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Kelp Me! posted:No because the risk/reward is too great. I went to a bar in Boston that an acquaintance was the GM of, and one of the bartenders added a number onto her tip (it was $4 tip for 4 beers, she added a 1 to make it $14). I called my credit card company to dispute it and a couple of days later the GM guy I knew told me that the CC company had literally called his bar, asked to talk to him, explained the entire situation and requested documentation, etc. He ended up basically having to fire her because they faxed him my signed copy of the receipt that I scanned for them when I talked to them. holy poo poo. She deserved it for trying to scam you out of another  but goddamn what an awkward situation to be put in  Any time I write the tip in I'm keeping the receipt from now on.
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Starman Super DX posted:holy poo poo. She deserved it for trying to scam you out of another It was an incredibly rare occurrence and tbh I've never personally seen or heard of it happening to someone else. Bartender was apparently a secret methhead and that was like the 3rd time she'd tried that trick. TBQH I stopped filling out/keeping my copy of receipts a few years back, I've never had an issue before or after that one time. (It was so extraordinary that I called my CC company about it which has happened maybe 3-4 times in the last 13 years) When we went on our honeymoon last year I saved every single receipt to make sure we didn't get hosed on exchange rates, when we got home I made it about 10 minutes of organizing and starting to do calculations before I said gently caress it and tossed the whole lot 
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Starman Super DX posted:you know, I've never written anything in the tip line after taking my receipt when I leave cash behind on the table. Is this something I should be concerned about?
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One time I was checking out an older woman who had a bug in her hair. It looked like a bed bug, or maybe a tick, I'm not sure. I let her know and she tried brushing it off herself onto the counter. It didn't come off and instead crawled into her ponytail, but I didn't tell her because I didn't want her trying to fling bugs onto me. I was so grossed out after she left that I sprayed disinfectant all over the place.
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Kelp Me! posted:It was an incredibly rare occurrence and tbh I've never personally seen or heard of it happening to someone else. Bartender was apparently a secret methhead and that was like the 3rd time she'd tried that trick. TBQH I stopped filling out/keeping my copy of receipts a few years back, I've never had an issue before or after that one time. (It was so extraordinary that I called my CC company about it which has happened maybe 3-4 times in the last 13 years) I've seen it happen a few times myself. At one of my old jobs (not retail, smallish web hosting company ) a detective shows up asking to speak to our CEO and CFO. Come to find out we had about 50 complaints of fraudulent credit card charges and all of them were our customers. Long story short, one of the department leads in Billing was taking random CC numbers from the customer database and then running them through the CC machine at the diner she worked at on weekends. She would just run random amounts like $11.74 or $115.76 and pocket the money. Turns out she and her boyfriend had gotten hooked on heroin and this is how she was funding the habit.
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Finally told a customer not to come in through the cart bay, because it's a blind spot and if I am coming in I won't see them until I have slammed their fat old rear end to death with 500lbs of carts. Old idiot got mad and huffy, then got to the other locked door (we lock a couple sets of doors out of like, 5 total, early) and got madder. I saw her leave without buying anything. Sorry you got told something for your own safety by someone younger than you bitch, and that you had to walk like, 10 extra feet.
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KiteAuraan posted:Finally told a customer not to come in through the cart bay, because it's a blind spot and if I am coming in I won't see them until I have slammed their fat old rear end to death with 500lbs of carts. Old idiot got mad and huffy, then got to the other locked door (we lock a couple sets of doors out of like, 5 total, early) and got madder. I saw her leave without buying anything. The safety vs. convenience thing always boggles my mind. I almost t-boned a woman driving to work this morning because she tried to beat me to make a left turn out of a stop sign intersection. There was nobody behind me and nobody in the oncoming lane, so it was literally a matter of the <1 second it would have taken me to pass by the intersection (it's a 45mph road). I really had to slam my brakes to not hit her, and if I had hit her it would have been my front end slamming directly into her driver's side door. Like I get super road-ragey and drive aggressively a lot but none of my poo poo ever extends to "this move will only work if I assume the person I'm about to cut off/pass/whatever has enough reaction time to slam their brakes and not wreck me" type stuff. Anyway that's my little rant tyvm for reading and have a nice day 
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Waffle! posted:I get why both sides are doing what they do, but what pisses me off is that we're going to lose the most experienced people who can get things done without a hassle. It never ends, though. You'll see it in retail and you'll see it in incredibly specialised jobs. Head office half wits who just can't wrap their heads around the idea that someone with 20 years of experience is not equal to a kid with zero experience. Yet, time after time, they'll push out the good staff and replace them with newcomers and then scratch their heads when everyone else reads the writing on the wall and jumps ship and the company ends up a mess. Drunk Nerds posted:I remember someone did this exact same thing on Cheers, and Carla did something reall funny, but I don't remember what. Did she beat their head in with a hammer? Because good lord, how loving rude!
