Does seeing cashiers at Grocery stores wearing shorts bother you?

[gilligan fanatic]

New rule at my grocery store is we can't where shorts because it looks unprofessional. I think it is stupid because I sweat all the time and it is 95 degrees out. I can't work as well when I am hot. And I am sure you would rather see me wearing shorts than sweating all over your food. I don't see what the big deal is. I am behind a conveyor belt and a cash register so what does it matter? It gets hot in there when you are moving quickly when it becomes busy and at my store you can get whole chickens and shrimp that is already cooked so that is hot. Does seeing a cashier in shorts bother you?

[Ireneparalegal]

I have seen them wear those nice khakis shorts, they aren't too long nor are they too short, they look comfortable and I think it's a nice change, especially for the summer months.

[gilligan fanatic]

I have seen them wear those nice khakis shorts, they aren't too long nor are they too short, they look comfortable and I think it's a nice change, especially for the summer months.

that is what I wore in June and July, I was happy in those.

[Brieannas21]

khaki shorts or skirts I can understand cashiers wearing, But not blue jean shorts. Also men who work in the grocery stores should have to pull their pants up and not show their underwear. I see enough underwear in my own house I don't want to go to the store and see it also.

[gilligan fanatic]

khaki shorts or skirts I can understand cashiers wearing, But not blue jean shorts. Also men who work in the grocery stores should have to pull their pants up and not show their underwear. I see enough underwear in my own house I don't want to go to the store and see it also.

Then you will be glad to know I wear a belt-lol

[Wawwie]

Does seeing cashiers at Grocery stores wearing shorts bother you?



No.

[Jonathan]

If they are cleaned and pressed, no.

[dawsongirl]

I saw a guy at the store yesterday coming to work, and his work pants were almost down below his ass. I thought, that looks professional </sarcasm>.

Most of the stores I've been in are freaking cold as it is. I'd rather be able to wear short sleeves than shorts. But whatever I guess, as long as they are curteous.

[JNSBSB]

It depends on what kind of shorts. If it's one the store provides, then no. If it's any other type of shorts, then yes I mind.

[Central Perk]

It would defintely not bother me since I once was a cashier at a grocery store. We had to wear black pants and a shirt and tie for most of the year except during the summer when we could wear a tshirt with black pants. To me it is so stupid to dress up at a Grocery Store, they're not fancy places and people just come to buy food and leave. And it does get hot. I mean why should employees have to dress up when some customers come to the store in their pajamas. [/rant]

[Kesmai]

It isn't AS professional as wearing pants.

[Czas na Zywiec]

No one likes to see leg hair. Why do you think women shave their legs?

[dawsongirl]

No one likes to see leg hair. Why do you think women shave their legs?
Especially if you're ape man or something.

[Czas na Zywiec]

Especially if you're ape man or something.

lol yea. I saw someone once walking in flipflops and even their toes were overgrown in hair. :barf: Makes me glad that I have only some body hair.

[dawsongirl]

ewww!

[gilligan fanatic]

So it seems like nobody really cares that much. I went along with it today and was sweating everywhere.

[Buffyboy323]

Yes. I feel to Vomit whenever I see that. Ugh.

[MsOrange]

I used to work @ a grocery store too in my highschool/college days. We had that rule. No jeans, only pants, had to be kaki or black. The girls couldn't even wear capris. It sucked. At another grocery store, which is a popular chain around this part of the country, they could wear shorts. Oh well. Thank God i'm done with that. Just remember, you still get that pay check.

[Brad]

Shorts, especially khaki-style, can be work-casual. I think attitudes need to be relaxed on that, especially with summers seeming to get hotter and hotter. I don't know many people who are offended by seeing leg below the knee.

I work in an office setting, and attire is work-casual. In the summer (between Labor Day and Memorial Day), we're allowed to wear shorts if they're appropriate, and sandals, as long as they're not flip flops and can't be bent in half.

[vienna waits]

who cares. grocery stores typically employ either trashy adults or students. it's not a freakin corporate setting.

[Brad Russ]

The grocery workers can wear nothing but a thong for all I care. Iv'e never given what they wear a single thought to be honest with you. Just keep giving me my free coke everyday, and I'm happy.

