"Less than 10 Items"

We started with crazy customers and now heading to "changing the world with imperfections" ;D

If we loose hope, then we will be left in the trash.. that's all we've got to survive..

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We all have imperfections...but I want to change the world, at least for all our own good ;) lol

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sometimes you have to show to people the right manners not only to teach them how to do it but to humiliate them so they will learn from their mistakes.

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"Customer is always right" and they abuse this and how they do it is very irritating. If they cannot follow the rules and the cashier tolerate this, I think whoever in this situation "like you" should do something (speak up) because you are also one of the customers and you also have the right to correct these abusive people.

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You're right: it isn't just rich people but in my experience it Qatar it is overwhelmingly the rich that abuse the system: just like everywhere. That isn't to say, of course, that all rich people do so nor that no workers do. But to illustrate my point, I wanna tell you a story too.

Anyone had to go and get their driving license yet? It's hell on earth. I got there about seven in the morning and there was a nice tidy queue of six people all patiently waiting in line. 'Brilliant,' I thought. "It's just like Albion," and contemplated cracking out a pot of Early Grey and scones and leading the line in a rendition of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’. About ten minutes passed, the queue grew to about thiry behind me, before a couple of guys in dish-dashes arrived. Of course, they walked straight past the queue to the front. Similarly, a white guy in a suit arrived with one of his employees (I guess) and stood at the front, trying to get his employee to stand just behind the guys in dish dashes. When this happened a couple of guys behind me obviously though ‘well, I don’t see why those guys should push in, I’m going to do the same.’ Quite reasonably, I think. Of course, more people thought the same and within ten minutes it was literally a fight. It was like a rugby scrum for seventy people all in a 10 foot by 10 foot room. People were tripped up, elbows were flying. Incidentally, this was the point I realized I was old: it’s the first time in my life I was pleased when the police arrived.

I’m not trying to make out that the rich have a responsibility to lead by example, of course, but just that if a society and culture runs along the lines of class and racial privilege, of backhanders and nepotism then you’re going to create a society where basic civility and respect basically equate to self-submission. I’m not there yet: I remain determined to treat everybody with the same respect that we I would in England but how many times of letting someone go through a door only for there to be not a word of thank you (which makes you feel like they expect you to open the door for them in servitude) or for me to let someone out at a junction only for them to cut me up at the next lights?

Back where I’m from, manners and respect for others are a sign of self respect. Out here, they seem to be interpreted as submissiveness.

I can see ur scale in ur Avatar saying "Not Guilty"

hope that my eyes r not decieving me .. lol :D

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Good for u....dont have to pay for aerobic classes anymore :)

feel it, feel it! :P

Jauntie .. stop acting like an old lady .. u rn't .. ;) u were doing a gr8 job at the Bowling gathering .. ohh c'mon Don't make me feel guilty :)

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I never saw his hands leave his broom - unlike MY hands which were gesturing in his direction like mini windmills! lol

I didn't need wasta at DIA - I guess I am one of the 'old ladies' who make up the exception to the rule which ram was talking about :P

They simply 'pushed' me, unasked, to the front of the queue :P

good morn people

the shopping rules here are as bad as the driving

try to follow rules and u ll see someone breaking them.....

i agree with joewilliams as to the solution 4 this problem

do it right - the first time!

LOL AT COOL IS THE RULE; IF YOU ARE NOT COOL YOU ARE A FOOL!

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

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Rules are meant to be broken, and it happens with a higher frequency here in Doha.

COOL IS THE RULE; IF YOU ARE NOT COOL YOU ARE A FOOL!

u put ur hands on the truth .. it's that point wut if he is a Qatari guy .. the cashier won't care for the damn rule as she care for her earning .. and she know by doing this it might trouble her (or the security guard as well) and just to tell u one more thing it's not all of them Qataris who r doing this .. some iranian or other arab people wear the white dress and act like a qatari .. the poor indian or filpina couldn't realize if he is Qatari or just someone like her/him ..

Don't let them go .. even if u gonna lose ur life .. Rules are Rules .. on the heads of qataris or expats ... Except for an old Lady/Man (any Nationality) For those we could break the rules ..

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Thought you have wasta at DIA

U may have missed the fiver greasing the palm.:)

When I was leaving DIA the last time, I got to check in and there were a number of locals busying themselves with their baggage in the queue. I was looking about wondering what to do, cos the queue looked a bit unruly and disjointed, when one of the Qatar Airways employees beckoned me to go and stand behind a couple already checking in.

