If you ever needed proof of what a backwards country this is...

Karl Hungus · 18-01-2003 12:01pm #1

I'm sure you'll all have your own little stories to add to this.

But I was in Dunnes Yesterday, getting food. I like to get a nice bag of tortilla chips now and again, and seeing as I just got a few DVDs cheap in the sales, I thought I'd never have a better excuse to big out, with some crap cider by my side. Now, they recently gave dunnes a make-over and changed everything around, so I had to go and ask where a lot of stuff was.

So I went up and asked this bloke, probably about my age 'You got any Tortilla Chips?'
'Tortilo? Huh?'

I was promptly taken down to the frozen foods section to get a 'bag of chips'!? >_<
How mind numbingly stupid can someone get?!!?!

I had to explain then what I was looking for. That I was looking for something akin to Doritos. A lovely blank stare is all I got. You'd think with all the ads on TV and everything, someone who's about my age, probably lives not to far from me, would have some kind of a ****ing clue!? So I told him they were something like crisps, so where are the crisps? He took me half-way down the store, and WALKED RIGHT PAST THE ****INg CRISPS?!

I told him that they were right here. He said he was going down to customer service to check for me. I said no! They're right here. Of course, they weren't there at all. But thankfully I got rid of him. Yes! **** off, you thick bastard!

So, having a look around the crisp section, I found many things, but no, no tortilla chips. All I wanted was regular, plain, average, middle of the road tortilla chips that you can get in any gas station, xtravision, of country brothel around the country. Is that TOO MUCH to ask!? My mind was about to crack!

But oh yes! I found them! A nice big stack of them, in fact!
...
In the fecking wines section!?

My god, I was preplexed at the sheer idiocy and ignorance shown! But oh my, the worst thing of the whole day was being stared at like I've got two ****ing heads trying to tongue wrestle each other, while picking seeds from a grape... For asking for something as simple as tortilla chips!?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 18-01-2003 12:03pm

*hug*

there there, the pain is over

now.. the healing can being

and did you remember to get some dip for them chips?

Seraphina · 18-01-2003 12:05pm

next time you'll know better than to ask a member of dunnes stores staff

Karl Hungus · 18-01-2003 12:07pm

Nope, not a fan of dip.
Usually just get the chilli flavoured chips.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 18-01-2003 12:08pm

dunnes stores staff have feelings too

let us all join hands and sing a song for dunnes stores

the time is now people

let the love enter your hearts

yellum · 18-01-2003 12:21pm

You had a bad experience with one underpaid over-worked staff member of Dunnes and you think the country is backwards. Go look up over-reaction in a dictionary.

Seems to be it shows how spoiled people are that they can't go and look around the store themselves.

Gordon · 18-01-2003 12:25pm

Maybe the person was ultra uber healthy so if you asked for dried chick peas or organic macadamia nuts or even topostigmalocciparsic fungus - the person would have been at the right section in a flash. As opposed to watching **** ads on telly every fecking day forcing you to buy Doritos and coke and milk "it's good for you".

Maybe it was the blank stare of an level 11 vegan? (doesn't ingest any form of energy from planet earth, including cathode ray energy beams from d'telly)

But I wouldn't know as I don't go to that dump Dunnes anymore, their staff are dopey as ****!

Pigman II · 18-01-2003 12:38pm

Pure genius on the part of the employee if you ask me!

By giving you absolutely no useful assistance (and in fact wasting your time) he has conditioned you to probably never ask any employee of Dunnes for help in future. If the process exerted on you is extened to everyone who goes in there then he and his co-workers will eventually find themselves not being bothered by people asking 'wheres my tortilla chips?' and hense will have a much easier job on their hands.

BTW, shops deliberately move their displays around in order to disorient you, making you walk round staring at stuff you wouldn't normally look at leading to impulse purchases along with what you intended to get. If you the customer were to be told exactly where the item you are looking for is then there would have been no point moving everything around in the first place, would there?

There's a 1,000 indicators out there to how crap, deluded and backward this country is ... but unhelpful employees in a shop isn't high on the list.

Karl Hungus · 18-01-2003 1:05pm

Originally posted by yellum
You had a bad experience with one underpaid over-worked staff member of Dunnes and you think the country is backwards. Go look up over-reaction in a dictionary.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sarcasm
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=over-statement

Mercury_Tilt · 18-01-2003 1:06pm

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Karl Hungus · 18-01-2003 1:28pm

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
He should have taken you out the back and kicked the fuk out of you.

