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VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Also the management tends to be the "hates customers and the idea of selling products" type, so that's fun too. My old manager was an honest-to-god book hoarder.

This is common in libraries, too.

Actually, the crazies are, too; though certain types tend not to assume you agree with them. They assume you're a jackbooted government thug, and of course you won't grant their every desire because I PAY YOUR SALARY.

(I was a volunteer, at the time.)

yeah I eat rear end posted:

I blame shows like those storage locker auction things where they see a box of books and say "man look at all these old books, I'll value the whole pile at 10-20,000 dollars" without even looking at what they are. My understanding is if a book isn't a first printing and/or very rare+signed it's generally not worth much of anything at all. Same with records - they see one that sells for a few thousand on pawn stars and next thing they do is load up their entire beat up old record collection and have it "appraised" and get pissed when they get offered like 5 bucks for the whole pile.

I sold a collection of rare books for a friend, and maybe 1 in 5 was worth enough to make any money on it at all. There were a few 50-100 dollar gems in there (maybe 2 or 3 out of a couple hundred), but mostly it was stuff where if you aren't making money on the 3.99 Amazon shipping fee, you aren't making money.

VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jun 13, 2017

# ¿ Jun 13, 2017 17:16

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:56

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Someone didn't want to discuss sports with him.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 19:35

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Efexeye posted:

my experience in food service make me extra cautious to be really polite to service people because i know its a terrible job. i used to hate it when people called me by name as well

im pretty sure it was just an indoctrination technique. i made it 20 pages and quit

Obviously that ain't gonna pay the rent, then. Perhaps you should stop using it as an example.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 19:58

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Or maybe he's panhandling his way from drink to drink?

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 20:08

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

I'm up fifteen bucks on slot machines, lifetime. I wanna stay that way.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 20:40

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Starman Super DX posted:

I miss old arcades. This is largely what they look like now. Giant ipad games blown up on big screens.

This has been a thing in China for at least 6 years.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2017 20:41

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

That's how a lot of apartments in China do it, and it's awesome. It requires smart meters, though.

How did they turn it into a scam? Because just being prepaid isn't actually bad.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2017 23:06

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3823485&pagenumber=8&perpage=40#post473397101

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 17:57

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Starman Super DX posted:

I actually think it's a trend with how they want uniforms to look now because the office business casual look seems "professional". I used to wear an apron

"Professionals" get paid a living wage.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 21:03

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

ZombieJesus posted:

And believe it or not, travel agents provide a legit service,

Visas.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2017 17:21

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

ZombieJesus posted:

I don't do it any more, it's a poo poo loving job. But I guarantee it's not disappearing until decent AI's come around, online flight booking tools are complete trash compared to a good agent properly trained in one of the industry booking systems like Amadeus or Galileo. And companies spend literally billions of dollars outsourcing those jobs to corporate travel agencies so they don't have to rely on their overworked PA's loving up their booking and not putting them in an aisle seat on row 3 like they just MUST have for some reason

Even if there were only the online consumer grade tools, those are complex enough (in terms of understanding how they work and why you see certain prices, and knowing what an advertised price will end up costing you at a glance, and filtering out bullshit) that if you're a company arranging a bunch of complex itineraries you're probably gonna want a specialist to do it.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2017 22:48

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Kelp Me! posted:

Literally only super-old people and scammers still use checks in the US. I was actually the only one in the store who knew how to take one and so that was one of my duties, which was fine; I'd just pull them off to the secret register and do it there so they didn't hold up the line for 10 minutes.

Landlords.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2017 07:05

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Can anyone explain why an expired license isn't acceptable as ID?

# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 16:53

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Ein cooler Typ posted:

of course she was -_-

I always see Inuit women with their welfare children complaining at fast food to get free food

You can't cum if you don't get the racial stereotype in your mental image of the situation validated, can you?

# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 22:38

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Barudak posted:

The vast majority of colossal assholes do not have that kind of money.

I worked at a Starbucks once and we had one customer who showed up everyday around 11 in his lambo and his amex black and designer clothes to order stuff and he was totally fine and obviously living a life of laid back hedonistic retirement in his early 30s where as I had no leas than a dozen old ladies scream bloody murder in my face because they dont understand that a cappuccino has milk foam in it not milk like a latte even after having it explained to them prior to serving.

But what percentage of people who do have that kind of money are colossal assholes? I think casino employees would be in a better position to judge.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2017 17:49

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Did the mistress get informed of the way he behaved at the course? I mean, it's a longshot but maybe you coulda completely cockblocked the dude.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2017 04:05

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

spite house posted:

I'd rather sweaty tit money than sweaty shoe money, and I've had to take a lot of both. Sweaty shoe money usually comes from cyclists, specifically those Spandex-warrior dipshits who just fart around the city blocking traffic on weekends but dress like they're riding the Tour de France and don't carry wallets because "it's too much weight". Between the fetid shoe money and the budgie-smuggler shorts it's like it's their primary mission to gross cashiers out.

You can put money in your shoe between the tongue and the laces so it doesn't get sweaty. But that isn't the Serious Cyclist consensus, I guess.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2017 02:22

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

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.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2017 13:32

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

How do you take a door off the hinges if the hinge pins are on the side you can't get to?

# ¿ Jul 7, 2017 13:53

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

safe harbor posted:

Working in a library setting up a banned books display.
Patron walks up. "HOW DARE YOU BAN THESE BOOKS! WAIT TIL MY COUNCILMAN HEARS ABOUT THIS!

Would you like to check out a copy to show him?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2017 19:22

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Sono posted:

So you can just slap a label on a suitcase and ship it? No box or anything?

You can just slap a label on just about anything that won't fall apart, break, die or damage other packages.

I once mailed a differential wrapped in plastic bags. The only reason it was even covered was that it might have still had oil in it.

VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Jul 11, 2017

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 02:59

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Question for shopping-cart-having retail veterans:

When shopping cart wheels lock up halfway across the parking lot, and customers abandon them where they stand, do you hate them for it; or do you just blame it on your masters?

What if I hurl the thing before I abandon it?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 19:06

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Every time I've had a cart lock, it stays locked. At least you've got to move it more than a few yards to get it to unlock, assuming it doesn't take some special tool. So I'm like "gently caress it." At best I'll move it out of the traffic lane.

I've been seeing a lot more (well, some, sometimes, vs never before) shopping carts in the middle of the street near stores since these things caught on, probably because there are people more spiteful than me.

VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jul 11, 2017

# ¿ Jul 11, 2017 20:44

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Telephones posted:

Women are so disgusting.

I used to work maintenance in college dorms. I got to see a lot of people's rooms while they were away over Christmas, in their natural state. While there were a lot of cluttered goon cave guy's rooms, the really nauseating ones were all women's.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2017 05:03

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:56

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

What's the point of drinking if you aren't coming up with creative methods of opening beer and wine bottles?

# ¿ Aug 13, 2017 04:50

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