This happened to me today, and it is not the first time. I have been told that I shouldn’t be lifting that, I have been asked every day “if I’m strong enough”, I have been pushed away by customers with the claim “I’d rather have a strong boy lift this, I don’t want you to hurt yourself.” I have been told multiple times by customers in the parking lot that a boy should be outside instead of me to push carts inside, because “it’s too hot” or “they’re too heavy”. I had to scrub mud off the floor where customers had tracked it in after heavy rain, and was told by many, many people that “I should be paid more for this”, “they can’t believe they made me do this”, and again “shouldn’t they be getting a boy to do this?”
I am not a porcelain doll. Just because I choose to wear a skirt to work rather than pants doesn’t mean that I am incapable of lifting anything over ten pounds or scrubbing the mess YOU made. I do not appreciate people telling me that I am not fit for the job I chose to do, and continue to choose to do.
Why the hell do people see my little tiny self walking over and ask me to “help them ” lift a coffee table and four chair set and then watch me struggle the entire time. And u know the customer is always a 6 foot 5 moving man -___-