1 hour ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I work in a grocery store people are effing horrible. 

I worked in a grocery store back in the 1970s and early 1980s.  The people we had as customers were pretty damn nice.  I have actually thought about going to apply for a fill in position at the local store. One of my favorite jobs.  

 

16 minutes ago, Iggles25 said:

Life outside of work was great. Dated a hot Brazilian who worked in our photo lab.

Her hot naked a55 made it tolerable 🤣

The real reason everyone should work in retail/restaurants at least once in their life. 

7 minutes ago, ShutDownDB said:

 

I said this the other day he looks like he has been on a 2 week straight bender 

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The real reason everyone should work in retail/restaurants at least once in their life. 

It was mindblowing and educational. All you could ask for as a lost soul in his 20s.

Just now, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Well. One thing is for sure. Knoxville doesn’t like Lane Kiffin.  

This SEC runs through UGA.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yep. I’ve worked over 10 years in the retail/restaurant business. I have so many dumb stories of people being complete idiots and aholes. One of my favorites is the customer sending back a bowl of pasta and asking we recook it but not so hot (temperature wise). 

I don't recall too many "crazy situations" because I truly do forget them and move on as fast as I can.  But we had them every day and I still deal with clients at my current position.  (Marketing to clients, not as "hectic" as retail but we have our issues from time to time as well). 

One thing I've learned is to be extremely patient when I'm dealing with people at stores, restaurants, etc.  I typically tip 18-21% for "average service".  15% for "bad service" and 25%++ for good/great service. 

So my gf, son and I went out to a local chain restaurant that has games, etc (I won't name the chain because the one in Philly is pretty good, from what I hear).  It was in the summer a couple of months after most of the lockdowns were lifted.  We get a seat at the a table by the bar area where there is open seating. Long story short, it took a solid 20-30 minutes to get our drinks then close to an hour for the food.  When we finally get the food, the runner literally frisbees the dishes on to the table.  The ribs and wings I ordered were still cold from them not heating them enough.   The wings looked like wings that you make on Sunday and eat for leftovers on Tuesday.  I ate two and eventually called the manager over and asked her if she really felt comfortable serving that to people.  She takes the plate out of my hands, does a "smh", no apology, not even a word and storms off the table. And despite all that, I still "get it".   Most of those guys/gals were just coming off unemployment probably making more than what they are making working.  The restaurant was packed and they were probably understaffed.   I eventually pulled the head waiter off to the side and told him that they really did not deserve a tip because I would have done a much better job serving myself.  But I realized it's not all his fault so I still left him 10%.   He looked at me straight in the face and said he agreed and that he was dealing with the same exact complaints all month long.  He was thrilled to get a 10% tip and that was one of the worst tips of my life. 

That said, if you're going to work somewhere, always do the best you can no matter what.  It's rewarding to yourself and at the end of the day, you'll likely be tired but you can go home with your "chin up" instead of drooped shoulders, thinking and complaining about how you're not making enough money.  Do it for yourself.  Eventually, you'll likely make more money.  Worrying about it and hating your job won't change a thing.  It will just make you (and in many cases) your customers miserable.  A positive attitude goes a long way.  (I probably won't get too many likes among Eagles fans but it's the truth, 🙂 ). 

2 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Well. One thing is for sure. Knoxville doesn’t like Lane Kiffin.  

I can’t stand him. He seems like such a slime ball 

36 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Knowing corporate they probably told management to give him a gift card for his inconvenience. 

I get what you are saying with the last post to me and I don't take that stuff home with me but, these last 2 years with everything going on there really is no reasoning with people anymore they have lost their freaking minds. Getting death threats and threats to  cause physical harm and being wished death on us. 

I'm not sure of where you work but my company is as corporate as it gets.  I won't say the name but it's the largest hotel and resort company in the world.  And there's ZERO chance that a guest wouldn't (at the very least) be escorted out of the sales center for that type of language and if they continued to be belligerent, likely off the property. 

