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| Posted by Ramokk on Thursday, July 29 @ 07:55:42 EDT (130 reads)
Anonymous writes "Now, the bulk of this story didn't happen to me, but I was somewhat involved. It's a long one, so prepare yourselves. I work at a small record store chain in Pennsylvania and we get our share of crazy regulars that come in. Since the stores are fairly close to each other, I get moved around on the schedule a lot so I get to meet the crazies from every store. Well, if I stay at one for too long they start to get to know me and that's not good for anyone, like I eventually found out.
One day this guy comes in wearing a turquoise bandanna and medical scrubs, and asks me to take a look at his new cell phone he just got. Looked like an older model, nothing special. He then asks me to turn it on, where I made mistake number one. I was treated to a nice electric shock since it was a disguised prank phone. The guy starts laughing hysterically while I just stand there with an incredulous look on my face. He must have sensed how miffed I was because he then pulled out his real phone and proceeded to order me a pizza, gave me an LED flashlight you can charge in your car, and a bunch of posters from out of his SUV. I thought I was on some kind of reality TV show or something! While waiting for the pizza he tells me how he wanted to test the phone out on me because he's planning some huge elaborate prank on the other guy who works at the store, lets call him David. Our store sells tickets for a company (it rhymes with Mickettaster), and prankguy had gotten frustrated with their policies while in the store and thought it was David's fault. Against my better judgment, and mistake number two, I told him what time David would be working that week and he said cryptically "I'm gonna get him so good."
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Don't Hesitate (You Could Be Rolling Your Eyes)
| Posted by Alucard on Tuesday, July 20 @ 22:02:36 EDT (423 reads)
Anonymous writes "I work at Wal-Mart, and not just any Wal-Mart. I work at the busiest Wal-Mart in my town. I had just clocked in for the day, and had already been scolded by my department manager for passing keys to an associate outside of electronics (I was the only one in my department and I was covering for somebody in the photo department, whilst customers were waiting in both the photo and electronics departments). It seemed pretty dull since there wasn't any stock to put out at the moment, so I grabbed my windex and paper towels and began cleaning the game and iPod cases."
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Ann Taylor is a true waste
| Posted by Alucard on Monday, July 19 @ 22:20:42 EDT (310 reads)
Anonymous writes "I had the displeasure of working at Ann Taylor for a year and a half and I am flabbergasted at the asinine policies from corporate to the joke that is called management. I was located at the Rockefeller Center location on 48th and 5th ave. Year one was not amazing for me there but I did not complain because I needed the job and unemployment was becoming common for the recession dominated our economy. I must state that I have a very hard work ethic for I am know for my hard work and dedication. I am glad to say that I was in good company with my co workers because they worked as well as me and we achieved many praise and accolades, especially out performing other stores within the district on a regular basis. Most of the time when people work hard they receive some recognition but that was not the case with this company.
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Crazy Fourth of July Customer
| Posted by Ramokk on Monday, July 19 @ 07:44:02 EDT (303 reads)
Anonymous writes "If any of my coworkers visit this site, they will know who I am just by this story. I had the pleasure of working on the Fourth of July, which meant that I had to ring up every piss-drunk customer buying *gasp* more booze, and morons who kept asking if we have any fireworks (when fireworks are illegal in this city).
Anyway, this chunky lady wearing a disturbingly clingy outfit comes to my register and STARTS SALUTING ME NONSTOP. "Um, okay crazy lady, can I please ring you up and help the morons behind you that want their cigarettes and beer...?" I think to myself. Then in a torrent of English and Spanish, she informs me that she is George Washington and Abraham Lincoln combined, and that she built the white house and built the cars for the white house.
Now I'm a big fan of letting douchebags dig their own graves, so I said nothing until this spew of poop from her mouth was done.
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Customer's always right? Not all of the time.
| Posted by Ramokk on Friday, July 16 @ 06:59:52 EDT (269 reads)
cd writes "This happened to me a few years back but now, I must share it will you all.This woman from another country, came in one day and wanted to return some adhesive hooks. We have different hooks all of which are Clearly marked and set apart from any other similar hooks on our wall. Now are return policy states that the items MUST be in good condition for resell and you MUST have a store receipt. That is because other shops nearby I guess are selling the same products. Well, my job is to try to honor this as best I can. So she proceeds to tell me how they weren't correct and she wanted her money back and that she lost her receipt. Well, I was happy to do so until I took the hooks out of the bag and discovered that she had opened all nine of the packages. I politely tried to explain how we take returns but before I could finish, miss nice lady turned into a bat out of Hell and shouted "You'd BETTER take these back..I'm a customer and the customers ALWAYS right. I thought they were magnetic but they weren't because of YOUR crappy packaging!" I asked why she had to open all of them if one of them was the wrong product since the packaging was transparent. Well she shouted for the manager, who wasn't there that day and cursed at me, said how I had made her life difficult and that she wouldn't come back and everything. I asked her if maybe she could give them to someone she knew and she replied "No, I don't want them!" I would have bent the rules but when you start to act like a diva, well, things stay the same. The sad part is that she did come back, a few months later and while I had tried to forget about it and move on, each time she saw me, she just had to revert back to the 3rd grade and comment about how "it's always nicer when your not here" and such. Finally she bought one final purchase and started to insult me. this time, there were two of my nice regulars who heard this and came over and took up my defense. I remember her trying start something with them and one guy told her to go some where. That was when she NEVER came back to this day.
