderly in my time in the grocery industry.
@@BDNeon I'm guessing you work for the Kroger Brand of grocery stores or one of their sister locations?
Safeway.
Except for the part where they weren't immediately arrested for striking
All of the yes.
“The customer is always right, that’s what everyone likes about us” that is bloody excellent
Now mush. (Clap, Clap)
As a former bag boy in high school, I can verify that the put everything in one bag but don't make it heavy was a real thing.
This happened to me in high school working at Publix in South Florida. This elderly lady wanted me to put everything in 1 brown bag, doubled bagged, and she had canned beans and vegetables plus a half gal of milk, eggs, and a few other heavy items. I told her several times it's not possible. I offered to help her to her car, which she didn't want. She asked for tripled bagged, and I said adding another bag for reinforcement isn't going to make it lighter. I was pulled off to stocking duty. I never wanted to bag again.
"bag boys have feelings too you know?"
-"NO YOU DON'T"
“I’ll get you squealer”
Pinch!
Always cracks me up 🤣
Americans have people who pack their bags for them?????
In the area where I live in, its half-and-half: sometimes we pack our own groceries, and sometimes there's a worker at the store who does it. It varies store to store (and also depends on how busy said store is; a lot of times, if there's not enough work for the cashiers, they bag stuff for customers).
Like gas station attendants, it's a luxury that I'm pretty sure is a century old or more although it's rather limited today -- and I don't think it is/was exclusive to the U.S.
The Jester yeah, there a store called Aldi and that place is the best because you can do it on your own even Walmart have self checking out for people who hate long lines -even tho it a pain in the butt.😑😑😑-
back in the old days (50's thru early 2000's), but not much since some customers are assholes and entitled fucks who ruin everything
How can you expect rotund customers to eat the food in the store and carry bags out to their SUVs and Sedans?
i remember an old american friend coming to germany the first time. he was honestly shocked when he was expected to pack his bag not only himself but also at the same speed as the cashier. i tell you, you dont get a lot of friends if you are to slow in a german checkout line
It didn't even occur to me that this would be a weird or unusual cultural quirk, until you phrased it like that.
And in some countries you are supossed to bring your own bags
I remember Cookie said to Evelyn in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide "You know what they say the customer's always right." and Evelyn replied back "The customers are idiots!" And after working as a bagger for two and a half years I can say that couldn't be more true.
What r u doing with your life
@@TheOriginalShoneBoyOnYT Not bagging groceries that’s for sure.
@@TheOriginalShoneBoyOnYT Not replying to comments posted over 3 years ago.
I see a reference to Ned’s Declassified School Surviver Guide and I know I’m seeing a person of culture.
@@danielbold6167 That's what you're doing? You are actively not replying to comments over 3 years old?
Weird.
"The Customer is always right" is one of the dumbest lines uttered by humans. Usually the customer has no idea how things work at the place they're at.
From what I remember, the line originated in the restaurant industry and was basically a way of saying "even if you don't think this dish or method of preparation is the best, you shouldn't judge the customer who ordered it because we all have different tastes". Idk how that got bastardized into "cater to every demand of a customer no matter how ridiculous it is".
And then its your fault when company policy doenst allow something as if you personally have power over it.
well it's more figurative than literal, the meaning behind it is that the customer controls your fate so be nice to them.
@@Mothpunk
When the phrase refers to the customer, it means the customer as a collective.
Like if a dish served at a restaurant isn't ordered by anyone ever/hated by everyone, the item doesn't belong on the menu, because the customer not the owner is right.
The full original phrase is "The customer is always right in matters of taste". If the customer wants to buy something you think is gross/ugly/etc, let them, a sale is a sale.
I like how Homer’s groceries are the only one that gets dumped all over the floor. 😂 🥖
To be fair that bag boy was the only one who got physically pinched instead of just verbally abused
I love this bit. It's funny that the 3 most likely to be rude characters are all in separate checkout lines at the same time and Homer poking the guy while he's working. Too funny.
Though in hindsight, they did miss a good opportunity to use comic-book man.
@@YTEdy yes they did. Big time.
Are you a real person? This post seems so unnatural and npcish.
Poking the bag boy with a baguette and Homer pinching him for squealing are just the best.
Are you unfamiliar with the term bot? I just love the comedy in this. No idea what you're reading into what I said. @@killout18
It's weird seeing this since in the UK we bag our own stuff. The only bag boys we have are scouts or charities raising money.
