"I ask for some help loading my new grill in to my pick up and nobody seems to want to give me some assistance. When I finally get someone to help, it’s the two skinniest guys who work in the store and they have some issues working together and using some common sense. So when the kid on one side of the grill decides to sit on the tailgate and load the grill over his body apparently, I have to ask WTF are you doing?? "
Similar experience, Lost in a store, clerk come’s up “need help”
Me"yes please"
Male Clerk"Not my dept."
Me"Huh?" Look of pure confusion on my face
Male Clerk “would you like some help?”
Me “yes”
Male Clerk" well it’s not my dept. so I have to find someone"
Me “Okay”
Me wandering around lost, clerk come back
Male Clerk “can’t find anyone did you need help?’
Me “No i’m good”
Clerk leaves…
Female clerk show up, need help? Me “please” we walk over to a computer terminal 10 feet away looks up what i need Prints a FREAKING MAP with the exact locations of need items,
Male clerk see me loading up cart “need help”
Me “I’m good”
Pick up stuff at will call, also they page someone to help me.
Truck 99% loaded , manage to tilt last large bulky item against tailgate, as i push against it with my back I notice a pair of shoes in front of me, Mind you I’m struggling at this point, as I shove the item on the truck I look up,
Who do I see standing watching me load?
Male Clerk"Did you need Help?”
I buy Oberweiss milk - in a glass bottle. “Would you like that double bagged?”
“Yes, please.”
They proceed to completely WRAP the bottle in the first bag, and then place the wrapped bottle in the second bag - so you can use only the handles of the second bag. They have NO IDEA of the purpose or process of “double bagging” heavy, glass items!!!
john
I walk to the grocery store quite often, almost every day, I like the minimum amount of bags possible, usually 2-3. So I generally dont care if they put stuff like that in the same bag. I get mad when I get 1 bag for 1 item and so on.
On a typical day, I will find some very expensive piece of equipment broken. I usually repair it or order a part to repair it and then give a brief bit of instruction to the person who is responsible for the equipment, the person who most likely broke it or both.
Me, “You know there is a procedure for this and if you don’t follow it you will damage X, Y or Z.” “Here let me show you how that works.” I pull out my laminated and tabbed manual with the procedure and follow the steps, and follow up with, “And that’s how you safely perform that procedure.”
Them, “Where is that procedure located?”
Me, “It’s here in the book, your book, the one that looks just like this one.”
Them, “Do you know where that book is?”
Me, "Your book?
Them, “Yes, where is it?”
Me, “I think it is the one that you are sitting on.”
Them, “Oh yeah, LOL, here it is.”
That example is on point, you may not believe it, but it is. It doesn’t matter if we’ve done this 1 time or 50 times, that’s the way it works.
As the OP in this thread, I meant it to be a light hearted poke at things you see on a daily basis in work or just things people do that make you go WTF? and wonder How these folks manage to get out of bed with out hurting themselves…
That’s good Averageman…
i’m in the construction industry so here’s a couple…
Me to laborer, " Hey got to cut through this interior wall can you spot me on these wires"
Laborer “Okay”
Me, get sawsall going, thinking should be getting pretty close to wires on other side, nothing no yelling no hey stop! Well, I stop anyhow.
Laborer yelling “Why’d you stop”
Me, “How close am I to those wires?”
Laborer “You cut those in half already Keep going”
Me, WTF? Apperently I needed to be more specific on what Spotting meant with regard to the task at hand…
I have said these before I taught diving on Maui for about 15 years and used to think how can folks so dumb make enough money to get to Maui let alone some of them every year
how deep do we have to dive to get under the island !
do you live on the island ?
on the way out to dive site Maui on Left they ask what island is that ? I say Maui on the way back its on the right they ask what island is that ? I say Maui they look confused but it was on the other side going out !
where do the natives live !
when I would get calls forward to me when I worked at the Sheraton scuba shack
all these were from mainland people
do we need to bring passports ?
is the water safe to drink ?
do natives still live in huts ?
does the island have power ?
do we need to bring power converters or anything ?
is it safe ?
are there sharks in the waters there ?
are the beaches sandy I hate getting sand everywhere ?
also folks that move there and then cant hack it common saying
I am moving back to the U.S.
There is a reason I am furiously independent. I never ask for help, my wife gets upset at this but it’s not because I’m stubborn, not it’s because my mother raised me with the belief that; “If you want something done right, do it yourself”. Yes, its exhausting at times . . .
I’ve dealt with beau coup stupid, but I have to tell you there are some great folks still out there. Couple weeks ago, I bought a generator at Costco. Box weighed a bit over 200 lbs, and was pretty big and bulky to get into the bed of my Chevy 3/4 pickup. In no spring chicken any more, a few years past the big 5-0, but I still like a challenge, as the 5 bad disks in my back and neck will confirm. Anyway, after a couple attempts to load this sucker solo, I was thinking I needed to walk inside and ask for some help, when another customer walks up and asks me if I need a hand, and together, we load the generator. Nice having a stranger do that.
I usually go out of my way to help old folks and ladies load heavy stuff when I see them in a parking lot, but this was the first time I’d had it happen to me.
that kinda they live among us