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Post by fg on Apr 21, 2023 14:02:45 GMT -5
Here’s one.
I work at Target. I used to be a people greeter. I wasn’t allowed to go out and get carts. It started thundering and lightning and due to that, no one was allowed outside (except for extremely rare cases like a real lack of shopping carts.)
One lady asked me where are the carts. “I see a bunch of them outside.” I said that due to the conditions, we are not allowed outside due to it being a hazard. She responded by saying that those carts are a hazard too and maybe I should be getting them. In my mind, I said “Whatever ma’am. The last time I checked, you can get killed by a lightning strike. You can’t be killed by a cart unless you are a very feeble person.”
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Post by poodoojenkins on Apr 21, 2023 14:07:56 GMT -5
Parking related customer service a lady rang to say she'd parked her car outside a house where the owner was in the garden and pulled a face at her. I'll never know what result she was expecting. “Do you work here?” I got that question a lot when I worked at the grocery store during college. And usually someone asked while I was stocking shelves. You know … doing work? People ask? There's were quite a few times when I was younger when I was out shopping and mistaken for staff. I'm a musician and a big dude, about 6'3", 350lbs. I also wear plain black t-shirts and basketball shorts exclusively (the perks of playing music for a living lol). I cannot stand anywhere near the front door of the clubs I play, because if I do, people walk up to me with their ID, expecting to get a wristband or something. I've just started telling them "Oh no, I don't work here, I'm just a fat guy in a black shirt."
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Post by coleslaw on Apr 21, 2023 14:18:22 GMT -5
uhh sorta related but when I worked at Pizza Hut I took an order from a dude who was a HUGE ass so I hid pineapple under his pepperoni
I wouldn't do that nowadays, but f***, treat the people that make your food with a little respect (:
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Post by Zombie Mod on Apr 21, 2023 15:46:38 GMT -5
" what does three for two mean?" with the stickers saying "buy three items and get the cheapest item free" multiple customers over the years including some who had taken advantage of this offer the week before and it being an evergreen offer for years before hand. " which is the price?" normal purple price sticker with the standard pricing (on every brand new item in the store.) big red sale sticker with now only printed on it and the sale price (only put on stuff in that specific sale.) and it being advertised on the 50 inch tv right behind the till at the sale price. " the pricing should be made more clear." " when is the last of us/spiderman/god of war out on the xbox?" " can you show me where mario is on playstation/xbox?" " why cant I buy a megadrive controller here? I bought my last one here last year?" ( I explained sega hadn't released a console since the dreamcast in the early 2000's and had stopped megadrive production long before that, only to be told I sold it them, I might have worked in the store for 10+ years but I hadn't been there that long to sell anything megadrive related until the sega megadrive mini.) this customer proceeded to come in for the next 12 months asking for the same thing until the manager of the store bought him one from amazon. (he wasn't suffering any mental health issues, just insistent that the staff were wrong and that the megadrive was the superior console.) " why are you open? your company went bankrupt last week, I saw it online" 3 years after the company went into administration and was rescued from closure and had just had the cash boost of the ps4 & xbox one consoles release. " your company's shit, *the small independent store* round the corner is better and will end up owning it" said indy store was put up for sale for £10k not long after. " quit your job so I can have it. you've had the staff discount for long enough." not said as a joke, said deadly serious " he's been here too long... fire him!" to the manager about me, they had handed in a c.v./resume the day before and were inquiring on if the manager had looked at it yet. on the phone " I want to know why that little *ethnic slur for Chinese people* bitch wouldnt trade my phone in yesterday" when asked to repeat it " why the little Chinese girl wouldnt trade my phone in, I think it was refused because I'm a muslim." I some how didnt lose my shit at him for a.) using an ethnic slur about someone I considered a friend who I worked with and b.) her not having anything to do with testing said phone as only management did that which he knew c.) then claiming the staff at the store were racist because we wouldnt trade in a phone with a broken screen hoping to get himself out of any possible issues that would lead to him being banned from the store and all local ones (which the company actually did, and the manager happily told him when this customer he graced us with his presence as he had been an arse for a few years repeatedly buying phones then returning them claiming they were mis-sold to him and also repeatedly trying to trade in broken phones.) this happened in front of a member of management who didnt think I could ever display anger to such a degree. (the town has a large ethnic population and the store wouldn't have lasted if any racisim was allowed in the store and neither would have any of the staff.) after 15+ years in retail I've probably been asked every question under the sun
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Post by Cyno on Apr 21, 2023 15:53:51 GMT -5
Surprisingly, I don't have many of these stories from my stints at Gamestop. Except for some doctor giving me a hard time because I didn't know 100% off hand if some obscure game that worked in Windows XP also worked on Vista (given how infamous Windows versions are about backwards compatibility). But that's less dumb and more asshole.
