CC Suck, Gas Coupon Suck, And Other Suck!

[Victory Sabre]

Oh, my, what a day. I need lots of alcohol (Mangria and beer) to deal with it.

My day starts out on the wrong foot listening to the radio. I got annoyed with the news. I start yelling at the radio (it deals with politics, so not saying why here). Turn off said radio, and crank Uncle Ted up high to cheer me up. It really helped.

Ok to the main SC suck.

Gas coupon?

I'm in the office dealing with a lottery mess when a raging hosebeast comes in and asks Lazy Ass, in a very rude snotty tone "Do you take competitor gas coupons?" He informs her we do not. She starts raging, and wants to know why. LA asks me, and I told him to tell her that we've NEVER taken other store's gas coupons. She leaves pissed. Sorry hosebeast, I'm not going to cut our minimal margin even further by taking other stations gas coupons. Now if she would have gone next door to the restaurant, ordered $10 worth of food, she would have gotten a 5 cent off per gallon coupon that we do take, which we put out there.

CC Suck.

Idiot bus driver from <Stupid bus company> comes in to fill up on diesel. He swipes his card at the pump, then has problems. His card wasn't working at the pump. We let him fill up then tell him to come in and try his card at the till, which he does, and his card doesn't work inside either. We try again when I get over there, and it won't take, so I have to call the CC company and find out what's wrong. When I call I find out the problem - he was entering the wrong driver code and the CC locked out. When I told him this he was bitching about how he was entering his code. No idiot, that ISN'T your code. CC company told me as much. He calls dispatch and gets the right code, all while bitching about how he entered the right code. Right code is entered and he goes on his way.

It scares me that he's so stupid, and yet he drives kids to school and back.

Other issues -

Tried to settle a lottery game and couldn't find the slip. Call lottery and get the pack settled. A bit later I find the slip - I was looking in the wrong folder.

A shake for a delivery tipped over in the cooler. I had to make a new shake.

Mr. Shits in pants came in. He's a morbidly obese guy who likes to ask us to wash our windows for money. I tell him the same thing as I do every time NO! He got his name because one time 6 years ago, he destroyed our mens room. It took me a half hour to clean it (I popped open a beer after, which was 11 in the morning). He also used to beg for money for a walk a thon.

With all the insanity, it took almost 4 hours to eat my lunch. Kept getting interrupted with insanity.

EDIT -
A repressed memory from today came back to me.
A customer was in the restaurant, and asked about the soups, what they were. We had Chicken Noodle or Hamburger Vegetable. He asked if we still had some Chicken Rice left. That threw me completely off. I answered that we have CN. He AGAIN asks if we have any Chicken Rice left. We haven't had Chicken Rice in weeks.
So that's my day. How was yours?

[Peppergirl]

People like the idiot bus driver KILL me. I mean, come on. THEY fuck up, you PROVE it's their fuckup, yet they continue to behave badly, and worse even.

Is it embarrassment? Entitlement? Or just general douchebaggery? .

[EricKei]

Competitor coupons -- It's been a looooong time since I've heard of stores doing that as a matter of course. It's a FAVOR they do in order to try to get you to shop with them and ONLY with them. It's not something that should be "expected", especially on something with a margin as low as auto gas (or (new) video games)...One of the pizza chains (dots-on-playing-pieces) does that, or used to, but I suspect they've learned their lesson by now.

Hamburger soup? Sounds nummy. ^_^

Pepper - I'm voting for douchebaggery.

[smileyeagle1021]

When I saw the title about the gas coupons I was terrified that you worked across the street from me and my customers were doing their old tricks.
We have a promotion, that if you earn enough tier points on your players card in one day (and dear God, the shitstorm we get even between the employees on what the meaning of a day is, whether it is a rolling 24 hour period, whether it is a calendar date, or whether it is a casino date, which isn't the same as the calendar day) and you can get a dollar off per gallon. It is printed on the promotion, must be redeemed at players club... yet we get the calls from the gas station asking how they are supposed to look up the information from the club card to redeem the offer (umm, you don't, you politely tell the guest they are stupid and need to learn how to read and send them back over here). It says on the promotion and we explicitly tell them, must present discount voucher to the cashier BEFORE they begin filling... yet every day I field a rage filled call about how they lost their discount because the cashier wouldn't adjust the charges after they were done filling.