working at starbucks and one of the most retarded question i've ever had was "do you sell coffee?"

I used to work at Tim Hortons and we always had this one guy who always ordered a "large double double no sugar."

I used to work at a telus mobility dealership. Had a lady come in

"my fone doesn't turn on"
"let me see if i can plug it in"
*plugs it in*
"see? it's working?"
"you have to plug these things in?"

At a presentation centre for a developer, there is a big sign that says "presentation centre" pointing to the doors of the building...through these glass doors, you can see another sign inside that says "presentation centre" pointing to the direction of the office inside the building. A lady calls the office to ask" is the presentation centre inside the building?"

1) Worked at a call centre in Surrey. It embodied all of the shitty things about call centres. People putting customers on hold to get a cup of coffee. Severely ESL and barely literate people who had no business doing customer service. Also, if you're working in the middle of the night and fall asleep at your desk? No big deal. We understand you're tired and will put you on leave until you feel like coming back. God forbid we fire you.
Also the crown jewel: If you ask for a supervisor you simply get put on hold and talk to another agent nearby to that customer service rep who isn't on a call. :awesom:

2) Porn store. Well, everybody knows that story

3) Watching the Superstore Meat Dept scrub down chicken with a stiff brush to get all the discolouration off so its ready to be sold the next day. It was past it's prime and I have no idea why they did this on a semi-regular basis. They're a big company and should be able to replace their product with ease.
I'd think it was a bullshit rumour if I hadn't seen it myself.

A lot of these are "you had to be there" kinda moments, or have worked there to have the effect lol...

like making crazy shit at mcdonalds etc...

Was this in North Van? My girlfriend told me about this yesterday!

haha, these are some of the things i do at my call centre, put customers on hold for no reason really

Back in the day I worked at McD's and an EI ordered a Double Big Mac, no meat.

True story.

when i worked @ 7-11 i had a crack head come in and start cutting right on my Ice Cream freezers, then snort away.

Similar, but less retarded/public:

A guy would come into the Petro Can I worked the night shift at (back in Courtenay, not here), make a b-line to the bathroom, and stay in there for at least half an hour. I always wondered what he was doing so one day after he came in and made a b-line for the john I walked toward the back of the store and listened to the door.

In retrospect this was kind of fucking retarded because, come on, what if the guy just had intestinal problems. Or like to :fappery: in semi-public bathrooms.

I heard him take the tank off of the back of the toilet, some clicking, then a noisy grotesque SNOOOOORRRRRT.

It turned my stomach. I started pounding on the door and told him to GTFO b/c the police were on their way. He ran out the back door only to return a few hours later to beg forgiveness.



I hate addicts.

it beats saying "large coffee, 2 cream, no sugar"
dont u think "large dbl dbl no sugar" sounds so much smoother?

Should be able to use other terminology...

Large Two and Zero
Large Double Nothing

Would Tim Horton's workers know what those would mean?

It's like ordering a cheeseburger at McDonald's and holding the cheese. :D

I had a lady come 3 times to get gas at our station. 3 times she hit the post with her car trying to pull up to the pumps. 3 times she did not get gas.

One time I got a call from a guy how had bought a pack of condoms on his credit card the night before and was afraid his wife would see it on his bill. He offered me $100 to reverse the charge.

yup. she must've been on something because she seriously didn't know what was wrong. she even asked us after where her hubcap went. THAT was on her mind more than anything.

Part 1: A woman wanted back-up sensor installed in her brand new car, BUT she wanted one that talked, like the navi's. We told her we didn't carry those, she insisted and made a HUGE deal out of it and so we went to an outside shop and bought it to install for her. (I work at a dealership, we don't do this kind of thing, but this woman is just sooo......I have no words)

Part 2: She actually marked in PEN where exactly she wanted the sensors to sit on her bumper. We told her there are standard measurements, they have to be so-far apart to work properly. If we put them where she wanted them, MAYBE half the sensors would actually work. Of course, she put up another fight and you know what, we put them where she wanted it. Guess what? THE SENSORS DIDN'T WORK! So what did we do? We REPLACED her bumper and she let us put the sensors where they needed to go.

Part 3: She had asked us to put the speaker RIGHT above the driver's seat belt because she had "hearing problems". We told her, usually the speaker is at the back, again, she insisted. So we installed the speaker RIGHT beside her ear as she asked. She came back the next day and furiously yelled at us "Jesus, could you guys make it any louder?! I swear I'm going to go deaf with that voice so loud in my ear!"

Please, someone beat my story.

"You sound really hot, can I put you on hold a minute while I fap under my desk??"

I've heard some amazing ones from Starbucks baristas, but the best had to be the guy that ordered a "cappuccino, no foam". "You mean a latte, then..." "No, I want a cappuccino, but without foam."

On the other side of that equation, there's the time I went through the McD's drive-thru and ordered the crispy chicken sandwich "without tomato". Fortunately I was only about four blocks away when I opened the thing up and found a slice of tomato... and no chicken.

I heard some doozy stories from ICBC adjusters and estimators when I was doing IT work for them. Best was at the Marine & Cambie claim center... if you've ever driven into the inspection bay at these places, you know at most of them there's a window where you first drive in where you tell someone why you're there, and then the bay opens out to the left and they direct you which lane to park in. Protecting that corner is a big yellow steel post. The adjuster this time was telling me about the woman who had parked in the first space, got her claim all dealt with (she'd been hit, accident deemed NOT her fault), got back in her car, threw it into reverse... and backed HARD right into that post.

That's pretty epic, but lexluthor's original post still beats all (so far) :haha:

.... and then? ;)

bestbuy computers department.

the stories write themselves.

Don't be a tease and share them.

couple years back a customer ordered a med-well char-broiled steak.

server to me: hey, the guy said the steak is awesome, but that the crust is a lil dry.
me: yeah, it's med-well.....

server goes back to the table and comes back to the kitchen

server: he's wondering if you can cook it wetter.
me: ..... what is wetter?
server: like...wet
me: he wants me to fucking boil/poach/steam his freakn steak?!?! I gave the server a side of water for him to dunk his steak into. no idea if she brought it to him

i would think tim horton's people is not that bright...

AHAHAHAH nice

I was in Circuit City once (when there used to be one over on United) and saw some guy shopping for a new computer and haranguing the poor salesdroid over features: he wanted absolutely the latest, greatest, most up-to-date computer with all the newest standards so he wouldn't be obsolete in six months. He was looking for a computer with 14-pin USB and 16-pin firewire ports; he'd done his research on the internet and he knew what he was talking about, dammit.

The poor salesdroid didn't know what to do - the newest machines they had were only 4- and 6-pin, he'd never heard of 14-pin USB. I hadn't either, so I peeked over the guy's shoulder at the printed pages he was waving around as his shopping guide... and pointed out that the page he'd printed recommended a computer have at least 1 4-pin USB and 1 6-pin firewire...

Gotta love the informed consumer.