Rudely spoken to at butchers

anewme · 20-05-2018 2:58pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

The burger would be there all day cutting off or adding in tiny pieces of chicken in garlic marinade.

This thread is great craic for a boring Sunday afternoon.

jamesbere · 20-05-2018 3:02pm

Is this seriously a thread, in all merciful christ what is wrong with you op. The most pointless moan I've seen in a while

Hector Bellend · 20-05-2018 3:02pm

Post Traumatic stir fry disorder

Conservatory · 20-05-2018 3:04pm

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Post Traumatic stir fry disorder

Post traumeatic stir fry order.

Salvation Tambourine · 20-05-2018 3:08pm

Falthyron wrote: »

Doing a stint in retail should be a rite of passage for every human being. Gap Year? Fúck that. Sabbatical? No way. Do a year in retail and you will see what humanity really is.

I 100% agree with this. Feck mandatory national service. If everyone had to do at least three months in customer service then people would be much nicer to others in the industry.

suicide_circus · 20-05-2018 3:08pm

Buying ready made stir fry? Lazy f*cker.

opti76 · 20-05-2018 3:11pm

no wonder the country is ****ed ...

jippo nolan · 20-05-2018 3:21pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

Just to set the picture, this is a chain store that I frequent one of location of, and they give a 10% discount to students. So this day I asked for €11 of stir-fry, and showed him that I'd a card when paying. I was sure to check the receipt though when walking away. I saw that the price charged was €11, with any reduction. As soon as I turned around to question it, I saw a frown down his face.

I said that I didn't see that any discount came off. He then said that he gave me €11.30, and he said it as if I somehow should have known. So I told him that I had asked for €11. He then grabbed the receipt from my hand, as his fingers rather clumsily bumped into mine, and rather condescendingly said "and what does that say?". Of course it said €11... he was trying to make me look stupid. Saying such is actually only making things go around in circles.

I didn't like the way he spoke to me, so I then explained how one would expect the discount to be deducted from the value of €11, which would give €9.90. This made me feel like I making a big deal over a few cents, but at the same time I was merely calling a spade a spade. He said something else, and definitely seemed to be speaking to me like a bouncer. For a second he awkwardly just looked away, as if I was trying his patience. At this point in time he seemed pretty hot headed, and I, not knowing how to diffuse the situation, just said "look, it doesn't matter" and walked off.

Sometimes it's as if we're so used to "the customer is always right" mentality being employed, that when something like this happens, we (or at least me) just don't know how to react. On hindsight, he didn't call out the final price or even face the card reader towards me so that I could see the price as I tapped it. If I were back, I'd have tried to return there and then, as I hadn't left the premises.

It was my first time being served by this particular guy at this butchers, and he actually seemed one of the more experienced guys there. There were a few other small things off about his demeanor before that. I wonder if he's even aware that they've just lost a customer because of him.

Other time I got the discount from the staff members at the same place, sometimes some of them seemed a bit confused how to work that feature on the till. And at times I was aware that I wasn't really getting the full 10% That didn't bother me, because I could see that they were being polite. One guy once even opened the till to physically take out coins because he didn't know how to give the discount.

I know the butcher involved, no manners, I asked him one day had he a sheepshead, he told me it was just the way his hair was combed!

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 3:21pm

Omackeral wrote: »

I'm sure they'd be devastated.

Well actually I spend more than €30 there on each visit. Also, I certainly won't have anything good to say about them... and you know what they say!

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 3:24pm

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

I do that buts it always an approximation. As in close to 10 euros worth and they give you meat costing 10€ +- 10-20c.

It’s pretty amazing to think the op was expecting exactly 11€ before the discount. The butcher would be there all day cutting off or adding in tiny pieces of chicken in garlic marinade.

No, you don't get me. It's fine if it's a couple of cents over, but 30c off what he claimed he gave me, is about a 2-3% discount. Either way, he didn't give me the 10% discount.

punisher5112 · 20-05-2018 3:27pm

I would say they are glad to lose you op......

Oh this is why I hate dealing with the public....

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 3:27pm

Nokotan wrote: »

I 100% agree with this. Feck mandatory national service. If everyone had to do at least three months in customer service then people would be much nicer to others in the industry.

