SC's Having A Tantrum When You Tell Them You're Closed

[Crow The Robot]

Joy to the world ,man, joy to the world.<long>

Ah, Christmas eve SCs, aren't they just grand? We had one chick who showed up at 6: 00, we closed at 6 on Christmas Eve, but I had stayed behing to help put up returns and carts and such

HER: <pounding on door> Open up!!!!!!! Why the F-ck are you closed you are supposed to be open until 10 o'clock open up!!!
M:Ma'am we close at 6 o'clock.
HER: G-d-mnit I want you to open NOW!!! and if you don't I'll call my lawyer, and sue, for emotional distress!!!
M: Ma'am we closed at 6, i am sorry but we cannot open up after we close for the day.
HER: F-ck you!!! I am the customer serve me!!!!
M: Ma'am we are closed , now please leave.
HER:F-ck that!!!! I need toy for my princess and if she doesn't get it the Christmas will be ruined.
M: Well, i am sorry ma'am but we are closed until the 26th, now please leave our associates need to get home.
HER: F-ck you and f-ck your associates, they are here to serve me!!!!! They are probably a bunch of godless f-gs and k-kes, anyway, so they ARE rining me up!!!!
M: No they are not , and you are not entering this store, we are closed no get off our property.
HER: You b-st-rd I am gonn acall the cops on you, they'll make you serve me.
M: Go ahead and call the cops, and you can explain why you are tresspassing, and why you are standing in front of an empty store.
HER: You all are doomed to hellfire and damnation in Hell for all eternity. Ypu are all heretics.
ME:Cool.
<she then throws, a empty Malibu rum bottle at us after taking a couple of heathy swallows. >
M: Crow, can her tag number if you can and we'l cal the cops, I believe she is rather intoxicated.
<I got the tag # and we called it in, she was arrested and spent Christmas in the clink, while we godless heretics enjoyed the warmth of our homes and family>
I wonder if she's related to the chick who pulled a similar stunt the yera before, I mentione her exploits before the most recent hack.
.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Flipping hell.

[Argabarga]

I hated those. There's a variation on this one, that tries to bribe you. When that doesn't work, they love calling the police.

It's real funny when you work for/with the police in some capacity (traffic, security, etc) and when the bribery fails, they literaly have no idea what to do next, I've never had one dumb enough to call the cops on me, at least not when I was in uniform.

[Cvstos]

Isn't there a law or something against working off the clock???

Yes, that is illegal. However, some stores, especially Wal-Mart, force them employees to do just that using subtle pressure. "If you can't finish this amazingly unreasonable amount of work on time, we'll find someone who can", meaning "work off the clock to do this or we'll fire you".

[LostMyMind]

It's not illegal if you're on salary

The reason for not allowing people to work after clocking out is to avoid getting hit with a class action suit for not paying those folks for those "mins/hours". Which happen not too long ago, I just for the life of me can't remember who got hit big with that.

[Cvstos]

It's not illegal if you're on salary

The reason for not allowing people to work after clocking out is to avoid getting hit with a class action suit for not paying those folks for those "mins/hours". Which happen not too long ago, I just for the life of me can't remember who got hit big with that.

Guess who? Wal-Mart. Like I said, that kind of pressure is what they use, and eventually some people called them on it.

While it's legal if you're salaried, most Wal-Mart employees are not.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

It's not illegal if you're on salary

The reason for not allowing people to work after clocking out is to avoid getting hit with a class action suit for not paying those folks for those "mins/hours". Which happen not too long ago, I just for the life of me can't remember who got hit big with that.

Oh yeah, that was a grocery chain that's pretty big here in NC (won't mention the name, but we'll call it the Kitty, as it's the hellhole in which I'm seeking to escape from.) It was all over Primetime Live back in the early 90's, right there with accusations of tained meat and unsanitary practices.

They had to pay some huge fines to the Department of Labor for that.

