Wet Floor Walkers

[Sandman]

i would have let her fall.. then call the cops for attempted fraud

[Shalom]

i would have let her fall.. then call the cops for attempted fraud

Been done. Saw on one of the ER blogs, in Philadelphia every time there was a bus accident, they'd get swamped with "passengers" claiming they were "injured", just so they'd get paid off by the transit agency. One day a bus crashed right outside the hospital, and there were 50 "victims" all claiming to have been on the bus. Every one of them was led into another room, from which they emerged via the back door in handcuffs. Turns out the bus was out of service and dead-heading back to the garage...

[LillFilly]

Cleaning got into an argument over the wet floor signs with a Customer once. The guy walked right through and when he was called on it he responded "Well, they say 'wet floor,' they DON'T say 'do not walk!'

Another person argued that how could we know that they could read english? (The signs have pictures and are written in spanish) When we pointed this out, they then responded that how could we know that they could read. Well, that's what the picture is for.

[ShadowBall]

I'm one of the most zoned-out people I know, and even I take notice of wet floor signs. The big yellow thing in the middle of the floor is kinda hard to miss. I think an experience from back in grade school made me learn to watch the floors upon which I'm walking. Some little kid puked in the hallway and the janitor threw sawdust on it. I didn't see it amongst the usual between-class chaos and I slipped in it.

Not fun smelling like vomit all day long, especially when it's not even your own.

I swear, sometimes I think we as a species are devolving. Normal human instinct is to stay away from shit that will hurt you or make you sick, yet things like puddles of hazardous chemicals, piles of glass, and wet floors seem to attract people. Sometimes I wonder if you just didn't put up any signs at all if fewer people would go near the affected area. Is this why now, rather than going to the basement to try and survive, people go OUTSIDE during tornadoes to film them? Because people are getting dumber and seem to find bad things enjoyable?

[Blue Ginger]

To quote Terry Pratchett (Hogfather).

Dean: And there's the sign, Ridcully. You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door"?
Ridcully: Of course I've read it. Why d'yer think I want it opened?
Lecturer in Recent Runes: Er...why?
Ridcully: To see why they wanted it shut of course.

There is another quote I wanted to post about the universe ending because someone wanted to know what would happen when they pushed a button. But my copy is back in Oz and too far away to reach. But this quote perfectly describes why people just ignore the signs. It's the 'I wanna know what will happen' factor.

[Caractacus_Potts]

The idiot probably just thought she could act like she'd fallen and hurt herself so she could either get free stuff from you guys, or that she could sue them for allowing her to fall on her poor little tushy (regardless of the signs) and get her next house payment from that. Morons.

I actually worked for a Burger King years ago that had a heavy glass door that was broken. If you opened it and let it go it would swing back and forth like a pendulum. One day I was cleaning the lobby and a guy walked in with a woman coming in behind him. I think the woman thought he was going to hold the door for her but he had no idea she was there. When he let the door go it swung back and knocked that woman on her ass.

That's one time when I think a customer might have had justification for a lawsuit; management knew the door was broken and just had not fixed it. The guy and I helped her up and she just laughed it off.

Been done. Saw on one of the ER blogs, in Philadelphia every time there was a bus accident, they'd get swamped with "passengers" claiming they were "injured", just so they'd get paid off by the transit agency.

Cool! A few years go my wife and I were on the subway in Boston when our train was hit by another train. We both had to go to the emergency room. My wife was worse than me, she had been knocked unconscious in the accident and had hit her face on the seat in front of her. It took 7 stitches to close the hole in her lower lip.

All our friends and family told us to hire a lawyer and sue but all we wanted was the medical bills and compensation for our actual losses (both our prescription glasses were destroyed when they flew off our faces in the crash, my wife's clothes were destroyed from the blood, we had payed a non refundable $100 for the tickets to the Etta James concert we were going to, etc.). I think the lawyer for the transit authority was...amazed...when he realized we weren't looking for some payday.

They wound up giving us fifteen times more than what we asked for (they said it was for 'pain and suffering'). We bought granite counter tops for the kitchen (we call them our T-Tops since the subway is called the "T").

I heard a lot of people who weren't even on the train tried to file claims.

[Shalom]

There is another quote I wanted to post about the universe ending because someone wanted to know what would happen when they pushed a button.

If I remember correctly, it's something like "I tell you, the day someone finally pulls the plug out of the bottom of the universe, the chain will lead all the way back to Ankh-Morpork and some bugger saying `I just wanted to see what would happen.'" -- Master Lu-Tze the Sweeper, Thief Of Time That what you were thinking of?