I have, and I don't agree with you.

Samuel T. Cogley · 20-05-2018 3:30pm

Stand up for yourself and tell him not to speak to you like that. Simples.

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 3:34pm

Omackeral wrote: »

You asked for €11 worth. Who does that? Most normal people order by weight.

It's just as convenient for the butcher.

Conservatory · 20-05-2018 3:38pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

Well actually I spend more than €30 there on each visit. Also, I certainly won't have anything good to say about them... and you know what they say!

On each visit? Even the time you spent 11euro.
If you spend 30 then get 3 euro back the butcher is probably only making 2 euro a week on you. He won’t miss you.

Purple Mountain · 20-05-2018 3:39pm

Ah here.. it's a Sunday in May with nice weather outside and you're sitting on your phone cribbing about a grumpy butcher and a 10% discount.
Go outside and hear the birdsong my friend.

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 3:41pm

Conservatory wrote: »

On each visit? Even the time you spent 11euro.
If you spend 30 then get 3 euro back the butcher is probably only making 2 euro a week on you. He won’t miss you.

No I mean >€30 after the discount.

€2 a week? If that's how much he makes per customer, he'll need every penny.

Conservatory · 20-05-2018 3:48pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

No I mean >€30 after the discount.

€2 a week? If that's how much he makes per customer, he'll need every penny.

That’s what students dont realize everyone isn’t pulling 100 000 a year out of the sky

Alf Veedersane · 20-05-2018 3:53pm

I've heard some silly stories but this takes the brisket.

Samuel T. Cogley · 20-05-2018 3:54pm

What's the beef my little lamb?

Poor Uncle Tom · 20-05-2018 4:23pm

It must have been traumatic, butcher he'll be ok!!!!!!!

FingerDeKat · 20-05-2018 5:00pm

Falthyron wrote: »

Do a year in retail and you will see what humanity really is.

and follow that up with a stint working in a call centre:pac:

Sleeper12 · 20-05-2018 5:16pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote:

I don't know if you're being smart, but wasn't the way he worked before at this particular place.

In your op you say that he never served you before???

Butcher Boy · 20-05-2018 5:32pm

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

It must have been traumatic, butcher he'll be ok!!!!!!![/QUOT
Now that's the **** that us butchers have to put up with .

jimmynokia · 20-05-2018 5:37pm

Get a life ffs

mickrock · 20-05-2018 5:38pm

The OP dealt with the butcher in a very hamfisted manner.

Fred Swanson · 20-05-2018 6:11pm

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Trigger Happy · 20-05-2018 6:20pm

HTFU!

Gwynplaine · 20-05-2018 6:30pm

Has to be a wind up.

Omackeral · 20-05-2018 8:14pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

Well actually I spend more than €30 there on each visit.

Is that a real €30 as in €30 or is it €30 as in €27? Do you see where this is all going wrong?

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 8:34pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

I would say they are glad to lose you op......

Sparing a few seconds to explain something isn't worth the several hundred €100 I've spent there since last November.

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 8:37pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

In your op you say that he never served you before???

That's right. What are you getting at?

punisher5112 · 20-05-2018 8:41pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

Sparing a few seconds to explain something isn't worth the several hundred €100 I've spent there since last November.

You ok hun

Sleeper12 · 20-05-2018 8:48pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote:

It was my first time being served by this particular guy at this butchers, and he actually seemed one of the more experienced guys there. There were a few other small things off about his demeanor before that. I wonder if he's even aware that they've just lost a customer because of him.

TheTruthIsMine wrote:

I don't know if you're being smart, but wasn't the way he worked before at this particular place.

TheTruthIsMine wrote:

That's right. What are you getting at?

The two top statements contradict each other.

How come it's always new accounts posting weird and wacky stories. If I wasn't such a trusting fella I'd think it a wind up

Mickeroo · 20-05-2018 8:52pm

As a child, I used to weep in butcher shops.

super_furry · 20-05-2018 8:54pm

Go vegan, that'll show him.

lazeedaisy · 20-05-2018 8:55pm

dulux99 wrote: »

We live in a sick sick world. I hope you're OK after this harrowing incident. Nobody should have to go through what you went through, you're very brave for sharing your story.