In my opinion.

Your head is filled with asbestos.

In my opinion.

Gordon · 18-01-2003 1:35pm

I'm enjoying my lunch.

In my opinion.

Pigman II · 18-01-2003 1:38pm

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
He should have taken you out the back and kicked the fuk out of you.

Good call

oeNeo · 18-01-2003 2:05pm

Shoulda asked for nachos, he might have known what they were

Karl Hungus · 18-01-2003 2:12pm

Ok, I hate to do this... But, you've left me no choice...

You want an ACTUAL reason that Ireland is backwards!?
I'll give it to you...
I'll give you more of a reason than you can handle.
You want a reason?
You cant handle the reason!
No reason handler are you...

Here's your ****ing reason:

Shirley%20on%20camera.jpg

You gits asked for it!

Gordon · 18-01-2003 2:14pm

Ahh jeez AW that's sick man, really sick. I have finished my lunch and now I'm going to see it again, well thanks a frickin bundle.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 18-01-2003 2:14pm

ooh
she's hot

phaxx · 18-01-2003 2:31pm

Originally posted by Mordeth
ooh
she's hot

She?

logic1 · 18-01-2003 2:55pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Ok, I hate to do this... But, you've left me no choice...

You want an ACTUAL reason that Ireland is backwards!?
I'll give it to you...
I'll give you more of a reason than you can handle.
You want a reason?
You cant handle the reason!
No reason handler are you...

Here's your ****ing reason:

You gits asked for it!

Is she another one of the weird ugly girls you seem to fancy?

.logic.

18-01-2003 4:09pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore

rofl! Checkmate. wped angelwh0re and LOL at the fact that he got u a bag of frozen chips

. Bless 'im.

ando · 18-01-2003 5:15pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore

Here's your ****ing reason:

You gits asked for it!

ah jeez, ahh, ughhh .... ah man... that was low

Pepe LeFrits · 18-01-2003 5:18pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore
I'm sure you'll all have your own little stories to add to this.

But I was in Dunnes Yesterday, getting food. I like to get a nice bag of tortilla chips now and again, and seeing as I just got a few DVDs cheap in the sales, I thought I'd never have a better excuse to big out, with some crap cider by my side. Now, they recently gave dunnes a make-over and changed everything around, so I had to go and ask where a lot of stuff was.

So I went up and asked this bloke, probably about my age 'You got any Tortilla Chips?'
'Tortilo? Huh?'

Now ya see, here's your problem... You'd probably be best off asking someone who works there instead of pouncing on some unwitting young fella helping his mammy with the shopping. He was probably so scared you were going to bite his neck that he went along with your silly demands.

I was promptly taken down to the frozen foods section to get a 'bag of chips'!? >_<
How mind numbingly stupid can someone get?!!?!

I had to explain then what I was looking for. That I was looking for something akin to Doritos. A lovely blank stare is all I got. You'd think with all the ads on TV and everything, someone who's about my age, probably lives not to far from me, would have some kind of a ****ing clue!? So I told him they were something like crisps, so where are the crisps? He took me half-way down the store, and WALKED RIGHT PAST THE ****INg CRISPS?!

I told him that they were right here. He said he was going down to customer service to check for me. I said no! They're right here. Of course, they weren't there at all. But thankfully I got rid of him. Yes! **** off, you thick bastard!

So, having a look around the crisp section, I found many things, but no, no tortilla chips. All I wanted was regular, plain, average, middle of the road tortilla chips that you can get in any gas station, xtravision, of country brothel around the country. Is that TOO MUCH to ask!? My mind was about to crack!

But oh yes! I found them! A nice big stack of them, in fact!
...
In the fecking wines section!?

My god, I was preplexed at the sheer idiocy and ignorance shown! But oh my, the worst thing of the whole day was being stared at like I've got two ****ing heads trying to tongue wrestle each other, while picking seeds from a grape... For asking for something as simple as tortilla chips!?

Also in my experience working for Dunnes, you'll do anything to pass the mind-numbingly boring time working there. Deliberately sending customers off to the wrong corner of the shop was a favourite past-time of mine.

Pigman II · 18-01-2003 5:32pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore

Angelwhore, we all believe your story is true and we all believe that this stupid shop-assistant you mention existed also. As such photographic evidence of him really wasn't neccessary.

