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When I worked night shift, I was working my aisle and a lady came up to me, asked for something, and I directed her to it. A few minutes later she comes back, says I looked sad, asked for my name, and grabbed my hands and began to pray for me. It was pretty unexpected. I was too stunned to really say anything.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:http://www.zappos.com/mens-sneakers...alesStyle/desc/ I used to find the occasional Chick tract shoved in our magazine stand or tucked somewhere on the counter. I always kept them just because they were so funny.
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Pornographic Memory posted:I had a customer randomly thrust a pocket Bible into my hand and give me the whole "Jesus loves you" spiel after having me slice her bread. I guess as somebody who is a non-believer I make a good target in a sense, but I barely even said anything to her before that, let alone anything about religion. I just smiled and nodded because I just want those kind of people to go away and leave me alone. I'll get those sometimes, too. I'll talk to someone during a transaction and it'll seem routine, and then after they get their receipt they'll whip out this thing that looks like a million dollar bill but it's actually JESUS and they give it to me to read. I immediately throw it away. I'm a Christian and I believe, but Jesus isn't going to pay my bills. Sankis posted:When I worked night shift, I was working my aisle and a lady came up to me, asked for something, and I directed her to it. A few minutes later she comes back, says I looked sad, asked for my name, and grabbed my hands and began to pray for me. Years ago at my first job in a grocery store I was working one day with a pretty bad cold. I had a couple ask if they could heal me by putting their hands on me and praying. They were faith healers. At that point I didn't really care because I felt like crap and it would make them go away. I was still sick for a week after that. I guess it didn't work.
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Sep 4, 2013 15:16
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I lived a mountain town when I worked in retail, it was a nice mix of locals (mostly the hillbilly type) and college students. The people who worked at the store were mostly college students. One local lady would always tell me "GOD BLESS YOU" when she checked out. Except for my one co-worker who the lady was convinced that she was a non-believer, and instead of "GOD BLESS YOU" the lady would tell her about Jesus and God and how she needed to repent for her sins and such, this co-worker also received many pamphlets about God. My co-worker was a mouthy sorority girl so I believe she had it coming.
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Sep 4, 2013 21:55
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So I'm leaving my retail grocery store cashier job soon and I've been thinking about any stories that I could post here. I just have three little  moments that occurred. This grocery store is pretty lenient and the people rather nice, so I can't really complain about it much.One time this guy comes in and after a very standard transaction starts telling me about the moon rotating (as in, its face rotated, not the natural rotation that the moon has) because it was it by an asteroid and NASA and the government doesn't want us to know about it because...? I have no idea what the government would gain by covering up the moon rotating or how it would even do that but then he starts ranting about that's why the tide and the weather is messed up too. The very next day a completely different guy mentions it and I'm very confused because I've never heard of such a "conspiracy theory". Another time, this guy slides his card and stares the machine after pushing as the buttons necessary. He just kind of stares at it for a second and says something like "Amazing, isn't? Computers, you know? My phone is more complex than the computers at NASA during the moon landing." And then he uses that to segue into how we've never been to the moon and it's all a lie for a decent amount while the cashier rang up the rest of the order. After the cashier gave him his receipt he just walks away and shouts "And...and.. Islam is a moon religion". The final story, and this one is unrelated to the moon, is that a woman brings a large cut of ribs to the cashier and asks for a manager because the ribs are frozen. Well, what's wrong with ribs being frozen? Well obviously it's heavier because of it, just like how ice is heavier than the water it's frozen from, according to this customer. She claims it was adding a pound or two to the total weight. The manager went back to the meat department, probably had a laugh, and then marked it down one dollar and this appeased the customer. Now these ribs are a couple of dollars a pound so taking a dollar off wouldn't really compensate for the apparent pound added by freezing but something tells me math isn't this woman's strong point because the difference between density and weight escapes her.
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Sep 4, 2013 23:58
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In Rainbows posted:Another time, this guy slides his card and stares the machine after pushing as the buttons necessary. He just kind of stares at it for a second and says something like "Amazing, isn't? Computers, you know? My phone is more complex than the computers at NASA during the moon landing." And then he uses that to segue into how we've never been to the moon and it's all a lie for a decent amount while the cashier rang up the rest of the order. After the cashier gave him his receipt he just walks away and shouts "And...and.. Islam is a moon religion". Have to say this guy got two of three right. Modern smartphones do have more processing power than the Apollo era space craft and large portions of Islam traditions and holidays are based on the lunar calendar (Ramadan, Eid, Hajj, etc).
