Hold on to your hat, she's spoutin' off again

So here's my beef for today. I just went to a Walgreens to do some school supply shopping
as I know there will be little left when we get home from vaca. And is it just me or do you
get annoyed when kids working at stores think that everyone around them is so interested
in what they have to say that they talk(read yell) to each other across the store, don't work, take forever to ring you up because they think you actually want to be stuck there hearing about their night last night and think it's appropriate to curse in front
of customers. A woman with her 3 kids and myself were trying to read the sales flyers and find the items in the school aisle while 2 boys, who were supposed to be unpacking stock, were
making "jokes" and being so loud that none of us shoppers could even concentrate. The talk was loud and relentless.
Then one of the boys made a joke about how he'll have cancer in a year. Then the words
"drunken playboy" were yelled out and the other woman had enough. She said, "hey guys, there
are kids around and that's inappropriate." I said "yes and besides that, you 2 are so loud, I can't hear myself think. I know you think that we are interested in what you're saying but we're not
and making a joke about cancer is not funny at all. There are plenty of people who have cancer
in their family who don't think it's a joke." So then the boy who said it says,
" my mom had ? cancer a year ago and I acknowledge that." But he said it in such a way as to say that he's allowed to joke about cancer cause he does have it in his family. So I said, "then you should know better and be thankful that you don't have cancer". Well I could tell that they thought I was super square and that they actually do think that most
people are riveted by their conversations. There was a girl standing right in the aisle with them
being really quiet
and I noticed her name tag said asst. manager. She looked all of about 18 and obviously does not
know what her job description is. So I ask the woman I check out with who has worked there for
some time and is probably the only non-teen in the store, "did you hear them talking like that?" The aisle was right by her register.
She told me that she wasn't paying attention. I said, "their behavoir is rude and obnoxious and
for someone whose husband has cancer, their joking about it is not funny." Hell, it shouldn't be funny to anyone. The woman behind me was nodding and agreeing that these kids were out of control and I got the "oh you poor thing" look from her as soon as I said my husband has cancer.
I was pretty mad but talking controlled. I said, "I know all these kids think we are just so interested in everything they have to say but we're not." I'm sure no one is sicker of hearing them talk than her. Then I walk out of the store and hear the F-bomb as I
exit the door. The asst. manager is leaning up against the building having a smoke with some guy who she knew but did not work there. The cuss was not directed at me, it was just part of their conversation. I turned around and walked back to her. I said,
"you are a manager here?" Answer was a deer in the headlights look and a meek "yeah."
I said, "this whole shopping experience was ridiculous. You stand there while those boys were talking like that inside and do nothing while they irritate all the customers." She said, "I was trying to stop them, they wouldn't listen to me." I continued "and now this kid flings the F-bomb
as customers are exiting your store and again, you do nothing." She said, "he doesn't work here.
I have no control over him." I said, "it doesn't matter if he works here or not. He is in front of your store cursing.
That is absolutely unacceptable." I said, "your employees should not be joking about cancer,
saying inappropriate things in front of children or being so loud and obnoxious that people don't want to shop here anymore." She says, " They are obnoxious and they won't listen." I said
"then someone should fire their asses. There are a lot of people out of work who would love the job and do it better than them." At this point, Mr. F-bomb points out my language. I said, "I did not throw the f-bomb and there are no children around." There wasn't anyone else around to hear me. He says "there were no kids when I said it." I am just about ready to go off on this kid when the woman who was behind me on line walks
out and is like "Uh-oh." I said to him, " you had no idea who was coming out that door. I usually have an 11 year old right next to me." I told the manager again that all of this was absolutely unacceptable and walked away. She is obviously not capable of being a manager and kids these
days are taught nothing about proper work ethic as far as I can see. I watched six lifeguards sit
in lounge chairs and read and BS last Sunday while 1 guard watched the whole pool with 2 empty lifeguard chairs and a bunch of kids waited to go off diving boards because none of the guards would walk down and sit in the chair by the boards. The manager of the pool was walking right past them sitting there too. Unbelievable. I got up and said something and they said they were going down in a minute but they all sat there doing nothing and getting paid and our pool
is very close to going out of business. Hmmmm. I wonder why. The kid Tim hired to work with us
last year showed up hung-over on his first day. He was 18. He did not know what even the simplest of tools looked like, could not remember anything he was told, and continued to show up
hungover. He joined the reserves. Boy I bet he's getting a rude awakening now. I don't know people, they say these kids are our future and I am pretty nervous about that from where I sit.