So I did :D I guess I wasn't being treated as cattle :P

It isn't necessarily rich Qataris. I mentioned on another thread an incident where the sweeper-upper (who was in charge of guarding the cashier's queue because whe was finishing her shift and so closing the till) refused to let me queue there - fair enough - but then let some of his fellow countrymen through.

I DID complain to the management as I left.

I'm big on making a fuss :D It's those old Libran scales of mine bobbing up and down again LOL

I think sometimes in a rush u can miss the "less than 10 items sign". I did it once and the salesgirl pointed it out politely. I looked up at the sign appologized and moved on. No harm done.

The stress levels in Doha r so much on the rise that instead of politely pointing out a thing everyone is ready to blow his top off.

This is only the supermarket. Imagine this is happening at DIA. yes this is a true story.

I was at the counter to check in like rest of the others. suddenly there is this qatari guy with 3 females. he asked the females to wait in the corner and push and barked his way to the checkin counter. the attendane saw the incident and promptly refused to entertain him at the counter. You know what he did he threatened the counterstaff and demanded to see the security in-charge. He talked something in arabic to the security guy. you know what happened? Security guy took him to the 1st class checkin counter and he and his 3 felames were given boarding passes within seconds. Master got in within seconds and we slaves were left wrotting there. He is an ordinary Qatari otherwise he won't travel in CATTLE class with his female entourage.

at lulu hyper..its too crowded.. i dont wanna go there again

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joewilliams

It is not only Qataris there is a wide range of people doing this because they are just bad mannered. As I said above the cashier will not say anything as she is the poorest person their and my loose her job it she would reprimand the customer.

Hi joewilliams,

Its not just the rich guys doing it-ive seen a lot of worker classes doing it too-but i think its more excusable on their part-mebbe they cant read english or something...

What if the guy is a Qatari (god bless the cashier and the attendent).

I can't even go in the line if I have 11 items. I feel bad.

"I fight with love and I laugh with rage, you have to live light enough to see the humor and long enough to see some change." Ani Difranco

That's exactly what i am saying - the whole essence of having such a counter is lost if people keep showing up at the counter with 100 items!something has to be done-think it should be brought to the notice at the customer service counters at these supermarkets-you guys think that'll work?

Another thing i noticed(only at Lulu tho)is that some of the employees themseleves buy stuff and they get them billed from the other side of the counter-as in-they dont stand in the line like the rest of us-dont know if this happens in other stores too-but its damn annoying because here are the rest of us waiting in the line for 15-20 minutes and these guys just get away in like 2 minutes!!!think they should have some separate billing counter for employees or something or they should stand in line like the rest of us!

Oh King...only in LuLu? I've seen it everywhere in Doha :o)

but to tell u the truth, if i see some old lady in front of me with 100 items i won't ask her if she can read or point it out to her. ah, just raised in a different way.

besides, what if she really cannot read? :o/

If you're looking for a problem, you're probably gonna find one.

Not that I mean to come across as a typical 26-year-old British male or anything, but the best way to deal with these things is to make a real deal of things. Point it out to them, don’t stop pointing it out to them, get the manager down. Make as much fuss as possible. Even if they rank above you in Qatar’s vicious racial hierarchy (rich people always being the most arrogant and inconsiderate wherever you are in the world) they’ll get properly embarrassed and may not do it again.

I know people pushing in/having too many items etc isn’t the end of the world but the reason its so annoying is because it reflects the fact that wide sections of the upper classes of Qatari society (and I don’t just mean one group) believe they have inherited the right to treat other people like ****. It’ll come round and bite them on the backside eventually but for now I think the rest of us at least owe it to ourselves to stand up for ourselves and each other.

Cheers.

Joe

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what im saying is, if they won't allow them..no one will...

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Good Morning diamondgirl,

I would do the same, as it made for people who want to pass through the cash quickly. On the other hand the cashier definately not tell the customer he is in the wrong queue. I find it to be inconsiderate.

It is really annoying because I experienced such an incident before in LuLu. I was with my friend and he asked me to go there, I counted the items and they were like 15 Items so I refused and were really shy to go there and ask the cashier to give us the bill.

I looked there and i saw this guy who was doing his daily morning exercises taking stuff out of the trolley, putting those on the counter and going again and again up and down ... I was really about to go and pull him saying: I got 15 items and I find it really difficult to go there and you are coming with all of those criminal stuff here to commit a crime there? It says 10 not 100 !!!

true, but sometimes the cashier or crew are lenient with some of the customers...

if the cashier sees that the customer is carrying more than what is prescribed he/she should direct him to the next lane already..but no, as i observe they allow them still..so where is the essence of the "less than 10 items?

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I would definitely point out to the customer if they had considerably over the 10 items permitted!

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