Sure, Make Yourself Later For Work.

[NateTheChops]

For a damn newspaper.

Had a college professor who would do that every day, especially if it was busy. Always got indignant if I told him he'd have to come back, like he couldn't just buy the paper from the bookstore at the university or something.

[purplecat41877]

They also have online papers. They can be accessed anytime even when local stores are sold out.

[MoonCat]

There are the same people who show up for work late with a cup of take-out coffee in one hand, and don't understand why the boss is pissed. Hello--you stopped for a coffee at the drive-thru, it made you late--is there a lesson here?

[BlaqueKatt]

I hate killing animals (including bugs) with a passion, unless they are poisonous or will bite me.

pet peeve-a poisonous creature would only harm those that would eat it a venomous creature harms those it bites/stings.

ladybugs are poisonous.(don't eat them)
scorpions are venomous.(they may try to eat you)

[mharbourgirl]

Crane flies, I'm sorry to report, don't eat mosquitoes, more's the pity.

They eat the roots of grass. Or the larvae do. The adults only eat nectar if they eat at all.

They are completely harmless to people, if that makes you feel any better. They make decent bait, though.

/sidetrack

[ralerin]

Call me crazy, but wasn't there ANOTHER newspaper you could have scanned? It doesn't excuse her level of suck, but it would have made YOUR life easier

Not in easy reach nor do we have a handy dandy barcode list that scans. I could've let it go through the register as Merchandise-General, but the newspapers don't get the credit if we do. And besides, she was a bitch.

[wolfie]

pet peeve-a poisonous creature would only harm those that would eat it a venomous creature harms those it bites/stings.

ladybugs are poisonous.(don't eat them)
scorpions are venomous.(they may try to eat you)

Pufferfish (a.k.a. Fugu) are poisonous - Japanese chefs have to take a special course to be able to prepare them (somewhat) safely, and the final exam is eating their own product.

Rattlesnakes are venomous but not poisonous - I've heard that a number of people in the southwestern U.S. think they're delicious.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Rattlesnakes are venomous but not poisonous - I've heard that a number of people in the southwestern U.S. think they're delicious.

They are also considered tasty in parts of the southeastern US.

[fma_fanatic]

Double Bonus: Wusses

So manager A and cashier N2 freaked out over a crane fly, and ordered me to kill it. Poor thing was lost and scared enough, so I trapped it and released it outside. I hate killing animals (including bugs) with a passion, unless they are poisonous or will bite me.

Ahh, so that's what that is. My dad used to call them mosquito eaters. Maybe next time A and N2 freak over it, you can tell them that one less crane fly means one more mosquito. I'm sure they'd love that.

[Monica]

They also have online papers. They can be accessed anytime even when local stores are sold out.

Most of the time, that only shows part of the news in the paper. You have to have a subscription (paid ahead) and you get a username and password to log in with, in order to get the full paper. At least that is how it is a the paper I work at.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

I love the part where paper lady says she's going to go buy her paper somewhere else...because she's already late for work.

[Jester]

(Put up 3 fingers) Or 3, try to leave without it being scanned and get police called on you for theft. Between the security cameras, my cell phone and your vehicle license plate number, it would be a slam dunk prosecution.

Okay, sure this lady was a whiny bitch, and I am not siding with her, but....seriously?

Cops? Prosecution? I am relatively sure that the cops wouldn't bother arresting her for this (especially since she attempted to pay, albeit erroneously), just because the paperwork for something like that would make it not worth the effort. And what prosecutor would bother with this case? Hell, I'd bet quite a bit that the cops in question would be annoyed with having their time wasted on that call.

Now, if you're just saying that to fuck with the bitch's head, I'm all for it. But otherwise, I have to question it strongly, my friend.

They also have online papers. They can be accessed anytime even when local stores are sold out.

Yet another great use for the Kindle. I often buy my USA Today or the Arizona Republic (if I want to catch up on back home news) on my Kindle. Takes less time than it would for me to find the newspaper machine--and of course, we don't HAVE Arizona Republic machines here in Key West! Sadly, the local KW paper still is not Kindle-friendly, but then again, it's not much of a paper, so it's all good.

I was annoyed to find out the other day that Sports Illustrated--hell, virtually every sports magazine--is still not Kindle-friendly.

Pufferfish (a.k.a. Fugu) are poisonous - Japanese chefs have to take a special course to be able to prepare them (somewhat) safely, and the final exam is eating their own product.

Now THERE'S a final exam that the vast majority of students are NOT going to try to cheat on!

Rattlesnakes are venomous but not poisonous - I've heard that a number of people in the southwestern U.S. think they're delicious.

I have heard this too. Yet, despite BEING from the Southwest, I have never had the pleasure of trying rattlesnake.

[Blade_Raver]

Okay, sure this lady was a whiny bitch, and I am not siding with her, but....seriously?

Cops? Prosecution? I am relatively sure that the cops wouldn't bother arresting her for this (especially since she attempted to pay, albeit erroneously), just because the paperwork for something like that would make it not worth the effort. And what prosecutor would bother with this case? Hell, I'd bet quite a bit that the cops in question would be annoyed with having their time wasted on that call.

Now, if you're just saying that to fuck with the bitch's head, I'm all for it. But otherwise, I have to question it strongly, my friend.

Jester - People have been taken to jail for lesser amounts of money. In this situation, it's not the value stolen, but the principle behind it.

Let that one douchebag go, and it'll enable other douchebags to do it. Therefore, the 3 options..

[Jester]

Blade, if the SC was actually trying to steal the newspaper, I'd have no issue with that. But, while she did not go through the store's preferred method of paying for the paper, she DID give the cashier money for the paper. The security tapes would only back her up on that. And I have a hard time picturing a cop not saying to the cashier, "Yeah, she was a flippin' idiot, but you couldn't have scanned another paper and taken her money?" Let alone what a judge would say.

[Blade_Raver]

Blade, if the SC was actually trying to steal the newspaper, I'd have no issue with that. But, while she did not go through the store's preferred method of paying for the paper, she DID give the cashier money for the paper. The security tapes would only back her up on that. And I have a hard time picturing a cop not saying to the cashier, "Yeah, she was a flippin' idiot, but you couldn't have scanned another paper and taken her money?" Let alone what a judge would say.

You make a good point. You're right.

Maybe a work around solution is to have a spare barcode at the register and hit that when situations like this happen.