You petty twerps.

[rerant]

Lately I haven't been getting such widely sucky customers as I have been getting cheap, petty people.

SM = Sucky Man
SW = Sucky Woman

Enough about the damn bags already!

SM: You know, I love this store, but charging five cents for a bag is unacceptable.
ME: We charge for them because people were stealing them, and to reduce plastic bag consumption.
SM: Well it really makes those of us who don't steal them feel terrible.
ME: All the money goes to Tree Canada to plant more trees.
SM: I think it's ridiculous.
ME: (thinking: ding ding ding you said the magic R word) Well I happen to think it's great.

Seriously? You feel bad because we're charging five cents per bag? Do you require counseling, or perhaps a teddy bear to cry with?
Get a life, freak. If you're that adamant not to buy our bags in some sort of environmental revolt then may I suggest not shopping here?
Now go hop in your gas-guzzling Land Rover and get out of my face.

A heavy complaint

SM: Do you have a comment box anywhere?
ME: To be honest I'm not 100% sure there's one down here but I think there's one by that far door. Why do you ask?
SM: I'd like to challenge one of your managers to life one of these boxes. They're way too heavy and I don't think it's right you expect us to lift this.

What the hell would you like us to do when you're buying this? (Yes, I remember the exact item. It doesn't sell too often so it stuck out to me.)
It already comes in two boxes and no matter how much you complain we can't make things lighter for you. It's as heavy as it is, the end.
Perhaps you would prefer it if I created an anti-gravity chamber for you. You could use it to pick up the item from the shelf, bring it to your car, then borrow it to get it into your house.
Or you could, I don't know, shut up and deal with it?

Not how I want it? Then I don't want it!

SW: So when I get my Christmas tree I get the $20 coupon, right?
ME: Yeah, and you can use it starting January 2nd.
SW: I can't use it now?!
ME: Nope. Only starting January 2nd.
SW: Bullshit. Refund it! I'm not taking the damn tree if I can't use the coupon now.

That's really charming. And the fact that you did it in front of your kids is the real topper on the Christmas tr-- oh, wait, you decided not to take that. Your kids look real happy.
It's going to take a lot of trips to Baskin Robins to wipe those looks of disappointment off their faces.
Can you be my mommy?



It's always the same old arguments at my work. It never fails.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Get a life, freak. If you're that adamant not to buy our bags in some sort of environmental revolt then may I suggest not shopping here?

Or you could, ya know, keep some bags in your car and bring them in when you shop...?

SM: I'd like to challenge one of your managers to life one of these boxes. They're way too heavy and I don't think it's right you expect us to lift this.

That's why they make those handy dandy carts and hand trucks and stuff like that. And I'm guessing there are employees around to help people load stuff...

[XCashier]

That's why they make those handy dandy carts and hand trucks and stuff like that. And I'm guessing there are employees around to help people load stuff...

Of course, you know the person who bought that wardrobe drove to Ikea in a Volkswagen Beetle and honestly thinks there is room for the boxes in that tiny car...

[MrSunshineState]

SW: Bullshit. Refund it! I'm not taking the damn tree if I can't use the coupon now.

People like that piss me off more than anything else. They aren't entitled to a coupon at all, but your store offers one as part of a promotion and they have the audacity to bitch and moan about it. That really irks me.

[Imogene]

People like that piss me off more than anything else.

I particularly hate it when a customer brings something up to the register, I scan it, and it turns out to be on sale already, so they can't use that coupon in their hand. And they start yelling, "Well, I don't want it THEN!"
Fine. Get the hell out.

[rerant]

Or you could, ya know, keep some bags in your car and bring them in when you shop...?

That's what most people have gotten into the habit of doing, or buying one of the reusable blue bags we have for $1 that can hold a LOT of stuff.

That's why they make those handy dandy carts and hand trucks and stuff like that. And I'm guessing there are employees around to help people load stuff...

You would think that that logic would factor in, but no. Never.

[Listerfiend]

So, what did the customer mean by "challenge" the manager to lift the wardrobe? Like, a duel? Is that really easier than asking, "where will I be able to get some help for this?" People would be impressed if they knew that kindness rewards more than douchebaggery.

[Dave1982]

SM: I'd like to challenge one of your managers to life one of these boxes. They're way too heavy and I don't think it's right you expect us to lift this.

Gaah, this brings back memories of an SC from my supermarket days *shudder* who made me bag a 1 gallon jug of bleach (which in and of itself I hate. These things have built in handles for a reason, and it isn't to be decorative ). That bleach was the one and ONLY item I put in the bag, and she told me I bagged it too heavy and to lighten it.

[mattm04]

Gaah, this brings back memories of an SC from my supermarket days *shudder* who made me bag a 1 gallon jug of bleach (which in and of itself I hate. These things have built in handles for a reason, and it isn't to be decorative ). That bleach was the one and ONLY item I put in the bag, and she told me I bagged it too heavy and to lighten it.

I had one lady ask me to bag a 1 gallon jug om milk once. Then she complained plastic bag + milk jug were too heavy. MOD talked to "lady" who believed that the bag made it too heavy to lift. She then wanted two half gallon jugs. We sold them to her and she wanted both 1/2 gal. jugs in the same bag. That was not too heavy. My brain still hurts from the logic she was using.

[rerant]

Gaah, this brings back memories of an SC from my supermarket days *shudder* who made me bag a 1 gallon jug of bleach (which in and of itself I hate. These things have built in handles for a reason, and it isn't to be decorative ). That bleach was the one and ONLY item I put in the bag, and she told me I bagged it too heavy and to lighten it.

When I worked at Wal Mart people would pull that stuff on me ALL the time.
I can't make something lighter for you. I don't have those powers.
I'm so grateful that people bag their own items where I work, though obviously that doesn't remove all the stupidity from a near identical issue.

[matty]

People like that piss me off more than anything else. They aren't entitled to a coupon at all, but your store offers one as part of a promotion and they have the audacity to bitch and moan about it. That really irks me.

Short story here from when I was shopping in a supermarket one night. As we all know, supermarkets generally mark down the prices on daily/fresh goods at the end of the night, such as bakery, in order to clear the stock.

Now, this SC comes in and wants to buy a pie or pastry or something and he complains that when he came in last time, the price was already reduced. But, "it's 11pm already and they are still full price - last time they were already reduced in price by 10.15pm! You should reduce the prices!"

Er, actually, the prices are not marked down as a special service just for you. Perhaps last time they had two dozen pies to clear by the end of the night, and this time they only needed to clear one dozen. The prices are reduced based on each night's requirements - we are not talking about advertised specials here. Aaaahhh!

[Auto]

I particularly hate it when a customer brings something up to the register, I scan it, and it turns out to be on sale already, so they can't use that coupon in their hand. And they start yelling, "Well, I don't want it THEN!"
Fine. Get the hell out.

well, i've done that.

i don't get all pissy about it, but without the coupon AND the discount, the item costs more than i'm prepared to pay for it.