The Nice Asshole

[AdamAnt316]

I was working at Staples, minding my own business, when a customer approaches me holding a couple of HP cartridges...

SC: Thinks I care where he shops
Me: Your local RAM chip jockey

SC: Do you still have a recycling policy for ink cartridges?
Me: Yes, but it's changed. Instead of getting a $3 coupon, you now get the $3 back on your Staples Rewards card.
SC: I don't have a rewards card.
Me: Well, it's free to sign up-
SC: I have enough cards already.

He then proceeds to put back the cartridges and starts to walk out!

SC: I'll take my business to your competition instead!
Me:

After he'd left, the main cashier, who'd been watching the whole incident, remarked, "Well, he wasn't nice!" The other tech on duty, who'd been working on a computer when it happened, then said, "He was an asshole, even if he was smiling."

He wasn't overly nasty, just decided to make a bit of a show due to not getting his precious $3 coupon. 'Course, the inks he was buying were HP 02s, and (IIRC) our main competition in the area doesn't treat those the same as other cartridges you bring in for their recycle policy, so I'm fairly certain he didn't do any better over there.

[Triscuitty]

I LOVED it when snotty customers informed me they wouldn't be shopping at my store anymore for some trivial reason. More than once I replied with "Promise?!"

[powerboy]

Well at OfficeMax, it used to be policy for anyone returning ink. To get a free ream of OfficeMax Copy Paper. That was a nice thing. Then one day, they changed it. Was I mad, hell yeah. Did I make a scene, hell no.

[marasbaras]

I liked that policy at OfficeMax.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

I LOVED it when snotty customers informed me they wouldn't be shopping at my store anymore for some trivial reason. More than once I replied with "Promise?!"

I had a people greeter tell me they told a customer something like "so that means i'll see you tomorrow?" when they said they'd never be back

[Boochan]

No incentive for cartridge recycling here.
Our collection box is actually sitting out the back because people kept on throwing rubbish and other waste in there

[Alpha Strike]

No incentive for cartridge recycling here.
Our collection box is actually sitting out the back because people kept on throwing rubbish and other waste in there

The fact that people need an incentive, such as payment or freebies, in order to recycle is very telling. Why I don't want to make sweeping generalizations based on one trend, it's sad that people need to be given something in order to perform actions that benefit everyone.

[fish3k1]

I LOVED it when snotty customers informed me they wouldn't be shopping at my store anymore for some trivial reason. More than once I replied with "Promise?!"

I'd love to pull a Randall Graves, and run after them to the door after they leave and yell "You can't shop/rent/eat (delete as applicable) here any more!"

Know what you mean about recycling. It sucks that people need an incentive, and it certainly explains a lot about the state of the environment in the general "Western" world.

[Triscuitty]

I'd love to pull a Randall Graves, and run after them to the door after they leave and yell "You can't shop/rent/eat (delete as applicable) here any more!"

Oh man, that movie was like my BIBLE. <3 I had sooo many opportunities to do the whole "throwing the car keys in the trash" bit, too, but I never did. (I did do that to one particularly awful lady's cell phone, though...hey she shouldn't have left it on the counter!)

[Slytovhand]

The fact that people need an incentive, such as payment or freebies, in order to recycle is very telling. Why I don't want to make sweeping generalizations based on one trend, it's sad that people need to be given something in order to perform actions that benefit everyone.

Thread-jacking - but still.....

Yeah - I get annoyed here at work, and even went off at one of my co-workers, because it was too much effort for him to walk the 20 meters to put the coke can in the recycle bin...grrrrrr!Why is the planet dying? Because it just takes too much effort to do anything about it....

/jack

[DesignFox]

I had sooo many opportunities to do the whole "throwing the car keys in the trash" bit, too, but I never did. (I did do that to one particularly awful lady's cell phone, though...hey she shouldn't have left it on the counter!)

I was very tempted to do that to a customer at one of my old photography jobs...

But, I graciously returned the phone when the snooty-jerk sent her daughter in to get it.

Our store was near the dumpsters in the mall...Had I been feeling a bit more vindictive she never would have seen that phone again. I just couldn't bring myself to actually do it, though.

On the topic at hand, I love when people tell me they are never coming back, especially when it is over a stupid discount. Um...ok...whatever.

[FuzzyKitten99]

I liked that policy at OfficeMax.

I don't know how long ago that was, but now we do a $3/cartridge towards any purchase, max of 5 cartridges for a total of $15, but your subtotal before tax must be at least equal to your cartridge credit. And we only recycle HP, Lexmark, & Dell.