Blackout Madness!

[Sandiercy]

Today the power went out in the mall where I work. The power was out for many blocks around too. This brought out the stupid in people. It started 2 hrs into shift and lasted for 4 hrs. Not long enough to cause us to close for the day. I still got paid for the day though, just enough for us to keep the doors shut .

Cast:
Me: Awesome game store manager
SC: Various people

SC: *Comes to door and bangs on it*
Me: Sorry sir, we are closed because of the power outage.
SC: Are you guys open?
Me: Sorry but we are closed.

SC: *Comes to door*
Me: Sorry we are closed
SC: I just want to play some League of Legends
(We have computers for internet use)
Me: *turns around and walks away*

Seriously, THE POWER IS OUT!!! We do not have lights, computers, cash registers, etc. What makes you think that we might be open and what kind of person thinks that the internet and computers run on something other than electricity??? I knew SCs were stupid but this takes it to a whole new low.

[iPanda]

You're expected to have a self sustaining backup generator, silly

but no, seriously, closed means closed, it not just something that's being said for conversation eme

[retailworker7]

Some people are just stupid.

We had tornado sirens going off in our area one day. The MOD asked all the customers to follow the employees into the cooler. Most people listened and were thankful that the store was keeping them safe. One customer would not listen. He was in the store with his wife. The wife told the manager that her husband refused to listen. The wife was really scared and asked them manager to go get her husband. At this time there was an employee on duty who was a construction worker. He was a big guy. My boss was a little old guy. This employee grabbed my bosses name tag and told the guy he could either follow him to cooler immediately or he could be carried there. He shut up and got in the cooler.

A tornado did actually touch down on the other end of town that day. I was off when this happened but heard about it the next day. Apparently several customers went off on this guy for his behavior. He came in the next day and actually apologized to my co-worker for putting his life in danger.

[raudf]

You mean, computers and internets don't run on just magic smoke?! *ducks and runs away giggling*

At the repair center, after major storms or during them.. people would call still wanting the tech to come out and fix a product. The tech would call and ask if they had power... "Nope." Umm.. folks, can't fix products that run on electricity if there is no electricity. The only vans we had with generators were the lawn and garden ones.

And the prize for stupidest were the "refrigerator out" calls during storms.
Me: And when did the fridge stop working?
SC: When the power went out.
Me: Has the power come back on?
SC: No, so when can the tech come out?

[veniteangeli]

You should have plugged the computers into your ass. Customers expect us to pull everything else out of our asses, why not electricity?

[Merriweather]

You mean, computers and internets don't run on just magic smoke?! *ducks and runs away giggling*

Of course they do, haven't you ever noticed that whenever you see a large amount of smoke coming out of a computer, with or without fire, it usually quits working? That was the magic smoke escaping, someone obviously opened up the "box" and didn't get it shut tight again

[DGoddessChardonnay]

You should have plugged the computers into your ass. Customers expect us to pull everything else out of our asses, why not electricity?

Yeah, but that would be plain shitty, wouldn't it?

*ducks and runs for cover under the desk*

[dalesys]

Yeah, but that would be plain shitty, wouldn't it?

*ducks and runs for cover under the desk*

Electrishitty...

[downforit2008]

Maybe the stores can fix their generators to run on hot air. There'd be PLENTY of that coming from the complaining customers during a power outage!

In one power outage two months ago, I was telling customers that we are closed for a few hours until we can get the lights and the registers back on.
Me: I'm sorry, but we're closed until our registers and lights come back on.

Customer: Can't I just go inside and shop and WAIT for the registers to come back on?

Me:

People are just so stupid!!!

[bbbr]

At my old grocery store we used to routinely have people try to open the doors after we had closed for the night and locked them because they could see us pulling cash draws (took about 10 minutes along with setting the alarm in order to leave). The best was the night some fool had walked into the locked door (didn't budge) and believed that if he jumped at it instead, it would open... The locks held, the window wall shook and I almost dropped a stack of tills I was laughing so hard when he bounced into the ground.

Power failures were a special form of hell as we had no generator but corporate wouldn't let us lock the doors till it came back on. All sorts of questions as to why the register belts didn't work, coolers were covered, freezers tied shut and why the deli couldn't slice their order...

[PepperElf]

not only that but... with the ENTIRE BLOCK out... even if you had generators it wouldn't mean you could get online - cos the switches your cables go through could also be out.

[mikoyan29]

Maybe they thought you had one of those amulets that briefly restores power.

[Gonzo]

But I thought the internet was WIRELESS...

[RetailWorkhorse]

You mean, computers and internets don't run on just magic smoke?! *ducks and runs away giggling*

Nah, they run on bro-man tears and unicorn farts.

At my old grocery store we used to routinely have people try to open the doors after we had closed for the night and locked them because they could see us pulling cash draws

I had two idjits do that to me TONIGHT.

But I thought the internet was WIRELESS...

.....

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

What makes you think that we might be open and what kind of person thinks that the internet and computers run on something other than electricity??? I knew SCs were stupid but this takes it to a whole new low.

You mean that computers and the intar-webs aren't run on pixie farts and rainbows ejaculated by bunnies masturbating in mushroom rings?