kill the kids too...

Some people just can't take a joke. I mean, you buy a discount Iron and it doesn't work, that's funny right? Right? Wrinkled clothes? No? Not funny?

Well fark you all then

/don't judge me!

Ironic, how?

This will end well.

How is this ironic?

glaurunge: Ironic, how?

He was trying to return an iron without a receipt, which his girlfriend shoplifted?

IDK?

Gotta love seeing Denton County represent so well.

glaurunge: Ironic, how?


The story involves an iron. If it involved a moron, it would be moronic.


/ Say, do we have a moronic tag?
// Beside Floriduh?

VYV: glaurunge: Ironic, how?

He was trying to return an iron without a receipt, which his girlfriend shoplifted?

IDK?

MY BFF JILL?

Meth, it's a hell of a drug.

Morgan1652: How is this ironic?

Perhaps subby likes puns more than actual irony

maxx2112: glaurunge: Ironic, how?


The story involves an iron. If it involved a moron, it would be moronic.


/ Say, do we have a moronic tag?
// Beside Floriduh?

Iron-ish

/pet peeve

I questioned the ironic tag...then RTFA

thats a +1 use of the irony tag

/almost as good as the Sappy tag when Warren Sapp retired...almost

wow, i'm surprised so many people missed the "iron" to "iron-ic" joke already.

I've never understood why the public seems to feel they are entitled to be total a-holes to anyone in the service industry.

captivity: MY BFF JILL?

SMACK!

HappyDeth: Gotta love seeing Denton County represent so well.

Ah, and reading the Wretched Chronicle brings back tears of joy (that I no longer live in that shiathole).

Golf clap to subby on the tag choice

butterwings: I've never understood why the public seems to feel they are entitled to be total a-holes to anyone in the service industry.

Well I think that this guy was trying to pull a scam (return stolen property for cash) and being an ass to push it through was all part of the act.

That being said, I agree with your sentiment. I only get uppity when I get attitude ... they give respect, they get respect.

Man, after reading some of the other stories on that blotter I think I found out where Reno 911 comes up with some of their crap. Damn.

butterwings: I've never understood why the public seems to feel they are entitled to be total a-holes to anyone in the service industry.

It seems to be mostly liberals that think this way.

captivity: maxx2112: glaurunge: Ironic, how?


The story involves an iron. If it involved a moron, it would be moronic.


/ Say, do we have a moronic tag?
// Beside Floriduh?

Iron-ish Ferrous

/pet peeve

/pet peeve

An officer went to the couple's home and knocked but no one came to the door. An investigation is continuing.

1. Commit crime
2. When police knock on your door just don't answer it
3. Profit!

eff ewe: HappyDeth: Gotta love seeing Denton County represent so well.

Ah, and reading the Wretched Chronicle brings back tears of joy (that I no longer live in that shiathole).

Well, at least I'm down a bit further. Lewisville ain't so bad.

derek20cali:
It seems to be mostly liberals that think this way.

I take it you work in the private sector? Have you ever worked in the public sector?
There is a reason people don't want to work in the public sector, cause of situations like those in the article.
If only the public could see how they really appear, majority of the time good, but a portion the time, rude, nasty and hostile!

I was in Walmart trying to return something and I wound up in line behind a woman with a whole cart of shiat to return, and with a receipt. She returned things like deodorant, shampoo, all kinds of makeup and a box of tampons (no lie). I couldn't figure out why a person would buy a whole cart load of stuff, then return it.

It made me wonder if a calculating scumbag could find receipts blowing around in the parking lot (particularly for items paid for in cash), shoplift that same stuff, then return it.

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foxbrook78 2008-03-22 03:33:18 PM
I was in Walmart trying to return something and I wound up in line behind a woman with a whole cart of shiat to return, and with a receipt. She returned things like deodorant, shampoo, all kinds of makeup and a box of tampons (no lie). I couldn't figure out why a person would buy a whole cart load of stuff, then return it.
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I kinda wondered about that myself when I saw it. Then I just came to the conclusion that it was some sort of welfare card-to-money scam.

You darn racial and sexual slurs, you!

Shoplifters either use receipts found the parking lot or shoplift the same stuff they just bought and return it without leaving the store and using their own receipt from an hour before.

/dated a shoplifter for years

butterwings: I've never understood why the public seems to feel they are entitled to be total a-holes to anyone in the service industry.


