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Stupid Pet Peeves

A couple that have surfaced with my yearly commitment to go to the gym:
People who drive up and down the aisles at the gym parking lot to find the closest spot to the door. Kind of counter productive.
When someone uses the shower/locker right next to me, ignoring the dozen unused ones on the other wall.
 
bigb said:
A couple that have surfaced with my yearly commitment to go to the gym:
People who drive up and down the aisles at the gym parking lot to find the closest spot to the door. Kind of counter productive.
When someone uses the shower/locker right next to me, ignoring the dozen unused ones on the other wall.
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That is easily a top ten peeve of mine. Not something I deal with a ton anymore, but when I was in the Navy I used to shower at lunch so that I didn't have to stand in the line of naked dudes waiting for a shower in the morning, but every so often someone else would shower at teh same time and pick the one stall next to me and their shower water splashing off them and hitting me drove me nuts.
 
Gameface said:
That is easily a top ten peeve of mine. Not something I deal with a ton anymore, but when I was in the Navy I used to shower at lunch so that I didn't have to stand in the line of naked dudes waiting for a shower in the morning, but every so often someone else would shower at teh same time and pick the one stall next to me and their shower water splashing off them and hitting me drove me nuts.
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It also touched your nuts.
 
When you order something on amazon and you get an email, or multiple emails, from the vendor asking you to submit a positive review. That's an instant 1-star reduction.

Related: A product that meets expectations should get 3 stars. Not every ****ing thing that isn't trash deserves 5 stars. 5 stars means that you're expectations were blown out of the water and that the price/value ratio was amazing. Very few things should get 5 stars.

Yet, I gave an item a 3 star review and then got an unsolicited email from the company offering me a partial refund because I wasn't satisfied. I told them I was plenty satisfied, that they could shove their partial refund up their *** and that a 3 star review was exactly what their product deserved.
 
This one is on behalf of my wife.

She is a retail supervisor and often in charge for closing (verifying all the tills, setting the alarm, locking up). So I'm sure many of you have been in a store when they make an announcement along the lines of "We'll be closing in 10 minutes. Please bring you items to the registers so we can check you out." Many times there will be a customer that comes in the store about 10-15min before closing time and starts in on some serious shopping. The announcements go out, customer is not phased. Associates are sent to "customer service" the person, which means to say they ask if there is anything they are looking for, is there any way I can help, if you're not sure about you items it's okay, you have 30 days to return anything. Customer is not phased. It is now 10 minutes after closing time and customer is still shopping.

Let's keep in mind, many people who work retail are high school kids. There are laws that limit the amount of hours they can work and that they are required to have x amounts of breaks for x amount of hours worked. Also, when closing everyone is supposed to leave the store together, for safety reasons and for store security.

15min after closing time customer is bewildered because she wants to try some stuff on and the dressing rooms are closed. Asks to be allowed to go into the dressing rooms and try stuff on.

20min after closing time customer is close to the registers but not checking out yet. Customer is looking through their items and sorting out what they might really want to buy and what they don't want to buy. Of course, when the store closes all go-backs have already gone back. So now this customer is generating new go-backs.

30 min after store closing time customer has figured out what they are actually going to buy and they go to the register. Customer has three types of payments and ends up after three different payment types to be about $40 short. Customer has to cancel a few items. Customer finally leaves and they are finally allowed to close the registers and put those extra go-backs back.

45min after closing time the store actually closes. The store paid about 8 people for an extra 30min that night so that a customer could buy about $250 worth of stuff. Store policy is to keep the registers open as long as customers are in the store and to not kick people out. I have no idea how far it would have to go before they would just have to tell the person to leave, but it hasn't ever happened and 30+min is not the longest time customers have remained in the store past closing time. These jackasses seem completely oblivious, but I suspect it's some passive aggressive power trip for them.

Anyway, when the store closes bring your crap to the front, pay for it and GTFO!
 
Gameface said:
The store paid about 8 people for an extra 30min that night so that a customer could buy about $250 worth of stuff.
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I get where you are coming from, but didn't the store clearly still make money? If the 8 people were making an average of $10/hour, then that only cost the store an extra $40. And I'm sure the store's profit margin on the $250 is much larger than $40.

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On a related note, how about stores that close before closing time? I had an experience last month where I wanted to meet some friends at Dairy Queen, maybe 16 of us total. I got there with half the people about 15 mins before closing and the lady proceeded to lock the door after we walked in. We explained that we had some friends meeting us there who were just a minute or two behind us, but she wouldn't unlock the door. So when they arrived, we opened the door for them. (She didn't say we couldn't let them in and technically the store was still open.) Seriously, it's like they had no interest in having another 8 customers before closing. I won't be going back there soon.
 
colton said:
I get where you are coming from, but didn't the store clearly still make money? If the 8 people were making an average of $10/hour, then that only cost the store an extra $40. And I'm sure the store's profit margin on the $250 is much larger than $40.

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On a related note, how about stores that close before closing time? I had an experience last month where I wanted to meet some friends at Dairy Queen, maybe 16 of us total. I got there with half the people about 15 mins before closing and the lady proceeded to lock the door after we walked in. We explained that we had some friends meeting us there who were just a minute or two behind us, but she wouldn't unlock the door. So when they arrived, we opened the door for them. (She didn't say we couldn't let them in and technically the store was still open.) Seriously, it's like they had no interest in having another 8 customers before closing. I won't be going back there soon.
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Yeah, store policy is to wait for the sale. But keep in mind that a $250 sale isn't all profit.

