what sfb says.....although I don't know why we can't just be nice to people who work minimum wage. How difficult can it be?
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And this is why you can only get a job in a shop...
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truculence
She wasn't truculent - she simply hadn't figured out that she could sell me £20 worth of vouchers as opposed to a £20 voucher. She was quite pleasant actually. And had big bazookas.
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Agreed - it would be nice.
And yet you keep coming back for more MF
Saying that it was 'in jest' doesn't make it any better. In fact it's worse. If you'd simply been complaining of bad service that would be one thing, but posting her up specifically for us to laugh at is much worse!
She was quite pleasant actually.
Everyone that's served me in Lush has been absolutely gorgeous and dead nice. They also look really happy - go figure, as they say over there
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Is it just mee that gets slightly annoyed when I ask for a Pint of COake in a pub to be told that they do not do them and you can only get one size? Why the change? They do beer in Pints so why not coke?
Do they serve beer in 375ml Coke-branded glasses? It's all about portion size, the pub's till and stock management system will be set up to sell a set volume of Coke, so they can't dispense a non-standard measure.
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Slightly off topic but my favourite shop assistant question is if I stop at a petrol station to pick up a drink when out on my bike in full roadie riding gear is "any petrol?"
My motorbike needed a wash, so I went to the perol station, walked in in all my leather gear, removing my crash helemet as I wasled up to the teller and asked for a token for the car wash.
"Drive through or jet wash?"back on topic. You walk into a shop to buy something. They don't have it, but tell you they sell something broadly similar. You can't wait to rush home and post it on STW. Wow, I wish my life was that full and exciting.
Next, why not go to BurgerKing and ask for a Big Mac and please do let us all know how you get on.Posted 2 years ago # -
And yet you keep coming back for more MF
Several of us do.but posting her up specifically for us to laugh at is much worse!
So in your eyes it is okay to post about bad service, but not when the assistant opens their mouth before engaging brain?They also look really happy - go figure
The joy at her employment by Lush leaves her in such a state of permanent extacy that the mundanity of actually serving someone whilst employing common sense is a gift she cannot grasp?Posted 2 years ago # -
jaffa
Brilliant - just seen this in the tags. The level some people will go to in trying to offend really amuses me.Go on, whoever posted that up be a man (or woman) and admit to that. I would love to know who it was - do you have the balls?
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She wasn't truculent - she simply hadn't figured out that she could sell me £20 worth of vouchers as opposed to a £20 voucher.
You mean you hadn't figured out to ask for £20 worth of vouchers when that's what you wanted?
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You mean you hadn't figured out to ask for £20 worth of vouchers when that's what you wanted?
I asked for £20 worth of vouchers when asking for a £20 voucher. If I asked for £20 cashback at the supermarket I would not be offended to get two £10 notes passed to me.Posted 2 years ago # -
You are eager to believe that she's stupid. Thing is there's nothing in your description of what happened to say that she's stupid, or that she was 'unable' or 'struggling' to 'figure out' what to do.
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What if you had asked specifically for a £20 note as cashback and they didn't have any £20 notes?
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And still, after all these responses, those sitting on high are still missing the fact that the original post was only ever meant to be said in jest.
I would think most of the replies are somewhat tongue in cheek as well
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This must rank as one of the most spectacularly worthless threads ever on STW - bravo!
Agreed, yet I keep coming back for a peek wondering how it's going to end.
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leaves her in such a state of permanent extacy that the mundanity
LOL that from someone whose life is so not full of <ahem>extacy and mundanity that they can work themselves into a lather because a shop not only doesn't sell £20 gift vouchers, but <gasp> a shop assistant tells him that.
mastilles, thanks, I thought I was bored, but I am way, way short of that level of tedium.Posted 2 years ago # -
......wondering how it's going to end.
Smiles and virtual 'high 5s' all round ????
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LOL - it was only meant to be an *amusing* tag
Very amusing - you must be so proud to have come up with that particularly school yard response. Do you fancy coming round to see me so you can push me into a muddy puddle too?I am really quite stunned at the moral indignation shown by some of the people on here - it is all a bit of a shame really. I though that, in general, people that come on here understand that the chat forum is (mostly) a place for light-hearted banter and to have a bit of fun.
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you can push me into a muddy puddle too
Are you sure you've got soap to clean yourself with if that happens?
