Discount scroungers & stupid kids

[Tama]

Discount Scrounger

My day at Mal-mart was okay until about an hour until my shift was over.

"I want a discount on these. The label says two pair and there's only one pair."

There were two shoelaces in the package, I guess she thought they meant FOUR shoelaces total.

My CSM took forever to get there and once she did, said, "10%."

"That's not good enough!" The SC said, "I only got half what I was supposed to, there aren't any others, and I want half off! She said half off!"

I asked the CSM what she said and of course she said 10%, but then caved because the SC had been standing there getting on her nerves.

So she left and the guy behind her was like "Well I guess she saved the money she wanted to save."

And everyone wonders why our prices keep going up!


Cart Junior

This one is not mine, but belongs to a friend of mine who works in the electronics section of my Malmart.

He said some unattended child somehow convinced the door greeter (or maybe stole it) to give him a handicapped cart, which he drove over to the electronics section, where Night at the Museum 2 was playing. He sat and sat and sat and watched it.

For some reason or another, he told me, they turned the TV off. What does Junior do?

He starts ramming the stand with the cart, "What the heck man!!!" All the while the TV is teetering dangerously.

The kicker is, the electronics guy tells me this kid is often unattended. Doesn't his mom care that the little guy's getting into trouble? (Not only this but the kid's stolen a few things too)

[RetailWorkhorse]

Doesn't his mom care that the little guy's getting into trouble?

No, course not. What made you think that Mommy-Dearest care?

[XCashier]

The kicker is, the electronics guy tells me this kid is often unattended. Doesn't his mom care that the little guy's getting into trouble? (Not only this but the kid's stolen a few things too)

And the police haven't been called because...?

[Anakah]

I'd call the cops on the last one. Especially if the kid is well known to be alone by himself more than once!

[Tama]

I'm not entirely sure myself...

[ralerin]

Next time he's in, I'd say start calling the police.

I'd be tempted to let the TV fall on him, but suddenly Mommy Dearest would pop out of the woodwork and screech about how she's gonna sue the store because the employees let the TV fall on him.

[Overnight]

Why in the world would Mommy of the Millennium care what her kid is doing? He's out of her way, so she's free to do whatever it is that absentee parents do while their offspring are tormenting others. (My guess is that they go into the restrooms in herds to huff toilet cleaner. Goodness knows that these morons are ingesting some sort of chemical that's screwing up what passes for their brains.)

Like other people in this thread, I'm wondering about the police. Even if the kid were a perfectly behaved angel while his mother was gone, she's still abandoning him. It's her job to either take him with her when she's shopping or leave him with relatives/babysitter at home.

[Tama]

That's the thing about stupid parents, they pop up only when there is a chance to sue you for not being careful around their child.

[underemployeed]

Discount Scrounger

He starts ramming the stand with the cart, "What the heck man!!!" All the while the TV is teetering dangerously.

Oh great, um this is the style kid I hate because he is going do something stupid Mommy dearest will sue, the maker of every dangerous movie and video game that he watched or played because she bought them when he wasn't mature enough, and talk about how her child used to be so sweet and innocent. Along, with suing every person that ever filed a police report against the little punk vandalizing things because they helped for him negative self image.

When i was little I raised hell, i got my ass beat. Now it seems many people 15 and under have never been disciplined in their life. Things were much simpler in my dad's day if you messed up your parents beat you, if you spit on a teacher they beat you, if you destroyed your neighbors roses she would call home and your mom said BEAT HIM FOR ME.

The total irony of the situation, if you try and verbally correct the kid for smashing into the tv and almost breaking it and the kart his mom will yell at you for it because you have no right to tell her abandoned child what he should or shouldn't do.

[infinitemonkies]

Discount Scrounger
"I want a discount on these. The label says two pair and there's only one pair."

There were two shoelaces in the package, I guess she thought they meant FOUR shoelaces total.

If the label does in fact say two pair, and the package in fact contains only 2 laces, being 1 pair, asking for a 50% discount sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

[Tama]

Malmart only allows 10% discounts, unfortunately...or 50% if you screech and make a fuss.

[Geek King]

If the label does in fact say two pair, and the package in fact contains only 2 laces, being 1 pair, asking for a 50% discount sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

I have to agree. One shoe, one shoelace, a pair of shoelaces to fully equip both feet, so two pair of shoelaces would be four shoes worth.

[Teskeria]

Most packages of shoelaces I have bought have each pair wrapped together. So it looks like 2 laces, but is actually 4.

[bainsidhe]

As for the little kid, only LP or management is supposed to call police. If it's busy, late at night or management is just otherwise occupied, they can't (won't) be bothered with calling cops. After all, mummy might complain if her darling is arrested hmmmm?

Sorry for the sarcasm, that's one thing I hated about Hellmart. If something plummeted from the sky and splattered a customer, then I could call emergency. But if it was a broken bone or pet locked in a sweltering car, I'd better call management to deal with it or else. Way to instill independence and morals in the staff.

And about the shoelaces, it could be something the store sends back for credit. Which is why they have the 10% off rule. If you're missing part of the set, the store can get back full value when they send it back versus just 50% of the value from selling it. It really depends on how loudly the customer complains before they get their way.

[Tama]

Now I think about it, EG was told to apprehend the kid because management was otherwise occupied and "security had gone home."