We Lost Our *#!$%! Roof! We Are NOT Going To Open!!!

[chainedbarista]

How in all of sanity do you miss a roof not being on a building?

for the exact same reasons (beyond stupidity) that they miss fine print, don't read contracts, expect companies to suck up losses due to customers' overwhelming state of brain damage...it's not what they want and if they ignore it, it's not there.

i think the hamster decided that drinking anti-freeze was better than powering dead cells.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I do find it strange that the corporate rules of the department stores in this situation.

I do understand that the rules should keep the mall entrances open as a way to escape should something happen. It reduces their liability.

However common sense (I know, good sense is no longer common) should say that the liability of letting customers exit under an area where a steel beam or several hundreds of pounds of roofing material falling might kill people.

You might want to suggest that to them and have them call Corporate and see if they'll lift that rule on a temporary basis until the mall is fixed.

IT also strikes me that they may not have even thought of calling Corporate and saying "I know the rule is the rule but..."

[underemployeed]

Considering our store lost power and me and my coworker quit using flash lights to read magazines so people wouldn't think we had power, we still had people pulling on the door that i was sitting behind yelling "WE HAVE NO POWER WE ARE CLOSED", they responded "But I just need cigarettes!!!!!"

After my coworker left, I actually backed my car into the door where there was no way to get in.... I had someone seriously wake me up from my nap to ask me If I could move the car because I was blocking the door.... HELLO the city has been without power for 3hrs, there is a reason I'm taking a nap in my locked car with a radio.

So, yes, I understand, people are stupid and have no concept that despite no power, or severe damage, your not going to magically open up because they complain they need something.

[Seshat]

I can see myself BSoDing sometimes when things don't go as planned - but that's due to stress overload. (My base pain/illness level is high enough that normal life can push me into stress overload.)

I can understand people BSoDing - especially the ones who came to the mall because the tornado damaged their homes/property, or to get something for a loved one in the hospital due to the tornadoes. Stress overload in both cases.

But ones who just wanted to go to the mall and are in 'normal day' mode? I .. don't get it. I just don't.


Note: when I BSoD like that, I either stop and wait and reboot and re-plan, or if I'm really overloaded, I get my husband or my best friend to brain for me.
"I can't brain today. I have the dumb."

[Cancer_Rat]

what are customers today, i bet they are like the Tachikoma's and have a collective Stupidity always syncing their data

[NateTheChops]

I understand that SC's are in their own world..

It's because you're assuming logic is a factor here.

When it comes right down to it, we are the only species that preserves threats to the gene pool rather than eliminates them. So over the years, as diseases are cured or at least relegated to non-life threatening status, injuries are repaired and new advancements in technology prevent long term damage to the body, the need for self preservation has become as vestigial as the appendix.

Now, to you and I, roof off the building following a series of natural disasters would indicate that it is not the optimal shopping conditions, nor is it entirely conducive to our well being to go thumbing through posters at Spencer's Gifts.

But to the denizens of which we speak, such thoughts are an alien concept. They don't need them because if they get hurt, 911, lawsuits and other factors remove the need for personal responsibility and/or the aformentioned self preservation.

The short of all that is: Stupidity. As Jester said.

[customersruinmylife]

This reminds me of the time the pub roof caved in...and the lady who demanded I crawl under the wreckage so she could get some cigarettes.

[tropicsgoddess]

This reminds me of the time the pub roof caved in...and the lady who demanded I crawl under the wreckage so she could get some cigarettes.

Holy crap! The vast amount of stupidity and entitlement SC's have never ceases to appall me.

[Aethian]

"This mall is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It's pushing up daisies! It's roof structures are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-MALL!!"



No, that really never does get old, actually. But thanks for asking.

that rocked jester

[depechemodefan]

I know what it is. I'm a janitor for the little shop of horrors, and frequently end up having to mop up all kinds of nightmares on the floor.

They insist on walking through my water, intruding on my bathroom cleaning, and anything else I'm cleaning. As it turns out, they've put their empty excuses for minds on a single object....

They have their brain focused on a single thing, and they won't be deflected by a little thing called reality, in any way at all.

That reminds me of the many times a day the cleaning crew will close a bathroom to clean it, though we have 3 other levels with a bathroom in each level, and people bitch about the bathroom being closed. The poor cleaning crew also shoot daggers at the dregs that walk in anyway and say, "I just need to use it for a min." Yeah, the 5 guys before you said the same thing, and the cleaner has been standing out side the door for more than 10 min total.

Also, one dreg of humanity had to use the bathroom that was closed for cleaning. he sent a bill to the library for a dry cleaner to clean his pants, and I understand some moron here paid that bill. I hate this man in general, he thinks he's a lawyer (he might have been one) but is always ragging us on the rules (well, you say this computer is for research; how do you define "research"? Oh, well that is what I'm doing" when all he does is check his email. Or the time he used our Emergency phone just to call a buddy that he was leaving the library and getting a beer.)

[Antisocial_Worker]

I read this morning about how the manager of the Lowe's home improvement store saved the lives of his employees and dozens of customers by herding them all into a safe room just as the tornado bearing down on Sanford, NC began to tear the roof off the building.

In that article it described how one of the employees was leading customers to safety and had to yell at them when several stopped to take video of the roof coming off with their cell phone cameras.

Yes, stupidity has reached epidemic proportions.

[AriGriffin]

I was at the Omni Cinemas when the tornado touched down in Fayetteville, NC (about 3-4 miles from the tornado's path). The electricity went off, stopping the movies. People were more worried about getting a $2-3 voucher/refund for their ruined movie than they were about their safety. Mom, my cousin, and I waited the storm out in the theater's restroom while the rest of the patrons left the theater completely, waited around outside, or stayed in the lobby near the huge windows.
When we were leaving, people were trying to get into the theater despite there being a sign on the door saying they were closed and the power being obviously off.

[LillFilly]

Oh.

Additionally, when we were TRYING to evacuate, for which you must be x-number of feet away from the building, customers REFUSED to come-out from under the awnings and into the parking lot...because they didn't want to get wet.

Was also told that some employees got in trouble for not being at their shifts, when they were turned-away on the road by police and fire on the road, due to the property being evacuated!

[Sapphire Silk]

I do find it strange that the corporate rules of the department stores in this situation.

I do understand that the rules should keep the mall entrances open as a way to escape should something happen. It reduces their liability.

However common sense (I know, good sense is no longer common) should say that the liability of letting customers exit under an area where a steel beam or several hundreds of pounds of roofing material falling might kill people.

You might want to suggest that to them and have them call Corporate and see if they'll lift that rule on a temporary basis until the mall is fixed.

IT also strikes me that they may not have even thought of calling Corporate and saying "I know the rule is the rule but..."

To hell with calling Corporate. The manager had an obligation to protect public safety by closing that mall entrance. He would not escape liability if someone walked from the store into the mall and got hurt by pleading, "but it was corporate policy!"

I doubt his District Manager would have said boo about closing that door in extraordinary circumstances like this.

And if he did, then that just means the store needed to be closed. Let's face facts; just because the store's roof didn't come off doesn't mean it is safe.

[MoonCat]

I'm with Jester on this. These people are stupid. STOOOOPID. Terminally, permanently, no-holds-barred Stupid with a capital S.

Additionally, when we were TRYING to evacuate, for which you must be x-number of feet away from the building, customers REFUSED to come-out from under the awnings and into the parking lot...because they didn't want to get wet.

And these....are the same idiots who gather under the tallest tree during a lightning storm. Darwinism in action, anyone?