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OMG, I don't think I have seen so much concentrated stupid as I saw today, from customers and coworkers alike:
1. The public schools are closed today and tomorrow because all the teachers are at some convention, so we once again ended up being a surrogate babysitter for kids out of school. They weren't quite as bad as they have been in the past, but there was the one doofus who decided to ride a bike around the back of the store and nearly ran somebody over.
2. Somebody took the handicapped cart outside to the parking lot. Again. Evidently the big sticker saying "Not For Outdoor Use" is merely suggestion. So I had to go out and hop on the damn thing, and drive back it back insde, only to have it die on me right by the sensormatics at the entrance. And because there is an anti-theft tag attached to the cart somewhere, the alarm was blaring as I was trying to push the damn thing out of there and to the charger, and people were staring at me like I had just walked out the doors with a TV under my coat or something.
3. Had this exchange with an SC when responding to call button in Toys going off:
Me: How can I help you?
SC: Where's this? (thrusts her ad flier in my face and points to something, without any pleasantries, or "Can you help me?" or even acknowledging my prescence)
It turned out the item she wanted didn't have a planogram after the latest reset, so we put it on a grid fixture down the middle of toys, and it was marked down to sell quckly and wouldn't be coming in again. It also turned out we had no more of that item left
Me: I'm sorry, but we're sold out, and we can't give you a raincheck on it because it is not going to be coming in again.
SC:
What the hell! Christmas isn't too far off! Why do you put this in your ad if you don't have any of it in stock! That's bait and switch!
She then stomped off to inflict herself upon somebody else and ask the same question, because I saw the two of them heading over to toys when I left to go do something else.
4. Not so much sucky as it is amusing. I was getting carts and I saw two of the guys who work at the Radio Shack in the mall coming outside with a remote-control car. They proceeded to play with it in the parking lot for about 10 minutes. It was one of those "tuner" cars that could slide if you hit the right button on the remote. I kept thinking that somebody would come whizzing by in their car and not see this little toy zipping around in the lot, and then it would be obliterated and the two guys would have some 'splaining to do to their boss.
5. Our assistant Softlines manager unpacked some stuff that came off last night's truck and put it out on the floor. She left all her empty boxes in two domestics bins for somebody else to throw away and walked away to do something more pressing, such as chatting with her friends about what bars they were going to visit tonight. Somebody made a big sign reading "(Name of asst. softlines manager) needs to throw away her boxes", taped it to one of the bins and left them there. Then, to drive the point home, Bungee Boss (who's actually starightened up lately) took the boxes out of the bins and dumped them right in her staging area so she'll have no choice but to throw them away herself!
He just got back into my good graces with that.
6. I answered a call from Pharmacy this afternoon. Turns out some old lady went right up to the counter, butting in front of somebody waiting for their meds, and asked them where the mousetraps were. So they called me and I had them send her over. Because everybody knows that when you need mousetraps, the first place you go is to the pharmacy.
7. I hate...HATE...the self-absorbed idiots who pretend not to hear you so they don't have to get out of your way. I was bringing up somebody's carryout to the front (futon frame and mattress, wide enough to take up the enitre aisle) and I ran into a couple just moseying along, taking their time, admiring all the displays and endstands like they were Picassos and Van Goghs in a museum.
I said "excuse me". They didn't acknowledge me and kept right on poking along. So I said "excuse me again, a little louder. Still no response. I know they heard me because they were talking to each other about what kind of shampoo and deodorant they needed. I said "excuse me" one more time, but nout louder because I didn't want to raise my voice and seem rude. They just kept dawdling, so I got stuck behind them the enitre way to the registers. Ethical question: Would it be so wrong of me to obtain a semit truck horn and mount it on my cart so I could blast these people out of my way?
And finally...the suck didn't end when I left work. No, I just about ran some guy over on the way home. He had on a big dark jacket with the hood pulled over his head, and he stepped right out into the street, in the middle of the block, not in the crosswalk. I saw him in the nick of time and thankfully, my brakes are fully functional.
