Another Former Home Depot person here... the stories are endless!
I was a department supervisor, so basically you managed 5-20 employees. Through a rotation you also got the duty manager phone, meaning you'd get all those wonderful calls from pissed off people, but here we go with some good stories....
HD is a big warehouse so we have barricades that we use to block off ailse when lift equipment is working, you know, so if something falls down no one dies. Well, when you block of the ailse for 3 minutes, everyone needs something from the blocked off section and cant wait. I can remember at least 3 occassions when customer comes up to you when you are watching the gate so no one goes past. "I just need one of those things 10 feet down the ailse, can i run and go get it?" "no sir, the ailse is blocked of for safety reasons, we'll be done in 2 minutes" " I CANT WAIT 2 @#$@#$%@#%@ MINUTES I WANT IT NOW" so i reaffirm that we cant let him in and he storms out of the store. Idiots
On the subject of barricades again, we had one guy try to open it and walk past, so the associate held out is arm in front of the guy and asked him to stop. The guy walked into his arm, turned around, and punched the associate right in the face. Dropped him to the ground. Yikes eh?
We also have the morons who want to go and find stuff for themselves. We had one guy climb up 16' of metal racking to try and get something out of a wrapped pallet on the top level!!! That was probably the dumbest thing I ever saw. The guy was in his late 50's too, not some young idiot.
Shoplifter pwnage!
1) New store opens, grand openning day. Some guy comes to returns with a 100 dollar something-or-other... cant remember what it is but not a common thing regardless. Doesn't have a receipt (suprise suprise), duty manager knows who the guy is, suspected shoplifter, so he checks the on hands in the computer... says we have 3, checks the shelf, only 2, askes the guy where he bought it, he says at this store. So the manager takes the item from him, and says " no you didn't, you stole it, so unless you can give me a receipt right now you are leaving this store or I am calling the cops"... yup he left
2) we had on guy chase a shoplifter accross a busy 4 lane freeway, tackle the guy and then cars stopped to help out. The guy who got out was a drunk passanger and beat the living sh!t out of the shoplifter because he was trying to get away.
more to follow later
I was a department supervisor, so basically you managed 5-20 employees. Through a rotation you also got the duty manager phone, meaning you'd get all those wonderful calls from pissed off people, but here we go with some good stories....
HD is a big warehouse so we have barricades that we use to block off ailse when lift equipment is working, you know, so if something falls down no one dies. Well, when you block of the ailse for 3 minutes, everyone needs something from the blocked off section and cant wait. I can remember at least 3 occassions when customer comes up to you when you are watching the gate so no one goes past. "I just need one of those things 10 feet down the ailse, can i run and go get it?" "no sir, the ailse is blocked of for safety reasons, we'll be done in 2 minutes" " I CANT WAIT 2 @#$@#$%@#%@ MINUTES I WANT IT NOW" so i reaffirm that we cant let him in and he storms out of the store. Idiots
On the subject of barricades again, we had one guy try to open it and walk past, so the associate held out is arm in front of the guy and asked him to stop. The guy walked into his arm, turned around, and punched the associate right in the face. Dropped him to the ground. Yikes eh?
We also have the morons who want to go and find stuff for themselves. We had one guy climb up 16' of metal racking to try and get something out of a wrapped pallet on the top level!!! That was probably the dumbest thing I ever saw. The guy was in his late 50's too, not some young idiot.
Shoplifter pwnage!
1) New store opens, grand openning day. Some guy comes to returns with a 100 dollar something-or-other... cant remember what it is but not a common thing regardless. Doesn't have a receipt (suprise suprise), duty manager knows who the guy is, suspected shoplifter, so he checks the on hands in the computer... says we have 3, checks the shelf, only 2, askes the guy where he bought it, he says at this store. So the manager takes the item from him, and says " no you didn't, you stole it, so unless you can give me a receipt right now you are leaving this store or I am calling the cops"... yup he left
2) we had on guy chase a shoplifter accross a busy 4 lane freeway, tackle the guy and then cars stopped to help out. The guy who got out was a drunk passanger and beat the living sh!t out of the shoplifter because he was trying to get away.
more to follow later
shortylickens
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"Oh really, you dont have it? Well then I guess this object I'm holding isnt sold here then is it? So its not shoplifting if I walkout with it? Have a nice day!"
