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Zenithe posted:https://twitter.com/naamanzhou/status/1098700975420964865 
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Revalis Enai posted:I just started job searching this week but sometimes I wish I could just thrown in my 2 weeks and bail the gently caress out. Have you considered the option of continuing to show up and collect paychecks but ceasing to give a poo poo?
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Feb 22, 2019 20:18
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I have actually used this line, straight-faced...then thrown an egg patty at one of my coworkers. His face was amazing.
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Feb 22, 2019 20:20
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Our Store Director stepped down in December. New Store Director has been crazy in spending, got the store brand new electric pallet jacks. And yesterday all 3 of our forklifts were replaced with new ones. They don't seem to want you to do multiple things at once (lift up the forks, tilt them, while turning and driving), and when you start it up you have to hold the handle in a direction and keep it there until it beeps at you to center the handle. On top of the usual cycling of the foot pads. I can't do my sick forklift moves that let me travel across the back room as graceful as a 4 ton swan, because it has all these extra safeties and junk. I miss my old forklift  E: I can't drive my car (legally) and now I can't drive my forklift. World is a gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SiylvmFI_8 Leal fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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Feb 22, 2019 20:29
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Leal posted:Our Store Director stepped down in December. New Store Director has been crazy in spending, got the store brand new electric pallet jacks. And yesterday all 3 of our forklifts were replaced with new ones. They don't seem to want you to do multiple things at once (lift up the forks, tilt them, while turning and driving), and when you start it up you have to hold the handle in a direction and keep it there until it beeps at you to center the handle. On top of the usual cycling of the foot pads. I can't do my sick forklift moves that let me travel across the back room as graceful as a 4 ton swan, because it has all these extra safeties and junk. Have you considered drinking on the job?
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Feb 22, 2019 21:05
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therobit posted:Have you considered drinking
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Feb 22, 2019 21:36
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Feb 22, 2019 22:52
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I find for the stressful shifts that queuing up a 10hr mp3 of thunderstorms and rain noises really takes the edge off. Can't kill my vibe today lady who smells like vinegar or guy schizophrenically chattering about Jade Helm. Your memes are out of date my dude and I'm off in my own realm of enchantment.
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Feb 23, 2019 07:58
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Eric the Mauve posted:Have you considered the option of continuing to show up and collect paychecks but ceasing to give a poo poo? I have been doing the minimum I could to keep myself under the radar until the temp manager returns to his store. Then I can just ride on until either I find a new job or the place goes under, which IMO is inevitable.
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Feb 23, 2019 16:43
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holy gently caress, I have day shifts all of next week and I'm going to be cashiering. You know, the job I was loving hired to do in the first place. It only took until the start of my ninth week.
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Feb 24, 2019 02:30
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We need 2-3 more people in my dept for weekends, mostly Sundays, just in order to give other people an occasional Sunday off. Mgmt insists I'm fully staffed, then demands to know why we have late orders Sunday and I'm in the dept instead of doing manager stuff. HR is asking why I haven't been taking the one weekend a month off that corporate policy entitles me to.  I was talking to my lead about it, and he suggested I just take my weekend off, let store mgmt see how we crash and burn without an extra ten to twelve (salaried) hours in the dept that Sunday, and then re-approach the hiring issue, but I don't want to abandon my team like that. And at the same time, I'm dreading tomorrow, because we did nearly double the orders we were budgeted for last week, and Sundays have been trending upwards for months. Kill me. I do not want to go in tomorrow.
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Feb 24, 2019 03:35
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Our newly minted grocery manager quit without notice. Right now we're down so many people that a number of departments are running on half staff. We have one janitor. Inventory in five weeks. 
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Feb 24, 2019 06:35
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poo poo, we don't even have a janitor. The courtesy clerks here are maintenance, work the front lot, clean and deal with all the go-backs, and whatever else the boss is too good for.
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Feb 24, 2019 06:50
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Kickshaw posted:We need 2-3 more people in my dept for weekends, mostly Sundays, just in order to give other people an occasional Sunday off. Mgmt insists I'm fully staffed, then demands to know why we have late orders Sunday and I'm in the dept instead of doing manager stuff. HR is asking why I haven't been taking the one weekend a month off that corporate policy entitles me to. Do it. DOO EEET! Just let it crash and burn. Fully tell them ahead of time that you're taking X day off then just turn off your phone. When they ask where you were tell them you let the battery die. Maybe warn some of your workers that you trust so they know it's gonna be a poo poo day if you know they won't rat you to corporate. Bonus points: see if they can take that day off too and see how bad the mess gets. Corporate will never learn until you rub it in their face that they are wrong. Until they're left holding the bag as you comply (maliciously of course, but don't tell them that) they will insist that you're doing it wrong and can run department X with half the people. Sometimes the hardest lesson is to just not care too much. Your corporate overlords certainly don't. Short of the building burning down, the place will still be there tomorrow. And if you've covered your back there's not much they can do. Of course the reason it's so hard is sometimes there's just bills to pay
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Feb 24, 2019 10:04
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Alkydere posted:Do it. DOO EEET! Just let it crash and burn. Fully tell them ahead of time that you're taking X day off then just turn off your phone. When they ask where you were tell them you let the battery die. Maybe warn some of your workers that you trust so they know it's gonna be a poo poo day if you know they won't rat you to corporate. Bonus points: see if they can take that day off too and see how bad the mess gets.  But there's a decent chance they will fire you (or demote you/make your life hell until you quit) out of sheer spite (and as a warning to others) even though they know they're hamstringing themselves. I've seen it happen before.
