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In order to make sure that I maintain my full-time hours at my store, I've been volunteering to work some shifts in the front store instead of my usual hiding place in the pharmacy. Today was one of those days.
Who Invented 7am?
I'm used to staying up until all hours of the night, but today I had to be in at 7am. Needless to say I was a bit tired. I let loose a yawn at about 7:30am and a customer tells me that it's too late to be tired.
O.o
Sadly, it's never too early for stupid.
You Don't Have Them!
I remember the Beanie Baby days of the late 90s where countless mothers wasted the college money they had saved up for their children in the pursuit of small plastic bean filled stuffed animals. Those truly were a dark time with women, both single and married alike, fought like ravenous wolverines over the rarest of the rare cheap stuffed animals. A lady today seems to have missed the boat entirely. She came in and made a bee-line for our cheap knock-offs of Beanie Babies. She grabbed a duck and came to my counter, standing not in line, but directly in the way of everyone. Then, she opened her mouth.
"Do you have any more of these..." WAIT FOR IT! "...in the back?"
Seeing as I normally reside in the hallowed halls of pharmacopoeia, I decided to call an audible and get the MoD. The MoD came up and told this lady that what we had out was all we had, but this woman was resilient and would not go down without a fight.
"Do you know if any of your other stores have more?"
Now, that's something we don't know. The system won't allow it. MoD tells this lady that they all should as it's something the warehouse just pushes on us, but the lady rebuts!
"I've been to three other stores already and they don't have any!"
Wait. Time out. You've already been to three other stores and you didn't think to ask the staff there if they had any in stock and where they would be? MoD manages to convince her to take her crazy away from my register so I could return to my regularly-scheduled mindless work.
When she comes back up to the register (about 5 minutes later), she has three turtles and a dog. I wonder where the duck went and let her be the crazy bat she is.
Strange Things Happen In...Twos?
Twice today, both before 9am, I was given a 100 dollar bill for transactions totaling less than 10 dollars. Stranger still, within 5 minutes of each of those transactions, I was given more than 5 dollars worth of change as payment. I think they are gaining some sort of hive mind sentience and are plotting against us. This sort of thing cannot be coincidence. There is an intelligence behind this idiocy.
Is This Thing On?
A man walks up to the register with a box for a wrist blood pressure monitor and a receipt. I had just called the MoD for a cash pickup, so he was already there. The man starts explaining that the monitor didn't work. He had been looking through the instruction manual and couldn't figure out how to solve the problem he had. The manual said that pressing the start button would make the display read "0" before starting inflation. He pulled the machine out and started to demonstrate to us the issue. An issue that I immediately recognized.
The monitor displayed "120/80" on it. He pressed the start button. No "0" showed up. I decided to speak up.
"That's a plastic display cover placed over the screen that needs to be removed."
MoD nearly dies.
The man looks at me and says, "It didn't mention that in the manual." He then picks up the monitor and leaves the store.
MoD looks at me and appears to have an aneurysm. Followed by hysterical laughter. I join in. Victory was ours this day.
What Have You Been Teaching Your Children?
Two women come in with six children between them. The ages of the children range from I'd say about 6 to about 11, three girls and three boys. My manager and I are talking at the end of the counter when one of the boys (probably about 7 or 8 years old) walks up to us and speaks.
"I found this open in the Bakugan aisle." He then hands us an open Bakugan package.
We were struck speechless. MoD thanked the kid and went to put the open package in our damages area. I notice the kid walk over to his mother, then wander away into the store. I approach the mother and thank her for doing it right. There is hope for the future. I have seen it. Like Pandora's Box, it is surrounded by pain, strife and suffering, but it's there.
Who Invented 7am?
I'm used to staying up until all hours of the night, but today I had to be in at 7am. Needless to say I was a bit tired. I let loose a yawn at about 7:30am and a customer tells me that it's too late to be tired.
O.o
Sadly, it's never too early for stupid.
You Don't Have Them!
I remember the Beanie Baby days of the late 90s where countless mothers wasted the college money they had saved up for their children in the pursuit of small plastic bean filled stuffed animals. Those truly were a dark time with women, both single and married alike, fought like ravenous wolverines over the rarest of the rare cheap stuffed animals. A lady today seems to have missed the boat entirely. She came in and made a bee-line for our cheap knock-offs of Beanie Babies. She grabbed a duck and came to my counter, standing not in line, but directly in the way of everyone. Then, she opened her mouth.
"Do you have any more of these..." WAIT FOR IT! "...in the back?"
Seeing as I normally reside in the hallowed halls of pharmacopoeia, I decided to call an audible and get the MoD. The MoD came up and told this lady that what we had out was all we had, but this woman was resilient and would not go down without a fight.
"Do you know if any of your other stores have more?"
Now, that's something we don't know. The system won't allow it. MoD tells this lady that they all should as it's something the warehouse just pushes on us, but the lady rebuts!
"I've been to three other stores already and they don't have any!"
Wait. Time out. You've already been to three other stores and you didn't think to ask the staff there if they had any in stock and where they would be? MoD manages to convince her to take her crazy away from my register so I could return to my regularly-scheduled mindless work.
When she comes back up to the register (about 5 minutes later), she has three turtles and a dog. I wonder where the duck went and let her be the crazy bat she is.
Strange Things Happen In...Twos?
Twice today, both before 9am, I was given a 100 dollar bill for transactions totaling less than 10 dollars. Stranger still, within 5 minutes of each of those transactions, I was given more than 5 dollars worth of change as payment. I think they are gaining some sort of hive mind sentience and are plotting against us. This sort of thing cannot be coincidence. There is an intelligence behind this idiocy.
Is This Thing On?
A man walks up to the register with a box for a wrist blood pressure monitor and a receipt. I had just called the MoD for a cash pickup, so he was already there. The man starts explaining that the monitor didn't work. He had been looking through the instruction manual and couldn't figure out how to solve the problem he had. The manual said that pressing the start button would make the display read "0" before starting inflation. He pulled the machine out and started to demonstrate to us the issue. An issue that I immediately recognized.
The monitor displayed "120/80" on it. He pressed the start button. No "0" showed up. I decided to speak up.
"That's a plastic display cover placed over the screen that needs to be removed."
MoD nearly dies.
The man looks at me and says, "It didn't mention that in the manual." He then picks up the monitor and leaves the store.
MoD looks at me and appears to have an aneurysm. Followed by hysterical laughter. I join in. Victory was ours this day.
What Have You Been Teaching Your Children?
Two women come in with six children between them. The ages of the children range from I'd say about 6 to about 11, three girls and three boys. My manager and I are talking at the end of the counter when one of the boys (probably about 7 or 8 years old) walks up to us and speaks.
"I found this open in the Bakugan aisle." He then hands us an open Bakugan package.
We were struck speechless. MoD thanked the kid and went to put the open package in our damages area. I notice the kid walk over to his mother, then wander away into the store. I approach the mother and thank her for doing it right. There is hope for the future. I have seen it. Like Pandora's Box, it is surrounded by pain, strife and suffering, but it's there.
I took it off and turned it on, course he just gives a grunt and takes it and walks out. My co-worker starts bursting
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