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Two stories and an amusing/annoying tale for today!
Lady comes in and asks me where the dictionaries are...
Me: Well, I'm really not sure, as I'm usually stuck on the registers most of the time. I still don't know where everything is very well. If you like, head over to the book counter and I'll page someone to come over and help you find them?
Lady: *halfway wanders toward the counter with a frown, then leans back in my direction* You know.. your children are going to grow up to have VERY BAD MANNERS!!
Me:
(thinking - yeah, 'cause I'm bad mannered to say I don't know something? Pffah!)
For the second tale... a tale of a thief that's either not to bright or has bad luck in his loot picking.
We had a new guy start today, and I caught half of this out of the corner of my attention, and was told the rest later. A customer that (they found out later by security camera) had walked in without anything, comes up to the new guy with a game system (not sure which one), wanting to return it. New guy, of course, gets a manager, as he doesn't know much yet.
Manager comes out, followed closely by Store Manager, as they were working on something togther in the office that was important. Manager asks for a receipt for the system to be returned with, guy says he doesn't have one. So, Manager asks when he bought it.
Guy says... he doesn't know for sure. A month or two ago, he thinks, probably.
Store Manager hovers closer, frowning, then says that not only do we only accept a 7-day return on game systems, she knows for a FACT that we have not sold ANY of those systems within the past YEAR.
Guy points out that the sticker on it is one of ours... well, if he can't return it, can he get cash for it?
Yes, it's one of ours, this is our system, sure. But Store Manager repeats, we have NOT sold one of these for at least a year. Store Manager turns to the Manager and tells her to call the police. Guy bolts and gets away.
Enter lady cop about 20 min later, and I get told all this by another manager. Apparently the guy had just picked up one of our systems off the sales floor and walked up to the register to try and return it or sell it back to us. Store Manager had gone over the security cameras and reported all this and showed them to the cop, and called our chain store a town over to make sure they had a heads up. 
And, finally... an amusing, yet annoying, tale. A customer comes up with a folded magazine in his hand and hands it to me. I open it, curiously, to see a lovely young nude woman posing provocatively at me. Customer tells me he found it in the hunting magazines. I thanked him for giving it to us, as usually all our lovely lusty lady magazines are black-wrapped.
What's even funnier is I had it folded next to my register out of customers' sight, and when a Manager came up to get me change, I pointed it out to him and said "Yeah, that needs to go somewhere else. Like, the back room." He goes "WOAH!!!!"
at the random naked lady staring at him without him expecting it and starts coughing.
Old guy customer I was ringing out at the time goes "nah, you need to look at that to make sure all the pages are there first before you toss it in the back
" I just laughed and shook my head at him.
Lady comes in and asks me where the dictionaries are...
Me: Well, I'm really not sure, as I'm usually stuck on the registers most of the time. I still don't know where everything is very well. If you like, head over to the book counter and I'll page someone to come over and help you find them?
Lady: *halfway wanders toward the counter with a frown, then leans back in my direction* You know.. your children are going to grow up to have VERY BAD MANNERS!!
Me:
(thinking - yeah, 'cause I'm bad mannered to say I don't know something? Pffah!)For the second tale... a tale of a thief that's either not to bright or has bad luck in his loot picking.
We had a new guy start today, and I caught half of this out of the corner of my attention, and was told the rest later. A customer that (they found out later by security camera) had walked in without anything, comes up to the new guy with a game system (not sure which one), wanting to return it. New guy, of course, gets a manager, as he doesn't know much yet.
Manager comes out, followed closely by Store Manager, as they were working on something togther in the office that was important. Manager asks for a receipt for the system to be returned with, guy says he doesn't have one. So, Manager asks when he bought it.
Guy says... he doesn't know for sure. A month or two ago, he thinks, probably.
Store Manager hovers closer, frowning, then says that not only do we only accept a 7-day return on game systems, she knows for a FACT that we have not sold ANY of those systems within the past YEAR.Guy points out that the sticker on it is one of ours... well, if he can't return it, can he get cash for it?
Yes, it's one of ours, this is our system, sure. But Store Manager repeats, we have NOT sold one of these for at least a year. Store Manager turns to the Manager and tells her to call the police. Guy bolts and gets away.
Enter lady cop about 20 min later, and I get told all this by another manager. Apparently the guy had just picked up one of our systems off the sales floor and walked up to the register to try and return it or sell it back to us.
Store Manager had gone over the security cameras and reported all this and showed them to the cop, and called our chain store a town over to make sure they had a heads up. And, finally... an amusing, yet annoying, tale. A customer comes up with a folded magazine in his hand and hands it to me. I open it, curiously, to see a lovely young nude woman posing provocatively at me.
Customer tells me he found it in the hunting magazines. I thanked him for giving it to us, as usually all our lovely lusty lady magazines are black-wrapped.What's even funnier is I had it folded next to my register out of customers' sight, and when a Manager came up to get me change, I pointed it out to him and said "Yeah, that needs to go somewhere else. Like, the back room." He goes "WOAH!!!!"
at the random naked lady staring at him without him expecting it and starts coughing. Old guy customer I was ringing out at the time goes "nah, you need to look at that to make sure all the pages are there first before you toss it in the back
" I just laughed and shook my head at him.
my brain hurts now....
that is all.
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