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  • #1

    Bookstore Suck

    We are STEALING from her! Except she didn't buy it in the first place...

    I'll just give you my side of the conversation. It might be more amusing that way.

    Me: "Thanks for calling >bookstore<, may I help you? Oh, I'm sorry to hear that."

    "No, I'm afraid we really can't do anything about a lost gift card, ma'am."

    "Well, if you bought it yesterday, and knew the register you were at and the time..."

    "If it's been since Christmas, we really can't do anything about it."

    "Perhaps if the person who bought it for you had the receipt with the gift card number..."

    "I'm sorry you think that's ridiculous, but we have no way to track gift cards without the number on the back."

    "No, we can't look it up by your name."

    "Because, ma'am, when people purchase gift cards from us they don't tell us who they're giving them to."

    "I fail to see how we are stealing from you, ma'am. The back of every gift card is clearly printed with the statement that they cannot be replaced if lost or stolen."

    "...no, I'm certain no other store will replace lost gift cards either. It's standard practice."

    "No ma'am, we are not stealing from you."

    "Please call whomever you think you need to, but I doubt the police will be able to help."

    "I'll be happy to give you the owner's number if you would like your lawyers to contact him."

    "Ma'am, I am unable to help you. If you have no other questions, I'll be hanging up now."

    "I'm sorry you feel we are thieves. Have a nice day." >click<


    If I were IT, I would be getting paid more

    Lady calls looking for a CD by a local gospel band. It seems a terminally ill member of her church desperately wants to hear this certain song before she passes away. Being a sucker, I agree to help.

    Lady: "I found the song on this site...uh, You- Tube?"

    Me: OK, what's the name of the band, the song, and the CD?"

    Lady: "Uh, I know the song and the band. It's The God Rockers Band, and the song is 'Sweet Jesus' (names changed to protect the innocent band members). I found it on this You-Tube!"

    Me (after intense searching of the Google): "I found the band's official website, but I don't see that song listed on any of the CDs they offer for sale. I'm afraid we can't order any of their work from our distributor, but I can give you the website so you can contact them."

    Lady: "Let me give you this You-Tube address..." >rattles off insanely complex string of letters, numbers, and symbols<

    Me: "I'm afraid that doesn't help ma'am, I can't pull up the video on my computer using that URL..."

    Lady: "The what?"

    Me: "...website address. And seeing the video won't help me find the song for you on a CD. Now, if you want to put in this address for The God Rockers' official site..."

    Lady: "I don't see why you can't find that video!"

    Me: "Youtube addresses tend to be very complicated. It's possible one of us made a mistake in typing or reading it."

    Lady: "Well, let me tell it to you again-"

    Me: "Ma'am, it's not going to help me. Your best bet is to look at this website I will give you and contact the band directly. Now, just put this address into the bar-"

    Wash, rinse, repeat. For 21 minutes.

    Lady: "How do I get rid of the address that's already in there?"

    Me: "Click on it, hit 'delete', and type in THIS address."

    GAH! I like doing research and I don't mind helping people, but I wasn't going to get a sale out of this conversation anyway. FINALLY she accepted that she had to go to the website I was trying to give her and went away.

    So, do you have a uterus? Then shut the fuck up.

    For the first 8 months of my pregnancy, I climbed the stairs at work (we are a two-story store). But in the past two weeks, hauling my cetacean figure up the two flights was getting too difficult, plus my feet no longer fit in my shoes, they are so swollen. I figured I could take the last 8 weeks off and use the elevator. Most people are understanding when I ask if they mind using the elevator. Not this guy.

    We get on the elevator.

    Asshat: "Hey! This is cheating!"

    Me: "Well, I'm afraid my feet are too swollen and painful to climb the stairs one hundred times a day." >sweet smile<

    AH: "My friend ran a marathon a week before she gave birth!"

    Me: "Your friend's a fucking idiot."

    OK, I didn't say that, but I stared at the panel of buttons and ignored him. I think he got it.

    Now, I think before you harangue a pregnant woman, you need to ask yourself 3 questions:

    1. Am I now, or have I ever been, pregnant?

    2. Will I ever become pregnant?

    3. Do I even have a uterus and/or vagina?

    If you answer 'no' to all of these, then keep your fucking mouth shut. Do I tell you how to take care of your penis, scrotum, and prostate? No, because I have none of these things. So, unless you've ever had a fetus in your womb, zip it.
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  • #2
    hugs. i would have told him then when you give birth you can let me know how that goes. thanks.

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    • #3
      Quoth AnaKhouri View Post

      AH: "My friend ran a marathon a week before she gave birth!"
      Probably because she was chasing you with a frozen salmon for suggesting she used the stairs, the lazy bitch.

