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Why? WHY?!
16 years ago
This is Rumor Control, here are the facts:
I work at the Home Entertainment department of a Wal-mart Supercenter. I accept the fact I am going to get questions that may seem silly to me, but are perfectly reasonable to someone who doesn't know better, such as "Can I connect my new Macbook to my Sony TV?" However, there comes a time when I begin wonder if these people are even bothering to think about what they are asking, or if they are being maliciously retarded in a vain attempt to waste my time.
For example, today, I had a customer asking me if we carried Cell Phone batteries at all. We don't, and haven't for quite a while. I inform her of this, and she immediately follows up with "Why?" How am I supposed to answer this? Between me and the guy who made that call are my department manager, our area assistant manager, our Co-Manager, our district manager, and probably two or three more people at corporate. There is no reason to beleive that I, or even my department manager would have any real knowledge as to "why" we don't carry them, other than they probably wouldn't sell well at all, being very specific items.
A second example that occured today was a customer approaching me, and informing me they were thinking of buying an Xbox 360, but had a few questions. Okay, right? I mean, makes sense that they'd want some information about a 2-400 dollar console they want. The first, and only, question was, "Can it play Playstation 2 or Nintendo Wii games?" *twitch* Seriously. Thats your fucking question? Can it play games made by its two primary competitors?
Sorry for the rant here, but this needs to be said: If alien invaders ever approach me, and ask me specifically why they should NOT destroy our planet, I'm telling them right out "Feel free."
For example, today, I had a customer asking me if we carried Cell Phone batteries at all. We don't, and haven't for quite a while. I inform her of this, and she immediately follows up with "Why?" How am I supposed to answer this? Between me and the guy who made that call are my department manager, our area assistant manager, our Co-Manager, our district manager, and probably two or three more people at corporate. There is no reason to beleive that I, or even my department manager would have any real knowledge as to "why" we don't carry them, other than they probably wouldn't sell well at all, being very specific items.
A second example that occured today was a customer approaching me, and informing me they were thinking of buying an Xbox 360, but had a few questions. Okay, right? I mean, makes sense that they'd want some information about a 2-400 dollar console they want. The first, and only, question was, "Can it play Playstation 2 or Nintendo Wii games?" *twitch* Seriously. Thats your fucking question? Can it play games made by its two primary competitors?
Sorry for the rant here, but this needs to be said: If alien invaders ever approach me, and ask me specifically why they should NOT destroy our planet, I'm telling them right out "Feel free."
they have him working the GUN COUNTER in the Sporting goods department of a Wal-mart Supercenter
sometimes you gotta love irony
oh, and I completely understand how you feel. I used to work a phone-based help desk for IBM, there were days I just wanted to rip all my hair out and put stickers on every callers forehead "You're to stupid to own a computer!"
On par with what I got when I worked as a Computer Tech @ Best Buy
"My internet won't work!"
Me: "Oh, what seems to be the problem?"
"My internet won't work. It's broken, fix it or you won't get a tip"
Me:"M'am....what is wrong with your internet?"
"Oh, well it's stuck on this thing with a giant red Y and whenever I try to go to google, it just says that I don't have any mail by that name, isn't that silly?"
Me:".....Wait, you mean Yahoo?"
"I guess so, it's the one with the giant red Y and is always broken right?"
Me:"M'am....that's a mail client...not the internet...go to your URL bar and type in google, it should be fine."
"My what?"
.....*HEADDESK*
This one is really bad.....
This woman tries to go out the entrance. There is the do not enter sign on the door, because you are supposed to go in the door, not out. She smacks into the door. She then yells at me about the door being broken. the following is the conversation after:
Her: "What's wrong with this door?" (said in a very demanding voice.
Me: "That's not an exit. You can't go out that door."
Her: "Where the hell does it say that? there is no clear sign saying that it is not an exit."
Me: "*Sigh* There is a sign right in front of you ma'am. It's right on the door." (Right at eye level too!)
Her: *Angry grumbling*
She then walked off, all pissed at me for her failing to read the damn sign that was IN FRONT OF HER FACE!
You can't make this up!
=>.<=
It was split into two main parts: Theaters 1-13 to the left, Theaters 14-24 to the right.
And the doors have the numbers posted above them...
And the tickets have HUGE number printed onto them explaining to the person which theater they are supposed to be in.
I still cannot explain why patrons are at the 14-24 theaters, when their movie is in Theater 1.
And they still get mad at us.