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felch me daddy jr.
Oct 30, 2009
This was my association:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0eWawTdt_w

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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Is this a morrissey song?

Maybe he's covered it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4kBcm-ls8Y

e: Love his shirt:



3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 17:57 on Sep 6, 2018

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012

quote:

Seriously though, the number of grown adults who pitch a WHINY HISSY FIT when I tell them that they can’t take an animal home is astounding.

My favorite one from this holiday season was a man with a young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) and a teenage boy. The man approaches me and, without me even asking what I can help them with, says:

Man: So we had a goldfish in a bowl and my son changed the food and it died!
Son: (clearly offended, yet texting) It wasn’t MY fault!
Me: Actually the reason it more than likely died is because goldfish REALLY shouldn’t be kept in bowls.
Man: Well it’s a big bowl, like this! (mimes about a gallon-sized bowl shape)
Me: Yeah, that’s actually pretty darn tiny.
Man: Well anyway, we want to get another one.
Girl: I want three!
Me: Unfortunately I can’t sell you a fish today– your setup really isn’t going to work for a goldfish. You’re going to need at least 10 gallons for just ONE and even then you’re going to have to upgrade within a month or so. Goldfish really aren’t a beginner fish…

As I say that I brace myself knowing what’s coming up. Almost every time I refuse sale of a fish, I get the same reaction: outrage and demanding to talk to the manager, etc.

Man: Well I HAVE a tank.
Me: …I really don’t feel comfortable selling you the fish since I really feel like you’re not going to give it the proper care it needs for a long and healthy life.
Man: What?! I said I have a tank! Why won’t you sell me the fish?!
Me: How big is the tank?
Man: 10 gallons!
Me: I still don’t feel comfortable selling you the fish. I’m going to have to refuse the sale, I’m very sorry.
Man: What do you mean?!
Me: I’m not going to sell you fish today, I’m very sorry.
Man: I demand to talk to your manager!!!
Me: -points to nametag- Sir, I AM the manager.
Man: -takes a full pause, not expecting this-
Man: So you’re not going to sell me a fish, really? These 15-cent fish that you feed to turtles, you’d sell it for that but not to me??
Me: If you had the setup for it, I would be more than happy to.
Man: I told you I have a tank!
Me: You told me you had your fish in a bowl. I honestly believe you are just saying this to get the fish at this point, sir, I’m sorry.
Man: What do you I have to do, bring in a picture to prove I have it??
Me: -calling his bluff in a cheerful tone- Absolutely! I would love to see pictures of your tank and I would be more than happy to help you stock it after seeing your setup!
Man: (He takes another full pause) I’m going to call the company and COMPLAIN about you! This is ridiculous, what’s the number to complain??
Me: I’m afraid I don’t know that off the top of my head sir.
Man: You don’t know the company number???
Me: No sir, but I believe it’s on our website.

While this was going on, the teenage boy was in the reptiles aisle texting and the girl was watching the turtles swim around in our tank nearby. The man then grabs his daughter by the hand and does this in front of other customers:

Man: Let’s go– the lady’s not going to sell us fish. She’s a MEAN LADY. (he’s staring directly at me as I stand there with no expression on my face)
Girl: Oh we’re not getting fish? -not even upset-
Man: Yeah because she’s a MEAN LADY. (he says these words at a higher volume and with more emphasis)

He continues to repeat that phrase as he exits down the reptile aisle, making customers uncomfortable and I just shrug and go back to what I was doing before this scene.

An hour later I get a call from corporate.

NC: Hi, this is the national center, we just wanted to ask about the conditions surrounding a complaint we received about you. A customer has complained that you wouldn’t sell him a fish even after stating he had the correct setup. We just would like to hear your side of the story.
Me: (I tell him about the fact the guy had a goldfish in a bowl and then changed his story saying he had a tank and that I refused sale because I didn’t feel he was being honest or would care for the animal)
Me: And then he left the store, calling me a “mean lady” several times in a loud voice and said he would call you guys.
NC: Ok Christina, I just wanted to let you know that we agree with you 100% and that you did everything you were supposed to. We wish you a very happy holiday season and I hope your shift goes well!
Me: Thank you! You too!

I did a little happy dance and told the other manager on duty, who didn’t believe me when I said the company would have my back on the issue (he thought the company would bend over backwards for the guy and it would bite me in the butt)

BUT WAIT IT GETS BETTER

The next day I come in for work at 2PM to find out from my general manager that the guy had called the store (after the nat center told him I was correct, mind you) to complain about me and saying that my behavior was “irresponsible” and that I was “unprofessional” and that I should be reprimanded or fired.

My general manager just said “Well I’m sorry to hear that sir but you see, she has NEVER gotten a complaint as long as she has worked for the company and the national center has already stated that she has done everything according to policy. Sorry you feel that way, man, but there’s nothing I’m going to do against her in this situation.”

Made my week.

So, yeah, my company defended the life of a 15-cent “feeder” goldfish.

I’m pretty drat happy about that.

