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Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

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See what I did there?!

Original thread here..... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88733360#post88733360

As you were.....

For anyone interested the ranting & Raving forum has a brilliant thread about retail. On gaining access to that forum I spent 6 hours reading every post.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057757954
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Ken.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Thanks Conspectus. I'd say my few transgressions will not bode in my favour, but I might give it a go sometime and see!

I'll vouch for your good character if you apply.

Spanish Eyes

Conspectus wrote: »

The reasons are above my pay grade(anything above 0 is above me) But once you get in it will become apparent as to why its private.

Thanks Conspectus. I'd say my few transgressions will not bode in my favour, but I might give it a go sometime and see!

Ken.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Why are such forums restricted to invitees? Cannot be any worse than AH at times!

The reasons are above my pay grade(anything above 0 is above me) But once you get in it will become apparent as to why its private.

Spanish Eyes

Why are such forums restricted to invitees? Cannot be any worse than AH at times!

vgf1995

Used to work at the bar in a stadium. We got all kinds of stingy people. In fairness, yes the prices were crazy, but some people came up with ridiculously elaborate schemes for the sake of a couple of euros.

One of the best ones I saw was this chap who ordered a pint of Guinness from me, and asked for a second plastic cup to make it more stable. No bother. Gave it to him. He went away. No more than a minute later I saw him come up to another till at our bar, having split the one pint between the two cups and ask if his pints could be topped up as they tasted a bit dead and the head had disappeared. Now, as it was fairly busy, the girl working down that end of the bar probably had no idea if she had recently served him. He got his pints topped up and off he went. Two for the price of one. Saw him give the other pint to his mate, who I had served earlier when he bought his round.

Mad, stingy, but a bit genius all the same.

FanadMan

Conspectus wrote: »

For anyone interested the ranting & Raving forum has a brilliant thread about retail. On gaining access to that forum I spent 6 hours reading every post.

The Colleagues thread also has a lot of stinge in it.

Ahhhh for forks sake!

My local Eurospar has taken all of the unsold Easter Eggs and put the individual bars on the shelf (even the ones without bar codes) and put the Easter eggs with just the foil around them into display baskets and are selling them for €3.

This reeks of scabbiness.

Just sell the fucking things off at a discount price ... or even full price. They are probably getting more money doing it that way than the original selling price and probably breaking terms and conditions from Cadbury, Nestlé, et. al.

Ken.

punisher5112 wrote: »

I would like to join but comes up error 404.... Does that mean I'm a douchebag or something¿¿

Updated my post.

punisher5112

Conspectus wrote: »

For anyone interested the ranting & Raving forum has a brilliant thread about retail. On gaining access to that forum I spent 6 hours reading every post.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106729179#post106729179
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I would like to join but comes up error 404.... Does that mean I'm a douchebag or something¿¿

Spanish Eyes

It is Sunday, there are far more nice people in queues and so on than there are knobheads. But unfortunately it is the idiots that cause ructions.

Anyway. Keep the faith or whatever.

More stinge needed!

Ken.

For anyone interested the ranting & Raving forum has a brilliant thread about retail. On gaining access to that forum I spent 6 hours reading every post.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057757954
Apply here for access. Read the first post before requesting

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pablo128

punisher5112 wrote: »

Dealing with the public has to be one of the toughest most draining jobs out there.

They just keep chipping away until something inside you dies.

I recently turned down a chance to move from the warehouse to the sales office purely so I didn't have to deal with the public. I do have to deal with them occasionally, and there are some who you would wonder how they manage to dress themselves in the morning.

Mongfinder General

punisher5112 wrote: »

Dealing with the public has to be one of the toughest most draining jobs out there.

They just keep chipping away until something inside you dies.

It is absolutely exhausting nowadays. Anyway I used to live with a girl with a brother who was a right hungry fcuk. A miserable bollocks who wouldn’t give you the steam off his piss. He’d come over scrounging food etc and generally being miserable twat. So it turned out that he washed his passport. Instead of replacing it he tried to fly on it. Made it as far as the gate I believe and was sent packing. Stung for €300 or €400 for a rebooking. I was absolutely delighted when I heard.

Fuko200

Homer wrote: »

posturingpat wrote: »

What a horrible human being, you'd feel like thumping them kinda arseholes.

I know if it was me in the q behind him I certainly wouldn’t stand there and let him speak to her like that. What a pr1ck.. and he will only ever speak to a female cashier like that generally.. bully

I would have spoken up more about it but my anxiety got the best off me. When he was leaving i muttered the c word enough for him to hopefully hear me. Even the cashier was facepalming at how ridiculous it was over a bloody euro!

Homer

posturingpat wrote: »

What a horrible human being, you'd feel like thumping them kinda arseholes.

I know if it was me in the q behind him I certainly wouldn’t stand there and let him speak to her like that. What a pr1ck.. and he will only ever speak to a female cashier like that generally.. bully

posturingpat

Fuko200 wrote: »

First post in this thread and it just happened a hour ago roughly.

