Employees of All Stores - Post your stupid customer stories - Part II-

Status
Not open for further replies.
[quote name='heffaji']This happened several years ago when I was a lowly cart-pusher at Sam's Club. It was a Saturday, which is usually the busiest day of the week. There were two other people working with me. Also, the wind was strong that day.

With customers passing in and out constantly, the carts piled up outside. Although we had various areas where customers were supposed to place their carts, people are lazy and so there were carts in random places throughout the parking lot. Since we were only three, there was no way for us to keep the lot in immaculate condition. Consequently, with the wind blowing, carts were flying everywhere, smashing into cars and bringing constant halts to traffic. Most people accepted the fact that this was an act of nature, which we couldn't do anything about. Except for one pair of people.

I can't recall the exact type of car these people possessed, but I believe it was a Viper. One of the carts had smashed into the side of it, although I still don't know whether it actually caused damage. Anyway, the woman who owned the car, who was of supermodel beauty, saw this, and became insanely upset. She saw the three of us in our orange vests and strode toward us. She started screaming and bitching at us. On one hand, the incident was not our fault. Then again, she was beautiful. So, rather then walk away and ignore her rantings, we stood there and listened while enjoying the view.

After about 5 minutes of screaming, she said she is going to get her boyfriend to come and teach us a lesson. We heard this, and thought of it as another blowhard statement as she drove off and we went back to work. About 45 minutes later, the Viper pulled into the lot with the boyfriend in tow. The guy steps out, and he is in amazing shape. Well over 6 feet, looks like a professional body builder, and he comes pacing up toward the front of the store. We three didn't want to take any chances, so we retreated into the store. He was so angry and belligerent that the manager of the store ended up having to call the police to haul him off. I don't know what exactly the girl was doing for him, but it must have been good.[/QUOTE]


i've been pushing carts at wal-mart all summer and would love to have two more associates helping me push carts. i have to fend for myslef. the thing that pisses me off most is that people are to lazy to walk ten feet to the damn cart coral (where the carts are supposed to go). one time i was making a line of carts and this couple was coming outside. they were looking in my direction the whole time they were walking towards their car. in fact, i was ten feet away from their car. i walk about twenty feet away to get some more carts to add to the cart train. i come back and notice the carts i had out were back in the coral. the next thing i know the car that the couple was in comes flying by and the woman sticks her head out the window ad says "nice going! we just hit those damn carts you had out there!!!" i laugh and say "no problem!" WTF? how dumb can people be. if i wanted to i could have about a thousand of posts about stupid customers. people are fucking stupid and fucking lazy. u wouldn't really understand unless you have worked at a store somewhere or have pushed carts especially.
 
[quote name='Kuros']Hm, thankfully we don't have to wear shirts from corporate at GS. :)[/QUOTE]

Thats cause GS corporate is too damn cheap to buy shirts ;)
 
Yesterday was an average day, filled with morons and annoying people.

Thankfully the kid who talks about Sonic all day didn't open his mouth.
 
[quote name='Kuros']Yesterday was an average day, filled with morons and annoying people.

Thankfully the kid who talks about Sonic all day didn't open his mouth.[/QUOTE]

I got a kid like that in my store a while ago- and we don't sell videogames :roll: It was kinda fun telling him that Shadow's gonna have his own game-"No he's not!" "Yes he is, he carries a gun too." "Really?!" "Really." "What's it called then?" "Shadow the Hedgehog." He then proceeds to excitedly rattle all that off at his sister. Methinks I just caused his mom a bit of trouble :D
 
[quote name='DuelLadyS']I got a kid like that in my store a while ago- and we don't sell videogames :roll: It was kinda fun telling him that Shadow's gonna have his own game-"No he's not!" "Yes he is, he carries a gun too." "Really?!" "Really." "What's it called then?" "Shadow the Hedgehog." He then proceeds to excitedly rattle all that off at his sister. Methinks I just caused his mom a bit of trouble :D[/QUOTE]

I know a few kids who won't shut up about Yu-Gi-Oh who come in often to my store, they can be a real fucking pain, ALOT

And as for that kid (don't get me wrong, I'm a big Sonic fan myself) I can't wait for him to run into his house and say "Mom mom! Check out my sweet AK-47, just like Shadow's!" and accidently off his grandpa. Then Jack Thompson will finish off the Sims and set his eyes on Shadow.....
 
I had one kid come in about every week with his family.
His family was spanish (as was about 65% of my customers) and really only 'browsed'.

