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  • #1

    Truth never impedes stupidity

    So, thanks to a certain local football team winning a certain football game against a certain arch rival team to go to a certain even bigger football game, there's a big demand for local football team regalia.

    Apparently corporate put an ad in the local paper stating that local football team gear would be arriving in stores today, and indeed we had our shipment of t-shirts delivered by 9:30 and priced and put to the floor by 10:30.

    This didn't stop some derpa-derp from calling the store, demanding to know if we had our local football team stuff in, and then donning their tin-foil cheesehead and accusing us clearance swamp employees of stashing buying all the stuff last night so other people couldn't have any when told we didn't get any local football team clothes in last night, but would have them by noon today.

    Poor service desk girl got a few sucky calls from people. She eventually took to giving the one-word answer "noon" to all the people asking about local football team clothing.

    I can't confirm or deny if this was the same lady who accused us employees of heisting Discovery Kids laptop toys back in December.

    EDIT: Don't tell anybody but I bought my local football team t-shirt soon after they were put out. They just so happened to be put out as I was going on lunch anyway, k? Shhhhhhhhh.
    Last edited by Irving Patrick Freleigh; 01-24-2011, 11:47 PM.
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  • #2
    Sure, like you'd keep everything in the back room. It's not like the company wants to make money or anything. "No, you can't have any of our product. We want our employees to have 50 copies each, even though that's 49 copies too many."


    And the game? Turned out exactly as I thought it would. At least Rogers was slowed up a bit compared to his last two games. And Henne did pretty respectably for a 3rd-stringer. If Cutler hadn't been Cutler, I'd be cheering right now. Instead, I have to fume.

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    • #3
      And to think, I ordered mine for your local, my favorite, team off the internet.

      I wouldn't have ever thought of dealing with the cluster that is a store for limited items.

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      • #4
        Go Local Sports Institution!

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        • #5
          Quoth draftermatt View Post
          And to think, I ordered mine for your local, my favorite, team off the internet.

          I wouldn't have ever thought of dealing with the cluster that is a store for limited items.
          Neither would I had I not been there when the stuff came out.
          Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

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          • #6
            I wanted the t-shirts that said "The Other Team - NFC champions"

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            • #7
              and then donning their tin-foil cheesehead
              are you sure it wasn't a cheese shaped mesh colander? the protection seems to be out of order...
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              • #8
                Quoth mikoyan29 View Post
                I wanted the t-shirts that said "The Other Team - NFC champions"
                Or you could just get one that says "The sports team from my area is superior to the sports team from your area"
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                • #9
                  "Go Local Sports Team and/or College? (Warning: T-Shirt Hell link - it should be SFW, but most others aren't)

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                  • #10
                    I bought my jersey before the game. Our case with the Swamp I work at, about an hour south of the winning team, we were getting the calls 5 minutes after the game ended. Our local Kohls & Shopko had areas all ready for the merchandise and for some reason already had some in the back.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth fallenangel View Post
                      Our local Kohls & Shopko had areas all ready for the merchandise and for some reason already had some in the back.
                      That's actually fairly typical -- they get in a bunch for each team and (presumably) just send back the ones for the non-winning team. When the last Superbowl ended, friends of mine were at the sports store less than ten minutes after the game ended to pick up shirts and caps. By that time, the line was already to the corner of the building and the cashiers were in place ^_^

                      PS, to !
                      Last edited by EricKei; 01-31-2011, 12:12 AM. Reason: fixing a tiny insignificant little type-oh o_O
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                      • #12
                        They can't go to Scheels or any other sporting goods store?

                        When I worked at the Deb shop, fortunately, I was never accused of hoarding clothes from customers. That's just the stupidest assumption. Because trucks are never late, orders are never wrong, units don't have to be accounted for before they are put on the floor.........the truck always shows up right on time and the clothes magically float onto empty hangers right before your very eyes!

                        Of all the things to consider or assume.......oh, those employees are hoarding it for themselves!
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                        • #13
                          Im sure most of these people are fair weather fans anyways. Like when the cubs had their good streak a year or two ago. I went out to buy my hubby a jersey for his bday and sure enough sold out.

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                          • #14
                            How funny if your store encouraged employees to show "team spirit" by wearing their favorite jersey that day? (Our store did that)
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                            • #15
                              So did our store. Boy, did the opposite team's fans that were employees get teased.

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