Myself and my parents were in dunnes at the checkout after unloading a trolley full of stuff. We were behind a man who just paid for his stuff and was going through the recipt. He immediately inturupts the cashier and argues with her about a 6 pack of water costing him 3.15 and according to him shouldve been €2. He was talking down to her about it and she called a manager to check incase. Manager came and went off and after 10 minutes or so she came back over with the offer slip and pointed out that he has the wrong brand for the deal.
Obviously anyone would apologise but no he wanted it for 2.50 for the "bother". &#55357;&#56900;
She said she cant and he dropped the water pack in her hands and told her "put em back then!".
No apologies to the cashier after arguing over paying a extra €1!
Also forgot to mention he opened the pack and gave one to his daughter! &#55357;&#56900;

What a horrible human being, you'd feel like thumping them kinda arseholes.

punisher5112

Dealing with the public has to be one of the toughest most draining jobs out there.

They just keep chipping away until something inside you dies.

NufcNavan

Fuko200 wrote: »

First post in this thread and it just happened a hour ago roughly.

Myself and my parents were in dunnes at the checkout after unloading a trolley full of stuff. We were behind a man who just paid for his stuff and was going through the recipt. He immediately inturupts the cashier and argues with her about a 6 pack of water costing him 3.15 and according to him shouldve been €2. He was talking down to her about it and she called a manager to check incase. Manager came and went off and after 10 minutes or so she came back over with the offer slip and pointed out that he has the wrong brand for the deal.
Obviously anyone would apologise but no he wanted it for 2.50 for the "bother". &#55357;&#56900;
She said she cant and he dropped the water pack in her hands and told her "put em back then!".
No apologies to the cashier after arguing over paying a extra €1!
Also forgot to mention he opened the pack and gave one to his daughter! &#55357;&#56900;

He deserves a box. What a knobend.

El_Duderino 09

Count Down wrote: »

Used to know this tight fecker who wouldn't pay the adult fare on the buses until he was 20. He only gave up because the conductors stopped believing him when he used to try to convince them he was only 15!

There was a fake ID template on the server in school. I printed myself off 2. One to say I was 15 for cheap bus fares and one to say I was 18 for nightclubs.

Half cut one night I walked up to the bouncer in a club and bauld as brass handed him my ID. The bouncer looked at and said ‘what’s this?’. I I gad given him the one that said I was 15. I told him that was just for the busses and then handed him the second ID to try to prove I was 18.

He roared laughing and told me i wasn’t getting in. In fairness he gave me back both IDs. I got away with that for ages. The brass neck of a young fella!

Fuko200

First post in this thread and it just happened a hour ago roughly.

Myself and my parents were in dunnes at the checkout after unloading a trolley full of stuff. We were behind a man who just paid for his stuff and was going through the recipt. He immediately inturupts the cashier and argues with her about a 6 pack of water costing him 3.15 and according to him shouldve been €2. He was talking down to her about it and she called a manager to check incase. Manager came and went off and after 10 minutes or so she came back over with the offer slip and pointed out that he has the wrong brand for the deal.
Obviously anyone would apologise but no he wanted it for 2.50 for the "bother". ðŸ™„
She said she cant and he dropped the water pack in her hands and told her "put em back then!".
No apologies to the cashier after arguing over paying a extra €1!
Also forgot to mention he opened the pack and gave one to his daughter! ðŸ™„

Capt'n Midnight

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LirW

To report more about said wedding: My friend told me that the bride didn't sort out breakfast. They are starting at 6am. Their dinner is at 6pm.
There are loads of local people who would do it p1ss cheap. The reason why the bride didn't sort it out was "ah they don't need breakfast, we just have some drinks". The neck of her, I actually felt so sorry for my friend that I offered her to whip up some breakfast and drop it over the her and the other BM because they'd just faint without food.
Of course there aren't canapes either.

Ken.

There is and it was stickied for years. Here it is https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055792927

dubstarr

There should be a classics thread on here.For all the great stories.

PandaPoo

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Yeah, reading that post, that definitely didn't happen. OP a stingy **** with the truth.

It was my wedding.. .if you read on in the thread some boards members who were there also posted to say it was 100% true.

Ring the hotel and ask, they'll tell you all about the new carpets I bought them

Graces7

Bosco13 wrote: »

Working in a charity shop that's having a half price sale before the summer stock change.
When she's putting out new stuff, the manager puts double the normal price then told me not to tell customers about the sale if they don't already know about it and are about to pay the full amount.

charity shops are not what they used to be. big business now, apart from te really local small town ones. V de P still OK but oxfam and rehab

EagererBeaver

PandaPoo wrote: »

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057226301/1/#post90747832

It ended up on reddit too i think.
On the plus side it's nearly my 4 year anniversary

Yeah, reading that post, that definitely didn't happen. OP a stingy **** with the truth.

tara73

Bosco13 wrote: »

Working in a charity shop that's having a half price sale before the summer stock change.
When she's putting out new stuff, the manager puts double the normal price then told me not to tell customers about the sale if they don't already know about it and are about to pay the full amount.

I think that's common practice in mostly all shops these days...f*** sale tricks:mad:

4Ad

Bosco13 wrote: »

Working in a charity shop that's having a half price sale before the summer stock change.
When she's putting out new stuff, the manager puts double the normal price then told me not to tell customers about the sale if they don't already know about it and are about to pay the full amount.

And it's a 'Charity' shop ???

Bosco13

Working in a charity shop that's having a half price sale before the summer stock change.
When she's putting out new stuff, the manager puts double the normal price then told me not to tell customers about the sale if they don't already know about it and are about to pay the full amount.