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I can't imagine conspiracy guy was talking about Islam and its relation to the lunar calendar when he said that.
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kansas posted:Have to say this guy got two of three right. Modern smartphones do have more processing power than the Apollo era space craft and large portions of Islam traditions and holidays are based on the lunar calendar (Ramadan, Eid, Hajj, etc). He probably wasn't referring to the lunar calendar but more likely the belief some people have that Muslims worship some sort of moon god.
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Sep 5, 2013 13:57
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We have a guy that preaches to everyone. He harasses people in line. He hands out pamphlets. He tells the exact same story to every person he sees. I am completely non-religious and don't judge anyone for their own religious beliefs, but this guy drives me insane. He actually bothers people. He makes people instantly uncomfortable. I've been on the opposite side, too. I do most of my food shopping at the military commissary (yay for cheap food!) and there is a cashier there that says "Praise Jesus!" every time she scans something. She doesn't really preach anything, but every scan is praise jesus or hallelujah or lord have mercy. It's just... weird. For some reason it makes me sort of uncomfortable, but I've never said anything to her. I had a nurse try to get me angry about taxes not too long ago. It was right after taxes were slightly raised and she wanted to know if I had gotten a paycheck that reflected to extra taxes taken out yet. I had, but I don't make enough money to notice much of a difference. She got herself all worked up and was so mad that I wasn't angry about my taxes going up as a minimum wage worker. I told her I was fine with paying my share of using public roads and public schools, for streetlights and social programs etc. She left very exasperated that I wouldn't get angry about having to pay more taxes. I told her the only thing I was angry about was billion dollar corporations paying less in taxes than me, percentage-wise. And that I thought churches should pay at least property taxes. I live smack dab in the middle of a sea of red in semi-rural KY, so most of my customers think I'm an uneducated idiot when they try to talk about politics with me. I'm surprised they haven't tar and feathered me yet, to be honest!
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Sep 5, 2013 14:54
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ThreeFish posted:I've been on the opposite side, too. I do most of my food shopping at the military commissary (yay for cheap food!) and there is a cashier there that says "Praise Jesus!" every time she scans something. She doesn't really preach anything, but every scan is praise jesus or hallelujah or lord have mercy. It's just... weird. For some reason it makes me sort of uncomfortable, but I've never said anything to her. This would actually get you fired, or at the very least demoted into oblivion, in most non-lovely places.
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Sep 6, 2013 01:26
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:This would actually get you fired, or at the very least demoted into oblivion, in most non-lovely places. Heh, I am convinced retail and non-lovely are mutually exclusive. I feel bad for the Jehova's Witness people that come in to our pharmacy, they're constantly trying to get people to talk about the bible and get such a dejected look when they get told no. I can't remember if they do creationism but, all I had to do was bring up evolution and they never spoke to me again.
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Sep 6, 2013 03:26
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When our company still pushed out weekly ads in Sunday newspapers, our store employees could expect some wonderfully racist remarks anytime a non-Christian holiday was mentioned in the ad. In particular, the Muslim holiday Eid Al-Adha, but Kwanzaa was a close 2nd. Not a week goes by where I'm not having to flag a particular racist comment from one of our Facebook pages about how the company supports <random racist term> terrorists as part of the "War on Christmas". Oddly, they seem to reach their height in the middle of July.
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Sep 6, 2013 05:43
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A customer who gave me 4.75 for a 4.70 purchase came back later having forgotten how much they payed me. Angrily they claimed the 5 cents I had given was not enough change. What caused them to believe they had payed more? Looking at their receipt they saw the phrase "amount tendered - 4.75" and thought that meant they had handed me a ten dollar bill. Amount Ten, I guess. Hoooly poo poo. I explain what the word tendered means, and they say "oh", but are still convinced they had handed me a ten all of a sudden. They had been okay 10 minutes ago when I handed them their change the first time. My manager gave them the extra 6 dollars they were "owed" in change because even though my till had no ten dollar bills in it, and I apparently have a very good track record in my Till total being correct at the end of the day, we couldn't risk losing a customer over this slight. It wasn't even a regular or something.
