That reminded me of another story...a manager I used to work with had a very short temper and once had a customer tell him that he would "see him in the parking lot after closing time."
Working as a cashier at a BJs store. Guy comes up with a truckload of crap, but most importantly a 40"+ plasma TV. I scan the barcode and notice that it only rings in at $699 and under a different brand. I know this is not right since I've been eyeing the TV and it was selling for $2500. So after a few minutes I get my supervisor to lookup the correct scan code. The guy pays the near $6 grand with credit card. Except it doesn't go through. He gets on the phone to his credit card company, muttering that he just got the limit upped to $16 grand. My shift ends and I leave.
Next day I come into work and I'm called up to the store manager's office. There I find out the guy had left soon after but before the store could identify that he had pulled the barcode off the product and put another one on. They praised me since the cashier's aren't trained to recognize prices when they ring up and gave me credit for stopping the theft of the item. I got a nice 10% of the value as a bonus, or $250.
Next day I come into work and I'm called up to the store manager's office. There I find out the guy had left soon after but before the store could identify that he had pulled the barcode off the product and put another one on. They praised me since the cashier's aren't trained to recognize prices when they ring up and gave me credit for stopping the theft of the item. I got a nice 10% of the value as a bonus, or $250.
kranky
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Originally posted by: crownjules
Working as a cashier at a BJs store. Guy comes up with a truckload of crap, but most importantly a 40"+ plasma TV. I scan the barcode and notice that it only rings in at $699 and under a different brand. I know this is not right since I've been eyeing the TV and it was selling for $2500. So after a few minutes I get my supervisor to lookup the correct scan code. The guy pays the near $6 grand with credit card. Except it doesn't go through. He gets on the phone to his credit card company, muttering that he just got the limit upped to $16 grand. My shift ends and I leave.
Next day I come into work and I'm called up to the store manager's office. There I find out the guy had left soon after but before the store could identify that he had pulled the barcode off the product and put another one on. They praised me since the cashier's aren't trained to recognize prices when they ring up and gave me credit for stopping the theft of the item. I got a nice 10% of the value as a bonus, or $250.
Good for you - nice bonus!
I wonder when retailers will start to understand that this happens EVERY DAY. Funny that they put all their energy towards stopping shoplifters and these barcode swappers breeze right out the door.
An $8 shoplifted DVD = loss of $8
....but
A $800 LCD monitor that rings up at $300 because the barcode got switched = loss of $500. Not to mention the fact that if the cashier catches the attempted fraud, the perp can play stupid and simply continue with the transaction, then return it later for another attempt.
Working at a golf course on a military base I goofed off a lot and practiced putting in the pro shop. One day this older man comes in looking to purchase some golf balls. There is a girl in her early twenties working the register and he notices that there are two sets of balls on the counter that both have pink on them and he inquires about them (one set is all pink and the other is white with pink ribbons on them). The girl at the register informs him that they are for breast cancer awareness.
He replies "Well I'm all for breasts! Get me a dozen of each!"
He replies "Well I'm all for breasts! Get me a dozen of each!"
At my work, we had boxing day doorcrashers.
Gotta love the people that come in a week after the doorcrashers expire and want the product for that price.
Gotta love the people that come in a week after the doorcrashers expire and want the product for that price.
what, she just squat down on the floor and took a dump? Or she wasn't wearing any underwear?
What did she say? Did she apologize? Was she demented?whew... nearly 2 days reading this thread. Almost as good as the "what's the WORST thing you've ever done?" thread.
You explained the basics of electricity to them? That's rich. You don't even know the basics yourself it seems. An AC adapter plugging into a radio in the shower is perfectly safe. Now I would go into the why's and wherefores but since you're so smart I'll let you explain the basics to me instead. I'd love to hear it. I didn't read the whole thread but I'm sure someone already has pwned your pompous ass already so I won't bother besides I'm pressed for time right now, maybe later.
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I used to lifeguard at a YMCA when I was 16 or 17 during the morning shift, and a few mornings a week around 6:00 or 7:00, this little tiny old woman would come in to use the whirlpool. Well, she would turn on the jets, and *use* the jets. And I mean like turn around, face them, and have at it. And she would do it literally 3-4 times a week, with me standing there like 15 feet away from her. She wouldn't do it if her husband got in the spa with her, but if she was alone, you could be looking her right in the eye and she would continue on. Her English wasn't very good, and besides, I wasn't quite sure how to approach the situation, so every time she got in, I would go to the pump room and shut off the jets, at which point she would promptly get out and leave.
There was another incident of the same ilk, except it was a guy that did it. He got in the whirlpool and turned around to use the jets, except he was violently more vocal (you know indoor pools ... they echo like nothing else). It was so extreme that we had to call down the building manager to come excuse him from the facility.