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Feb 24, 2019 18:51
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I ordered 15 new items for the beer cooler, had a reset done and handed my boss a sheet with pictures of the new shelving order and his first words were "How do these shelves work? Am I going to need to add these to the computer?" LOOK AT THE PRETTY PICTURES AND YOU WILL FIND OUT!
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Feb 24, 2019 21:35
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Eric the Mauve posted:
Yeah it's definitely something you want a backup plan on before you even attempt it. But one of the best feeling in the worlds is watching corporate management sputter when all their threats bounce off of someone they rely on suddenly stop giving a poo poo. All their threats in the world can't do anything against "Yeah, well, I got another job lined up. Bye." Never done it myself, seen a few of my bosses do it. Envied them every time.
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Feb 24, 2019 22:18
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Starbucks took away my Christmas spirit with the season long holiday rush. And now they've taken my spring fever with the after church crowd coming in droves for frappucinos and pink drinks. What else can they take from me I'm so tired
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Feb 24, 2019 23:55
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Today I was introduced to the world of collectable toy scalpers. Some lady has been buying up all of the L.O.L Surprise dolls from Toronto and has recently set her sights on Ottawa. She's been using every underhanded trick she can to abuse Indigo's threw day hold policy and demand discounts that don't apply to her. Apparently she's lied about being a teacher to get our teacher appreciation discount, thrown tantrums that she "thought the online price was the store price" and has been holding entire boxes hostage for days. These limited time series for toys means their market value goes up once they're discontinued, so she pretty much ransacked the toy departments across Toronto and now Ottawa so she can buy low and then rip off impressionable children.
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Feb 25, 2019 00:21
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Mmm, blind box tat. I won't tell anyone if you quietly off her.
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Feb 25, 2019 02:10
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Pentaghastly posted:Starbucks took away my Christmas spirit with the season long holiday rush. Welcome to retail, the summer is your only time of rest.
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Feb 25, 2019 02:52
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SaberToothedPie posted:Welcome to retail, the summer is your only time of rest. Do not listen to these lies. Summer is the time where you spend three months preparing for inventory.
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Feb 25, 2019 03:11
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And your hours get slashed.
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Feb 25, 2019 03:14
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SaberToothedPie posted:Welcome to retail, the summer is your only time of rest. We're talking Starbucks. The slow season is spring, then we get Frappuccino hell, PSL crazy bitches, and holiday madness.
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Feb 25, 2019 03:28
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I get inventory and tax return season, oh god my cooling/ac system failed season, the snowbirds have returned season and then help my heater don't work because I bypassed it season. And all of this must be fixed by tomorrow because I have to be at work but I did 0 planning so its your fault its not in stock.
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Feb 25, 2019 03:37
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Summer weekends at Starbucks are a loving madhouse Now that I'm thinking about it its actually worse than the holidays at my store because our blenders are right next to the DT window so you're sweating like a pig and in that area you only have about 6 square feet of space to move in. Edit: Oh! I finally figured out a way to help a barista with really bad anxiety. I used to have to put her on a position with the full expectation that she's just going to do dishes the whole time, but I had her as my main bar today and when she'd start getting frazzled and accidentally knocking down cups and cussing under her breath, all I had to was use my gentle teacher voice and tell her she's doing just fine and it'll die down soon. Quiet enough that she has to tune out the background noise of customers and blenders to hear me, but not a whisper and not my shift voice. I think its the sensory overload of our job that gets to her. Not much I can do about these things, but at least I know having someone tell her positive, affirming things helps. Pentaghastly fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Today I was introduced to the world of collectable toy scalpers. Some lady has been buying up all of the L.O.L Surprise dolls from Toronto and has recently set her sights on Ottawa. She's been using every underhanded trick she can to abuse Indigo's threw day hold policy and demand discounts that don't apply to her. Apparently she's lied about being a teacher to get our teacher appreciation discount, thrown tantrums that she "thought the online price was the store price" and has been holding entire boxes hostage for days. These limited time series for toys means their market value goes up once they're discontinued, so she pretty much ransacked the toy departments across Toronto and now Ottawa so she can buy low and then rip off impressionable children. We get those at Target but instead it's dudes in their 40s looking for Hot Wheels and Funko Pops.
