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C'mon, everybody. What kind of characters do you run into every day? Here's your chance to vent!

I've got the "on your side" boss. My boss is convinced that because he thinks he's looking out for me somehow he's making my life easier. What he doesn't realize is that the only real problems I have to face come from him. Whenever I see him stick up for me I just kinda *sigh*. Cest la vi.

The money's good and my work helps a lot of people, though, so I can't really complain. I wonder what it would be like to be a process server....

I'm no longer employed but I've got second hand story from a few years ago.

This is from back with I was still in the Army, told to me by a soldier in my platoon, I'll call him Krev.  Both of us were lower enlisted and tasked as APC operators (drivers) at the time this event happened.

So my platoon was on a demo mission in BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) with a few soldiers from another platoon.  I was parked about a quarter mile up a road to make sure no traffic came through, Krev was with his squad at the blast site.  Captured munitions were dumped into a hold in the ground and the soldiers that Krev was with had gotten everything ready for the blast.  The fuse was popped and everybody at the blast site moved away from the blast area.

Big boom... Krev's squad leader tells him to move back to the blast site to make sure everything blew up like it was supposed to.  A few minutes later one of the Sergeants that was in his track comes walking back, with an armload of unexploded C-4, still primed, that didn't explode.... oh, and did I mention that the C-4 didn't explode when it was supposed to?  

---Now, think back to playing with firecrackers will you?  If your black cat or M-80 doesn't explode after you light the fuse, you don't run back out and pick it up and carry it around, do you?  I didn't think so.  The same applies to demolitions in the military, if the stuff don't blow up, you add more explosives and try to blow up the unexploded explosives.  You don't pick everything up and walk around with it, unless you have a freakin death wish or are a complete dumb ass.

So here is Krev, a lower enlisted soldier being put into the position of having to ask a Sergeant, who outranks him, what the hell he is doing carrying an armload of unexploded C-4, still primed, back to the APC that has several more crates of C-4.  Krev is trying to tell the Sergeant to take the C-4 away from the track, while the Sergeant is trying to tell Krev to put the UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE back in the crates with the rest of the C-4.  This argument lasted about five minutes and was quickly ended by the Squad Leader showing up and asking what the hell the dumb ass Sergeant thought he was doing.  Dumb ass Sergeant takes his armload of demolitions back to the blast site and does what he should have done the first time and blow it up in place.

The dumb ass Sergeant received no punishment.. at all.. what.. so.. ever, for doing something that was against standard operating procedures and dangerously stupid.  This became reason 10,987 why I needed to get out of the military.

I used to work at the movie theater in the summer which was inside a big mall. One day I was ripping tickets and then this guy with a limp walked up to me and asked if he could go into the theater. I replied, "Sorry, but I can't let you in without a ticket." The guy tells me his life story about how both of his parents died when he was sixteen and that he has been living on the streets ever since. The funny thing is, he was wearing fancy clothes, had headphones and a gold chain or necklace around his neck, and was holding a shopping bag (with clothes maybe). He goes on to say that there is a law that allows disabled people to access accommodations. I tell him, "I've never heard of any such law." He then says "If you let me in you will be rewarded on the 'Day of Judgment.'" At that point I really just wanted to bust out laughing but I didn't since I didn't want to come across as an asshole. He then finally left. Talk about an awkward/weird situation?

i saw this at first glance and thought it said " stupid salt you run into at work"

Quote from: "quizlixx"i saw this at first glance and thought it said " stupid salt you run into at work"

Me too. Maybe  we  should call things by their true names to avoid confusion.

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Quote from: "quizlixx"i saw this at first glance and thought it said " stupid salt you run into at work"

Me too. Maybe  we  should call things by their true names to avoid confusion.

ok, back to the topic. This happened to me today at the pizza place where i work part time. So a guy comes in, about 40, got two kids, the kids are both around twelve and 5'10. so they sit down and i take their order. the dad orders two large sausage pizzas, no big deal right, a family of 3 getting some dinner, right? no, as i turn to the kitchen,they stop me and the proceed to order 5 more pizzas, 5 f*cking large pizzas. 8 pizzas for three people. and they leave and i go to clean the table, they have eaten the entire meal, not one pizza crust was left.    bastards didn't even tip me.

Quote from: "quizlixx"ok, back to the topic. This happened to me today at the pizza place where i work part time. So a guy comes in, about 40, got two kids, the kids are both around twelve and 5'10. so they sit down and i take their order. the dad orders two large sausage pizzas, no big deal right, a family of 3 getting some dinner, right? no, as i turn to the kitchen,they stop me and the proceed to order 5 more pizzas, 5 f*cking large pizzas. 8 pizzas for three people. and they leave and i go to clean the table, they have eaten the entire meal, not one pizza crust was left.    bastards didn't even tip me. :eek:

On my way home from school today I saw an elderly woman drive into the wrong driveway then pull out and almost hit the car behind her.

When I was working at a pizza place, there was a lady who wanted to order a pizza with a coupon for two dollars off. This person would always pay with exact change, which is weird because most people just round up to the nearest dollar, even if they're not going to give much of a tip.

She had to do the math for herself at home in addition to me telling her the total. But what she didn't understand is that when you used a coupon like that, you're still paying sales tax (8.25 cents per each dollar) for the non-discounted total, then having the $2 taken out.

So instead of

(18.95 - 2.00) * 1.0825 = 18.35

it was more like

(18.95 * 1.0825) - 2.00 = 18.51

So there was a difference of 16 cents, and she made a big deal about it. I told her how that sales tax was calculated and she started arguing with me, like it was our 8.25 cents to the dollar to keep. In the end, she did the "I'll call you back thing," which usually means they won't.