[Janice]

No, it doesn't bother me, as long as they're the longer type ones. Stores should adopt a summer uniform where everyone has to wear the beige ones or whatever.

That's hard work, for God's sake. Give the workers a break. :rolleyes:

[Janice]

Shorts, especially khaki-style, can be work-casual. I think attitudes need to be relaxed on that, especially with summers seeming to get hotter and hotter. I don't know many people who are offended by seeing leg below the knee.

I work in an office setting, and attire is work-casual. In the summer (between Labor Day and Memorial Day), we're allowed to wear shorts if they're appropriate, and sandals, as long as they're not flip flops and can't be bent in half.
So, you don't wear those kind of shorts that Jack Tripper wore on Three's Company? The kind that are about two inches away from being a speedo? :lol:

[Chocoholic]

Personally, I wish more store managers would focus on training their employees to be more courteous and helpful to customers than enforcing ridiculous dress codes. (The school I work at has a more lenient dress code than the grocery store I worked at :rolleyes: ) I don't care what you're wearing as long as you are polite and helpful and not fooling around with your buddies and ignoring the customers who are paying your salary.

[EmoJoe]

no.

[Shine]

I don't think that shorts should ever be worn in the workplace. Any workplace. I have to wear a tie and dress shirt to work and it can be very hot, but that is just the way it is.

[Rachel3118]

It doesn't really matter to me. Grocery stores aren't formal places so it doesn't matter.

I work at a grocery store and I wear pants because it's cold and I just like to look more professional at work.

[treky]

no, it doesn't bother me.



This thread just reminded me of something I saw in a supermarket once about 12 or 13 years ago. I was standing at the cold-cut counter; and ther was this ggirl standing with her back to people; behind the counter; she must have been in her early 20s; but she was wearing white shorts with no underwear!!!!!I swear to god!!!!!! I didn't beleive it, so I llooked a second, then a third time!!

[Stuck In The '70's]

All I care about is fast service...I don't care what anybody's wearing.

[MsOrange]

I don't think that shorts should ever be worn in the workplace. Any workplace. I have to wear a tie and dress shirt to work and it can be very hot, but that is just the way it is.
what about janitors?

[Moonlight Lady]

No, I don't care. If the shorts aren't too short and they are clean then it's no big deal. I'm more concerned with getting good service.

[Courtnee]

no, it doesn't bother me.



This thread just reminded me of something I saw in a supermarket once about 12 or 13 years ago. I was standing at the cold-cut counter; and ther was this ggirl standing with her back to people; behind the counter; she must have been in her early 20s; but she was wearing white shorts with no underwear!!!!!I swear to god!!!!!! I didn't beleive it, so I llooked a second, then a third time!!
ew...

and I really don't care what people wear in a groecery store, as long as they're nice and friendly.

[Brad]

So, you don't wear those kind of shorts that Jack Tripper wore on Three's Company? The kind that are about two inches away from being a speedo? :lol:

No, ma'am. As in Jack Tripper's case, those shorts invite "wardrobe malfunctions." The fact that people get to look at my swollen-knees is enough for them to take. :)

[vienna waits]

what about walmart? their employees can literally wear anything to work. and then they just slip the dumb vests on. at least where i work (at meijer) you're limited to the red polos they supply and black/khaki pants or shorts.

[dawsongirl]

What I don't get is...every grocery store I've ever been in is air conditioned, some overly so. You can't stand wearing pants in air conditioning??

[MsOrange]

What I don't get is...every grocery store I've ever been in is air conditioned, some overly so. You can't stand wearing pants in air conditioning??
from my experience, cashiers are usually at the front, where the doors are, so we got the warm breezes. Plus, standing their, 8 hours, putting up with annoying customers, running groceris through the scanner, bagging 200 dollars orders... it gets tiring, and hot. I hated working in a grocery store during the summer.

[vienna waits]

What I don't get is...every grocery store I've ever been in is air conditioned, some overly so. You can't stand wearing pants in air conditioning??
it's really not cool at all at the front end where i work. customers always complain about how it's warm up there and im like "yeah tell me about it." big windows that let in tons of sunlight, the doors constantly opening, the ridiculous heat, and an apparently poor air conditioning system make it pretty warm.

