But you're a girl... (Talk about the last straw)

[uknz76]

My girlfriend works in a camera / photo store, she told me a great story today that I had to post.

At the store they have a deal that if you buy a digital camera and $100 of pre-paid prints, they will take $100 off the price of the camera. Basically you can get $100 of vouchers for prints when you buy the camera. For warranty reasons though they can't just give the vouchers, they have to sell them and then reduce the camera price.
This seems like a pretty good deal to me, but...

SC: How much for the camera?
GF: $500 [She did tell me how much but I forgot so I am going with $500]
SC: Can I get a discount?
GF explains the deal above.
SC: So it's only $400?
GF: If you buy the prints.
SC: But I don't want the prints.
GF: Then it's $500
SC: You said $400!
GF: If you buy $100 of prints, I can sell the camera for $400
SC: But I don't want the prints.

To save space imagine this converstion repeating over and over and over (like the mummy hand in Buffy)

Eventually the SC decides to buy the camera sans prints.

GF: That will be $500 [no hidden sales tax here]
SC: No! $400, it's only $400. You said $400!
GF: [Getting really pissed off] Only if you buy the prints. Either way you pay $500 now.
SC: You're trying to cheat me! I want to speak to your manager!
GF: [Really, really pissed] I am the manager!
SC: But you're a girl...
GF: Buy the camera or get out, I have other customers to help.
SC: You can't speak to me like that.
GF: Next customer please.
SC: But... But...
Next Customer(C2): Get out of the way you silly little man, this lady has work to do.
SC looks like he is going to cry.
C2 to GF: I hope I haven't lost you any commission, but he was really irritating me.

C2 ended up with a great deal.
SC, well no-one really knows what happened to him, nobody cares either.

[Bright_Star]

That "but you're a girl" line would have made me toss the jerk out. He didn't hear what you're saying cause he only heard what he wanted to hear.

[Sliceanddice]

wait... so this sexiest pig is saying either A) theres no way a girl can do math B) theres no way a girl can remember that long C) Theres no way a girl can be in management or D) ALL OF THE ABOVE....

........ ok i am going to need a detailed discribtion, the town, some duck tape, a can of Dr.Pepper, 6.55 and some Tums..... lets see what he thinks of girls then...

[Marxfan]

By any chance did this customer come from the year 1952, step through a time portal, and end up in the year 2007? Just curious.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

"your wife is obviously hysteric so I'll talk to you, sir."
Cookies to whoever recognizes this line~

[XCashier]

Next Customer(C2): Get out of the way you silly little man, this lady has work to do.
SC looks like he is going to cry.
C2 to GF: I hope I haven't lost you any commission, but he was really irritating me.

Digital camera: $500
Vouchers for prints: $100
Discount from camera when buy vouchers: $100
Watching a Sucky customer get owned by a good customer: PRICELESS!

[queenbb]

futurama, i like chocolate chip plesae

i get the your a girl type thing all the time but more subtle because people dont want to come out and say that since i work in the automotive field.

i did get it once pretty blatantly when after talking to a guy about a part that we did not carry, he demanded to speak to a man so that he can talk to some one who would understand what he was talking about.

i get stuff like is this the auto dept *after i just said that it was
or my fave i have an S 10, thats a truck honey.

it was worse when i was a mechanic.

[Omi Maxwell]

"your wife is obviously hysteric so I'll talk to you, sir."
Cookies to whoever recognizes this line~

The Episode of Futurama where Fry sets off some tinfoil in the microwave and inadvertently sending the entire crew back in time. At this point, Professor Farnsworth and Leela are trying to buy a microwave but they don't exist yet so the sales clerk tries to sell them a sexist stove. Leela puts the hurt on him. This is also the same episode where Fry gets down and dirty with his own grandmother.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

"But you're a girl..."

Yes. You are absolutely correct. I AM a girl! Gold star for you! Hey, guess what? I'm better educated and I make more money than you do too! What do you think about that?

Asshole

[Shironu-Akaineko]

The Episode of Futurama where Fry sets off some tinfoil in the microwave and inadvertently sending the entire crew back in time. At this point, Professor Farnsworth and Leela are trying to buy a microwave but they don't exist yet so the sales clerk tries to sell them a sexist stove. Leela puts the hurt on him. This is also the same episode where Fry gets down and dirty with his own grandmother.

*the whole cookie jar* Here ya go!

[dalejrfan71]

You should have planted your foot in the guys ass & kicked him out of the store.

[Jester]

The owner and proprietor of the Waterfront Bar I work at, who makes sure the bar is involved in tons of events throughout the year and also that the bar is a major player in town is, of course, a woman.

The general manager of the Bar RW and I work at is not only a woman, but one younger than me, and only a bit older than RW. The Server Manager at the same place? A woman.

And you know what this guy who is secure in his masculinity calls these women to their face? "Boss."

I have gotten my ass beaten at air hockey by a girl.
I have gotten my ass beaten at pool by a girl.
My stepsister knows far more about automotive stuff than I do.
My girlfriend knows far more about computer stuff than I do.

Does any of this bother me? No. Why? Because I am not a sexist chauvinistic assclown.

By the way, every single one of the seven women mentioned in this post will happily kick your ass if you piss them off enough. And generally speaking, my money would be on the women.

Especially the first one, as she has a ton of loyal barflies that she has been supplying with booze for the last 20 years that would gladly help her kick someone's ass merely for the asking. She probably wouldn't even have to offer them a free round, either.

[Tigress]

"I used to work on those computers that had those big tape reels on them, honey..."

Yeah, they're called UNIVAC machines and used key cards for programs. The fact that you were born 3 decades before me does not impress me. And if you have so much more experience than me, why are you bringing me your computer to fix?

I've been playing with computers since I was 6. Back when the school computer lab used television sets as monitors. And I could already write simple programs. This was also my college major and I've been known as the technical guru in every office I've ever been in.

[powerboy]

It doesn't matter if a woman is helping me with whatever product in the store.

[lumlite]

Wait, wait, wait.

You mean women are holding jobs outside the home?
Instead of cooking, cleaning and taking care of the kids?
For serious?

Do their husbands know about this?





*Flees*