Anyways, this kid was a monster. He couldn't speak, and when he tried, he would only say 'Kirby' or 'Scooby Doo' over and over. He would always run around the cashwrap and into the back room cuasing trouble. So, we hate this kid.

To enter out store you had to push in, and to exit you had to pull the handle in (so the door would enter into the store, yes, it was retarded). Anyway, once day, the little shit was running around and we told him to leave. Well, he ran right to door, in full speed, thinking it would open, and instead *smack* and he fell right over. His parents came and scooped him up and left. Me and m employee were on the floor laughin are asses off....stupid kids.
 
Never worked at a game store, but I worked at a Subway Sandwich shop for about a year as a night manager during high school. This was right around the time Subway found their savior, Jared -- just to give you a time frame. It was when they cut the bread the old way and they didn't have all those different breads/sauces. We only had white and wheat.

Anyway ... one time, I remember this guy probably about 18 or 19 came in and bought one six inch sub which came out to about 4 bucks. He paid with a $100 bill, and then I get out his change -- $96. He pulls out a ten after taking back his change, and then tells me that I need to give him back the $100 and take the $10 instead, after already pocketing the $96 in change I gave him. I mean, come on. I've seen these kinds of tricks in movies, and you're doing it totally wrong. So I told him ... "Ah, no, the transaction is complete. Thank you." He bitched about it for a little while, but I told him he wasn't going to confuse me over dollars and cents. Pounds and pence, etc ...

Another time I was working in a very busy shift, and an ambulance pulled up. Three ambulance drivers get out of it and come in, each of them order two foot long subs and it's a Sunday afternoon -- we only have two people working. So anyway, while we're preparing their sandwiches, they get a call on the radio. "Can you hurry this up? We're supposed to be at a high school football game and someone broke their leg. We have to go."

And then they're rushing us through the transaction process. Sorry I can't ring up three seperate orders in under a minute. The "leader" is like yelling at me about how this poor person is going to be in so much pain because of how slow I am. I suck it up and just ignore her and get them the heck out of there. I mean, it's not my fault you guys ditched your job to get sandwiches. The other two were somewhat accomodating, but man. What a bitch.
 
[quote name='the_gloaming']
Another time I was working in a very busy shift, and an ambulance pulled up. Three ambulance drivers get out of it and come in, each of them order two foot long subs and it's a Sunday afternoon -- we only have two people working. So anyway, while we're preparing their sandwiches, they get a call on the radio. "Can you hurry this up? We're supposed to be at a high school football game and someone broke their leg. We have to go."

And then they're rushing us through the transaction process. Sorry I can't ring up three seperate orders in under a minute. The "leader" is like yelling at me about how this poor person is going to be in so much pain because of how slow I am. I suck it up and just ignore her and get them the heck out of there. I mean, it's not my fault you guys ditched your job to get sandwiches. The other two were somewhat accomodating, but man. What a bitch.[/QUOTE]

Damn. That's the storta thing you call in & report. Get their asses fired.
 
Today... fucking sucked!

Imagine 5 huge stacks of dvds, about 120 in total, plus 4 stacks of games, and a pile of GBA games, that all need to be put away by the end of the night. I got there at 5pm and I had until 9.

Like hell I got through it, I got everything done but the dvds, barely put a dent in them. So there still is a ton of shit to be done. Good thing I'm not working tommorrow.

Oh, also what really fucking sucks is that my manager is going to another store. I really liked my manager, he was kick ass, and I don't know shit about the new manager. If he's a complete tight ass, there will be no point in me staying there, the only reason why I still work there is because I like the people I work with.

*sigh*
 
I work at a pet store that sells only reptiles. Being such a small niche, we only seem to get a certain class of people. The majority of our customer base usually falls in the brain dead group. Almost all of the reptiles we sell are in glass aquariums. We lable and price the reptiles with Sharpie on the glass. Almost everyday I have a customer that asks me the price of a reptile while he is staring right at the aquarium. My favorite stupid customer story needs a little backstory. The trouble with reptiles is they don't show illness until they are really sick. So, usually you don't know the reptile is sick until it is too late. Being that, there are numerous reasons why a reptile could be ill. I was ringing a guy up, talking about what he has when he busted out with, "I used to have a baby turtle, but it died. Why?" As is I am supposed to be so godlike that I could give a reason of death just off of that. I really think people drop 50-100 IQ points once they become a customer.
 
