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  • Blind, stupid or scammer?

    It was a mistake to go into work early yesterday.

    For my first carryout of the day, I had a recliner, 3 kitchen chairs, and 4 barstools, all for the same customer.

    The barstools came in 2 boxes of 2 each, the kitchen chairs came in one box of two and one loose one.

    I loaded it all up, delivered it to the customer and her husband/brother/unidentified male companion, helped them get it all into the back of their pickup, and that was that.

    At least until today. This morning the customer called the store. "Blah blah blah I didn't get two of my kitchen chairs, blah blah blah you shorted me, blah blah fire the idiot who brought them out, blah blah blah Attorney General."

    Service desk lady called me over to talk to her. I refused. It wouldn't be a good career move for me to ask her if she was blind or just stupid. I know I brought out everything that she paid for.

    LP lady came in and checked the camera footage from yesterday. It showed your charming and delightful cousin Irv near the front doors with all the items she purchased on his cart, and later showed Irv returning inside the store with an empty cart. Further, the service desk lady checked everything and signed off on the duplicate receipt.

    In short, I didn't forget a damn thing.

    Customer said she was going to come back to check at the camera footage, which was printed out. She hadn't returned when I left.

    Betcha the chairs fell out of the pickup on the way home and they're now sitting in a ditch somewhere.
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

  • #2
    I think it's a combination. She's blind, stupid and a scammer all in one!

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    • #3
      or maybe they broke the chairs trying to fit them through their door and didn't want to admit it...because they couldn't be bothered to turn them around or take them out of the box first or whatever...

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      • #4
        Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
        For my first carryout of the day, I had a recliner, 3 kitchen chairs, and 4 barstools, all for the same customer.

        The barstools came in 2 boxes of 2 each, the kitchen chairs came in one box of two and one loose one.
        I know this is just a typo, somewhere, but it amuses the hell out of me that the kitchen chairs went from 3 to 2 in the space of a paragraph.

        ^-.-^
        Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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        • #5
          Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
          I know this is just a typo, somewhere, but it amuses the hell out of me that the kitchen chairs went from 3 to 2 in the space of a paragraph.

          ^-.-^
          One box of two, and one loose one makes three hon.
          "I call murder on that!"

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          • #6
            Quoth Juwl View Post
            One box of two, and one loose one makes three hon.
            That'll teach me to think I can count after not sleeping for most of the weekend.

            ^-.-^
            Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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            • #7
              Lady didn't show up at all yesterday. There was a note left for the people working there after I left, along with the camera pictures.

              Didn't show up today while I was in.
              Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

              "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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              • #8
                I think she's realizes that she's been busted with the chairs.

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                • #9
                  Something similar happened to a friend. He bought a bathroom vanity, put it on his trailer, and drove home. When he got home, the vanity was gone. He thought it was heavy enough that he didn't need to tie it down.
                  "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                  • #10
                    I guess someone gets a free vanity....

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                    • #11
                      Quoth WhiteRose View Post
                      I guess someone gets a free vanity....
                      Nope. I've seen what happens to furniture that hits the road at any sort of speed. Someone may have gotten some free firewood, though.
                      Last edited by Geek King; 06-18-2009, 03:36 PM.
                      The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
                      "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
                      Hoc spatio locantur.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth WhiteRose View Post
                        I guess someone gets a free vanity....
                        ..... through their windscreen.
                        "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth WhiteRose View Post
                          I guess someone gets a free vanity....
                          "Hey, free dummy!"
                          "I call murder on that!"

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Geek King View Post
                            Nope. I've seen what happens to furniture that hits the road at any sort of speed. Soemone may have gotten some free firewood, though.
                            In that vein, I once saw something vaguely diamond-shaped and completely clear come up off of some vehicle ahead (I didn't see it until it was already airborne). It hit the freeway with a corner and shattered in a most impressive display. You'd have thought it was a diamond-shaped sheet of water by the dynamics of it.

                            I figured out a few miles later that it was actually the glass screen from one of several arcade consoles that were on a stakebed truck I ended up passing.

                            ^-.-^
                            Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                            • #15
                              Just thought I would bump this one to tell you...she still hasn't come in to look at the camera footage.

                              I think I am officially off the hook. Not that I was really on it anyway.
                              Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                              "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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