I've been in the customer-service business for years and you'd be amazed what some people feel they are entitled to, or think they can get away with.

A person wanted me to book a 5-star hotel, but only wanted to pay half the rate and wanted me to make a deal with them.

When I explained I had no control over the rates, he became irate and asked 'what happened to the customer always being right'.

I hate that expression, and no the customer is NOT always right.

Obviously, there are smart thieves and dumbass thieves.

Smart thieves steal what they need or what they know will sell.

Dumbass thieves, like the couple in the story, steal shiat that they don't need and can't farkin sell.

An iron, fer fark's sakes. Who steals an iron, I ask ya?

Trance750:

A person wanted me to book a 5-star hotel, but only wanted to pay half the rate and wanted me to make a deal with them.

When I explained I had no control over the rates, he became irate and asked 'what happened to the customer always being right'.

I hate that expression, and no the customer is NOT always right.

That's all Priceline's fault. Stupid Capt. Kirk.

Ferrous.

If said item happened to be a fragmentation grenade, then no it wouldn't.

/drtfa

"Maybe the store employees were being jerks for not taking back an item without a receipt"

Ah the american entitlement attitude at its best. the customer doesnt follow the rules, and yet it's the employees who are "jerks."

yes, i'm bitter. I'm bitter that americans, who make up almost exactly 50% of our retail customrs, are responsible for 98%+ of "whiny baitch didn't follow the directions or somehow thinks that the clearly stated rules don't apply to him/her and expects us to make a special exception for him/her" customer support resources. I feel sorrt for companies (especially things like airlines) who have to pay this massive hidden tax of the costs associated with dealing with professional eneitlement baby consumers. The bsaic attitude is "if i whine and complain enough they'll give in rather than take the costs of dealing with me."

Just give the person a replacement. See Ya!

LukeA: captivity: maxx2112: glaurunge: Ironic, how?


The story involves an iron. If it involved a moron, it would be moronic.


/ Say, do we have a moronic tag?
// Beside Floriduh?

Iron-ish Ferrous Ferrous-y

/pet peeve

/pet peeve

/pet peave

I live in Denton. While the blotter only alludes to a 'large retailer on the 1500 block of South Loop 288..." you can bet it was at the Wal-Mart.

The man became irate and demanded to see the manager. Then he yelled at both the manager and the clerk, calling them racial and sexual slurs...

But did he take the Lord's name in vain? No? Then that's a pass.

Bomb Head Mohammed: yes, i'm bitter. I'm bitter that americans, who make up almost exactly 50% of our retail customrs,

Uhm, what nationality are the other 50% of your customers? Cuz I know Canadians are overly polite. They would apologize for returning the iron and think it was their fault it didn't work in the first place. And Aussies are pretty laid back. They would invite you out for a beer to talk about it, then forget what they wanted to return. Germans? They're all repressed Nazis. But they would reengineer the iron and bring it back to you and suggest you sell it for an extra $100. Mexicans? Ask them for their Green Card.

GroovyKodiaK: wow, i'm surprised so many people missed the "iron" to "iron-ic" joke already.

I missed it completely, fortueantely, the second comment explained it to me. If you want to start a decent Fark comments page argument, you have to leave the explanations alone for at least a few posts.

Bomb Head Mohammed The bsaic attitude is "if i whine and complain enough they'll give in rather than take the costs of dealing with me."

One of my biggest problems with retailers in this country is the "Mail in rebate" BS. I bought a cell phone/plan with a rebate and I deliberately had the clerk in the store fill out the paperwork because in the back of my mind, I know that they make more money if the customer screws it up. He filled it out, I checked it, it looked fine. A month later, I get a letter saying my rebate could not be processed due to an error on the form. I said OK, fix the error and give me my money, they said we can't, you're are outside of the date range to send in a correctly filled out form. I asked for a manager, they got me one, I told the manager that they need to speak with the store employee who filled out my form wrong. This went on until I had easily wasted the rebate amount in hourly wages paid to the people answering phones. They eventually gave me my money.

My attitude was, sure as shiat, to wine and complain until they dealt with me, and it is their lousy business model (mail in rebates to get people to buy their products) that is the real problem. If the price was the price in the store and they didn't have a whole infrastructure set up to screw people, it wouldn't be necessary to hassle them on the phone. I do agree that a lot of people are far too entitled and rake a lot of retail clerks over the coals unnecessarily but I feel like the company's own policies beg for trouble, morons returning stuff without receipts aside.

foxbrook78
Bomb Head Mohammed The bsaic attitude is "if i whine and complain enough they'll give in rather than take the costs of dealing with me."