I started my new job yesterday.  Learned something irritating today.  Were you aware that in Texas, "scripture" is tax free?  (I asked if that included religious texts other than the Bible.  Nupe.)  *grumbles*  Yet another way for the Christian religion to shift more of the tax burden onto me.  

Quote from: "jrosebud"I started my new job yesterday.  Learned something irritating today.  Were you aware that in Texas, "scripture" is tax free?  (I asked if that included religious texts other than the Bible.  Nupe.)  *grumbles*  Yet another way for the Christian religion to shift more of the tax burden onto me.  

Geebus... that's so not right!!!  Taxes are government... scripture is religion.  How can they do that???  Of course, it's Texas.  They're exempt from everything, including brains (present company excluded, of course).

On my first tour in Iraq the army hired Iraqis to build a gym. Well 6 months later the engineers inspected it an said the wiring was "not up to code" so they closed it for a week to rewire it up to spec. 2 days later I came back from pratrol and it had burned to the ground...       ... from an electical fire. 6months of Iraqi wiring = no problems 2 days with "up to spec" wiring = fire. Sorry Jolly sapper but your boys screwed the phooch on that one.

Well, I don't (technically) have a job, but I do help fix computers and sometimes I've been referred to for computer building help. So, one day, I get a woman carrying a computer case, AMD motherboard, an Intel processor, a box of hard drives (a bunch of old, used ones that were probably thrown out), and a car battery.

She asked me if I could build her a computer with all of that. :lol:

Quote from: "Tanker"On my first tour in Iraq the army hired Iraqis to build a gym. Well 6 months later the engineers inspected it an said the wiring was "not up to code" so they closed it for a week to rewire it up to spec. 2 days later I came back from pratrol and it had burned to the ground...       ... from an electical fire. 6months of Iraqi wiring = no problems 2 days with "up to spec" wiring = fire. Sorry Jolly sapper but your boys screwed the phooch on that one.

Actually, as a Combat Engineer, the only things I was trained to build involved explosives.  If WE'D rewired anything you'd have come back from your patrol to a smouldering crater where the gym used to be.  

Quote from: "tmd"When I was working at a pizza place, there was a lady who wanted to order a pizza with a coupon for two dollars off. This person would always pay with exact change, which is weird because most people just round up to the nearest dollar, even if they're not going to give much of a tip.

She had to do the math for herself at home in addition to me telling her the total. But what she didn't understand is that when you used a coupon like that, you're still paying sales tax (8.25 cents per each dollar) for the non-discounted total, then having the $2 taken out.

So instead of

(18.95 - 2.00) * 1.0825 = 18.35

it was more like

(18.95 * 1.0825) - 2.00 = 18.51

So there was a difference of 16 cents, and she made a big deal about it. I told her how that sales tax was calculated and she started arguing with me, like it was our 8.25 cents to the dollar to keep. In the end, she did the "I'll call you back thing," which usually means they won't.

I just recently quit my job as a cashier at a grocery store, and I had someone just like this walk through my co-worker's line.

Lady has a coupon she just pulled off a bag of chips - buy two of the bags of chips, get a dollar soda free (the coupon also CLEARLY states the value of the coupon is good for $1).  

Co-worker (who is also one of my good friends) rings everything up, and the woman starts bitching.  The small soda she got from the fridge rang up at $0.99 + tax, so it came to $1.07.  You'd thought we'd charged her $70 over, she threw such a piss fit.  "The coupon says it's FREE.  So I WANT the stupid soda FREE."

We tried to tell her that, yes, the coupon takes a dollar off, but there's still tax.  Seriously, if you don't like it, pick another country to live in.  But in the end my manager just gave her the seven cents off.

I sure did encounter some crazies when I worked at that store.  I could write a book about them.

Ahhahahah...
I just quit my job at a retail computer store.  We'd constantly get people complaining that "I BOUGHT THIS PRINTER FROM YOU GUYS, IT SHOULD BE YOUR POLICY TO FIX IT IF IT BREAKS!" or, similarly, to retrieve data off the harddrives and flash drives we sell.
We do sell warranties on printers and they otherwise tend to have a year manufacturer warranty, but we're not the manufacturer.

Target sells croc pots.  If it goes bad, you don't bitch at the exchanges people about how they should be legally liable to fix it if it goes bad. ;P

Oh, and this one time some older gentlemen was telling the comp repair department that he should get a military discount because, "If it weren't for people like my son, YOU GUYS WOULDN'T HAVE A JOB!!"
I thought military discounts were for... people in the military, and not their parents.

Quote from: "Moosader"Ahhahahah...
I just quit my job at a retail computer store.  We'd constantly get people complaining that "I BOUGHT THIS PRINTER FROM YOU GUYS, IT SHOULD BE YOUR POLICY TO FIX IT IF IT BREAKS!" or, similarly, to retrieve data off the harddrives and flash drives we sell.
We do sell warranties on printers and they otherwise tend to have a year manufacturer warranty, but we're not the manufacturer.

Target sells croc pots.  If it goes bad, you don't bitch at the exchanges people about how they should be legally liable to fix it if it goes bad. ;P

Oh, and this one time some older gentlemen was telling the comp repair department that he should get a military discount because, "If it weren't for people like my son, YOU GUYS WOULDN'T HAVE A JOB!!"
I thought military discounts were for... people in the military, and not their parents.

I wonder if it ever occurred to him: If it weren't for people like you, his son wouldn't have a job.