People are strange.
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Oh and this thread makes me want to go back and work at the mall. Just not where I was working before.0
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Do you work at Victoria's Secret? I worked at Sephora and we would get together with the Vikki and Guess girls (we were all in the same area) and trade stories. Some of the best ones were when people got caught stealing by our LPO. Tackles, screaming, scratching, biting. After I had to leave when my husband got stationed our guy ended up in the hospital because someone got him in the arm with a box opener. One of the best ones I had was a woman who spilled nail polish on her own shoes and then tried to get us to pay for them. She said they were $200 Coach shoes. But I had the same ones. $30 from Target. There was also a group of frat guys who were doing some kind of initiation thing and we did all their makeup for them. They bought a whole bunch of cologne from us so that they weren't wasting our time, which I thought was considerate.
Pfft...roomates. Im so glad I dont have to deal with that anymore. My roomie sucked *kitten*! Your story reminds me of her...not to say she would call the cops constantly but she was the rudest, nit picking, fake *kitten* hoe bag I have ever met.0 -
I was walking dogs last week and I saw a man pooing on the shore of the river I was walking past. If that wasn't weird enough his wife was about 8 feet away doing Tai-chi!0
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I once watched a woman at the gas station wash her whole car with the little squeegie thingie for cleaning your windows. That was like, 5 years ago and I still shake my head when I think about it.
LOL! This is pretty common in our city since we have a ban on washing cars because of drought. Lots of squeegie spot checks. But my hubby took it to the extreme once. He was riding his motorcycle across country and used the squeegie to scrub the bugs off his leather coat. :-)0 -
I was walking dogs last week and I saw a man pooing on the shore of the river I was walking past. If that wasn't weird enough his wife was about 8 feet away doing Tai-chi!
Had a LOL attack!!0 -
Do you work at Victoria's Secret? I worked at Sephora and we would get together with the Vikki and Guess girls (we were all in the same area) and trade stories. Some of the best ones were when people got caught stealing by our LPO. Tackles, screaming, scratching, biting. After I had to leave when my husband got stationed our guy ended up in the hospital because someone got him in the arm with a box opener. One of the best ones I had was a woman who spilled nail polish on her own shoes and then tried to get us to pay for them. She said they were $200 Coach shoes. But I had the same ones. $30 from Target. There was also a group of frat guys who were doing some kind of initiation thing and we did all their makeup for them. They bought a whole bunch of cologne from us so that they weren't wasting our time, which I thought was considerate.
OMG you are a good guesser! I do indeed! lol0 -
I am loving these stories...!! Got to say though, it has me thinking. I wonder if Ive ever done anything to that gave someone a story of someone doing someting strange lol
Can we include strange first dates? Thats probably a thread all its own eh? I was on one recently, went out dancing, and while at the bar he left for a moment, and a girl came up to take a photo of the live band that was playing. As she was trying to take the photo, my date came back and tapped on her to move. I let him know she was taking a photo, and he just went on tell her to move out of the way.
As he was sitting down, I looked back and mouthed "I am so sorry!!" to the girl... and I kind of told him again, figuring he didnt hear me that she was just trying to get a photo of the band, and he was like, so what? *sigh*
When he left to go to the bathroom, she and I started up convo, jsut a super sweet chill person and when he got back I introduced them and we were all just talking. We decided to go hit the dance floor, then all of a sudden after one song he says "its time to go" I thought something was wrong, but as soon as we left, he was in a happy cheery mood again.
yeeeeah, I dont think thats going to work out LOL but I did get the girls phone number!! Reminds me I need to give her a call, we can be each others wingwoman, meet some courteous guys or something LOL0 -
Oh BOY. As someone who has worked in experiential marketing for 3 years, i have some interesting ones!
Once we were promoting a butter brand. And oh so many consumers asked:
"is there dairy in it?
"can i eat it?"
"Is it non fat?"
We have also been abused before when doing alcohol promotions because people literally think we are trying to 'con' them, when really it is a licensed promotion with FREE ALCOHOL
Another time we were promoting a mint, which involved fisherman jumpsuit things. One random man came over and started touching one of the girls suits and was like, "is this real leather? Now doesn't that feel lovely. It would make a great negligee". But he said it in such a routine manner, that it was almost hard to pick up on what a creep he was.
I've witnessed people who think it's appropriate to grope brand ambassadors, try and steal merchandise from us and abuse us when we stop them from taking BOXES of stock from our set up.
And those are just ones off the top of my head.
People are absolute effing weirdos.0 -
Whoa, haha. Yeah people are, well, strange! Trying to think up some more stories...hm.
