"I Pay Your Paycheck" Rebuttal

[booger]

For real, these people get on my nerves! Yeah buddy, next time you want to pay my paycheck, try and be a little less stingy, ok? Buying a can of green beans and a pair of socks is not exactly gonna cover what I make. Might I suggest going to the electronics section and buying a new tv or something?

[MrSunshineState]

I just tell them that as long as we are using that logic, I pay their paycheck as well.

[Shabo]

I used to have passengers tell me that. Yeah lady, you paid £5.99 for your airfare, that doesn't even cover my hourly pay

Dang! I need to get my butt to Europe! Wish I could pay that for a flight in the States!

[Trishlovesdolphins]

Ah. but really if you think about it, EVERYONE'S salary comes from a customer. Even if you work as a mailman, doctor, or carpenter. Someone somewhere is buying the services you provide. So the next time someone says that, ask what they do...
"I'm a mechanic"
"Well, I could pay for your paycheck too, I'll remember you when I need a new alternator."

[wagegoth]

She was under a lot of stress because she's a single mother raising four kids from four different deadbeat dads who refuse to cough up child support, and that's why she sometimes acts out in anger.

So, if she'd paid for birth control, instead of spending money on cigarettes, the whole world would be a much happier place. Chuck some free condoms into her bag next time she comes through.

[Neo_Classic]

^ Why do people think that their bad day or life is your problem? What exactly does that have to do with me? Geez...

And yes give her some condoms (not that she'll use them anyway).

[Gurndigarn]

The icing on this cake is that she suddenly managed to find her long lost ID shortly after she realized that the constant complaints have gotten her nowhere. It just miraculously reappeared in the glove compartment of her car one day, amazing, but true!!!!

She learned something from experience! Amazing!

I guess she did need them, though. She was under a lot of stress because she's a single mother raising four kids from four different deadbeat dads who refuse to cough up child support

Here's to hoping that experience teaches her something else...

[Lehk]

"Ma'am, your taxes paid for the circumstances that allowed this law to come about, the one that requires I check your ID before selling you cigarettes. So, I owe it to you to follow that law, to honor your sacrifice."

i will only honor an SC's sacrifice if i am allowed to do the sacrificing.

[Narsissa]

Captain SassyPants

SC: Don't you sass me, I pay your paycheck.

At one of my places of work, we have a breakfast menu which finishes at 10:30am. Sometimes there will be leftover product and we can still sell for the appropriate shelf life time.

One charming catch of a man (mid 20s, not professional) came striding through the doors at about 11:30 (when the lunch rush begins) and demanded items from the breakfast menu. Not politely asking for, demanded.

So I politely inform him that breakfast finished about an hour ago, is there anything on the lunch menu he would like?

Oh no. He was more interested in ranting and raving and giving me a good old blast in the face.

I said "If you would prefer sir, I'll get you a manager"

"Don't get snappy at me! I pay your wages!"

.....

luckily he quickly ordered something and got the hell out of my store.

No he doesn't pay my wages. Even if he never came in to our store ever again it wouldn't make a lick of difference. Even if we ended up with 1 customer a week (cold day in hell), the money comes out of the business account.

[CancelMyService]

The best part is when I get someone calling in about to get disconnected for non-payment, and when I refuse to restore their service without a monetary transaction, they drop the "I PAY YOUR SALARY" line.

One time I actually told the person "Well, *you* don't because I see you haven't made a payment yet (new account that was 3 months behind already)".

It's always the ones who are the furthest behind who are the most belligerent.

[Dips]

If you are in the US and the customer is over 65, you can always come back with, "Yes. And I pay your social security. I guess we're even."

[Shengirl]

If you are in the US and the customer is over 65, you can always come back with, "Yes. And I pay your social security. I guess we're even."

That...that might not work. If they're in the US, unless they were on government assistance or otherwise did not work, they've paid social security their whole lives. They're just getting that money back now.

[Dips]

That...that might not work. If they're in the US, unless they were on government assistance or otherwise did not work, they've paid social security their whole lives. They're just getting that money back now.

Note quite. The money being paid out in social security is coming from the payroll taxes of people currently working.

If somebody lives long enough after retirement, he can collect several times more social security than he ever paid into it.

It's a social welfare program, not a retirement saving plan.

[Talonetc]

I love the paycheck rebuttle. Any customer that is stupid enough to say something like that to me is the kind of customer I don't think our company needs. Their contribution to my paycheck is miniscule, a tiny little miniscule fraction of a cent, millionths of a cent. I'll give them that millionth of a cent if they go the fuck away.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

SC: Don't you sass me, I pay your paycheck.

Well then I have a bone to pick with you. I just got a call from the bank a few minutes ago that my paycheck bounced. I'm looking at a week of bicycling back and forth to work since I don't have the money for gas for my car and I'm not even likely to be able to do that since I can't afford food to sustain the exercise required to do that.

Actually said that to a guy once. Funny thing was that the bank did call (turned out to be a mistake on the part of the teller and that week's deposits which was resolved that evening)