Would this have offended you?

[meloneyb21]

Here's the scenario:

DH and I went to the market earlier. We're in the check-out line, spent about $200. DH is bagging while I'm finishing up using the card machine thingee (LOL). I'm using debit.....

Cashier: (staring at the register looking confused) $15 change?

Me: Yeah, I'm getting $15 cash back. I'm using debit.

Cashier: (now laughing, I guess at herself) Oh, I'm sorry! I assumed you was using food stamps!

DH: What would make you assume that?

Cashier: Um, no, no reason just.........(awkward silence)

Me: (awkwardly laughing)Don't worry 'bout it. Thank you! (grabbing my receipt) Have a good one!

I just brushed it off. It was nothing to me. DH thought I should be offended because I guess he figured she only assumed that because we are a young black couple? I don't know. It wasn't that deep to me. I mean, I don't know what made her automatically say that but, whatever. Should I have been offended?

 

[NC State]

I'm sure she's see a lot of people using stamps these days. I don't think she meant anything.

 

[redlight]

I'd brush it off if I were you. You don't know what the cashier was thinking.

 

[Minnie&Nana]

Considering her grammar, you've got nothing to worry about.

 

[Christine]

Here's the scenario:

DH and I went to the market earlier. We're in the check-out line, spent about $200. DH is bagging while I'm finishing up using the card machine thingee (LOL). I'm using debit.....

Cashier: (staring at the register looking confused) $15 change?

Me: Yeah, I'm getting $15 cash back. I'm using debit.

Cashier: (now laughing, I guess at herself) Oh, I'm sorry! I assumed you was using food stamps!

DH: What would make you assume that?

Cashier: Um, no, no reason just.........(awkward silence)

Me: (awkwardly laughing)Don't worry 'bout it. Thank you! (grabbing my receipt) Have a good one!

I just brushed it off. It was nothing to me. DH thought I should be offended because I guess he figured she only assumed that because we are a young black couple? I don't know. It wasn't that deep to me. I mean, I don't know what made her automatically say that but, whatever. Should I have been offended?

Did you buy $200 worth of soda, smokes, Cheetos, and Ding Dongs? I ask only because I've read here on the DIS that this is what the food stamp people usually purchase.

 

[NYPDwife]

Did you buy $200 worth of soda, smokes, Cheetos, and Ding Dongs? I ask only because I've read here on the DIS that this is what the food stamp people usually purchase.

 

[C.Ann]

Offended? No.. But - I would wonder about the personality of a person who would make such an "assumption" based on - "what"?? (Let alone actually make that kind of statement out loud).. I'm thinking she's sorely lacking in the "manners" department..

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Did you buy $200 worth of soda, smokes, Cheetos, and Ding Dongs? I ask only because I've read here on the DIS that this is what the food stamp people usually purchase.

Don't forget steaks for their dogs!


I have never witnessed this, but according to the Dis....

 

[tonilea]

I don't know about where you live, but here the Food Stamp cards have an American flag on them. If your credit card is "patriotic themed" that might be the reason.

 

[MAKmom]

Here's the scenario:

DH and I went to the market earlier. We're in the check-out line, spent about $200. DH is bagging while I'm finishing up using the card machine thingee (LOL). I'm using debit.....

Cashier: (staring at the register looking confused) $15 change?

Me: Yeah, I'm getting $15 cash back. I'm using debit.

Cashier: (now laughing, I guess at herself) Oh, I'm sorry! I assumed you was using food stamps!

DH: What would make you assume that?

Cashier: Um, no, no reason just.........(awkward silence)

Me: (awkwardly laughing)Don't worry 'bout it. Thank you! (grabbing my receipt) Have a good one!

I just brushed it off. It was nothing to me. DH thought I should be offended because I guess he figured she only assumed that because we are a young black couple? I don't know. It wasn't that deep to me. I mean, I don't know what made her automatically say that but, whatever. Should I have been offended?

I think you should call the store manager & tell them what she said to you. I would be PO'd. She was being horrible.

 

[FireDancer]

I wouldn't give it a second thought. If someone wants to make assumptions about me I really don't care. At the end of the day what the cashier at a grocery store thinks about me or why they think it falls just below the state of the economy in Estonia on things that will occupy my mind or attention.

 

[meloneyb21]

Did you buy $200 worth of soda, smokes, Cheetos, and Ding Dongs? I ask only because I've read here on the DIS that this is what the food stamp people usually purchase.

LOL...No smokes, but we did buy a bunch of crap. We were short on goodies...LOL...so maybe.......

 

[Plannin'Shannon]

I wouldn't give it a second thought. If someone wants to make assumptions about me I really don't care. At the end of the day what the cashier at a grocery store thinks about me or why they think it falls just below the state of the economy in Estonia on things that will occupy my mind or attention.

Agreed. Don't spend any more energy worrying about this one, OP.

 

[quentina]

As a retail manager, I would want to know if one of my employees said this. Too be honest, it could be considered discrimination and I would want to be made aware of it.

As far as her reasonings....I can not even come up with one for her.

 

[TiggerCat]

I think you should call the store manager & tell them what she said to you. I would be PO'd. She was being horrible.

Just curious, how are you able to conclude that she was being "horrible" if you were not there to see her facial expression or hear the tone in her voice? Even the OP doesn't know what to make of it, which would lead me to believe that it likely wasn't all that serious.

TC.

 

[phorsenuf]

I don't know about where you live, but here the Food Stamp cards have an American flag on them. If your credit card is "patriotic themed" that might be the reason.

That was my thought as well. A lot of the EBC cards look like credit cards so if she caught a glance of it maybe she thought that's what it was.

 

[TiggerCat]

Agreed. Don't spend any more energy worrying about this one, OP.

Great advice. As I said earlier, if you don't know what to make of it well after it happened, it more than likely wasn't that serious. There are much more important issues to worry about such as why Simon is leaving American Idle.

 

[lisajl]

i wouldn't give it a second thought. If someone wants to make assumptions about me i really don't care. At the end of the day what the cashier at a grocery store thinks about me or why they think it falls just below the state of the economy in estonia on things that will occupy my mind or attention.

ita!!

 

[ols386]

I sure wouldn't waste any time worrying or even thinking about it.

Doesn't sound like the cashier was trying to be disrespectful to you, at least from what you described.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I bet it was nothing, maybe a wrong button was hit on either the EFT or the computer, and it started to go through as FS? That happens a lot at my store.