1. The public schools are closed today and tomorrow because all the teachers are at some convention, so we once again ended up being a surrogate babysitter for kids out of school. They weren't quite as bad as they have been in the past, but there was the one doofus who decided to ride a bike around the back of the store and nearly ran somebody over.
2. Somebody took the handicapped cart outside to the parking lot. Again. Evidently the big sticker saying "Not For Outdoor Use" is merely suggestion. So I had to go out and hop on the damn thing, and drive back it back insde, only to have it die on me right by the sensormatics at the entrance. And because there is an anti-theft tag attached to the cart somewhere, the alarm was blaring as I was trying to push the damn thing out of there and to the charger, and people were staring at me like I had just walked out the doors with a TV under my coat or something.
3. Had this exchange with an SC when responding to call button in Toys going off:
Me: How can I help you?
SC: Where's this? (thrusts her ad flier in my face and points to something, without any pleasantries, or "Can you help me?" or even acknowledging my prescence)
It turned out the item she wanted didn't have a planogram after the latest reset, so we put it on a grid fixture down the middle of toys, and it was marked down to sell quckly and wouldn't be coming in again. It also turned out we had no more of that item left
Me: I'm sorry, but we're sold out, and we can't give you a raincheck on it because it is not going to be coming in again.
SC:
What the hell! Christmas isn't too far off! Why do you put this in your ad if you don't have any of it in stock! That's bait and switch!She then stomped off to inflict herself upon somebody else and ask the same question, because I saw the two of them heading over to toys when I left to go do something else.
4. Not so much sucky as it is amusing. I was getting carts and I saw two of the guys who work at the Radio Shack in the mall coming outside with a remote-control car. They proceeded to play with it in the parking lot for about 10 minutes. It was one of those "tuner" cars that could slide if you hit the right button on the remote. I kept thinking that somebody would come whizzing by in their car and not see this little toy zipping around in the lot, and then it would be obliterated and the two guys would have some 'splaining to do to their boss.
5. Our assistant Softlines manager unpacked some stuff that came off last night's truck and put it out on the floor. She left all her empty boxes in two domestics bins for somebody else to throw away and walked away to do something more pressing, such as chatting with her friends about what bars they were going to visit tonight. Somebody made a big sign reading "(Name of asst. softlines manager) needs to throw away her boxes", taped it to one of the bins and left them there. Then, to drive the point home, Bungee Boss (who's actually starightened up lately) took the boxes out of the bins and dumped them right in her staging area so she'll have no choice but to throw them away herself!
He just got back into my good graces with that.6. I answered a call from Pharmacy this afternoon. Turns out some old lady went right up to the counter, butting in front of somebody waiting for their meds, and asked them where the mousetraps were. So they called me and I had them send her over. Because everybody knows that when you need mousetraps, the first place you go is to the pharmacy.
7. I hate...HATE...the self-absorbed idiots who pretend not to hear you so they don't have to get out of your way. I was bringing up somebody's carryout to the front (futon frame and mattress, wide enough to take up the enitre aisle) and I ran into a couple just moseying along, taking their time, admiring all the displays and endstands like they were Picassos and Van Goghs in a museum.
I said "excuse me". They didn't acknowledge me and kept right on poking along. So I said "excuse me again, a little louder. Still no response. I know they heard me because they were talking to each other about what kind of shampoo and deodorant they needed. I said "excuse me" one more time, but nout louder because I didn't want to raise my voice and seem rude. They just kept dawdling, so I got stuck behind them the enitre way to the registers. Ethical question: Would it be so wrong of me to obtain a semit truck horn and mount it on my cart so I could blast these people out of my way?
And finally...the suck didn't end when I left work. No, I just about ran some guy over on the way home. He had on a big dark jacket with the hood pulled over his head, and he stepped right out into the street, in the middle of the block, not in the crosswalk. I saw him in the nick of time and thankfully, my brakes are fully functional.
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