No, I'm saying you should have put Radio Shack's nuts to the fire when a manager cussed you out.
The first thing I would have done upon returning home was hop on the web and do some employment law research and write some letters to be hand delivered to the offending manager and mailed to the district/regional/national management.
my posts here just scratch the surface, and you are not the first to tell me that I may have had a case and a half, but well, I was innocent, ignorant and intimidated, and I am not the suing type, so I just quit...on Christmas eve, and CC?d my letter to district management, peppered with words like harassment and abuse, this got no response and I found a new job on the 27th so I just sort of forgot about it and learned from the experience...if working for a scumbag and not suing him is my only mistake as a teenager, I think I am pretty lucky.
I actualy do sort of regret not suing, I just wonder what would have come of it? $$ for me or my good name dragged through the mud by an international corperation...
Man, I went to bestbuy last month to buy a new tv and was totally happy because the sales guy was quick, wasn't an uber tool and I was able to make my purchase and be out the door in under twenty minutes. Of course when I got home I realized the guy gave me the wrong tv. He didn't overcharge me or anything, but it was too much of a pain to bring back a large tv.
My biggest problem with retailers usually involves bags. I'm not a serious enviro guy or anything, but I refuse to take a bag if I don't really need it. Some people can just not comprehend this.
I'm the same way with bags. I'll say "No thanks, I don't need a bag" and you get the "do you have a mental disease?" look.
"Thanks for that giant bag, Mr. Worker, now I'll feel very secure carrying this Nintendo DS game case that's the size of a couple decks of cards."
Only crunchy granola stores like Whole Foods or Central Market actually seem to like it when i say that. Except if I'm buying wine to serve with dinner. Gotta wrap that up; you don't want a kid seeing a bottle of wine, he might turn into a mass-murdering sodomite on the spot.
I totally agree with the bag thing. I do it for both convenience and the environment, but the till-people just don't seem to understand my logic. I park up in town buy a magazine and walk back to my car, what the hell do I need a carrier bag for? Oh yeah, to advertise your well-known store.
I'm the same way with bags. I'll say "No thanks, I don't need a bag" and you get the "do you have a mental disease?" look.
"Thanks for that giant bag, Mr. Worker, now I'll feel very secure carrying this Nintendo DS game case that's the size of a couple decks of cards."
Only crunchy granola stores like Whole Foods or Central Market actually seem to like it when i say that. Except if I'm buying wine to serve with dinner. Gotta wrap that up; you don't want a kid seeing a bottle of wine, he might turn into a mass-murdering sodomite on the spot.
I love Central Market and Whole Foods.
Those are some of the most progressive retailers known to man.
I'm the same way with bags. I'll say "No thanks, I don't need a bag" and you get the "do you have a mental disease?" look.
"Thanks for that giant bag, Mr. Worker, now I'll feel very secure carrying this Nintendo DS game case that's the size of a couple decks of cards."
Only crunchy granola stores like Whole Foods or Central Market actually seem to like it when i say that. Except if I'm buying wine to serve with dinner. Gotta wrap that up; you don't want a kid seeing a bottle of wine, he might turn into a mass-murdering sodomite on the spot.
I also agree with the bag thing, but has anyone ever noticed the number and size of recipts these days? Blockbuster is the worst. Every time my wife and I go rent a movie they hand me no less than 3 recipts. Why? cant they consolidate these? Whats worse is there recipts are a foot long apiece. Has anyone else noticed this?
I also agree with the bag thing, but has anyone ever noticed the number and size of recipts these days? Blockbuster is the worst. Every time my wife and I go rent a movie they hand me no less than 3 recipts. Why? cant they consolidate these? Whats worse is there recipts are a foot long apiece. Has anyone else noticed this?
CompUSA/BesBuy give you foot-long receipts too. Bastards.
I used to work retail management. It was shitty work. We had some crappy people in our store, but my hands were tied, my boss would not let me fire them. If someone quit and put us down as a reference elsewhere, we could not give an sort of qualitative answer (good or bad) for fear of a law suit. If I had a crappy customer (no, in my book the customer is not always right), and I put them out of the store it was my ass that got lashed, with no way of getting my side presented. Our jobs were dependent on the percentage of discount membership cards sold. So, if you had a person with 4 sales and 1 membership, they were safe. Whereas, someone with 1000 sales and 50 memberships was not. Corporate retail pretty much sucks across the board. The people that inhabit it are mixed bag like all people, some are cool and others just suck. Guess what, they suck outside the workplace also. However, none of this is an excuse for poor behavior towards a customer, but if a customer is a jackass they deserve to treated as such.
I love it when they ask me for my phone number and I turn around and ask them if I can have theirs first. 9 times out of 10 they instinctively say "No!" and I say well, there's your answer. Then they just give me some kinda deer in the headlights look, then it finally dawns on them that maybe asking for a phone number isn't the best idea. They still ask, and I give them "555-1212". If they don't like it, tough.
I also give my ZIP as 12345 if they ask for that too.
I just hate the fact that some snot-nosed register jockey feels like they can prod me for personal info. Bugs the crap outa me. Yea, my ZIP is no big deal (heck for most larger purchases I'm using my debit card, not like there isn't any personal info tied to that number!) I just hate the fact that all these people just feel entitled to this info and they're gonna hold up my ability to pay and leave the store until they feel satisfied (I had a cashier refuse my 12345 ZIP and wouldn't ring me up until I gave her my 'real' ZIP code ).
I don't mind giving a zip code. From what I understand, they ask for a zip code to find out where their customers come from. If there's a massive amount of customers from far away, corporate would consider building a store there.
Hence, the more your zip code is used, the more likely it is to get a new or relocated store near you.
