Bean

I hate cranky french senior citizens on Saturdays. I don't know why they do it, but they all seem to flock to the mall on Saturdays. They spend minimum an hour in the store looking at EVERYTHING, they ask you at least 10 minutes worth of questions, about half a dozen different products, and they NEVER I mean NEVER buy anything.

I have three regulars. They go through the same routine every single Saturday morning. They come to the store, walk around for an hour and a half, getting mad at me when I ask "can I help you" and mad when I don't ask them if they need help. They ask no less than 25 questions, about no less than a dozen different products, and are always mad about my answers no matter what the answer is.

And the questions are ridiculous ones too. Example:

"Does this cellular phone work everywhere in Canada?"

"Yes it does"

"What about the US?"

"Yes"

"What about the Dominican?"

"Yes"


Now this may not seem like a huge deal, but you have to understand, they go down the list until they find a country where it doesn't work, and then they ask me why not as if it's my fault Rogers doesn't have cellular coverage in Guatemala!! This is an example of the way these people act. I swear to god, I hope I die at 60, so I never run the risk of turning into one of these people. So bored with my life that I spend my Saturdays badgering retail staff just to pass the time..


FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!

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Bean

And there goes another one...

So this guy comes in, soends ten or fifteen minutes staring at my Televisions. He asks he price of a 27" even though the price tag is clearly visible (whatever). So I tell him the price of it. He asks me if there's a discount because it's been on display (a fair and common question). I politely tell him that it's company policy NOT to give discounts on something because it's on display (90%of our sock is on display) but if it was a real big problem, I could order him one brand new in the box and it would only take three days to get here. He doesn't even have to pay shipping or anything like that. So he asks me to look and see if I can get one. I hop online to the product locator and look for one. As I'm looking, I notice that the tv is on special, for $100 less than what my tag said (Perfect I'm thinking to myself). I tell him about it.

Now, this guy, wanted me to knock 50 bucks off the tv because it was on display, and was worried about paying 10 or 15 bucks shipping if I ordered a new one. One would assume that teling him he can have it for 100 bucks less than the tag price would make him happy, or at least satisfy him. Did it? NOOOOOOOO...

He had the nerve to throw a temper tantrum (yes a full blown temper tantrum) that the tag was wrong and it was false advertisment. I tried explaining to him that even had he decided to take the tv at the tag price, when I rang it in, it would have come up as the sale price (it does). I tried explaining to him that it was a weekend sale and we had no sale tags for it. Did any of this calm him down? Of course not. Because the "big bad consumer hating company" was trying to rip him off by charging him 100 bucks LESS than he was originally told! I can understand him getting mad if the tag was showing 100 bucks less than the actual price, but it was the opposite, For all intents and purposes, this guy was getting a fucking deal!

This ended with me actually having to call mall security. He started cursing and swearing, I asked him calmly and politely to not swear in the store. He cursed and swore some more and spouted off about his rights to freedom of speech yadda yadda yadda... So I asked him to leave, he wouldn't. I called security, he was gone before they got here.

I HATE PEOPLE!!! All people! Old people, young people, french people, english people, black people, white people... The whole fucking bag! Hate 'em all. This job is effectively destroying what little regard I have for the human species in general!

FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

*end rant*

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cymro

Well, there's always smoking...

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Not really, cause I gave my employee the weekend off, so I'm here alone. I can't smoke in the store, and I can't leave the store unoccupied. DAMMIT!

Heh, maybe that's why I'm always going off on these rants on Saturdays...

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Sirgets

Beautiful just fucking Beautiful!!!!!!!! Your rants bring such joy to my life BEAN!!!!

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Bean

Thank you, I try. Tune in next time when I go off about some other trivial part of my life that induces the urge to commit mass murder.

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cymro

Do you sell hoovers (vacuum cleaners)? Cause you could smoke into one of those

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

No, I don't. But I do sell dust-busters. Although now that I think of it, we sell Honeywell air purifiers... bahh. Fuck it. I'll just continue with my rants in place of smoke breaks. Fuckers can stop me from smoking for the day, but not from complaining.

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Rorschach

"Where are ze French Teekelers? Whooy weel you not steek zem up my arse, you seely English types HAW HAW HAW? Whooy are zey not priced in Franks, no? Weel zey funcion on ze power in Zimbabwe, no?"



Never alert an asshole that you've called the cops unless you wnat them to split really fast...unless it's a 10 yr. old shoplifter you trapped at the mall across the street from your store, with your stolen merchandise in his hand, on Christmas Eve...

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Brikar

Next time, tell him his freedom of speech is limited because a mall is private property AND because he's causing a disturbance.

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