Drug store follies

[Teefies2]

Not wanting to derail anyone else's "ruined Christmas" thread, I post the following for your enjoyment:

The scene: Christmas Day 2016
Our story begins:

I work in a drug store. We were open today, of course, even though the pharmacy part of our store was not (what???). I’m in a small town, and Walmart was closed, so other than 2 gas stations, we were the only place open. No, it wasn’t busy, why do you ask? LOL

Some of the crazy requests I got today …. charcol (for the grill), all kinds of liquor (nope, we do have beer and wine though), and the one I have NEVER heard in almost 40 years of retail …… (remember, this is a drug store)


POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I told him no, he asked me if I had any at home I could get for him. WTH?????

Grateful to have survived yet another Holiday Season

[Foxbite]

That's ridiculous! Who asks people working at a store to go get them food from home?!

[Teefies2]

That's ridiculous! Who asks people working at a store to go get them food from home?!

Entitled a**holes that's who! Since you know we are mere slaves/robots and don't have any feelings/a life.

[Trixie]

A few years ago I was asked if we had canned asparagus, no we don't. And that was the standard by which we judged the stupidity of a request. But this year topped everything. My coworker had requests for ground sausage or fresh thyme. But then she got the request that probably tops them all for us...ham or turkey. The big one you cook for dinner. Yeah, should've thought of that ya know before 10 am on Christmas Day.

But the potatoes, from home no less, yeah that a special kind of suck right there.

She also had a request for a carbon monoxide detector. Uh, no? At least the "Oh so sorry you have to work" people were pretty few this year. But I think the secret that we and our 3 letter competitor are open is blown out of the water because we were pretty busy from the time I came in at 8 am. We used to have at least a few hours of quiet.

[Rosco the Iroc]

Some of the crazy requests I got today …. charcol (for the grill),

POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I told him no, he asked me if I had any at home I could get for him. WTH?????

Grateful to have survived yet another Holiday Season

It's how I do my roast. But I made sure I had it by Friday.

I guess he can't go full potato if he doesn't have any.

[Sparklyturtle]

It was like the time I was standing in line to get a prescription and overheard a woman berating the front cashier because the drug store didn't carry fresh vegetables. He told her that the Safeway that was just a few doors down should have everything she needed, and he was way more polite than I would have been.

[sirwired]

Ok, the charcoal I could sorta understand... A long shot, but not totally off the wall. And maybe the liquor too, if they were from out of town and didn't know it's only sold at ABC stores. But potatoes? And asking you to get some from home? Cray-cray

[wordgirl]

I never saw any harm in asking (or better yet, looking around for your own damn self) but people who want a lengthy dialogue with someone trying to wait on 7 different customers at once are purely annoying.

I've had to assemble semi-festive meals from very limited ingredients at the last minute, but you have to accept the limitations you're working with and have fun with it.

[Sulhythal]

Wow, That...ugh. That's the result of the whole "Do everything to make the customer happy" line of preaching. They (the customers) expect you to literally hand over your own possessions to appease the Almighty Customer.

[Lace Neil Singer]

We've had people coming into the petrol station on Christmas Eve and asking us if we stock turkeys. When the answer "no" is given, we are usually treated to a rant about how the supermarket has run out so therefore we MUST have some!

Here's a thought. The supermarket does a free ordering service for Christmas food. Why not get off your fat lazy arse and order your turkey in advance, rather than charging in one hour to closing on Christmas Eve when the supermarket has sold all the turkeys?

[wolfie]

Of course you have turkeys - the customers who show up an hour before closing on Christmas Eve expecting a gas station to have a major component of Christmas dinner for sale.

Note that even if the supermarket HAD turkeys in stock, they'd probably be frozen, and there wouldn't be enough time to thaw it by a SAFE method and then cook it in time for Christmas dinner.

[XCashier]

That's ridiculous! Who asks people working at a store to go get them food from home?!

Just when you think the SCs have hit rock bottom, they break out the dynamite and jackhammers and keep digging.

[KnittedPuppy]

I've had someone demand to borrow my glasses before, because they forgot their's. Never been asked to get anything from home though. That is rather mental, I can't work out how they can think that's a reasonable request.

[Trixie]

If it was near the end of my shift (or earlier depending on the day) I'd be tempted to say I'd get them what they wanted and just leave. I'm sure there would be a badly spelled email the next day but it would be worth it.

[Teefies2]

If it was near the end of my shift (or earlier depending on the day) I'd be tempted to say I'd get them what they wanted and just leave. I'm sure there would be a badly spelled email the next day but it would be worth it.

LOL Trixie, that's so true.

But the thing is, if we do that (even with the badly spelled email to corporate), it would set a precedent ....

"Well Teefies2 did it for me last year!" "Really?" "Well she said she was going to, but never came back, and I never got my potatoes and you still owe me for that, so now YOU have to do it!!!!! And DON'T forget last year's POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"