Funny stories
I work at a kid's park in the Summer. We have a 3 rides, a train, merry go round and a ferris wheel. Of course we get some of the dumbest people coming everyday.
We never close, we may close early if it's pissing rain or really cold, but for the most part we are open for the full 9 hour day. So when it is pouring rain we just sit in the office and read until we get customers. Every single time it rains, we get at least one customer who comes up to the ticket booth, see's our cashier sitting there and proceeds to ask if we are open. Then when she of course says yes, they wonder aloud why no one else is in the park. (I dunno, maybe it's the fact it's pissing rain out and cold?) The same person will get on the train, in the rain, and comment on the fact that the seats are wet. Sigh
No word of a lie, this happens every single rainy day.
I also love seeing how honest people are. I'll purposely not take a ticket from them and see if they give me one on the way out. 95% of the time they don't. I think it's pretty funny.
I also love people who try to take advantage of you. The other night there were 3 siblings at the Merry Go round gate. Only one had a ticket, so that kid went on. The Mom then comes up and goes to stand with the kid. While I'm turning to talk to the other ride op, I notice one of the other kids darts in and hops on an animal. The older kid notices and yells at the Mom how this kid got on. The Mom just shrugs and says she snuck (sp?) on. So the other kid asks me if she can go on. I said "ya might as well, your sister is going on for free apparently". So there's my good deed of the day, give your kids a free ride and they can be happy. Well that wasn't enough, she sends her kids to the train, they hop on and none of them has tickets. So I got the train op to give them the boot. The Mom scowled at me and took the kids and left. Give a person an inch and they try to take a mile.
I work at a kid's park in the Summer. We have a 3 rides, a train, merry go round and a ferris wheel. Of course we get some of the dumbest people coming everyday.
We never close, we may close early if it's pissing rain or really cold, but for the most part we are open for the full 9 hour day. So when it is pouring rain we just sit in the office and read until we get customers. Every single time it rains, we get at least one customer who comes up to the ticket booth, see's our cashier sitting there and proceeds to ask if we are open. Then when she of course says yes, they wonder aloud why no one else is in the park. (I dunno, maybe it's the fact it's pissing rain out and cold?) The same person will get on the train, in the rain, and comment on the fact that the seats are wet. Sigh
No word of a lie, this happens every single rainy day.
I also love seeing how honest people are. I'll purposely not take a ticket from them and see if they give me one on the way out. 95% of the time they don't. I think it's pretty funny.
I also love people who try to take advantage of you. The other night there were 3 siblings at the Merry Go round gate. Only one had a ticket, so that kid went on. The Mom then comes up and goes to stand with the kid. While I'm turning to talk to the other ride op, I notice one of the other kids darts in and hops on an animal. The older kid notices and yells at the Mom how this kid got on. The Mom just shrugs and says she snuck (sp?) on. So the other kid asks me if she can go on. I said "ya might as well, your sister is going on for free apparently". So there's my good deed of the day, give your kids a free ride and they can be happy. Well that wasn't enough, she sends her kids to the train, they hop on and none of them has tickets. So I got the train op to give them the boot. The Mom scowled at me and took the kids and left. Give a person an inch and they try to take a mile.
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
How is that being dishonest?
If you know someone made a 'mistake' and gave you something you shouldn't have, you should return it. That's being honest.
I was working at a grocery store and this fellow comes on. He can't speak a word of English so the only way he can communicate is through gestures. Anyways, he basically uses his hand to mark the curves of a woman. Starting from the top to bottom, outlining the convex curves of the breasts, concave curves of the waist, and convex curves of the hips. All in one motion and with a big smile. We immediately knew what he wanted.
GeekDrew
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Originally posted by: dman
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
How is that being dishonest?
If you know someone made a 'mistake' and gave you something you shouldn't have, you should return it. That's being honest.
I didn't get that they were given something that they shouldn't have had...
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: dman
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
How is that being dishonest?
If you know someone made a 'mistake' and gave you something you shouldn't have, you should return it. That's being honest.