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Sep 6, 2013 06:40
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Kimmalah posted:He probably wasn't referring to the lunar calendar but more likely the belief some people have that Muslims worship some sort of moon god. Of course you're right, temporarily forgot I was in the retail thread.
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Sep 6, 2013 07:09
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LibbyM posted:A customer who gave me 4.75 for a 4.70 purchase came back later having forgotten how much they payed me. Angrily they claimed the 5 cents I had given was not enough change. What caused them to believe they had payed more? Looking at their receipt they saw the phrase "amount tendered - 4.75" and thought that meant they had handed me a ten dollar bill. Amount Ten, I guess. Hoooly poo poo. It's hard to believe that anyone in the world is this stupid, so I guess they were hell-bent on scamming five dollars?
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Sep 6, 2013 08:09
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:It's hard to believe that anyone in the world is this stupid, so I guess they were hell-bent on scamming five dollars? I mean maybe, but if you're going to be scamming why even do the whole "amount tendered" part. Like, just come in and make a big fuss about how you payed ten dollars and I gave you the wrong change. It irritates the hell out of me that my manager is a big enough pushover to the point that when there's no ten dollar bills in my till and I can scroll through the previous transactions and show that every one after hers was a Debit/Credit Transaction, that he would still give the money to a customer who was obviously wrong/lying.
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Sep 6, 2013 08:20
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LibbyM posted:I mean maybe, but if you're going to be scamming why even do the whole "amount tendered" part. Like, just come in and make a big fuss about how you payed ten dollars and I gave you the wrong change. I was actually given a significant amount of wrong change once and didn't notice it until after the fact, my mind was completely buried in something else (I guess this makes me a lovely customer). I resolved the situation by going to customer service, calmly explaining what I believe happened, and leaving my phone number so that when they counted the till, if it was over the amount I thought I was shorted they could set it aside and I could come get it, instead of having to halt operation of one of the registers (I mean I may have been absent minded but I'm not a complete douche, I have worked plenty of retail myself). I was right, and the next day I swung by and got the money, no harm no foul I hope. Back in my teenage years I worked for Linens n Things, which I believe is now bankrupt but it was basically a shittier version of Bed Bath and Beyond. There were two recurring incidents that always got to me, which was the audacity of the thieves, and the returns. As far as returns went, we would take back most anything, and rarely would we dispute it, but there was one group of people that would constantly come in with returns, I would deny it, my manager would argue with them for a while but would ALWAYS approve in the end. The goods were usually well out of our return window (I think the window was like 3 months, these would be 5+ years), extremely heavily worn, soiled and smelly. I don't understand why it was so hard to give them a concrete no, but it never ever happened. Our store also had no security, most nights there would just be three of us in a rather large store, one cashier, one person stocking everything and the manager, who more often than not would go into the office for the last 3-5 hours of the shift. We were not allowed to leave the store, not allowed to confront thieves, etc. We also had no cameras at the doorways or in the parking lots. This led to people who would literally load up carts with hundred of dollars in comforters and the like and just walk out the door with it, and we were forbidden to even attempt to get a license plate, etc. Of course I was barely making over minimum wage and couldn't care less what the company did, I wasn't going to put my own safety on the line, so I really didn't care, it just struck me as ridiculous. My breaking point for this job was our district manager. Whereas our store manager was lazy and/or inept, our district manager was just plain cruel. He would come into the store, see something he didn't like, find the smallest, most timid woman there and just start screaming at her about the problem, regardless of whose fault it was, until the lady was in tears. This happened on at least three occasions during the months I worked there, and I know the last time it had happened myself and three others quit on the spot, and it took two of us to hold back the son whose mother got verbally berated from putting that dm in the hospital. I also worked at a mall KB toys when I was 16. Management sucked and corporate treated us like the poo poo on the bottom of their shoes, but I got to build forts in storage, play board games and ride around on scooters at work so really I didn't hate that job nearly as much.