From a management perspective, I'd rather lose 1 guest in order to keep the thousands of other guests comfortable then risk 1 guest causing trouble for thousands.  There's a certain "threshold" that's acceptable.  You can be belligerent, drunk, loud, etc and we would likely "put up with it" but that's one word that is beyond acceptable.  It truly is like an attack on a person of color, especially when used in that fashion.  And if it's bad enough and a fight persists, likely criminal. 

42 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

I feel like this is something Hurts would do, but people would still blame Siri. 

Pulled a kirk cousins 

Whole bunch of embarrassing people at the Tennessee/Ole Miss game.

Also, Joe Milton with one of the dumbest plays I've ever seen.

1 hour ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

A customer called a black teen the N word to his face because we ran out of something. The whole " the customer is always right" has opened people up to do and say whatever the hell they want. I work for a small chain so they tend to cater to the worst customers because they can't afford to lose customers. So we just have to take it. 

Yes you do have to take it, another at Lowes and I’m sure HD has the same policy if you see someone stealing, oh well, you can’t chase the customer or even say a word to them. A former coworker at Lowes now working at a Giant grocery store was fired from Lowes  after a customer was stealing and another customer screamed at them for not doing anything about it. 

5 minutes ago, The Blackfish said:

Yes you do have to take it, another at Lowes and I’m sure HD has the same policy if you see someone stealing, oh well, you can’t chase the customer or even say a word to them. A former coworker at Lowes now working at a Giant grocery store was fired from Lowes  after a customer was stealing and another customer screamed at them for not doing anything about it. 

You "Should take it" to the extent of taking the "high road" and remaining professional but that specific word is absolutely unacceptable to use in that fashion to a person of color.  It's likely the single most offensive word in the English language when used in that fashion, especially when a white person says it to a black person.  Those are literally fighting words in just about every single neighborhood in the United States.  It's the equivalent of spitting on someone's face, maybe worse.  So any reputable company would be best suited treating that like physical altercation (if one doesn't happen regardless), imo. 

Big Red is in some Big trouble with this email thing 

11 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Google what happened tonight.  Someone hit him with a golf ball.  As they were throwing all kinds of ish on the field.  Including a mustard bottle.  Who brings mustard to a football game?  

Ha I’m sure it was swiped from the concession area. I would know, I was working it 😏

53 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

You "Should take it" to the extent of taking the "high road" and remaining professional but that specific word is absolutely unacceptable to use in that fashion to a person of color.  It's likely the single most offensive word in the English language when used in that fashion, especially when a white person says it to a black person.  Those are literally fighting words in just about every single neighborhood in the United States.  It's the equivalent of spitting on someone's face, maybe worse.  So any reputable company would be best suited treating that like physical altercation (if one doesn't happen regardless), imo. 

I agree 100%, but I can’t think of any large retail store that wouldn’t fire the black employee for anything they said back but, "I’m sorry that you feel that way,  I can help you find an alternative product if you like.” If it’s not a butt kissing response, that black employee would get fired and would not be eligible for unemployment, no different than calling an 18 year old girl a C word, except she balled her eyes out.    
 The issue is that employees have basically lost all rights especially in states where the labor laws are non existent.  
 I only made it two months, when I did get fired and HR had security walk me out for sticking up for a coworker, but I already had a strike against me because an older female customer pushed her cart towards the cart rack, got lazy, did the hard push from 30 ft away and she hit my car. My car was properly parked in employee parking 4 spots away from the rack, another customer saw her do this and blocked her in the parking spot with their car and called the cops (my luck) she in turn felt threatened and she called the cops, I had no idea any of this was going on as I was working, the cops ran the plates came into the store and told me what happened, the woman gets out of her car and screams at me calling me all sorts of names and I laughed because I still didn’t know what was going on (nervous giggle) so I was written up for laughing in the customers face. Lowes gave her a $100 gift card and I was told that if I tried to pursue her for the damage (busted tail light) that I would then get fired.    After that I parked in the furthest parking space from the store, lol.   
 I waited to long in my life to work retail, in my 20’s nothing would of bothered me, but mid 40’s, 20 plus years as a pipefitter\plumber just not having an instant reaction to a customer was hard enough, busting balls is way of life when you work around hundreds of blue collar workers, hell even the refinery manager, (Marcus Hook Refinery) made jokes, so when someone comes at you, you’re supposed to go back at them.   Retail work isn’t for everyone, but anyone that does it for years on end, deserves an enormous amount of money in their hourly wage.   I’ll gladly pay more for food, whatever, if their employees are being taken of salary wise.  

