Candy Stealers

[LillFilly]

I usually get a coffee every day from the little mom & pop shop at my mall. They've always had a bowl of different mini-hershey bars on-top of the cooler where you can buy sodas, right-next to the coffee counter & down from the register. The bowl was VERY clearly labeled .20cents a piece.

One day I came in and there was no bowl of candy. I asked them what had happened to it (because I would buy a mini chocolate and crumble it in my coffee). They told me a lot of people, especially this one female SC, would just grab a handful and munch on them as they waited for their coffee! They watched her go through a dozen one day! They just didn't know how to tell her she had to pay for the things; they really don't like confrontation. They put-up a bigger sign, but she continued to gorge when she got her coffee. So they had to take the candy away.

But if I ask they'll pull the bowl out for me

[Shimatta]

the real problem is that they never asked that one woman to pay - they should just add the extra 2.00 or so to her next coffee order

[Plaidman]

All are at fault. They should have made her pay. The woman should be able to read and not being a fucking thief.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm 50/50 for her being a thief versus her just being completely and utterly fscking oblivious.

It's a shame the shop owners don't want to stand up for themselves. Hopefully Ms Sweettooth is the worst they end up having to deal with, since even she was more than they were willing to handle.

^-.-^

[Rebel1012]

You just know that woman is going to come in and demand to know where her free candy is....

[TelephoneAngel]

people will steal anything then claim they thought it was free, i remember working on the sales floor and having my personal calculator stolen by a customer!

[Lace Neil Singer]

At the pet centre where I worked, so many people stole the pens that we had for people to sign, that we had to tie them to the tills. Then customers demanded to know what had happened to the "free" pens we used to have!

[draftermatt]

You just know that woman is going to come in and demand to know where her free candy is....

Then customers demanded to know what had happened to the "free" pens we used to have!

"They were never free" is the best answer to that IMO. No explanation about people stealing, that line should shame most normal people.

[jjllbb]

"They were never free" is the best answer to that IMO.

A lot of SC's would probably misunderstand. "You mean you CHARGED us for them!! OMFG! I want my money back!"

[jjllbb]

At the pet centre where I worked, so many people stole the pens that we had for people to sign, that we had to tie them to the tills.

My brother used to work for a company that made it mandatory for employees to bring their own pens to work.

Then customers would steal the employees' pens instead. I bet that cheap-o company saved a lot of money but they're pretty big jerks.

[draftermatt]

A lot of SC's would probably misunderstand. "You mean you CHARGED us for them!! OMFG! I want my money back!"

Good God you're probably right. What is wrong with people? (he asks rhetorically)

[Mikkel]

Some years ago I got some pens made with the text (translation from Danish) "This pen was nicked from <Name of shop> <phone number>".
I didn't expect more than a little joke on the borrowers of pens, but actually I have kept them for much longer than before, it isn't unusual now that the ink runs out.
Then some people want a pen because of the text, but they usually offer to pay for it .

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

My brother used to work for a company that made it mandatory for employees to bring their own pens to work.

Then customers would steal the employees' pens instead. I bet that cheap-o company saved a lot of money but they're pretty big jerks.

I cured them of that pretty fast. People would pick up my pen with out asking all the time. They would usually look at it and say "Nice pen." This doesn't bother me however. In fact I relish the thought of them using my pen.

Oh, not because its booby trapped or anything like that. That would not be nice and I couldn't post such storied here on Customers Suck where they do not condone such behavior.

Nope, my pen is a properly functional pen with no design flaws. In fact it writes like a dream and in my mind was worth the $30 I paid for it. You just have to know how to properly hold such a pen.

You see, everyone who I have encountered "borrowing" my pen holds a pen very close to the point of the pen. Fountain pens (such as my Lamy Safari Fountain Pen found here) do not like that. Getting your fingers on the ink channels means that you get your fingers stained with a very pretty Tanzanite Blue. It's even more amusing when a light-fingered co-worker uses the pen, is blissfully unaware that they have blue on their fingers and then rubs their face, their white clothes, the important document they were in a hurry to get to the boss.

Endless amusement. The funny thing is? When it does get stolen, it comes back to my desk with a post-it saying that my pen is broke and that I should get a new one.

[Lace Neil Singer]

It was mostly men who'd steal my pens before I got some coloured biros in girly colours; pink, pale blue, purple, violet. Now, for some strange reason, no-one ever takes my pens. XD

[Canarr]

Good God you're probably right. What is wrong with people? (he asks rhetorically)

There was an old Dilbert strip that nicely summed this up:

PHB: "For cost-saving reasons, the company will no longer be able to provide employees with free soda in the breakroom."
Dilbert: "Uh... we've never gotten free soda before."
PHB: "Yes, we have. Every day, I've been able to go into the breakroom, open the fridge, and enjoy a free, cold soda."
Asok (stunned): "Every day for years, I've been bringing a soda from home to drink during the day. And every day, someone's taken it from the breakroom fridge!"

(All look accusingly at the PHB.)

PHB: "Why didn't you just take one of the free ones?"