You've received death threats from SC's because...

[Kitten in the box]

I had one time I had to work a late shift for a cw. This weird woman comes up to me and askes me to show her where the beer is. No problem. This is how it went down. K-Kitty WW:weird woman

WW: Hi do you know where your beer is..specificly Acme Beer? (acme is not the name, I forgot the name)

K: Sure, its right over this way. *we engage in chit chat along the way.*
K: looks like we are out..let me go in the back and double check with my manager.
WW: Ok no problem.
K: Im sorry we are out. Manager said we quit selling it because it never sold.
WW: Gets iratte. I always bought it though. I swear I am gonna fucking blow up this store. Do a 9/11 on it like the fucking twin towers!!
K:
WW: I'm just jokin with ya. I ain't gonna blow it up!!
K: That's not funny. You do NOT joke about something like that. What about the surviving families that lost their loved ones?
WW: I SAID I WAS FUCKING JOKING!! YOU KNOW WHAT?? I TAKE IT BACK!! IM NOT JOKING!! AND IF THE SURVIVING FAMILIES CANNOT TAKE A JOKE THEN I WILL KICK THEIR FUCKING ASSES IF THEY HAVE A PROBLEM!!! FUCK IT ITS NOT WORTH BOMBING THIS PIECE OF SHIT STORE!! YOU GUYS ARE ALL GOING TO HELL!!
K: Um....no were not?

finally security gets the woman out of the store. All this because we didn't sell her brand of beer. We havn't seen her since then and the store is still standing and we are all still alive.

[Peppergirl]

I've never 'wandered' in one, but I have had a drink in one. One of my friends (who happened to be Gay) asked if I would be the DD. I agreed, he warned me it was a Gay bar. When I asked "So?" he just laughed. I don't know if all the bars are like the one I went in, but everybody was really friendly and understood that I was straight. Never gave me any problems about it either.

They have gay bars in.... well, where you live?

Or did you have to travel to the big city?

[octopi23]

Amusement park was in the middle of a large city with rival gangs. We were private property and neutral territory. Absolutely NO gang activity was tolerated. We were not about to have a turf war on the property. Kill each other somewhere else, please. The strictness of the policy was because somebody was knifed on the property for being part of a rival gang and throwing gang signs on the coaster photos.

If you flipped off the camera, you were warned and the picture was deleted. If a woman (over 18) flashed her boobs, again, warned the first time and picture was deleted after a print was made to document the incident with the warning. If it happened again, you were out. If a girl (under 18) did it, picture was deleted and they were escorted off the property. Security usually called their parents to come pick them up and tell them why they were being kicked out.

The one time we had boys (seriously, 13 and 14 year olds) flash their, ahem, genitals at the camera, they did it at the provocation of one of my employees. They were escorted out, the church group they were there with was notified, their parents were called and my employee was fired on the spot.

God, what park is this? You people have (or had, fuck it) standards, while our park would be all like "Fuck it. Money's money. I mean, we have security people to mitigate it. Oh wait, they don't even have sticks, and they're usually staffed at the reflecting pools to keep the products of "free childcare" from swimming in the reflection pools." I miss when we had standards, and priced the urban troublemakers out of the market.

I, OTOH, have gotten death threats for all of the following:

• Not giving a free game
• Not giving a refund after someone loses
• Not giving a customer money out of my till
• Telling a guest to stop spitting
• Telling a guest to stop running
• Telling a guest to stop rough-housing
• Telling a guest to change their inappropriate shirts
• Not selling a gigantic prize to a guest for less than the game costs (WTF)

[Food Lady]

This is why I never use the drive-through. First off its usually faster, because you invariably have some 'tard in front of you in line in the drive through with an endless crisis that takes forever to fix. Second, because I can get two drinks for the price of one! While the food is being cooked I down an entire drink. Yes, its a lot, and its drunk quickly, but thats enough drink that I generally don't want anymore while I'm eating the food. Then I have a full drink to sip on over the next hour or two. In other words, this:

That chart outlines my whole day.

[Food Lady]

Never have gotten death threats..but been around when a few were uttered. One over a quarter. Yes .. twenty five cents. I would relate the story

Please do.

[taxguykarl]

I occasionally got death threats by people who didn't want to pay their bill for what ever reason. I would tell them that I had their full information and I would contact their local police dept and I always had an armed escort at work. We never had anyone show up.

My only death threat story came from a customer who was upset that his overnight loan was declined. The reason the loan was declined: The IRS intercepted his refund for a child support debt that he was way behind in paying. He had letters (concerning three kids by two women) about arrearages and claimed (falsely it now appears) that the debts were "taken care of".

Real smart [major sarcasm]-- threaten the guy who has access to all manner of contact and financial information. When's his appearence on a dumb criminal show?

