Wherein an SC makes Lupo cry at work...(lengthy)

[BlaqueKatt]

Nothing pisses me off like using military service as a get everything free card, or a "you're persecuting a vet" card

trust me it's even more amusing when they try that and you happen to lean in a manner that your own "identification tags" fall out of your shirt-yes I have mine, I wear them once in a while-my husband wore them for about a year-people would ask when he served/what branch/etc...-he'd point to me and say "they're hers"(mind you he's 6'2" and I'm 5'5"-tee hee)

[alowlypotato]

Ugh, people like that make me seethe! Scamming's one thing, but aiming to make someone feel like crap on top of it? Gaaahhh! I'm sorry you had to deal with that BS!

[Midorikawa]

trust me it's even more amusing when they try that and you happen to lean in a manner that your own "identification tags" fall out of your shirt

Nice. I'd be military if it weren't for a pesky heart arrythmia. I tried to join and was turned down.

[lupo pazzesco]

Thanks for the support, everyone. I wish we could ban him, too, but because we have no actual proof that he's a thief, we can't. As for buyback prices, depechemodefan, he brings in new editions of books, and if he IS stealing them, even if he gets 30% of the price back on the new editions, we're still talking $50-60 per book. the ones he wanted to sell today were new editions of a business admin book and a calculus book, I looked them up and he'd have netted $129 for just those 2 books because they retail for over $350 together. ($217 and $168, respectively.)

I did lie down for a bit, so the headache's eased up, and then i did what I usually do to make me feel better. I cooked.

Dinner tonight was sesame ginger grilled tuna steaks with sauteed green beans and mushrooms, jasmine rice and furikake. Tastiness. Feeling lots better.

[MrsEclipse]

Aw, please don't cry

Tell you what. You saw all those photocopies of his ID, right? Well, why don't you send on his address or some other info over my way and I'll have him dumped in the river. Would that make you feel better, huh? No witnesses? Yeah, there's that smile!

[Magpie]

Lupo - and cookies. I'll bring the fudge by later. And I'm very impressed with the fact that you told the guy off so well before breaking down like that, I wouldn't have been up for doing that even on a good day.

I'm just thinking, with how much bookstores buy back books for (say, a $60 book I had I sold back for around$5), he would have to have stolen a lot of books to get any money off of it. And he wasn't coming back for a refund (if he wanted one, no doubt he would say he lost it with the wallet ).

Used university books generally retail for ~80% of the new price, and you can get 75% of that when you bring it to the store. (50% if they're just buying the books from you instead, but it's still a lot more than a regular used bookstore gives). And the average university textbook is in the $100-$150 range (and I think that they're more expensive in the States, because every estimate I hear for book prices is way over the $400-$500/term I normally expect to pay).

[mikoyan29]

I used to hate selling books back because more often than not the textbook I was using was obsolete by the end of the semester so I would get the $10 we'll take it off your hands price. I kept most of the books from my major and minor though even though they are now collecting dust and except for the Calculus and Differential Equations books hopelessly obsolete.

Anyways, I seriously doubt that guy is a veteran.

[SouthernSugar]

Awww, *hugs*, lupo!

That guy was a serious whackjob, and I'm glad your store manager got rid of him. He was counting on you to react the way you did -- bullies always do -- because it's a completely natural reaction to being accused of behaving in a dispicable manner.

I'm glad you're feeling better. If I'd had a dinner like that, I'd be feeling better, too!

[Moggie]

Lupo I am so sorry you had to deal with that thief. Even if you never caught him scamming on the books, he stole your good day.
*sends hugs and cookies*

[lobo65]

I've been reading the posts here for years, but have never posted before.I AM a veteran, and I work at a V.A. hospital in physical rehabilitation. Believe me he's not the first to try to use military service to get what he wants. Some of our biggest complainers when they don't get their way are guys who never even made it through boot camp, or served maybe one or two years tops.

I had one guy yell at me one day because I wouldn't open the clinic for him during lunch (he was two hours late to his appt.). He said "Well I'm a veteran!!!" I said "I am too. What else you got?"

What you have to understand is that just because someone is a veteran doesn't mean they aren't a dirt bag too. Some were screw-ups before they served, were screw-ups while they served, and after they got out. It gives a bad name to those of us who served honorably. I'm glad you stood up to that idiot.

[Bloodsoul]

I kept most of the books from my major and minor though even though they are now collecting dust and except for the Calculus and Differential Equations books hopelessly obsolete.

Nothing wrong with keeping your old books. If an army of Deadites comes knocking on your door, that old chemistry book might come in handy...

[Andara Bledin]

I know you can't ban him for theft because you don't have proof, but couldn't you ban him for repeated fscktardedry?

He's been in often enough to not only know the policy, but have been put on a watchlist for refusing to comply. That tells me that he's costing the store money, even when he just gets turnd away. He needs a good swift banning, and some calls to other stores in the area to make sure everybody has the memo on his traicks.

.... or you could send him to that shady store that was trying to steal your business a while back... sounds like they might deserve each other.

^-.-^

[AccountingDrone]

If he didn't even have an actual veteran's card, just a photocopy of one, I'd think it might be fake and ask him where he trained and where he was first stationed.

I've heard from friends and family members who have been in the military that vets DO NOT forget that information.

What a loser that guy was.

You know, technically it is illegal to photocopy a military ID ...

Link: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/701.shtml

LAW ENFORCEMENT INTELLIGENCE BRANCH (LEIB) ANALYSIS: Although the asking for military/government identification is totally permissible by commercial establishments, many government personnel are unaware of the prohibition on duplication of government identification. There are no safeguards in place to insure a government identification card won't be counterfeited or "cloned" based on a photocopy by a commercial establishment. Criminal elements and terrorist organizations place US Government identification as a high value logistical element when planning acts against the US Military. Recommend military/DOD travelers provide a state drivers license or other form of photo identification to be photocopied if an establishment insists on a photocopy of the traveler's identification.

And as a "veteran" he would know this little tidbit of information.

You could theoretically tell him to stand right there while you call the local branch of the military's law enforcement arm ....

[BookstoreEscapee]

I had one guy yell at me one day because I wouldn't open the clinic for him during lunch (he was two hours late to his appt.). He said "Well I'm a veteran!!!" I said "I am too. What else you got?"

Using the "I'm a veteran" card at a veteran's hospital? That's rich.

[Kristev]

I offer you a warm cup of tea, Madame, and my deepest sympathies. I'm sorry he attacked you as a racist, and as a person. And now that he's harassed an employee, with some serious emotional distress, perhaps that is grounds enough to ban him from the store.

At the college I used to go to, I learned real quick how both vets and soldiers currently in the army but being paid to go to school for it have this strange tendency to believe that they, and they alone, get to decide what happens in the class room. It was annoying, especially if the teacher went against what they assumed to be true . . .

They seem to insist on getting their way, not just in class, but with other students as well. I always thought it so strange. And quite irritating.

Where I work now, where we actually have vets around every day, usually retired old men, they are usually the worst customers. Demanding, cruel, think they know everything. It's just awful.

I'm sure there's some good people in the armed services. It's just that I haven't actually managed to meet one yet. But you can't go by me. I'm stuck in Idaho and Idaho is . . . well . . .

People in Idaho make St. Olafians look ingenious.