Back when I used to work at Borders (a book, music and movie store, for those who don't know) I used to get people all the time who would come in with their bratty little kids asking where the video games are. Now, I'm not the type that gets angry at people for not knowing but the truly ignorant, the ones that were so beligerant that they wanted to argue with me - that we most certainly do have a video game section - those were the absolutely contemptable customers.

The best times were when I could finaly convince these morons that they were wrong and they would dissapear into the store. Later I would get paged up to the registers to assist with an especially long line of people and I would get the same blasted idiot at my register. We would of course regard eachother coolly, as if nothing had happened and they would try to get a discount on their purchase; with their B&N card.
 
[quote name='Protagonist42']Back when I used to work at Borders (a book, music and movie store, for those who don't know) I used to get people all the time who would come in with their bratty little kids asking where the video games are. Now, I'm not the type that gets angry at people for not knowing but the truly ignorant, the ones that were so beligerant that they wanted to argue with me - that we most certainly do have a video game section - those were the absolutely contemptable customers.

The best times were when I could finaly convince these morons that they were wrong and they would dissapear into the store. Later I would get paged up to the registers to assist with an especially long line of people and I would get the same blasted idiot at my register. We would of course regard eachother coolly, as if nothing had happened and they would try to get a discount on their purchase; with their B&N card.[/QUOTE]


FYI, some Borders DO sell games, but they are generally the budget/players choice titles.
 
[quote name='Kuros']Today... fucking sucked!

Imagine 5 huge stacks of dvds, about 120 in total, plus 4 stacks of games, and a pile of GBA games, that all need to be put away by the end of the night. I got there at 5pm and I had until 9.

Like hell I got through it, I got everything done but the dvds, barely put a dent in them. So there still is a ton of shit to be done. Good thing I'm not working tommorrow.

Oh, also what really fucking sucks is that my manager is going to another store. I really liked my manager, he was kick ass, and I don't know shit about the new manager. If he's a complete tight ass, there will be no point in me staying there, the only reason why I still work there is because I like the people I work with.

*sigh*[/QUOTE]

Let me guess....Gamestop.
 
I work as a waitress at a locally owned restaurant. Of course there are many horror stories that I could come up with, but this one stands out in my memory. There was this woman that had just finished eating ribs and had tried to go to the bathroom to wash her hands. She then proceeded to come up to the front to tell us that there was someone in each of the bathrooms and that she needed to wash her hands RIGHT NOW. We told her that she would just have to wait because the only other sinks were in the kitchen and we couldn't let her use them because of health regulations. She got really really irate and finally accepted the wet naps we gave her and left.


Also - I can't stand it when people eat 3/4 of thier food and then complain to me that it was "tasteless"
 
My store was sent a bunch of small flyers with two small coupons on them (buy 1 get the 2nd 25% off and a 20% more on you trade-ins or something). My manager sends me out into the parking lot with a bunch of these to put on people's cars. The parking lot there is humungous and it was a really hot day. This older man attempted to call security on me but security didn't care enough to do anything, lol. He got really pissed and started talking about how he's gonna call the cops and have them pick me up. I then pointed to my store and told him that if he had a problem, he should take it up with my manager since I was just doing my job. The nice man replied that he didn't care who told me to do it because I shouldn't be doing it in the first place and that he wish he could take kids like me out and shoot them. I was seriously considering keying his mercedes but decided to pass, lol. I can understand why people are less than thrilled about getting a bunch of crap on their windshield, but my manager was like 10 fucking steps away from where he was standing and I didn't want to be out there in the hot sun in the first place. Also, while I was out there, I had this dude sitting in a car ask me if I wanted to sleep with him. Interesting times...
 
[quote name='armyofdarknessfan']I work as a waitress at a locally owned restaurant. Of course there are many horror stories that I could come up with, but this one stands out in my memory. There was this woman that had just finished eating ribs and had tried to go to the bathroom to wash her hands. She then proceeded to come up to the front to tell us that there was someone in each of the bathrooms and that she needed to wash her hands RIGHT NOW. We told her that she would just have to wait because the only other sinks were in the kitchen and we couldn't let her use them because of health regulations. She got really really irate and finally accepted the wet naps we gave her and left.


Also - I can't stand it when people eat 3/4 of thier food and then complain to me that it was "tasteless"[/QUOTE]

great story!
 
