Ranting relaxes me. *grin*

That was by far the best line in the world xD

I'm from an engineering school. Our mascot carries a gun, a pitchfork, and a slide rule. We should upgrade him to a TI-89 x)



Seriously, BitterBlue, you're now my favorite person. I've never worked in retail, but I've worked in food service and know what it's like to be unappreciated. I've also witnessed or hear of many of the things you mentioned. My heart goes out to you :heart:

LMFAO Keyori! >.< Your mascot sounds like some of my relatives O_o My step-father is a nuclear engineer for nano technology :) He teaches classes on a military base in Montgomery ^-^ I was always grateful to have him around for MY calculus homework O.O

And thank you for your compliments. Rofl. I've had positive and negative replies alike. You should read some of them. Lol. I posted a big nasty retort to all my haters on page four or five. It's another long post, so you can't miss it. That's just what happens when I let shit build up like that, and THAT rant had been building up for five freakin years... so yeah... Lol. This has become a rather interesting thread to say the least, so feel free to keep tabs on it if you're ever bored or in need of some old-fashioned entertainment. ;)

OH! And I also forgot to mention that I might be writing another rant soon, called "The Traffic is always WRONG" Lol. After the entertaining feedback from this rampage, I'm curious about what people would have to say to one of my traffic rants. LOL

^^^ My school mascot (old and new... at least they updated the slide rule xD)^^^

Yeah, I did go back and read the replies. Congrats on the Inso smackdown xD

I look forward to more rants. I loves readin' some rants. :D

Lol. Inso actually ended up being pretty chill. I just ruffled his feathers the wrong way ffs, and he certainly ruffled mine as well. LOL. We're cool now. As you've seen, I just don't put up with a lot of shit >.<

BitterBlue, writing about driving? This I will have to read. :XD

I got one for ya. First I worked retail for over three years before I became a stay at home mom for a while. Now I work at a rental car agency...and you think retail customers are stupid. Wait until you work at an airport renting cars. So here is my letter about customers:

Dear Rental Car Customer,

What you are about to do is to take on a great responsibility, you are taking this car as your own. Treat it as your own for the story it tells will say what type of person you truly are. This DOES not include you leaving the keys in the ignition upon return.
When making your reservation through the appropriate reservation line, when they give you a car type as an example that does not mean it is the exact car you are going to receive. Also, we do not guarantee a specific color or make of vehicle. Yes unlimited miles means unlimited miles, as long as you do not go to Canada or Mexico.
The reservation center hires stupid people who are NOT at the rental car counter. They do not know what type year or color of vehicles we carry. So if they tell you that we do have a purple Ford Taurus, does not mean that we do.
No, you can not use your mother/brother/sister/friend's credit card to rent a car, and a pre-payed credit card is NOT a credit card. I am sorry, just because your in the military does not mean we can bend rules for you. We know you served our country but corporate society does not care and it's not our fault.
We do not know what your insurance covers and are not obligated to tell you if your credit card carries rental car coverage on it's own. We are going to offer you coverage anyways. You are not obligated to take it, but if you do...we won't take if off upon return just because you were not in an accident. If you are rude we will not give you any freebies such as XM radio or upgrades to larger cars. Read your contract BEFORE signing. It is a legal document, and we don't care if you are a lawyer, that just means you should be smarter than that.
Our rentals go on a certain time period, if you state that you are going to bring it back by 9:00AM and bring it back at 11:00PM you will be charged an extra day, as well as a late fee. We will not take that off for your own stupidity.
We close at a certain time, and even if you plane states it will land five minutes after that closing time we will not wait. We all have lives, and have been there longer then some of your plane rides.

Thank you =3

Seriously, you think retail stores have stupid customers....I see them every day. When ever you have free time, drive up to your local airport and sit and just watch people at the rental car counters...sometimes you can see some juicy stories.

HAHAHAHA! I'll be sure to bring my popcorn Megami. You can count on it ;)

And yes, Evetwo. At some point in the near future, I'm going to write a rant on bad drivers. Lol. *wicked grin*

That will be funny...I hate bad drivers! WV is full of them....they are called B.F.Os...

raise your hand if you heard this term before! lol

Lol. I actually HAVEN'T heard that term, at least not recently, and I live in VA >.<

*whispers* B*st*rds from Ohio

lol

they always drive in the passing lane going below the speed limit...and you know us West Virginians...we drive awfully fast...They also never use their turn signals for some reason, always pull out in front of you at the last second, only to turn off a block down the road..

Yes... as a person who grew up in Indiana, stuck RIGHT BETWEEN Illinoise AND Ohio, I know first hand just how freakin retarded Ohio drivers are. >.<

Houston drivers are worse -_-
Did you draw your signature? Very nice.
Anyway, I read your first post and I was laughing so much and nodding my head. You seem to have written down pretty much everything most employees think about and never say outloud. Awesome job! =]

I have worked in retail nearly 5 years within the company of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart's a company where they believe that the customer is always right and the worker is always wrong. Overall I think the entire thing is a load of bullock. Customers are people, people make mistakes, people treat other people like shit. And no matter what anyone says I will NOT believe in that saying that the "customer is always right" not after having dealt with near 5 years of work within Retail. Customers can be the most disgusting and crude things.

