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  • Last call for Christmas

    Yippee, Irv found yet another day to loathe: the day all our remaining Christmas stuff gets marked down to 90% off. Why, you ask? Read on:

    The running of the clearance shoppers

    I am told that yesterday there was a crowd of people gathering in front of the doors at 7:30. When we opened at 8, these people all went running--stampeding--to the seasonal department to pick through the last two aisles of stuff we had left.

    Yup. Running down the aisles like it's freakin' Black Friday--to buy stuff that's 90% off. People suck.

    Shopping Cart ADD

    Dear Clearance Swamp Shoppers:

    What the hell is wrong with you that you can't put a freakin' shopping cart back where it belongs? Don't wanna walk off the cheese curds and beer you had for breakfast? Trust me, you people need it.

    Irv

    See, I got a talking-to from management thanks to these fucks. They just couldn't be bothered to walk their carts over to a corral, even on a mild-ish January day with no rain or snow. Instead, they just left them sitting all around one of the corrals, until they started spilling over into the traffic lane and adjacent parking spots.

    Somebody took it upon themselves to complain to management about this (of course they can't blame the piggish people who left their carts all over the place). And management figured that if I had been doing my job and watching the carts, instead of helping unload the truck like my manager had asked me to do, then it wouldn't have gotten so bad.

    When I went back out to do another cart run later, they were just leaving them all over the place. I counted at least 10 shopping carts left loose in the parking lot. People suck.

    I will not hit a female coworker. I will not....

    I was working carts and carryouts yesterday. I got called by the service desk to bring up a couple of large pieces of furniture that were to be transferred to a nearby store. One of the managers from this store showed up with her truck to pick the stuff up.

    As I was loading up everything. another carryout was paged. I asked HBA specialist to get it since I was busy with the other two large items. It turned out that carryout was for a three-shelf bookcase, which comes in a small box and weighs maybe 15 pounds.

    HBA specialist then started grumbling that I should take the bookcase because "it's your job." I told her I had two other things to bring up, and all she had was a small bookcase. No reason she can't handle it.

    So we headed up to the front of the store, HBA specialist grumbling the whole time about how I won't do my job, and she should tattle on me because I already got in trouble over the carts. I blew her off.

    At the desk, I waited for the other store manager to finish up with the transfer paperwork. The customer with the bookcase was still paying.

    Then HBA specialist did something that, quite frankly, flabbergasted me. She just dropped the bookcase hard on the counter, and stormed off. Right in front of the guy who was paying for it. Right in front of another store's manager. Right in front of the service desk person.

    Geez, we're gonna act like we're 4 years old now when we're asked to do something we don't want to do? People suck.

    Not a parking spot:

    Yesterday I also observed somebody pull her car into the fire lane in front of the store, park, put her flashers on so people would think she just happened to have car trouble there instead of thinking she's an entitled scofflaw, and headed inside the store.

    Thirty minutes and two carryouts later, her car was still there, flashers still on. So I took down the license plate number and was going to give it to the service desk so they could tell this person to move her car, but then I ran into her going out the doors, so she must've finished up. People suck.
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

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

  • #2
    Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post

    I will not hit a female coworker. I will not....
    Now now Irv, being female doesn't give you a free pass from getting hit if you deserve it. Do you need to borrow a wood chipper?
    How was I supposed to know someone was slipping you Birth Control in the food I've been making for you lately?

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    • #3
      "Yesterday I also observed somebody pull her car into the fire lane in front of the store, park, put her flashers on so people would think she just happened to have car trouble there instead of thinking she's an entitled scofflaw, and headed inside the store."

      That's the kind of behavior that makes car tires beg for a meeting with someone's pocket knife.

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      • #4
        Quoth MaseMan View Post
        "Yesterday I also observed somebody pull her car into the fire lane in front of the store, park, put her flashers on so people would think she just happened to have car trouble there instead of thinking she's an entitled scofflaw, and headed inside the store."

        That's the kind of behavior that makes car tires beg for a meeting with someone's pocket knife.
        That kind of behavior should get one's license revoked on account of dangerous levels of stupid...that or just let the fire truck (if needed) plow over the car, then charge the owner with covering damage that occurred to the truck.

        People like that almost make me wish that emergency vehicles were like the ones Rammstein used in their Benzin music video...:-P
        Coworker: Distro of choice?
        Me: Gentoo.
        Coworker: Ahh. A Masochist. I thought so.

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        • #5
          I had a friend who was a firefighter.

          He told me he loved to be the one to "move the car" when they'd pull up to a call and a car was in the fire lane. Said that he'd smash all the windows, the headlights and then he'd open the door and move the car to a safe place...and he'd usually make sure to scratch the paint with his forcible entry tool. (I'm thinking he may have exaggerated that some...timewise, I'd think all that window smashing would take up a lot of time)

          Apparently he loved that part of the job...

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          • #6
            Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
            Shopping Cart ADD
            I quite often cycle to Asda (UK division of Walmart) in my lunch break and the number of shopping carts strewn across the car park and paths is worrying. People just seem to think somewhere on the path is fine but it is a nightmare cycling past it all and swerving in and out (I know I shouldn't really be cycling on the path there but the layout is odd so it is much safer for all involved).