I work for tips and trust me I hate the guts of people like that
So being a waitress isn't good enough? You sound like a nice person to deal with.
Matthew World is a 'Murican Trump-ass-kissing tit. Ignore him.
That and Aldi in the US.
Ok third worlder
It's sad when being nice to retail workers throws them off, I have to keep explaining I come in peace! lol
As a bagger myself, I ran into the same exact situation with an old lady similar to Agnes Skinner! 🤣
Imagine Tress MacNeille being at your store having to bag her shit.
It can't be that hard to put everything into one bag and not have it be heavy.
@@Mitjitsu you're a funny person
@@Mitjitsu not hard at all. as long as you only get a few things and they are not heavy.
@@Mitjitsu have you done it?
Clip does psychic damage to me because I've actually had someone ask to put everything in one bag but not make it heavy
My gosh, for real?
Ima a bagger and a cashier at my local grocery store I relate to this on such a personal level
This is just ridiculously accurate. I worked in a supermarket years ago and used to have to fill the bags as I scanned the item. Over time you get more and more of these customers and in the end you stop giving a fuck and throw it all in the bag anyway regardless what they say 😂
This is bizarre for us Europeans. We, ofc, bag our own groceries. I don't understand why someone has to do it for you.
@@HittokiriBattousai17 i read a comment where someone complained that doing it yourself means you work for the company for free and do their job. Which shouldnt be tolerated.
This mindset is complete alien to me.
I've had customers complaining that I didn't smile and act cheerful with them
I'm there to work, I'm not paid to entertain them
@HittokiriBattousai17 it's "creating jobs" for "adequate" pay
@@HittokiriBattousai17 ofc
I only worked as a bagger or the "less offensive" term of "courtesy clerk" for a year making minimum wage when I just got a new job that pays double and I don't have to deal with customers and I only do 1/4 the work, hehe. "Courtesy Clerks" don't get anywhere near the respect they deserve. Next time a "courtesy clerk" bags your groceries, give them 110% of your respect. You yourself is only as good as the person you judged so harshly.
For someone who works in retail and has done for 12 years, the customer is always usually more than likely wrong
This clip is disturbingly accurate, and it's exactly why I threw myself in an Amazon warehouse the first chance I got and never looked back.
I worked in Costco as a student, and I never met any trouble customer. Saying that, there was a middle eastern/ indian family who somehow managed to slip inside without a costco card and got to checkout with a bulging trolley, obviously without a card they couldn't purchase anything, the lady somehow managed to turn bright red, even though she had a dark complexion. She left the trolley at the till and walked out with her family in a huff even though the manager had agreed to use her own costco card so the lady could purchase the stuff. UK costco.
This is all Homer's fault.
At least half of all bad things that happen in Springfield usually are lol
@@sammyboy658 Yes they are.
0:20 I want everything to be in the bag but I don't want the bag to be heavy LOL!!
I use that "possible police" line almost every day lol
The funniest part about this is the fact that they are unionized
Stop and shop in the US is unionized
We _are_ unionized. No, the funny part is where they instantly went on strike, as if they could afford to do that.
Normally the entire store below salaried management would be unionized and in reality if they were to call a strike they would have to get yes votes from all members of the local authorizing such strike action but then again that would ruin the joke
As a Kr0ger courtesy clerk, I can attest to this
Dillons courtesy clerk here. I know the feeling
Safeway here, luckily I'm getting out
@@frostreaver1 Escaped a couple months ago, never even came back for groceries. Most miserable managers to put up with in the world
King Soopers 🙋♂️
Publix worker. This is sadly true
Sometimes i wonder how Homer can do stuff like this and still think everyone likes him.
Because that's how the episode writers write it.
Actually, many fans, by this point in the show in Season 10 onwards, didn't like Homer. This was the era of the show when he was jerkass Homer. The previous seasons, he was a jerk, but he also had compassion.
I bag my own groceries. But also be nice to the employees.
I used to be a bagger in highschool and early college, after dealing with customers of all types and other baggers, I like bagging my own the best. I work as a cashier for now but I'd rather have a bagger so I can focus on ringinf up everything right and not have some old bat tell me I made a bag one pound too heavy while I'm trying to remember and enter produce codes so I don't hold up a 4 person line
"Next time I'll knock your hat off, scab!"
Homer-a succesful former union leader-would never mock a strike! this is blasphemy!