I didn't get that they were given something that they shouldn't have had...
he misread methinks
At the motorcycle shop a book was maintained called "And Then This Customer Said..." It was where all the great customer comments could be recorded.
A typical exchange between customer (C) and Parts Guy (P)
C: I need a part for my bike.
P: What kind of bike do you have?
C: It's yellow.
P: OK, is ita Honda, Suzuki, BMW...
C: It's pretty old, like a '74. I need that one round part from the back of the engine.
and so on...
A typical exchange between customer (C) and Parts Guy (P)
C: I need a part for my bike.
P: What kind of bike do you have?
C: It's yellow.
P: OK, is ita Honda, Suzuki, BMW...
C: It's pretty old, like a '74. I need that one round part from the back of the engine.
and so on...
heres one that pissed me off...
it was day after thanksgiving sale and we had these stereos hella cheap. my mom wanted one for my sis...and 5 mins before the store opened the bosses said i better hide one..
so i go back and grab this monster...now mind u im freshly back from a back injury and this thing weighs a ton!!!
so im walking the back ways to my section cause the herd is coming...i see a blockade in front of me and they spy me so i cut right...squeeeeze between a pole and an aisle and im about to cry from the pain, when im greeted by a guest..
"here ill take that off your hands for you"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boss was there and i couldnt do a damnnn thing. cause we arent allowed to hold merchandise. if i wasnt in tears i wouldve knocked the guy out and took back my sh!T...
i did end up getting one later but was still pissed
it was day after thanksgiving sale and we had these stereos hella cheap. my mom wanted one for my sis...and 5 mins before the store opened the bosses said i better hide one..
so i go back and grab this monster...now mind u im freshly back from a back injury and this thing weighs a ton!!!
so im walking the back ways to my section cause the herd is coming...i see a blockade in front of me and they spy me so i cut right...squeeeeze between a pole and an aisle and im about to cry from the pain, when im greeted by a guest..
"here ill take that off your hands for you"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boss was there and i couldnt do a damnnn thing. cause we arent allowed to hold merchandise. if i wasnt in tears i wouldve knocked the guy out and took back my sh!T...
i did end up getting one later but was still pissed
This old lady at the register didn't get here sale rung up (you guess it, Kmart) and so someone did it on a calculator so that the cashier could punch in just the actual price for the item. When the final price was said, the lady argued with her. That's not the price, let me do it on paper. She came up with her own price and said that the calculator was wrong. She was there arguing for about 5 minutes.
Another Kmart one. This dude tries stealing. The security guard questions him and gets punched right in the face and falls on the floor while the thief runs away.
This is one of those that should be in a comedy. I was looking for a watch and found it and made my way to the person who could take it from behind the glass. I was in kind of a hurry, but I could wait while she helped another customer. I really needed a watch. The freakin couple is at K-mart looking at gold rings or something, takes a half and hour and Freakin decides that they don't want any of them. What a bitch!
This one is from ShopRite, although I wasn't there, I heard it from someone who was. It's a grocery store. And employee was bringin this wagon thing. and under it was a dead rat and he didn't notice and left a nice little trail of red through this one isle. Crazy.
This other one is at the toll highway. Not all lanes contain electronic payment (EZPASS). And this happened where two interchanges are togther, the toll booths all in one row with cones seperating. So this guy enters the EZPass lane, realizes it, backs up and causes traffic, then crosses over 2 empty cash lanes, and goes through cones into the next interchange entry, which happened to be cheaper. Then crosses another empty cash lane and fall right into another EZPass lane and has the nerve to look at me and ask why there isn't a person in that lane. Freaking dumbass.
Another Toll Collector bit. There are signs before you get to the toll booths that say EZPass in signed lanes only. And then, above all the EZPass lanes is a pink sign that says EZPass in big letter with 2 yellow flashing lights.
Patron: "I though that because of the camera that it was easy pass."
God only knows how she... what the hell she was thinking as to realize such a minute detail compared to those signs.
Another Patron: "This is usually EZPass, what happened?"
Me: "It's turned off."
Another Patron that came into the cash lane with EZPass stopped. I told her what the price was and she said she only had two dollars. Then I started to follow procedure for people without funds. She got annoyed and said this is insane and got her wallet and pulled out a 20 from a small group of bills.
