Anger management: Want to be a gas station cashier?


	Anger management: Want to be a gas station cashier?
hitchhiker08
7-8-2008 1:42 AM
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anger, inflation, america, shell, cashier, frustration, anger management, bizarre
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/76618a49-45c1-4a07-8a0b-c6e2acaff504/B799EB27-CE5B-4D71-B7D3-84043AA771E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/" href="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/" style="font-size: 11px;">weekendamerica.publicradio.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/"><H2 id="featureHead">Express Rant? Free Express Car Wash!</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">Not such a good job this weekend: gas station cashier.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">So one gas station is offering customers a productive way to vent their frustrations. Bobak Bakhtiari manages the Tanforan Shell station in San Bruno, Calif. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">Weekend America's John Moe wanted to learn more:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weekendamerica.publicradio.org/img/98A7A4A6-B658-4B82-8F91-6430AAD94D11" alt="Larger view" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/"><STRONG>John Moe: What has been the mood among the customers coming into your station as gas prices have climbed so high?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">Well, they've been pretty decisively more hostile than usual. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">British woman</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">came in last week, I guess her credit card wasn't working... She just walked in and started yelling at the cashier.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">began insulting him, telling him that he was worthless, that he needs to do something about gas prices.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/"><P>
            <STRONG>Moe: Gas prices are high everywhere -- what are you doing about it that's unique?</STRONG>
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            <STRONG> How are your cashiers encouraging people to vent?</STRONG>
            </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/06/26/angry_gas/">confuse them by intercepting with really positive feedback suddenly.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B799EB27-CE5B-4D71-B7D3-84043AA771E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>