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Sep 6, 2013 10:28
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Yoda posted:I was actually given a significant amount of wrong change once and didn't notice it until after the fact, my mind was completely buried in something else (I guess this makes me a lovely customer). I resolved the situation by going to customer service, calmly explaining what I believe happened, and leaving my phone number so that when they counted the till, if it was over the amount I thought I was shorted they could set it aside and I could come get it, instead of having to halt operation of one of the registers (I mean I may have been absent minded but I'm not a complete douche, I have worked plenty of retail myself). I was right, and the next day I swung by and got the money, no harm no foul I hope. Yah it's completely reasonable to not immediately realize you've been wrongly changed, and it sounds like you handled it in the best possible way you could. If I actually short changed someone I don't think I'd even be annoyed about them coming up and talking to me about it, I didn't have a big line or something when she came back. It's the insanity of "amount ten" and my manager giving money to someone he KNEW wasn't actually short changed that made me have to come here and rant. It's the manager part that bothers me the most. I've seen him be a huge door mat to customers because he's scared we'll lose business, and I've hardly ever seen them come back after walking all over him. He once payed out of his own hands for the loving parking ticket of a customer who thought it was the stores fault that he can't ready any signs before he parks his car, just because he happened to be shopping here after parking illegally. I have never seen that customer again.
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Sep 6, 2013 10:47
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Some kid came up to the register and slapped a $50 Amazon gift card on the counter. Not thinking anything of it, I scanned it up and read him the total. He then starts to mutter "I-I have a coupon for it." Now, I know we straight up don't accept coupons on gift cards, so this immediately piqued my interest and I got giddy like a school girl on school girl Christmas. I give him a quick "Uh huh," and reach for the coupon he pulled out of his coat pocket. And maaaaaan, if this wasn't the sorriest looking knockoff fraudulent internet coupon I had ever seen printed on the soupiest of floppy paper. I just laugh and tell him I can't accept that. I laughed for a solid three minutes after that. Gosh.
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Sep 6, 2013 12:47
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Yoda posted:Back in my teenage years I worked for Linens n Things, which I believe is now bankrupt but it was basically a shittier version of Bed Bath and Beyond. There were two recurring incidents that always got to me, which was the audacity of the thieves, and the returns. As far as returns went, we would take back most anything, and rarely would we dispute it, but there was one group of people that would constantly come in with returns, I would deny it, my manager would argue with them for a while but would ALWAYS approve in the end. The goods were usually well out of our return window (I think the window was like 3 months, these would be 5+ years), extremely heavily worn, soiled and smelly. I don't understand why it was so hard to give them a concrete no, but it never ever happened. This is one of those conflicts that occasionally happen at my store. For the most part, if a return doesn't seem kosher, we can deny it (like some woman and kid who tried to return paint they had yanked off the shelf). Generally, I always get a manager involved if there is something funny about a return, just so I can have the weight of him being behind me killing a return. Typically, if it's the store manager, he'll deny a bad return. If it's the Front End ASM, though, he'll start becoming a door mat about things. Otherwise, today is the last seven hours of me working front end. Tomorrow I move back to flooring. I don't have to act as a greeter anymore, just to have people question my intelligence. I cannot count the number of people who will ask me where an item/department is, only to say "are you sure?" or "it's not over there? (pointing at our indoor seasonal department)". No, no, I only work here, what do I know. I will also not miss people getting rude, upset, offended, and down right angry and obnoxious when you explain to them they cannot leave through doors that say "NO EXIT". I find it exceptionally hilarious when they will check out at the registers, not leave through the exit that is right there, but walk around to the front doors and try to leave, because their car is parked right out there. It would've been just as fast if you had gone out the exit that was behind your register. So yeah, I won't miss being a cashier at our store. But, I need to get a second job because my hours are dropping to 25/wk so who knows what that will be like.
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Sep 6, 2013 13:35
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It's been a month since I quit my Toys R Us job. My fiance makes enough to cover bills and things so I have been enjoying being lazy and sitting on my rear end all the time. I am getting everything set up so I can go back to college in the spring. I haven't looked back once. I know my store was scheduled to have Fall Resets last month and sometimes I think about going back just out of curiosity to see how the store looks now. But then I think about the fact that I'll have to see all my old coworkers and they'll ask me what I've been up to and where I'm working now. I told them all I was quitting to go back to school so they probably all think I'm currently enrolled. And I just don't want to talk to anyone. I just wish I could get 5 minutes with no employees to wander around in peace and then leave. As far as returns and stuff, all my managers are pushovers too. Especially since the introduction of that "Say Yes to the Guest" policy I told you guys about last month. So heads up, if you have a toy you want to get rid of, they'll likely take it back.
