thanks

Sam Burns: You're a very rude young woman. I know Douglas from the Rotary and I can't believe he'd want you treating customers so badly.

Checkout Girl: I don't think I was treating her badly.

Sam Burns: Then you must be from New York.

DC and LA are FAAAAAR ruder than NYC!

i never carry cash. i am the doofus sort when it comes to "foldin' money" and i have lost more than my share.

my retort might have been, "in this most technologically advanced society, YOU don't have a way of accepting credit cards???"

sP

I despise it.

How insane is it that you can use a CC on an AIRPLANE, 30,000 feet above civilization, but you can't on a TRAIN, down in the midst of it?

without doing anything worthy to earn that role in your life.

It has been true about my great American experience since the nineties.

Conductor: "All tickets!"

Me (Metro-North regular but LIRR newbie): (silence)

Conductor: (at maximum volume) "I SAID ALL TICKETS!!"

There are some really nice conductors, but also some real jerks. A couple of months ago I left my wallet on the counter in the morning and I was answering email on my phone when the conductor came by I told him I forgot my wallet. He asked if I had any money and I tol him no that's in the wallet. So he says sarcatically "but you didn't forget your phone did you?" Can't just give you the form to fill out to be billed, they have to berate you too for some reason.

Working people everywhere are under such pressure, that while I would have hoped I would have done exactly what you did, what I would not do or never do is report working people to their supervisor (not saying you did, you are just giving me an opportunity to make this point) unless they are way way out of bounds.

I always tell people when I am pissed at something that it isnt their fault, they are just trying to earn a living.

But no excuse for this conductor to act this way, but given the stress we are ALL under as the 99%, I am surprised it isnt a whole lot worse

I salute you and your fellow passenger

Half below average in each measure

Kindness
Intelligence
curiosity
ability in any endeavor

YOU AREN'T SET UP FOR CREDIT CARDS??????





(Just to play devil's advocate..... Imagine how many people trying to get out of paying by acting dumb.... and more.... he may have had to put up with)

The trick is to not care what he thinks.

Of course I would have come back with what I said above.... and probably added, "I guess that's too complicated for conductors to handle."

At first, I thought Tokyo. It has the largest metropolitan area population of 37.8 million, but inside the city limits it only has 9 million. Chongqing (what we used to call Chungking) has about 28.8 million.

Okay, I'm sure the incident was in New York, because America must have the biggest of everything. Yet, according to those foreign lovers at Wikipedia, New York only ranks 25th by population. By area, it isn't even the largest in the United States.

you and the guy with the $4.

I hope others cheered for the both of you.

be as bold the next time I see a situation like that.

I mean, I would never suggest carrying large amounts, but at least twenty bucks.

However, there are plenty of people out there who never have cash on them, and what is appalling is that the train isn't set up to take a credit card.

I know I would have immediately pulled out my walled and given the conductor the four dollars for the woman. And if she wanted my address to pay me back, I'd just tell her to pay it forward someday.

sometimes i consider what a war mongering government we have. we are essentially the bully of the world. i don't know if the world is different or i'm just more tuned in, but it just seems so goddamned MEAN. they say shit runs downhill. i don't know. thank you for stepping up for the woman, i know it's between you and her, but i hope she thanked you.

nothing like getting a taste of the big city.

Conductors should be instructed not to berate customers.

is that in the larvest city in the world, the train tickets can be purchased using USD instead requiring the tickets to be purchased using yen.

you don't need to know much to be a conductor I guess

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Yes, I was hungry enough to get a wrap & fries.... and that's hungry!

The girl gave me the wrong order. When I sat there at the closed drive-thru window waiting for her to come back, I told her that she gave me someone else's order & gave it back to her.
So she threw the bag with my order at me.

You betcha I called that phone number on my receipt before I even left the parking lot.

I despise assholes.

You stood up for her, and called out an asshole, and someone else helped her pay..

Good on you for not just letting it slide, and good for the guy chipping in to help pay.

On the other hand I'll bet this conductor would get in trouble with his boss if he didn't make a big scene with every non-paid or underpaid rider. Knowing the way many businesses work in the U.S.A., I'll bet the railroad occasionally sends out spies to test their employees.

Polite insistence and problem solving are rare skills, and it's part of U.S.A. culture to become highly indignant if they think anyone is getting a "free ride."

People who can't pay the fare for any reason must be punished.

Maybe she doesn't, and is just an asshole.

She was right that it was between her and the women without the cash. You're right that the cash transaction was between her and the guy that gave her $4. Both arguments were going nowhere, but the cash saved the day.

it is not part of her job duties to humiliate customers

Her employer is the ass here. Conductors are union. . .cut her some slack.

See asshat, be asshat.

Be a good example, people are watching.

Thank you for being a shining example of what it is to be human.

about how there are nice people in a city that we are told has none. Two people were nice to her. I am sure you made her day.

Two good people. Kudos to you and to the person who gave her the $4.