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I want to put five $1 bills on my table and remove, then add them back, completely at random. Then leave like a $40 tip for putting up with such insane bullshit.
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Yawgmoth posted:I want to put five $1 bills on my table and remove, then add them back, completely at random. Then leave like a $40 tip for putting up with such insane bullshit. You could write up a "Tip Bingo" list of random poo poo that happens in restaurants all the time. CHEF DROPS A PAN IN THE KITCHEN, MAKES LOUD CLANG: Add $2.25 WAITRESS SHOWS YOU THE SPECIALS BOARD BUT YOU DON'T LIKE THE FONT IT IS WRITTEN IN: Remove 50c WAITRESS LAUGHS AT YOUR DUMB JOKE: Multiball, throw all your loose change on the floor
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I want one of the cheap goons to go into a diatribe about tipping at the waitress. How does lunch go for you guys do you have to like...clock out or something?
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The best part of working in retail was all the loving lunatics you get to see, just walking around being crazy and acting like it was the most normal thing in the world. I mean people are rude, obviously, but it's retail so you sort of expect that. I could talk your ear off about rude people - mostly the ones who just sort of walk at you, wanting to go past you but also not wanting to acknowledge that you exist, it's always fun to just stop what I'm doing and just stare back at those guys. Like sure, you can run me over with your cart if you really want to but probably your gonna have to go around so why are you wasting both of our time with this? I mean I'm standing here for a reason dipshit. But who cares about rude people? They're not interesting. What is interesting? The child abusers. So loving many of them. Like the internet is a hugbox and reality is different and yada yada but so many people just come to the grocery store and straight beat the poo poo out of their kids in public, and then look at you like - this is normal, don't worry about it. Just the other day there was this guy and his kid - 5 or 6 years old maybe? Old enough he was walking on his own but also still real small - and the guy is just running the kid over with his cart. Making the kid walk in front and being like "Why did you stop moving?" *hits him with the cart* "Keep going we don't got all day." And the kid is just bawling his eyes out but every time he stops for too long to cry his lunatic father hits him with the cart again - not like really hard - but hitting him. I mean that's weird right? That poo poo isn't normal. Why can't these fucks keep their child abuse somewhere I don't have to see it? Or the other day there was pedo hanging around - maybe. Some old guy got cornered by a half dozen women and they're all trying to get his phone away from him. This one lady is leading the crusade - telling all the others that this guy is defiantly a pedophile she saw him taking pictures of their kids just now and also she saw him taking pictures some other store just the other day. Those creepshots on reddit and whatnot have to come from somewhere I guess and if this lady caught the guy good for her. But after like five minutes of back and forth between the lady, the slowly growing crowd of onlookers, and the old dude - the mom isn't convinced and she just sort of drops it. The other lady is still all trying to rile everyone up but it's obvious that no one gives a poo poo so people just start going about their days again. My manager drops by and asks the mom if she wants to press charges and she's just like "well I don't want pictures of my kids out there... but I didn't see it happen." So the maybe pedo disappeared into the sunset and all that happened is the people on my shift got told to keep an eye on him if he turns up again. Yea, the only people who get arrested - well aside from that one guy who was high on meth and shot a dude to death before hiding in the little sliding glass entry way we have until the cops found him - are the shoplifters. Shoplifters get arrested all the drat time. You see them getting dragged through the store, crying and apologizing or just being all stoic or angry - people react a lot of different ways, in cuffs pretty much every day. I'm pretty sure there some sort of legitimate racket going on if I'm gonna be honest with you. Directly across the street from my store is the police station and all the managers and cops are on a first name basis. Every single day we get a squad car rolling up to the back entrance to drag away whatever poor fool got caught lifting a hundred dollars of groceries today. Sometimes they drag them out the front - make a spectacle of it - I don't know why, I'm not in AP so I just get to see a lot of tearful / high / drunk people getting hauled off in cuffs. The minors get a pass though - they just get their folks called and get a stern talking to in the back of loving Wal-Mart by some cop whose only job it is to come handle Wal-Mart bullshit everyday. I've never worked somewhere with such a close tie to the local police force before. Then there's just the general press of humanity in a place like Walmart. People are disgusting. They don't bathe. They piss and poo poo themselves and come walk around the supermarket every single day. They ride their little carts and leave a fetid stink cloud in their wake. The things I've smelled. That's really the worst part of retail if you ask me. Having to talk to some guy who pissed all over himself - maybe recently. maybe he just never bathes or changes his clothes - and smile at him and just be like 'Yes. This is normal. This is how people interact.' And pretend you don't want to vomit at the smell - those are retches of joy at the opportunity to serve! The rude and crazy people are way easier to deal with by comparison because you can just wander off somewhere until they're gone and boom problem solved - much harder to avoid when some fat gently caress and his twenty identical twins are trailing a cloud of stench over half the drat store.