Stephen · 18-01-2003 5:39pm

Telling customers that you'd go have a look for whatever it is that they're looking for in the stock room and never returning was also a fun pastime back when I worked in Dunnes... 4 years ago now. Hated the place :eek:

lordsippa · 18-01-2003 7:26pm

Good work Angelwhore! Luring all the people who work/worked in Dunnes into posting about it so that they can be picked off and the gene pool can be somewhat cleansed!

Somebody promote that man.

Karl Hungus · 18-01-2003 7:41pm

Yeah, fecking lazy bastards!

Bunch of ****ing skangers working in dunnes, the lot of ye!

Thankfully, I never stooped as low as to try my hand working there. Working in a video store watching films all day, or working in a games store, playing games all day, and listening to the Chillies.

Man, those were the days.
The security guards used to come about, and we'd play for ****ing hours at Tekken.
I pwnd those poxy security bastards.

Catch_22 · 20-01-2003 12:56pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore
He took me half-way down the store, and WALKED RIGHT PAST THE ****INg CRISPS?!

I told him that they were right here. He said he was going down to customer service to check for me. I said no! They're right here. Of course, they weren't there at all. But thankfully I got rid of him. Yes! **** off, you thick bastard!

So basically the guy hasnt heard of what your asking for is going to customer service to try and help you, and you told him to **** off.

But oh my, the worst thing of the whole day was being stared at like I've got two ****ing heads trying to tongue wrestle each other, while picking seeds from a grape.

Given that its angelwhore am I the only one who can completly understand this reaction ?

Panda · 20-01-2003 1:20pm

tescos is the win tbh.

oooh look, new sig.

xx · 20-01-2003 1:50pm

In my experience of Dunnes, the staff are only there for effects. Its DIY my friend, all the way. I've got a theory that if you follow the trail of 'staff' in Dunnes, it'll either lead you to the exit or to the 'customer service' desk.

Praetorian · 20-01-2003 1:56pm

Originally posted by yellum
You had a bad experience with one underpaid over-worked staff member of Dunnes and you think the country is backwards. Go look up over-reaction in a dictionary.

Seems to be it shows how spoiled people are that they can't go and look around the store themselves.

My thoughts exactly. I was looking for this response down through the thread...

Backwards country my bum. Cop on to yourself

Praetorian · 20-01-2003 2:05pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Ok, I hate to do this... But, you've left me no choice...

You want an ACTUAL reason that Ireland is backwards!?
I'll give it to you...
I'll give you more of a reason than you can handle.
You want a reason?
You cant handle the reason!
No reason handler are you...

Here's your ****ing reason:

You gits asked for it!

Again nothing to do with the country being backwards...This guy needs psychiatric help. The person that approved him being on TV is a fool. TBH when I see him on the telly i turn if off instantly in disgust.

Saying that Ireland is backwards because of the state of our communications / our healthcare system would be fine. Saying that Ireland is backwards because of a couple of individuals is just silly.

Caesar_Bojangle · 20-01-2003 6:05pm

Originally posted by Panda
tescos is the win tbh.

oooh look, new sig.

Did you know Tescos was actually set up by a guy called John Tesco, and Curly Watts from coronation street opened the tesco in greystones some years back. BEAT THAT WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICKS.

Dempsey · 20-01-2003 6:56pm

Originally posted by Pigman II
Pure genius on the part of the employee if you ask me!

By giving you absolutely no useful assistance (and in fact wasting your time) he has conditioned you to probably never ask any employee of Dunnes for help in future. If the process exerted on you is extened to everyone who goes in there then he and his co-workers will eventually find themselves not being bothered by people asking 'wheres my tortilla chips?' and hense will have a much easier job on their hands.

I worked in supervalu once, and I have to say that he is a genius. Nevertheless I was a model employee.:D

Originally posted by Pigman II BTW, shops deliberately move their displays around in order to disorient you, making you walk round staring at stuff you wouldn't normally look at leading to impulse purchases along with what you intended to get. If you the customer were to be told exactly where the item you are looking for is then there would have been no point moving everything around in the first place, would there?

You'd think people would cop that one

The Gopher · 20-01-2003 6:58pm

Shirley Temple Bar is marginally more attractive than the mingers that Angelwhore was flaming the Christina Aguilera thread(or was it the other one about women)with.
I mean.........what the fcuk were those things?

l3rian · 20-01-2003 7:20pm

i worked in the same dunnes for years and never knew where anything was, usually i'd point in a random direction and say 4 lanes that way

Dont be at yourself · 20-01-2003 7:23pm

Hey, I used to work in Dunnes!

