Oh look, I now work in retail

[Pixagi]

I recently started working in a Circuit City in New York. The Sunday before Black Friday we were briefed on what would be our procedures for that day. One of them included no Lowest Price Guaranty for that day.

So, later that day, what did I get...?

Me -dur
SC -Mister "I want to bypass the around the block stretching lines in the most unfair way possible, thanks!"

SC: Can I speak to a Manager?
Me: Uh, sure... Is there a problem?
SC: No, I just have a question and only managers would know the answer.
Me: Try me.
SC: If I buy a DVD player today, can I come in and have it price matched for Friday?
Me: Oh. No. (Why the hell wouldn't <i>I</i> know that?)
SC: What?
Me: We will not price match for our own or any other store's sales on Black Friday.
SC: Why not?
Me: Because it's not fair to the people who wait on line from 3 am to get that deal.
SC: So, you're saying that if I buy a $700 DVD player today, and it's on sale for $200 on Friday, I can't get my $500 back?
Me: Nope.
SC: ... That's bullshit.
Me: -shrugs-
SC: ...okay... well... by... I'll try Best Buy.
Me: Good Luck, though they likely won't do it either.

At least he was polite, but man, what an entitlement complex. I really wish I didn't work in Manhattan...

This one was yesterday, with a woman this time.

SC: -shows me a Sansa Mp3 player- Can you tell me about this?
Me: -currently busy with another customer, running a key back to them so I can give them a game- No, sorry, I don't know anything about that Mp3 player. There should be someone to help you in Portable.
SC: Could you please help me with this?
Me: I'm sorry ma'am, I can't. I don't know anything about it.
SC: Why not!?
Me: I never work with them, I don't use them. But there is someone over in Portable who can help you. She has red hair and is very pleasant.
SC: -sucks teeth, heads to portable-

[LifeCarnie]

[QUOTE=Pixagi;227763]Me: Because it's not fair to the people who wait on line from 3 am to get that deal.
SC: So, you're saying that if I buy a $700 DVD player today, and it's on sale for $200 on Friday, I can't get my $500 back?
/[QUOTE]

People are dumb, Black Friday and Door Buster sales are a marketing ploy aimed at getting people into stores on a specific day. If you want the great prices, shop on the day they're being offered.

[Slow-Jo]

oh lord! the reason you get up at 3am and WAIT on black friday is for the bloody sale! now i know why some animals est their children.

[rerant]

People who suck their teeth are, in my opinion, the rudest, most degenerate people ever.
It's such a massive sign of disrespect and I always wish I had the authority and physical ability to give every person who sucks their teeth at me a one-punch knock-out.

And as an aside I am thoroughly jealous of the fact that you live in Brooklyn, since even though I only visited that area of New York once and for a short time I absolutely love it.
Everyone was so nice to me there.
In fact, wherever I went in Manhattan people were nice to me. Even in the bar in the centre of Harlem I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't a neighborhood I needed to fear as much as people liked to let on.

Long Island, now that was a different story.

[Pixagi]

People who suck their teeth are, in my opinion, the rudest, most degenerate people ever.
It's such a massive sign of disrespect and I always wish I had the authority and physical ability to give every person who sucks their teeth at me a one-punch knock-out.

I am very much in agreement with you here. Especially since the woman had to be at least 40. That's just immature.

And as an aside I am thoroughly jealous of the fact that you live in Brooklyn, since even though I only visited that area of New York once and for a short time I absolutely love it.
Everyone was so nice to me there.
In fact, wherever I went in Manhattan people were nice to me. Even in the bar in the centre of Harlem I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't a neighborhood I needed to fear as much as people liked to let on.

Long Island, now that was a different story.

I love this place as well. NYC it advertised as extremely dangerous even though it is one of the safest major cities in the world. Bartenders are generally cool and the gang members don't do drive bys, they are more personal with their gang wars, which is nice. Far fewer innocent bystanders.

New York really hasn't been a very dangerous city since Giulliani cleaned it up. People keep thinking of NYC in the 80's, which was a horrible, horrible time when it comes to crimes.

[Javarod]

People who suck their teeth are, in my opinion, the rudest, most degenerate people ever.
It's such a massive sign of disrespect and I always wish I had the authority and physical ability to give every person who sucks their teeth at me a one-punch knock-out.

Nah, I just want the authority to knock those teeth out just to see what they suck on then.

[qaxons]

Nah, I just want the authority to knock those teeth out just to see what they suck on then.

Here, now you can swallow them and actually get the calcium you seem to so desperately want! *kercrack* ow, I think I broke my hand...

[JustADude]

New York really hasn't been a very dangerous city since Giulliani cleaned it up. People keep thinking of NYC in the 80's, which was a horrible, horrible time when it comes to crimes.

That, and the statistics are skewed by the size of the damn place. If a city of (pulling numbers out of nowhere here) 4-million people has 120 murders in a year, that's 3-per-100k, while if a town of 50-thousand has 3 murders a year, that's 6-per-100k. Since, last I checked, 6 > 3 that means the city is actually safer than the town.

It's called 'per capita normalization', and people just don't usually think about it.