[Jester]

The reason for not allowing people to work after clocking out is to avoid getting hit with a class action suit for not paying those folks for those "mins/hours". Which happen not too long ago, I just for the life of me can't remember who got hit big with that.

Another reason it is illegal to work off the clock if you are not salaried is for liability reasons. In other words, if you punch out, then do some work, slip while doing said work and injure yourself, the company is in a whole hell of a lot of trouble, especially as that does not fall under workman's comp, as you were not technically a "workman."

Don'tchya just love the litigation happy world we're living in?

[MadMike]

Another reason it is illegal to work off the clock if you are not salaried is for liability reasons. In other words, if you punch out, then do some work, slip while doing said work and injure yourself, the company is in a whole hell of a lot of trouble, especially as that does not fall under workman's comp, as you were not technically a "workman."

Don'tchya just love the litigation happy world we're living in?

A buddy of mine got yelled at for something like that once. Back when we were both working at the home improvements store, he came in to talk to me on a day he was off but I was working. I was up on one of the large shelves rearranging some items, and he climbed up the ladder and onto the shelf to talk to me. The department manager saw him, and had a fit about it. He pointed out that since he wasn't on the clock, the company's insurance wouldn't cover him if he happened to fall, and the company would be in a shitload of trouble.

[FemmeAnime]

X-mas sucks

Yeah....working Christmas eve and it was posted EVERYWHERE that we were closing early. A little while after close *wait for it*.... a car comes in to the drive through. They wait but we have our headsets off. We notice her but laugh it off, thinking that she would get it and go the fsck away. It's bloody Christmas eve!!! We notice her drive up to the window and I drag my friend away from the window because I DO NOT want to deal with someone who is dumb enough to show up after 7 on CHRISTMAS EVE! Anyways she pulls up to the window. Where our "closed" sign is placed. Another friend of mine went over to the window to tell her it was closed. "We're closed. Closed" he mouths and points to the sign....the "lady" being the gem that she is gives him the finger before speeding off

[April]

Once, at target I did the normal closing speil 5 freaking times. Security did thier sweeps of the floor. We clean up and get set to punch out. All is good right?

Wrong.

Somehow (don't even ask me how, she must have been a damned good hider) a woman managed to avoid every single employee in the story cleaning (it is possibly, I guess, this was a seriously slow store, only 10 people were on on weeknights) And wanted us to check her out. She said she knew we were closed, but she still had shopping to do, and had avoided people so she wouldn't be thrown out.

I *think* management called the cops for tresspassing

[Kusanagi]

Holy necro, Batman!

[BusyBee]

Thankfully, the second 9pm ticks over (so long as there's no-one in the store) I am allowed to press the magic buttons to shut down the computer... Thus completely incapacitating it til 8:30 the next morning, since it won't start up again until after that time!
Then I can just wait for the whiny people with late movie returns saying "But it's not nine o'clock on MY watch!!!", and give them a BIG, HAPPY smile and say, Well, there's nothing I can do. Everything's shut down.

[Arcade Man D]

Don't get me started on the arcade. I have a very simple rule about closing. If you're playing a game Right Then At Closing Time, you can finish that game. I don't mean beat it, I mean finish up what the credits get you. No continues ((though if you're nice, I'll let you do your free continue for a win on a racing game.)). If you aren't at the Redemption Counter by 15 minutes after close, you can bring the tickets back another day. That's plenty of time. But I still have that problem.

As far as working off the clock, no it is not illegal to work off the clock. It is illegal for your employer to force/coerce you to work off the clock. The illegality is not on the employee.

[nekoro]

Once while working at the linerie store, I pulled down the gate to start closing up. This "lady" and her husband ducked under the gate, and strolled around the store to start shopping. I was just about done counting up the register, so I finished that, and put it away, and turned off the front lights.

At which point she asks "Oh, are you closed?"

ME: "Yes."

Stupid Lady: "Oh, sorry."

She then continued to wander around the store! I finished up the last couple of things, and then kicked her out, with her protesting all the way.