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Jobsworths

  • 10-07-2012 04:35PM
    #1
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    Just back from a self storage unit, where I tried to exchange two unused large boxes for two medium boxes. Fairly straightforward, right? No.

    "Hey, I bought these boxes a couple of days ago but they're too big. I haven't used them - they're still wrapped in their plastic - can I swap them for two of those smaller ones?"
    "Do you have a receipt?"
    "No, but clearly they're your company's - your logo's printed all over their sides. Anyway, I bought them from your colleague (standing in the corner) a few days ago."
    "Sorry, mate. Can't do it. Need to put them back on the system, you know?"

    No, I don't fcuking know, you cretin. My large boxes cost a tenner, the medium ones cost eight quid - they'd actually make money on them (however negligible an amount). Yea, big fcuking deal swapping them around :rolleyes:

    Any proud jobsworths around AH? Tell me, what do you enjoy so much about invoking the letter of your company's policy? Do you get a kick out of saying "rules are rules" or do you just like acting the bo11ocks?

    EDIT: Just added a lovely poll! Oooh, how exciting!

    Should yer man have swapped my boxes? 37 votes

    Yes, definitely. What a flippin' box-tard.
    0% 0 votes
    No way, Jose. He should've shoved them all up your box.
    100% 37 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    fro9etb8j5qsl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭fro9etb8j5qsl2


    Go over and post this in the 'cries of retail thread' in ranting+raving. I dare ya! :D

    By the way, places like this don't refuse to exchange/refund an item which is obviously theirs without receipt just to inconvenience you :rolleyes: They do it because in a lot of cases, scummy fcuckers will come in and steal an item before coming back in later and trying to exchange or get a refund on said item.


  • #3
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Did you buy the two medium boxes in the end?


  • #4
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    your lucky you even have a job box


  • #5
    lifelongnoob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭lifelongnoob


    FatherLen wrote: »
    your lucky you even have a job box

    but unlucky not to have a measuring tape that he could have used to check to see if the boxes where too big to fit.



    always know the size of the hole your dealing with :P


  • #6
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    kfallon wrote: »
    Did you buy the two medium boxes in the end?

    Yep. I needed the boxes.


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  • #7
    After Hours Hobo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭After Hours Hobo


    Boy I'd love me a large box.


  • #8
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Yep. I needed the boxes.

    So he managed to screw you out of the cost of 2 large boxes, looks like he got the 'Employee of the Week' all wrapped up! :p


  • #9
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,156 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    No, I don't fcuking know, you cretin. My large boxes cost a tenner, the medium ones cost eight quid - they'd actually make money on them (however negligible an amount)
    Instead they just made 18 quid because you bought them anyway.

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  • #10
    Adamcp898
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Box


  • #11
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,652 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    I should really lock this and redirect the OP to Ranting & Raving, shouldn't I?


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  • #12
    _feedback_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    28064212 wrote: »
    Instead they just made 18 quid because you bought them anyway.

    They were thinking outside the box


  • #13
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    You should have left a message in their suggestion box.


  • #14
    _feedback_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    My name is URL wrote: »
    You should have left a message in their suggestion box.

    Must agree with this poster. Would go one step further and put the message in the box. Put the box into the car. Drive the car around the world. Until you get heard.


  • #15
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    No, I don't fcuking know, you cretin. My large boxes cost a tenner, the medium ones cost eight quid - they'd actually make money on them (however negligible an amount). Yea, big fcuking deal swapping them around :rolleyes:

    Any proud jobsworths around AH? Tell me, what do you enjoy so much about invoking the letter of your company's policy? Do you get a kick out of saying "rules are rules" or do you just like acting the bo11ocks?

    Your problem then. Next time keep your receipt so those you are inconveniencing can do their job and help you. Nobody gets a kick out of it because all it does is leads to agro from some clown who doesnt have the brainpower to hold onto a receipt.


  • #16
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    kfallon wrote: »
    So he managed to screw you out of the cost of 2 large boxes, looks like he got the 'Employee of the Week' all wrapped up! :p

    You know what, I wouldn't be surprised if he dines out on this story for a few days...

    "Yea, so this fcuking pr1ck comes wandering in yesterday. 'Bought some boxes', he says, 'but I want to swap them for a different size'. 'Oh you do, do you? Who's the indecisive fcuker then? Mr-fcuking-Boxy Man over here!', I thought. So I fcuking looked him up and down, 'Have a receipt? No?'. Not such a fcuking big guy now, are you? So he tries the whole fcuking, 'No, but the logos are printed on them' spiel - I must've heard that excuse... at least twice before. So I says to him - slowly like -'can't do that for ya, mate.' If we got audited by the rainforest people, ****ing hell, I'd be out of a job. It's serious $hit. You know, it's a fcuking jungle out there. You start taking fcuking boxes off people and next off all they're trying to rape your wife or something. Jesus, you've gotta have your wits about ya. I didn't get to assistant box sales manager by being taken from behind. Anyway, he'll remember me next time he starts throwing his money around on unmeasured office or home moving containers. He learned something from the fcuking university of life today.'"