Hugs....

super_furry · 20-05-2018 8:56pm

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I've heard some silly stories but this takes the brisket.

Don't make a joke of this, the steaks have never been higher.

VainHard Bendix · 20-05-2018 8:57pm

If €11 of stir fry becomes €10 of stir fry then how can it still paradoxically be €11 of stir fry.
The OP was posing the Butcher an existential conundrum which it was unfair to ask him to deal with with a busy shop full of customers. This man is trained to cut up meat. Not trade riddles on quantum physics with scrounging, mangy students.

super_furry · 20-05-2018 9:01pm

It's Schrödinger's Stir-Fry. It's both simultaneously €11 of stir fry and €10 of stir fry at the same time and it doesn't become apparent until you examine it.

Esel · 20-05-2018 9:07pm

I'd go back and tenderise the butcher, OP. Don't mince your words.

Roger Hassenforder · 20-05-2018 9:09pm

How the fcuk does a student buy €11 worth of stir fry anyway?

In my day we had a stone to take turns in licking.

20-05-2018 9:14pm

So you asked for 11 euro worth of stir fry and got 11 euro worth of stir fry and that's terrible

alright

Widdensushi · 20-05-2018 9:16pm

TheTruthIsMine wrote: »

Just to set the picture, this is a chain store that I frequent one of location of, and they give a 10% discount to students. So this day I asked for €11 of stir-fry, and showed him that I'd a card when paying. I was sure to check the receipt though when walking away. I saw that the price charged was €11, with any reduction. As soon as I turned around to question it, I saw a frown down his face.

I said that I didn't see that any discount came off. He then said that he gave me €11.30, and he said it as if I somehow should have known. So I told him that I had asked for €11. He then grabbed the receipt from my hand, as his fingers rather clumsily bumped into mine, and rather condescendingly said "and what does that say?". Of course it said €11... he was trying to make me look stupid. Saying such is actually only making things go around in circles.

I then explained how one would expect the discount to be deducted from the value of €11, which would give €9.90. This made me feel like I making a big deal over a few cents, but at the same time I was merely calling a spade a spade. He said something else, and definitely seemed to be speaking to me like a bouncer. For a second he awkwardly just looked away, as if I was trying his patience. At this point in time he seemed pretty hot headed, and I, not knowing how to diffuse the situation, just said "look, it doesn't matter" and walked off.

Sometimes it's as if we're so used to "the customer is always right" mentality being employed, that when something like this happens, we (or at least me) just don't know how to react. On hindsight, he didn't call out the final price or even face the card reader towards me so that I could see the price as I tapped it. If I were back, I'd have tried to return there and then, as I hadn't left the premises.

It was my first time being served by this particular guy at this butchers, and he actually seemed like one of the more experienced guys there. There were a few other small things off about his demeanor before that. I wonder if he's even aware that they've just lost a customer because of him.

With other times that I got the discount from the staff members at this butchers, sometimes some of them seemed a bit confused how to work that feature on the till. And at times I was aware that I wasn't really getting the full 10%. But that didn't bother me, because I could see that they were being polite. One guy once even opened the till to physically take out coins because he didn't know how to give the discount.

There's three sides to every story, no one needs to see the others after this

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 9:17pm

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

How the fcuk does a student buy €11 worth of stir fry anyway?

In my day we had a stone to take turns in licking.

Some students work part time jobs, during which they don't take their anger out on customers.

buried · 20-05-2018 9:20pm

Don't be messing about with a butcher OP. Especially the chief one. Next time you go to get your stir fry it could well be crow fry

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 9:25pm

Conservatory wrote: »

for all you know his wife left him that day

I'd understand why she'd leave him if that's the way he is.

ibarelycare · 20-05-2018 9:26pm

You obviously have little to worry about in life if this non-incident resulted in a multi-paragraphed rambly rant. Lucky you OP.

TheTruthIsMine · 20-05-2018 9:27pm

buried wrote: »

Don't be messing about with a butcher OP. Especially the chief one. Next time you go to get your stir fry it could well be crow fry

Try again!

20-05-2018 9:32pm

I can see tomorrow’s headlines already

“Vile, disgusting, butcher gives customer exactly what they asked for”

Rudely spoken to at butchers

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