Taking a mental health day. I just...I thought about having to argue and be belittled by customers all day and I felt a numbing sense of dread.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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My absolute worst pet peeve. What it says to me is, "Not only am I too lazy to put this back where it belongs, I couldn't even be bothered to figure out whether I ever needed it in the first place."
--Patrick
I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE MY TYPO, IM SO SORRY @_@
I just want to chime in and say phone support is the worst. I did 8 years as phone tech support and cannot tell you how I managed to do it that long. It crushed my soul to the point that I got jury duty at one point and LIKED GOING TO THAT BETTER THAN WORK. You know, the thing everyone dreads and tries to get out of? Yeah, enjoyed the fuck out of it. Because at least I wasn't sitting on the ass-end of a phone trying to talk dumbasses through rebooting their computer or that no, you can't daisy chain 4 power supplies in a big loop and expect it to power anything*.
* - ACTUAL CALL I HAD. They had multiple surges running around the floor, each plugged into the next, and eventually back into the first and never into the wall. Didn't know why their registers were down.
* - ACTUAL CALL I HAD. They had multiple surges running around the floor, each plugged into the next, and eventually back into the first and never into the wall. Didn't know why their registers were down.
UNLIMITED POWAH!
You aren't good at pattern recognition are you?
My girlfriend does this all the damn time and it makes me not want to be seen with her. I don't get how she can do it when she's actually worked retail, surely she's aware.
I just saw a clickbait ad that Robert MacNeil and Garret Wang want to do some Captain Proton thing and I think I would rather eat glass.
Also, I am 100% that piece of shit that will drop an item off anywhere in the store when I see a better sale or some endcap item that negates my need for it. I'm sorry.
Funnily enough, my biggest rage out is when people leave carts in the parking lot mere steps from the cart corral.
My first job was a grocery store merchandizer too when I was 14.
Also, I am 100% that piece of shit that will drop an item off anywhere in the store when I see a better sale or some endcap item that negates my need for it. I'm sorry.
Funnily enough, my biggest rage out is when people leave carts in the parking lot mere steps from the cart corral.
My first job was a grocery store merchandizer too when I was 14.
Pisses me off so much. Once I was with someone and I was putting the cart away and he told me i was being ridiculous and to just leave the cart or he'd drive off without me. I still regret not just slamming the cart into his car.
I mean yeah, don't leave meat or produce or frozen shit anywhere, that's ridiculous.
As a grocery store manager, I honestly don't care when customers do this. We pay people to put it back, that's fine. The only thing that bothers me is when people do it with refrigerated or frozen items. But sometimes I'll find cold items dropped off in another cold section and think "Cool, thank you for leaving it someplace cold"
As a grocery store customer, sometimes I will pick stuff up I find in the wrong place just because I'm headed over to where I know it belongs and can put it back. Like when I find a ball of mozzarella someone has dropped in with the bricks o' Kraft.
--Patrick
Maybe it's because my first job was in a grocery store, but leaving things in the wrong place drive me NUTS. Much like @PatrThom , if I see something in the wrong spot, I'll put it back myself. Or worse case scenario, I'll make sure to give it to the cashier or employee.
But the cart thing puts me over the edge. There are multiple cart corrals at almost every shopping center around here. There is no excuse. I will go and collect other peoples carts. Hell, I've had Li'l Z trained since he was little that we never leave a cart anywhere but a corral or in front of a store. I hate people bullshit excuses for just leaving carts lying around. Even when Li'l Z was in a baby carrier, I still either carried him with me to drop of the cart, or put him in our car, THEN put the cart back.
But the cart thing puts me over the edge. There are multiple cart corrals at almost every shopping center around here. There is no excuse. I will go and collect other peoples carts. Hell, I've had Li'l Z trained since he was little that we never leave a cart anywhere but a corral or in front of a store. I hate people bullshit excuses for just leaving carts lying around. Even when Li'l Z was in a baby carrier, I still either carried him with me to drop of the cart, or put him in our car, THEN put the cart back.
I was really looking forward to seeing HammerFall and Beast in Black play in Montreal on Thanksgiving, but they cancelled due to COVID. 
I was expecting it and I agree with the decision. Also, I'd seen both bands last year (separately), so it's not like I'd waited a decade to see them and they had to cancel (like what happened with Amorphis a couple of years ago). And if that's the worst thing that happens to me in this situation, I'll consider myself very lucky.
But still... Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine...
I was expecting it and I agree with the decision. Also, I'd seen both bands last year (separately), so it's not like I'd waited a decade to see them and they had to cancel (like what happened with Amorphis a couple of years ago). And if that's the worst thing that happens to me in this situation, I'll consider myself very lucky.
But still... Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine...
The cart corral is always a giant messy piece of shit when I go to the store. When I put my cart back, I rearrange it so small and large carts are neatly lined up, and then I push my cart in the right line. My wife always asks me if I'm trying to impress them and get a job. 
The problem I have is that for some reason stores in my area don't have a freakin' clue as to where to put cart corrals. Either that or they don't realize that it gets HOT out in Arizona, and the last thing you want to do is push a mostly metallic cart nearly halfway across the parking lot to a cart corral because if you do, you're going to end up sunburn before you get back to your car.
What are these "small" carts of which you speak? Before this whole COVID-19 situation, they were nowhere to be found at any hour.The cart corral is always a giant messy piece of shit when I go to the store. When I put my cart back, I rearrange it so small and large carts are neatly lined up, and then I push my cart in the right line. My wife always asks me if I'm trying to impress them and get a job.
We have two sizes of carts here, too. The bigger "Homeless person" size, and a smaller, two-tier "Nepalese flag profile" type.
--Patrick