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Sep 6, 2013 15:01
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chazburgr posted:Some kid came up to the register and slapped a $50 Amazon gift card on the counter. Not thinking anything of it, I scanned it up and read him the total. He then starts to mutter "I-I have a coupon for it." Now, I know we straight up don't accept coupons on gift cards, so this immediately piqued my interest and I got giddy like a school girl on school girl Christmas. I give him a quick "Uh huh," and reach for the coupon he pulled out of his coat pocket. And maaaaaan, if this wasn't the sorriest looking knockoff fraudulent internet coupon I had ever seen printed on the soupiest of floppy paper. I just laugh and tell him I can't accept that. I laughed for a solid three minutes after that. Gosh. That is just adorable. What was his reaction? Right before I gave notice at my last job, a customer brought a 'coupon' for a free pack of reds obviously printed on regular printer paper, not even card stock. I took it back to the ASM at the time to "ask if I could accept it," and he found it just as funny as I did. The guy just dejectedly nodded his head and left. Hilarious.
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Sep 6, 2013 17:25
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I had a Crazy Religious Lady today. She was nice enough and wasn't mean or crabby. Just... weird. I was working service desk today. She came up after making a purchase through the registers, and told me she wanted to buy a lottery ticket because she had a 'dollar with the devil number' on it, and she didn't want 'the devil in my pocket.' She must have said 'Devil number' at least 4 times. Her dollar bill had a 666 in the serial number. She bought her lottery ticket and tottered off, and I put the evil Devil Dollar in my register. I gave it in a return to the next customer who was kind of crabby. 
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Sep 6, 2013 22:41
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Mooktastical posted:Right before I gave notice at my last job, a customer brought a 'coupon' for a free pack of reds obviously printed on regular printer paper, not even card stock. I took it back to the ASM at the time to "ask if I could accept it," and he found it just as funny as I did. The guy just dejectedly nodded his head and left. Hilarious. I wasn't the one running the register at the time, but I once saw a fake coupon sitting on the CSM podium with "FRAUDULENT" written across it. It was for something absurd like 80% off an item with a shelf price of $100, blown up on an entire sheet of printer paper, printed with a lovely printer that stained the whole sheet gray and made it impossible to read the fine print. Like, how could someone possibly expect such a ridiculously suspicious coupon to get accepted?
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Sep 7, 2013 00:34
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I've gotten literal Chick tracts before. From kids. Who were just chomping at the bit to give them to me. And then told me VERY SERIOUSLY that I needed to read them and to please come to their church. All this from 8 year olds. I recently got a new job in addition to my retail job, since the retail job pays pittance and frankly makes me wish I were dead on a daily basis. I'm a literal lunch lady at an elementary school but I...like...it? It's been so long since I've actually enjoyed going to work that it's such a strange alien feeling to me. I'm disappointed that I have to go to my retail job tomorrow. I'm sad it's the weekend. At least as a lunch lady I spend nearly every second of my shift working, and working FAST. At the hardware store, I'll be lucky to do two hours out of an eight hour shift actually doing any real work.
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Sep 7, 2013 00:52
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DarkHamsterlord posted:Like, how could someone possibly expect such a ridiculously suspicious coupon to get accepted? Probably every two months, the forums of one of the many "retail deals" websites will get a troll post with a fake coupon for our stores, generally with some ridiculous terms. The stores will get people coming in with poorly printed out copies, and then loudly complain to the store, to our call center and our social media sites about how we're trying to screw them out of hard earned money. And then there are the more gray-area situations where a mistake is made in a pricing or special offer, the offer is pulled, but those same sites take a screenshot and encourage members to print it off and bring it in to demand the deal, even after it has been publicly rescinded. Usually with a complaint about "bait and switch" laws.