One lady told us she was gonna go home and burn all the bras she ever bought from us because we refused to give her a cash refund for 2 year old bras that she tried to pass off as brand new and that she admitted to having used a credit card to purchase them. My manager told her "Feel free, you already bought them. It doesn't hurt us any." lol
We also had a woman try to get a cash refund at full price for a bra that she got, as a gift, that she had no gift receipt for and no tags on. Told her I could do 15.99 store credit. She tried to push cash which I can't do unless you pay cash or debit and you can actually, you know, prove it. She decided she was just gonna go home and "try to squeeze into it" because apparently 15.99 is not enough for a bra that SHE DIDN'T EVEN PAY FOR. lol.0 -
Just here because now I'm singing The Doors' song. Thanks...now it's stuck in my head.
ha ha me too!!!0 -
someone mentioned roommates? years ago, my roommates and i could not make the layout of our place work with the stuff we had. so, for like a week, we took turns trying things out in the living room.
i was home alone one sunday and went at it for like 8 hours or something, and it turned out to feel a little more balanced than what we'd had so far. (i really thought about it, lol, drew sketches and everything.) next morning, one of my roomies looked around, smiled, and said, 'wow, looks great in here - so glad i came up with it'. (she wasn't being funny, either)0 -
I spent 7 years in customer service. I have tales that would curl your toes.
We had a man come in once whose breath was so bad, you could smell it after he'd been gone for a half hour.
I had one man that would only see me when he'd come in. He had a hair trigger temper, a very high type A...and he was an EMT.
We had seen one woman get out of her nice car, put on a ratty coat just to come in and ask for a discount on her bill.0 -
Last week a customer called the store and my manager answered. He asked if there was a manager he could speak with, to which she said, "My name is Jen, I'm a manager. How can I help?" He responded with "Yeah, could I talk to the actual manager? Like an actual MAN? There's no way they're allowing you women to run the store." I mean, really, I wouldn't have believed that if I hadn't heard it myself.
In all fairness he was a time traveler from the 19th century and hadn't quite acclimated yet.0 -
Lol,hilarious post and stories!
Here's one! Years ago when I worked in corporate America, I was a showroom consultant for a high end plumbing and appliance (appointment only) showroom. Our average sale was $10k+ and we sold high end stoves/ranges, hoods, subzero pimped out refrigerators, outdoor kitchens, gold plated faucets, toilets that magically flushed themselves, etc. our clients were celebrities, crazy wealthy folks and athletes- either building or remodeling their million dollar homes! ...so, needless to say, we weren't Home Depot and u had serious bank if you were meeting with me!
Any who.....a little old lady walks in (with no appointment), so NO ONE WOULD WAIT ON HER, so I opted to help. To make it even more interesting, she wanted a toilet seat....a $10 toilet seat. Well, I still wanted to help her and sat and listened as she's describing the seat!s She starts talking about her lower back and how she has back pain alot. Then she starts to tell me about these great "stick on" heating pads (they had just come out with this awesome invention )! I was intrigued....so to help me better understand her story and sympathize with her pain, in the middle of our showroom she starts pulling her pants and underwear down to try and show me this stick- on patch her doctor gave her. I almost flatlined ________ and thought "my peers are going to think I'm molesting a 90 year old woman! I was sooo embarrassed and grabbed her pants and pulled them back up! She was totally oblivious to how odd that moment was,lol!
And yes, I did sell her a toilet seat! Lol0 -
While running on the pathes near my home, I saw an older disabled man wiping his pug's butt with toilet paper. Hard to keep from laughing. Equally strange ran by a women in the park pulling a wagon with half dozen parakeets in a cage. If walking your birds isn't weird enough for you, her and all her birds were staring intently at a duck, for a least a minute. Didn't seem to notice at all when I ran by.0
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For my job, we have to do some online trainings that get updated each year. This year, they put in a section for why you should not hit your client or any other person you work with. :noway:
Not work related, but puffy heart's post reminded me: one day, I was leaving for work and there were three kids playing outside unsupervised at all. This would be perfectly normal, but I leave for work at 9:50 pm. Three kids (oldest was probably 6-8, other two were toddlers). Outside. At night. No adults. Heavily populated area. Seems like a good idea... They were still out there when I got back at midnight.0 -
A hairy dude just came up to Reception and told me "I'm going to the toilet - going to be a while. Maybe half an hour. Need to take my medications. I'm pretty uncomfortable right now."
TMI doesn't even begin to cover it...0 -
Oh Sunshine, I would have done the same thing! lol I had a strange neighbor...whenever I played music even if softly, my downstairs neighbor, I swear it would take a broom to the ceiling and could hear her screaming to stop it. After a couple times of that, I just stopped playing music but shed still do that and even went out on the balcony to scream and curse me out.
I had a neighbor who did the same thing but he would play porn really loudly at 6 am. Other neighbors even complained about it because it was so damn loud! My music was never complained about, though...0 -
Equally strange ran by a women in the park pulling a wagon with half dozen parakeets in a cage. If walking your birds isn't weird enough for you, her and all her birds were staring intently at a duck, for a least a minute. Didn't seem to notice at all when I ran by.
Be afraid little duck! Run away!!0 -
See now...if I saw the lady and her wagon of parakeets staring at the duck, Id think it was wierd, but then be curious why they are staring, and would have probably stopped to stare too. Maybe the duck did something really really interesting! I woudlnt want to miss it! LOLOL0
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