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Post by Glitch on Nov 24, 2011 22:11:02 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. This reminds me of when I was at wal-mart this one time. My mom was in line to cash a check, so I sat down on a bench and waited. Right next to that desk was the item return, and this woman with no receipt was ranting about not being able to return her kid's bike. After dropping numerous F-bombs, she has the balls to tell the employee not to curse in front of her daughter(ironic even more by the fact that I didn't hear the employee curse once). The manager then steps in and gives her a refund. It's quite maddening that such childish behavior is rewarded. Makes me glad I didn't deal with customers during my brief stint with wal-mart.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Nov 24, 2011 22:34:25 GMT -5
Working animal shelters has exposed me to some wonderfully stupid people. Generally their stupidity is along the lines of saying terrible things to me/in front of me about the future of the cat they plan to adopt. Like, we live in a college town, and we've had college students talking about smuggling a kitten into their dorm room and making it live in the closet so that their roommate won't find out, and then they turn to us and expect us to adopt a cat out to them. Uhhh, no? That's happened MULTIPLE TIMES. Or people telling us all about how they had five cats in the last year get eaten by coyotes, and then tell us that they're still going to let their new cat go outside. Um, sorry, I'm not going to adopt a cat out to you when you just told me that there's basically a 100% chance that it's going to be eaten by a coyote. Also happened multiple times.
Also, we have an animal shelter, and we also have a thrift store that funds the organization. We have a couple adoptable cats in the thrift store. One time, we were telling a lady that there might be a cat that fit what she wanted at the thrift store, and she kept kind of ignoring it, and then all the sudden she goes "What does thrift mean?". SERIOUSLY?
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Post by Rolent Tex on Nov 24, 2011 22:39:06 GMT -5
Well, what DOES thrift mean?
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 24, 2011 22:39:36 GMT -5
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.. I am not a video store snob....it is just that the whole point of paying to rent a video from a video rental place is stuff I learned........................when I WAS 8 FREAKING YEARS OLD.
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Post by angryfan on Nov 24, 2011 22:48:13 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.. I am not a video store snob....it is just that the whole point of paying to rent a video from a video rental place is stuff I learned........................when I WAS 8 FREAKING YEARS OLD. Bingo. It'd be like going to Avis or something and just grabbing keys and saying "thanks for the new car".
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 25, 2011 0:26:31 GMT -5
We need to get businesses to stop mindlessly following and pushing this "the customer is always right" policy. All it does is foster a consumer society of idiots and thieves. Honestly, the majority of stores and businesses I know don't follow the customer is always right, because the customer that clings to the customer is always right is usually an idiot.
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Post by baronmordo on Nov 25, 2011 12:04:10 GMT -5
Too many stores make the mistake of rewarding retardation.
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Post by Captain2 on Nov 25, 2011 12:14:35 GMT -5
You know now that I think of it a generic "strange customers" thread would probably be a hit here
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2011 12:21:26 GMT -5
I used to work at a gas station (best job ever btw) and we'd get people who couldn't understand the concept of pre-paying for gas (this was just around the gas price boom) and thought it was a personal attack on them like we didn't trust them or something.
The more you observe people the more you realize how insecure we all are - we just show it in different ways.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Nov 25, 2011 16:23:44 GMT -5
You know now that I think of it a generic "strange customers" thread would probably be a hit here Done and done.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Nov 25, 2011 17:18:28 GMT -5
I used to work at a gas station (best job ever btw) No sir, night shift as a hotel clerk. No supervision, no co-workers, cable, internet, very little job duties or customers. As long as you were okay with the crap pay it was wonderful.
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Post by Captain2 on Nov 25, 2011 19:20:53 GMT -5
Alright here is one of my favourite stories just because of how bizzare it was:
I was working at the same gas station I mentioned before and it was our policy to lock the doors after midnight until 7:00 in the morning so that we could make sure nobody trying to enter was wearing a mask or anything before we let them in. 6:50 in the morning I'm in the back of the store making a new pot of coffee for the customers who will be showing up to get some before work.
Suddenly as I finish making the coffee I see a man walk up to the front door and try to open it only to find it locked because its not 7 yet and I'm not near the switch to open it for him. He grabs the door handles and begins shaking the bloody things like the Ultimate Warrior shaking the ropes while yelling at the top of his lungs. At this point I'm contemplating hiding behind the coffee stand when he notices me and begins watching me, I'm hesitant to let him in but I finally get my courage up and walk over to the counter and unlock the doors for him.
