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I am extremely disappointed in RHU for posting this dsgusting, racist meme. Shame on you!
And by the way, I won't be visiting this site any more.
There Will Always Be Someone Who Plays This Card
Oh, Stringoffate3, no! You can't just take the peanuts off, and you certainly can't expect the customer to do it! When someone orders a dish with no peanuts they usually have a peanut allergy. A severe allergy can be triggered by just a few molecules of peanut transferred onto something they've touched -- in extreme cases, just the smell (which is caused by molecules entering your nose) can cause anaphylactic shock. Your customer could have died!
Server Hell: I Hate Mondays
From Stringoffate3, TalesFromYourServer So yesterday was probably the worst Monday I've had in a very long time. At least half of my customers had problems, were angry due to some reason I couldn't control, took their sweet time and was pretty dumb in general. For example, five minutes in ...
This is just infuriating. Not only that these hypocrites thought it was funny to mistreat their waitress stiff her on the tip and salve their consciences by giving her a church pamphlet instead, but that they believe anything goes until they get caught by their authority-figure -- at which point they turn into contrite little boys.
Justice Served: Religion As A Tip Doesn't Go Over Well With The Pastor
From ella1993, JusticePorn A couple of weeks ago a coworker of mine ("Judy") showed me a tip a customer had left for her. It was a pamphlet for a local church on which the customer had written "Best tip you can get: Jesus saves!" followed by a smiley face. She was annoyed but I was outraged. ...
No, this was marketed to young women, not little girls. I remember it well. It was extremely popular and really did smell very nice. At the time a childlike quality in adult women was considered normal and yes, sexy. It wasn't a symptom of latent pedophiliac tendencies until at least a decade or more later.
Bad Ads: Do Babies Give You Boners? We Have A Product For You!
This ad is for a perfume for children between the ages of 12 and 15. Does anyone even need me to explain why this is creepy as fuck? No? Good.
"An octogenarian woman approaches. She purchases bras and lingerie. I cry on the inside. It is too early for these images."
Wow, Tom, that's pretty ageist and sexist of you. And what are you doing, visualizing your customers in the garments they're purchasing? Just -- eww!
There's nothing that makes a woman feel more feminine and well-groomed than nice bras & lingerie. How wonderful that this lady can indulge in it when so many women her age are forced into tanks and Depends.
Target Newbie Documents His First Days of Work on Tumblr
From Pulptastic: When 20-year-old Tom Grennell started working at a Target in his area, he gave some pretty solid evidence on just how crazy things can get. He meticulously recorded his first week there and shared it in a series of posts that went viral on Imgur and got over 100,000 notes on...
That's an unpleasantly familiar sight! I once bought a 'whole chicken in a can' -- in quotes because it certainly wasn't -- and when I wrote a letter of complaint to the manufacturer I got a letter back saying, in effect, "You can't expect us to actually pack a whole chicken into a can, you moron."
Whole Chicken In a Can
OK, the kid was a little jerk. But what appalls me is that Mom didn't bat an eye over the profanity and wasn't too upset with the drugs and alcohol, was merely uncomfortable with the lawbreaking and extreme violence, but went ballistic over nudity. If kids saw more nakedness and less violence this would be a much happier world.
Game Store Hell: The Ultimate Parental Smackdown
From metamaxwell, TalesFromRetail Background: I work at a small, privately owned retro game store. You name it, I have something for it. Now this tale takes place a few days after GTA 5 came out. You see, on this slow day at work I was killing time doing what I usually do: playing SNES games ...
I know for a fact there was some great ElfQuest cosplay at ComiCon this year but instead you show umpteen iterations of Boba Fett. BOOOOOOO!
Best Cosplay at Comic-Con 2016
Throwing things contemptuously is always rude. But these days a lot of people are leery of being touched, so what I usually do as a customer is count out my money onto the counter while saying what it is, then sliding it to the clerk's edge so it's easy to scoop up. If I have to hand my card to the clerk -- rarely -- I hold it by the edge closest to me and extend it so s/he can take it by the edge closest to them.
Rude Custys: People Who Throw Money or Credits Cards Down
From BSH94: I have been with a well known electronic store for close to 2 years now. I have switched districts since I moved about 6 months into my first year with them. In my old district I never really had this issue. In this new district I put out my hand to accept the person's money and ...