I can’t believe he pinched him!😅
If only Homer was nice to the bagboy the Simpsosns wouldn't of gone to Africa in this episode 😂
Being a cashier I feel their pain ):
when i was a teen working at family dollar I legit got the Mrs Skinner one alot put everything in one bag then get mad for it being heavy
As a kid I thought this was funny. As an adult I know this is the hellish reality we've made for ourselves.
Weve been bagging our groceries for years now in Australia
This showed up in my algorithm right after I heard that my local grocery store chain is initiating a strike this weekend
I’ve had to bag for people just like Agnes. Not pleasant!
Imagine Tress MacNeille coming to your store and you have to bag her shit. In case you’re wondering, she voices Agnes.
I am glad to live in a country where bag boys do not exist, and customers damn well pack their own shopping!
I'm glad you don't live in this country. In my country, people like to get paid.
@@radicaljellybean2672 you arent talking about America are you? Because there they get paid like crap
@@shadowspider9 my first job was as a bag boy. It sucked but it's not exactly meant to live off. Its a way to offer an additional service to the customer and allow kids amd other people not fit for regular jobs to make a little money. Similar concept to the greeters at walmart. Also, most places don't do it anyway.
@@shadowspider9 so those jobs have no market reasons to exist, they exist solely because of generous employers wanting to provide experience / spending cash, and I assume at their own expenses, cutting into their profits? I think you're mixing up causes and effects
@@shadowspider9 that may be the case theoretically but a lot of people do that as their regular job now. Cause often there's not a while lot else. You can't just tell an impoverished worker to go learn to code or something.
Actually, all items in 1 bag but not heavy is possible. "heavy" is a feeling term, not a measuring term, the boy can pack all items then lift the bag then claim it's not heavy.
It's like the riddle "make this short stick long" then you can bring a shorter stick to make the short stick long.
The beginning of this video is the most accurate depiction of the customer’s behavior with delivery app services
But did he get to keep the rubber stick?
Whoever came up with the phrase "the customer is always right" clearly never worked in retail or the food service industry -_-
they were 100% some alpha douche sales asshole.
They were the customer, claiming divine right to complain around
If I ever had the classical 3 wishes from a genie, I'd spend at least one of them to ensure that the person who coined that phrase would receive one kick to their teeth from every single retail worker that has ever had to deal with the consequences of that phrase.
@@pierQRzt180 You're on youtube. Google is RIGHT THERE. You're just being deliberately and willfully ignorant, assbitch.
You're on youtube. Google is RIGHT THERE. You're just being deliberately and willfully ignorant, assbitch.
I wonder what it was about the early oughties that Homer being an unpardonable shitheel was considered funny in itself
This is definitely me, but working in the restaurant industry instead. I am a grill cook at Golden Corral, it is pretty awesome but some of the customers are not. Most of them are cranky people with unrealistic standards. For example, I have a couple of customers that get pissy with me and they want their steak well done, it takes about roughly 10 minutes altogether, 5 minutes on each side. The customer tells me they want a well done steak, I told them it would be 5 minutes. He told me "you just said it will take 5 minutes." I said to myself "you can either wait 5 minutes or take your business elsewhere." Customers are so cocky and arrogant at times. They tend to lack common courtesy; there is no please or thank you. It is always that "give me-give me-attitude." So I know this all too well.
A person who wants their steak 'well done' is an idiot to begin with.
@@jasonkim11 People have opinions man, some people don't find rare steak tasty.
@@lemur1129 Not saying everyone should enjoy a 'rare' steak. Medium to medium well at most.
@@jasonkim11 I think I may have made my point poorly. Some people like rubber-steak, some people eat their burgers rare, I don't think it's right to judge someone's intelligence on what they personally like to eat no matter if it's gross or not.
@@lemur1129 Well done steak isn't rubber.
The bagger knocking down homer's grocery's is the funniest bit in this clip
"I'll get you Squealer!"
As anyone who works customer service will tell you, this is frightfully accurate. Where do these idiots come from though? "Everything in one bag but I don't want the bag to be heavy"?! Seriously? Do these people have jobs? Families? How do they get through life being so awful and having so little common sense? Questions I have to ask every single day I go to work.
Hoo boy. I work in retail, so I know this pain on so many levels. The worst part is that you just have to smile and put up with it and try really REALLY hard not to bite back.
I remember watching this episode the first time and wondering: what are bag boys?
Living in Norway, I have never seen a service person who is there to pack your groceries. You pack your own groceries, because anything else makes no sense.
