I'll Have You FIRED!!!!

[Camry178]

Too many times to count.

Usually it's right after they get bitchy with me and I give it right back to them. Then they'll usually say something like "I wanna speak to the manager", to which I reply "that would be me".

When that doesn't work, they go for the "I'm gonna report you to your corporate office". To which I reply "would you like the mailing address, phone number, or website?"...

And I LOVE to end each confrontation with a smile and "have a great day!" (that pisses them off even more).

I've been with the company twelve and a half years. The only way I'm getting fired is if I knock somebody out on camera!

[Imogene]

"Ima tell ye manager!"

Get ye flask.
Obvious exits are north, west, and Dennis.

[Nohbody]

I told them that I had no explanation for what might have happened that morning

"no idea" because you were being polite, or honestly no idea?

I ask because were I there, I'd have a pretty good idea of the explanation: the SC is lying. Whether I would say that aloud is another issue, though. Being an SC, they'd most likely throw a hissy-fit about how they're honest as the day is long, and you were (or I was, in this hypothetical case) just being a jerkwad.

[rerant]

I'm preparing for one of those today.
We have a little book where we write things from the day for the next shift to read. It's meant for important store related stuff but it usually just ends up with us writng bullshit or jokes.

Yesterdays entry said a woman called bitching that she wanted to return a vibrator and said she would be coming in tomorrow (today).
Everyone who tries to return toys gets denied. Everyone who gets denied threatens to have me fired. None of them will ever succeed.

For some reason people only seem to want to return things on MY shifts.
*sigh*

*edit*
How. Why? Did I SUMMON this demon somehow?!
As soon as I clicked "post reply" this woman came in.
Sure enough, she's going to not only get me fired, but the girl who sold it to her as well.
Uh huh. Right.

What's worse is I re-read the note to see what the other girl said and she specifically wrote, and I quote, "She called like ten minutes after she left. I tested it and it worked perfect. She was iffy about spendig the money and I bet she's got buyers remorse."

A-HA! Too bad, suck-bag. Better luck next time.
She said she was going to come back when the manager is in. Problem: she's going through the Chain Of Niceness (TM) at my work.
The girl from yesterday is the sweetest, I'm more of a straight-up hardass and my manager,well, i think she's wonderful, but her tolerance for peoples bullshit is non-existent.
My only regret is that I won't be around to see the massacre.

[Victoria J]

I got called up there 30 minutes later and was commended for enforcing the rules.

And that is how management should deal with these idiots. If this was always the response, oreferably politely, but loudly, in front of other customers, there would be a lot lot fewer EWs out there.

Victoria J

[Tito]

And as long as we are compiling lists - 'we have a problem' and 'I don't have time to apply to rules; I'm a busy man/woman/person/asshat'.

Let us not forget the ever popular 'I know the owner!' line.

[Camry178]

Let us not forget the ever popular 'I know the owner!' line.

To which I reply: "So do I. Tell him I said hi!"..

[Cat]

Get ye flask.
Obvious exits are north, west, and Dennis.

I love it

[EricKei]

"I'll have you fired" isn't new, not by a long shot. It DOES seem to be enjoying something of a resurgence lately, however.

One possible reason could be "the economy"...SC's like this like to pretend they have some uberpower like this -- some people seem to only be capable of making themselves feel good by making others feel bad...But, the thing is, if they really COULD get you fired, that's a much nastier threat now than it was, say, two years ago. Getting even crappy jobs seems harder than it used to be. Nonexistent ammo or not, they just want something to hold over people's heads to try and make them cave.

[Green_Fairy]

i had one of the classics the other day. a customer wanted to order a coffee with a whole buncha stuff added at no extra charge. my manager politely told him that unfortunately, we have to charge for the inch of caramel he wanted in the bottom of his cup, reguardless of what the other starbucks did for him. so he reached into our tip jar to take money to pay for it. my manger told him that it was our tip jar, not "take a penny, leave a penny."
so he got pissed and stormed out saying...
"fine! i'll take my money elsewhere!"
...thank you! have a nice day, sir!

[Andara Bledin]

My only regret is that I won't be around to see the massacre.

Can you get her to write you a report of the festivities?

^-.-^

[EricKei]

"fine! i'll take my money elsewhere!"

It looks to me like he was trying to take YOUR money elsewhere I suppose he was gonna try and say that the other stores let him take money from the jar, too? ~_~

[Sheldonrs]

It looks to me like he was trying to take YOUR money elsewhere I suppose he was gonna try and say that the other stores let him take money from the jar, too? ~_~

If only my bank worked like that!