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One time around 7 or 8 at night, so not real late but enough that we're lower on staff a highschool kid walks over to the salad bar and just urinates in it then takes out his cock and proceeds to start masturbating until someone yells at him. He then ran out of the store and down the street. This was mid summer and I have no idea what happened to the kid afterwards but I assume he was on drugs and had walked to the store and the cops picked him up, or met him at his house, one of the employees went to school with him. Also bad smells, we had an old man die taking a dump and his head was leaning against the door so you couldn't open it. It was a single toilet bathroom with lock but rather small. We weren't sure how long he'd been in there someone discovered him after another customer had waited 30 minutes to use the bathroom and had knocked several times and someone tried to open the door (to which they couldn't because he was wedged keeping the door closed).
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pixaal posted:One time around 7 or 8 at night, so not real late but enough that we're lower on staff a highschool kid walks over to the salad bar and just urinates in it then takes out his cock and proceeds to start masturbating until someone yells at him. He then ran out of the store and down the street. This was mid summer and I have no idea what happened to the kid afterwards but I assume he was on drugs and had walked to the store and the cops picked him up, or met him at his house, one of the employees went to school with him. so what happened to the salad? pixaal posted:Also bad smells, we had an old man die taking a dump and his head was leaning against the door so you couldn't open it. It was a single toilet bathroom with lock but rather small. We weren't sure how long he'd been in there someone discovered him after another customer had waited 30 minutes to use the bathroom and had knocked several times and someone tried to open the door (to which they couldn't because he was wedged keeping the door closed). so did you just brick it over or what?
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So, imagine all of these stories, but add the fact that they're drunk and they've probably just gambled away their mortgage payment for the next 4 months. That's what it is like working at a casino. I have a ton of stories, but this one stands out. There was an older guy sitting in the toilet stall and all of the sudden he sees a phone pokes out underneath the stall door and it's someone trying to take pictures of this old guy taking a poo poo. Well the old guy is pissed and he grabs the phone out of the hand. The owner of the phone kicked the stall door open and grabbed his phone back and ran out. The weird thing is the guy who owned the phone was a 20 something guy wearing matching extremely bright colors and he was at the casino with his family. We ended up catching him in the buffet just as he was sitting down to eat pumpkin pie with his family. Oh, and an Asian guy at a blackjack table was jerking off under the table and he was rubbing it against the girl next to him. Well, the Asian dude ended up cumming on the girl and then ran away once the girl started screaming. I'm pretty sure we got him, I know I saw a 350lb security guy chasing him at a half-walk/run pace.
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sunken fleet posted:The best part of working in retail was all the loving lunatics you get to see, ... Read that in the voice of the After Prison YouTube guy.
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How do you take a door off the hinges if the hinge pins are on the side you can't get to?
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VideoTapir posted:How do you take a door off the hinges if the hinge pins are on the side you can't get to? The skinniest employee has to shimmy under the door
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Azuth0667 posted:Yeah way, we did a lot of business. I don't believe you could do an average of 12 sanwiches a minute all shift without at least 15 people working and theres no quiznos that can fit 15 people in it. 
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The Walrus posted:I don't believe you could do an average of 12 sanwiches a minute all shift without at least 15 people working and theres no quiznos that can fit 15 people in it. I do not care if a goonlord that is probably an overweight computer janitor does not believe me. There's a complementary pepper bar if you like, have nice day and enjoy your sandwich. Azuth0667 fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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DIY condiments is one of the things I miss about Quiznos. There's a burrito place near me with a salsa bar and it's awesome. (they also still stock my favorite brand of hot sauce even though the company moved to Arizona and none of the stores here sell it anymore, I need to ask how they're still getting it)
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Azuth0667 posted:I do not care if a goonlord that is probably an overweight computer janitor does not believe me. There's a complementary pepper bar if you like, have nice day and enjoy your sandwich. I am skinny and attractive and work in retail head office. I've worked food service for years. Not sure why that has anything to do with anything but you were'n't making 12 sandwiches a minute! how many toasters did you have? isn't it at least like 30 seconds in the toaster? That means even with 12 people working (which quiznos never have), you have only 30 seconds per person per sandwich to take the order, make the sandwich, and take payment. and thats assuming you have 12 toasters, which again there's no way you had! I was mostly just messing with you but your extreme defensiveness indicates you have something to hide. my time working with lp as an assistant store manager has given me this kind of intuition.
