The 2013 Black Friday B.S. Thread

[Steelgrave]

Frickin'  idiots

I once had a customer who was in drive thru get impatient with the older gent ahead of him who was having a hard time making up his mind. Just so you know, my Starbucks averaged well under three minutes per car in drive thru during peak times. Impatient customer gets out of his car, goes up to the older gent (who's window is down because he is ordering), curses him and spits in his face.

All this was witnessed on our camera. We gave the old gent his coffee and sandwich for free. When the a**hole came up to the window, I told him he was barred from my Starbucks forever (the only one in town, thank you).  A cop inside my store (I always had cops in my store, ha!) stopped the old gent in our parking lot and got his information, then stopped the a**hole as he was exiting the drive thru and wrote him a summons.

Every now and then...bad people get what's coming to them.

[endfire79]

Years ago I worked at a Canadian Tire store. During the holidays, a guy came to the customer service desk to return a toaster oven. He had used it but didn't clean it at all (it was  a mess).  The manager on shift that night was a woman who was about 4 1/2 feet, and she refused the return, for obvious reasons.  The guy must have been nuts and had a fit, and then decided to throw the toaster oven at her.  Good thing she was short and that he wasn't too bright. She didn`t flinch for some reason, and the thing flew over the counter (and her head), out the store, and into a security guard passing by. 

[GDS_Starfury]

Getting into a fight at Starbucks? That's almost as bad as fighting for a Tickle Me Elmo.

the Grogheads store should have a Tickle Me Gus.
just sayin...

[Gusington]

^You say that like there's something wrong with it.

I don't understand why anyone would ever spit in anyone's face...WTF?? Throwing toasters? WTF is wrong with people?

[GDS_Starfury]

She didn`t flinch for some reason, and the thing flew over the counter (and her head), out the store, and into a security guard passing by.

into?  was he bent over?

do I really want to know.

[Steelgrave]

^You say that like there's something wrong with it.

I don't understand why anyone would ever spit in anyone's face...WTF?? Throwing toasters? WTF is wrong with people?

That's a question for the ages, Tickle Me Gus.

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.newsobserver.com/2009/12/05/226354/resident-says-helicopter-flew.html

[Steelgrave]

http://www.newsobserver.com/2009/12/05/226354/resident-says-helicopter-flew.html

Weird. I know a Brant Guillory. Small world, eh?

[bayonetbrant]

the high school football player from Wisconsin?

[Steelgrave]

the high school football player from Wisconsin?

Wisconsin haz football? Who knew?

[endfire79]

She didn`t flinch for some reason, and the thing flew over the counter (and her head), out the store, and into a security guard passing by.

into?  was he bent over?

do I really want to know.

His aim wasn't that true :)

The store really got interesting when all the Inuits (eskimos) came down to cash in their welfare checks after getting boozed up.

[BanzaiCat]

Well, my Black Friday plans are in the crapper, thank goodness!

That 55" 1080p I wanted to get was available online about an hour earlier than indicated...must have meant midnight EST, although they did not specify. Just refreshed the page and there it was, for the taking. Free shipping and all, too. Thank GOD, no waiting in f*cking lines for me tomorrow! Woo-hoo!!!

Also, to add...I worked retail for many years, over too many Christmases to count. My first Christmas retail job was for Babbage's back in Christmas 1989. It was off and on for different companies from there. My last retail job was managing a Hollywood Video, back in 1997. Thank Christ I don't work in retail any more...I blame retail for giving me much of my cynicism and lack of faith in humanity.

[MetalDog]

^You and I surely must have crossed paths somewhere along the line.  Both Babbages and Hollywood Video were in the mall I worked in.

[GDS_Starfury]

MetalBlart has a ring to it.   ;)



I did my time in a Kay-B-Toys.

[Martok]

Frickin'  idiots

I once had a customer who was in drive thru get impatient with the older gent ahead of him who was having a hard time making up his mind. Just so you know, my Starbucks averaged well under three minutes per car in drive thru during peak times. Impatient customer gets out of his car, goes up to the older gent (who's window is down because he is ordering), curses him and spits in his face.

All this was witnessed on our camera. We gave the old gent his coffee and sandwich for free. When the a**hole came up to the window, I told him he was barred from my Starbucks forever (the only one in town, thank you).  A cop inside my store (I always had cops in my store, ha!) stopped the old gent in our parking lot and got his information, then stopped the a**hole as he was exiting the drive thru and wrote him a summons.

Every now and then...bad people get what's coming to them.

Great story, Steelie!  You should submit that one to [/b]]Not Always Right.  :D 

http://www.newsobserver.com/2009/12/05/226354/resident-says-helicopter-flew.html

Yeah, that would've pissed me off too.  I love that you're supposed to somehow get the heli's ID number when it's several hundred feet up in the air...  :-\ 

Well, my Black Friday plans are in the crapper, thank goodness!

That 55" 1080p I wanted to get was available online about an hour earlier than indicated...must have meant midnight EST, although they did not specify. Just refreshed the page and there it was, for the taking. Free shipping and all, too. Thank GOD, no waiting in f*cking lines for me tomorrow! Woo-hoo!!!

Also, to add...I worked retail for many years, over too many Christmases to count. My first Christmas retail job was for Babbage's back in Christmas 1989. It was off and on for different companies from there. My last retail job was managing a Hollywood Video, back in 1997. Thank Christ I don't work in retail any more...I blame retail for giving me much of my cynicism and lack of faith in humanity.

Glad you dodged the bullet, BC.  :) 

I'm glad I've never worked retail.  My faith in humanity is already fragile enough.