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Post by edgestar on Apr 21, 2023 15:56:09 GMT -5
Not what a customer said, but, when I worked in retail and didn't know I was bleeding out, I was starting to pass out while ringing her out. The guy behind the counter with me, asked both the customer and I, if I was okay, while she was calling 911.
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Post by DSR on Apr 21, 2023 16:41:37 GMT -5
" what does three for two mean?" with the stickers saying "buy three items and get the cheapest item free" multiple customers over the years including some who had taken advantage of this offer the week before and it being an evergreen offer for years before hand. I worked at a store that regularly had signed that said "BOGO 1.00", which means you Buy One at regular price and Get One for 1.00. People would ignore the "BOGO" part of the sign and just assume the item was 1.00 each, then I'd have to point it out to them when they insisted they weren't being rung out properly or whatever.
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Post by Scoops on Apr 21, 2023 17:23:52 GMT -5
Once when I was a cart attendant the automatic exit doors stopped working. So I opened the normal door next to it and locked it in place.
Soon a bunch of customers came to the doors and just stood staring at the closed, non functioning automatic doors for several seconds like cattle not even noticing the wide open one right next to it.
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Apr 21, 2023 17:36:23 GMT -5
At one point, I worked at Wal-Mart. It was the first job I got after I graduated high school. I was working the front end. They had me doing various jobs. Cart-pushing, returns, people greeting. One night, they had me doing the people greeting, which is easy money but is also boring, especially if I have to do it on Sundays during football season. Someone decided to walk in and ask, "Is this Target?"
I went, "Does this look like a f***ing Target to you?!" Safe to say, I got a talking to by management because someone decided to be stupid.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 21, 2023 17:47:36 GMT -5
Ok a recent one. I make sure that when I vend every item on my table has a price sticker with the price. Never fails every show at least 4 people pick up an item look at it then ask me "How Much?"
And I get I am in MS. Ranked 47th in public education. I get that I am surrounded daily by some of the dumbest people in the US. But there is a BIG BRIGHT GREEN STICKER THAT SAYS $10 on that 1988 issue of The Wrestler.
Or the ones that can't do simple math. "Hey I got 3 of these $5 dvds how much is my total?" And this isn't a kid. This is people my age.....
Got a few from my time at the morgue but lots of that was people still processing their grief. So yea those I get.
BUT THERE IS A BRIGHT GREEN PRICE STICKER ON THAT ITEM. IF YOU CANT READ LET ME KNOW I WILL READ IT TO YOU!!!
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 21, 2023 17:51:21 GMT -5
Ok a recent one. I make sure that when I vend every item on my table has a price sticker with the price. Never fails every show at least 4 people pick up an item look at it then ask me "How Much?" And I get I am in MS. Ranked 47th in public education. I get that I am surrounded daily by some of the dumbest people in the US. But there is a BIG BRIGHT GREEN STICKER THAT SAYS $10 on that 1988 issue of The Wrestler. Or the ones that can't do simple math. "Hey I got 3 of these $5 dvds how much is my total?" And this isn't a kid. This is people my age..... Got a few from my time at the morgue but lots of that was people still processing their grief. So yea those I get. BUT THERE IS A BRIGHT GREEN PRICE STICKER ON THAT ITEM. IF YOU CANT READ LET ME KNOW I WILL READ IT TO YOU!!! Only thing I can guess on the 3 DVDs thing is if it's them thinking you'll offer them some kind of deal for buying multiple, but that's probably me being too charitable and they are just being supremely lazy.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 21, 2023 17:59:44 GMT -5
Ok a recent one. I make sure that when I vend every item on my table has a price sticker with the price. Never fails every show at least 4 people pick up an item look at it then ask me "How Much?" And I get I am in MS. Ranked 47th in public education. I get that I am surrounded daily by some of the dumbest people in the US. But there is a BIG BRIGHT GREEN STICKER THAT SAYS $10 on that 1988 issue of The Wrestler. Or the ones that can't do simple math. "Hey I got 3 of these $5 dvds how much is my total?" And this isn't a kid. This is people my age..... Got a few from my time at the morgue but lots of that was people still processing their grief. So yea those I get. BUT THERE IS A BRIGHT GREEN PRICE STICKER ON THAT ITEM. IF YOU CANT READ LET ME KNOW I WILL READ IT TO YOU!!! Only thing I can guess on the 3 DVDs thing is if it's them thinking you'll offer them some kind of deal for buying multiple, but that's probably me being too charitable and they are just being supremely lazy. That is the thing I have a big sign on the wall at shows "Buy 4 dvds of the same price get one of the same price for free" So if they would read they would know I already got a deal. But it is MS. Even though they aint fast sellers I always have some wrestling books on the table. Most of them I am asking 10 bucks each for and it might be a year before either one of the ring crew,refs,wrestlers,promoter ends up buying it. Oddly old wrestling mags and wrestling comics sell fast. But those get priced at 5,10 and 15 bucks.
