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    So I'm a pre-intern, meaning I'm just doing classroom observations. But I'm apparently good with kids and jumped in last week and started helping my teacher out. He loved it...so much that he didn't show up today. He left a note saying to look on his desk and he had a lesson plan written up for me. That is so not legal, I haven't had a background check and am not licensed to be left alone with children. Kids annoy me, but I was good and taught his lesson. The janitor came and kept an eye on me, since I couldn't be alone. He said I did a much better job than he had ever seen lazy ass do. So that was 7am-4pm.

    4-5 driving

    5-work

    Clearance Woes

    There's a sign that clearly states "no returns on clearance" in the clearance isle.

    SC: I wanna return this
    Me: Well, it's past its 90 days, so I can't return it.
    SC: Then do it without a receipt
    Me: I can't return clearance items. Unless we have a receipt to show the item was not clearance at the time of purchase, the computer won't even allow me to override a return.
    SC: How do you know it's clearance?
    Me:...I have your receipt. Plus the clearance stickers are a pretty good sign.
    SC: Just return it!
    Me: I can't.
    SC: No one told me I couldn't return it!
    Me: There're signs clearly printed AND it's stated on the back of your receipt about the 90 day limit.
    SC: I didn't read the sign.
    Me: Well, it's clearly posted.
    SC: But I didn't read it.
    Me: That's not my fault.
    SC: Someone should have told me!
    Manager (comes over and pulls $3 out of her pocket) Just take your stupid money and go. God dammit! All this over 3 fricken dollars! (it had been a long day for her)

    Rant about a CW

    This lady always shows up late and has a habit of spending hours with one customer. I don't know why we keep her, they always schedule one extra person to do the work she doesn't do. Waste of money. She takes 10 per customer minimum. I waited in line once with her at the register. 4th person back. 30 minutes. She doesn't listen to the manager because the manager is 23 and she's 53 and she doesn't think she has to. Today she stayed till 6 when she was supposed to be off at 3. Then she proceeded to go behind the cutting counter in uniform and start measuring out her crap. People kept asking her to help them. I asked her to go to the back table or let me do it. She couldn't cut her crap of course, but she didn't know how much she needed yet. Took her 2 hours to figure it out. When she started helping people off the clock I called my manager up and she told her to move. CW stopped helping, but wouldn't get out from behind the counter. Bitch.

    Bad Directions

    I have no sense of direction. Let me copy some directions my friends wrote for me yesterday. It was hilarious, I didn't read them until I got out to my car.

    1. Go out the side exit, across the street and into the garage. Go downstairs and make a left (that's where I last saw your car this morning.)
    2. Go up to the 3rd floor and make a right out of the garage.
    3. Go to the light and make a right.
    4. Make the 2nd left. If you turn at the first light you'll be back in the garage (you're an idiot because you would have turned right when I said left.) If this happens please repeat steps 2-4. If you turn left at the first light then you've really fucked up because you're now in someone's front yard.
    The rest of the steps are normal, but there was a cute map and my car looked like a rabid turtle.

    So this guy calls and asks me to put stuff aside for him. I do. He then asks for directions. I don't know the are he's coming from, and I don't know the highway. I ask him to hold while I get someone who knows. He says not to put him on hold. I let him know that I really don't know and he'll probably end up on the west coast (I'm on the east coast) if he follows my directions. I put him on hold. He instantly calls back and yells at me for putting him on hold. I tell him to make a right when he exits the highway even though I'm just guessing. Here's what he says:

    But my GPS says to turn left!


    WTFWTFWTFWTFWTF! If you had a garsh darned dang GPS mechanical device thingie then what was that whole conversation about?

  • #2
    Someone should have told me....Yeah...She still wouldn't have paid attention.

    Maybe he asked for directions because he was an ass.

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    • #3
      There was something I forgot to mention. The guy with the directions never asked me to put any fabric aside for him. He never even mentioned fabric at any point throughout the call. He wanted me to grab paint and glue, which I did. Then when he showed up he was all "where's my fur!" And nothing we had was good enough for him. He kept saying "where's the rabbit fur?" I was too afraid to ask whether he was looking for actual fur...Oh, and, I'm officially legal! I don't drink, so I grabbed some alcohol for my mom.

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      • #4
        The directions thing kills me too. I don't drive so I barely know highways at all. I can tell you how to get almost anywhere in this city by transit but fucked if I can guide you there by car and yet when I tell people this they still press for me to give them driving directions.

        I just tell everyone to go as far south as they possibly can. This will lead them directly into Lake Ontario.

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        • #5
          There is a shopping center across the street from my work, with grocery stores, pharmacies, lots of restaurants, and a rather nice pub. Guests still have trouble with this, though, because on several occassions I've had guests ask for addresses to put into their GPS's. ACROSS THE STREET apparently is too complicated for them.

          Personally, and after seeing so much overdependence on GPS's, I prefer to get lost the old fashioned way: with a road map.
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          • #6
            I also hate having to give directions to total strangers, because they have no frame of reference for what the street names are and where they go.

            I get this a lot with people calling from other stores. "How do I get to the swamp?" Ummmmmm....

            I know which exit I would tell people to use to get off the Interstate, but fuck if I can remember the number. So I just tell them it's the one with the Holiday Inn, Menards and the fairgrounds on the corners. Then they're supposed to turn right and stay on the road they turned on, following it as it makes a couple curves and eventually passes the swamp. But people have so much trouble with this. They call back and it turns out they turned onto a different street way behind the swamp and kept going, and now they're pretty close to Lake Michigan.

            If I could get away with it, I'd do like rerant and tell them to keep going east. Then they will be in Lake Michigan and get shat on by seagulls MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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            • #7
              Quoth mikoyan29 View Post
              Someone should have told me....Yeah...She still wouldn't have paid attention.

              Maybe he asked for directions because he was an ass.
              Heck someone probably did mention something too. Whenever I buy something with special conditions like that usually cashiers remind me of them.

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              • #8
                1. Go out the side exit, across the street and into the garage. Go downstairs and make a left (that's where I last saw your car this morning.)
                2. Go up to the 3rd floor and make a right out of the garage.
                3. Go to the light and make a right.
                4. Make the 2nd left. If you turn at the first light you'll be back in the garage (you're an idiot because you would have turned right when I said left.) If this happens please repeat steps 2-4. If you turn left at the first light then you've really fucked up because you're now in someone's front yard.
                The rest of the steps are normal, but there was a cute map and my car looked like a rabid turtle.

                I've had directions like that given to me... I also have a friend who gives me step-by-step directions for things like making breakfast, but that's an in-joke thing after I had to call them to ask for directions to a gas station... Which was on the end of my street.
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                • #9
                  Man, I'm older than my last two managers (my current one I am only older my a month, and my last one I am older by several years) and forget the age difference, they are my managers, and I respect that (well, ok, not my current one, because we are long time friends before the job, but that's another tale)

                  When I was an Asst. Manager, I had a coworker who was around 10 years my senior, and she had no respect for us. She was a piss-poor worker anyway (the 18 years olds were far better workers, and more fu to work with) She quit before we had the joy of firing her.

                  It is annoying older than your "superiors" but that's the job.


                  (okay, now I'm getting nostalgic for the my "old crew" at my store, and I am seeing them all tomorrow...some after 3 years!!!!! )
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