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Feb 25, 2019 07:46
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Pentaghastly posted:I think its the sensory overload of our job that gets to her. Not much I can do about these things, but at least I know having someone tell her positive, affirming things helps. I have (relatively minor, but unmedicated) anxiety issues and if we're busy enough I get super irritable and twitchy if I'm stuck on the sales floor. Switching to exclusive second shift has helped, but sometimes I have no choice but to go into the back and, like, organize a cooler or something. This winter has been pretty bad because the weathermen threaten a new storm (which rarely happens, but nobody ever learns) practically every week, so we're constantly seeing pre-storm rushes. I don't have any advice or anything, I'm just venting
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We did 40 percent more orders than we were scheduled for, like I told them we would! Turns out too, that the manager who makes the budgets? He's only been budgeting us hours for picking orders, and none for delivering them, answering the phone, or cleaning tasks. So, conservatively, the 55 hours he budgeted us for yesterday should have been 85-90, to account for the 5-7 minutes per car, daily cleaning tasks, etc. Not that it matters, because the only way I have enough bodies to hit 55 with everyone's availability is to work 10 hours with no breaks myself! I have our stats from the first two weeks showing how being understaffed in my dept is killing our rating AS A STORE. (Turns out one department knocking out that much more work with nowhere near enough hours throws off the whole store average!) If they refuse to get me extra weekend help, I'll escalate to my bosses. I've already talked to them, and they've said that if store management thinks it's ok to leave me floundering on Sundays, they're more than happy to speak with the division president on my behalf. Edit: spelling
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Feb 25, 2019 13:57
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Arcsquad12 posted:Today I was introduced to the world of collectable toy scalpers. Some lady has been buying up all of the L.O.L Surprise dolls from Toronto and has recently set her sights on Ottawa. She's been using every underhanded trick she can to abuse Indigo's threw day hold policy and demand discounts that don't apply to her. Apparently she's lied about being a teacher to get our teacher appreciation discount, thrown tantrums that she "thought the online price was the store price" and has been holding entire boxes hostage for days. These limited time series for toys means their market value goes up once they're discontinued, so she pretty much ransacked the toy departments across Toronto and now Ottawa so she can buy low and then rip off impressionable children. I work at Amazon and she can loving have everyone of those in the warehouse if it was up to me. I hate those little L.O.L. balls and tubes as they just roll out of the chutes I pack from. I swear it has been a small miracle that no one's stepped on one and cracked their head, or some other part of them. Elmnt80 posted:I get inventory and tax return season, oh god my cooling/ac system failed season, the snowbirds have returned season and then help my heater don't work because I bypassed it season. And all of this must be fixed by tomorrow because I have to be at work but I did 0 planning so its your fault its not in stock. Jan -> Dec at Amazon: Second/Gift Card Christmas, spring slump, Mother's Day, Prime Day(s) (because Amazon has to have an actual 'Christmas in July'), back to school, ALL THE CANDY, "learn how many 'The Pilgrims/Santa Clause are farting' coloring books there are" season, PEAK, then the week between the 25th and the 31st where everyone's using the last of their time off and the buildings are hollow shells.
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Cell phone balls to the walls time used to be 2nd half of September (iPhone launch). It’s still a busy weekend, but it’s not near as crazy as it used to be. People just preorder ahead of time and let it come to them. Other than iPhone day, it’s black Friday and the week before Christmas, so normal stuff. The most insane work day of my life was iPhone 6 launch (first big screen iPhone). Absolute pandemonium, and they stuck me with 5 new people (out of 10, with 2 positions not yet filled) and they got shocked when I had a 40 person line because, surprise surprise, they just couldn’t process fast enough yet.
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Feb 25, 2019 15:09
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Well, my favorite barista got a shift lead position at a licensed store. Primary closer, literally the only barista I could trust to get her poo poo done and get it done right. I knew this was coming. We've all been fustrated that nothing has been done about one terrible shift we have and were just waiting for the ball to drop on him so we could promote her to take his position. Well, she got hers. I'm happy for her.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:27
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Preechr posted:Do not listen to these lies. Summer is the time where you spend three months preparing for inventory. For me that's just pushing the backroom extra for 2 months and then counting for 2 weeks (for us we count the backroom, they count sales floor)
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Arcsquad12 posted:Today I was introduced to the world of collectable toy scalpers. Some lady has been buying up all of the L.O.L Surprise dolls from Toronto and has recently set her sights on Ottawa. She's been using every underhanded trick she can to abuse Indigo's threw day hold policy and demand discounts that don't apply to her. Apparently she's lied about being a teacher to get our teacher appreciation discount, thrown tantrums that she "thought the online price was the store price" and has been holding entire boxes hostage for days. These limited time series for toys means their market value goes up once they're discontinued, so she pretty much ransacked the toy departments across Toronto and now Ottawa so she can buy low and then rip off impressionable children. These asshats were around in the 90's when I worked WalMart overnights and let me tell you, you haven't LIVED until you've seen a grown man in a red leather trenchcoat CRY because there was no 'chick fig' in the box of Spawn toys.