      Sheesh, he should get a Man Cold (c) and HAVE to run up and down stairs.
      See how he likes it.
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      • #4
        Cheating? WTF was he talking about?

        I feel your pain. I don't think I climbed a set of stairs from the seventh month on with my son. GL!
        "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds..."

        Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

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        • #5
          That was nice of you to try and help that lady find what she was looking for, but sounds like she needed more help than you could give her. You know... psychiatric help

          And regarding men who think that they know anything about having a uterus/womb/womanly part: STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don't know aaaaaanything even if you DID see a Sandra Bullock movie that one time.

          EDIT: Congratulations btw!!!!! Yaaay babies!!!
          !
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          • #6
            Nobody has any right to tell anybody how to take care of their own body.

            I have troubles getting around myself. Until you actually share my body, you don't get to say anything about it. Should you try, I shall try to shove my walking stick up your nose. (Not really, but...)

            You need the elevator? You take it. Need something else? Use it.

            Also, (as Mnemjian said) YAY babies! Congrats!
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            • #7
              Quoth AnaKhouri View Post
              We are STEALING from her! Except she didn't buy it in the first place...
              I swear one day we're going to have SC's calling to scream at us because THEY lost the money we handed them when they cashed out and demand we give them cash to replace it.

              Mark my words.

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              • #8
                Quoth jjllbb View Post
                I swear one day we're going to have SC's calling to scream at us because THEY lost the money we handed them when they cashed out and demand we give them cash to replace it.

                Mark my words.
                And when it happens, I will now blame one person:

                YOU!

                "Eventually one outgrows the fairy tales of childhood, belief in Santa and the Easter Bunny, and believing that SCs are even capable of imagining themselves in our position."
                --StanFlouride

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                • #9
                  If you were cheating by using the elevator, what was he doing in there?

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Shpepper View Post
                    If you were cheating by using the elevator, what was he doing in there?
                    EXACTLY!

                    I don't exactly understand why it was wrong to use it, unless this was a disabled elevator for people in walkers, wheelchairs or other people unable to get up and down stairs easily...

                    ... like an 8 months pregnant woman.

                    Or was this a situation of 'employees aren't good enough to use the elevators, elevators are for the glorious gifted customers who pay our paychecks' type thing?

                    I'm a guy, so I'll never really know what it's like to be pregnant, but you know what? If I was carrying the equivalent of a friggin' watermelon in my colon I wouldn't wanna use the damn stairs either!
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                    • #11
                      "The day you pop a baby out of your penis we'll have something to talk about. Until then STFU!"
                      Figers are vicious I tell ya. They crawl up your leg and steal your belly button lint.

                      I'm a case study.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Cia View Post
                        "The day you pop a baby out of your penis we'll have something to talk about. Until then STFU!"
                        WARNING~!!!!!!!! TMI

















                        well I'll take childbirth to a 4 or 5mm spikey kidney stone that took 6 weeks to move from kidney to out along with lots of vomiting, pain, wailing, profuse bleeding more vomiting and involved inserting tweesers near the end (pun and no pun intended)

                        but back to the OP. no cheating involved. person was definately a douche. what my Ex went through when she was pregant years ago was no picnic either.
                        I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                        -- Life Sucks Then You Die.

                        "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Polenicus View Post
                          Or was this a situation of 'employees aren't good enough to use the elevators, elevators are for the glorious gifted customers who pay our paychecks' type thing?
                          I strongly suspect this is the correct answer. SC's don't seem to realize or care that the employees are human beings too. That's why they demand that pregnant ones take the stairs, or carry out a set of shelves for them.

                          BTDT with the pregnancy thing. You should see the shoes I wore in my last months; a pair of mules roughly the size of REAL mules!

                          Do what you need to and take care of yourself and your precious baby. And
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                          • #14
                            OMG what a CAD!

                            I've got some Aikido moves to practice on him, and also the people who feel so holy as to perform a spontaeous laying-of-hands upon your abdomen.

                            Stay happy, and here are coupons good for any food you crave, and an extra foot massage from your partner.
                            Suckiness is reinforced up OR down at every transaction. Accepting BS makes them worse for all of us; firm fairness trains them to suck less.

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                            • #15
                              I think some people are just into the whole climbing stairs because it's good for you thing- I usually am too, I rarely take elevators, unless, you know, I've got a kid sitting on my sciatic nerve.

                              Since I was taking him to the book he wanted, he pretty much had to ride with me. Like I said, some people prefer the elevator, and even people who usually climb the stairs are understanding that we have to take the elevator. One woman kept moaning how she shouldn't be doing this, she should be walking for her health etc, but she shut right up when I commented, "I would be taking the stairs too if I wasn't carrying a baby."

                              It's not like I don't look pregnant or anything. I'm pretty obvious.
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