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Post by Paul on Apr 21, 2023 18:47:34 GMT -5
uhh sorta related but when I worked at Pizza Hut I took an order from a dude who was a HUGE ass so I hid pineapple under his pepperoni I wouldn't do that nowadays, but f***, treat the people that make your food with a little respect (: Pineapple and Pepperoni is one of my favorite pizza topping combinations, so I would be really happy if someone did this for me.
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Post by ERON on Apr 21, 2023 18:54:58 GMT -5
I used to work at Target between semesters when I was in college. At one point we had these overpriced push brooms that weren't selling at their original price of $19.99, so I was told to put red $9.99 clearance stickers on them and move them to an endcap with the hope of getting rid of them. While I was putting them on the endcap, a customer came up and asked, "How much are those brooms?"
I told her they were $9.99, and she said, "Ten dollars for a broom? That's ridiculous!"
I agreed and added, "And that's the clearance price. They were originally twenty!"
Her demeanor changed, and she said, "Hey, that's a good deal!"
She bought two of them!
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 21, 2023 18:56:42 GMT -5
I used to work at Target between semesters when I was in college. At one point we had these overpriced push brooms that weren't selling at their original price of $19.99, so I was told to put red $9.99 clearance stickers on them and move them to an endcap with the hope of getting rid of them. While I was putting them on the endcap, a customer came up and asked, "How much are those brooms?" I told her they were $9.99, and she said, "Ten dollars for a broom? That's ridiculous!" I agreed and added, "And that's the clearance price. They were originally twenty!" Her demeanor changed, and she said, "Hey, that's a good deal!" She bought two of them! She also just paid for Twitter.
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Post by coleslaw on Apr 21, 2023 18:59:21 GMT -5
uhh sorta related but when I worked at Pizza Hut I took an order from a dude who was a HUGE ass so I hid pineapple under his pepperoni I wouldn't do that nowadays, but f***, treat the people that make your food with a little respect (: Pineapple and Pepperoni is one of my favorite pizza topping combinations, so I would be really happy if someone did this for me. absolutely based food take (:
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Post by ace on Apr 21, 2023 19:33:26 GMT -5
When I worked at a pizza place someone asked me what we could put in a calzone. I told them we could make any kind..anything they could put on a pizza we could put in a calzone. Pepperoni, sausage, onions, peppers, chicken, steak…anything. They paused and asked “what other kinds”.
This happened twice.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Apr 21, 2023 19:42:32 GMT -5
post first covid lockdown in the uk, we had a guy bring his son into the shop to buy something. customer: "We're here to buy something to keep him busy *points to 8 year old son wandering about the store without a mask on* for the next two weeks, he's going to stay at his grandparents." my manager: "oh that's nice, a break from home schooling for yourself?" customer: "oh no, he's got covid and they're going to look after him while he has it." my manager: "........ well nice of you to bring him in to share it with us."
also before the first lockdown Blackburn had the highest infection rate for covid 19 in England (and for a good chunk of 2020.) and the nearest town Darwen had a much lower infection rate we had a middle aged woman come in with her mask under her nose we had to tell her multiple times to pull back up to cover her nose her: *pulls mask down under her chin* " IT's OK, I'M FROM DARWEN, WE DONT HAVE COVID THERE." *pulls mask back up to under her nose* me: " yeah, but you're in Blackburn... we DO have it here. her: *pulls mask down under her chin* "But I'm from DARWEN, WE DONT HAVE COVID there." *pulls mask back up to under her nose* me: " and you're in Blackburn, we DO have covid here, pull your mask up." this continued for about 2 minutes much to the delight of the deputy manager (even now he still mentions this to set me off on a rant about it and neither of us work there any more.)
not long after Darwen's covid numbers went up to match Blackburn's and I like to think that one dense woman was the reason for it.
if I hadn't physically witnessed/been present for those two I would say it was bollocks, but they are genuinely what happened.
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Post by Sephiroth on Apr 21, 2023 20:31:32 GMT -5
Parking related customer service a lady rang to say she'd parked her car outside a house where the owner was in the garden and pulled a face at her. I'll never know what result she was expecting. “Do you work here?” I got that question a lot when I worked at the grocery store during college. And usually someone asked while I was stocking shelves. You know … doing work? People ask? There's were quite a few times when I was younger when I was out shopping and mistaken for staff. I’m 40. And still happens to me all the time.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 21, 2023 21:13:41 GMT -5
When I was wandering around Walmart, some idiot not only asked if I worked there, but insisted I worked there. I was wearing a Giants jersey, which she confused as being a Walmart vest for some reason I guess.
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