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This is all coming from today. A bunch of random gems....not as sucky as the customer who assaulted another customer, but still just plain dumb and stupid and making me want to smack people.
Old Creep
This guy was probably in his late 50's, early 60's. Comes up to my line humming some random song. He's not weaving or anything that would indicate that he's drunk, but he does sound like he's on SOMETHING. Seems to be cheerful, right up until the end when he calls me "babe".
The second he gets out of earshot, I shuddered. Creeeeeeeeepy.
(to clarify: Honey I hate, sweetie is just weird, "darl" and "love" I don't mind so much because I get these quite a bit from friends and family as well, but "babe". Nuh-uh)
Talk about pushy
Had another petrol voucher abuser today. Wasn't as blatant about it, however she reminded me of an old cow I had to serve at my old store repeatedly-the old cow at Old Store would come up to the checkout near closing time and split her purchases for "four different family members"-yet all of them were the minimum for the fuel offer. This woman actually split hers up to the $30 minimum, but had them already split up rather than having me stop every so often.
I am THIS close to making up signs at home and going around saying "We are going to limit fuel offers to one per store per day." (so if they want those oh-so-precious fuel vouchers, they can waste more petrol getting them) Because our system is set up so that you can do one option or the other, if you go with Option A, then continue to split them up, Option C comes into play: I get to shred the remaining vouchers
Or alternately, "One per PAYING customer per store per day". Meaning that if they oh so desperately want those vouchers, ALL their family members need to pay.
It's LAW people!
My manager had some stupid woman claim that because potatoes were rung up wrong, she should get them for free. This is law in Australia ONLY if the shelf price and checkout price don't match (if checkout price is higher, they get first free, rest at correct price, if checkout price is LOWER, no changes, except we need to change the sign). If the price is human error however-meaning for instance, that you keyed in Potato A while you meant to key in Potato B-you get refunded the difference. In this case, it was human error-my coworker had accidentally keyed in Potato A as Potato B. My manager and the customer got stuck in an argument while I ended up banging my head against the counter.
It's all in good humour
Managed to make my coworkers laugh tonight by telling them a joke that, while it came BEFORE the Queensland floods, is still probably in poor taste. They still found it funny. (if people want me to, I'll post it up in the jokes section, but ONLY on request-out of respect to those who are dealing with the floods, I'd rather not repeat it in this section).
Old Creep
This guy was probably in his late 50's, early 60's. Comes up to my line humming some random song. He's not weaving or anything that would indicate that he's drunk, but he does sound like he's on SOMETHING. Seems to be cheerful, right up until the end when he calls me "babe".
The second he gets out of earshot, I shuddered. Creeeeeeeeepy.
(to clarify: Honey I hate, sweetie is just weird, "darl" and "love" I don't mind so much because I get these quite a bit from friends and family as well, but "babe". Nuh-uh)
Talk about pushy
Had another petrol voucher abuser today. Wasn't as blatant about it, however she reminded me of an old cow I had to serve at my old store repeatedly-the old cow at Old Store would come up to the checkout near closing time and split her purchases for "four different family members"-yet all of them were the minimum for the fuel offer. This woman actually split hers up to the $30 minimum, but had them already split up rather than having me stop every so often.
I am THIS close to making up signs at home and going around saying "We are going to limit fuel offers to one per store per day." (so if they want those oh-so-precious fuel vouchers, they can waste more petrol getting them) Because our system is set up so that you can do one option or the other, if you go with Option A, then continue to split them up, Option C comes into play: I get to shred the remaining vouchers
Or alternately, "One per PAYING customer per store per day". Meaning that if they oh so desperately want those vouchers, ALL their family members need to pay.
It's LAW people!
My manager had some stupid woman claim that because potatoes were rung up wrong, she should get them for free. This is law in Australia ONLY if the shelf price and checkout price don't match (if checkout price is higher, they get first free, rest at correct price, if checkout price is LOWER, no changes, except we need to change the sign). If the price is human error however-meaning for instance, that you keyed in Potato A while you meant to key in Potato B-you get refunded the difference. In this case, it was human error-my coworker had accidentally keyed in Potato A as Potato B. My manager and the customer got stuck in an argument while I ended up banging my head against the counter.
It's all in good humour
Managed to make my coworkers laugh tonight by telling them a joke that, while it came BEFORE the Queensland floods, is still probably in poor taste. They still found it funny. (if people want me to, I'll post it up in the jokes section, but ONLY on request-out of respect to those who are dealing with the floods, I'd rather not repeat it in this section).
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