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Feb 26, 2019 00:55
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Arcsquad12 posted:Today I was introduced to the world of collectable toy scalpers. Some lady has been buying up all of the L.O.L Surprise dolls from Toronto and has recently set her sights on Ottawa. She's been using every underhanded trick she can to abuse Indigo's threw day hold policy and demand discounts that don't apply to her. Apparently she's lied about being a teacher to get our teacher appreciation discount, thrown tantrums that she "thought the online price was the store price" and has been holding entire boxes hostage for days. These limited time series for toys means their market value goes up once they're discontinued, so she pretty much ransacked the toy departments across Toronto and now Ottawa so she can buy low and then rip off impressionable children. If she wants L.O.L. Surprise poo poo, she can get her rear end down to a Ross. We have a ton of that and Hatchimals.
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Feb 26, 2019 02:48
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dovetaile posted:If she wants L.O.L. Surprise poo poo, she can get her rear end down to a Ross. We have a ton of that and Hatchimals. As someone with a 9 year old daughter, thanks for the hot tip.
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therobit posted:As someone with a 9 year old daughter, thanks for the hot tip. Of course! And, at least the particular Ross I work at, if you would like a large selection of Wu-tang Clan shirts (I've seen 5 different ones), you are also welcome to them.
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Feb 26, 2019 05:26
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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:These asshats were around in the 90's when I worked WalMart overnights and let me tell you, you haven't LIVED until you've seen a grown man in a red leather trenchcoat CRY because there was no 'chick fig' in the box of Spawn toys. I worked at McDonalds for the first and second Beanie Baby launch. Soccer moms losing their poo poo because we won't let them buy 100 at a time.
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Got a couple more fresh and new Tales from the Derp Side. Customer comes in last week, wants to trade back a couple of Xbox One games (specifically, Forza Motorsport 7 and Fifa 15). I price them up, go through the motions, and let him know what he'd be getting back cash-wise ($6.50, double for store credit). Apparently, the guy thought he'd be getting the full value of the games back, because he mentions that he just bought them the other day for $20ish. I tell him that's what I can offer, and if he's not happy with it, I'm not going to force him into doing the sale. I'm not an rear end in a top hat (in that way, anyway), and I don't want to push people into making moves they're not 100% on board with. Guy grumbles about it, says that he'll take the cash, but it's the last time he'll be in. I shrug it off, say I'm sorry he feels that way, but again, not going to push people into decisions, and cash him out. Guy then starts asking me, "How much are you going to mark them up for when I leave?" If there's anything that bugs the poo poo out of me, it's people asking how I do my job. Just the insinuation that they think they can do a better job bothers me, and they're always trying to be smug and snarky about it. So, starting to get annoyed, I tell him "Well, since you said you're not coming back, don't worry about it." Apparently this was the wrong thing to say, because he went off and started asking more and more questions about restocking and poo poo, to which I just kept stonewalling him with "Don't worry about it." At this time, too, my employee Fred was coming in to start his shift, as the customer began to swear at me. Now, at this point I also had other customers, so I asked him to leave. "gently caress you, you fat gently caress!" (No poo poo I'm fat, I've been around 300ish since the turn of the millennium) "Go gently caress yourself" (gently caress me yourself, coward) and the topper, "Why don't you come outside so I can beat your rear end" Now this last one, Fred was out on the floor with me and heard this. Immediately, he just starts dying laughing, like bent over full-on belly laugh. I just waved him off, telling him that if he wants to come back, I'll have police escort him out for trespassing. As of five days later, haven't seen or heard from the guy yet. However, last night, I did get a phone call from a customer who bought a game from us, and didn't like it. That's fine, it happens, no big deal. In fact, we have a policy that you have a week to bring something back if it works, but you're just not happy with it. In order to do so, you do need a receipt, though, and apparently this guy never got his. Or, at least that's what he told me right off the bat. As the conversation went on, though, he said that he did actually receive the receipt in the bag with the game, but threw it out. At that point, I told him that it wasn't our fault you don't have the receipt, and without it I can't do any returns. Shitter: "Oh, well I'll just come down there and make a scene then." Me: "On your way, could you grab me some popcorn? I love a good show." Guy hung up on me, and I haven't seen him yet, but I hope I do (and I hope he brought my popcorn, too).
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