The One Squeegee...

[Gaki]

Ohhhh lawwwwd.

A grumpy old man comes in.

SC: YOU'VE GOT A BUNCH OF THOSE WIPERS MISSING FROM YOUR WINDSHIELD BUCKETS. *Really angry face*
Me: Sir I'm not even sure if we have any more squeegees since everyone and their cousin has decided to scrape ice off their windshields with them. They're getting destroyed.
SC: *storms out*

Guess how many were missing. GUESS. HOW. MANY.

.....one. One was missing. One out of 18. DIRTY. OLD. MAN. LIAAAAAR.

Free Air.

Background: If you have a special card you get free air. Most of our stations have the free air set up so the remote can go through a window and we can just turn around and turn it on. Not ours. We have to physically walk outside and down to the air machine so that the remote will work. So that means when you say you want air and you're not THERE YET we're WAITING for your STUPID ASS.[/BG]

So I take the remote and I walk outside while this lady is driving over to the pump. It should take about five seconds for her to park, get out of the car, and look at me like "how come you haven't turned it on yet?" I usually wait until they're out of the car fully because it doesn't last very long and they bitch and whine. She's dickin' around in her car for a good minute before I just turn it on, turn around, and leave because I have better things to do than stand out there and cater to your slow as fuck ass. I come back in and tell my partner that she'll probably whine that it didn't last very long because I turned it on and left and she still wasn't out of the car. No. No. She came in and claimed I NEVER TURNED IT ON AT ALL. Meaning she was dickin' around in that car for OVER FIVE MINUTES and had expected me to wait there to turn the air on for her.

Uh. No. My partner stated, "She came out and turned it on for you a while back, we'll get to you as soon as we can." Which turned out to be another five minutes because there was a massive line.

Ta da. Get your shit together and don't ask for air until your freakin' ready for it. People obviously have no idea that we don't have a magical button back there to turn on the air and we have to walk out there physically and hold down that stupid little button on the remote.

DRINKS

Oftentimes people will make a drink and then leave it somewhere unattended and after a certain time it is considered abandoned. I've done it, my CWs have done it, my Manager has done it--we DUMP THESE. Mainly because we get a lot of actually abandoned drinks. Every so often we get the people who say, "Hey, did you dump my drink?"

Yes. Yes we did. Because it was sitting there for over ten minutes. Haven't you ever been to a college party? Don't you know that's an unforgivable mistake leaving a drink unattended? I hate everyone.

For the Love of...

There is a certain appliance in the mens room that is broken. We have provided the services that it renders without its help and we are waiting for a new one. Despite the SIGN that has been TAPED TO IT I am still getting: "Hey. That things broken in there."

...yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. I didn't know. I didn't write the sign or anything... (It's not the toilet.)

[Dreamstalker]

Oftentimes people will make a drink and then leave it somewhere unattended and after a certain time it is considered abandoned. I've done it, my CWs have done it, my Manager has done it--we DUMP THESE. Mainly because we get a lot of actually abandoned drinks. Every so often we get the people who say, "Hey, did you dump my drink?"

Yes. Yes we did. Because it was sitting there for over ten minutes. Haven't you ever been to a college party? Don't you know that's an unforgivable mistake leaving a drink unattended? I hate everyone.

Sometimes I'll find coffee cups randomly on the shelves. If you spend $8 for a latte, for the love of cheese keep it with you! Yes, it was thrown out. No, I'm not going through the trash or paying you for it. Your stuff, your responsibility.

Also with perishable returns. I have no idea who this basket/cart belongs to, but it's full of assorted temperature-sensitive goodies. As long as the stuff's still viable it goes back in the case. Not my problem you left it in an aisle at 10:55 at night.

[Rodimal]

One squeegee to wet them all....one squeegee to ring them....one squeegee to clean them all....and on the windshield, unblind them....

[BrenDAnn]

At C-Store, if squeegees are missing, it's because some asshole stole them. Yep. People steal squeegees. As for our air...C-Store has it for free all the time. The system you have sounds like a royal pain the ass...sorry. Thankfully, I haven't found any abandoned drinks in the aisles, but there have been a few on the counter near the snack center. The bathroom thing? Just proof that people don't freakin' read!!

[Pagan]

Also with perishable returns. I have no idea who this basket/cart belongs to, but it's full of assorted temperature-sensitive goodies. As long as the stuff's still viable it goes back in the case. Not my problem you left it in an aisle at 10:55 at night.

What is it with people lately that they can't seem to be arsed enough to take their cart with them when shopping. The leave it parked at the end of an aisle (9 times out of 10, it's in the freaking way) and walk down to get whatever, sometimes almost clear to the other end. Don't they realize this is causing them to walk twice as far, or is this a new form of exercise that I wasn't aware of?

At C-Store, if squeegees are missing, it's because some asshole stole them. Yep. People steal squeegees.

What people steal no longer surprises me. One place I worked, we had t-shirts on hangers. Rarely did someone ever lift a tee, but damn they luuuvvveeeeed the hangers!