Nothing wrong with this at all. The notice about the giblets is just a CYA document -- packaged poultry rarely has all the giblets it used to because it's more profitable to sell them for pet food. But keep a look-out for "C Grade" poultry; it often has torn skin or even a missing wing or leg, but is otherwise the same quality as "Grade A" for half the price.
Seems Legit: Chernobyl Chickens?
From an RHUer: Brought home this chicken to roast for dinner. According to the label: "Whole Young Chicken with Giblets and Neck" "Giblet parts may be missing or of irregular proportions"
I worked for several years in the corporate offices of a huge temp agency that mostly provided day laborers. For the first few years I worked in dispute resolution, handling cases where the customer felt they shouldn't have to pay all -- or any -- of our charges. Then I got transferred to the lien department, putting liens on construction projects -- our biggest customer base -- and releasing them when the bill was paid. Friends from the dispute resolution department warned me when I got transferred to watch my back, that the manager had a reputation for liking to fire people.
Sure enough, I was set up to fail almost from day one. As the only non-smoker in the department, I worked like a demon while the manager and her buddies went outside once an hour for at least 10 minutes to smoke, yet I got the stink eye if I played computer solitaire on my proper breaks. As the only non-Christian in the department, I was treated with suspicion and bombarded with crappy religious music from the manager's radio. My desk was directly under an A/C vent that blew freezing air on me, requiring me to wear my coat, a knitted cap and fingerless gloves all day. We had gnats. The girl in the cubicle across from me wore perfume I was highly allergic to and she refused my desperate pleas not to wear it; but as she was the VP's granddaughter nothing was ever done.
And then one day the manager called me into the conference room and informed me they were 'moving in a different direction' and I was fired. I stood up, slapped her on the back, and said, "Well, you gotta do what you gotta do." Her face fell. "Oh," she said forlornly. "I expected you to cry."
Six months later I learned she had in turn been fired. Karma's a bitch.
Toxic Managers: Dollar Store Summer Hell
From Tanya, posted to RHU March, 2010 Over the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in college, I needed a job. Went looking, and found what I thought was a pretty sweet gig at a dollar store. They had a "strict" policy of "plain shirts and jeans" that only I actually adhered to. ...
Retail Hell Underground can now close up shop. You win!
Corporate Hell: "Can You Just Work Around The Body?"
From: knopper91 Working at Big Red Corporate Hell Auto Parts store. I am the general manager of the store (yey power!) and a few years ago this event took place. It was a Friday morning around 0700, I had just made it to the store to open. Got into the main office I noticed a note about a ver...
Something's wrong here. If that beanbag is 6 ft. in diameter, that woman is only 4 ft. tall!
$1,200 Sheepskin Beanbag That Appears To Be Worth Every Single Penny
--DontWorryImMedicated
A shop I hung out at years ago did that for their advertising at an outdoor event -- one side of a $20, advertising on the other side, folded just like that & dropped on the ground all over the park. I was there the day they were visited by the Feds and politely if chillingly informed that was counterfeiting at worst and defacing currency at least, and if continued would land them in the pen. But somehow churches get a pass?
And don't get me started on the smug self-righteousness (not to mention cheapness) of leaving something like that as a 'tip.' There's a special place in hell for people like that!
Cheap Religious Freak Encounter: Waiter Receives Fake $20 Bill For Tip That Turns into a Religious Pamphlet
From Tech Insider: 17-year-old Garret Wayman, who works as a waiter at a restaurant in a suburb of Wichita, Kansas, said he was excited on Tuesday to see a $20 bill tucked under a ketchup bottle as a tip. But on closer inspection, his excitement turned to irritation after he said he realized...
From a manager's/scheduler's perspective, asking employees to request time off 2 weeks in advance probably sounds reasonable. But most social invitations are offered just a few days -- a week if everyone's thinking ahead -- before the event. This means that retail slaves have almost no social life. Sucky.
Scheduling Nightmares: The One Who Broke The System
From: CurvedStraightLine When I was store manager recently at a craft-based store, the chain I worked for was pretty open about how they let us do some policies, and the DM would let you do trial runs of a lot of ideas. I took advantage of this when I made up my plans for scheduling. I sta...
TygerTech, I understand that. I've worked my share of retail. All I'm saying is that while it's one thing to get sick of it and quite another to be pissed off. Most people who say it mean well, and in interaction with the public, meaning well is a very good thing.