Actually, that's a lie. I was employed by Dunnes. "Working" is really stretching the definition a bit too far.

Dempsey · 20-01-2003 7:23pm

Originally posted by l3rian
i worked in the same dunnes for years and never knew where anything was, usually i'd point in a random direction and say 4 lanes that way

I could picture you alright. An auld one comes up to you looking for the beans and you sending her into the beer and wine and the beans are right behind you.

the fnj · 21-01-2003 12:56pm

Franky says

RELAX

You'll give youself a heart condition with all that stress and all those tortilla chips.

elexes · 21-01-2003 1:41pm

note always ask the mom with 4-12 kids where somthn is they always know

po0k · 21-01-2003 1:58pm

Good call my man

Dampsquid · 21-01-2003 3:07pm

You are dead right, this tread shows us exactly what is wrong with the country. People who are too F*cking lazy to go and look for the crisps section. Expect everyone else to do everything for them.

Working in dunnes was the best "Job" i ever had. 6 hours of fun every night...

*NemesiS* · 22-01-2003 12:44am

this country backwards???? yes indeed, this is exactly a prime example, u know why??? because ITS JUST ****ING CHIPS!!!!!
Who cares if you had an experience with a stupid **** who didnt know where the god damn chips were!!! Good for him if hes lazy, thick, a genius, whatever, is it worth writing and thereby wasting our time with????
If i had took the time to write a post that large on a matter like this id already know the answer to that very question, infact i have just wasted five minutes of my life reading and replyin to this thread!
we are all very, very sad people

Karl Hungus · 22-01-2003 1:18am

I've another tale of rancid debouchary to add to this sordid soon-to-be collection...

Backwards fecking country!
I was in town today, looking to by myself a nice light lttle denim jacket. Nothing fancy, just a plain black denim jacket, with no frills, spills, or lime cordail... Something I could pick up anywhere, right? Wrong!

I went to about 50 different ****ing shops today looking for one...
Army Navy Store
Dunnes
Pennys
Roches
Topman
River Island
Carpenter
Twist
Deelys
Ryans
Geraties (Sp?)
Zinc
Mexx
Stalls in Eyre Square
And god knows how many other places...
:rolleyes:

OH MY!
Couldn't get it in any of 'em!
And dont anybody bother to suggest anywhere, as I've most likely looked there.

I mean, ****ing hell!
You'd think you'd be able to get just a plain black denim jacket ANYWHERE!?!?!?!?

****ing backwards!

*NemesiS* · 22-01-2003 1:32am

thx for sharing that with us!

jd · 22-01-2003 2:02am

Originally posted by AngelWhore
You'd think you'd be able to get just a plain black denim jacket ANYWHERE!?!?!?!?

Try 1987..

and what did you give that poor girl..

Beruthiel · 22-01-2003 8:41am

Originally posted by AngelWhore
I mean, ****ing hell!
You'd think you'd be able to get just a plain black denim jacket ANYWHERE!?!?!?!?

LOL - buy a blue one and tye die it black!

Dr. Loon · 22-01-2003 8:51am

Originally posted by AngelWhore
I mean, ****ing hell!
You'd think you'd be able to get just a plain black denim jacket ANYWHERE!?!?!?!?

****ing backwards!

Where are ye? Galway?

Well then, there's your problem.

elexes · 22-01-2003 10:26am

man u live in galway shops there are crap for everything ( apart from hippy stuff and irish music )

dare i say it cork has better shops

Snowball · 22-01-2003 4:11pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Now, they recently gave dunnes a make-over and changed everything around, so I had to go and ask where a lot of stuff was.

I found this out from my sis (who used to work there) and an cousin (or somthing like that that is high up in Dunnes)... They change everything around every so often to that you have to search for things and that you will pass all the stuff you did not want to buy but end up doing so in the end. **** or what?

Karl Hungus · 22-01-2003 7:08pm

Originally posted by Dr. Loon
Where are ye? Galway?

Well then, there's your problem.

See?
My point exactly!

Backwards!

Mistakill · 22-01-2003 8:27pm

I was on the bus the last day sitting down in one of the seats that are WAY too small for somebody of my hieght and a guy standing beside me takes of his glasses and starts clean/wiping them in his jocks. He just reached in there and pulled out a nice baby blue pair of jocks.

That might teach me to stop using the buses in galway

If you ever needed proof of what a backwards country this is...

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