As if my days weren't surreal enough...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

It was a weird one today. Much more so than normal.

We Can't Has Maintenance

Cleaning guy showed up to the store at 5 am--and promptly told our supervisor he isn't working anymore, because evidently his pay is 40 days overdue. He said he tried to call somebody but got no answer.

So I guess we don't get anybody to clean our store until the cleaning company (whoever they are) brings in somebody else. Sexytime. As a result of this I got asked to clean the men's restroom while one of the service desk people got assigned the women's restroom. No other maintenance chores got done.

Ah-wuh?

There's a couple vagrants, for lack of a better term, who dig used cigarette butts out of the ashtrays and take drags off of them.

We took our first break outside in front of the store, when one of them came walking up, nattily dressed in a heavy sweater, jeans and big fuzzy winter boots. (It was about 70 degrees when we took break)

Cigarette lady: Do you smoke?
Supervisor: I have one cigarette left and I'm smoking it right now.
CL: You're rude. (Starts to walk through front entrance door, which we left open)
S: The store's closed; you can't go inside.
CL: Bitch. (stomps off)
S: Thank you!

Methinks somebody's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.

[Dave1982]

There's a couple vagrants, for lack of a better term, who dig used cigarette butts out of the ashtrays and take drags off of them.

I saw a woman doing that once outside the North Station/Fleetcenter MBTA station once. As if smoking wasn't a filthy enough habit to begin with! Now you're picking up half-smoked butts from the ashtrays? Butts that are full of sand (or whatever they use in those ashtrays) and covered with the germs of whoever smoked them first?

Just. Ew.

The hell of it was that this woman didn't appear to be destitute. She was toting several bags of stuff from one of Boston's more upscale shops (I forget which one). Of course, she could have been a vagrant, and just happened to have those bags with her personal stuff in them, but that's not what it looked like to me. Plus, she then came into the station and boarded an outbound commuter rail train, which I doubt she would have done if she was a vagrant.

[Horsetuna]

My dad used to collect the butts. But he didnt smoke them himself. He would dig the unburnt tobbaco out of the last 1-2 inches and put them into his own cigarettes.

That second lady has issues, eesh.

[Sharsarannon]

It was a weird one today. Much more so than normal.

Cigarette lady: Do you smoke?
Supervisor: I have one cigarette left and I'm smoking it right now.
CL: You're rude. (Starts to walk through front entrance door, which we left open)
S: The store's closed; you can't go inside.
CL: Bitch. (stomps off)
S: Thank you!

Methinks somebody's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.

I have a sister who says, "Well, you're being RUDE!" anytime I give her an answer she doesn't like. Mind you, she's a pre-teen.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I have a sister who says, "Well, you're being RUDE!" anytime I give her an answer she doesn't like. Mind you, she's a pre-teen.

Oh, your little sis would find me to be the rudest thing on the planet then.

Please beat some sense into her before she comes near me.

[depechemodefan]

There's a couple vagrants, for lack of a better term, who dig used cigarette butts out of the ashtrays and take drags off of them.

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I've seen a homeless person dig out of the trash a cup of a soft drink, and drink it.

[Polenicus]

At our College Campus we have a constant problem with people digging through our ashtrays (Provided all over the exterior of the campus to alleviate butts being dumped wherever) for butts. Now, granted, this is a terrible neighborhood, and we have college age students here who appear to smoke 42 packs a day EACH. The problem is the butt-hunters aren't happy with just opening up the ashtrays and picking out the smokable butts. They will DISMANTLE the ashtrays, opening the smoke hood, removing the tray with the butts, and in many cases removing the entire assembly if it's not entirely secure. They will then upend them on the ground, thereby defeating the entire purpose of having the ashtrays.

The sad part is, I'm pretty sure it's not just vagrants who do this. There are a lot of students who apparently decided it would be peachy-keen cool to start up an extremely addictive habit that they utterly lack the financial means to support.

Ugh... if you wanna smoke, fine, that's your decision. But if it's reducing you to rummaging around in FILTH to get a hit, then you've crossed the line from affectation into drug addiction. Get. Help.

[Gerrinson]

As if smoking wasn't a filthy enough habit to begin with! Now you're picking up half-smoked butts from the ashtrays? Butts that are full of sand (or whatever they use in those ashtrays) and covered with the germs of whoever smoked them first?

Kind of OT, but when I cleaned the ashtrays at the grocery store we used kitty litter, not sand. And often not clean kitty litter, but whatever had been used to clean up water spills in the back (or spilled from damage kitty litter bags from inventory.) They used to dump it all into a bucket, and just recycle it into the ashtrays.

Just think about that next time you see someone snatching a butt out of an ashtray...

[blas]

I've seen punk kids going through the ashtrays at Wal-Mart...there's always a few half and almost whole ciggs in there, but that's so gross.......!!