So, over the past month ive noticed the same man come into my department, walk over to the same computer demo (its a $299 hp desktop so its in the back of nowhere) and just stare at it for close to an hour every day. And i mean EVERYDAY, its always the last hour we are open too. hes a real sketchy looking fellow. i asked a co-worker who has been there longer than i and to my surprise he said that man has been coming in here for months now and we have decided to stop asking him for help considering he always refuses it.
[QUOTE=-GTFMiika-;32916682]A few weeks ago, I was up on a ladder getting some decorations down from a ceiling grid. All of a sudden, this little girl, about 3 or 4, runs up to the ladder and starts shaking the fuck out of it. I drop everything I'm holding and CLING to the ladder for dear life.
The girl's mother FINALLY runs up and stops her, apologizing profusely for her daughter's behavior. I clamored down and was about to give the woman an ear-full, but she really was worried that I had gotten hurt, so I let it slide.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but if you fell and landed on her, it would have been your fault.
Stuff like that really bugs me.
On the subject of kids in stores, I was working alone for a couple of hours today and a woman came in with like 3 or 4 kids and I was dreading it because that's ALWAYS fucking terrible.
Turns out she wanted to return something. So while we're talking at the counter, one of her daughters comes up and asks very quietly once we had stopped talking "Mommy can we look with our eyes?". She said yes so the kids went and pretty much just stood/kneeled in front of our toy display until she was done.
I was like holy fuck best mother ever. I wanted to hug the woman.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32934284]On the subject of kids in stores, I was working alone for a couple of hours today and a woman came in with like 3 or 4 kids and I was dreading it because that's ALWAYS fucking terrible.
Turns out she wanted to return something. So while we're talking at the counter, one of her daughters comes up and asks very quietly once we had stopped talking "Mommy can we look with our eyes?". She said yes so the kids went and pretty much just stood/kneeled in front of our toy display until she was done.
I was like holy fuck best mother ever. I wanted to hug the woman.[/QUOTE]
We get this family that comes in, about 8 people in the family, guys are dressed in a collared shirt tucked in, women are dressed in skirts. Nicest family you'd ever want to meet. Very proper.
When you guys cashier at a <10 items line, would you kick the customer off if they waited for 10 minutes on the line and had about 15-20 items? I feel like everyone should do it even if they have one more than 10 so everybody learns their lesson and to abide by the store rules.
Hate to derail this thread, but chekc out this picture of krusty the klown sucking off fred flinestone
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Thank you Craptasket.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;32934366]We get this family that comes in, about 8 people in the family, guys are dressed in a collared shirt tucked in, women are dressed in skirts. Nicest family you'd ever want to meet. Very proper.[/QUOTE]
They sound creepy.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32829827]Because generally it's "Salt and Pepper", not just Pepper.
They do the same thing if you ask for JUST Oil or JUST Vinegar because they're normally together.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't even say it's because of that. Just pepper isn't quite the same as oil and vinegar.
I think they do it more to just be sure. When i worked food service i always double checked because sometimes i didn't hear correctly, but more often than not people mumble at their feet while talking on their cell phones, and i don't want to make their sandwich again because they couldn't be bothered to get off the phone.
[editline]24th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32934284]On the subject of kids in stores, I was working alone for a couple of hours today and a woman came in with like 3 or 4 kids and I was dreading it because that's ALWAYS fucking terrible.
Turns out she wanted to return something. So while we're talking at the counter, one of her daughters comes up and asks very quietly once we had stopped talking "Mommy can we look with our eyes?". She said yes so the kids went and pretty much just stood/kneeled in front of our toy display until she was done.
I was like holy fuck best mother ever. I wanted to hug the woman.[/QUOTE]
My favorite kid memory from working at the mall was walking down the hallways on one of my breaks, and seeing this little kid just take off running away from her mom. She may have been 5 or 6. Anyhow, this kid just bolts trying to make an escape, and she would have too...
except instead of the door way she was making her break for the floor-to-ceiling glass windows in our mall, and just nailed it in and dropped. She lay there crying as her mom walked over looking super embarrassed. I went on my break knowing that rebel child made my day.
