Share hilarous and strange things you have spotted at work.
-People buying coats at the Deli
-6 cans of coke in a tower under the beef jerky stand
-An ad for driveway cleaning on the beef jerky stand (It's popular for some reason)
And more I forget.

Go on massassi! Share!

drunk people + happy + porn mags = hilarity

Speaking of drunk people, when I was working at Home Depot this one guy came in ****faced, thought I was Charlie Brown, and bought like $3000 worth of cabinets.

He gave me a $5 tip and bought me a coke, because "You're a good man, Charlie Brown"

I have to wonder what he thought when he was sober and noticed he bought $3000 worth of cabinets.

I have a hard time believing that. Home Depot doesn't have any set of practices for employees when dealing with transactions ($3000 mind you) of a customer is clearly intoxicated/under the influence? Or even just dealing and confronting with customers of that sort? I mean, I wouldn't conduct business if the party I'm dealing with is whacked out, instead sending and/or assisting them out the front door, and I'm sure my employer would agree with such a principle.

You're just upset he didn't buy you a coke.

I think that was the best part of the story, though. "You're a good man, Charlie Brown"

What the hell are you talking about?
If someone wants to buy several thousand dollars worth of stuff, we are all about it.

Maybe my store was different since it was brand new and trying to meet quotas so we would all get huge bonuses.

But people do come through your lines high and drunk more than you would think.

The really only thing we won't do is sell spray paint to under 18.

Stores always attract the weird, I know that. I've visited a Walmart.

Ordering cabinets, from my experience, is a sit-down process where you have to consult with a desk person in the kitchenware department, no? Unless these are cabinets where you can somewhere buy off the shelves?

Even so, a person who is inebriated isn't a prime customer to sell $3000 worth of merchandise because he isn't clearly thinking. When he comes to and realizes he is surrounded by numerous wooden (or MDF, etc.) objects in a parking lot, he probably wants to return it as soon as he finds what store he bought it from. Even with Home Depot's restocking fee, it would be the store's best interest to prevent such a dealing before a bunch of busted furniture returns to the front door.

Surely there is some sort of policy for employees to handle such folks. Unless this Home Depot is stuck in Florida or something.

You can buy them in boxes.
Maybe his wife made him buy them and he had to get drunk first, I don't know.

I bought a really good textbook from Amazon when I was battered. It turned up and I had absolutely no recollection of ordering it. I've only recently turned one-click ordering back on.

lol.
What textbook?

Mechanics of Engineering Materials: Benham, Crawford & Armstrong.

It's one of only a handful of engineering textbooks I didn't sell once I finished my degree.

It cost 40 quid at the time, which was a bloody shock to a poor beer-starved student... <_<

...I think I have that under a desk somewhere.

Apparently, being "beer-starved" wasn't your problem at the time...

The only amusing thing that happens at work is, every once in a while, I'll receive an email that states "Steven, my email doesn't work. Can you look at it?"

I can't figure that out. If they can send an email to you, why do they think their email doesn't work?

It's one of life's great mysteries.

Email them back and say "no".

I know for a while I could receive emails but not send them.... but I don't think I'd try to send an email knowing that.

Maybe they had been testing their email for weeks by sending that message repeatedly. You finally got it when it fixed itself one day.


But probably not.

or maybe they're having trouble viewing emails, but can send them ok.

I was on MSN last night complaining my broadband was borked to mb.

I was using my iPhone

I'm a graphic designer. I recently had a very attractive customer come into my office to inquire what size we could print her poster. She hands over a CD so 'we can pick a good photo' for the poster and decide the size.

I fire them up and find that these are nude pictures of her. And she's sitting right next to me, asking which ones would make a good picture.

We finally agree on one. I'm feeling awkward.

"So what size?" she asks.

"Well... where will you put it?"

She suddenly blushes and looks completely uncomfortable. Funny, she didn't look like that while I was staring at her cans on the screen.

"Its for a prision cell."

"Oh.. hum..." I stutter, and try to figure out something to say.

I finally decide on a joke:

"Depends. Do you want to make the other inmates jealous? We can print life-size."

She didn't find me funny. D:

winjep

I agree. That there is some epic win, boy I tell you'what.

On Tuesday a guy asked one of my coworkers what my name was, and where he could find me, because he was going to kill me.

Where you standing next to your coworker when that happened?

No, if I had been, it would be a very different story.

Do you work at Home Depot? Maybe cabinet man wants his revenge.

Nope, I work for parking enforcement on campus, I impounded his bike for not having a permit, being chained to a tree at an entrance, and having been warned twice previously, and attempting to hide the fact that he had been warned, therefore forcing him to come in, get his FREE permit, and pay the $20 fee to have his bike returned to him.

o0 you enforce policies on bicycles?
That seems kind of lame.

I've always experience the policy "do whatever you want with your bike, because it's probably gonna just get stolen anyways"

Yeah, well, we enforce the bike permits (which, again, are completely free) because it's how we keep track of abandoned bikes. If we don't go around once per year and take all the bikes with old permits, the abandoned bikes (from foreign students who move back home out of the country, or local ones who just don't care) pile up on the racks.

Also, we enforce the "must park at a rack" rule because when they chain them to trees and rails, a lot of times they are partially blocking walkways and handicap access (wheelchairs can't get by) or interfering with groundskeepers (like when they're trimming bushes and there's a bike stuck in the middle of them).

It's not like I don't put notes on their bikes at least twice beforehand that say "if you don't park your bike at a rack, it is subject to impound." After they read that twice, I basically figure they're sticking a big middle finger up at me.

Yes, but to be fair to Walmart, it should surely be stipulated that you have visited other stores as well.