[Sonic Team working on a new game]
FANS: You! Start over! Get rid of all the new stuff!
ST: Yes, ma'am.
FANS: But I don't want the game feeling old!
ST: I don't think that's possible.
FANS: What are you, the possible police? Just do it!
Also comic book fans.
After working in retail for a couple of years my mind has been warped to the point where right means wrong and wrong means right.
It isn't much, but I thoroughly enjoyed seeing him knock his grocery to the floor before chanting.
"You tell him, jumbo!" LOL
Glad I always thank the cashiers every time, you never know what many a crap they go through! D=
As a former Kroger’s bag boy I can confirm we sometimes get harsh by rude customers to do things unreasonable
The customer is king, and were about to teach them about the french revolution!
That guy knows the age of each item's discovery by man and he works as a bagger? He could be doing so much more with his life.
“I’ll get you squealer...”
"I want everything in one bag! But I don't want the bag to be heavy!"
This actually happened to me with this lady I was ringing up at the register. She was buying 20 hardcover books.
as a brit, the idea of having an employee back your groceries is bizarre.
do it yourself?
Bag boys feel like such an anachronism to me. I don't think I've ever had my shopping packed into a bag by a dedicated bagger in my life, outside of bookfests. The rare times I have had my shopping bagged, it's been by the same person that scanned the barcodes and facilitated the payment.
This is why I’m glad my Union job doesn’t bring me into direct contact with customers.
"Misses. Simpson please will you go home" 1:09
lol guy called Homer a Mrs
If you ever hear "the customer is always right" ask them to finish the quote and give context.
It's "the customer is always right in matters of taste". As in if someone wants to buy something you don't think looks good or would taste nice, sell it to them anyway.
Not the customer gets to be an ass to employees and other customers.
i used to be a bagger, and man this is accurate
A good chunk of the comments are Europeans commenting how weird it apparently is that there are bag boys in the US. Make of that what you will.
Seeing this makes me somewhat thankful I work the night shift.
Damn Europeans are so always stereotypical
In the UK the cashier sometimes offers to hep pack your stuff (they used to all do it but I notice most can’t be arsed now). But we don’t have people who’s only job is to pack things, that seems extremely demeaning... give people actual jobs.
@@gregoryfenn1462 In most stores I've been to, it's generally cashiers pulling double duty.
Things like this is why in Europe you are supossed to fill the bags yourself
I wouldn't let anyone pack my bags, ever. I mean, is this even a real thing?
haha!😂😂I love Agnes Skinner
Damn Homer is really mean.. :(
Well this was the time when homer change from his dumb but lovable self into what he has now referred to as jerk ass Homer
Whenever I see the bag boy strike beginning, I know it's the Africa trip episode!
I’m surprised because Homer was the Union leader for the Dental Strike 🪧
It's all Homer's fault
As usaul.
I never let someone else bag my stuff. Save that stuff for the elderly. I am way to particular about how I arrange my items.
accurate depiction of retail work
You tell him, Jumbo!! 😂😂😂
Whoever said "the customer is always right" was absolutely a customer.
Now most people scan and bag their items themselves.
Much better tbh, especially because most people come to the store with their own big reusable bags.
Most people don't scan all of their items and try to rook the store.
I never knew that "bag boy" was a job, I'm from Italy and at every supermarket I went the customers make their bag themselves
It's not, they're called baggers.
@@OriginalAkivara well, we don't have baggers
it's mostly a U.S.A thing from what I heard
Bag boys have feelings, too.
I demand Homer being a Karen Megacut
Are you going to demand to speak to the manager if you don’t get it?
@@yohei72 well of course
Bag boys? How lazy can a person be? Just put your groceries in your bag(s) yourself.
Restaurants? How lazy can a person be? Just cook your own food at home yourself.
@@OriginalAkivara You can't compare those two. People go to a restaurant because food is prepared for them, because they don't know how to make it themselves or for other reasons. People go to grocery stores to buy groceries, not because it is bagged for them. For as far as I know bag boys are an American thing. I don't know if they have them in Canada as well, but here in Europe you can bag it yourself and there's nothing wrong with that.
If only workers actually had this much power.
Quando Marco ti accompagnato da Famila a Bondeno (FE) quel sabato mattino che dovevi fare la spesa perché a cena avevi i tuoi amici è un bel mio ricordo Marco sei l'unico ragazzo bello che ho accompagnato a fare la spesa è come se tu fossi stata l'unica persona a fare la spesa