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;32934284]On the subject of kids in stores, I was working alone for a couple of hours today and a woman came in with like 3 or 4 kids and I was dreading it because that's ALWAYS fucking terrible.
Turns out she wanted to return something. So while we're talking at the counter, one of her daughters comes up and asks very quietly once we had stopped talking "Mommy can we look with our eyes?". She said yes so the kids went and pretty much just stood/kneeled in front of our toy display until she was done.
I was like holy fuck best mother ever. I wanted to hug the woman.[/QUOTE]
I was working saturday night and we had this kid coming in on rollerskates.
He was going backwards like 90% of the time and didn't break a single thing!
Rollerskates IN the store?
Yeah no that shit don't fly here
[QUOTE=Hamushka11;32935858]They sound creepy.[/QUOTE]
Well yeah, anything out of the norm is creepy at first, but that goes by the whole, "Don't judge a book by its cover" thing.
[QUOTE=CrispexOps;32942095]Well yeah, anything out of the norm is creepy at first, but that goes by the whole, "Don't judge a book by its cover" thing.[/QUOTE]
it's creepy because it sounds like the whole
come play with us crispex, forever and ever and ever
type thing
[editline]24th October 2011[/editline]
but that's just me
:v:
When I worked at target a kid got locked inside that cabinet with all the games
How he got in there I don't know, all I remember seeing is a little boy smearing his face against the glass from the inside
I had another ideal child in my store today. Her mom was at the counter sorting something out and what's the little girl do?
Sits down against the support pillar and read a book.
My job makes me hate children, they run around, or ride round on scooters, pick up the terminator guns and dump them on the floor, or pick up change pots and smash them. (One kid did it the other day thinking it was funny, it's not I have to fucking pick them up, his mother told him to pick up the pot his broke, otherwise I would have told him off and attempt to make him cry in the process)
The children that are well behaved and have nice parents get the odd free keyring/2 pence coins.
Where I work, children who visit there are usually of the smarter type.
Then again there are those who aren't asking for help; like this one kid who was gluing fake grass to the base of his Flames of War WW2 figures and because he didn't ask for any help (I was teaching his younger brother to paint) we got that fake grass all over the place and he got it all over his clothes.
One time there was this father and his son, quite young and unable to speak in a normal tone. Was only able to shout. I give the father a free games magazine where he asks me about Borderlands 2. I explain to him about the dynamic weapons generation system, whereupon his son comes to check the part about Borderlands 2 and shouts: THAT WEPON IS FROM COLLADOODY!!!!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=Sunday_Roast;32953550]Where I work, children who visit there are usually of the smarter type.
Then again there are those who aren't asking for help; like this one kid who was gluing fake grass to the base of his Flames of War WW2 figures and because he didn't ask for any help (I was teaching his younger brother to paint) we got that fake grass all over the place and he got it all over his clothes.
One time there was this father and his son, quite young and unable to speak in a normal tone. Was only able to shout. I give the father a free games magazine where he asks me about Borderlands 2. I explain to him about the dynamic weapons generation system, whereupon his son comes to check the part about Borderlands 2 and shouts: THAT WEPON IS FROM COLLADOODY!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]
Where the fuck do you work? :v:
I used to work at an Old Navy at the local mall where I live. There are men and women's individual locking restrooms. These restrooms are connected to the fitting room area. I happened to be working the fitting room area so it was my job to occasionally check the cleanliness of the bathrooms every 30 minutes or so. Well I knock on the women's restroom door to get no reply. I go ahead and open the door to be greeted by a room full of toilet paper and blood I shit you not. It was all over the toilet and smeared on the walls near the bottom. Even in the floor. At first I figured it was some girl on her period to the max but looking around there was no way there could be that much blood from a girls vagina. We have a metal trash bin that has a plastic bag in it on the wall. As I was cleaning up I look down in it. It was full of blood. Not literally full but there was an inch of standing blood in the bottom of the trash bag. I then went and showed my manager. We both had a big what the fuck moment then I threw it all away. Retail, minimum wage and you still get to clean up bio-hazards.