They believe that they have a right to get whatever the hell they want and damn the other person working behind the desk. I honestly find myself disgusted when dealing with people now that I cringe to think I'd work with the public on a large scale ever again. I'll give a good example of why this irks the hell out of me.

For about a year I was a Customer Service Manager (which I quickly switched positions back to a mundane worker), actually two incidents that I dealt with was a pain in the ass.

1. I was working at the customer care desk when a woman comes in and demands that we take back an opened video game. I informed her that we do not take back games that have been opened. She threw a royal fit and demanded that she speak with another manager. Now this game was labeled M for mature and her kid was making a methlab in the back seat. So when I got my manager and explained the situation he gave her her money back and whatever, making ME look like an idiot.

2. Another time it was one of the holiday seasons and I'm running a skeletal crew of cashiers. I happened to tell one cashier named "T." I'll call her that, that she could have a 15 minute break, and I would be switching her out very shortly. Now we were slammed with customers and one big mouthed customer opens her mouth and loudly protests "I'VE BEEN WAITING HERE FOREVER! SHE CAN WAIT TO TAKE A BREAK! CUSTOMERS COME FIRST!" I kindly told the woman "Ma'am, we have laws we must abide to and my cashier needs a break she's been running 6hrs without a break and needs one." The woman continues to run her mouth saying how much she's entitled to get whatever she wanted and blah blah.

Those are just two little instances that I had to deal with just as a floor manager, and needless to say I hate the public.

That was freaking awesome XD I hardly ever bug the employees unless I know what I'm looking for or need something from behind those locked glass cases, or just can't find it and I know that they have it in stock XD
also if I need help getting something off the top shelf. I'm not tall, and not gonna break my back by falling off the shelving, and if I had kids that tried to run though the store....they'd get an ass whooping in the store, then a worse one at home. you don't freaking act like that out in public I hate kids like that, they annoy me

Illinois isn't too bad, they just tailgate like crazy and it scares the bahjeezus out of me D:

I had kids once steal the bubble wrap out of my shipping container after I'd unloaded it only to throw it on the ground and stomp on it like it was fun. I hate children in retail stores.

Here is my latest: "Are you kidding me." story about customer service.

This one is actually quite funny, and has dealings with part of the letter I wrote. But I thought I would share the whole deal with ya.

Last Monday while at work, my co worker sold the "Complete protection Package" to a customer, which is additional insurances for the car that he was renting. He signed it and was on his way. For those who don't know, when you rent a car the rental agent get's commission for any additional items like coverages, GPS units, etc. We have certain ways to offer it....WELL ANYWAYS.

When he came back, first he questioned all the taxes...and there are A LOT of taxes when you rent a car, especially if you rent from an airport location. For instance when you rent from our counter at the Yeager airport in WV you have the following:

10% airport consession fee
1$/dy DMV fee
3$/dy Untilties fee (for their brand new parking garage)
.47cent/day energry recovery fee...I still don't know what this is for
and of course the 6% sales tax

So people questioning all these taxes isn't un common.

Anyways...*cough*

He walked away and came back a few minutes later...and questioned the "coverages". I was there when he picked up the car, I know what he got and how it was stated. It wasn't my fault he didn't read before he signed. He stated he didn't ask for the complete coverages. When I showed him the original signed document that he originally received this is what he stated:

"Well I'm a lawyer, I don't need additional coverages - I just wanted the coverage for the car."

What I said was:

"Well, since you are a lawyer. You know that you signed a LEGAL document and you are being charged for what you signed."

He yelled that it was bull shit, he knew I was right...and that he was stupid for not reading anything before he signed the dotted line. lol

Lesson learned guys: For anyone here who is old enough to rent cars..READ EVERYTHING before you sign.

Lady Luck Infinity: But... but... bubblewrap IS fun T.T (LOL) They won't let me in the back room at work anymore when they can help it... >.<

Lady Megami: How freakin stupid! Of ALL people to bitch about signing a legal document, a LAWYER has the nerve to get his panties all bunched up over bullshit he should have had the sense to figure out in the first place. Note to self: If I ever find myself charged with murder for assaulting stupid customers, I will NOT call THAT guy to defend me. ;)

ROFL! *bows deeply* I'm very glad to have brightened your day a bit. We all need to take a little off the top once in awhile. ;)

I actually edited the rant a little bit today to make things a little more clear in some sections that were "attacked" by all the haters who read the rant and decided to bitch at me for it. Nothing was taken out. Hehehehe. Only... elaborated a little bit. >.< Not too much, just a tweak here and there.

Bubble wrap is fun but it is not a playground for your kids.
Oh my god I have another stuipd kid story. So this kids mom was busy on the phone, kid had to be like atleast 10. So this kid is throwing a fit and I just tun him out. Until I look up afer a customer and see this kid putting out large bag over his head. Plastic bag.

I freaked out and then mommy dearest noticed and bitched out her kid.
Customers are stupid in general and can't read signs.

My sister worked at an Olan Mills located inside a K-Mart store, she once had a woman throw a phone at her because she was angry. I'm not talking about a cell phone either, I'm talking about the land line phone sitting on the desk.