...and that goldfish, was Albert Einstein.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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The least believable part of it is a corporate office receiving a complaint and acting on it within an hour. That was probably how long the person would have been on hold for at best.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
https://twitter.com/vlcker77/status/1037361117457276928?s=19

Not only is this stupid, its a blatant knockoff. This joke has been made 1000 times on the internet. Who do you think you are, guy?

The replies are pretty good

https://twitter.com/vlcker77/status/1037433350665986049?s=19

https://twitter.com/vlcker77/status/1037500363975401472?s=19

Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 19:50 on Sep 6, 2018

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
shit_that_didn't_happen.txt: -points to nametag- Sir, I AM the manager.

life is killing me
Oct 28, 2007

Who tries to micromanage how someone cares for a goldfish after they buy it and leave the store?

Pretty sure a company would rather profit than have an employee get anal about the easiest loving thing to care for in the world and refuse to sell it

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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A responsible pet store? If you want a goldfish to live in a bowl for a week and then flush it after it dies, go to a county fair. Taking proper care of a goldfish isn't "the easiest loving thing in the world".

If he said they were buying them as feeder fish I'm sure he would have sold it to them no problem. But you can't tell a responsible pet store that you are going to keep the thing in lovely conditions and expect to be sold something you intend to keep as a pet. Fish are animals too even if they are slimier than a cute puppy or something.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

yeah I eat rear end posted:

A responsible pet store?

This is the real fake part. Pet stores (at a corporate level) are involved in some of the most unethical and gross treatment of animals. There's no way they'd be applauding an employee for refusing to sell a fish to someone

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


They sell goldfish by the dozen for like $3. Just sell the guy a single fish and move on with your life.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

«Goldfish are not beginner fish» lmfao

venus de lmao
Apr 30, 2007

Call me "pixeltits"

Isn't there a goon who knows a fair bit about fish and also hates people? I feel like the difficulty of caring for goldfish is probably the only believable part of that story, because lmao if you think a corporate office is going to do anything but kiss the guy's rear end and maybe offer him coupons to placate him.

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!




I love the 'Wow who even has that kind of free time to discredit a tweet' attitude, tyool 2018.

e: I see a clickbait/stdh story shared on my social media feeds, I can pretty much guarantee that there will be a post not long after about the same thing, or it will be like 'remember that guy who did THAT THING? Well check out THIS OTHER PERSON WHO DID A SIMILAR THING.'

TheMostFrench has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Sep 7, 2018

Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Bertrand Hustle posted:

Isn't there a goon who knows a fair bit about fish and also hates people? I feel like the difficulty of caring for goldfish is probably the only believable part of that story, because lmao if you think a corporate office is going to do anything but kiss the guy's rear end and maybe offer him coupons to placate him.

Yeah, it's like when they called Obama a socialist. I wish it were true, but it's clearly not.

SilkyP
Jul 21, 2004

The Boo-Box

I have never been to a pet store that seemed animal friendly at all. If I was that fictional goldfish I would rather take my chances with the old man.

"Better to die and get flushed by a liver spotted old man than to live neglected in a fish concentration camp"

-Fishbert Goldstein

dovetaile
Jul 8, 2011

Grimey Drawer
I've worked in a corporate pet store for years and most of that story rings true except the part where all of her employers are all thrilled at her for refusing a sale. I've absolutely refused sales for feeder fish and even koi and none of my managers backed me up. Even if it was an absolutely poo poo environment and they should not have been sold a fish (koi in a 10G).

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

dovetaile posted:

I've worked in a corporate pet store for years and most of that story rings true except the part where all of her employers are all thrilled at her for refusing a sale. I've absolutely refused sales for feeder fish and even koi and none of my managers backed me up. Even if it was an absolutely poo poo environment and they should not have been sold a fish (koi in a 10G).

Is this like meta stdh? Because koi and goldfish aren't the same thing

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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I don't think they were saying they are, just that people are equally ignorant about how to take care of them.

dovetaile
Jul 8, 2011

Grimey Drawer

yeah I eat rear end posted:

I don't think they were saying they are, just that people are equally ignorant about how to take care of them.

It's this. And as an example of how much my managers didn't have my back (koi , at minimum need a 75+ gallon tank and I would have customers trying to put them in 30Gs and when I refused the sale would go to a manager and then get their fish).

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012

quote:

My new meds make my skin throw a fit. It’s not terribly bad, just a few things here and there, but it’s bumming me out because I’ve never really had too many run-ins with acne.

My four-year-old sister, however, is under the impression that it’s just “3D freckles”, and that they look very, very pretty. She wants all of my freckles to “pop out”, especially the ones across my nose; they’re her favourite.

And it puts me in this weird position where I can’t say, “No, this is acne, and it’s bad,” because I don’t want to teach her that it’s a bad to have unclear skin, you know?

Because the more I think about interactions I have with children, the more I realise that children will consistently compliment “flaws” until they’ve been taught not to.

Like, a kid at the library, whose sister has vitiligo, saw my scars once and suggested that his sister and I should be cats for Halloween, since I have “tabby skin” and she has “calico skin”. “I can be a black cat,” he immediately added. “It’s not AS cool, but they’re the spookiest.”

