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When you work in retail, you already know you are going to have to deal with all sorts of customers, especially if you are a cashier. Dealing with people's money is a really big deal. Some customers will make life easy for you and the purchase will be a breeze. Some even have long interesting conversations with you, or make you smile and laugh. Then, there are customers who are in a bad mood and like to put it on other people. When you work at staples and someone uses a credit card you are always required to ask for their card, look to see that there is a signature on the back, and make sure that the customer's signature matches the signature on the back of the card. If the customer does not have a signature on the back of the card, then we are required to ask for an ID, regardless of how much the total comes out to be. Other stores are required to do this as well, but some people just automatically use the card without even looking at the back of the card. The reason I am writing about this is because there are too many customers out there who get extremely angry when I ask for their ID. It honestly makes me really upset. I don't get it at all. I am doing them a favor to make sure that there is no fraud happening. They should be grateful like most customers. Not yell at me and create a huge scene. What makes me the most mad is when a customer writes on the back of a card, "Ask for ID" and when I do they yell at me for asking for an ID. Some people don't understand that fraud can happen anywhere anytime and I'm only helping to ensure that their money is not being stolen. I related my blog to Aristotle's philosophical idea that human’s highest function is reason. I realized that I could easy get away with not asking for an ID just to avoid these rude customers, but life is about the right use of reasoning. I shouldn't just let these customer's get away without showing me their ID, because I could be really doing some damage one day if fraud was actually happening. Aristotle said that you a person's reasoning should not have bad motive behind it and it's true. All of our actions should be in virtue.