The Hind End of Space

fuckyeahretailrobin:

[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “Customer tries to use a fake rain check and wrong coupons to get items for free but ends up failing.”

Bottom Text: “Tries again a few days later.”]

Totally not kidding here. This happened to me just recently. This guy comes through my line with 10 yogurts and he had a rain check. Problem was, and I didn’t know this at first until he gave him his coupons, but his rain check was dated March 16th and it was on the EXACT same day he was trying to get the yogurt. How is that even possible? Plus the stamp we use to avoid fake rainchecks is supposed to be green. Not black, so it looked like a really fake rain check. And that’s not all. The coupons the guy gave me was supposed to be for the bigger size yogurts or 4 packs of them. He didn’t have that. I had to call one of the front clerks to explain why we couldn’t take the coupons and he said take them off and he walked off. I explained about the rain check (which by the way, the guy took with him) and the clerk told me he was probably trying to pull a fast one on me.

So, three days later, near the end of closing shift, the same guy comes in with the same yogurts, same fake rain check, and same coupons (along with a couple of more WRONG coupons) and tried to do it again on me. No joke! I saw immeditally that it was the same guy because of the rain check and I told him this is the same rain check that he tried to give me and it is not going to work this time. The funny part was that he said a few days ago, we didn’t have the yogurt. Give me a break, dude. You went through my line with oh my, 10 yogurts. Don’t give me the you were all out crap. The same front clerk didn’t remember him and she asked the manager if we can use his coupons. I tried to tell her that it was the same guy who tried to pull this same stunt just a few days ago. In the end, he said take the yogurts off, paid his other stuff up front and walked out.

Seriously, he must have thought no one will remember him. I warned the manager to warn all other stores to be aware of him. He may try it again. I managed to stop a thief for now. I just hope when he comes in when I’m not there, the cashier will look carefully at the rain check and his coupons.

My store probably just would have let him do it.

Because I work for a bunch of fucking tools. “IF YOU DISPLEASE ONE CUSTOMER THEY’LL TELL FIVE PEOPLE AND THOSE FIVE PEOPLE WILL EACH TELL FIVE PEOPLE AND THEN WE’LL ALL LOSE OUR JOBS.”

Seriously. THESE ARE THE KINDS OF PEOPLE I WORK WITH. For fuck’s sake, it is not a zombie infestation. GROW UP.