There was another incident of the same ilk, except it was a guy that did it. He got in the whirlpool and turned around to use the jets, except he was violently more vocal (you know indoor pools ... they echo like nothing else). It was so extreme that we had to call down the building manager to come excuse him from the facility.
In college I worked at Lowe's outdoor lawn and garden for a summer. Here are a few of my stories.
-I would get all kinds of crazy returns. Dead spring plants that we stopped selling months before were the norm. One time I was shocked that the return desk allowed somebody to return empty cans of bug spray. There wasn't a drop of spray in the can.
-A guy told me that he had a one ton pickup truck and wanted to know how much weight of 50 pound bags of stone he could put in it. He stressed that didn?t want to know how many bags, just how much weight. I told him one ton and he was like ohhhhhhhh that?s what it means.
-I had a customer ask me if he could get a discount on an apple tree that had a cracked plastic pot. I explained to the man that when he gets the tree home he will dig a hole and remove the tree from the pot. The pot is completely useless. He went to my manager and she actually gave him a 75% discount just to "keep him happy"
-Our policy with mulch was that if the bag was ripped and any amount of mulch was missing, it would be 50% off. I can't tell you how many people I watched rip open the bags and ask for the discount.
-I guy driving an economy car bought 50 bags of mulch and 10 bags of top soil. I put them in his car until I noticed that the fenders were getting a little low to the tires. I stopped, told the guy I wouldn't load any more, wrote on his receipt that I only loaded x number of bags, informed the manager of my decision, etc. The guy said he didn't live far and that he would finish loading himself. As he left the parking lot smoke poured from his wheel wells. He had told me where he lived but I never heard of it. Later I looked on Mapquest. He lived an hour away.
-I was using the fork lift to place a pallet of pavers on the bottom of the rack. The pallet fit in the hole with less than a half inch top and bottom. Because of this there was no way to remove the shrink wrap after it was places, so you had to do it beforehand. So I am slowly maneuvering the pallet concentrating on not to hit the ground or the shelf above. All of a I see a woman's head under my front tire. She was on her hands and knees looking at the pavers. I slammed on the breaks causing my pavers to fall off the pallet creating a huge mess. After calling her a %&# idiot she told me she was sorry and that she didn't see me. I was on a big fork lift that was going beep beep beep.
-Remembered another one. I was working the restocking shift one night. It was about 2 ½ hours after close when I noticed a woman with a cart full of stuff walking around the ungated parking lot area where we had overflow merchandise. She asked if she could take the stuff home and come back in the morning to pay for it.
-I would get all kinds of crazy returns. Dead spring plants that we stopped selling months before were the norm. One time I was shocked that the return desk allowed somebody to return empty cans of bug spray. There wasn't a drop of spray in the can.
-A guy told me that he had a one ton pickup truck and wanted to know how much weight of 50 pound bags of stone he could put in it. He stressed that didn?t want to know how many bags, just how much weight. I told him one ton and he was like ohhhhhhhh that?s what it means.
-I had a customer ask me if he could get a discount on an apple tree that had a cracked plastic pot. I explained to the man that when he gets the tree home he will dig a hole and remove the tree from the pot. The pot is completely useless. He went to my manager and she actually gave him a 75% discount just to "keep him happy"
-Our policy with mulch was that if the bag was ripped and any amount of mulch was missing, it would be 50% off. I can't tell you how many people I watched rip open the bags and ask for the discount.
-I guy driving an economy car bought 50 bags of mulch and 10 bags of top soil. I put them in his car until I noticed that the fenders were getting a little low to the tires. I stopped, told the guy I wouldn't load any more, wrote on his receipt that I only loaded x number of bags, informed the manager of my decision, etc. The guy said he didn't live far and that he would finish loading himself. As he left the parking lot smoke poured from his wheel wells. He had told me where he lived but I never heard of it. Later I looked on Mapquest. He lived an hour away.
-I was using the fork lift to place a pallet of pavers on the bottom of the rack. The pallet fit in the hole with less than a half inch top and bottom. Because of this there was no way to remove the shrink wrap after it was places, so you had to do it beforehand. So I am slowly maneuvering the pallet concentrating on not to hit the ground or the shelf above. All of a I see a woman's head under my front tire. She was on her hands and knees looking at the pavers. I slammed on the breaks causing my pavers to fall off the pallet creating a huge mess. After calling her a %&# idiot she told me she was sorry and that she didn't see me. I was on a big fork lift that was going beep beep beep.
-Remembered another one. I was working the restocking shift one night. It was about 2 ½ hours after close when I noticed a woman with a cart full of stuff walking around the ungated parking lot area where we had overflow merchandise. She asked if she could take the stuff home and come back in the morning to pay for it.
