Love Thy Customer...

[Rlpreston]

Oh this thread is great!

I worked as a fast food manager for 5 years before I got married. I had the pleasure of managing stores in such places as Broadmeadows, Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park, Northland (Preston) in Vic and Palmerston NT. I couldn't even begin to express all the amazing behaviour I've seen!

The highlight would have to be:

After being banned from the store for engaging in a knife fight (in which I was inadvertently pepper sprayed :S) a group of 'men' returned days later and waited for me to walk outside with an order to a car. They pulled up beside me and grabbed me by the ankles trying to pull me into the car. I managed to escape and run inside as they proceeded to yell that they would kill me and send my body to another country, never to be found!

Talk about being crazy about burgers!

The same 'men' were later arrested after an armed robbery at the next closest store in the chain :/

 

[Performa]

...I'm speechless :|

Yeah thats very sad. Alot of people seem to forget that being a parent is a life long commitment regardless of any situation your kids come first. Sometimes I think some parents dont deserve to have kids.

 

[Rlpreston]

Yeah thats very sad. Alot of people seem to forget that being a parent is a life long commitment regardless of any situation your kids come first. Sometimes I think some parents dont deserve to have kids.

Agreed!

I wish there were some kind of licensing system to go through before you are allowed children! There seem to be a lot of 'parents' these days who are constantly putting their wants ahead of kids needs. Very sad indeed

FYI, my kids rule this house! Lol

 

[saintanger]

here is another one, both parents are unemployed and this 2 year old went to child care from 6.30am to 6.30pm literally the moment i opened the door till i locked up at 6.30pm

me: hi, i am ringing you to let you know your child has nits and center policy states she must be picked up and her hair be treated before she returns to pre-school
father: i'm to busy to get her
me: can you organise for her mum or a family member to pick her up?
father: NO we are to busy and she got the nits from you's
me: wen can you pick her up?
father: 6.30pm
me: ok, thank you.

wen he came to pick her up i asked nicely that they treat her hair. he said he would and left.

next day she came back with nits, i asked if mum or dad had done her hair she said no.

me: hi, i need you to pick up your daughter and treat her hair for nits
father: i'm to busy and so is her mum
me: then can i treat her hair for nits
father: yeah do what you want.

so during my lunch break i treated her hair and she loved it. 2 weeks later she had nits again but no other kids had nits in her class. so i gathered she was getting it from home.

 

[albinowoma]

$1/day daycare? where the hell is that????? but yeah some sort of better regulations need to be set up, esp for the inbreds/lowlifes haveing kids. if you are fat and your kid is fat too, you should be charged with child abuse. straight up and as simple as that... i think its disgusting and lazy parenting. it will be deemed as child abuse sooner or later, there has been a similar case in the usa about something along the lines of bad parents. teach your own kids the damm basics you lazy pieces of s..ts.

 

[saintanger]

$1/day daycare? where the hell is that????? but yeah some sort of better regulations need to be set up, esp for the inbreds/lowlifes haveing kids. if you are fat and your kid is fat too, you should be charged with child abuse. straight up and as simple as that... i think its disgusting and lazy parenting. it will be deemed as child abuse sooner or later, there has been a similar case in the usa about something along the lines of bad parents. teach your own kids the damm basics you lazy pieces of s..ts.

$1 a day is for non working parents and single parents on centerlink for up to 3 days a week they can have their kid there for $1 a day and centerlink pays the rest. dunno if its still the same or not.

 

[albinowoma]

-firstly.. thanks to shell477 for bumping this all the time surprised this isnt so much longer and updated daily lol

i am at a jobsearching place atm and asked about the $1 thing and a couple of girls laughed at me about that price so i dont know if its a diff state costing thing or some deal done like the parents benefits scheem or what?

i have worked in a aquarium shop in a certain lower class suburb in sthrn bris for 10 years, and must say i dont have kids which mayb factored into what i said above and what i will say...

in regards to first aid, technically if you youch that person in any way, they can sue you for assault (esp if you break a rib dont know common? doing cpr and/or puncture a lung. the police wont do anything against you, but if the fool thinks he/she might be able to get some free money, they might try to -
sue you. these cases are starting to happen more often and waste the courts time, you can thank the yanks for that and the morons here with that mentallity.hopefully better judgement along the way to the court room would prevail, you are better off leave them on the floor and wait till the police or ambulance get there, afterall you are not trained to help them. and even if you are... if i got a disease from helping them, what then. you have to be careful you dont get stuck with a needle, blood,saliva bodily fluids ect aids.

again, security guards are useless. i did a guards course and you are not allowed to touch anyone=assault. physically stop them from leaveing= deprevation of liberty. thanks america. they are allowed to only watch and follow the thief and wait till the police turn up. technically- someone can walk into your store and take anything they want and you can not stop them. realistically that may not happen and haveing the staff and or owners to stand there and watch this happen, i m sure just isnt going to happen. bouncers are diff, i didnt do that section at the time. the course was a bit dodgy too coz i top scored in the shooting part and they down graded the score to like 70% "because if i had to shoot someone, seeing as i am that good of a shot i should've been able to shoot the knife/gun out of his hand" ...I KNOW!!! more american movie bulldust and lawsuit crapolla. and if you are doing an armed escort (i think at the time it was only for money and valuables like gems ect- not for protecting people, that you were to carry guns) if you shot someone, well YOU would be the one in the wrong and more trouble then it was really worth.


the term "the customer is always right" was coined in 1902...

the conditions of sale and the type of customer has changed so much since then and has widely been accepted as being for lack of better terminology, a load of rubbish these days around the world. ................petshops

 

[Ramsayi]

in regards to first aid, technically if you youch that person in any way, they can sue you for assault (esp if you break a rib dont know common? doing cpr and/or puncture a lung. the police wont do anything against you, but if the fool thinks he/she might be able to get some free money, they might try to -
sue you. these cases are starting to happen more often and waste the courts time, you can thank the yanks for that and the morons here with that mentallity.hopefully better judgement along the way to the court room would prevail, you are better off leave them on the floor and wait till the police or ambulance get there, afterall you are not trained to help them. and even if you are... if i got a disease from helping them, what then. you have to be careful you dont get stuck with a needle, blood,saliva bodily fluids ect aids.