Dude walks into my local Gamestop last night and attempts to return a Athens 2004 that he had apparently just purchased a half hour before. He hands the game to the employees who gaze stupified at his EB GAMES receipt. They explain that this was NOT the receipt they had given him 30 min. ago. He says "I don't know, man, that's the receipt you gave me." The employees proceed to show him the differing text on the rear of each receipt and then explain to him that it is not physically possible for them to print that receipt. They then show him the store copy of his receipt. (I've edited this story to exclude the several minutes of odd looks and continued exclamations of "That's the receipt you gave me!") He eventually leaves (i.e., gives up) with his game. The employees explain to me afterward that his receipt was from an EB Games across town and that it was dated from January. He had paid five dollars more at EB and was trying to "trick" them into giving him the return at the higher value. :wall:
 
Off-Topic, but has anyone seen that commercial GS plays in their stores on their goofy preview VHS tapes they run all day long that has a guy trading in a woman and buying a new one? I can't believe no one's bitched about that yet.
 
[quote name='vietgurl']My store was sent a bunch of small flyers with two small coupons on them (buy 1 get the 2nd 25% off and a 20% more on you trade-ins or something). My manager sends me out into the parking lot with a bunch of these to put on people's cars. The parking lot there is humungous and it was a really hot day. This older man attempted to call security on me but security didn't care enough to do anything, lol. He got really pissed and started talking about how he's gonna call the cops and have them pick me up. I then pointed to my store and told him that if he had a problem, he should take it up with my manager since I was just doing my job. The nice man replied that he didn't care who told me to do it because I shouldn't be doing it in the first place and that he wish he could take kids like me out and shoot them. I was seriously considering keying his mercedes but decided to pass, lol. I can understand why people are less than thrilled about getting a bunch of crap on their windshield, but my manager was like 10 fucking steps away from where he was standing and I didn't want to be out there in the hot sun in the first place. Also, while I was out there, I had this dude sitting in a car ask me if I wanted to sleep with him. Interesting times...[/QUOTE]


Old people suck hard.

But still, I thought people couldn't do that anymore... I usually just throw it on the ground with the rest of them.
 
You know how EB seels music cd's now? Well, this older guy came in and picked up Lil' Kim - Hardcore.

B000000112.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg


Old guy: What is this?
Me: A music cd.
OG: Is there anything here with hardcore in it?
Me: :whistle2:s

He obviously wanted some pornos, but I guess he missed all the kids in the store. Or maybe he's a big fan of MJ's too.

Why do I get all the freaks and weirdos, huh?
 
[quote name='Scoobert']You know how EB seels music cd's now? Well, this older guy came in and picked up Lil' Kim - Hardcore.

B000000112.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg


Old guy: What is this?
Me: A music cd.
OG: Is there anything here with hardcore in it?
Me: :whistle2:s

He obviously wanted some pornos, but I guess he missed all the kids in the store. Or maybe he's a big fan of MJ's too.

Why do I get all the freaks and weirdos, huh?[/QUOTE]

LOL. How old is old?
 
I got to work with my new manager today.

I've been pretty damn lucky, he's a really cool guy!

I'm gonna be just fine working at Gamestop still.
 
Today just sucked at work. I seemed to get all the assholes and morons (for example a bitch who didnt understand that we couldnt pull wild salmon out of our asses, and impatient mother fuckers who dont get that I can only wait on one person at a time and that if they got there after everyone else then :shock: :gasp: they have to wait their turn). Then to end this "perfect" day I slip into the rotisserie trying to take out some chickens that were done. To make a long story short, 2 hours in the ER, a tetanus shot and a 5" 2nd degree burn on my arm.
 
[quote name='vietgurl']LOL. How old is old?[/QUOTE]

He was around 55-60.

I also wish customers would stop complaining about used game prices. I know it's just $5 cheaper than new, I don't care. I don't make up the prices. So please don't complain about the prices to me. Guess what? The person right behind you will buy it.

And if one more person asks for a price on a game with the price clearly shown, I'm going to smack them. When people go shopping they lose all common sense.

One more thing, don't ask if anyone speaks spanish when you can speak perfect english. I just love it when a customer asks everyone working if they speak spanish, then all of a sudden they can speak perfect english.

I lied, I have another complaint. Don't call 50 billion times asking if we have certain games and their prices. I don't want to spend 10 minutes talking to you, when I have customers in the store whi need my help. Get your ass up and come in. I will tell you to hold but somehow I always "forget" you're on the phone. Darn!

/rant off :D
 
[quote name='Scoobert']
And if one more person asks for a price on a game with the price clearly shown, I'm going to smack them. When people go shopping they lose all common sense.

