Posted on 09/09/2014 10:07:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail! I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I Gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me she was Educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the Money back… same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.
They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail! I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a Grande Latte. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said “buy one-get one free.” “They’re already buy-one-get-one free,” she said, “so I guess they’re both free.” She handed me my free Lattes and I walked out the door.
They Walk Among Us! One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when one of them shouted, “Look at that dead bird!” Someone looked up at the sky and said, “Where”?
They Walk Among Us! While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn’t want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, “Does the sun rise in the north?” When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, “Oh I don’t keep up with all that stuff.”
They Walk Among Us! I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, “The number you...
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and all those people who hand over a lotto ticket for the clerk to check and are told “sorry not a winner” when they might have actually won a few bucks.
Who is too lazy to check their own numbers is probably too lazy to see if the clerk scanned it properly.
Now they have scanners to let you check yourself in stores.
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is....ebonix still taught...in certain....gubment skoos?
Gotta watch them profs. Had one complain his upright freezer wasn’t cold enough. He demonstrates this to me by opening the door, putting in a room-temp dial thermometer, closing the door for ten seconds, then opening the door, pointing to the thermo reading 50° and exlaiming “See?” And everything in there was frozen, rock-hard. Argh.
rofl
“I was at the checkout of a KMart.”
Why? Did you lose a bet or something?
Sheee-it, bro: da man be layin’ down de ebonics: why you axe ??
(Stewardess, I speak Ebonics. . . . ;) )
Where do these idiots come from? Are they really that stupid? No wonder K-Mart is closing there stores...
Really? "there" stores?
*snicker*
I answer the phones at a company that takes calls mostly from car dealerships and automotive service retailers. We help them through difficult technical issues they have with the repair of cars.
I am here to tell you... when it comes to people at retail automotive service shops and some of the individuals that consumers trust to work on their vehicles... long ago it got past being comical and is, quite honestly, downright scary.
McDonald's Staff: "Thank you for choosing McDonald's. Would you like to try an egg white delight?"
Carpool partner: "Yes, I would, without the egg, please."
I start laughing, right? I said, "You just ordered an egg sandwich?"
Carpool partner: "Yes."
Me: "Without the egg?"
CP: "Yes. It's too runny and bland without the egg yolk."
I just started laughing. She couldn't understand why.
Oh, the irony.
Whenever my kids get upset about some stupidity at the counter of a store, I tell them to be patient and understanding. There is a REASON this person is working behind the counter at the fast-food joint or department store at minimum wage. Trying to teach them some compassion, and also an example of “don’t grow up to be one of these”.
OTOH, other than new trainees, I don’t recall a single “bad/idiot” person behind the checkout counter of our local Safeway grocery store.
Back in California I got kicked out of a Taco Bell because the cashier accidentally gave me a $50 bill instead of a $5 for change. I tried to have her swap it for a $5 and she freaked saying I was trying to pul some sort of scam. The manager just treated me like some criminal teen and told me to leave so I did.
I figured that if they were going to insut me then I was going to keep the money with a clear conscience and I did.
I know. I’m still snickering about it. *grin*
I couldn’t find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands. “Now,” she asked me, “has your plane arrived yet?”
"Here's yor sign."
she is correct. perhaps you had yours written down and found it after hanging up. or you hung up, remembered it and wanted to continue using it. so this could just be a reflex answer. when i go through the drive thru and ask for a black coffee , sometimes the response is "do you want cream?" but i think it's just a response to asking for coffee.
My office phone number is apparently close to some pharmacy’s fax number, because about once a year, some doctor’s office’s fax machine calls my office phone. Then, we get to deal with all the “beep, beep” in our ears and the auto-redial of the fax machine. I always use the reverse phone number look-up and call them to tell them that they’ve misdialed with their fax machine, and that it’s not calling another fax machine, but a phone. They always ask, “what’s the correct number?”
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