Please keep in mind these cashiers are making $10 an hour or so and only doing the job that is asked of them. Don’t expect them to care about your rights.
Next time ask for a manager and give them the complaint.
Don’t blame the cashier; she very likely needs the job to survive, and cannot afford to chance any disciplinary action.
Reread my post. I wasn't polite. I didn't say, "thank you". She didn't say, "please". Her job required her to ask me for a piece of private information, that I wasn't going to give. So what if she works for a living. She probably goes to high school with my daughter. My story was discussed at dinner with my children. Both of which have customer service jobs. They got it.
I am really surprised at the number (few, but too many) people that don't have the gumption to deny personal information to a business that would put them at risk of identity theft, even if it made a kid uncomfortable for a minute. That discomfort was meant to be a message to Dick's.
This is how kids grow up. They get real jobs, they deal with real problems. This girl can or will be able to vote one day. She needs real world situations. She certainly doesn't get the perspective that I gave her from her teachers and from TV. It is completely hideous that I had to give my birth date to buy a gun sling. Given Dick's policies, she probably thinks that anything gun related is evil.
I will continue to protect my private information and my 2nd and 4th Amendment rights, even if it hurts people's feelings. That is better than letting things go too far and having to physically defend our freedoms and liberties. The crux of political correctness is making people silent as their rights are stolen.
I have been asked for my phone number at a ladies clothing store...just tell them its unlisted so I don’t get harassed...
We have bought ammo at Dicks and they did not ask us for any info. The last time they tried a bait and switch on some shotgun shells and that was it for us. We love Pro Bass so we don’t go to Dick’s anymore. Pro-Bass does push the rewards card but we have one so no big deal. We do not use it when purchasing ammo and we only pay cash. When they ask for our phone number we just tell them they don’t need it.
I guess the last person I went off on big time was a phone solicitor for some law enforcement charity. All my numbers are private. I have two phone lines in my home and those two lines have Ring Master service. Only about three persons know the ringmaster number and they use it from their cell phones so I know to answer it fast.
The solicitors calling the ringmaster line have somehow obtained my name. The last one who called I asked him 5 times how did you get this number as it is not my primary number? One of two things had to happen. Either my county gave them 911 system info which should not have included the ringmaster number as it is incoming calls only, or AT&T is selling my info.
I hate it when a checker ask if I’d like to contribute to whatever the cause of the month is. I always politely decline, but I think I may start saying that I will if they’ll contribute to the NRA.
I do like it when I get asked “Do you have an ID?” because I get to respond, “’Bout what?”
Cashiers are exactly as responsible for the verification algorithm of a computerized register as a driver at a light-controlled intersection is responsible for the signal timing, and blaming one not adjusting circumstance for the majestic presence is just as stupid. As a matter of fact, major retailers keep their cashiers under surveillance and fire those who attempt to circumvent automated processes.
For any lurker or participant to gather some real insights into the intelligence of several of the above posters, it is only necessary to peruse posts for occurrences of "the cashier did this" or "the cashier did that" claims in this thread. Cashiers read a screen and push the required buttons.
You’re making mountains out of molehills. The liquor store I frequent scans licenses or state ID at the counter. It’s not that I don’t look like a middle aged man, it’s that it removes the discretion from the minimum wage employee. Granted, it was incredibly stupid for a sling to be age restricted, but there are good and valid reasons for taking the cashier out of the verification loop.
Those Democrats are really touchy about requiring I.D. there.