[Kogarashi]

If I remember correctly, it's something like "I tell you, the day someone finally pulls the plug out of the bottom of the universe, the chain will lead all the way back to Ankh-Morpork and some bugger saying `I just wanted to see what would happen.'" -- Master Lu-Tze the Sweeper, Thief Of Time That what you were thinking of?

Most likely either that, or the one about a world-ending button with a big ol' red sign saying "Do not push, world-ending button," and how the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. (is too lazy to Google it)

[Blue Ginger]

Most likely either that, or the one about a world-ending button with a big ol' red sign saying "Do not push, world-ending button," and how the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. (is too lazy to Google it)

Yeah that was pretty close to the one I was thinking of. And I completely forgot about the other one. Thanks Shalom.

I miss my Terry Pratchett books. They are just too heavy to have shipped from the other side of the world. But glad people knew what I was talking about.

[dalesys]

But glad people knew what I was talking about.

Weep ratchet and roll around quite a-brit here.

[PepperElf]

i ran into something similar one day when i got to work opening hours...

opened the door to the ladies' room and took one step in before I realized it was very wet.

Me: I'll come back later when it's dry.


cos i mean my one step left a foot print and sure i needed to use the restroom but... not so badly that I couldn't hold it for a little longer.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I miss my Terry Pratchett books. They are just too heavy to have shipped from the other side of the world. But glad people knew what I was talking about.

I was able to download the first 32 Discworld novels from ePrint Studios. I have them on my Droid X smartphone.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I was able to download the first 32 Discworld novels from ePrint Studios. I have them on my Droid X smartphone.

... (makes a note of this)

[Blue Ginger]

I was able to download the first 32 Discworld novels from ePrint Studios. I have them on my Droid X smartphone.

So I am one of those people that computer geeks hate. I can do the basics on my mac, but have no clue how most stuff works. I just put up the white flag and one of my friends saves me.

But I'm betting these won't work on it? Damn and it would be so good to get lost in Discworld again.

[Little Retail Rabbit]

OH MY GOD what IS is with SCs and wet floors!?

Even though it was kinda naughty, we used to start mopping our floors around 5:10 (we shut at 5:30...the staff who do the cleaning used to only work until 5:30 and didn't get paid past that, so we would start cleaning prior to close so we could get out on time, but nowadays, staff are required to stay till 6 so that fixes that problem). We would lose count how many times we would have to redo the floors. We're a quiet shop at the best of times and normally we go dead around 4:45, but if you get out a mop, its as if SCs can smell it a mile away and start to move towards it. Most of the time, people just don't seem to notice the BRIGHT YELLOW SIGNS and the shiny floors and staff mopping back and forth, but there have been occassional instances of people just walking on it deliberately. I remember a foreign lady walking on my floor, looking back at me, laughing, and then leaving. My old assistant manager once threw out a young man who got bored of waiting for his bimbo girlfriend to pick out a last-minute outfit, and decided to deliberately slide and squelch over the newly cleaned men's section. 5 times. Each time he left it, AM would re-mop and he would return, laughing at the funny noises his shoes were making and relishing in the fact that we couldn't say anything.

(Or so he thought. AM told him he was out of order and to quit doing it, he laughed, so she told him the get the hell out of her shop XD).

The one that gets me everytime is just the vacuous, in-one-ear-out-the-other MORON customer who doesn't even seem to notice the wet floor when you have blatantly pointed it out. I mean, we can't say "KEEP OFF THE FLOOR WE DON'T WANT TO MOP IT AGAIN!" so we normally say something very polite and sweet such as "Oh be careful of that area, we just mopped it, we don't want you to slip and hurt yourself!" (We're lying about that last part mainly because not even half of everyone we say that to is persuaded by this warning not to walk on the floor...). We have 2 walkways- the MAIN walkway (which we never mop before close) and the men's walkway which is narrower, but closer to the till. We constantly (politely) suggest customers use the main walkway to exit and they seem to forget instantly. I honestly don't believe the majority of them are just doing it out of spite, either, I honestly think most of them are just that fucking stupid. The last time, I was serving the last customer, my manager was at the door (it was locked, waiting to let the customer out) and as I was ringing her up I was saying how annoying it is when customers walk over the mopped floors, hence why we try to do it after close etc. I said "take for instance that men's walkway. Thats wet and people could hurt themselves- the main walkway is right next to it and is dry but people never seem to notice. Its very tiring". The lady made sympathetic noises, we finished our apparently nice chat, she paid, and she started to leave...and walked straight through the wet men's walkway.

I wish we could keep guns under the counter in the UK, but I'd abuse that every single day