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Sep 7, 2013 01:03
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I may have told this one before, but a national paper once printed a coupon for a free copy of Big on DVD that was redeemable at Virgin stores. Apparently there was a sub brand of Virgin called Virgin Game, and the way the list of participating stores was listed had it so that "Virgin" was the last word on one line of the coupon and "Game" was the first word of the next. Cue the most tiresome Sunday I had managing a branch of Game. Beginning with me trying to work out why head office had done a promotion for a film we'd never stocked, then wondering why we'd partnered with Virgin to give away free poo poo, THEN realising that it was gently caress all to do with us at all. Most people were fine about it and went up the road to Virgin, but some were absolute arseholes about it. At one point I had to say to a customer: "Look, if I took out an advert saying that you were giving people a free copy of Big, would that obligate you to accommodate anyone that came to your house for it? No, of course you wouldn't, and that's why we can't be expected to give you a copy when another company is the one saying we will. And they don't even say that we will anyway. Yes, it's printed in a misleading way, that's not my fault either."
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Sep 7, 2013 09:29
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Last week as I was pulling into the store parking lot, I got tailgated by some rear end in a top hat chubby chick in a black SUV. This person was pretty much riding my rear end a few blocks back before I even got near the store. I pull into a parking space in the very crowded lot, and immediately get a full horn. I just ignore it, park, get out of my car, and trod on to my lovely job for the next 8-10 hours. I get off my shift, get in my car, and get on the freeway. I noticed that my car is pulling heavily toward the right and that I had to turn the wheel significantly to the left to prevent the car from veering into another lane. I got off the freeway, pulled into a gas station, and noticed that my right tire is almost completely flat. Awesome. I have a 'flat' warranty with this set of tires, so I put some air in the thing, and carefully drove it to the nearby tire shop I bought the set from. Chances are that I ran over some random screw or nail that got embedded in the tire, and poo poo just happened. Three hours later, the folks at the shop let me know that nothing is wrong with the tire in question, and that the most likely cause is someone let the loving air out of it..... Gee, I wonder who that might of been? Lady, Thank you so much for taking 3 hours out of my day I could of spent studying/eating/sleeping, and almost causing me to wreck on the god drat freeway because you couldn't get your precious parking spot that would require your fat rear end to walk 10 yards less than usual. gently caress people
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Sep 7, 2013 09:59
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People who obsess over getting a parking spot as close to the store as possible are loving stupid. You save way more time and get more exercise just by parking farther away. I would be so pissed off if someone did that to me, especially if it were some lardass chick tailgating me in a gas guzzling SUV that she probably doesn't even use to haul anyone but her own fat rear end around in.
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Sep 7, 2013 11:41
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Mooktastical posted:That is just adorable. What was his reaction? Is that weird? I used to get coupons printed on regular paper (not card stock) all the time. Of course our store's gimmick was emailing coupons to customers. I know I've printed a few from the manufacturer online and no one has ever considered it a red flag. MrSmokes posted:People who obsess over getting a parking spot as close to the store as possible are loving stupid. You save way more time and get more exercise just by parking farther away. I would be so pissed off if someone did that to me, especially if it were some lardass chick tailgating me in a gas guzzling SUV that she probably doesn't even use to haul anyone but her own fat rear end around in. My mom drives me crazy with this. She'll circle a store parking lot for 20 minutes looking for a space close to the door and will pass up plenty of perfectly good empty spaces in the middle/back of the lot. And god help you if you say anything to her about how it's kind of a waste of time and we could already be in the store by now because "I don't want to park halfway across town!" Then she always comes to me complaining that she really needs to get more exercise somehow. 
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Sep 7, 2013 17:57
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Myself and a couple other people were at Tim Horton's today, and one of us ordered this new sandwich that comes with this bread with all this herb topping stuff. I didn't eat one but the bread seemed nice enough. Herbs got loving everywhere all over the table we were eating at, and being polite we swept them up into our wrappers to throw out with everything. But having worked in Food Services before all I could think about was how much of a nightmare this new sandwich must be. Even the customers who are decent enough to throw out their garbage probably don't take the time to deal with the herbs. I know every food has a potential to create some mess, but holy poo poo just EVERYWHERE with that new sandwich. Like some kind of herb bomb. Cleaning the dining room must be a bitch now.