Not true.We have laws in place in this country to protect "good samaritans" such as Section 57 of the Civil Liability Act.
Everyone has a moral responsibility to help others who are in trouble.No wonder the country is turning to crap because of people not wanting to get involved.

 

[Leasdraco]

This is a great thread! I work at an animal park with friendly roos that love being fed. Only problems are when you get tourists manhandling the poor animals like just last week I had to tell someone who had a Joey in a headlock to hold it still for a photo to cut it out.

 

[caliherp]

Not true.We have laws in place in this country to protect "good samaritans" such as Section 57 of the Civil Liability Act.
Everyone has a moral responsibility to help others who are in trouble.No wonder the country is turning to crap because of people not wanting to get involved.

California has similar good samareitans laws. We also have the same problem with people not wanting to get involved. The mane reason people over here don't get involved is because to many people were getting sued. I acculy teach CPR classes part time and most of my students still think you can get sued.

 

[albinowoma]

damm it i just did another segment about the shops and its dissapeared.. oh well the caffiiiine has just worn off anyway. i will redo the aquarium thing later when i m on the comp again and not the phone.

theres a diff in not getting involved with a drug trucked p.o.s and someone thats broken the wrist in a fall or something. and i am not going to risk my life for a druggie no matter what you say think or do. do it yourself and get aids or hep b.c ect. as for getting involved, i have stepped in, when someone has been picking on another person, we all know the type i mean.. and helped out with other things. where ther is a large group or alot of people going past, the less chance there is someone helping. experiments have been done on this. no one wants to been seen outside the norm and to be seen as differnet,or to stand out. you have more chance of someone helping you the less people there are around. ironic isnt it.

we would all like to think that we would step in if needed to, but reality is that most wouldnt. and dont.

 

[Ramsayi]

The fact is that no one has ever been sued in this country as a result of being a good samaritan.If I am wrong I would love for you to show me an example.Maybe the fact that people wont get involved helping someone in need is because of misinformation that gets bandied about as though it were fact.

 

[Cypher69]

No wonder the country is turning to crap because of people not wanting to get involved.

Point is, there's always 2 sides to every incident. I remember once seeing this guy utterly abuse this woman on the street to the point that she was in tears cowering in fear. I watched for several minutes hoping that somebody had called the cops but when the guy started to get a bit more physical, grabbing her arm & trying to drag her away, I intervened & held the guy long enough for the woman to get off the ground, stagger across the street & hail a cab.

The guy literally broke down crying in my arms...turns out he had just found out that morning that the woman was cheating on him with some guy she met online. She was flying off the next day with their 2 yr old son & refused to tell him hat country she was moving to.

I felt like a total d-bag for not only interfering but also for taking the "helpless woman's side".

 

[Ramsayi]

Point is, there's always 2 sides to every incident.

But we are talking about offering first aid to someone that is injured,not getting involved in domestic disputes.

 

[slide]

I thought we were talking about stories about customers not domestic disputes or first aid.
Funny how these threads get so off track that we forget what the thread is about.
This is a great thread, there are some cracker stories. Gotta love the crazies

 

[Performa]

Say NO to domestic violence.

What was this thread about???

 

[Lawra]

What was bad about my post???

 

[andynic07]

What was bad about my post???

Your a very very bad person.lol I didn't even get to see what either of you two put.

 

[Lawra]

Your a very bad person

Sometimes lol

 

[littlemay]

Thought i would add to this thread following a real charmer of a customer that i had yesterday.

This man was let in after close, along with a couple of other customers who insisted they just needed to grab one thing. As the shop was closed, all registers had either been settled, or were in the process of settling except for one, where i was putting through the final transactions. There was a line of maybe 5 people, with this 'gentleman' being at the end of the queue, so there was a bit of a wait which i apologised to each customer for.

At some point a woman walked up and began asking another staff member at the counter(who had finished their shift i might add) for advice on something, she was not purchasing anything. For some reason this man seemed to think i had allowed this woman to somehow 'cut in front of him' and became enraged at me when he reached me at the register. He spoke to me incredibly condescendingly, sarcastically asking me if i knew what the word 'queue' meant and even going so far as to spell 'queue' out for me.

I attempted to explain to him that only register was open and this woman was only asking for advice from another staff member, she was not in the line to be served. He didn't allow me to speak, instead calling me and my co-workers names. He threw his card at me upon payment and critised my ability 'to even work a till'. He then said 'it's no wonder you work in retail' and asked to speak to my manager. When my manager arrived he began calling her and all other staff incompetent idiots. She politely told him that if he was going to lower himself to name calling he would have to leave the store, which he did. We found the trolley he had used upturned in the middle of the empty carpark.