Would you like some Lush vouchers, just in case?Posted 2 years ago # -
Like the light-hearted banter and fun from hilldodger that you are whining about?
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Vouchers are not the same as cash. You do not get change from vouchers. Asking for 20pounds worth of vouchers is NOT the same as asking for two 10pound vouchers or 4 5pound vouchers. The girl was asking you what you wanted. It was obviously you who didn't engage brain to realise that a 20pound voucher is not the same as two 10pound vouchers. And people keep pointing it out, and yet you still don't get the point. The girl probably earns minimum wage, gets crap holiday allowance, works loads of hours (maybe some of which are unpaid to close up the shop) and still has to suffer insults because she's smarter than the people who shop there, by people who earn far more and think they're so superior.
For the last time, what you should have asked for is 20pounds worth of vouchers, not a 20pound voucher...
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I am not sure specific statements about my health, said deliberately to insult me really rank as 'light-hearted' though do they?
Are you sure you've got soap to clean yourself with if that happens?
Would you like some Lush vouchers, just in case?
That - I like. Amusing and on topic Posted 2 years ago # -
grumm - Member
Like the light-hearted banter and fun from hilldodger that you are whining about?
Indeed - live by the sword and die by it.
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I am really quite stunned at the moral indignation shown by some of the people on here
Now I KNOW you're trolling
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Sales meeting at work some time ago...
"Dudley Screenwipers...where are they based & what do they make then...?"Posted 2 years ago # -
For the last time, what you should have asked for is 20pounds worth of vouchers, not a 20pound voucher...
And for the last time, had I known that she would not be able to grasp the idea that I only wanted vouchers to that value, then I would have asked more specifically for vouchers to the value of £20.Posted 2 years ago # -
Indeed - live by the sword and die by it.
Reads - post something meant as amusing for other forum members, get personal insults about my sexual ability in return.Perhaps it is my fault for posting during school holidays?
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Reads - post something meant as amusing for other forum members, get personal insults about my sexual ability in return.
More like - insults someones intelligence then takes the hump when someone else insults you.
Neither comment was particulary amusing if you ask me.
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I think I have finally realised - I am being trolled by several members, seeing how much of a rise they can now get out of me, so I think it is about time I leave.
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I visited the same Lush shop. I told the assistant that I wanted to buy a wasp. The idiot said she hadn't got any, even though there was one in the window.
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so I think it is about time I leave
and to think, we so nearly made the sweet wun'undred together....
.....misssing you already dahling :blows big kiss:
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come on, keep going this thread is ace. what happened in the end, did you get the niece some cider:-)
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100 posts on the most pointless thread ever
HurrayPosted 2 years ago # -
So in your eyes it is okay to post about bad service, but not when the assistant opens their mouth before engaging brain?
Everyone has bad moments. I've said some silly things in my time and tbh I'd be offended if someone thought it was indicative of my intelligence and then posted on a forum for everyone to laugh at me and show how I was worthless and good for only the most menial jobs in life.
Saying something daft isn't bad service.
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Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzuusss, there's some pedantic people on STW today!
For the last time, what you should have asked for is 20pounds worth of vouchers, not a 20pound voucher...
I've read the whole thread, (but I might have missed it) has it occored to people that MF might not have known that vouchers only came as £5 & £20?
If so, his question was entirely innocent and correct.Posted 2 years ago # -
I think M_F was right.
She'll probably buy a tenner's worth of Lush, show them to her parents who won't have a clue how much £10 of Lush really is. Then she'll be posting her spare £10 voucher on twitter or whatever it is kids do now, accept £8 for it and spend the ill-gotten proceeds on cider and crack.
You bastard, M_F.
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I've read the whole thread, (but I might have missed it) has it occored to people that MF might not have known that vouchers only came as £5 & £20?
Exactly, but why did he feel the need to post a thread calling the girl stupid when all she did was point out that they don't do 20pound vouchers?
The logic that she could infer that he actually could do with 2 £10 vouchers falls short when you consider that vouchers are quite different from money and can only be exchanged in store with no change given. So getting 4 £5 vouchers is different from getting 2 £10 or 1 £20 voucher (if they actually had them). She was asking him what did he actually want..
I cannot believe I've explained that yet again. I guess I feel sorry for this hard working girl who is being called names for doing a good job. And I hate the snobbishness that she "only works in a shop" when she's obviously brighter than the original poster...
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