an amusing thread about one person's stupidity
Which person was that then?
If meeting a prick like a customer is something a shop assistant gets off on, then all well and good to them. Not entirely sure why I was a prick for asking for a £20 gift voucher though, perhaps you could explain my cockish behaviour - in simple terms please, I am obviously very slow if I cannot grasp why asking for a gift voucher makes me a prick.
Perhaps your snobby condescending pedantry as displayed on this thread came across to her in your response/tone of voice?
You tell me Grumm...
See my edit above your post.
only meant to be an amusing thread about one person's stupidity
It might be more amusing if there was an actual example of stupidity in it. Did it occur to you that she may get lots of people in who want a £20 voucher and nothing else?
Correct answer to a stupid question if all you wanted was 20 quids worth. You asked for a 20 quid voucher and you got an answer. You were not precise in your question.
Perhaps your snobby condescending pedantry as displayed on this thread
Sorry - I asked for a £20 gift voucher.
Can you explain to me how I managed to come across as being a snob, a pedant or condescending in one sentence and before I even knew that I was about to be told that they 'don't do £20 gift vouchers'?
Or am I so special that I can anticipate a shop worker's response even before they are able to give it and speak to them in the appropriate manner?
Correct answer to a stupid question if all you wanted was 20 quids worth. You asked for a 20 quid voucher and you got an answer. You were not precise in your question.
That was covered right at the beginning of the thread - please go back to there, read and repost...
@MF
Get over yourself. You base your opinions on a twenty second exchange where a young, underpaid and probably poorly treated girl simply did her job. Says a far deal more about you than about her.
Did it occur to you that she may get lots of people in who want a £20 voucher and nothing else?
No it didn't. Did it occur to you that a requirement for one £20 gift voucher rather than two £10 vouchers, four £5 vouchers or one £10 and two £5 vouchers would be a really rather peculiar request.
This thread has gone septic. Just back away from it. 😕
Get over yourself.
LOL - it was only meant to be an *amusing* thread, I think it is those of you that are biting my teeth over this little bit of *fun* are the ones requiring to get over themselves.
But seeing as there are several seemingly unable to 'get over themselves', this could run and run. And as long as these people want to argue the toss with me about it, I will be happy to respond - I find it quite interesting how easy some people find it to rip any thread to shreds because of seeming injustices.
(MF is now regarded an even bigger nob than TJ).
No it didn't. Did it occur to you that a requirement for one £20 gift voucher rather than two £10 vouchers, four £5 vouchers or one £10 and two £5 vouchers would be a really rather peculiar request.
Yes it did, but having done my time in shops I know that that is exactly the sort of peculiar request people make all the time.
Still, you know best.
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I, too, have worked in the retail sector.
I once was asked how long the chips the customer had ordered would be and I responded 'about two inches'.
Perhaps I am a bit of a cock?
[i]why I was a [b]prick[/b]
my [b]cockish[/b] behaviour
argue the [b]toss[/b] with me [/i]
Do we have issues in this area then ???????
What's this got to do with the p*%s taste of pepsi?
OJ and soda.
I, too, have worked in the retail sector.I once was asked how long the chips the customer had ordered would be and I responded 'about two inches'.
Perhaps I am a bit of a cock?
End of thread.
This thread is going to keep going back to the fact that your original question was wrong. And then to base your opinion on the poor girl on this short exchange is so wrong that it's bound to resulted in name calling. Perhaps a bit of thought is required before posting?
I just cannot imagine asking for a 20pound voucher unless I wanted just that. Otherwise I'd ask for 20 pounds worth of vouchers. Perhaps she's posting somewhere on armpitsworld.com 's forum about this guy wanting a specific 20pound voucher and how she had to explain that she'd have to give him 2 10pound ones? Posted under the title "and this is why you have to shop in lush...?"
[i]Perhaps I am a bit of a cock?
[b]End of thread.[/b] [/i]
No, we need to know exactly [i]which[/i] bit of a cock 😆
Basically, it was a bit harsh posting a thread on a forum showing how stupid someone was. That's why people are narked MF.. 🙂
Take note, move on - everyone!
End of thread.
Agreed - it would be nice.
I just cannot imagine asking for a 20pound voucher unless I wanted just that. Otherwise I'd ask for 20 pounds worth of vouchers.
And I cannot imagine that there would be a barrier to making a transaction because the wording of my request did not compute with the shop assistant in the first place. Had I anticipated that she would struggle in selling me vouchers to the value of £20 unless I specifically asked for them in that manner, then maybe I would have proceeded differently.
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.
But that is a fact that doesn't really matter to those righteous ones amongst us.
She's probably got a degree in media studies and this is an art installation for the Tate Modern.
That or it's all on digital cctv to be edited and released as a reality show on some obscure SKY channel later this year showing what shopgirls have to put with on minimum wage.
Laugh? I nearly spent my gift vouchers!!
I think we should be grateful that people are willing to work in shops and accept a little truculence ...
One of my jobs included scooping up dog sh*t from a field at a boarding kennels. I would be happier doing that again rather than dealing with a bunch of middle-class wannabees.
Get out into the real world and don't judge people by what they do, how they talk etc etc.
C_G
(working class bred but presumably considered underclass as currently unemployed).
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?
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.
🙂
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 🙂
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
What if you had asked specifically for a £20 note as cashback and they didn't have any £20 notes? 😛
[i]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.
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I would think most of the replies are somewhat tongue in cheek as well 😉
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.
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.
[i]......wondering how it's going to end.[/i]
Smiles and virtual 'high 5s' all round ????
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.
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?
Like the light-hearted banter and fun from hilldodger that you are whining about? 😉
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...
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 🙂
