Not Always Right posted:

Super Friends
Grocery Store | TX, USA | At The Checkout, Awesome Customers, Top

(A group of friends of mine stop by the store where I work. As a joke all of them come to my lane to ‘make me earn my pay’ for the night. A customer with her son tries cutting them all and jumps in the front.)

Customer: “Hurry up! I’m a very important person! I have things to do.”

Me: “Ma’am, I’ll be glad to check you out before each of these gentlemen that you cut if you ask each of them what they do and honestly think that what you do is more important.”

Customer: “FINE!” *turns to Friend #1* “And what do you do?”

Friend #1: “I train soldiers at [local military base] who are willing to fight for your freedom.”

Customer: “… Oh.” *turns to Friend #2* “What about you?”

Friend #2: “I’m a firefighter.”

Customer: “… Um.” *skips Friend #3 and #4 and goes to #5* “And you?”

Friend #5: “I do cancer research.”

(The customer gives up. I proceed to checkout everyone accordingly and the customer pays and bolts out the door.)

Me: “Have I ever told you guys how proud I am to actually know you guys? Wonder why she didn’t ask [Friend #3] and [Friend #4]?”

Friend #3: “Well… she’s a waitress where I eat lunch while I’m on patrol… so she knows I’m a cop!”

Friend #4: “I… I can’t actually say!”

Friend #5: “Fine! I will! Her son came up to [Friend #4] and asked how working at [medical practice where Friend #4 is shadowing] is going. She sees him at her kid’s pediatrician!”

tacodaemon posted:

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

No circular saws in this story, I'm afraid.

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Me: “Have I ever told you guys how proud I am to actually know you guys? Wonder why she didn’t ask [Friend #3] and [Friend #4]?”

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

No circular saws in this story, I'm afraid.

bringmyfishback posted:

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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

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tacodaemon posted:

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I love you guys, so I'm just passing this along

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Stop, Look, Don’t Listen
AMUSEMENT PARK | CANADA | HEALTH & BODY, THEME OF THE MONTH, TRANSPORTATION
(I am leaving work in an unmarked uniform as I have recently been promoted from security guard to dispatcher. I still often help out our employee-access gate guards as the access gate can be very busy. I’ve just left our dispatch center where I had called 911 for an ambulance shortly before. As I get to the gate, there is a non-employee who is dressed like a plumber waiting for his daughter to be brought out from our health center. I can also hear the ambulance approaching so I start providing traffic control to allow the ambulance quick access to the property.)

Me: *to an employee coming in to work* “Step to the side, please!”

(The employee continues to approach without stopping and the ambulance is now visible with its emergency lights flashing.)

Me: “Step to the side. SIR, STEP TO THE SIDE SO THE AMBULANCE CAN GET IN.”

(The employee runs forward, only stopping when the ambulance almost runs his foot over.)

Me: *stopping the employee* “Excuse me. Did you not understand me?”

Employee: “What do you mean?

Me: “Did you not hear me telling you to stop, and motioning you to stay where you were to let the ambulance in?”

Employee: “Yeah, and I f****** stopped, didn’t I?”

Me: “No, you didn’t. I’ll ask you again. Did you not understand me?”

Employee: “Yeah, well, you were saying one thing and motioning with your hands. It wasn’t very clear. Why should I have to stop anyway? I would have made it ahead of the ambulance!”

Me: “I asked you to stop, and you didn’t stop. Is there something that makes you special so that you don’t have to stop for an ambulance on an emergency run? Can I see your ID card, please?”

Employee: “No. Who the f*** are you, anyway?”

(At this point, I let him see my company ID card with ‘Security and Loss Prevention’ written on it as my department.)

Employee: “Well, you weren’t very clear with what you wanted. Now f****** let me get to work.”

Me: “I asked for your ID card. Please give it to me.”

Employee: No. You didn’t make yourself clear and I shouldn’t have had to stop anyway.”

(The man waiting to pick his daughter up has been listening to this whole exchange and chimes in.)

Man: “Actually, a**hole, he was very clear about what you wanted. You were just a little s*** who didn’t listen.”

Employee: “F*** you. What the f*** do you want? You’re not involved here!”