And likewise, so many people go into the EZPass lanes that don't belong there and then stop the car and come looking for a ticket. I won't give them anymore. NOPE. "GET Back in the CAR!"
Middle-aged Patron holding her breasts during the nightshift: "Like these?"
Me:...
Fvcking machines are stupid and badly programmed. They mess up all the time, maybe it's because it was made in France, but who knows. My supervisor was fixing it and I was still taking customers when he said. A few cars ahead this one woman in the back seat of a car is filming another women's breasts. I misheard and didn't get to see them. When they arrived, the supervisor tried to take the camera from them because it was illegal to film the highway, weird. But they left with the camera. I looked as they left and saw the topless woman with her breasts near the ceiling of the car adjusting something beneath her. Weird.
From my co-workers, it seems that, during the summer a lot of sexually explicit stuff occurs. Blowjobs, handjobs, breasts... that kinda thing.
I also see some celebrities. I've seen Redman twice and Big Boy from outkast.
Another Kmart one. This dude tries stealing. The security guard questions him and gets punched right in the face and falls on the floor while the thief runs away.
This is one of those that should be in a comedy. I was looking for a watch and found it and made my way to the person who could take it from behind the glass. I was in kind of a hurry, but I could wait while she helped another customer. I really needed a watch. The freakin couple is at K-mart looking at gold rings or something, takes a half and hour and Freakin decides that they don't want any of them. What a bitch!
This one is from ShopRite, although I wasn't there, I heard it from someone who was. It's a grocery store. And employee was bringin this wagon thing. and under it was a dead rat and he didn't notice and left a nice little trail of red through this one isle. Crazy.
This other one is at the toll highway. Not all lanes contain electronic payment (EZPASS). And this happened where two interchanges are togther, the toll booths all in one row with cones seperating. So this guy enters the EZPass lane, realizes it, backs up and causes traffic, then crosses over 2 empty cash lanes, and goes through cones into the next interchange entry, which happened to be cheaper. Then crosses another empty cash lane and fall right into another EZPass lane and has the nerve to look at me and ask why there isn't a person in that lane. Freaking dumbass.
Another Toll Collector bit. There are signs before you get to the toll booths that say EZPass in signed lanes only. And then, above all the EZPass lanes is a pink sign that says EZPass in big letter with 2 yellow flashing lights.
Patron: "I though that because of the camera that it was easy pass."
God only knows how she... what the hell she was thinking as to realize such a minute detail compared to those signs.
Another Patron: "This is usually EZPass, what happened?"
Me: "It's turned off."
Another Patron that came into the cash lane with EZPass stopped. I told her what the price was and she said she only had two dollars. Then I started to follow procedure for people without funds. She got annoyed and said this is insane and got her wallet and pulled out a 20 from a small group of bills.
And likewise, so many people go into the EZPass lanes that don't belong there and then stop the car and come looking for a ticket. I won't give them anymore. NOPE. "GET Back in the CAR!"
Middle-aged Patron holding her breasts during the nightshift: "Like these?"
Me:...
Fvcking machines are stupid and badly programmed. They mess up all the time, maybe it's because it was made in France, but who knows. My supervisor was fixing it and I was still taking customers when he said. A few cars ahead this one woman in the back seat of a car is filming another women's breasts. I misheard and didn't get to see them. When they arrived, the supervisor tried to take the camera from them because it was illegal to film the highway, weird. But they left with the camera. I looked as they left and saw the topless woman with her breasts near the ceiling of the car adjusting something beneath her. Weird.
From my co-workers, it seems that, during the summer a lot of sexually explicit stuff occurs. Blowjobs, handjobs, breasts... that kinda thing.
I also see some celebrities. I've seen Redman twice and Big Boy from outkast.
Hilarious, LOL!!
I didn't before... NASTY. ewww.
waggy
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And you don't think there would be just as many stories about dumb workers?
Its not about if the customer is smart. I know not all are heck i worked retail myself for a long time.
But once I say NO i do not want to be asked again. I have walked out of BB because they keep asking. Now when i buy something and they ask me for it. I tell them NO and please not to harase me on it. Usually works but sometimes you get that idiot that can't take no for a answer.
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