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Quoth manybellsdown View PostPeople would rather spend 15 minutes pitching a tantrum than 3 seconds fishing out their ID. Those people need a new goddamn hobby.
I used to volunteer at a convention I frequent, as Beer Troll. This was the essentially thankless job (although staff did thank me) of standing in front of the keg and getting ID from everyone before serving them alcohol. And I mean everyone, including the guys who looked 85 and had white beards, because that was con policy.
Most of the people were assholes about it if I carded them a second or third time, in which case I would snap something along the lines of "There are 1500 people at this convention, and 300 of them have come through my line since I saw you last. Take it as a compliment that I don't consider you ugly or annoying enough that I remember you." That usually shut them up.
Of course, the one who threw the tantrum about this was a 25-or-so-year-old woman who looked about 14. She started raging at me about how her boyfriend gets accused of being a pedophile everywhere she goes and how sick she was of that kind of treatment, and how dare I, argle blargle. Funnily enough, while he went to the car to get her ID, she sat and watched me card absolutely everyone who came up for alcohol, and got really, really quiet by the time I saw her ID and gave her her booze."Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages." - Terry Pratchett
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Wow...I'm so sorry any of that happened to you. I work in a convenience store, and i still don't get what is so bad about asking for ID...and SC 6 was out of line. you should have called the cops on that dude....yikes“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West
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Why do people get upset about being asked to show ID? One summer I worked as a bartender, and I QUICKLY learned to card ALL female customers, not just the ones who I wasn't sure were of age - the older they were, the bigger the tip I got.
Not just this thread, but it seems to be common for people to start swearing when asked for ID. Why doesn't some store put up a sign along the lines of "For each profanity used, we'll knock a year off the age shown on your ID"? Using U.S. booze sales as an example, person is 25 years old, but drops a half-dozen "F-bombs". Effective age 19 - no booze for you.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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