[Dreamstalker]

We have stainless steel cleaner for the registers. It's now locked up inside the manager podium (causing additional delays and headaches if anyone needs it as we have to chase down a keyholder) because SCs would see the cans and reach over the service desk to steal them. We've also had store-use mops go missing

[An Haddock]

One squeegee to wet them all....one squeegee to ring them....one squeegee to clean them all....and on the windshield, unblind them....

"You have my squeegee!"

"And my loofa!"

"And my Windex!"

[bunrotha]

What is it with people lately that they can't seem to be arsed enough to take their cart with them when shopping. The leave it parked at the end of an aisle (9 times out of 10, it's in the freaking way) and walk down to get whatever, sometimes almost clear to the other end. Don't they realize this is causing them to walk twice as far, or is this a new form of exercise that I wasn't aware of?

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one (yes, I am that guy, sorry.) It's because any given aisle has at least 3 pick-n-mix from the SC lucky dip, including, but not limited to:

*Squadron of teenagers going four abreast blocking the aisle.
*Family in formation, and you just KNOW one of the kids will go face first into your trolley, which will be your fault somehow.
*Two dithery eldsters, carts parked opposite each other so as to block the aisle.
*That SC who is welded to their cart, so for them to look at stuff, the cart ends up crossways on, right across the aisle.
*Passive-aggressive soccer mom type, who gives way only to things that are on fire, and nothing else will cause her to slow down at all.

Bonus points if it's near closing, or late in a 24-hour store, and floor/dept managers have had all the restock cages wheeled into the aisles, making them single-lane traffic only for carts, no passing places.

Under such conditions, or even just because the aisle has lots of people in it already and is somewhat gridlocked by browsers, I tend to think "screw it," leave the cart parked as out of the way as I can, steam down that aisle, grab stuff, and steam back.

Walking further is the price I pay for less shit, lower blood pressure, and overall time saved. In my defence, I don't leave the cart unattended more than, say a minute.

And I mean it about parking out of the way. Offset against the endcap, not poking into an aisle, where the triple-wide cross-aisle gives room to pass. I have years of practice.

[DerangedHermit]

Sometimes I'll find coffee cups randomly on the shelves. If you spend $8 for a latte, for the love of cheese keep it with you! Yes, it was thrown out. No, I'm not going through the trash or paying you for it. Your stuff, your responsibility.

I hate this tremendously since my store is one of the few of this company's stores still with a Starbucks. The district manager also commented "why doesn't anyone clean this ****?" when he saw the coffee splatters on the exit door.

Also, it is impossible to ever find a bottle of glass cleaner for the registers, despite the fact that every register should have one. They don't use the stainless steel cleaner because it smells like chemical death.

[Dreamstalker]

The other day I had to clean an impressive coffee splash off both of the mirrors at my register (not even a hint of a spill on the floor, and it had to have happened recently). It had to be a big Starbucks candy-drink, way too much volume and stickiness for the dinky cups we have for the 'coffee' machine. Wouldn't you know it, an SC with an overflowing cart and lots of stuff underneath got miffed that she had to wait ten seconds until I cleaned so I could see. Sorry, no shoplifting today

We now have the non-ammonia glass cleaner, so while you have to use more of the stuff to do anything useful it's not dangerous. According to ASM I'm the only one smart enough to wield the steel cleaner properly. The one thing we still do not have (despite my and Seafood Guy telling SM what will work) is belt sanitizer.

[RayvenQ]

"You have my squeegee!"

"And my loofa!"

"And my Windex!"

YOU SHALL NOT WASH!

They're taking the hobbits for detailing.

[Pagan]

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one (yes, I am that guy, sorry.) It's because any given aisle has at least 3 pick-n-mix from the SC lucky dip, including, but not limited to:

Then explain why I see it in aisles that have nobody else in them. Not only that, they seem to leave them parked is such a way that it blocks the main walkway (the part that's perpendicular to the aisles).

[An Haddock]

YOU SHALL NOT WASH!

They're taking the hobbits for detailing.

One does not simply walk into a car wash!

[Rodimal]

One does not simply walk into a car wash!

There are things there that scrub your skin clean and the Wax is always hot. One cannot go there without a car, it is folly....

[Carsomyr]

Seeing someone with a cup in their hand drives me far, far crazier than it should - especially in summer we get so many half empty milkshake cups we start telling people they can't have them in the store. Most people understand, but then you get those that don't... Those are the ones that leave sticky fingerprints all over the place too. =.=

What people steal no longer surprises me. One place I worked, we had t-shirts on hangers. Rarely did someone ever lift a tee, but damn they luuuvvveeeeed the hangers!

One of my old tutors told me a story about when he was wallpapering somewhere - they told him to take EVERYTHING with him when he goes for lunch. When he went, he took all his tools and the rest of the wallpaper with him - when he came back, someone had stolen all the wallpaper he'd already pasted to the wall.