 
 

39 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Google what happened tonight.  Someone hit him with a golf ball.  As they were throwing all kinds of ish on the field.  Including a mustard bottle.  Who brings mustard to a football game?  

No. Who cares. Did you know that Eagles fan threw snowballs??!! Snowballs!!

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yep. I’ve worked over 10 years in the retail/restaurant business. I have so many dumb stories of people being complete idiots and aholes. One of my favorites is the customer sending back a bowl of pasta and asking we recook it but not so hot (temperature wise). 

One of my first jobs when I was 18 was in a grocery store, and one day I was stocking shelves in the dairy department when this lady approached me and asked "do you have any (Brand X) sour cream?”  I replied "sorry, we don’t stock that brand”.  She immediately became rude and indignant and snapped at me "They sell it at (competitor store)!”, to which I replied to her "I guess you’ll have to get it there”.  She had her little boy with her, who was about 5 years-old — he pointed his finger at me and yelled "You’re a mean man!”

She must have complained afterward because a couple of days later the store owner came up to me and said "Why are you telling our customers to go shop at the competition!?”.  I explained she was looking for a brand we didn’t sell.  He said "Why didn’t you tell her to buy (Brand Y)?!” I stared at him for a second or two and said "We don’t sell that, either”

I didn’t get fired on the spot but it became clear very quickly, I was not cut out to work with the public.

50 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Google what happened tonight.  Someone hit him with a golf ball.  As they were throwing all kinds of ish on the field.  Including a mustard bottle.  Who brings mustard to a football game?  

 

37 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

No. Who cares. Did you know that Eagles fan threw snowballs??!! Snowballs!!

And at a skinny drunk 'Santa' they pulled from the crowd because the original fat Santa got caught in traffic.  And they booed him, too.  Snowballs and booing a skinny drunk fake Santa in the '60s.  We ARE the worst fans.....ever.

Keep bringing that up since the national media does at every chance, even though I was at the first hockey game Mario Lemieux played after battling lymphoma and when he scored against the Flyers we totally didn't give him a standing ovation, but booed him and his cancer surviving ass.  Yeah!

#sarcasm

 

10 minutes ago, Green_Guinness said:

 

Mike Myers gets my vote for least funny famous Canadian. 

38 minutes ago, The Blackfish said:

I agree 100%, but I can’t think of any large retail store that wouldn’t fire the black employee for anything they said back but, "I’m sorry that you feel that way,  I can help you find an alternative product if you like.” If it’s not a butt kissing response, that black employee would get fired and would not be eligible for unemployment, no different than calling an 18 year old girl a C word, except she balled her eyes out.    
 The issue is that employees have basically lost all rights especially in states where the labor laws are non existent.  
 I only made it two months, when I did get fired and HR had security walk me out for sticking up for a coworker, but I already had a strike against me because an older female customer pushed her cart towards the cart rack, got lazy, did the hard push from 30 ft away and she hit my car. My car was properly parked in employee parking 4 spots away from the rack, another customer saw her do this and blocked her in the parking spot with their car and called the cops (my luck) she in turn felt threatened and she called the cops, I had no idea any of this was going on as I was working, the cops ran the plates came into the store and told me what happened, the woman gets out of her car and screams at me calling me all sorts of names and I laughed because I still didn’t know what was going on (nervous giggle) so I was written up for laughing in the customers face. Lowes gave her a $100 gift card and I was told that if I tried to pursue her for the damage (busted tail light) that I would then get fired.    After that I parked in the furthest parking space from the store, lol.   
 I waited to long in my life to work retail, in my 20’s nothing would of bothered me, but mid 40’s, 20 plus years as a pipefitter\plumber just not having an instant reaction to a customer was hard enough, busting balls is way of life when you work around hundreds of blue collar workers, hell even the refinery manager, (Marcus Hook Refinery) made jokes, so when someone comes at you, you’re supposed to go back at them.   Retail work isn’t for everyone, but anyone that does it for years on end, deserves an enormous amount of money in their hourly wage.   I’ll gladly pay more for food, whatever, if their employees are being taken of salary wise.  

