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I have way too many stories....I've been working retail for over 10 years and fast food for 5 now. Some of the things people say and do makes me wonder what is wrong with the world. A coworker and I were actually just talking about how people, especially in this area, have a certain "entitlement" attitude. I'm a bit south of Detroit and I swear people from the city have this attitude worse than most parts of the country. I've been all over the country and I never came across an area with so many ungrateful people who think just because they're alive means they're entitled to everything. He said the same thing about the area and he's also lived across the US.

In reality, no, no one is entitled to anything. My view on it is that we live in a society where you have to work for what you get and it honestly disgusts me when people have an attitude like they're entitled to things. I work my butt off and I try to always be a gent unless someone gives me a reason not to be.

Anyway, most recently, I had a costumer trying to steal pop from my store. I work at a Subway and it's a smaller store so I know what's going on. I turned the fountain machine off so she couldn't get any pop since I had problems with her stealing before. I was watching her for a bit while I was cleaning. She brought her own cup and claimed she was trying to get water, which I have no problem with. She was like "You're machine is broken" So I said "Oh, the water should be working, ma'am". She gave me the dirtiest look and asked where the water was so I told her. A few days later I overhead her talking to her friends saying that I was a b- for turning to pop machine off. I thought it was funny and almost told her maybe she should pay for things like everyone else does but I held my tongue.

I also had several men trying to pick up on me at work. I had a few even say that they don't care I'm married and that my husband "doesn't have to know" about anything. To which I always reply that I'd tell him because we do not hide things from each other.

A few weeks ago, I had a guy come in and order his sandwich then leave his number on the counter. He noticed my ring and asked if I was married and I said yes. He tried the "he doesn't have to know" thing and I just walked away and into the back room. He started yelling for me to come out and I said no. Then he was like "I'll come back there" and he was trying to open the door to get to the back but it was latched. I came out then and told him if he didn't leave the sheriff is right across the hall and I'll have them take care of him. He left after that but I was still pretty ticked about it.

When I worked at a department store, I had a costumer trying to steal coupons that were used already right in front of me. We have these media files we keep our used coupons in and he was reaching over the counter, into my personal area and trying to steal them out of the media file. I grabbed the file and told him they were not reusable and that he does not get them back. I let my manager know because I'm pretty sure he stole the coupons from another store. Right after that, he went to another cashier and tried the same thing and I told her that I just told him that he does not get his coupons back. I paged loss prevention but he left before they made it downstairs.