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  • If it’s in the store then it’s mine mine mine.

    So this is from the height of the pandemic when people were still very much panic buying everything. We provide, free of charge, hand sanitizer in the form of liquid or wipes for customers. It is expected that employees also use them between customers.

    Now a thing to note is are liquid hand sanitizer smells like bottom shelf gin. Very very strongly.

    Due to the fact I’m apparently allergic to both the gloves and our hand sanitizer I’ve got special permission to use my own hand sanitizer at work. As such I’ve been using a lot of it to make up for the fact I can’t where the gloves provided. (Ever stick your hand in stinging nettle? That’s what it feels like. Not to mention that I’d start with a small glove and end the day in an XL). My stuff is super expensive stuff that goes for about $30 a bottle.

    It doesn’t smell like cheap gin either.

    This SC decides that she needs to sanitize her hands. Which is what our shit is there for anyway. No big deal. I get it, pandemic going on you wanna keep healthy and all. So I offer the usual choice of wipes or liquid.

    Oh no.

    She wants my stuff instead.

    I explain it’s my own personal sanitizer that I bought with my own money. I’ve received special permission for because I’m allergic to the stuff provided by the store. I want to avoid getting sick too and all that. Usually people accept that and move on.

    Not this lady.

    Oh no, she’s SpEcIaL.

    I have to give her mine because it smells nicer and she’s a customer. And going on about how “I can’t deny her legal rights...etc”. First of all, legally, we don’t even have to be open much less provide you out of the stores pockets access to hand sanitizer. Second of all I bought it it is mine therefore not yours.

    She finally left when she realized she couldn’t bully me into anything. But not until after holding up the line (keeping in mind we couldn’t let anyone in until someone left)
    Don’t worry about what I’m up to. Worry about why you are worried about what I’m up to.

  • #2
    Legal rights

    Everyone claims something is their legal right until you ask them to call the police if that is so.

    The really bad ones really do believe such nonsense that they will even call 911 to demand what they want.

    Does not work in those cases either.

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    • #3
      I'd have been sorely tempted to hand her the disinfectant we use on the belts (I work in a grocery store) if she doesn't like the proffered hand sanitizer.

      Is there any way you can tuck yours more or less out of sight?
      Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
      ~ Mr Hero

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      • #4
        Entitlement knows no limits.

        Like just about everyone, I don't like government tissues so brought my own. When I got rotated to the lobby of the food stamp office, I brought my box with me and hid them under the counter.

        At least once a week, a client would demand to use my personal tissues (which they assumed I had because nobody likes using the government ones). Even better, once I felt nice and held my box out for someone to take a tissue. She tried to take the whole box.

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        • #5
          Luckily in my job one of the options in the uniform is an apron. I asked for one, and kept all that stuff in the two large pockets, so the stuff was pretty much invisible to customers.

          Nowadays, of course, hand lotion is irrelevant, given that I wear gloves for my shift.
          Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
          ~ Mr Hero

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          • #6
            Never mind the mentality of wanting something that has been explained is your own personal property, that's just the typical sucky customer selfishness. Where do these idiots get this "legal right" bs from? This kind of thing is never stated by any official, there is nowhere from which they can get this belief because it does not exist. But there they are, spouting of imaginary "information". STFU idiot.
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            • #7
              Re: Thread title


              Please excuse Kit & I while we take this concept and run around with it...
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              • #8
                Quoth evilhomer View Post
                Where do these idiots get this "legal right" bs from? This kind of thing is never stated by any official, there is nowhere from which they can get this belief because it does not exist. But there they are, spouting of imaginary "information". STFU idiot.
                I think they're just working on the theory that announcing "legal rights" or "it's a law!" will cause a knee-jerk reaction that results in them getting what they want ... usually, of course, they just get laughed at.
                Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
                ~ Mr Hero

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                • #9
                  "Don't worry, Mr. Simpson, I watched most of a 'Matlock' episode in a bar last night. The sound was off, but I got the gist of it."

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Slave to the Phone View Post
                    I don't like government tissues so brought my own.
                    You work for a government organization that buys tissues for general use? I've been with three government agencies now where I'm lucky they buy us pens, let alone tissues.
                    I suspect that... inside every adult (sometimes not very far inside) is a bratty kid who wants everything his own way.
                    - Bill Watterson

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Slave to the Phone View Post
                      ... Like just about everyone, I don't like government tissues so brought my own. ...
                      Is the government still using the Kimwipes I was exposed to many decades ago? Those were very rough and no doubt related to John Wayne toilet paper*.

                      * It doesn't take crap off of anyone.
                      "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                      • #12
                        Totally feel you on the gloves. I can't wear vinyl gloves; they make my hands itch like mad. And unfortunately, those are the default stock at a lot of places I've worked since they're the cheapest. Fortunately the nitrile gloves work for me and are fairly readily available. When I worked at the big hospital I always had to stick a few pairs in my pocket whenever I had to leave my department and go up to the floor. My current workplace has them pretty much everywhere, which is nice.
                        I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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                        • #13
                          The vinyl gloves we use make my hands itch like mad and swell slightly if worn long enough (not Staypuft-caliber, but noticeable to me in that it's not easy to get the gloves off).

                          We can only have nitrile gloves if we have documented an allergy with HR...I'd think that a skin rash/localized swelling would count as an allergy, or do we need to go into full-blown anaphylaxis to prove it?
                          "I am quite confident that I do exist."
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                          • #14
                            Funny, my experience seems to be opposite of the folks above.
                            We have always had nitrile gloves available (for cleaning the gas pumps and stuff), and recently they added vinyl as an option. And while wearing the vinyl isn't pleasant, the difference is enough to confirm my suspicion that I'm allergic to nitrile.
                            (It is a very mild reaction: I simply sweat profusely where the nitrile touches my skin. Less so with vinyl.)

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                            • #15
                              Complaints department? I wish to register a protest at my reputation being maligned here. Now if l can just take the apology and my compensation and the cute girlie on checkout 3 l shall be out of here...
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