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Mason Jar Man
| Posted by Ramokk on Tuesday, July 13 @ 08:03:01 EDT (262 reads)
cd writes "This is something that happened earlier this year that I must share with you. We carry some canning jars in different sizes and sometimes by various makers. Here in the neighborhood that I work in, the locals tend to be very picky about the canning jars that they want to buy. Sometimes too picky. Example A was this guy who has this perpetual mean streak every time he comes in to complain about why we stopped carrying the mason jars he likes to use. Well, we don't have personal vendettas against anyone and we offered something comparable. Usually, he storms out, but finally he agreed to wait until the new styles arrive. Anyway, he came in last week and had this look on his face like he was going to curse someone out. He walks up to one of my coworkers and in this purely arrogant tone asked "Where are my mason jars?" My coworker replied "Oh they came in today" as he goes to get them. Upon receiving them, the guy doesn't even say thank you for ordering them or nothing-just a real stick in the mud. He does represent the vast majority of people who seem to think that if we stopped carrying something, it has everything to do with them and not the production company."
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A story you won't believe, but it's so true!
| Posted by Ramokk on Sunday, July 11 @ 08:41:45 EDT (259 reads)
Anonymous writes "I worked 4 years at this company, I was promoted to Assistant manager the second year I was there. I fell through a glass door at home and had to have 150 stitches. While I was off from work my manager hired this girl as a cashier. And this girl was a nightmare from hell for 2 years! She bullied us constantly, told the assistant managers what she would do and when she would do it. One day on truck day she came to work, clocked in and went outside and sat on her cell phone for 20 mins. at this time I was annoyed with her but said nothing. She decides to enter the store and get's on the store phone for another 15 to 20 mins. When she gets off the phone she stands there with her leg up on the counter, playing drums on the counter with her hands and looking at me like I dare you to say something. I walk up to her and said instead of standing there drumming on the counter why don't you come help us stock. She started screaming at me cussing me and said I DON"T FEEL LIKE DOING STOCK! I told her since she didn't want to work to clock out and go home. She started screaming even louder and scared my customers so bad they ran to the back of the store. They thought a crazy customer came in the store and went nuts. She gets on the phone calls our manager and TOLD her to get her ass there now! My manager comes in and was told, by me and the customers what happened. She takes this employee from hell to the back of the store and talks to her. And comes back up front and tells me to get back to work. I handed in my keys and walked out! I was not working another day with this bully! They kept the bully for two weeks after that, fired her then called me back to work. I lost 4 years of hard dedicated work and lost my assistant manager position. All because our manager letting this girl bully us for almost 2 years. Our manager never told our DM the truth about what happened. But thanks to my customers they called and told the truth, that's the only reason the cashier from hell got fired!"
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The OLD Braces Wearing Woman
| Posted by Ramokk on Friday, July 09 @ 00:07:11 EDT (217 reads)
cd writes "In my last entry, I failed to say that I work in Washington DC at a decor shop. Well today, just when I thought I'd seen it all, in comes this 40ish lady who wanted to see what phones we sell. She's taller than me, really thin and wearing a jacket and a head wrap of some sort. We aren't a big shop but we had 6 products to look at. She seemed nice enough until she started talking. "Where's the blond guy?" She said to me as I looked up from my magazine. I replied that there wasn't anybody here with that description. Once I said that, she began to look upset and murmured something (about me no doubt) under her breath. Mind you, I have never met this person (it) before today and tried to just be nice and help her. "Well he said that you had more phones than this." I asked if she was thinking about another store perhaps and she got so frustrated at me and asked if there was anyone else beside me to help her. So now, I'm ready to tell this crazy woman to get out but then she asked me to open the phones and show her/tell her/point out to her ALL the differences between them. No other customers have walked in to witness it so it was just her and I. "No no no these aren't what I'm looking for. Why don't you have the phones that the BLOND guy said you had!!?" Her tone really got to me and in my final note, I told here "Miss, you came in here looking for this guy who A, doesn't work here and B, told you we had phones that we have NEVER had so this is all I have and I'm sorry I'm not a blond!" She ranted some more and went off into the shop as I went back to my magazine. Then a minute later she bolted down the stairs and out. Thank goodness...but you know, what bothers me the most about crazy people is they don't think that there acting...well...crazy."
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