At this point I'm half expecting a fight but instead he walks in, grins at me and says a cheerful "Mornin'!" as he walks over and grabs a cup of coffee and pays for it before saying "I was really worried you guys were closed!" he then grins again and walks off.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 26, 2011 1:15:45 GMT -5
I used to work at a gas station (best job ever btw) and we'd get people who couldn't understand the concept of pre-paying for gas (this was just around the gas price boom) and thought it was a personal attack on them like we didn't trust them or something. I live in BC, Canada. It's the law here to pre-pay, has been for a few years now... ever since some poor kid got dragged to death after trying to stop a gas'n'go. And yet I still hear people complain about having to pre-pay. Let's see, strange customers... 1) Had an elderly gentleman with an accent ask me about my opinion about abortion. It wasn't even as part of a conversation, it was more like: "Do you have paper?" "Yes, the paper is over there." "Do you have pens?" "The pens are on this shelf." "What do you think about abortion? I think it's..." He asked a few times before I told him that my opinion is just that, mine, and that I didn't feel comfortable talking about it to a stranger. 2) A woman who was trying to get her book of children's stories published. She was making up posters so that she could get a number of pre-orders to get her the money to have some company print the book. The image she picked for the poster was... more appropriate for an escort service. I'm sure there's a copy of it somewhere at work but I can't find it (and showing it would probably get me in trouble). 3) Have a current customer, a musician (of sorts), who tried to produce a DVD that he wanted to sell at local stores. The DVD was nothing more than a slide show of photos from his apartment, to music. If it was HIS music we probably would have done it, but it was songs from the Barenaked Ladies and he'd probably get sued for unauthorized use.
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Post by Red Impact on Nov 26, 2011 9:43:54 GMT -5
Alright here is one of my favourite stories just because of how bizzare it was: I was working at the same gas station I mentioned before and it was our policy to lock the doors after midnight until 7:00 in the morning so that we could make sure nobody trying to enter was wearing a mask or anything before we let them in. 6:50 in the morning I'm in the back of the store making a new pot of coffee for the customers who will be showing up to get some before work. Suddenly as I finish making the coffee I see a man walk up to the front door and try to open it only to find it locked because its not 7 yet and I'm not near the switch to open it for him. He grabs the door handles and begins shaking the bloody things like the Ultimate Warrior shaking the ropes while yelling at the top of his lungs. At this point I'm contemplating hiding behind the coffee stand when he notices me and begins watching me, I'm hesitant to let him in but I finally get my courage up and walk over to the counter and unlock the doors for him. At this point I'm half expecting a fight but instead he walks in, grins at me and says a cheerful "Mornin'!" as he walks over and grabs a cup of coffee and pays for it before saying "I was really worried you guys were closed!" he then grins again and walks off. The man just really needed his coffee. When I was working for the newspaper we got all manner of crazy phone calls. Like, from legitimately crazy people who called us wanting to do stories or asking us for stuff. However, this was a call from a rather sane person that isn't very odd, but made me really wish I was on the other side of the line. I was the public records clerk at the time, meaning I typed up all the marriage licenses, death notices, etc. A lady called and said she was looking on our website for a photo she was in and saw her daughter's name in a list. She wanted to know why we printed it. So I do the search on our archives and find it... in the marriage license list from 5 days before. Now, here, when you apply for a marriage license, you have 7 days to have it signed by a minister to signify you're married. So I tell her what the list is, but tell her that it might be another person who has her daughter's name. Here's essentially a paraphrase of how the conversation ended. "No, it's her. It's printed with her boyfriend's name. So what's it mean?" "Well, it means that your daughter and her boyfriend applied for a marriage license 5 days ago." "She's saying that she didn't, can someone apply for one without the other knowing?" "No, both people have to be there... and they have 7 days to get it signed, so there's not a reason one person would get it unless they planned..." *click* So, essentially, I ended up telling the woman that her daughter eloped on her. I really wish she hadn't hung up, because I wanted to know how that conversation ended.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Nov 26, 2011 11:58:07 GMT -5
work in retail, you meet the best and the worst of humanity.
people buy games and dvds for days, weeks and months then want to return them because they "didnt like it" fully expecting a refund.
or my personal favourite at the moment, "where can i buy an R4 card from?" "they're ilegal because your breaking the copyright on the games and not paying for the games, so i'm sorry i cant tell you." "no it's not they're perfectly legal, which shop sells them in town?" "none" "i'll go buy one and show you i can." *twenty minutes later* "seriously why cant i get one of those cards?"
happens a lot, usually i try to answer with they're ilegal due to it being pirated games, please dont ask anywhere else for them. ( trying not to add "sure most places will sell you something that takes money out of their tills/pockets.)
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 26, 2011 12:45:32 GMT -5
Got another one..........the reason I quit working at Blockbuster.
Work recieved a complaint by a customer that I showed a customer up in front of her son. Here's what happened. When the Return of the King came out, that was one of our more popular selections. This lady's son had found a copy and kept telling her mom he found one, but she kept saying that the film he had was the Two Towers. She called me in to tell her son it was The Two Towers, I said no........he actually had Return of the King.
She disagreed with me and showed me the Two Towers, which was still in the new section. I told her that the kid had the Return of the King and you can easily tell which film he had by reading the small text under the giant LORD OF THE RINGS title. Also, the covers are different.
Yeah, apparently telling her that her son was right pissed her off. She complained about it, I heard her complain, confronted her, and told work what really happened.......but if this is really going to be an issue, you can expect my two week's notice soon. We used the excuse that I was graduating from Germanna Community College as the reason I quit, but dealing with customers who are idiots is the reason I really quit.
Probably would have had to quit a few months after I quit anyway because I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and in the hospital.
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