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    Haivng just moved house and so on, I haven't had internet access for a while (can lech a bit of the neighbour's wifi, but it's really slow). We're waiting for a modem to arrive, it sure is taking its time. So here are the stories I would have posted earlier if I'd had access. (I'm at my parents' house, using their connection)


    (ph)owned

    The boss worked the night shift and told me this tale when I arrived at 8am. He suspected a particular car would do a drive-off, so he picked up one of the dummy mobile phones and pretended to call the cops on it. When the offender saw what he was doing, he hung up the pump and got in the car. He had some trouble starting the engine (probably because it was stolen - hotwiring can take time). My boss had time to get out onto the forecourt for a closer look at the car and driver. Driver tried to drive off, my boss threw the dummy phone at the car (it bounced off the roof), the car drove into a pallet of Pepsi cans out the front. The guy got away, but it made great viewing on the CCTV (and we got a great description of him).


    Why didn't you put a sign up?

    We had an electrical fault on one of the pumps, and so had out of order signs on it. SC turns up at that pump, takes the out of order signs off, throws them on the ground, and attempts to fill up. This sets off the electrical fault which trips a circuit breaker and cuts all power to the site. SC enters store and starts whinging about not being able to get fuel (he'd have tried the race card but he was whiter than I am, and I'm Polish-German-Irish). On being informed that his actions have cut power to the entire store and it will take a few minutes to reset the breakers and reboot the pumps and registers, SC asks why there was no out of order sign on the pump. Then ran away before hearing the answer.


    Wears the beef

    A drunk guy was seen staggering around outside with a hamburger on top of his head. After a few minutes a taxi picked him up.


    We got it all on UHF... I mean at edible_hat's convenience store

    Two country folk (for want of a better term) came into the store. The started pointing at things and saying "Oooh, look, they got pies! They got donuts! They got porn! They got toilet paper!" Eventually one said "They don't got hookers, but that's about all they don't got."


    On the serious side

    A drunk kid (looked around 19-20, but could have been underage, remember drinking age in Australia is 18) was hanging around askign people for spare change. He wandered into the store and stuck some packets of biscuits down his pants right in front of my co-worker. Co-worker yelled "he's shoplifting!", I called the police, he dropped the biscuits and ran off. I told the police what happened so far and not to bother sending a patrol since it was all dealt with... that turned out to be my mistake because he came back with an older guy (possibly his father) and started making threats against me and my co-worker. His father (or whoever) said "don't worry, I'll sort him out", shoved him into his car, and left. Later I found out that the father had followed my co-worker out to her car a couple of weeks before (if I'd known that I'd have called the cops again). My co-worker called another co-worker who lives around the corner, who came back to work to keep an eye on things and make sure we both were OK (she's awesome, always goes out of her way to help co-workers and non-sucky customers). We got a good description of them and their vehicle, and if they play up again the police will definitely become involved.


    Ice ice baby

    SC buys an Icee (our name for a slurpee/squishee/slush puppy), takes one long slurp, and complains about brain freeze. After she leaves, I express surprise that there was something there to freeze.


    It doesn't seem to work on dogs

    SCs tried to hose down their German shepard in the car wash. Suprisingly enough, the dog ran away (apparently it turned up again at dinner time)
    Last edited by edible_hat; 01-19-2008, 12:24 AM.

  • #2
    Quoth edible_hat View Post
    Why didn't you put a sign up?

    We had an electrical fault on one of the pumps, and so had out of order signs on it. SC turns up at that pump, takes the out of order signs off, throws them on the ground, and attempts to fill up. This sets off the electrical fault which trips a circuit breaker and cuts all power to the site. SC enters store and starts whinging about not being able to get fuel (he'd have tried the race card but he was whiter than I am, and I'm Polish-German-Irish). On being informed that his actions have cut power to the entire store and it will take a few minutes to reset the breakers and reboot the pumps and registers, SC asks why there was no out of order sign on the pump. Then ran away before hearing the answer.
    We get SC's like that all the time at the station I work at.
    If the pump locks up or goes down we can not fix it. We have to call the owner and he puts in a support request. It could be the same day or longer for them to come fix the problem. We put up signs on the pump thats down and place a garbage can infront of it too. Yet people still park infront of it with the garbage can between them and the pump. When informed that pump isnt working they get pissed off.

    Its liek they think garbage cans grow on blacktopped lots. LMAO
    Its really funny when all the pumps are down. They will drive around and around and then sit there looking at the door of the station and if we look out they will ask us if they can get gas....

    One day it was real busy and a customer pulled away before his gas was finished and the nozzle came out of the car instead of the breakaway breaking. There was about 2 gallons of gas all over infront of one pump. I grabbed a garbage can amd shoved it infront of that pump until I could go grab stuff to clean it up. This SC pulls up and moves the garbage can and pulls up to that pump. When I asked him what the heck he was doing, he told me he needed gas. I told him forget it, now that he moved the can he was going to track gas accross my lot and make more work for me. I told him to go up the road to another gas station. He got mad and asked how was he to know...

    Well umm the garbage can infront of the pump (about a foot out from it) and a big growing wet spot could be an indicator that we didnt want cars at that pump.
    Last edited by VenomX; 01-19-2008, 12:55 AM.

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    • #3
      <<Wears the beef

      A drunk guy was seen staggering around outside with a hamburger on top of his head. After a few minutes a taxi picked him up.>>
      You gotta almost wish this would happen more often!
      Last edited by Broomjockey; 01-27-2008, 06:39 AM. Reason: adding quote tags
      I was not hired to respond to those voices.

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      • #4
        Hmmm...how would a drunk person be able to BALANCE the burger on his head?
        "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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        • #5
          I swear SCs either ignore/pull off the Out of Order signs just so they can complain.
          At my last store I would do everything in my power to make sure it was clear that a pump was not working. I would put up neon pink signs, plastic bags over the nozzle, and a trash can in front of the pump. Even when the other 7 were available they would still pull up to the broken one, move the can and pull off the bag......
          Then when it doesn't work they always bitch about having to pull up to a different pump.

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          • #6
            Quoth Peppergirl View Post
            Hmmm...how would a drunk person be able to BALANCE the burger on his head?

            Ketchup, mustard and mayo all make great adhesives
            I used to be disgusted... Now I'm just amused

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            • #7
              Australia eh?

              Let me guess... Narre Warren? Werribee? Broadmeadows?

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              • #8
                Quoth Peppergirl View Post
                Hmmm...how would a drunk person be able to BALANCE the burger on his head?
                I don't know, I didn't see it. The guy who usually works Friday nights said he saw it.

                Quoth pyxee View Post
                I swear SCs either ignore/pull off the Out of Order signs just so they can complain.
                You may be right - yesterday I caught somebody pulling the out of order sign of the broken vacuum. He had 3 working ones to choose from but would rather lose money to an obviously broken one than move to one that works.


                Quoth DexX View Post
                Australia eh?

                Let me guess... Narre Warren? Werribee? Broadmeadows?
                Have a look at the location listed on my profile. (my store is almost in the part of town locally known as Boganville, which probably explains a lot of our SCs.)

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                • #9
                  Quoth edible_hat View Post
                  Wears the beef

                  A drunk guy was seen staggering around outside with a hamburger on top of his head. After a few minutes a taxi picked him up.
                  Huh, so somebody finally took him up on his offer to pay next Tuesday?

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