 
 

IMO, working retail is like the Israel Army in that everyone should have to do it to know what it's like.  Most people are such aholes and don't know how to act properly that if they had a bit of retail experience then they'd know to not act like an ahole.  Fight me.  This is why I would support the aliens or AI robots vs humanity, because most people don't deserve it and I hate them for their arrogance and fat ass laziness.

 

3 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

A customer called a black teen the N word to his face because we ran out of something. The whole " the customer is always right" has opened people up to do and say whatever the hell they want. I work for a small chain so they tend to cater to the worst customers because they can't afford to lose customers. So we just have to take it. 

More times than not the customer is an entitled idiot.  No, the customer isn't always right since they are ignorant to the supply chain and the changing price structure of goods.  It's the 'Merican model of I want what I want when I want it and how I want it, which is total BS.  Most customers are stupid and ignorant while being arrogant on top of it. 

 

3 hours ago, The Blackfish said:

 Every person should have to work in retail and restaurants, for at least 3 months just to learn how to treat people. 

I did part time at Lowes 6-10pm night just for spending money, kids college. Etc..  I had no idea how nasty some people are and I only lasted 2 months because a customer literally screamed at a cashier (he actually called an 18 year old girl the C word) among other things for being short staffed, I called him retarded for yelling at cashier who doesn’t do store staffing, or the store schedule and since my final retort was going to take place in the parking lot, another employee called the police and she got fired for calling the police to the store, lol.    Just in Lewes, Delaware that Lowes since 2018, has gone through about 250 cashiers. 
 

Agreed, always felt the same way. Most of my work experience has been in restaurant/retail, can’t tell you how many crappy people I’ve dealt with, parents that let kids just run around causing havoc, amount of times I’ve been berated and cussed out by customers. Just people with no respect. And you’re expected to just sit there and take it for a job that does not pay enough.
 

I had a pizza place job where I was a pizza delivery driver, was taking a guys order once. Looking up his address he was just on other side of boundary for one of our other locations. I told him sorry we can’t deliver to you, call other store. He said they’re on 2 hour wait, you guys are on 45 min so your store sounds better. Told him sorry, no can do. He told me to shut the F up and go F myself, hung up before I could respond. Dummy forgot I had his address and phone number. Luckily I’ve dealt with his kind before so I shrugged it off, went about my day. But thought about what would happen if he did that & pissed the wrong person off who had his info. I contemplated on having dominos delivering him a pizza with nothing but dough and sauce, decided against it though cause I didn’t want to put dominos workers thru any trouble. 

54 minutes ago, Green_Guinness said:

More times than not the customer is an entitled idiot.  No, the customer isn't always right since they are ignorant to the supply chain and the changing price structure of goods.  It's the 'Merican model of I want what I want when I want it and how I want it, which is total BS.  Most customers are stupid and ignorant while being arrogant on top of it.

I worked in retail for 10 years and I can confirm, the customer is NEVER right. 95% of the people who walk through the front door are dumb as rocks. Most of them don't even know what store they are in, let alone even beginning to understand the supply chain and why we carry what we carry, why prices are what they are, why stores are laid out the way they are etc. And it really sucks that the average employee has to face the consequences of decisions and policy changes that corporate makes. I've been accused of everything you can think; being racist, trying to scam people, bait and switch etc. Most of the time it's just a simple misunderstanding but too many people think you are trying to take advantage of them, as if I am the one who gets the money from the register at the end of the night

BTW, when you tell a retail employee you are going to shop somewhere else because you didn't get your way, just know they don't care and they are laughing at you when you leave the store. Don't be a Karen.