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  • #16
    There's this one guy we have dubbed "Mr Sex Time" :/ Without getting into Fratching, he is not a native English speaker. Every time he comes in, he has to tell us that he is a "new wedded" and then goes into a long explanation about some sexual difficulty he and his wife are having. (Sorry, forgot to say we are a drugstore, so we do sell products for sexual difficulties as well as sexual pleasure.) Anyway, every single conversation starts with "I am new wedded and I want to have the sex time with my wife" ... and then proceeds into whatever particular difficulty they are having that week. I'm not even going to begin to squeak you all out with the numerous problems they have had in the past year :/

    So, to the SC part of the story. Our store closes at 10pm, every night. Has for 5 years. We close at 10pm, but on Saturday, the crew stays until midnight to put up the sale that starts Sunday (moving products around, tagging merchandise, etc.)

    Along about 11:30pm Saturday night, we are all busily working, counting down the minutes until we can go home - for some of us Saturday is an 11 hour shift. Mr Sex Time arrives and starts banging on the door. I tell him (through the door) we're closed. He keeps banging. I repeat, we're closed. He says ..... "No you are there! I can see you! I just need ONE thing!"

    I tell him one more time we are closed and pull out my phone to call the police. He starts yelling "I just need one thing!!!!!!!!!" I tell him I am calling the police, as he is trespassing (since we're a private company, closed, and I have all women working here that night at 11:30pm). He repeats several times "I just need one thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Then gives up and goes away.

    I completed the call to the police, because you can't be too careful. They show up within 5 minutes (it's a small town and evidently a slow Saturday night). They tell me I did the right thing and the next time he shows up after hours, they will "escort" him off the property.

    Sorry for the threadjack :/

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    • #17
      Quoth Teefies2 View Post
      I completed the call to the police, because you can't be too careful. They show up within 5 minutes (it's a small town and evidently a slow Saturday night). They tell me I did the right thing and the next time he shows up after hours, they will "escort" him off the property.
      You were right to do so, and I hope if Mr. Beyond Creepy shows up again he is perma-banned and turfed.

      I need a shower now...

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      • #18
        I keep telling you guys, the dude who does Retail is psychic.
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        • #19
          Not psychic; just experienced. He worked in retail himself. It just goes to show how universal the problems we talk about here are.
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          • #20
            Not sure where the person who only gets paid for 15 past closing lives, but in the United States, that is totally illegal if you're an hourly employee. You work, you get paid for the time under Federal law. Might be worth contacting your state / commonwealth department of labor.
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            • #21
              Quoth WishfulSpirit View Post
              Not sure where the person who only gets paid for 15 past closing lives, but in the United States, that is totally illegal if you're an hourly employee. You work, you get paid for the time under Federal law. Might be worth contacting your state / commonwealth department of labor.
              As has already been said, I live in the UK and it's perfectly legal. Normally, we're out the door by ten past, so it's not a problem unless there's an SC like the one described in my opening post.
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              • #22
                Quoth eltf177 View Post
                You were right to do so, and I hope if Mr. Beyond Creepy shows up again he is perma-banned and turfed.

                I need a shower now...
                He showed up again tonight .... 15 seconds after closing. I had locked one door and was closing the other to lock it. He starts running towards the door "I just need ONE thing!"

                I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Nope we're closed", locked the door, and the three of us RAN to the back of the store where the break room and lockers are

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                • #23
                  Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
                  As has already been said, I live in the UK and it's perfectly legal.
                  It may be legal, but I dunno that I'd call it "perfect."
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                  • #24
                    Quoth Teefies2 View Post
                    Mr Sex Time arrives and starts banging on the door. I tell him (through the door) we're closed. He keeps banging.
                    If he's banging on the door, he's definitely a pervert.
                    Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                    • #25
                      Quoth Teefies2 View Post
                      He showed up again tonight .... 15 seconds after closing. I had locked one door and was closing the other to lock it. He starts running towards the door "I just need ONE thing!"

                      I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Nope we're closed", locked the door, and the three of us RAN to the back of the store where the break room and lockers are
                      Go to the boss NAO and get this creep permabanned - the whole situation is beyond unsavory...

                      You mentioned the cops agreed with you - time to get them involved!

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                      • #26
                        Quoth wolfie View Post
                        If he's banging on the door, he's definitely a pervert.
                        I saw what you did there

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                        • #27
                          Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
                          This woman had the brass neck to show up two minutes before closing time. Gritting my teeth, I let her in cuz it's not closing time and we can't not let people in when it's not time to close. She takes about ten minutes filling her car to the brim, then comes in. Her card declines.
                          I've said it before 1,000 times, and I'll keep saying it 'til the day I die: Only a completely incompetent MORON runs a gas station on the "Pump First, Then Pay" method in this day and age! "Pay First, Then Pump" has been Standard Operating Procedure on the East Coast of the United States since AT LEAST the mid-to-late 1980s!

                          Sinceriously, worldwide, "Pay First, Then Pump" is a fuel station industry best practice. Your customers are a Captive Customer Base. If they want to operate their motor vehicles, they need the fuel you sell. If ALL the stations in your area adopt the industry's best practice en masse, the customers don't have to like it, because they'll be powerless to change it. It's like your boss WANTS to get ripped off!
                          Last edited by EricKei; 07-03-2016, 09:40 PM. Reason: snip
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                          • #28
                            Quoth Jack T. Chance View Post
                            I've said it before 1,000 times, and I'll keep saying it 'til the day I die: Only a completely incompetent MORON runs a gas station on the "Pump First, Then Pay" method in this day and age! ...It's like your boss WANTS to get ripped off!
                            I'm sure Lace has brought this up to her boss many times before, too. And when they lose enough money to drive-offs, they probably will change over. People don't like anything to change, even if it's inevitable.
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                            • #29
                              Quoth XCashier View Post
                              I'm sure Lace has brought this up to her boss many times before, too. And when they lose enough money to drive-offs, they probably will change over. People don't like anything to change, even if it's inevitable.
                              From the way Lace describes things they don't lose very much money from drive-offs. They seem to have a good relationship with the local constabulary force that goes after the drive-offs and collects their money for station, and some extra for themselves.

                              Of course in this case the woman did provide her details so making the collection was a lot easier.
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                              • #30
                                Most of the stations around here are pump first then pay, but then again I'm in Oregon where we're not allowed to pump our own gas. I'd say this is about the only time it really works. There are some stations where you have to go inside and pay before they'll pump your gas. The only time this gets really annoying is when the clerk wants you to tell them how much your car is going to take. Like I know. My car only has a 7.6 gallon tank and I don't let it get that empty. I usually put down $20, because no matter how expensive gas is that's usually enough to fill my car's tank. I drive a Geo Metro, and although it's 21 years old it's only got 121K on it and still runs very well. It's ugly (peeling racing stripes, a rust spot on the hood, faded paint) but I really don't care. People have offered me money for it, but never enough to pay for a replacement.

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