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Post by trollrogue on Nov 24, 2011 8:50:18 GMT -5
That's...that's outstanding. Please tell me they tried to rent one. Of course they did. You should have seen the looks on my co-workers as I had to deal with these idiots. Oh my... did they think it was a new-age library that transformed all their books into videos? I'm honestly trying to understand how these girls would think recently-released films would be free when not even a redbox will spit one out for less than a $1 per night. I guess some kids are so spoiled rotten they don't even realize that things cost money when they're out by themselves. It's the only explanation aside from complete non-functional stupidity and I want to be nice here ;D
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Post by héad.casé on Nov 24, 2011 9:32:07 GMT -5
I work for a parcel delivery company. We have a massive conveyor belt table that I stand at the end of, the parcels come down the conveyor and I shove them to two people, one at each side. Now this only works because the parcels have bar codes on, and the conveyor has scanners attached to it so it can scan the bar codes. Sometimes I get people who like to get cute and shove down 20 parcels at the same time, which I can laugh with, but when your freaking manager stands there all night shoving them through, and has them all squashed up together so closely that the scanner can't pick up the bar codes, or even puts the parcels face down so that I can't even see them, it kinda gets annoying. I was nice about it at first, explaining that I needed to see the bar codes so I know which side of the table to shove it to, but night after night after freaking night it's the same thing with me trying not to lose my temper because it IS the manager.
I have actually asked if I can be moved off the thing and take the parcels to the delivery vehicles and scan them by hand like everyone else does, but they won't let me because "you're the best at doing it". This week in particular has been so damn stressful with Christmas freight coming in, that i've honestly felt like handing in my notice, but there aren't any other jobs out there at the moment.
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Post by angryfan on Nov 24, 2011 9:35:37 GMT -5
I have a stupidity story to share, hope it makes sense though.
A woman recently started working on our crew, she's nice enough but I kept getting this feeling while training her that the old elevator, well, it was actually a ladder missing most of the rungs. Since she began working her shift about three weeks ago, a day hasn't gone by without some incident to make my boss and I look at each other with that "WTF" stare, it's a great way to begin a morning. Yesterday, well, she managed to confuse me to the point that I had to walk away.
OK, long story short, doing security for a large company and handling access control, I have three different ID badges to give out. If an employee forgets their card (everyting is controled with card readers) they get a little sticker with their name on it that says EMPLOYEE in giant green letters. If a visitor comes in, they get a yellow plastic badge to wear that says, you guessed it, VISITOR in all caps. Lastly, if they're going to a secure area, the data center (think huge rooms of servers, rented out like apartments) they get one that says DATA CENTER on it. Again, all caps, we're talking half inch tall letters, the whole nine yards.
Now, as part of her training, she was (and is, since it's sitting at the desk) provided with a list of pictures of each badge and a list of who gets what. However, yesterday, we come in and she looks like she's about ready to cry. I ask her what's wrong, and she says "This is too confusing". Seems she gave a visitor badge to some employee who then said "no, I get the sticker". She proceded to (and I have seen the video tape) argue with the guy and insist that she knew what he got and he was being difficult.
So, being the softy that I am, I pulled her aside before she left and explained, again, who gets what. She looked at me, straight faced, and said "I wish someone would have explained this to me before".
Needless to say, I had a headache for several hours after that.
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Post by Glitch on Nov 24, 2011 14:20:34 GMT -5
Wait, so your faith is female?
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 24, 2011 14:22:19 GMT -5
Of course they did. You should have seen the looks on my co-workers as I had to deal with these idiots. Oh my... did they think it was a new-age library that transformed all their books into videos? I'm honestly trying to understand how these girls would think recently-released films would be free when not even a redbox will spit one out for less than a $1 per night. I guess some kids are so spoiled rotten they don't even realize that things cost money when they're out by themselves. It's the only explanation aside from complete non-functional stupidity and I want to be nice here ;D This was 2004 when Redbox didnt exist
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Nov 24, 2011 14:25:24 GMT -5
Of course they did. You should have seen the looks on my co-workers as I had to deal with these idiots. Oh my... did they think it was a new-age library that transformed all their books into videos? I'm honestly trying to understand how these girls would think recently-released films would be free when not even a redbox will spit one out for less than a $1 per night. I guess some kids are so spoiled rotten they don't even realize that things cost money when they're out by themselves. It's the only explanation aside from complete non-functional stupidity and I want to be nice here ;D My assumption would be that they thought it was like a non-Internet version of Netflix. They thought their parents pay a monthly subscription fee and they could just come to the store and get whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. That's the only explanation I can think of.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 24, 2011 15:23:11 GMT -5
I work in a call centre handling inbound insurance claims.
So yeah. I know stupid. But honestly, most of the people are only asking for reasonable stuff, it's the people that don't accept when they aren't covered that bug me and won't listen to reason when we give an explanation.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Nov 24, 2011 15:51:40 GMT -5
Well, you were hangin on by a thread if you lost faith on that.