[/QUOTE]

A lot of times the price can be wrong though, especially with clearance and markdown items. I have had it happen in many stores where a game rings up less than the price shown on the case/box.
 
Two things happened the other night that to piss me off, then someone commited a crime and I got happy :twisted:

Ok, first thing, a kid comes in, browses around a little and picks out 4 games he wants to buy, grand total was about $95. He pays with a $100 bill and I say goodbye....
Only to have his father come back in 2 hours later saying that the kid wasn't supposed to buy those games because the money was supposed to be used for emergencies only (why a kid needs $100 for emergencies is beyond me). I say for him to give back the games and I'll see if I can refund them. Alas, 3 games are already open so I can only offer him $15 for the final game, the dude goes apeshit and starts cussing out me and his kid, this goes on for a few minutes until i get ticked off and take $15 from the register and start to walk into the back room. The guy takes this as an insult and yells "WHERE THE fuckING HELL ARE YOU GOING?!" to which I calmly reply "I'm going into the back, I gave you the money and there's no one else here for now so I'm going to grab a soda." The dude takes the money and leaves.

Second thing, mom and son team come in and I ask if I can help, she screams really loudly and her son approaches me saying she does this alot to places she senses are evil; I ask the kid if he wants to buy anything and he replies "No thank you, I don't play games" With his mother screaming all the while. My boss and co-worker on break ask what's going on with the screaming and I explain, they try to calm the woman down and then she starts speaking Jibberish, I can't take it anymore and go on my break

So there's a Subway across the park where my friend works, we chat and eat and head back to our jobs, 20 seconds after I leave I get a call from my Boss and he says "Listen, that woman was taken care of but we've got another problem, her other kid rushed in and stole a bunch of new release games! He's got a black vest and baggy red jeans on!" I immediatly see the kid rushing in my direction and he's holding a bunch of games in his jacket. I run towards him, grab his arm and use gravity to swing him into a tree right next to me, the kid is practically knocked outand his nose is bleeding. My friend from Subway saw the whole thing and called the police, we recovered all the games and my boss said "Take a few extra minutes off if you want" And I got a free drink from Subway

So in the end I got my rage all taken care of, and a free coke!
 
Very nice work in knocking that kid out!

We had a PSP and game stolen from our store but we couldn't get them back. :(
 
[quote name='Shinkuu Ryao']Two things happened the other night that to piss me off, then someone commited a crime and I got happy :twisted:


So there's a Subway across the park where my friend works, we chat and eat and head back to our jobs, 20 seconds after I leave I get a call from my Boss and he says "Listen, that woman was taken care of but we've got another problem, her other kid rushed in and stole a bunch of new release games! He's got a black vest and baggy red jeans on!" I immediatly see the kid rushing in my direction and he's holding a bunch of games in his jacket. I run towards him, grab his arm and use gravity to swing him into a tree right next to me, the kid is practically knocked outand his nose is bleeding. My friend from Subway saw the whole thing and called the police, we recovered all the games and my boss said "Take a few extra minutes off if you want" And I got a free drink from Subway

So in the end I got my rage all taken care of, and a free coke![/QUOTE]

I think you are so FOS man........ I hope they sue your ass...... but seeing as your story doesn't even make sense........... like how did your boss know the other kid was her son? And you would really risk your life stopping a kid from stealing games....for all you know, he could have had a gun in his "baggy red jeans" and could have popped a cap in your ass......... I'm sure that would have been worth your $7.50/hour salary to protect the store that you work at....... smooth move.
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']I think you are so FOS man........ I hope they sue your ass...... but seeing as your story doesn't even make sense........... like how did your boss know the other kid was her son? And you would really risk your life stopping a kid from stealing games....for all you know, he could have had a gun in his "baggy red jeans" and could have popped a cap in your ass......... I'm sure that would have been worth your $7.50/hour salary to protect the store that you work at....... smooth move.[/QUOTE]

Hey I was angry, what'd you expect? and according to my boss it was the lady's other kid because he saw him get out of their car
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']I think you are so FOS man........ I hope they sue your ass...... but seeing as your story doesn't even make sense........... like how did your boss know the other kid was her son? And you would really risk your life stopping a kid from stealing games....for all you know, he could have had a gun in his "baggy red jeans" and could have popped a cap in your ass......... I'm sure that would have been worth your $7.50/hour salary to protect the store that you work at....... smooth move.[/QUOTE]

Hey, you are in the wrong topic. Leave.
 