-Lowe?s has it setup for most plants that they don?t pay the nursery for them until a customer buys it. So for most of the stuff you we just didn?t care what happened to them. One day I moved a dumpster over to the vegetable tables and started tossing out most of the plants. Granted this is early fall. A woman comes over absolutely furious that I would be wasting these plants. I laughed and continued working. Ten minutes later she comes back with a couple of friends and they all start hounding me because I am killing the plants and somebody would have bought them. I told the woman that these particular plants only grown once. They have already produced the vegetables. They will not produce any more. She asked how I know they already produced. I told her because we have eaten the tomatoes and peppers from them already.
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Pretty much all of my retail adventures came while working in the lumber department at Lowe's.
- Had a lady and her husband come in looking for the absolute perfect 2x4s for practically free. I showed her a stack of our cheapest 2x4s and stood there for several minutes helping them find 20-odd 2x4s with no imperfections. She was obviously unhappy. I showed them our more expensive 2x4s (really just pressure treated) and they repeated this and were still unhappy. Then she demanded that I get a forklift and pull down another stack of wood from our shelves. I explained to her that I couldn't because the current holds at ground level were 3/4 full and I wouldn't be able to put any wood I brought down back up for safety reason. Off to the manager she goes with her husband in tow. Manager was fine with the way I handled it though.
- Had a contractor come in with a helper to get some lumber and I went around helping him. We start loading up some 4x4s. We weren't working to well together (I had a case of butterfingers that day for some reason) and he told me he didn't need my help. So, I went off to help other customers. I then helped check them out and idly chatted with the cashier while the contractor and his helper loaded up his truck. Contractor finishes loading up his truck and then goes to my manager to complain that I wouldn't help him. Oy! Manager understood though fortunately.
- Had a fellow employee go back into the employee lounge to watch a training video. He fell asleep watching the video and was missing from the floor for almost two hours. Amazingly, he didn't get fired.
- Had a bomb threat called in. Managers asked the employees to look for the bomb while they stood outside.
- Had a lady and her husband come in looking for the absolute perfect 2x4s for practically free. I showed her a stack of our cheapest 2x4s and stood there for several minutes helping them find 20-odd 2x4s with no imperfections. She was obviously unhappy. I showed them our more expensive 2x4s (really just pressure treated) and they repeated this and were still unhappy. Then she demanded that I get a forklift and pull down another stack of wood from our shelves. I explained to her that I couldn't because the current holds at ground level were 3/4 full and I wouldn't be able to put any wood I brought down back up for safety reason. Off to the manager she goes with her husband in tow. Manager was fine with the way I handled it though.
- Had a contractor come in with a helper to get some lumber and I went around helping him. We start loading up some 4x4s. We weren't working to well together (I had a case of butterfingers that day for some reason) and he told me he didn't need my help. So, I went off to help other customers. I then helped check them out and idly chatted with the cashier while the contractor and his helper loaded up his truck. Contractor finishes loading up his truck and then goes to my manager to complain that I wouldn't help him. Oy! Manager understood though fortunately.
- Had a fellow employee go back into the employee lounge to watch a training video. He fell asleep watching the video and was missing from the floor for almost two hours. Amazingly, he didn't get fired.
- Had a bomb threat called in. Managers asked the employees to look for the bomb while they stood outside.
The management at the Home Depot I worked at were all pushovers. The plant return policy was especially stupid. The policy is that if a plant (tree, flower, shrub, vegetable, etc.) dies, it can be returned for a year. I can't tell you how many people brought annual flowers and dead plants from their gardens back and actually got exchanges and store credit for them because of the management.
One lady came back with a tree she had bought something like 8 months before. She openly admitted planting it in the type of soil that was bad for that particular tree. She had talked to the manager and we didn't have the same tree stocked, but he was sending a driver from our store to pick a tree up from another store 4 hours away. Several hours later, she comes back with her redneck, Bubba-looking son. They both got super pissed and started yelling when I told them we didn't have the tree yet. They hung around until the tree got there and actually expected me to help them load it in their truck. I told them to load it themselves.
There were shoplifters sometimes too, but I would absolutely never go after a thief stealing from Home Depot unless he was endangering another person somehow. There is absolutely no reason to risk your personal safety for some merchandise that really doesn't mean squat to the store.
One lady came back with a tree she had bought something like 8 months before. She openly admitted planting it in the type of soil that was bad for that particular tree. She had talked to the manager and we didn't have the same tree stocked, but he was sending a driver from our store to pick a tree up from another store 4 hours away. Several hours later, she comes back with her redneck, Bubba-looking son. They both got super pissed and started yelling when I told them we didn't have the tree yet. They hung around until the tree got there and actually expected me to help them load it in their truck. I told them to load it themselves.
There were shoplifters sometimes too, but I would absolutely never go after a thief stealing from Home Depot unless he was endangering another person somehow. There is absolutely no reason to risk your personal safety for some merchandise that really doesn't mean squat to the store.
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