early in my shift
As a maintenance person, I have certain duties that go with certain jobs.  They are all the same for everyone, and they are supposed to be done every single night.  Kinda like that one scene in Pippin, where Pippin asks the guys raking the ground, 'how often do you do this?'  'every day' 'every day?' 'yep, every day'

I've been on the buffer, so my job also includes vacuuming the rugs and rolling them up.  Now, again, we are supposed to do this every single night.  Its a part of the job, and if the scrubber has to go around the rugs, they might be a bit upset.  I know I am, if the rugs are not rolled up out of the way.

This lady, however, felt differently about the subject.  She was asking the cashier why I had to do that particular job, and how often we did it.  When told we did  it every night, her response was that she'd never seen us, and she should get a discount 'for having to deal with the noise and hassle'

The cashier merely told her there was no button for a 'maintenance person doing her job' discount.

Then again, I've also been asked to shut off my machine 'so's not to wake up the baby'

I guess I should apologize to everyone shopping overnight for the hassles of, cleaning, stocking, stripping and rewaxing the floor (and especially when we closed off the ice cream aisle...you'd have thought armageddon was there) except I just don't feel like it.  I'll let my supervisor do that...once he stops laughing at people.