[Brad Russ]

I feel most sorry for the poor workers who have to go out and collect the shopping carts that are left all over the parking lot. A couple weeks ago it got up to 104 degrees here, and the kid collecting the carts looked like he was about to have a stroke. I definitely wouldn't want his job.

[vienna waits]

I feel most sorry for the poor workers who have to go out and collect the shopping carts that are left all over the parking lot. A couple weeks ago it got up to 104 degrees here, and the kid collecting the carts looked like he was about to have a stroke. I definitely wouldn't want his job.
yeah if they tried to make me do carts on days like we've been having i would probably quit.

[gilligan fanatic]

I feel most sorry for the poor workers who have to go out and collect the shopping carts that are left all over the parking lot. A couple weeks ago it got up to 104 degrees here, and the kid collecting the carts looked like he was about to have a stroke. I definitely wouldn't want his job.

I had to do them yesterday but they let me where shorts. It was hot, I wasn't on SO last night because I felt sick from doing them. I did them at Ten AM and then again at 1 PM. Let me tell you something, Virginia's humidity is a lot hotter than you think it is. They gave me a gift certificate to the store though and I got about a 15 minute break after I came in both times. I moved about 400 carts total yesterday in 100 degree weather. 200 each time. I kept loosing the carts because my hands were so sweaty. And what really pissed me off was when there were people bringing there cars up to the curb right where the carts go when you bring them back to there corral. 1. They are blocking my way. 2. I was out there an hour each time and I could do that they could walk to there car. 3. They were 10 feet away from where the carts go and they left them there. I am off the next to days and I am just getting over the terrible headache I had since I came home yesterday. I drank a lot of watter, but I wasn't hungary at dinner and I really wasnt at breakfast today either.

[Brad Russ]

I had to do them yesterday but they let me where shorts. It was hot, I wasn't on SO last night because I felt sick from doing them. I did them at Ten AM and then again at 1 PM. Let me tell you something, Virginia's humidity is a lot hotter than you think it is. They gave me a gift certificate to the store though and I got about a 15 minute break after I came in both times. I moved about 400 carts total yesterday in 100 degree weather. 200 each time. I kept loosing the carts because my hands were so sweaty. And what really pissed me off was when there were people bringing there cars up to the curb right where the carts go when you bring them back to there corral. 1. They are blocking my way. 2. I was out there an hour each time and I could do that they could walk to there car. 3. They were 10 feet away from where the carts go and they left them there. I am off the next to days and I am just getting over the terrible headache I had since I came home yesterday. I drank a lot of watter, but I wasn't hungary at dinner and I really wasnt at breakfast today either.

Damn, you definitely have my respect. That's one job I know I wouldn't be able to do. I hate hot weather!!!

[Czas na Zywiec]

Places around here try and cope with having loose carts in the parking lot by making you pay for them. You stick a quarter in the slot and grab your cart. Then when you're done, you bring the cart back up to the front, stick it in line, and get your quarter back. That way there's not 38748 carts in random places in the parking lot. And if there are a few, whoever works brings them back up and gets some money for it. Providing it's only a quarter, iuf you do enough, you can get a few bucks off of it.

[Yooch]

Short, sloppy cutoffs would bother me, but the neat, tasteful khakis are perfectly fine with me.

[gilligan fanatic]

Damn, you definitely have my respect. That's one job I know I wouldn't be able to do. I hate hot weather!!!

Thanks, the one good thing about doing carts in the sun is I am not as pale as I used to be-lol

Places around here try and cope with having loose carts in the parking lot by making you pay for them. You stick a quarter in the slot and grab your cart. Then when you're done, you bring the cart back up to the front, stick it in line, and get your quarter back. That way there's not 38748 carts in random places in the parking lot. And if there are a few, whoever works brings them back up and gets some money for it. Providing it's only a quarter, iuf you do enough, you can get a few bucks off of it.

now that sounds like a good idea, I am going to suggest that to the Manager.

[TheGreatPretender]

Wow I'm sorry you have to put up with so much. :( It almost makes me feel a little bit better that I couldn't find a job this summer. And my answer is no, I really don't care at all.