Cashier Hell: More Things That Piss A Cashier Off
From: RHUer Former cashier at a grocery store. Things that pissed me off: Cell phones. Wasn't a big deal when I quit (2007) but I would not say a word to anyone on their cell phone. Not telling me the method of payment. We had to tell our registers if someone was paying by card. I woul...
I've read this complaint over and over, and have had enough. I'm sure it gets old very quickly (I was a retail cashier the year the Laughing Bag came out for Xmas; oh, God...) But if you appreciated why people told the 'it must be free' joke maybe that fake smile you're so proud of would be a little less fake.
Don't you realize that people say that in an attempt to ease YOUR potential embarrassment? Your machine has malfunctioned. You don't know how much the item is and must inconvenience the customer while you find out. And rather than scream at you as some people do, they tell a lame joke to demonstrate they're not mad and ease the tension. Wow, they're such awful people.
Cashier Hell: More Things That Piss A Cashier Off
From: RHUer Former cashier at a grocery store. Things that pissed me off: Cell phones. Wasn't a big deal when I quit (2007) but I would not say a word to anyone on their cell phone. Not telling me the method of payment. We had to tell our registers if someone was paying by card. I woul...
A Hallmark shop I worked in had its usual assortment of NATs but also one regular visitor who nearly drove us to distraction. He had some sort of emotional problems and while he was quiet and inoffensive there was definitely something a bit creepy about him. We started noticing that whenever he'd been there many of the cards where he'd been browsing were deliberately damaged and had to be discarded. Hallmark shops exist on a pretty small margin (which is why most of them carry so many things besides Hallmark) and our little shop couldn't afford the loss. We couldn't confront him because we had no actual proof. So the boss hit upon a great idea: whoever saw the guy first was to drop whatever they were doing and just follow him around, staring. We were not to speak to him or approach him, just stand at the end of whatever aisle he was in and stare. Well, it worked like a treat! After about 5 minutes he fled. A couple of days later he came in, and we repeated the treatment. A couple of days after THAT, and the boss gets a phone call from the guy's therapist wanting to know why we are discriminating against a disabled Vet. Boss explains the situation. Therapist says "Oh, he's doing that again? I'll deal with it." Seems he lived in the nearby VA mental health facility where they KNEW his history of vandalizing merchandise and they still let him go shopping by himself.
Nasty Ass Thieves: No Way To Win
From: Kinky Boots Ugh, I hate seeing people walking out with merchandise and being able to do fuck all about it >.< In my store, all we're allowed to do is approach 'suspicious persons' and ask if they need help. No way are we allowed to infer we believe they took anything - even if we've ...
Not bizarre at all. Classical era wooden armor -- reproductions, of course. Worn over thick quilted undergarments, it was surprisingly effective against sword cuts and arrow-fire. They did a whole episode about Asian armor on MythBusters.
Just Another Walmart Mannequin Monday in China
From Lolwot
This is way more humane than some. A company I once worked for had to reduce its workforce by 50% due entirely to upper management misreading the signs of imminent catastrophic change in the industry that made up most of their customer base. One day during the height of the lay-offs the CEO posted a magazine article on the bulletin board, titled "The Great Game of Business." In a rage, I ripped it down and took it in to my supervisor's office, slammed it on her desk and said "It may be a game to him but it's life and death to the people he's firing!"
Whole Foods Revealed Firings With This Internal Memo To Workers
Whole Foods is firing roughly 1,500 employees over the next two months. The company's co-CEOs, John Mackey and Walter Robb, announced the job cuts in an internal memo sent to employees on Monday, a source told Business Insider. "We are writing to tell you directly that we have made the diffi...
All the Dollar Tree/Dollar Store/Dollar Mart stores have good crafts aisles. It's all made in the same Chinese factories as the stuff you buy at Michaels (I refuse to even mention H**** L****) just a bit less lush.
Scary Merchandising: Fall Harvest in July
From Wm Elmore: No. NO! God, no! It's too soon!
OK, I don't see what the problem is here. And it's certainly not about 'entitlement.' Believe it or not, Sunset Blvd winds through the foothills between Hollywood and the ocean, and there are lots of trails for horseback riders. These guys couldn't very well go inside and leave their horses -- they could easily have been stolen.
Drive Thru Dissidents: The Entitlement Is Strong On Sunset Blvd, Hollywood
--beneverhart
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