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Irony
I came in, only day this month I've come in, and in my first minute on the job, I met this guy.
Mind you, I haven't done this for months, and I'd just learned what to look for to tell if a motor needs straight gas, or premixed gas (gas with oil mixed in) when I'd left.
Me: *walking to the pump* What kind of gas do you need?
Guy: Oh come on! You know this! It's premix! Regular... Premix.
Me: Do you put oil in the boat?
Guy: *scoffs* No!
Me: Alright. Premix it is.
Later, one of my co-workers asked me if I put regular gas in it, because the type of boat it was needed regular gas. Thankfully all it would do was smoke a bit as it burned off the excess oil.
Low-balling
We sell things online, which is the main focus during the winter season. We have it set up so you can offer your own price, as an alternative to our own.
We had a part out for $40.
A guy offers $10. After a chuckle, we counter. $30.
He counters $20. We tell him $28 is the lowest we can go. He then informs us he can get the part for $18 elsewhere. We still decline his offer, since we know for a fact this isn't true. (We tend to under-cut our prices, finding the cheapest and knocking a percentage off of it.)
Then, because he had run out of Best Offers, he logged into a different account, and offered $27.
To avoid trouble we rejected it, as we were expecting a 'but you saaaaaid' email.
Bonus suck: Coworker edition
I got two new co-workers. One started this week, so I haven't quite met him yet. I haven't heard good news though.
There was an oil spill. Our senior co-worker--both figuratively and literally--said it was the new guy. My boss waited for the guy to fess up. He didn't.
When my boss confronted him about it, asking him if he knew who did it, he tried to pin it on our senior mechanic. The one who said he did it. My boss let it go. Then, when he went through the procedure to clean it up, the guy never offered to help. He stared and watched.
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