Man: “He was very clear about what he wanted you to do. You were just a snot-nosed little s***head who didn’t want to listen. You’ve been nothing but an a**hole during this entire exchange.”

(At this point they are about ready to exchange blows and every security guard at the access post is ready to jump in. The man then reaches inside his shirt and pulls out his badge as well as pulling his ID card from his pocket.)

Man: “If it was up to me, I would arrest your a** right now because you deserve it. I’m already having a bad day and snot-nosed little brats like you just make it worse. So you are going to shut up and walk through the metal detector and go to work. I will personally be calling your supervisor to tell them what a snot-nosed s***head you are and that you chose to disregard the very clear directions of park security.”

(The employee immediately showed me his ID, and then turned around and went straight into work without ever saying another word. Turned out, the ‘plumber’ was a member of a local undercover drug squad who had been called off surveillance to pick his daughter up after she got sick.)

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Coatlicue posted:

Yeah, I'm sure the manager will be telling this story for years.

Facepalm Ranger posted:

Why? The reason being he told me was he didn't want to sign the back of his loving bank/credit card.

Khazar-khum posted:

713 thumbs up!

Facepalm Ranger posted:

That story reminds me of something that did happen~~~

When I worked in retail in the uk an American came up and wanted to pay with his card. The card machine prints receipt that needs to be signed (as with all non-chip and pin cards), I go to compare the signature to the one on the back of the card...the guy hasn't signed it, I looked at him and he got out his driver's license with his sig on. Why? The reason being he told me was he didn't want to sign the back of his loving bank/credit card.

Which in the uk will mean he'll have to get his drivers license out everything he purchases something instead of taking the extra second to scribble on the back of the card.

I put his stuff in the bag, and wished him the best of luck with his UK shopping experience with my best poo poo eating grin.

I just don't get these people who try to be funny and whacky with retail workers.

Khazar-khum posted:

713 thumbs up!

Wasabi the J posted:

My favorite part is he's the worst at this whole security thing

Wasabi the J posted:

My favorite part is he's the worst at this whole security thing, even if he wasn't lying; trespass the guy, follow him to the department in which he works, contact his supervisor/dept. head, and inform them of the infraction.

Literally no need to even have this whole exchange in the real world. The easiest way to handle all this: "Hey did you hear me?" "No." "Well, next time listen so you don't get hit by an ambulance." "Ok/gently caress off." "Thanks/gently caress you too!"

End of scene.

nucleicmaxid posted:

The stated reason for this is that if the card gets stolen, the thief has an easily accessible sample of your signature to learn how to fake. So to that guy it might have been logical to pull out his drivers license each time rather than whatever he perceived as the risk of signing the back of his card.

bringmyfishback posted:

I don't really understand why you're so smug about this. A lot of people in the US do this and use their passport/driver's license to prove who they are. It's their choice, and while I don't think it really makes any difference in whether their poo poo gets stolen, it's a matter of personal preference and not really a loving YANKS issue.

Facepalm Ranger posted:

It's the weird aversion to chip & pin. It's been used in the uk for so long that signing for something just takes much longer. So not having the back of the card signed and having to pull out get another card makes the whole paying process longer, even more frustrating when there's a long queue of customers also.

The signature thing here is based solely on the retailer authorising it rather than the machine, as a security measure it's paper thin compared to a number only you know.

And it wasn't a "loving yanks" thing it was a "Christ, this guy" thing.

swampland posted:

What does dressed like a plumber even mean?

swampland posted:

What does dressed like a plumber even mean? A friend of mine is a plumber and he just dresses casualy for work. Im betting this guy thinks plumbers all dress like mario or something

swampland posted:

What does dressed like a plumber even mean? A friend of mine is a plumber and he just dresses casualy for work. Im betting this guy thinks plumbers all dress like mario or something

Catpiss Neverclean posted:

Post Your Favorite (or Request) > shit_that_didnt_happen: This is the epitome of a misogyny.

bringmyfishback posted:

It's not an aversion when the system isn't widely available. I agree chip and pin is better, though.

Slime posted:

A signature is worthless as a means of identification anyway. I've completely hosed it up and my bank has accepted it, and most of those screens you're meant to sign are so loving inaccurate that if you manage to get something that looks like something other than a child scribbling is a challenge.