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Extreme defensiveness defines this thread and I've enjoyed poking the beehive.
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The Walrus posted:I am skinny and attractive and work in retail head office. I've worked food service for years. Not sure why that has anything to do with anything but you were'n't making 12 sandwiches a minute! how many toasters did you have? isn't it at least like 30 seconds in the toaster? That means even with 12 people working (which quiznos never have), you have only 30 seconds per person per sandwich to take the order, make the sandwich, and take payment. and thats assuming you have 12 toasters, which again there's no way you had!  You have no idea what you're talking about but, keep  .
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Glenn Quebec posted:Extreme defensiveness defines this thread and I've enjoyed poking the beehive. You've done an admirable job irl.
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berth ell pup posted:You've done an admirable job irl. Thank you, sir.
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There's this one guy who comes in and I swear to good he'll wear the same clothing for a month at a time. As you can imagine he smells like smashed assholes encrusted in pissy smegma. He's not homeless and he drives a nice car. I keep wanting to kick him out of the store but my boss told me I can't so I just started keeping a can of air freshener by the register for when he comes in not that it does a drat thing. It's July in the South dude, go power wash your balls. Edit: I like mornings in retail. Plenty of time to read and argue about authoritarian power systems with the ice machine.
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The Walrus posted:I am skinny and attractive and work in retail head office. I've worked food service for years. Not sure why that has anything to do with anything but you were'n't making 12 sandwiches a minute! how many toasters did you have? isn't it at least like 30 seconds in the toaster? That means even with 12 people working (which quiznos never have), you have only 30 seconds per person per sandwich to take the order, make the sandwich, and take payment. and thats assuming you have 12 toasters, which again there's no way you had! The Quizno's toasters are on a conveyor belt, skinny and attractive guy.  And you might be unaware of this, but Quizno's also sells non-sandwich food items at the same time as sandwich food items!
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Glenn Quebec posted:Extreme defensiveness defines this thread and I've enjoyed poking the beehive. Even I've got nothing but  on this one
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MC Hawking posted:Edit: I like mornings in retail. Plenty of time to read and argue about authoritarian power systems with the ice machine. Mids can be OK depending, but gently caress closes unless you really really like gobacks, trying to get people to leave when they've decided that they live there now, and the fun game where you have to find all the gross things customers have hidden behind the merchandise.
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spite house posted:They're like the people who jeer about retail being the easiest job on the planet Anyone that thinks that isn't very observant. the lowest paying lovely jobs are always the hardest. the more you make the easier the job
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I forgot about the epic thing that happened about a month ago. I called some real young kid 'chico' when telling him to stay out of the street and this dude is like WHAT DID YOU SAY TO MY SON. Being a white rear end Latino sucks lmfao Although I'm a security guard now so usually as long as I don't start talking funny people are nice to me
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:You could write up a "Tip Bingo" list of random poo poo that happens in restaurants all the time. I'm really bored so I decided to try and come up with something for this based on things that usually happen at my work. Start from a 20% tip because you're not an animal. Add $1 for each of these that happens: Chef drops a pan, making a loud clang. Sound of shattering glass. Sound of muffled cursing from the kitchen. Someone's child makes a run for freedom. Another customer condescends to the waiter. Another customer self-righteously complains about something inconsequential. Another customer takes out some kind of condiment that they brought with them. Someone talks loudly on their phone. Subtract $1 for each of these: Specials are written in an incomprehensible font. Waiter walks by holding the same thing you ordered but takes it to someone else. Music suddenly gets really loud. Music suddenly gets really quiet. Music suddenly changes genres. (The last three are because a new manager came on. You can substitute glowering at the manager for subtracting $1) Feel free to add your own.
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Subtract 100% and never come back if the owner's bare-assed child is on your table https://www.eater.com/2017/7/6/15930870/imagine-vegan-cafe-naked-babies-memphis https://twitter.com/melip0ne/status/883010969986895873
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Rutibex posted:Anyone that thinks that isn't very observant. the lowest paying lovely jobs are always the hardest. the more you make the easier the job I found my retail years to be generally easy as I was a floor associate that helped sell random products and then moved on to run the copy center so it wasn't that bad of a day to day job with pretty low key responsibilities all told. The low pay and no/lovely benefits is the real kicker into why retail suck.
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Are a lot of retail workers nowadays possibly autistic?
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Doing the Quiznos math is tough for retail workers, evidenced by the freak out. Also, I, too am thin and attractive.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm so skinny and attractive God, same. Somehow this makes my opinion more important in the retail thread. lmfbo.
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