After reading all these stories, i just felt i had to tell some of my own.

Last summer I worked as a clerk for a local convenience store. It was the typical slacker job. I was often unsupervised, and was not above writing off a hot dog or eating a doughnut that was supposed to be thrown away (because it was too old, not too dirty). I worked there till the odd hours of the morning, and, naturally, got to deal with some of the weirdest people i've ever met.

A common complaint happened whenever someone tried to buy some cigerettes. In the front of the store, we have a giant sign reading "3.52 a Pack (If You Buy Two Packs)". I can't count the number of times someone would buy one pack, find out it rang up for 5.18, and complain for a good fifteen minutes that the sign needs to be taken down since it can be misleading if you don't read it. I really didn't care about the job, so i usually just replied with a "sir, if you want, you can write your complaint on this piece of paper"....the paper was then promptly filed in the black garbage bag at my feet.

There was also one day when my old spanish teacher came in. She recognized me after i gave my most unenthusiastic "hello". She looked around for a bit, and bought a loaf of bread (roughly 2 dollars) using a fifty dollar bill. This wouldn't have irked me, if she didn't proceed to buy a pack of cigerettes (5.08) with a ten dollar bill. I didn't give it to her as change for the fifty, so she had to have brought it with her. As she left, i said "eat s**t and die" in spanish. I never did like her....

while not really stupid, this customer just weirded me out far too much. I had checked her out, and was working on another customer, when our POS register decided to break. At this, i mumble under my breath "i could reprogram this damn thing, but i can't stop the paper from jamming every day". She asks if i was familiar with computers, to which i say i am. From here, she starts on a 30 minute speech, and i swear i made none of this up. She says "Would you mind teaching me some computer skills? I'm trying to get back into the work force. You see, i was working at this company, when my boss tried advancing sexually on me. When i refused, he slammed me into a desk. I quit, and on the way home, he used his car to bump mine into a ditch, and i crashed. I was in a coma for months. When i woke up, i called a lawyer to sue the company. The company bought out the lawyer. I tried another lawyer. They were bought out. Then the company burnt my house down to destroy any records i had. I tried getting a new job, but the company blacklisted me, so i couldn't find anything in my field. Because of the crash, i lost a good deal of short-term memory. Would you mind teaching me some computer skills like office?" I spent most of the time just looking dumbfounded. I asked the name of the company, so i never work there, to which she replied "i forgot". I told her that the next semester started the following week, so i wouldn't be in the state long. When she left, me and my co-worker couldn't figure out whether or not she really did go through all that.
 
[quote name='infinitepez']
while not really stupid, this customer just weirded me out far too much. I had checked her out, and was working on another customer, when our POS register decided to break. At this, i mumble under my breath "i could reprogram this damn thing, but i can't stop the paper from jamming every day". She asks if i was familiar with computers, to which i say i am. From here, she starts on a 30 minute speech, and i swear i made none of this up. She says "Would you mind teaching me some computer skills? I'm trying to get back into the work force. You see, i was working at this company, when my boss tried advancing sexually on me. When i refused, he slammed me into a desk. I quit, and on the way home, he used his car to bump mine into a ditch, and i crashed. I was in a coma for months. When i woke up, i called a lawyer to sue the company. The company bought out the lawyer. I tried another lawyer. They were bought out. Then the company burnt my house down to destroy any records i had. I tried getting a new job, but the company blacklisted me, so i couldn't find anything in my field. Because of the crash, i lost a good deal of short-term memory. Would you mind teaching me some computer skills like office?" I spent most of the time just looking dumbfounded. I asked the name of the company, so i never work there, to which she replied "i forgot". I told her that the next semester started the following week, so i wouldn't be in the state long. When she left, me and my co-worker couldn't figure out whether or not she really did go through all that.[/QUOTE]

