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You expect to be treated fairly and fast when you are running your errands, right? So why not show the same respect and fairness to the people helping you with them. Having worked for a long time in a retail environment, I have seen many people throw this principles away when they go shopping, whatever the thing, form very special-one-in-a-lifetime occasions (if something like that actually exists) to everyday necessities (which makes us all equals).

You would not want me to come to your office or working place and throw my documents or anything for that matter on your desk or counter, so why are you people throwing your money at cashiers in supermarkets and similar places? It is bad enough to put it on the counter and expect to have the change put on your hand, even worse is to throw it and expect the same. It is going to take you half a second to put the money in the person's hand to get "rewarded" the same treatment.
Is it the uniform? Is it that many people who work this jobs are not exactly white? Is it the lack of high heels? Or makeup? I know, maybe it is the absence of a fancy hairdo that costs several hundred of dollars or the fact that you had to wait in line because there are only one or two cashiers. You might want to know that it happens because the manager might not want to schedule and/or hire more people in a "slow" night or pay more, and screw his bottom line at the end of the year and loose a bonus.
Maybe you do not even realize that a simple act like that is going to make your fellow human being feel a little more respected as you do when other people look up to you for help in whatever it is that you do.
I would like to thank to whoever this article may help give other people a fair treatment, regardless of the fact that you are very tired and want to go home. We, too, want to go home. We, too, have long hours days (sometimes double than yours) and we are expected to smile at you and be nice. So, please, help the world be a better place with your grain of sand and just say hello back and hand your money to the person who is helping you anywhere it is that you are shopping.

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