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            • #7
              Besides retrieving scooters that are abandoned in piles of snow, my little brother's other "favorite" job at the big K is taking carts from Dollar Tree and Hick N Slave back to the stores.
              You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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              • #8
                Quoth Soulstealer View Post
                Now now Irv, being female doesn't give you a free pass from getting hit if you deserve it. Do you need to borrow a wood chipper?
                But it's not gentlemanlike to hit a woman.

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                • #9
                  More of a co-worker rant that anything. The suck didn't stop after I left.

                  We started unloading yesterday's truck early. We had it about 70% done when the other two unloaders came in at 5. It would've been 3, but one of them called out "sick" AGAIN.

                  We had the rest of the loose cases unloaded by about 5:45. We then had 3 guys to take off all the bulk and furniture, and there was a lot of it. Still, one was working till 8 and the other two till 9, so that's about 8 man-hours to get that all accomplished.

                  They didn't do shit. Well, the two working until 9 didn't. I'm not going to blame the guy working until 8--he seemed to have done most of the work. The other two guys just threw the furniture any old place they pleased, and didn't even pick up their empty pallets. They left them standing on their sides along the furniture backstock.

                  I put my foot down. I refused to straighten furniture, even though "it's my job." I was tired, I didn't sleep worth a shit last night, I'm tired of always cleaning up other people's messes.

                  Lots of cartons mis-sorted again--again I blame the two 9' o clock losers. Prior to 5, those of us working on the truck didn't make those mistakes. It really drags out filling when you're constantly having to run mis-sorted cartons to the correct departments.
                  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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                  • #10
                    Quoth Erin View Post
                    I had a friend who was a firefighter.

                    He told me he loved to be the one to "move the car" when they'd pull up to a call and a car was in the fire lane. Said that he'd smash all the windows, the headlights and then he'd open the door and move the car to a safe place...and he'd usually make sure to scratch the paint with his forcible entry tool. (I'm thinking he may have exaggerated that some...timewise, I'd think all that window smashing would take up a lot of time)

                    Apparently he loved that part of the job...
                    On another forum, I've seen a picture of a BMW parked in front of a fire hydrant. The windows on both sides were smashed, and a hose was run through the car (after all, it WAS the shortest route from the hydrant to where the water was needed).
                    Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth wolfie View Post
                      On another forum, I've seen a picture of a BMW parked in front of a fire hydrant. The windows on both sides were smashed, and a hose was run through the car (after all, it WAS the shortest route from the hydrant to where the water was needed).
                      I've seen that photo, and anecdotal claims that same Beemer involved was owned by a fire marshal that was well known as a raging dick towards the guys who actually put out fires.

                      Needless to say, there was much amusement had by the local firefighters when they saw that photo.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post

                        Shopping Cart ADD

                        Dear Clearance Swamp Shoppers:

                        What the hell is wrong with you that you can't put a freakin' shopping cart back where it belongs? Don't wanna walk off the cheese curds and beer you had for breakfast? Trust me, you people need it.

                        Irv

                        See, I got a talking-to from management thanks to these fucks. They just couldn't be bothered to walk their carts over to a corral, even on a mild-ish January day with no rain or snow. Instead, they just left them sitting all around one of the corrals, until they started spilling over into the traffic lane and adjacent parking spots.

                        Somebody took it upon themselves to complain to management about this (of course they can't blame the piggish people who left their carts all over the place). And management figured that if I had been doing my job and watching the carts, instead of helping unload the truck like my manager had asked me to do, then it wouldn't have gotten so bad.

                        When I went back out to do another cart run later, they were just leaving them all over the place. I counted at least 10 shopping carts left loose in the parking lot. People suck.
                        I used to see this a lot at the local grocery/super-centers and then they went the way of rent-to-use carts that required you to put in either a quarter or a loonie (Canadian dollar coin) to use them. You got the coin back when you returned the carts to the corrals. It REALLY cut down on people leaving carts all over the place.
                        The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth neecy View Post
                          I used to see this a lot at the local grocery/super-centers and then they went the way of rent-to-use carts that required you to put in either a quarter or a loonie (Canadian dollar coin) to use them. You got the coin back when you returned the carts to the corrals. It REALLY cut down on people leaving carts all over the place.
                          I like that idea quite a lot, however about the only place I've seen in my area that uses the deposit system is Dollar Tree.

                          At least they don't have to worry about going out into the parking lot to retrieve their carts. They'd run too big a risk of getting run over by some moron speeding through the lot or backing out of a space without looking.
                          Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                          • #14
                            In Germany, that system's pretty much standard; every store that has carts uses it, and has been for years.

                            Of course, that doesn't stop people from being idiots: yes, they will return the carts to the corral, but only to that CLOSEST to their cars - which results in some corrals being practically empty, while in others, the carts are backed halfway into the driving lane between parking spaces...
                            You gotta polish a memory like a stone. Chip off the parts that remind you it was just a game. Work it until it's indistinguishable from any other memory.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Erin View Post
                              I had a friend who was a firefighter.

                              He told me he loved to be the one to "move the car"

                              Apparently he loved that part of the job...
                              My dad used to use the rig as a bulldozer to move the offending vehicle away from the hydrant.

                              Gently. In a not at all gentle way, of course.

                              Always put a smile on his face.
                              I have a map of the world. It's actual size.

                              -- Steven Wright

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