[QUOTE=gunvalk;32962222]I used to work at an Old Navy at the local mall where I live. There are men and women's individual locking restrooms. These restrooms are connected to the fitting room area. I happened to be working the fitting room area so it was my job to occasionally check the cleanliness of the bathrooms every 30 minutes or so. Well I knock on the women's restroom door to get no reply. I go ahead and open the door to be greeted by a room full of toilet paper and blood I shit you not. It was all over the toilet and smeared on the walls near the bottom. Even in the floor. At first I figured it was some girl on her period to the max but looking around there was no way there could be that much blood from a girls vagina. We have a metal trash bin that has a plastic bag in it on the wall. As I was cleaning up I look down in it. It was full of blood. Not literally full but there was an inch of standing blood in the bottom of the trash bag. I then went and showed my manager. We both had a big what the fuck moment then I threw it all away. Retail, minimum wage and you still get to clean up bio-hazards.[/QUOTE]
If that ever happened at my store, I'd probably seal it off and call the cops or something.
Luckily for me, we only have an employee restroom which I rigorously deny the existence of to customers.
The other day a girl tried to walk out of the store with her bag. The security guard asked her to show him what was in the bag.
She doesn't let him so he grabs the bag and pulls at it. She complains in her New Zealand accent and he eventually gets it off her.
It had the amount of things that you would fit into a shopping basket. Hair dyes, drinks, snacks. It was ridiculous how much she fit into her bag.
We didn't have a security guard during the day until the day she did that.
Shoplifting in the big stores these days is pretty hard. They have cameras everywhere, all that shit about having fake cameras is a myth. I've been in a camera room in King Soopers before, and the dude told me theres over 100 cameras. I don't know how big your store is though
well some little kid just pissed in our flower department....
guess who had to clean that piss up....
[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;32956927]Where the fuck do you work? :v:[/QUOTE]
Tapiolan Pelikauppa
When I was working for a phone shop some black guy who didn't speak a lick of Dutch asked me how much a postpaid phone is. I tell him the price he says he can't afford it and asks if I can buy it for him. I laugh cause I think the guy is joking. He looks at me as if I've offended him and asks why I'm laughing.
Some people
There's a man who hangs out on the chair outside the shop I work in. He's about 60 years old, always wears ear muffs and talks to himself. He's notorious in my town, labelled "the ear muff man". One time while walking out with a trolley full of boxes for a trash run he asked me if we had a fax machine (really loudly) and i replied yes. he then got close and started whispering. he smelt like old person. he handed me a piece of paper and a number to fax this thing to. It was an american number and it was addressed to Bill Clinton. He was asking what time Bill wanted (Earmuff man's real name) to take chelsea clinton to the dentist for her braces. He then explained that he works for Bill Clinton.
Me:
oh yeah sir, awesome
I will get right on to that when I get back
Have a nice day
Bye now
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but for the following days was wondering if he really did work for Bill Clinton back in the day and has a mental problem that wont let him move on from that period of his life. my mind really wrote a novel for that guy.
he's probably just a whackjob though.
I work at a small grocery store chain, and this guy whom I've never seen before, white male in his 30's, comes in and gets on our electric carts. He then proceeds to go all around the store, and all around outside of the store.
After having some fun on the cart, I asked him if I could help him, he just got off the scooter and walked around the store again!
A few minutes later, my coworker comes back from the (ladies) bathroom, this son of a bitch was in the womens bathroom moaning and groaning in a stall. I can only assume he was jackin off. He was sincerely one of the most disturbing people I've ever encountered.
Here's the kicker, as soon as my co worker came back, he speed walked out of the door. Quite a strange man
Just had some guy come in for a cable coupler. I handed him one and asked if it was what he was looking for, to which he replied "yes this is exactly what I want." So I ring him up and he leaves. Not a minute later he comes back into the store and wants to return it saying I gave him the wrong coupler.
Dude what the fuck you said it was what you wanted. I didnt give you the wrong ANYTHING.
Sorry for the bump but I figured it's relevant.
I wanted to share my Backroom Swagger.
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[editline]5th November 2011[/editline]
It's modern art.
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I don't think he got the memo that halloween was five days ago.
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