After-Hours Fun

[mattm04]

For a short time our receipts showed the dough nuts, from the self service case in the bakery as "bake nuts" Some old lady complained before they changed it. The ones that bother me are the ones you can't figure out, such as a Old Spice deodorant that said "OSDXFS" Try to figure out what that means on a 3 foot long receipt.

[Geek King]

I've never tried it. If I'm going to spend 3 bucks on an energy drink, it might as well be Red Bull since I know it's guaranteed to work.

Bawls. Sounds terrible, but works much better than anything that isn't a caffine pill.

[Shards]

Bawls. Sounds terrible, but works much better than anything that isn't a caffine pill.

I've also found Jolt to be quite effective, and I really like the taste of the Blue Raspberry flavor. Stay away from the cherry cola flavor, though. Cherry colas have always been a favorite drink of mine, and even I think it's disgusting. I can only imagine how bad it would be if you didn't like that kind of flavoring...

[Dark-Star]

Not much of an intro this morning. I have very minimal interaction with customers currently, but I had a few fun things last night.
Hehe

I was going to take a picture of this, but I was so tired when I got off that I forgot. I was stocking dog food last night and while trying to match the right SKU on a bag of Iam's chunky dog food, I read the product description on the shelf tag and went into a giggle fit. Maybe it's just the combination of stress and sleep deprivation, but it was pretty damn funny at 430 in the morning. The tag said "IAM DOG CHUNKS"

Take a pic of that one, that belongs on the web for all to laugh at!

...Spill Magic is this powder that we have infinite quantities of in the back that turns any liquid into a gel. So you can literally sweep up any spill instead of mopping. It crossed my mind how awesome it would be if some Spill Magic were to, by some random chance, find itself in the toilet only to be happened upon by an unsuspecting coworker.

Hmm. Now me has evil thoughtsies. Maybe you can pull that on a known SC who is heading toward the bathroom?

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

We've been getting that lately, too. Somebody at corporate has a habit of using -or instead of -er at the end of words, so we see tags with stuff like "travelor," "adaptor," and the one I found today, "burnor."

I once had someone from corporate call & ask how to spell vinyl. Why she called our store & not one in her own town I have no idea. They have a university there, too.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I find assorted random packages scattered about while I'm blocking my HBC/GM sections too . . .

Like today . . .

1 empty package of Advil (in the shaving section next to the OTC drugs.)

1 opened package of Barbie Band-Aids (by the Ethnic hair care section)

1 opened package of Sylvania dot-it lights (this one one of our regulars found and gave to me.)


Kinda slow day for thieves it was . . .

But nonethless . . . where's the logic in this?

[crazylegs]

Just the one question Kara, Why would biscuits be in a freezer/fridge?

[rvdammit]

American:English dictionary attack!

From experience biscuits in the American use = something like a bread roll made with scone type dough.

As opposed to yummy treats for dunking in tea.

Example http://www.pillsbury.com/products/bi...n-Biscuits.htm

[DesignFox]

I once had someone from corporate call & ask how to spell vinyl. Why she called our store & not one in her own town I have no idea. They have a university there, too.

There's also this great book called the dictionary... I've heard it has things like words in it. It is also told to have things such as how to spell the words, how to pronounce the words and *gasp* they use it in a sentence!

/sarcasm

When will people learn to use the dictionary, again? Shit, there's even online dictionaries!

(my brother is one of those that is too lazy to use the dictionary and it drives me nuts)

[crazylegs]

American:English dictionary attack!

From experience biscuits in the American use = something like a bread roll made with scone type dough.

As opposed to yummy treats for dunking in tea.

Oops.

Cheers for translation.

[worddork]

When will people learn to use the dictionary, again?

I will use a dictionary if I know how the word starts, and am just unsure about the ending. However, my dyslexia (yes that is truly how it is spelled) sometimes hampers my ability to look up words in the dictionary. Sometimes it's easier to ask some one how to spell the word instead of reading the whole damn section of the dicitonary to find it. (words that start pre- and per- fuck me up and really I don't want to read the whole p section of the dictionary)

[DesignFox]

That makes sense Worddork.

In the case of that woman though, she probably put forth as much effort calling the different stores. Also, with the word vinyl, I'm making the assumption she didn't know how it ended. (and with online dictionaries, you can do a word search, cutting down on scan time)

I understand that in certain instances, yes, it is much easier to ask someone than it is to scan the dictionary. But overall? I think most people have no excuse.

[Becks]

I debated letting it evolve a little more, but I have enough pets as it is and it was looking at me funny.

It wasn't looking at you funny. It was using ESP begging you for a nice place to stay.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Good post Kara, but it just doesn't seem the same without crazy tales of you cutting people down to size when it comes to their phones.

I guess you new job is far less stressful.

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

In the case of that woman though, she probably put forth as much effort calling the different stores. Also, with the word vinyl, I'm making the assumption she didn't know how it ended. (and with online dictionaries, you can do a word search, cutting down on scan time)

At the time, online = BBS's, no such thing as on-line dictionaries. And she couldn't remember if it was spelled 'vynil' or 'vinyl'. I have no idea if she had a dictionary at her desk or not, but as soon as she asked me, I had a brain hiccup & couldn't remember either. I finally looked at a sign in the store (provided by corporate) & crossed my fingers that it was correct.