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  • Luthor The Terrible

    There is this guy I went to high school with his name is Luthor. Now Luthor is not the crispiest piece of chicken in the bucket if you know what I mean. He obviously has some issues which I will get to later.

    Luthor has applied to work at my store at least 2 times. The last time the GM at that time told me that she "Has no plans to hire him now or in the future". It seems that he has given up but every once in a while, he comes in to get some food for his mom and himself.

    He comes in tonight (or would it be last night?) and orders a mashed potato bowl and a couple other things. After he recieves his order he looks in the bag, sets it on the counter, has a conversation with a CW about tattoos then asks me if he ordered one mashed potato bowl or two. look at my screen and tell him that he ordered one and start to ask him if he wants another one rang up. Suddenly he starts hitting imself in the face and calling himself an idiot.

    When he finished his self abuse, he looked around the store laughed at what he did and walked out with his order.

    I am wondering if anyone else has any stories of customers beating themselves up because they asked for the wrong thing.
    Last edited by bedwards87; 07-07-2008, 05:41 AM.

  • #2
    Quoth bedwards87 View Post
    Now Luthor is not the crispiest piece of chicken in the bucket if you know what I mean.


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    • #3
      And I can verify the whole thing cause I also witnessed it myself. If he's not brain damaged already he will be by the time he gets done beating himself in the head, and meanwhile I will continue to step out of his line of sight and laugh just as hard as I did last night.

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      • #4
        Sounds like the guy has a disability of some sort. That sounds a lot like one of the symptoms of disorders in the autism spectrum. Self-injury isn't uncommon, though sometimes it can be lessened or corrected with the right kind of therapy.

        Poor guy. He needs help.
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        • #5
          Sounds like he's destined for mid-level management.. and I only wish I was kidding.
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          • #6
            That reminds me of a guy who used to work at my store. He quickly developed a reputation for just going off at random on coworkers or customers. Plus he worked extremely slow. Even at times when it was slow, he'd still have a line if he was working by himself.
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            • #7
              I forgot the best part of the story. He asked me what I was going to school for and I told him Political Science. When he asked me what I wanted to do with it I told him I wanted to be a politician.

              He proceeded to tell me that he was thinking of being a politician too. Now if the Howard Dean scream didn't get ya, imagine a candidate beating himself in the face on live tv.

              I can't stop laughing at the image. I know it isn't right to luagh at him but it is so easy.

              Lord i'm sorry about that. Be with all the starving pygmies in New Guinea.

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              • #8
                We've had some... interesting baggers at my store.

                The two worst, we'll stick to calling J and C.

                J worked extremely slowly. Mainly because she'd stand there reading each thing she bagged. As in, examining the nutrition information on a can of peanuts. She also moved slowly, even when not getting distracted like that. Occasionally she'd just zone out and stare at something for a bit without working, or stop bagging for a couple minutes while telling the customer about her cats. She really might as well have not been working, because she always needed someone else bagging with her to keep up, and she had to have similar help working the lot, too.

                C, on the other hand, isn't terminally slow, though she can't keep pace with most of the other baggers we have. She's just strange. First off, she never stops talking. She'll just wander from one subject to another the entire time she works with you, or make random small talk if there's nothing to say. And do the same to customers. And she has a very odd way of talking. It's hard to describe. First, her voice is totally androgynous. Second, she seemed to stress random syllables, and had an accent I could never place.

                But I'll try and describe. It was something like... "Wael, how ya DOO-in taday, miass! Oh, looks like ya got ya some ICE cream there, I bet ya kids LIKE that un!"

                ...it didn't help that she was large enough to make the job feel like an "It's Pat!" skit for the first month...
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                • #9
                  The grocery store I go to employs some special needs folks as baggers. They're nice, they may not be the fastest in the world but eh I'm never in that much of a hurry anyway. And it makes me feel a little better about the company - that they're trying to help out these folks by giving them jobs.
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                  • #10
                    Okay, am I the only one to consider both your reactions (both employees) to this guy's actions to be utterly rude and deplorable???? Do you normally go around laughing at people who obviously have mental issues? Is it fun to mock other people's misfortune?
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                    • #11
                      Yes.

                      If you don't believe me, watch a sitcom sometime, or SNL; hell, the news! There is no point in time where no one does not mock someone else's misfortunes.

                      Hear about all those rich people having to cut back on their spending because of gas prices and over all inflation? I feel *so* sorry for them! /end sarcasm.

                      See? I just did it.

                      Sometimes stuff is sad and funny at the same time. There's a reason Comedy and Tragedy go together.

                      The real question here is: Can you laugh at yourself as well?

                      "He looked around the store and laughed at what he did." Apparently, the subject in the OP could.....
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                      • #12
                        Quoth mharbourgirl View Post
                        Sounds like the guy has a disability of some sort. That sounds a lot like one of the symptoms of disorders in the autism spectrum.
                        That's what I was thinking as well. Obviously he's stable enough to go out on his own, but sounds like he has his bad moments as well. Maybe it's something that's been developing slowly over time?
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                        • #13
                          I feel sorry for the poor guy. He obviously needs professional help.

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                          • #14
                            It's all right to share stories about unusual customers. But in cases where it is clear that they have an actual disability or serious mental instability, it's not okay to laugh at them. They shouldn't be the subject of ridicule.

                            With that said, sometimes it's hard to know when someone is disabled or just flat-out weird. I'm going to give bedwards87 the benefit of the doubt and assume that they don't make a habit of picking on the less fortunate, and that they simply feel that this particular customer is more eccentric than handicapped.

                            Carry on, with the reminder to be respectful of those with mental challenges. Thanks.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth AdminAssistant View Post
                              The grocery store I go to employs some special needs folks as baggers. They're nice, they may not be the fastest in the world but eh I'm never in that much of a hurry anyway. And it makes me feel a little better about the company - that they're trying to help out these folks by giving them jobs.
                              I'm fairly certain neither of them were special needs. I talked to J enough at least. She could have a normal conversation, just her default mode was "out there." And C can function normally, her lack of speed is mainly due to constantly talking. It's pretty much the accent and random conversation that makes her odd.
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