Come work with me at Kmart in the middle of a very ghetto city and a big hick town. You'll be dead in an hour.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Nov 24, 2011 16:44:56 GMT -5
There's a girl in my Law class who takes the cake. First of all, I don't know how she even got into the class, she has no idea what she's doing, secondly, she spouts the most inane crap. She thought everyone in Wales lived in Caravans, Cornwall was in Spain, because it sounds Spanish and you can get the plane to it, and thought that a cow's lick had to be done by an actual cow. Mind boggling.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 24, 2011 16:51:21 GMT -5
Oh my... did they think it was a new-age library that transformed all their books into videos? I'm honestly trying to understand how these girls would think recently-released films would be free when not even a redbox will spit one out for less than a $1 per night. I guess some kids are so spoiled rotten they don't even realize that things cost money when they're out by themselves. It's the only explanation aside from complete non-functional stupidity and I want to be nice here ;D My assumption would be that they thought it was like a non-Internet version of Netflix. They thought their parents pay a monthly subscription fee and they could just come to the store and get whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. That's the only explanation I can think of. No, they actually thought you pay when you return the movie after renting it. Sometimes the truth is more mind boggling than any assumptions.
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Post by Captain2 on Nov 24, 2011 17:55:06 GMT -5
Working at a gas station I had a guy come in and buy 5 items that added up in price to $12 or something like that and I ask him for the twelve dollars. He hands me a ten and stares at me vacantly for roughly ten seconds until I repeat "Oh I'm sorry that comes to twelve dollars, this is a ten, do you have another two dollars?" he shakes his head and then keeps staring at me.
I look over his items and notice one there that is three dollars and say to him "I could take this off if you'd like, that would make the ten cover it" he nods and continues staring with his vacant expression. I cancel the item and place it behind me on the counter so I can put it away when I'm done, I give the guy his change and bag his items. After I hand him his bag he reaches out for the item that I had put aside and I stop him and say "I took that off, you only had ten dollars and that item put you over ten" he gets mad and yells "Jesus Christ!" before pulling out a twenty and paying for the three dollar item, finally.
I have no clue what the hell his problem was but he was really aggrivating.
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Post by angryfan on Nov 24, 2011 18:03:10 GMT -5
Working at a gas station I had a guy come in and buy 5 items that added up in price to $12 or something like that and I ask him for the twelve dollars. He hands me a ten and stares at me vacantly for roughly ten seconds until I repeat "Oh I'm sorry that comes to twelve dollars, this is a ten, do you have another two dollars?" he shakes his head and then keeps staring at me. I look over his items and notice one there that is three dollars and say to him "I could take this off if you'd like, that would make the ten cover it" he nods and continues staring with his vacant expression. I cancel the item and place it behind me on the counter so I can put it away when I'm done, I give the guy his change and bag his items. After I hand him his bag he reaches out for the item that I had put aside and I stop him and say "I took that off, you only had ten dollars and that item put you over ten" he gets mad and yells "Jesus Christ!" before pulling out a twenty and paying for the three dollar item, finally. I have no clue what the hell his problem was but he was really aggrivating. Ah the "I'll stare until I get what I want" routine. Seen it before and yeah, it's beyond annoying. Well, it's either that or dude was just baked out of his gord.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Nov 24, 2011 18:43:33 GMT -5
That was the dumbest guy you've ever met? I envy you. Try working as a pizza delivery guy in Bumf***, Georgia.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Nov 24, 2011 19:17:21 GMT -5
That's...that's outstanding. Please tell me they tried to rent one. Of course they did. You should have seen the looks on my co-workers as I had to deal with these idiots. as a fellow former BB-video employee I can empathize. my favorite is all the idiots who try to return a film 6 months late and get pissed off about having to buy it. and people trying to return something "because they didn't like it".
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Nov 24, 2011 19:36:50 GMT -5
People do not know hell until they work in the toy department of Wal-Mart...during Christmas season. It was the worst f***ing experience of my life, the stupidity of the people coming in and demanding things was ridiculous.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Nov 24, 2011 20:51:15 GMT -5
This thread makes me smile now. I love tales of stupidity.
Someone's going to have to tell me one day what kind of liquor they sell for less than ten bucks in a bottle these days. I don't wanna drink that stuff.
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Post by Pgarodactyl on Nov 24, 2011 21:10:28 GMT -5
People do not know hell until they work in the toy department of Wal-Mart...during Christmas season. It was the worst f***ing experience of my life, the stupidity of the people coming in and demanding things was ridiculous. My wife once worked Toys R Us during Christmas. "Can you tell us where to get this item that ISN'T one of the only other places in the world to get it?"
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Post by Bone Daddy on Nov 24, 2011 21:25:18 GMT -5
My assumption would be that they thought it was like a non-Internet version of Netflix. They thought their parents pay a monthly subscription fee and they could just come to the store and get whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. That's the only explanation I can think of. No, they actually thought you pay when you return the movie after renting it. Sometimes the truth is more mind boggling than any assumptions. That doesn't sound so bad at all. If you've never rented a movie before it's POSSIBLE to think that you pay when you return it. Sounds like someone is a video store snob..
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Post by Rolent Tex on Nov 24, 2011 21:34:12 GMT -5
That doesn't sound so bad at all. If you've never rented a movie before it's POSSIBLE to think that you pay when you return it. Sounds like someone is a video store snob.. Sounds like someone did the same thing. You outed yourself!
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Nov 24, 2011 21:43:05 GMT -5
People do not know hell until they work in the toy department of Wal-Mart...during Christmas season. It was the worst f***ing experience of my life, the stupidity of the people coming in and demanding things was ridiculous. My wife once worked Toys R Us during Christmas. "Can you tell us where to get this item that ISN'T one of the only other places in the world to get it?" "I'm sorry but that item is out of stock." "But the other store said you had them." "Well either they were wrong or they were sold before you came...but we don't have them." "But you should have them!" That was an exchange I had with an old couple who came in looking for a tickle me Elmo, just because you demand we give it to you doesn't mean we can.
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