When I started losing weight, my little brother immediately demanded that I gain it back, because I wasn’t as comfortable to cuddle with anymore.

And my other little sister always wants to wear her paint-stained clothes to school so that “everyone can tell [she’s] an artist”.

I don’t know. I guess talking to little kids just reminds me that all of this superficial poo poo we worry about really is 100% made up.

tag urself, im the black kid comparing himself to a black animal b/c this really happened and isn't racist at all

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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I thought that first bit was going to go into an extremely :chloe: direction, like he let the kid pop the zits as some kind of fetish thing.

THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.
I still have two goldfish from the county fair back in 2010. They're massive

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

GreenMetalSun posted:

I did a little happy dance
Ugh

NtotheTC
Dec 31, 2007


GreenMetalSun posted:

"Because the more I think about interactions I have with children, the more I realise that children will consistently compliment “flaws” until they’ve been taught not to. "

"Children are so woke! perhaps it is ADULTS who are the problem?".

No fuckwit, its the children. My kid didn't want to eat a yoghurt the other day because the there was a tiny film around the edge of the lid and surely that meant it was gone off and poisonous.

Kids are hyper-sensitive to flaws and will loudly point them out and go "ewwwwwww" unless you sit them down and explain to them about politeness and acceptance.

Anyone who thinks children are darling little cherubs does not spend any length of time within earshot of one.

felch me daddy jr.
Oct 30, 2009
Children are loving sociopaths and emulating them is most of the time a terrible, terrible idea.

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost
"I don't want to teach her it's bad to have unclean skin"

....uh? Yes it is. Wash your drat face you clown.

If you have legit medical problems with acne, that's different. However, I'm willing to bet the author here subsists on grease-laden food, doesn't wash their face, and is constantly touching their face.

"My new medication made my skin throw a fit"

No it didn't. Wash your face.

Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!
They're just rebelling against the Mosaic laws about how to deal with skin blemishes. I don't need to go to no priest!

burial
Sep 13, 2002

actually, that won't be necessary.

Zipperelli. posted:

"I don't want to teach her it's bad to have unclean skin"

....uh? Yes it is. Wash your drat face you clown.

If you have legit medical problems with acne, that's different. However, I'm willing to bet the author here subsists on grease-laden food, doesn't wash their face, and is constantly touching their face.

"My new medication made my skin throw a fit"

No it didn't. Wash your face.

Not that I disagree with anything you just said, but I’m pretty sure the original post said unclear skin, so the message, however stupid, is more like “don’t make fun of people with acne” than it is “it’s ok not to wash your face.”

The whole thing is still dumb.

Skunkduster
Jul 15, 2005




NtotheTC posted:

Kids are hyper-sensitive to flaws and will loudly point them out and go "ewwwwwww" unless you sit them down and explain to them about politeness and acceptance.

I picked up my daughter from daycare when she was about 3 years old and the kid sitting next to her said, "Your dad has weird teeth."

Thanks, kid.

Zipperelli.
Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost

burial posted:

Not that I disagree with anything you just said, but I’m pretty sure the original post said unclear skin, so the message, however stupid, is more like “don’t make fun of people with acne” than it is “it’s ok not to wash your face.”

The whole thing is still dumb.

Point taken. Unclear and unclean are totally different.

My point still stands though, wash your drat face.

burial
Sep 13, 2002

actually, that won't be necessary.

Zipperelli. posted:

Point taken. Unclear and unclean are totally different.

My point still stands though, wash your drat face.

A lot of people could really use this advice.

hyperhazard
Dec 4, 2011

I am the one lascivious
With magic potion niveous


:rolleyes:

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/karlsmallwood/status/317395712302276610?s=21

He still has his fake story as a pinned tweet 5 years later.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Does that not work? I've never actually played Roller Coaster Tycoon but isn't that the game where you can put a sign that says "do not enter" at the exit of you park and guests will never leave?

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Len posted:

Does that not work? I've never actually played Roller Coaster Tycoon but isn't that the game where you can put a sign that says "do not enter" at the exit of you park and guests will never leave?

None of the games have had rival parks on the map.

felch me daddy jr.
Oct 30, 2009
Yeah, what you did was create a deathcoaster (actually more likely a go-kart with the exit connected directly to water) in an isolated area and manually put all the unhappy people in that area.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


chitoryu12 posted:

None of the games have had rival parks on the map.

Ah didn't know that. I knew there were scenarios just figured that was one

Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


Len posted:

Ah didn't know that. I knew there were scenarios just figured that was one

So did he :v:

NtotheTC
Dec 31, 2007


felch me daddy jr. posted:

Yeah, what you did was create a deathcoaster (actually more likely a go-kart with the exit connected directly to water) in an isolated area and manually put all the unhappy people in that area.

So like shopping malls and Hot Topic?

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THE BIG DOG DADDY
Oct 16, 2013

Rasheed was, with Aliases, the top 7 PvPers in Bone Krew.


No one talks about this.

NtotheTC posted:

So like shopping malls and Hot Topic?

#Wow

You really nailed hot topic to the wall with that post!

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