"I want a man to assist me"

[Wolfboy]

I was in a D.I.Y store a few nights ago when I saw a well dressed, middle aged woman in the laminated flooring section, she called over a female employee and the following conversation took place.

RW - Rude woman.
FE - Female employee.
YG - Young girl at the service desk.
MS - Male supervisor.


FE: Hello can I help you?
RW: Yes can I get one of the men to help me with this flooring? I just have a few questions.
FE: I easily can help you, what do you want to know?
RW: I just want a man to help me.
FE: I promise you I know just as much these men, (laughing) probably even more.
RW: I want a man to help me.
FE: I know a lot about flooring so theres no need....
RW: (Interrupting) Look I just want a man to help me.
FE: But I can....
RWCondescending) Noooooooo I want a maaaaaaaaaaan to help me.
FE: Very well. walks off towards the service desk.

A little while later as I’m going through the check-out I spot RW standing at the customer service desk drumming her fingers on the counter.

RWAngrily) Is someone actually going to come and help me?
YG: Im sorry but FE is the only person available at the moment.
RW: I told you I want a man to assist me.
YG: Well I’m afraid he’s with another customer at the moment.
RW: Sighs, rolls eyes.

Just as I’m finishing MS arrives.

MS: Can I help you with something?
RW: FINALLY, I need some help with laminated flooring.
MS: Okay what do you need?

She pulls out a piece of paper presumably with measurements written on it.

RW: I need to know how many packs of flooring I will need to cover this floorspace and I have to tell you the service in here is just terrible I’ve been waiting for assistance for 15 minuets.

First time I’ve ever heard of a customer refusing to let an employee serve them.

[Megg]

Am I bad for being happy she wasted 15 minutes being an idiot? How about for wishing it was 30 and she tripped over her new flooring and broke something right after it got installed? Yeah, that one's probably a tad over the line.

[Plaidman]

XD Too bad the supervisor didn't go to female employee and asked her how much it would be. That would have been great.

[EricKei]

The only person who was at fault for her wait was the cursetomer herself, NOT the store. She HAD help right away, and refused it for no good reason.

[Sheldonrs]

Kind of funny how she wanted someone WITH a dick while BEING one herself.

[Wolfboy]

Something else I should have pointed out is that I know from experience that D.I.Y store employees get asked to calculate these sorts of measurements at least once a week so the woman she refused to let serve her would have been guarantied to give her the info she wanted in the first place.

[ShadowTiger]

Am I bad for being happy she wasted 15 minutes being an idiot?

Honestly, .. flippin' ecstatic. The salespeople should've at least asked what the question was first and had been insistant about finding out, because they could've just shouted out a quick response. When the male salesperson gave a similar answer, (Hopefully an identical one.) the customer would've either felt relieved at the second opinion, or would've felt bad for having her time wasted when she could've settled on the first answer.

What a Fool...

[fireheart]

Gotta love people from both sexes who assume that because someone has breasts and works in a non-traditional role, that they are incapable of doing stuff that their male counterparts can do. Reverse for those with a penis as well

[Hobbs]

XD Too bad the supervisor didn't go to female employee and asked her how much it would be. That would have been great.

I woulda done that, Plaidman.

I get the reverse because I'm usually the only male (besides our LP) working at my store. Then I go off and show one of my female CW's how to do something b/c they're new and I've been doing this for a good 2 years.

[ShadowTiger]

I was in a "Michaels" store the other day, (The Craft store...) and some woman approached me, and said "Get me a woman!" I was quite surprised. I almost said "I'd possibly go out on a date with you if you gave me a chance," but instead: "Er, .. why, please?" "Because you don't know a thing about what I'm trying to do here." I just turned and walked away. I had already come straight from work, and had had enough.

[AccountingDrone]

I was in a "Michaels" store the other day, (The Craft store...) and some woman approached me, and said "Get me a woman!" I was quite surprised. I almost said "I'd possibly go out on a date with you if you gave me a chance," but instead: "Er, .. why, please?" "Because you don't know a thing about what I'm trying to do here." I just turned and walked away. I had already come straight from work, and had had enough.

My husband is quite good at sewing clothing, and many other crafts ... he just plain likes puttering around with projects while watching tv and beading, sewing and crocheting work nicely =)

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Kind of funny how she wanted someone WITH a dick while BEING one herself.

You know the old saying . . .

Birds of a feather flock together.

[Ree]

I was working in the deli a few years ago when we got a call from one of the meat shippers.
He asked for a butcher. They were all men. I asked if I could help him and he said he needed to talk to one of the guys.

I went and interrupted the guy who was spraying down the meat room, cleaning it.
He came out to the phone, asked, "Can I help you?"
He turned to me and asked, "Are we open on Monday?" (It was a civic holiday.) I said, "Yes we are...from 10-5.
He repeated into the phone, "Yes we are...from 10-5."
Then he hung up.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

You know, when a man does it, I just write him off as ignorant and move on.

When woman does it? That makes my head just about explode with rage. Because she should know better.

Well, I guess a man should know better, too, but you know what I mean.

She's probably basing the fact that she does not trust other women to be intelligent and competent because she's stupid and incompetent herself.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Good. She deserved to have to pay for something like that, if she's too damn stupid to even try to take care of it.

My husband says stuff like that to me as a joke. "Oh, you need to hang some curtains? Why don't you get your dad to do it?" He does this because my own mother, who was a high end mucky muck director of a large firm, and who stressed education and self sufficiency to me and my sister while growing up, said something similar to me...and she was not joking. And we got into a minor argument when I told her "you know what, Mom? I'm pretty sure dad holds a hammer with his hand. I dunno, you live with him, but I've never seen him hold one with his wang. So I think I can manage, because I have not one but TWO hands."

It wasnt' even anything big, I think it was hanging some Roman shades or something like that.

I mean,