[Mr. Security]

As a security guard i'm often having to kick people out and tell people to stop doing something they shouldn't be doing, I've gotten so many death threats it's ridiculous. I lost count how many times a drunk has said "i'm coming back to stab/shot you" or "watch your back i'm going to get you when you leave" and the classic "I'm going to get my gang and were going to F*** you up!" they do it to get a reaction. I get it so many time now I just look at them and say "uh huh, that's nice get going"

[TelephoneAngel]

death threat to me because computer system was down and i could not help customer with problem right at that moment

threat to coworker that customer would blow up the building, don't know reason for that one.

threat that customer would shoot coworker, don't know reason for that one

coworker was stabbed because she asked customer to sign a document

coworker was headbutted because she asked customer to wait while she dealt with another customer

customer had a fight with another customer and broke his arm, reason unknown.

[Mytical]

No they don't have Gay Bars where I live, I have only been to one once. It wasn't even in Ohio. I havn't been to many places, but I've been to a few .

Ok, now as for the quarter thing. Long time ago, I use to visit a pool hall near where I lived (not where I live now, this was about 16ish years ago). How it worked was you would put a quarter on a table with a personal item (anything would do..like a comb or whatever). You placed them in a line, in order of who gets the next game. I normally played the arcade, not much pool, but that is beside the point. It cost more then the quarter, it is just a symbol of who is next.

Guy comes in, big biker guy, and gets out his quarter, and he drops it. It goes rolling, and comes to a stop at the feet of somebody we locals called 'Cheap Charlie'. Cheap Charlie was a Vietnam Vet, but he had been real young (lied about his age so he would get in), and so was not as old as some might think. He was cheap, but he was still in great shape.

Charlie picks up the quarter, sees the biker (he didn't like hippies, bikers, or ok..he didn't like much of anybody or anything) pockets the quarter.

Biker comes over..this is the conversation (as best I remember it, been a long time). Has been modified to cut out cursing. *** - The word is not only 3 letters long, use your imagination on what it stands for .

B - Biker
CC - Cheap Charlie

B - Give me back my *** quarter.
CC - What *** quarter?
B - The *** quarter you just *** pocketed you ***
CC - I dropped that quarter, prove I didn't you ***
B - I WILL KILL YOU, YOU *** THIEF, GIVE ME BACK MY *** QUARTER.
CC - MAKE ME.
B - GIVE ME THE QUARTER YOU *** THIEF, OR I WILL RIP OUT YOUR LIVER AND EAT IT FOR BREAKFAST.

It pretty much went down hill from there, over a blasted quarter. CC beat the snot out of the Biker, got to keep the quarter, and got a free stay at the local jail for his trouble. The biker lost the fight, lost the quarter, and also got a free stay at the jail. For twenty five cents.

[SuperRTL]

@octopi Same one you work for, probably just in a different town. Started out as a private park and was sold to a large corporation. It has since been sold again and is a private park once again. As far as I knew, taking the pictures off and throwing people out was corporate policy. Though, the gang signs thing may just be local. We started a zero tolerance policy on gang activity after the summer of violence. Our security wasn't armed, either.

Around town, people knew not to pull that kind of crap in the park. I specifically got a reputation as a real hard ass and my boss was more than happy to back me up. The management team in the park was awesome with a couple of exceptions. Hell, if I was leaving work early for a date, the big boss would call my parents and tell them I was working late and he'd make sure I got to my car ok.

[Virulent]

I was threatened with physical harm, rape, damage/theft of property/identity, and death.

What was the "occupation"? Volunteer admin and game developer on a free roleplaying website.

(Yeah, I burned out.)

[teh_blumchenkinder]

(snippy)
...I use tarot cards to help come up with ideas for the novels I write, and restaurants actually give me more peace and quiet than I get at home.

How fascinating! What's one that you came up with? We can take this to pm's if you want... >.>

There's a cafe here in Prague where the staff wear T-shirts with the words "Straight Friendly" printed on them.

There's a place where I live that has that too, it's also a dinner theater!

[Whiskey]

I was threatened with physical harm, rape, damage/theft of property/identity, and death.

What was the "occupation"? Volunteer admin and game developer on a free roleplaying website.

I'm not the only one thats completely unsurprised, right?

[zombiequeen]

I'm not surprised, but disappointed. Some people kind of suck.

[unholypet]

Lesee....

Several have come to me over the phone with pick-up orders because the customer's coupons have either expired, or they wanted an unwarranted discount.

Most of these are beat up my family, find me in the parking lot, shoot my manager, and I got one who told me they knew where I live. When they come in to get their order, they're usually older teens (17-19) or drunk old men.

Regardless if it counts, being a guild master (on a game) is a difficult job. Every week I had Thursday set aside as ridiculous fun day. One such day, everyone stripped armor and we ran from Org to Xroads, shouting praises of confectionary treats and green beans. The last person in line was the co-master, and she decided to remind me she needed to be in front, when I reminded her I was the actual master and in charge of the event, I was told my," meat muffin will taste sweet on her cereal in the morning, whore." and she promptly /gquit.