I’ve been going to the same grocery store for years. Same cashiers for that long.
Janet and Natalia. Absolutely amazingly professional women. The kind of cashier that knows when to open a new line just by looking at how many people are entering the store, not when there’s a line of 20 folks waiting already.
They worked the entire 2020-2022 High Risk pandemic. Every single day. I’ll never forget in the first two months when we didn’t know shit and that people were dropping like flies, they stood up. Never stopped working, never stopped being super professional. I saw their eyes full of tears, still holding, three masks on.
The last times I saw them a couple months ago, I noticed that they were often chatting.
I think they quit over compensation. They probably didn’t get any raise, when they definitely should have gotten a substantial one.
Now it’s definitely not as tight as before in that store and I’m shopping all like