  • #17
    Itsdacraic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,362 ✭✭✭Itsdacraic


    kfallon wrote: »
    So he managed to screw you out of the cost of 2 large boxes, looks like he got the 'Employee of the Week' all wrapped up! :p

    Wrapped up in a nice big box


  • #18
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    LordSmeg wrote: »
    Your problem then. Next time keep your receipt so those you are inconveniencing can do their job and help you. Nobody gets a kick out of it because all it does is leads to agro from some clown who doesnt have the brainpower to hold onto a receipt.

    Fcuking hell. It's a fcuking box, man. Jesus, the world would be a sad place if everyone's as rigid and organised as people who keep their receipts for stationary.

    And actually, I think I'll take the opposite of your advice to hang on to my receipts for boxes and other sundry bull$hit items. I'd rather be normal.


  • #19
    invinciblePRSTV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭invinciblePRSTV


    You sound like a bit of a self righteous tit OP. I doubt this is the first time you've had ''jobsworths'' refuse to help you.

    Pro tip: be nice to people and they might help you out when in situatons like this.


  • #20
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    invinciblePRSTV wrote: »
    You sound like a bit of a self righteous tit OP. I doubt this is the first time you've had ''jobsworths'' refuse to help you.

    Pro tip: be nice to people and they might help you out when in situatons like this.

    I was very pleasant to him, actually. I thought he was a cnut but I didn't say that to him. And no, it's not the first time I've encountered a jobsworth but it's the most recent occasion.


  • #21
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Fcuking hell. It's a fcuking box, man. Jesus, the world would be a sad place if everyone's as rigid and organised as people who keep their receipts for stationary.

    And actually, I think I'll take the opposite of your advice to hang on to my receipts for boxes and other sundry bull$hit items. I'd rather be normal.

    Its a box to you its stock to the person behind the counter. He likely cant just add and delete stock whenever the hell he wants. It all has to be accounted for.

    So all your doing is trying to offload your problem back onto the shop. If you buy something and immediately throw the receipt in the bin then its your own fault. Just buy the new boxes, dont try create hassle for someone else because your incapable of buying a fcukin box without turning it into a fcukin drama.


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  • #22
    Brixton Strong Rumba
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Brixton Strong Rumba


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    Fcuking hell. It's a fcuking box, man. Jesus, the world would be a sad place if everyone's as rigid and organised as people who keep their receipts for stationary.

    You probably should keep your receipts stationary, that way you avoid this problem :pac:


  • #23
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Don't blame the staff, blame stupid inflexible stock control computer programs.


  • #24
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    for all he knows, you could have picked the boxes off the shelf and chanced your arm getting two free boxes.
    got it alot in my old job.


  • #25
    rgmmg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭rgmmg


    I understand your annoyance OP. Common sense goes out the window again. He should have taken the boxes back imo. Customer disservice strikes again. The pr1ck!


  • #26
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    I tried to exchange two unused large boxes for two medium boxes
    wilkie2006 wrote: »
    the medium ones cost eight quid
    28064212 wrote: »
    Instead they just made 18 quid because you bought them anyway.

    I take it maths isn't you're strongest subject then


  • #27
    CavanCrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭CavanCrew


    who buys boxes? Lidllllllllll op


  • #28
    Ted Mosby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Ted Mosby


    Be obedient.
    Be happy to be obedient.
    You will never be annoyed then when a company makes extra profit from you.
    Their jobs will be protected.
    The economy will thrive.

    You want the economy to thrive, don't you?
    Why do you want the economy to tank?

    :P


  • #29
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    LordSmeg wrote: »
    Its a box to you its stock to the person behind the counter. He likely cant just add and delete stock whenever the hell he wants. It all has to be accounted for.

    So all your doing is trying to offload your problem back onto the shop. If you buy something and immediately throw the receipt in the bin then its your own fault. Just buy the new boxes, dont try create hassle for someone else because your incapable of buying a fcukin box without turning it into a fcukin drama.

    I absolutely agree that it's stock to him. However, I'm not convinced that two boxes that have fallen out of their database will really bring the company down. Indeed, for a shop that primarily deals in boxes - stocking perhaps thousands at a time - two of them are but a deckchair on the Titantic.
    dont try create hassle for someone else because your incapable of buying a fcukin box without turning it into a fcukin drama.

    I think it might be hassle for a civil servant but not to most people.
    He likely cant just add and delete stock whenever the hell he wants.

    Yes, because that would be lunacy, more suited to the likes of Keith Moon (or maybe Daniel O'Donnell?)


  • #30
    wilkie2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭wilkie2006


    bluewolf wrote: »
    You probably should keep your receipts stationary, that way you avoid this problem :pac:

    I do keep my receipts stationary - I leave them in my house. ;)


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  • #31
    rollout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭rollout


    You should have put the receipt in a storage container of some description.


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