Darth Homer Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Found this on MSNBC's Opinion page, under the Weird News heading. This is a perfect illustration of exactly the kind of people I have to deal with on a daily basis. First, there are a couple of things to remeber while reading this: 1. I work tech support for Food Lion stores 2. Food Lion is a grocery store chain on the East coast that covers from Fla. to around Maryland 3. We generally get calls similar to this even though this is not something we should/can handle In September, Michael Christopher Harris, 24, was arrested after he tried to pass a $200 bill with a photo of George W. Bush at a Blue Flame convenience store in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but then police found out that before that, he had actually gotten a cashier at a Food Lion in town to accept one, and give him back change. I do not know if we got called on this issue, but it sounds exactly like something that would be called in. Them - "One of my cashiers just accepted a bogus $200 bill, what should I do?" What I think - "You mean you think there are legitimate $200 bills?" What I really would say - "Call the Police and then Loss Prevention?" Them - "OK...what's the number to the Police?" Me - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praetorian Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 People are idiots. Plan and simple. BTW - like your sig. Tech support...MUHAHAHA EDIT: wow, think of the person when they got their pan counted when they got off. I knew people when I worked @ Publix who would probably do that. Very blond, if you get my drift.* *if you are blond and this offends you...to bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfnshannon Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I'm blonde and not offended. Some people are complete idiots! I feel your pain. I am the Inventory support for graveyard. As you can imagine...not too many of the "bright" ones work graveyard. I just happen to be one of the only twenty year olds around here. I am a "newb". Anyways. I am in charge of the inventory, I manipulate the system to reflect what is outside and when ever they can't find a box, I replace it with something else. Every day I am given this statement by a dumbfounded employee...."We can't find a box"...."can you?"....I'm like...ya let me just search through our 17,500 Locations in this warehouse full of 50,000 different products and find you your one box..... Then in amazement I punch up on my little computer and say "here's one!" They stand there in dumbfounded amazement... "wow you type fast" .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SE_Vader_536 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 there's only one simple response to this: the world is a dumb place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediduo Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Yeah, retail sucks. I've worked in food retail, book retail, and clothes retail, and all of them suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted October 3, 2003 Author Share Posted October 3, 2003 Originally posted by Chase Windu Originally posted by SE_Vader_536 the world is a dumb place... Then why am I here? You just answered your own question before you asked it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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