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Woman approaches and rudely announced that she wanted to buy a pad of paper, but only wanted ONE, not a multipack.
Apparently she missed the individual pads right next to the multipacks.
I show them to her.
SC: No, I want one without margins.
Ah, and here we come to the crux of the problem. All standard letter and legal pads have a margin line on the left side, and have for decades. These are the types of pads the virtually everyone buys. She was looking for a non-standard pad, which we only have available in letter size, white, and in a multipack.
Me: I'm sorry, but unmargined pads are only available in multipacks.
SC: Well the school specified NO MARGINS.
OK....
1) If the school specified non-standard stuff, take it up with them, not me.
2) I doubt they specified that, because as I have noted all standard pads have margins, as does looseleaf paper and bound notebooks.
Me: I'm sorry, but I only have that in a multipack.
SC: That's CRAZY, you can't get PAPER at Staples!!
Excuse me? I have enough paper here to print an entire library and still have some left over. More than that, I have what you want RIGHT HERE, just in a multipack.
SC *walking away before I can respond*: That's crazy.........
OK yeah, just TRY and get what you want anywhere else. Office Max and Office Depot are all but GONE around here, and if you're lucky enough to find a single pad elsewhere, it'll likely be $4-5. YOu could have gotten 12 for $10. Besides, we're about 110% to budget year-to-date, so I'm real broken up about losing your business.
Bonus Tale: Father of the Year
I hadn't planned on posting this because it didn't quite seem worthy of its own thread, but here we go.
The other day, a girl pissed herself at our Copy Center. I mean BIG TIME. 30 inch diameter puddle of urine on the floor. Thank GOD yours truly did NOT have to clean it up.
But here's the thing....she wasn't a toddler fresh out of potty training. I'd estimate her age as 8 or 9. One would not expect this sort of thing at that age, barring any medical issues. Apparently, her father had been ignoring her pleas to go to the bathroom, saying they'd only be a few minutes and then they were going home. Father of the Year apparently doesn't know that you should not ignore a child's pleas to use the bathroom for long. Hell, I learned that when I was 15 (I have a kid brother 10 years younger than me). And this ineptitude gave us a hideous mess to clean up.
You sir, are a failure.
But to his credit, he did at least offer to clean it up. I'm not sure why this offer was turned down, but at least it was made.
Apparently she missed the individual pads right next to the multipacks.
I show them to her.
SC: No, I want one without margins.
Ah, and here we come to the crux of the problem. All standard letter and legal pads have a margin line on the left side, and have for decades. These are the types of pads the virtually everyone buys. She was looking for a non-standard pad, which we only have available in letter size, white, and in a multipack.
Me: I'm sorry, but unmargined pads are only available in multipacks.
SC: Well the school specified NO MARGINS.
OK....
1) If the school specified non-standard stuff, take it up with them, not me.
2) I doubt they specified that, because as I have noted all standard pads have margins, as does looseleaf paper and bound notebooks.
Me: I'm sorry, but I only have that in a multipack.
SC: That's CRAZY, you can't get PAPER at Staples!!
Excuse me? I have enough paper here to print an entire library and still have some left over. More than that, I have what you want RIGHT HERE, just in a multipack.
SC *walking away before I can respond*: That's crazy.........
OK yeah, just TRY and get what you want anywhere else. Office Max and Office Depot are all but GONE around here, and if you're lucky enough to find a single pad elsewhere, it'll likely be $4-5. YOu could have gotten 12 for $10. Besides, we're about 110% to budget year-to-date, so I'm real broken up about losing your business.
Bonus Tale: Father of the Year
I hadn't planned on posting this because it didn't quite seem worthy of its own thread, but here we go.
The other day, a girl pissed herself at our Copy Center. I mean BIG TIME. 30 inch diameter puddle of urine on the floor. Thank GOD yours truly did NOT have to clean it up.
But here's the thing....she wasn't a toddler fresh out of potty training. I'd estimate her age as 8 or 9. One would not expect this sort of thing at that age, barring any medical issues. Apparently, her father had been ignoring her pleas to go to the bathroom, saying they'd only be a few minutes and then they were going home. Father of the Year apparently doesn't know that you should not ignore a child's pleas to use the bathroom for long. Hell, I learned that when I was 15 (I have a kid brother 10 years younger than me). And this ineptitude gave us a hideous mess to clean up.
You sir, are a failure.
But to his credit, he did at least offer to clean it up. I'm not sure why this offer was turned down, but at least it was made.
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