I don't mind giving a zip code. From what I understand, they ask for a zip code to find out where their customers come from. If there's a massive amount of customers from far away, corporate would consider building a store there.
Hence, the more your zip code is used, the more likely it is to get a new or relocated store near you.
Just what I want, another googol-plex even closer to my home. Actually, I live about 15 minutes away from the nearest googol-plex so I don't think they could get any closer.
Mumble, laugh loudly for no obvious reason and flail your arms wildy over your head when you approach the checkout. Noone will talk you. Especially if you are buying condoms.
Mumble, laugh loudly for no obvious reason and flail your arms wildy over your head when you approach the checkout. Noone will talk you. Especially if you are buying condoms.
The "buying condoms" part works particularly well at Best Buy.
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Originally posted by groverat
No, I'm saying you should have put Radio Shack's nuts to the fire when a manager cussed you out.
The first thing I would have done upon returning home was hop on the web and do some employment law research and write some letters to be hand delivered to the offending manager and mailed to the district/regional/national management.
my posts here just scratch the surface, and you are not the first to tell me that I may have had a case and a half, but well, I was innocent, ignorant and intimidated, and I am not the suing type, so I just quit...on Christmas eve, and CC?d my letter to district management, peppered with words like harassment and abuse, this got no response and I found a new job on the 27th so I just sort of forgot about it and learned from the experience...if working for a scumbag and not suing him is my only mistake as a teenager, I think I am pretty lucky.
Originally posted by groverat
I'm not lecturing you, just saying.
I actualy do sort of regret not suing, I just wonder what would have come of it? $$ for me or my good name dragged through the mud by an international corperation...
My biggest problem with retailers usually involves bags. I'm not a serious enviro guy or anything, but I refuse to take a bag if I don't really need it. Some people can just not comprehend this.
"Thanks for that giant bag, Mr. Worker, now I'll feel very secure carrying this Nintendo DS game case that's the size of a couple decks of cards."
Only crunchy granola stores like Whole Foods or Central Market actually seem to like it when i say that. Except if I'm buying wine to serve with dinner. Gotta wrap that up; you don't want a kid seeing a bottle of wine, he might turn into a mass-murdering sodomite on the spot.
Originally posted by groverat
I'm the same way with bags. I'll say "No thanks, I don't need a bag" and you get the "do you have a mental disease?" look.
"Thanks for that giant bag, Mr. Worker, now I'll feel very secure carrying this Nintendo DS game case that's the size of a couple decks of cards."
Only crunchy granola stores like Whole Foods or Central Market actually seem to like it when i say that. Except if I'm buying wine to serve with dinner. Gotta wrap that up; you don't want a kid seeing a bottle of wine, he might turn into a mass-murdering sodomite on the spot.
I love Central Market and Whole Foods.
Those are some of the most progressive retailers known to man.
Fellows
Originally posted by groverat
I'm the same way with bags. I'll say "No thanks, I don't need a bag" and you get the "do you have a mental disease?" look.
"Thanks for that giant bag, Mr. Worker, now I'll feel very secure carrying this Nintendo DS game case that's the size of a couple decks of cards."
Only crunchy granola stores like Whole Foods or Central Market actually seem to like it when i say that. Except if I'm buying wine to serve with dinner. Gotta wrap that up; you don't want a kid seeing a bottle of wine, he might turn into a mass-murdering sodomite on the spot.
I also agree with the bag thing, but has anyone ever noticed the number and size of recipts these days? Blockbuster is the worst. Every time my wife and I go rent a movie they hand me no less than 3 recipts. Why? cant they consolidate these? Whats worse is there recipts are a foot long apiece. Has anyone else noticed this?
Originally posted by Playmaker
I also agree with the bag thing, but has anyone ever noticed the number and size of recipts these days? Blockbuster is the worst. Every time my wife and I go rent a movie they hand me no less than 3 recipts. Why? cant they consolidate these? Whats worse is there recipts are a foot long apiece. Has anyone else noticed this?
CompUSA/BesBuy give you foot-long receipts too. Bastards.
I also give my ZIP as 12345 if they ask for that too.
You can know my ZIP, I don't care.
Originally posted by groverat
I always make up phone numbers that sound right.
You can know my ZIP, I don't care.
I just hate the fact that some snot-nosed register jockey feels like they can prod me for personal info. Bugs the crap outa me. Yea, my ZIP is no big deal (heck for most larger purchases I'm using my debit card, not like there isn't any personal info tied to that number!) I just hate the fact that all these people just feel entitled to this info and they're gonna hold up my ability to pay and leave the store until they feel satisfied (I had a cashier refuse my 12345 ZIP and wouldn't ring me up until I gave her my 'real' ZIP code
Hence, the more your zip code is used, the more likely it is to get a new or relocated store near you.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
I don't mind giving a zip code. From what I understand, they ask for a zip code to find out where their customers come from. If there's a massive amount of customers from far away, corporate would consider building a store there.
Hence, the more your zip code is used, the more likely it is to get a new or relocated store near you.
Just what I want, another googol-plex even closer to my home.
Originally posted by groverat
I always make up phone numbers that sound right.
You can know my ZIP, I don't care.
I just give them the number to United Airlines at LAX.
UH, ER, at least I will from now on. Those Bastards.
Originally posted by Mac on a Mac
Mumble, laugh loudly for no obvious reason and flail your arms wildy over your head when you approach the checkout. Noone will talk you. Especially if you are buying condoms.
The "buying condoms" part works particularly well at Best Buy.
Originally posted by addabox
The "buying condoms" part works particularly well at Best Buy.
Hee hee, "Can I get a price check? *mumbles to self* I didn't know we sold these?!?"