Why must you torture me so?

[DaDairyDruid]

So today, while working on one of the busier days of the Year. I found a pamphlet. The exact nature of the pamphlet is immateriel and could lead to fratching. The point is that within seconds of finding 1 I found another, and another. Basically every 2-3 feet where ever there was a flat surface, there was one of these stupid pamphlets.

I realize you thought you were doing something good, but in Reality you were LITTERING! NOONE was going to actually read your stupid pamphlet. It was going to end up on the floor and WE have to pick them up and toss them.

Thanks for wasting my time Jerkwad.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

We see that kind of littering at my store too. I don't know where they come from, but it just creates more mess for us to have to deal with on top of all the other stuff we encounter on a daily basis.

At one former store I worked at, it was a daily occurance to find those types of pamphlets scattered about near the beer case, the wine department or in the restroom stalls.

We never have been able to catch one person in the act of leaving those things. Not once.

[One-Fang]

Seek out the opposite side of whatever their particular cause is. Go get some pamphlets. Visit the offices of the first lot, and drop a lot of the competing pamphlets there.

[elsporko]

I had a choir group come through a historic town I worked at. The next day we found tons of religious pathlets in the children's display. Hey I wonder who left those ya jerks.

[StanFlouride]

Once a year we have a group of about 30 people that comes to my neighborhood, the Haight Ashbury, to save us (from something that happened here 42 years ago and has long been replaced by boutique capitalism).
They have banners and amplified music and set up on the corner about 50 feet from my front door.
I don't mind, especially if I'm not home and don't have to listen, but every year when they ask to talk to me and offer me a tract I politely decline and ask them when they're finished for the day to walk a half block in each direction and pick up their discarded literature.
I've been asking for more than 10 years with no luck.
I thought their Book tells them that they are stewards of the earth.

[RootedPhoenix]

Wow, looks like somebody has missed the distinction between 'sharing information' and 'being a total nutbar'.

I hate it when people do that.

[LillFilly]

AAAHHH! I've found those in my place of work too! Surprising places too, like the tp holder in the restroom, the edge of the framed signs at the entrances, tucked in the edges of the mail boxes. And never. Have we seen. Who. Does. It.

Drives us nuts; it's spam that kills trees.

[Blade_Raver]

Hey DairyDruid... I'm in StL.. does this happen more often?

I'd gladly come to your store and try to find the culprit for ya and give him/her a piece of your mind for ya.

Let me know what ya think,

Blade_Raver

[Gravekeeper]

Pamphlets should never be given. Only taken.

If I am interested in your service, product or deity I shall take a pamphlet from its place of rest of my own accord.

If I am not interested in your service, product or deity do not come over to me and attempt to give me a pamphlet.

Because I will say "Oh, thank you!" than blow my nose with it.

Though if I have learned something from several years of Buddhism its that no one will try to give you a pamphlet if you tell them you're Buddhist. They look at you in bafflement than I guess assume you're just too far gone.

Its worked every time so far in the last couple years and I haven't the faintest idea why. >.>

[Fenrus]

GK, I've found I'm at that stage as well, though replace Buddhism with LaVey Satanism. I tell those people, and suddenly there's no pamphlet, no "further talks"...

Half the time, not a second glance as they run for the hills.

[Gravekeeper]

Half the time, not a second glance as they run for the hills.

They don't run from me sadly, its more like this vacant stare than they go "Oh, well you have a nice day than!" and wander off. You can use pure fear. I just seem to jam their brain into limbo... -.-

[ShadedWings]

I've seen these random-information-leaving phenomenae (hmm I think I spelled that wrongly, oh well) myself. Usually without asking. Or with the culprit all but running in and exclaiming "I'm just going to leave a few of these with you okay?!!!" and spreading them all throughout the store... in front of books and magazines.. -_- ... on any counter possible, on EVERY counter possible... ugh. And regardless of the information on said papers, it happens the same way every time.

[DaDairyDruid]

Its the same for the people who sneak in and put Fliers on every car winshield. While those tend to be more generic. its still littering.

One time I actually caught the person putting fliers on windhields, I grabbed the MOD and they told the poor kid that 1) They didnt ask first, 2) the answer would have been "no" and 3) YOU have to go and remove every last flier you left on a car in our lot. THEN proceeded to call the company on the flier and tell them that NEXT time they sent someone to do it THEY would be receiving the bill for cleaning our lot for that night.

One of the few manager "Wins" I saw at my store.

[Ironclad Alibi]

So today, while working on one of the busier days of the Year. I found a pamphlet.

Was it a Chick Tract? I think those are very funny, and wish I had kept the ones given to me over the years.

Its the same for the people who sneak in and put Fliers on every car winshield.

I once came out of the local grocery store to see a kid putting a flyer on my windshield. I yelled at him to remove it. An older guy, also putting flyers on windshields, yelled to him not to remove it. To the kid's credit, he took the flyer off of my windshield.

[KabeRinnaul]

Was it a Chick Tract? I think those are very funny, and wish I had kept the ones given to me over the years.

I was about to ask the same thing. I do save the ones I've come across over the years. As an avid roleplayer who's dating a Catholic, a lot of his more entertaining material applies to me.