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Autobiography Of A Homeless Person

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In day to day life, an individual will come into contact with countless people who all

have vastly diverse backgrounds. One person may be a renowned surgeon, or you could come

across a homeless man that thinks everyone is trying to harm him in some way or another. The

fact of the matter is that no one has an obvious way of knowing how someone’s day has gone, or

what kind of frame of mind they happen to be in at any given moment in time. One might notice

that most people’s days are hectic, depressing, or maybe sometimes even a little deplorable.

Regardless of anyone’s history, we should all strive to put that behind us and start off on a new

I recently acquired a job at our local grocery store, Heartland Foods. My job title is …show more content…

Upon scanning his items, an error popped up onto the monitor and froze the register

until the manager came over to unfreeze the screen. The list of what had already been scanned

came up for both the cashier and the elderly man. It read that a rack of ribs, which originally cost

seventeen dollars, was on sale for five dollars. This was because the scanner was still rebooting

and had mixed up the item with another item, causing the confusion. When the cashier went to

correct the quandary, the old man stated, “No, that rack of ribs was on sale. That is why it was

brought up priced at five dollars.” Trying to avoid confrontation, the cashier went on with the

transaction, leaving the full rack of ribs priced at five dollars. This ended up making her drawer

short twelve dollars at the end of the day. When the drawer was being checked at the end of her

shift it caused a huge confusion between the managers it ended up leaving and the employee in

question. In the end, the managers could only assume that she had stolen the money from the

register, so she was to be put onto a suspension lasting for a two week long period.

The final issue one might face while dealing with customers, are with the ones that …show more content…

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they are clothed in baggy, dirty, or unmatched clothing, then they might be on the lookout for

something to blame on someone else. I have firsthand experience dealing with the type of person

always wanting free things. In one case, this young mother had unloaded her cart, which was

filled to the top with food, onto the conveyer belt. The cashier then proceeded to start asking the

typical questions such as, “Do you have a card with us Ma’am?” She replied, in a mumbled

voice, “No.” The next question was, “Will you be paying in cash or credit?” Without saying

anything, she handed the cashier a WIC check. “WIC” stands for Women, Child, and Infant

which is a form of Social Security. It is similar to a food stamp, but a WIC check has specific

items that may be bought with it. They go into specification such as, three cans of tomato juice,

two one gallon jugs of milk, and a single head of lettuce. After the transaction was finished, I

hauled all of her groceries that she had gotten for free, out to her car in a shopping cart. Once we

got out to her vehicle, she walked beside the cart and bumped into it causing the cart to

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