The biggest issue was that now the store was in violation of the law because now they were required to provide the under 18s a lunch, but obviously that wouldn't make sense.
 
Gameface said:
Yeah, store policy is to wait for the sale. But keep in mind that a $250 sale isn't all profit.

The biggest issue was that now the store was in violation of the law because now they were required to provide the under 18s a lunch, but obviously that wouldn't make sense.
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Can't security tell the woman she has to leave as it's past the closing time?
 
colton said:
I get where you are coming from, but didn't the store clearly still make money? If the 8 people were making an average of $10/hour, then that only cost the store an extra $40. And I'm sure the store's profit margin on the $250 is much larger than $40.

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On a related note, how about stores that close before closing time? I had an experience last month where I wanted to meet some friends at Dairy Queen, maybe 16 of us total. I got there with half the people about 15 mins before closing and the lady proceeded to lock the door after we walked in. We explained that we had some friends meeting us there who were just a minute or two behind us, but she wouldn't unlock the door. So when they arrived, we opened the door for them. (She didn't say we couldn't let them in and technically the store was still open.) Seriously, it's like they had no interest in having another 8 customers before closing. I won't be going back there soon.
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I had that closing early thing happen at the dentist once. I always get either the first appointment or last appointment of the day. Even if I'm the first appointment, it's a guaranteed 15 minute wait. I showed up 4 minutes late for the last appointment one day and the place was closed up and empty. Like everybody had gone home already. I called the next day and ripped them apart and haven't been back to that dentist since.
 
I've had to avoid at least 10 parking lot accidents in the last week. I'm almost scared to enter one. 2 were at my children's elementary school, which royally pisses me off as it could have killed a short child. I had to honk at both of these dumb ******* who were backing up into me while I was backing into a parking stall. I drive a Dodge Ram. How do you not see a big *** truck right behind you while you are backing out? Pure stupidity.

Then this morning, I had to swerve from some dumb *** who blew through a blind sidewalk (there were hedges on both sides of the approach) and into my turning lane. WTF *******, you would have killed any pedestrian walking past there. The jackass flipped me off too after I swerved back into the straight lane to avoid killing his dumb ***.

While I'm at it, if I'm backing out of a parking stall before you are pulling forward out of your gas stall I have the right of way not you you stupid ****er. I'm fed up enough at this point that I want to buy an old hooptie Blazer and let these dicks hit me.
 
Gameface said:
When you order something on amazon and you get an email, or multiple emails, from the vendor asking you to submit a positive review. That's an instant 1-star reduction.

Related: A product that meets expectations should get 3 stars. Not every ****ing thing that isn't trash deserves 5 stars. 5 stars means that you're expectations were blown out of the water and that the price/value ratio was amazing. Very few things should get 5 stars.

Yet, I gave an item a 3 star review and then got an unsolicited email from the company offering me a partial refund because I wasn't satisfied. I told them I was plenty satisfied, that they could shove their partial refund up their *** and that a 3 star review was exactly what their product deserved.
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I got some hiking boots this week from Amazon. They might be the best purchase I ever made. I'm gonna 5 star the **** out of em.
 
Gameface said:
This one is on behalf of my wife.

She is a retail supervisor and often in charge for closing (verifying all the tills, setting the alarm, locking up). So I'm sure many of you have been in a store when they make an announcement along the lines of "We'll be closing in 10 minutes. Please bring you items to the registers so we can check you out." Many times there will be a customer that comes in the store about 10-15min before closing time and starts in on some serious shopping. The announcements go out, customer is not phased. Associates are sent to "customer service" the person, which means to say they ask if there is anything they are looking for, is there any way I can help, if you're not sure about you items it's okay, you have 30 days to return anything. Customer is not phased. It is now 10 minutes after closing time and customer is still shopping.

Let's keep in mind, many people who work retail are high school kids. There are laws that limit the amount of hours they can work and that they are required to have x amounts of breaks for x amount of hours worked. Also, when closing everyone is supposed to leave the store together, for safety reasons and for store security.

15min after closing time customer is bewildered because she wants to try some stuff on and the dressing rooms are closed. Asks to be allowed to go into the dressing rooms and try stuff on.

20min after closing time customer is close to the registers but not checking out yet. Customer is looking through their items and sorting out what they might really want to buy and what they don't want to buy. Of course, when the store closes all go-backs have already gone back. So now this customer is generating new go-backs.

30 min after store closing time customer has figured out what they are actually going to buy and they go to the register. Customer has three types of payments and ends up after three different payment types to be about $40 short. Customer has to cancel a few items. Customer finally leaves and they are finally allowed to close the registers and put those extra go-backs back.

45min after closing time the store actually closes. The store paid about 8 people for an extra 30min that night so that a customer could buy about $250 worth of stuff. Store policy is to keep the registers open as long as customers are in the store and to not kick people out. I have no idea how far it would have to go before they would just have to tell the person to leave, but it hasn't ever happened and 30+min is not the longest time customers have remained in the store past closing time. These jackasses seem completely oblivious, but I suspect it's some passive aggressive power trip for them.

Anyway, when the store closes bring your crap to the front, pay for it and GTFO!
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This reminds me of another one of my pet peeves.
Shopping
 
Radio commercials that play twice in a row, back to back and word for word the same You think I somehow didn't hear it the first time?
 
People who stand too close when they are talking to you. Look buddy, I don't want to feel the air from your mouth on my face when we talk.
 
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