One of my biggest problems with retailers in this country is the "Mail in rebate" BS. I bought a cell phone/plan with a rebate and I deliberately had the clerk in the store fill out the paperwork because in the back of my mind, I know that they make more money if the customer screws it up. He filled it out, I checked it, it looked fine. A month later, I get a letter saying my rebate could not be processed due to an error on the form. I said OK, fix the error and give me my money, they said we can't, you're are outside of the date range to send in a correctly filled out form. I asked for a manager, they got me one, I told the manager that they need to speak with the store employee who filled out my form wrong. This went on until I had easily wasted the rebate amount in hourly wages paid to the people answering phones. They eventually gave me my money.

My attitude was, sure as shiat, to wine and complain until they dealt with me, and it is their lousy business model (mail in rebates to get people to buy their products) that is the real problem. If the price was the price in the store and they didn't have a whole infrastructure set up to screw people, it wouldn't be necessary to hassle them on the phone. I do agree that a lot of people are far too entitled and rake a lot of retail clerks over the coals unnecessarily but I feel like the company's own policies beg for trouble, morons returning stuff without receipts aside.

Reading between the lines, I guess I need a drink after that rant.

"Maybe the store employees were being jerks for not taking back an item without a receipt"

There is no law that says any store has to take back any product, with or without a receipt. Stores only do it to keep customers happy. People doing shiat like this will get the policy changed.

I miss Denton, cheap alcohol, sh*tty pot, loose granola girls, and nutbags from the outskirts.

foxbrook78: Bomb Head Mohammed The bsaic attitude is "if i whine and complain enough they'll give in rather than take the costs of dealing with me."

One of my biggest problems with retailers in this country is the "Mail in rebate" BS. I bought a cell phone/plan with a rebate and I deliberately had the clerk in the store fill out the paperwork because in the back of my mind, I know that they make more money if the customer screws it up. He filled it out, I checked it, it looked fine. A month later, I get a letter saying my rebate could not be processed due to an error on the form. I said OK, fix the error and give me my money, they said we can't, you're are outside of the date range to send in a correctly filled out form. I asked for a manager, they got me one, I told the manager that they need to speak with the store employee who filled out my form wrong. This went on until I had easily wasted the rebate amount in hourly wages paid to the people answering phones. They eventually gave me my money.

My attitude was, sure as shiat, to wine and complain until they dealt with me, and it is their lousy business model (mail in rebates to get people to buy their products) that is the real problem. If the price was the price in the store and they didn't have a whole infrastructure set up to screw people, it wouldn't be necessary to hassle them on the phone. I do agree that a lot of people are far too entitled and rake a lot of retail clerks over the coals unnecessarily but I feel like the company's own policies beg for trouble, morons returning stuff without receipts aside.

What I have come to discover is the reason mail-in rebates are so popular is the companies are relying on people to be too lazy to actually fill them out and mail them

Trance750: When I explained I had no control over the rates, he became irate and asked 'what happened to the customer always being right'.

I hate that expression, and no the customer is NOT always right.

The phrase was coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge, owner of a London department store, in 1909. The way I see it the phrase "the customer is always right" pertains to his store and his store only. I've worked plenty of retail jobs and never once did any of the orientation literature mention that phrase and as such I have refused to abide by that saying. If you're in my store and you are wrong, you're wrong. Don't biatch about it. And don't threaten to never come back. I'd prefer if you didn't. Trust me, losing your money is not going to hurt the company in the slightest, and I don't ever have to deal with you again.
I'm not saying I'm never going to try and please a customer, I just refuse to deal with their self-important temper tantrums.

"What I have come to discover is the reason mail-in rebates are so popular is the companies are relying on people to be too lazy to actually fill them out and mail them"

you're off topic; but right you are! The manufacturers, not retailers BTW, do this for the same reason the retailers price everything at $xx.99 - it works!
Rather than lower a price to goose sales, they offer a rebate, which in the consumers mind as a "sale" price; not realizing they'll forget to do it, lose the receipt, etc. So the manufacturer can "sell" the product for "less", boost sales, knowing full well that only a very small % of the rebates will be redeemed.