wow. that's a crazy story
 
A few days ago, this lady comes in with her 3 kids about a minute before closing time (lucky for me, this seems to happen everytime); I think the fourth kid was a friend of her son or something. So like usual, the kids are begging her to buy various games. She asks us a couple of questions, we answer them, and then go back to cleaning the store. She gets mad for some reason and says, "I'm here to purchase things! Can I get some service here?" My assistant manager walks over and I'm trying really hard not to laugh because I felt kinda sorry for him. She is one of the rudest people I've ever had the displeasure of meeting; she forced my assistant manager to read names off game boxes and to tell her the prices (we decided she was probably illiterate). Then when she wanted to buy a game, she wouldn't pick it up. My assistant manager would point directly to the game and be like "this is the game you need dancepads for" but she wouldn't pick it up herself and was like "I'm here to BUY! Pick it up for me! What kind of service is this?" Fast forward a couple minutes and I guess her son's friend or whoever he is asked for too many games. She sends him outside and he's pounding on the window. I poke my head out the door to politely ask him to stop and she starts going off on me. The kid comes back into the store when she's about to check out and gets in another argument with the lady. The boy eventually ends up running out the door and into the parking lot as fast as he could (we're located in a pretty large strip mall) and while the lady and her family are preparing to go out after him, her little daughter (she was around 3 or so) was like "that boy is crazy". That was one of the cutest little girls I've seen, hehe. Almost made me forget about how great her mother is.
 
I work at Wing Stop. A place that serve chicken wings for people who don't know. I was working in the kitchen shaking up my next order when my manager came back and handed me some latex gloves and told me to put it in the to go order that I was preparing. As he handed it to me he said "Don't ask."
 
hum~ there are just too many cheap and stupid customers that they want to get all the possible little discounts offers and will complaint for every tiny thing~ I guess these buyers should just quit play video games when they are just too cheap
 
I guess I'll give mine:

About 5 years ago i worked at winn-dixie, it was slow so me and the cashier girl was just standing up front when we see this extremely obese man walk by with a purse in his buggy. we both looked at each other and said nice purse. Right after that we hear a woman scream "My purse! My purse!" Needless to say fatty took off running and my manager proceeded to chase him. I took off behind the manager because he was a little guy. When the thief got in the car the manager jumped in there with him and threw the purse out, but proceeded to beat the thief with a mag lite that was laying in his car. I was able to go to the other side and get a few cheap shots in, but he was able to get his car started and took off with my manager hanging out of the passenger side. My manager falls out as our crack police force pulls up and says "What's wrong?"

I would have to say that was my most exciting night in my 2 year career as a bag boy.
 
This isn't quite the same, but I'm not sure if there's any other movie projectionists here, but to put it into laymens terms, the film goes from one platter, through a series of rollers, through the projectior, through some more rollers and back onto another platter. The film only goes in one direction, and cannot (or at least shouldn't be) reversed. 9/10 the movie runs fine, no problem but you know, shit happens sometimes, I can't tell you how many times I've been asked by the morons on our floorstaff or even fellow managers that aren't too bright, how long it will take me to "rewind the film" when something messes up. Don't even get me started on the arguments I've had with customers who want me to "Rewind the film" because they've arrived 15 minutes late, and can't understand that concept that it isn't (shouldn't be) physically possible to preform such an action. The absolute WORST though are the morons who come out of their movie after sitting in the theater for the entirety of their film, only to bitch that they want their money back because disruptive patrons, or other minor film related problems which end up going unnoticed. I have no problem at all refunding money or giving free passes out if you come out immediatly as soon as a problem arises, but don't sit in your fucking movie for 2 hours and then come out and complain. Oh yeah, and never ask for a refund for concession items unless there's something physically wrong with whatever it is that you bought, I can't tell you how many times morons come out with a half or entirely eaten bag of popcorn asking for a refund because it tasted "burnt" or "stale" or it was "Too Salty" or had "Too Much Butter" or even "I decided I didn't want it" after eating half the bag .Also, If your children are not old enough to have enough free will not to cry or scream during the film, then do not bring them to movies that other patrons might actually want to watch. On the same note, don't go to a mid-day matinee for "Madagascar" or whatever and complain that it was full of children that wouldn't shut up.
 
Another story, not really a bad customer, just a really annoying motherfucker

So I go on break and load up the GC and decide to play some SSBM, a kid comes in and looks at me getting ready and says something along the lines of "Wow! I love this game! I own all my friends all the time cause I'm the best person ever at this game!" I reply "Really? Who are you good with?" He says "Link cause he rocks!!" I say "Fine then, show me" and toss him a controller. I pick Fox and he picks Link, I play with him and lose a life on purpose, he cheers and says "YES! I ROCK!!" I smirk and say "Well that was a fun warm up, lets get down to business..." A few minutes later I start Wavedashing, Shinespiking, and L-Cancelling as the kid desperately abuses ^B and vA without L cancelling like I thought he would. I win the match and only lost 1 life from the playing with him.
I turn off the system and say "Nice try kid, but I've faced Link before ;) " The kid starts crying and wailing and won't shut up about how I cheated, how I suck and he doesn't, and how fox is the cheapest character ever. Then his mother came in and asked why her child was crying, I explained to her as her kid tried to deny it. Then the kid tried something I didn't expect and attempted to reach me from over the counter, his mom grabbed him and dragged him out of the store, before he left my vision I decided to say "Press L to cancel"
My co-worker, Karen, came over to me and said "That made my day :lol:"
 
