Fire Exit =\= Bathroom

[D_Marx]

So, my store was doing some Summer renovations to update the look and whatnot, and the store had shut down one of the bathrooms to clean things up. Well, there's a huge shell covering the entrances, several bright yellow/green pages describing where people are to go, and a fire exit just rests there to the right. It's clearly labeled with the usual signs, words, whatever.

Would you believe that people were walking through this area and misinterpreting the door as the actual bathroom and setting off the fire alarm several times? The best one was an older gentleman--a local--opening the door one Saturday afternoon. . . "Sir? SIR. Sir!"

He looks over, shocked.

"You can't go in there."

He looks up for the bathroom sign, not overhead so he has to look, and says, "It says Bathroom."

"The bathrooms are closed. You have to go to the back of the store to those bathrooms."

"It doesn't say anything about that." I facepalm visibly because I can't help it, and I say something like, "How'd you miss the bright signs?" and my boss states my point with more finesse.

The guy, bewildered, starts walking back, and not five seconds out of earshot, we all burst into laughter.

[LillFilly]

It's like the people that step over the wet floor signs and slip in the puddle of water. I think the part of their brains involved with self-preservation and common sense just...blanked-out.

[ta2ooed1]

Quoth LillFilly

It's like the people that step over the wet floor signs and slip in the puddle of water. I think the part of their brains involved with self-preservation and common sense just...don't work.

Fixed that for ya

[D_Marx]

I've not seen that happen yet, but people are so secure with their own ways that they completely forget that slippery things are slippery. Blocked off things are blocked off.

I had a customer's kid barf on my conveyor without my noticing, and when I picked up the bag of chicken nuggets I was like, "What IS this?" and they said nothing. Then I ToUCHed it and tried to figure out what the hell was going on. Only after I did this did they tell me and I freaked out and began cleaning like crazy. They told me it was just vomit and I told them, "People put clothes and raw items on this belt, tell me again."

[mattm04]

Just like with sale signs, they see the word "SALE" and assuming everything is on sale. The Cust. saw "RESTROOMS" and stopped reading form that point on.

Recently some creature flush a bunch of stuff down the toilet in our Men's custoemr restroom. This clogged the lie for the custoemr restrooms on the sales floor. we printed up signs that said "RESTROOMS CLOSED, use restrooms located <location>" and put in the location of the employee/handicap restrooms. Well they forgot to lock the doors, so SC's woudl go i use the restroom and they flush it have have it overflow and complain. One SC said to me "I saw the sign, but I didn't know it applied to Customers:"

We printed more signs and placed them all over the door and handle and locked the door. The sign over the handle kept getting ripped off with SC's whining that we had no restrooms. Uh, read the rest of the sign that tell you we do and the location.

[PepperElf]

at least he didn't actually um... *go* in the fire exit...

[D_Marx]

Actually, tons of people set off the fire alarms that week. Just kind of sucked for a while, especially when cashiering puts you in a trance at times. ^_^.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Quoth D_Marx

I had a customer's kid barf on my conveyor without my noticing, and when I picked up the bag of chicken nuggets I was like, "What IS this?" and they said nothing. Then I ToUCHed it and tried to figure out what the hell was going on. Only after I did this did they tell me and I freaked out and began cleaning like crazy. They told me it was just vomit and I told them, "People put clothes and raw items on this belt, tell me again."

What the hell? When the kid pukes at home does she just leave it there? Ew.