My very first customer as a grocery cashier only bought 1 of a “2 for 1” item. My trainer was standing behind me, and had literally taught me nothing except how to unlock the register. It rang up at full price and the guy was instantly irate. “This is supposed to be half price!” As if I had any way to even know there was a sale. He pointed at the item so I walked over and looked and saw the 2 for 1 sticker. I glanced at my trainer and he just looked on dispassionately, so I told the guy “Uh, I think you have to buy two for the ‘2 for 1’ deal.”
Immediately started screaming at the top of his lungs. My trainer comes up and starts apologizing to the man “I’m so sorry this cashier is stupid. I’m not sure where he got the idea that he shouldn’t discount you. I trained them better than this. It’s so hard to find competent workers.” Then he swiped his badge (which I couldn’t have done without him), and changed the price manually.
After the guy walked away happy having saved 50 cents on his kinder egg, the trainer turned to me and said “Don’t waste my time again. You should know this all already, you fucking moron.” and walked off. We had spent exactly two minutes total together since training had started, and he spent most of that insulting me for not somehow knowing how to cashier already.
I had to call him back over two minutes later to show me how to process a check, and he was so angry.
This sounds like ragebait fiction. Your trainer would be fired for talking to people like that. Unprofessional. And also you were right. “Two for one” does not mean one of them should be half off.
Every customer service job I have worked has had managers like that. This was before smart phones so maybe they just weren’t worried about getting caught.
Yep same here. Some of the most miserable assholes you’ll ever have the displeasure of knowing work as retail managers.
One time I was the only one of four people scheduled to show up on Thanksgiving, and there were at least twenty people at my register while the manager just stood off to the side and watched me. One of the customers yelled at me to “Stop smiling!” when I politely greeted the customers as I scanned like hell, and the other people in line just nodded along. I’ll always regret not quitting on the spot.
Absolutely.
When I was a retail manager any manager like that would have been out the door. Their job is to make it possible for the floor people to do their jobs, and part of that is protecting their staff from asshole customers.
Even when our people screwed up, we didn’t tolerate abuse of our staff. If the customer has a legitimate complaint they can be civil about it. Otherwise they’re welcome to leave. Even from a pure business perspective, you can’t tolerate abuse. New staff costs more than assholes spend.
Sounds like retail to me, that industry is a breeding ground for abusive environments.
At my last job the store manager got away with smacking the assistant manager on camera in front of people. Multiple reports sent up the chain. But the assistant manager had already put in two weeks notice a week before this happened, so head office just brushed it under the rug. I had watched the security video of it happening myself so I know it’s not for lack of evidence.
The running theory was that that manager gets transfered to stores as the company’s wrecking ball when they want to clean house. She would get transfered to a store, then all of the staff would end up quitting or getting fired for bullshit reasons. We weren’t the first store it had happened to. I ended up quitting to go work at a warehouse for more money with a fraction of the responsibility.
I did so poorly at Wal-Mart that they will not rehire me (I tried out of desperation), though I mostly blame them for hiring me right before a holiday and never giving me any training.
Clearly you weren’t ready for the lifetime career of being a Walmart cashier.
I don’t consider myself stupid at all but being at a new job with poor training was discombobulating and really hurt my feelings. I was supposed to call someone to let them know something they should have known themselves and then they got irate about not being told and left a review the higher-ups got upset about and I was like damn, am I actually dumb? Because a lot of people are criticizing me right now. In retrospect it was silly but at the time…
This is state law dependent iirc.
If you don’t need 5 you can just buy one LH pencil and sharpen the other end. It works just as a right handed one then.
A sharpened eraser would be pretty hard to write with ngl
Yes, but these look like carpenter pencil, no eraser, shaped so they won’t roll.
But then you can’t read the text.
Yes you can. You just need a mirror, like Leonardo da Vinci did
Brilliant.
Both are the same price guys!
5*0.20 = $1
Lemmy’s top mathematicians cracked it!
They did the monster mash.
Haven’t seen you in a while, but I’m glad to see you again.
How they give his own show to Tad Ghostal?
Any moment he could go mad postal.
Is this a righty tax since they are forced to buy a higher minimum quantity?
Thanks Captain
I don’t know, down the road they have buy one get one free at $0.40.
Are you sure? Could you check again.
5 times 0.20 cents?
Whether this is the same or not depends on the state.
In Mass I could grab 1 righty pencil for 20c, but in Colorado IIRC, I would still have to pay $1 for one. Pencils 2-5 would then not raise the price, #6 would raise it to $2, etc.
This is how women’s boxers work.
Men’s. 5 for $20
Women’s. 1 for $20
Such b.s
I just buy mens boxers now.
This is how women’s boxers work.
They’re priced identically but sold in different sized packages?
Womens boxers are typically sold individually but sometimes you can find a sale for 3.
If women’s boxers worked like the pricing in the photo it’d be 5 women’s for $20 and 1 men’s for $4
I’m not sure I understand that logic.
Since boxers are more commonly worn by men. That would be more analogous to right hand.
I’m not sure I understand that logic.
That’s the “logic” in the post. They’re both the same price.
You said that’s “how women’s boxers are” and proceeded to explain that they’re a different price than men’s, which is not what the post is describing.
Yeah I totally misread and thought left 20 cents for 1 And right. 20 cents for 5.
Can I blame this on my cat waking me up like 5x last night or do I have to take full responsibility for not reading properly?
Then you have to live with Bob The Builder and Chase themed boxers 😔
Is that an issue though?
If a woman’s pants come off and she’s wearing bob the builder boxers, I instantly think of her more as a fun kind of person. You know, someone who doesn’t mind being silly.
And if nobody is seeing your boxers, there’s even less to worry about.
the only thing wrong with this is that they should have reversed the signs
As a lefty this is ludicrously unfair! I mean who the hell carries loose change anymore!?
This weighs heavily upon me.
heavier than 2 dimes?
If you walk around a big box like Home Depot, you will see identical items priced miles apart because of which department they are placed in.
I honestly hate this kind of “deals”. I only want one pencil, and don’t really want to hoard just because of a “good deal”, so I end up just buying below the deal amount and getting weird looks by the cashier. “But for an extra $5 you get two more products!” I know, I don’t care. I value more the peace of mind that comes form having an uncluttered space.
Well if it makes you feel any better, that’s precisely the point. Company gives you a deal but makes it condition on you buying more so they still make as much or more profit.
It’s also (part of) why large serving sizes are barely more expensive. As someone who doesn’t eat a lot, it is somewhat annoying every time I get the smallest size, knowing I could get like twice as much for 20% more, but also I would finish it.
fuck, took me long enough to get this.
This is outrageous discrimination, I’ve not seen such unfairness since they gave left handed screwdrivers the ability to go both ways. I used a left handed hammer once not nearly as powerful as my right handed one you’re being played for fools!
The screwdriver isn’t the only one who can go both ways eh?
I’d be the idiot to have two pencils in each hand and reading off the UPC while blocking the irresponsibly narrow aisle.
I gots to know!
The left are 1/3rd pounders
Kind of wild that pencils cost more than avocados but I guess you have to manufacture them instead if them just growing all over
Did you not have a pencil tree growing up?
It’s actually the fungi on the tree that grows pencils. It’s called penicillin.