For some reason that reminded me of that one Chappelle skit where he goes to see the cancer patient then rapes him in NBA street...
 
okay I have to rant about this one - as I mentioned before I'm a waitress.
both of these happened in the same day. I was waiting on a table of six when another two people from another table got up to talk to someone at my table, which I didn't mind. This guy then proceeds to light up a cigarette right there (this was a non smoking section) so I go by and ask him to put it out. He looks at me and puts his cigarette out RIGHT ON THE WINDOWSILL. I just looked at him and said "excuse me?!" and he gets up in my face and said "It's out MA'AM"
Then about 20 minutes after that one of my tables got up and walked out complaining that they had been waiting there for 35 minutes before they got their salad (which was not true) and leaves. I then proceeded to walk outside (where we take breaks) and just have a meltdown.
The upside - I felt better afterwards, and one of my tables saw both incidents and said that they were really sorry that some people were complete jerks and they gave me an extra dollar in addition to my tip.
That has to qualify as my worst day ever as a waitress.
 
I am a store manager at one of those games retailers. I've been with them for 5 years now.

During my first year as a manager, this happened Christmas Eve. A customer asked if we price matched. I explained to him we generally will if it is within reason and not a "bait and switch" item. (You get this a lot at Christmas and I always have to explain to the customer what B and S means. For those not familiar, it's when a store offers an almost too good to be true deal but has 5 of them, meaning they are sold out in any reasonable time They do this to get you in the store to hopefully purchase something else.) So, the guy comes back with an Ad from Kay-Bee. It shows, Madden 2001, which we still had at 49.99, at an early bird special, 7am-11am, for 19.99. It was 5pm. I explained to the customer that there was no way I could match that price but......

Customer: "What the fuck kind of joke is this? I just walked all the way down to that store (A whole 100 feet) to get this ad and you've wasted my fucking time. He starts wadding up the ad, very pissed off."

Break to flashback......

While our current customer was walking to Kay-Bee, one of my very good regular customers walked in. He was a black man, about 6'4" 250 named Kalvin. Kalvin drives a car for the city. It has red and blue lights on it. He carries a gun.

Back to situation.

I don't tolerate language in my store ever, under any situation from a customer or employee.

Me, "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

Customer," You don't tell me what the fuck to do. You said you'd give me that price."

Me,"I'm sorry sir, now I'll need you to leave."

That ad was now a firm ball of paper. Customer, "You pieces of shit can go to hell!" And he throws the ad toward my counter and hits one of my female employees square in the forehead. (I don't think it was interntional. And the sick individual in me thinks it was kind of funny.)

Anyway, this poor guy, hit the floor with a thud that reverberated throughout the store. It almost had a faint whisper that sounded like "polllliiiiiceeee bbbbrrrrutttaaaaliiiitttttyyyy."

Being Christmas time, the store was full, probably 40 people in a small area. When Kalvin told this guy it was time to go and escorted him outside, half the people started clapping.
 
I also once had a customer trade in his entire PSX collection. He must have forgot though that the cases were where he kept his "stash." This kid was 17 and a punk. So, I didn't call the police, since he was more of an annoyance than troublemaker.

I called his mom and told her he had left some "things" here. She almost died when I showed her. I didn't see the kid for 3 months straight when he was a weekend mall rat normally.

Somehow, of course, karma like this is going to come bite you in the ass. Corporate found out about it and it was sent down the line for my DM to give me a corrective. He gave me the corrective, but he couldn't keep a straight face to mean what it said.
 
It was written very vaguely as to not mention anything illegal. It simply mentioned unprofessional conduct.
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']I have to know.... what is the corrective for giving back drugs or drug paraphanalia as opposed to calling the cops.[/QUOTE]

I've only had one experience with drugs in an object that someone has traded in.. it was flushed.
 
[quote name='Scorch']I've only had one experience with drugs in an object that someone has traded in.. it was flushed.[/QUOTE]

See, that's what I would have done. Get rid of it and not pick up the phone. I might have taken it out back and tested to see if it was really the "herb" I suspected it might be though......
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
bread's done
Back
Top