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Sep 8, 2013 03:06
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Kimmalah posted:Is that weird? I used to get coupons printed on regular paper (not card stock) all the time. Of course our store's gimmick was emailing coupons to customers. I know I've printed a few from the manufacturer online and no one has ever considered it a red flag.
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Sep 8, 2013 11:45
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LibbyM posted:Myself and a couple other people were at Tim Horton's today, and one of us ordered this new sandwich that comes with this bread with all this herb topping stuff. I didn't eat one but the bread seemed nice enough. Herbs got loving everywhere all over the table we were eating at, and being polite we swept them up into our wrappers to throw out with everything. But having worked in Food Services before all I could think about was how much of a nightmare this new sandwich must be. Even the customers who are decent enough to throw out their garbage probably don't take the time to deal with the herbs. It would be better if the buns came with the herbs already baked in, but it's just the plain white bun that gets the top half powdered in stuff before we throw it in the oven. And yes, we have to start sweeping the dining area a lot more now.
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Mooktastical posted:The place I was working would also send coupons in the mail, but you could either scan the barcode or type in the letters/numbers under it to prove they were legitimate. Without having anything like that, you're basically saying "give me a pack of cigarettes because I said so." Yeah, I was just referring to the "it was printed on regular paper" comment as if that alone was some huge red flag for a fake coupon.
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That ended quickly, the job that offered me more money and decided to accommodate a few things has decided not to give me a raise or accommodate anything now. This happened:  You have to work those days we originally gave you off so you could work your second job. There is no negotiation, no trading, YOU have to work them. Yeah that wasn't part of the deal when you offered me this job back with a higher rate of pay, by the way its nearly a month where is my raise? I never said there would be a raise, now you're expected to be here whenever we need you and there are no set hours. When we last spoke about this we agreed I would remain here for a raise, accommodation of my other job and steady hours. I did not agree to work per diem or this job during the hours you acknowledged would be for my other job. You also agreed to post the schedule two weeks ahead of time but, have not done so. I said no such thing. Hire someone else I will stay as long as this job does not interfere with the other and until you train a new person for this position.Lesson learned, get everything in writing should there be a next time. I will probably regret not having given a concrete deadline and being this generous. This job has been a terrible job, its to the point when I am there I hope some crazy drug-addict comes in and shoots me just so the poo poo is over. These supervisors will tell you whatever you want to hear then they completely ignore their side of the agreement.
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kansas posted:Have to say this guy got two of three right. Modern smartphones do have more processing power than the Apollo era space craft and large portions of Islam traditions and holidays are based on the lunar calendar (Ramadan, Eid, Hajj, etc). I just celebrated the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashannah, which is the new year based off a lunar calendar.
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Sep 12, 2013 02:24
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Azuth, check and see if your state has Constructive Dismissal. You may be able to walk away and claim unemployment.
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Sep 12, 2013 03:27
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mllaneza posted:Azuth, check and see if your state has Constructive Dismissal. You may be able to walk away and claim unemployment. I had never heard of that before, thanks.
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I've worked for my current retail employer for 2 years and recently just took a transfer to a new state. My GM is new with only 1 year experience and everything I do is "wrong" or against policy, keep in mind it isn't and I've shown her the "policy" several times to defend my decision to return used damaged shoes and other stupid bullshit and I'm reminded of it every second of every day. She is constantly hovering over me answering questions for me by interrupting me and can't control her emotions for poo poo. Regional visit was today and she was spazing out when she opened the door for me in the morning she just unlocked the door and walked away, no hello or anything so today I said gently caress this new job time. I'm the highest paid supervisor in the store yet I'm treated as if I'm making $8.50 an hour. gently caress retail forever, I don't mind if you have a bitchy rear end attitude all day but for the love of god the one thing to set me off is complaining, bitching or acting like a baby as soon as I step foot in the door.
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mllaneza posted:Azuth, check and see if your state has Constructive Dismissal. You may be able to walk away and claim unemployment. If he can't produce evidence of the initial agreement, it never existed. Written contract, text messages, emails, recorded calls with consent of as many parties as required in your state--these are all evidence of an agreement. Verbal agreements count for exactly jackshit.
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