stupid people

[Skank]

I work in a store in Stockholm that sells cool gadgets and other stuff. I have been working for about a year and everyday the stupidity of people scares me.

example 1:

we have a radio controlled UFO

customer: how does this UFO work?
me: well, theres four propellers and a gyroscope which stabilizes the ufo, it flies up to 100 meters.
customer: ok but uuuuh... is there a cord between the control and the UFO?
me: eh? no.

as if the box would include a 100 meter long cord! wise up! seriously, just try to think for yourself once in a while!!!

example 2:

the youngster and the hand-held-fan-dilemma

customer: this fan doesnt work, I cant feel the wind.
me: thats because its in a plastic package... (dumbass)

[Sir Spaniard the 12th]

example 2:

the youngster and the hand-held-fan-dilemma

customer: this fan doesnt work, I cant feel the wind.
me: thats because its in a plastic package... (dumbass)

I may be opening myself for ridicule here... But surely, no one is THAT stupid?

[Skank]

I thought about killing myself to ease the pain when he had left. actually it has happened again since then

[lordlundar]

I may be opening myself for ridicule here... But surely, no one is THAT stupid?

I say this in the nicest possible manner.:

You must not have been around here very long.

Some of the pre-hack stories humble this one.

[chainedbarista]

I

thought about killing myself to ease the pain when he had left. actually it has happened again since then

egad! a repeat offense stupid!

[Jester]

Spaniard,

Haven't you figured out yet that not only are people that stupid, many of them are even stupider?

Heck, did you see (in another thread) my story about the guy asking about the upstairs of the restaurant? If not, here again is a quick rundown of The Single Stupidest Question I Have Ever Been Asked:

SC is an adult male, seemingly sober, seemingly not suffering from any "special needs".

Restaurant is a three level affair....Main floor, up three steps to the middle bar level, up three steps to the "upstairs" aka the mezzanine level, all plainly visible as there are no walls separating this.

Jester is standing by the bottom of one of the sets of stairs that goes up to both the bar and upper level.

SC: "Do you have an upstairs?"
ME: [turns head to look at the upstairs.] "Um, yes.
SC: "Where is it?"
ME: [pointing to the upstairs, without moving from where I stood]: "Right...there."
SC: "How do I get there?"
ME: [staring, dumbfounded]: "Walk....up....the....stairs...?"
SC: "Okay, thanks." [walks away]


To this day, my brain hurts every time I tell this story.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I feel your pain.

Had a chick come in once and ask to use the rental computers.

I pointed her the the area that had about 6 or 7 computer cubbies.

SC: Where?

Me: right in that room there. (she was standing less than 10 feet away. No way she could be missing this. Helen Keller could have found the computer area in this store.)

SC: I dont see them.

Me: Right in there. (pointing.) You can use any of them you like.

SC: Where?

Me: Right in that little room there. See?

SC: I dont' see it.

Me: (dumbfounded.) Ma'am, can you not see the half dozen large computers in there???

SC: Well, yeah, okay, NOW I do, but you dont' have get all bitchy about it.

(Apparently, I do. I tried to be patient, but I think Ghandi himself would have wanted to pop her one. )

[Skank]

jesus....

but morons are at least ok. the ones I really hate are the bastards. one came in last week

customer: how much for this pokerset.
me: 1200 crowns
customer: ok, what wood is the case made of?
me: I dont really know
customer: if you sell it youre supposed to know that sort of thing!

I dont know what you think but I really dont think that it is a relevant question. The instructions doesnt say what wood it is made of so how am I supposed to know?

and then he started bitching about how I didnt give him enough attention. I mean come on! am I supposed to follow him around in the store and just wait for him to ask me something? the store is pretty small and I clearly stated that he could just ask if he wanted to know something!

[digilight]

Spaniard, thats nothing. Try reading some of PhoneJocky's Stories about her customers. Sometimes it just makes me want to either cry or punch something.

[heyew]

Ghandi himself

Clearly Ghandi never worked behind a counter. He wouldn't have had the patience for it.

[HYHYBT]

From a customer in Drive-Thru this past week:

"Where is your menu board?"

I'm not joking, and neither were they. And there's nothing unusual about the menu board, either: it's right next to the speaker box and very large.

Edited to clarify: they didn't ask this at the window, but from the speaker.

[Erin]

From a customer in Drive-Thru this past week:

"Where is your menu board?"

I'm not joking, and neither were they. And there's nothing unusual about the menu board, either: it's right next to the speaker box and very large.

When I worked for McD's, we'd have people come thru the drive-thru and they'd try to order from the trash cans that were placed along the drive-thru lane for people to (hopefully) throw their trash away. I heard some guy screaming (my d-thru window was open). I looked out, and he was about 7ft from the speaker box yelling into the trash can...which was labeled "Trash".

Then he has the nerve to yell at me when he got to my window for not taking his order from the "speaker box". I really wanted to charge him the "aggravation" fee for yelling at me. (15 cent miscellaneous charge we'd use when people wanted a lot of extra cheese or tomatoes on their sandwiches) He was only getting a cheeseburger and small drink, so he would have noticed the fee.

[WHShit]

They sound like regular customers to me...they are all alike: stupidity at it's best with no common sense.

I see you are from Sweden? If so. then you are the first person I have seen on here from anywhere besides, New Zealand, Austrailia, America or England. Cograts!

[AFpheonix]

..JW Purple is currently stationed somewhere in the Far East...Malaysia I believe?

I've had people come up and ask me if we carry aspirin. No, sorry, you'll have to go to a specialty pharmacy chain to get something like that....

[Rapscallion]

PrincessKatie is currently located in Jordan. Canarr lives in Germany. Kebable is in Finland. That's only the people I remember.

Rapscallion