Stingiest things thread(op for R&R access)

kenmc · 05-12-2019 10:20pm

Shelflife wrote: »

The shop is worse off, they still have the same number of shoes but they have €110 less in their till than they should have !

But in either other scenario I described they would still have 110 euro less. So still no worse off, no theft.

bucketybuck · 05-12-2019 10:37pm

Shelflife wrote: »

The shop is worse off, they still have the same number of shoes but they have €110 less in their till than they should have !

"Should have" is a meaningless phrase in this context.

There is no illegal, there are no tills left short, there is no fraud, there are no sales assistants getting sacked, there is just one guy on a high horse who doesn't realise he is wrong.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 05-12-2019 10:44pm

bucketybuck wrote: »

"Should have" is a meaningless phrase in this context.

There is no illegal, there are no tills left short, there is no fraud, there are no sales assistants getting sacked, there is just one guy on a high horse who doesn't realise he is wrong.

I’m a she and I’m very comfortable in my position.

When the person himself admits that it was deception, I’m safe in my position.

Way more people thanked purple mountain’s post following it which said the same as me. It’s hardly some oddball opinion here.

bucketybuck · 05-12-2019 11:18pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Way more people thanked purple mountain’s post following it which said the same as me. It’s hardly some oddball opinion here.

Sorry to break it to you, but nobody cares about "thanks".

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 05-12-2019 11:24pm

bucketybuck wrote: »

Sorry to break it to you, but nobody cares about "thanks".

Superb.

Tzardine · 05-12-2019 11:27pm

For the love of god. Let's get back to the stinge please.

Wayne Jarvis · 05-12-2019 11:41pm

Tzardine wrote: »

For the love of god. Let's get back to the stinge please.

I have a stingey story for you Tzardine. I was recently fired from my job as a sales assistant working in a shop that is part of a chain of a multinational company. Some guy tricked me into giving him a refund for two week old boots and my stingey as fúck boss sacked me over it. :mad: The worst part is my boss is actually the one who approved the refund!! She covered her own arse by firing me.

It was only €112, peanuts to such a large company but now I am out of a job just before Christmas and will probably have to go on the game just to feed my kids.

:(
If anyone here can spare a few euro for me I would greatly appreciate it.

dubstarr · 05-12-2019 11:44pm

Guy Person wrote: »

I have a stingey story for you Tzardine. I was recently fired from my job as a sales assistant working in a shop that is part of a chain of a multinational company. Some guy tricked me into giving him a refund for two week old boots and my stingey as fúck boss sacked me over it. :mad: The worst part is my boss is actually the one who approved the refund!! She covered her own arse by firing me.

It was only €112, peanuts to such a large company but now I am out of a job just before Christmas and will probably have to go on the game just to feed my kids. :(
If anyone here can spare a few euro for me I would greatly appreciate it.

I would give you a few euro,but im too stingy

Eggs For Dinner · 05-12-2019 11:45pm

Guy Person wrote:

If anyone here can spare a few euro for me I would greatly appreciate it.

I'll give you a few bob there. Can I have a receipt please?

punisher5112 · 05-12-2019 11:49pm

Wow this has exploded.....

I had a valued customer get the bus the other day.....

He threw in less then a €1 but had issues with how I spotted this as he stated €2.15.... he went nuts, eventually threw in some more coppers and eventually a €2 coin but only after the point of me just sitting there looking at him like I'd look at an ape in the zoo....

Turns out he should have paid €3 anyway as he went most of the way and of course got off.... Shouting outside at me and flipping the bird etc....

What a looper ...

Tzardine · 05-12-2019 11:54pm

Guy Person wrote: »

I have a stingey story for you Tzardine. I was recently fired from my job as a sales assistant working in a shop that is part of a chain of a multinational company. Some guy tricked me into giving him a refund for two week old boots and my stingey as fúck boss sacked me over it. :mad: The worst part is my boss is actually the one who approved the refund!! She covered her own arse by firing me.

It was only €112, peanuts to such a large company but now I am out of a job just before Christmas and will probably have to go on the game just to feed my kids. :(
If anyone here can spare a few euro for me I would greatly appreciate it.

Hilarious. If you are going to try and be funny, at least be accurate. The boots returned were not two weeks old. The receipt was.

In keeping with actual stinge stories and trying to bring this car crash back online.

A friend of my wife is as tight as they get. Think of Tam in Still Game and you are getting there.

Her and her husband both in well paid public service jobs. They are going out about 15 years or so. Despite this, she refuses to open a joint account and insists of everything being split 50/50. We were all in Tesco recently and she bought about 7 euros worth of burgers and buns. She made her long suffering partner transfer her the 3.50 odd before they left the store.

She told my wife she has about 50 grand in savings. Despite this, they got married about 3 years ago and the husband paid for everything out of an inheritance. She didn't put a cent of her savings towards it. She is just the worst. She refuses to spend a cent of her savings. I swear she would not dip into it if she needed a life saving operation.

Electric Sheep · 06-12-2019 12:03am

Quite a lot of chain stores in the US will give you a refund of the difference if the price drops within a certain time frame, usually two weeks. All you have to do is bring your receipt and they give you the refund. It's not considered sharp practice, just good customer service.

https://lifehacker.com/all-the-stores-that-will-give-you-a-refund-if-a-price-d-1661273299

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 06-12-2019 12:06am

Electric Sheep wrote: »

Quite a lot of chain stores in the US will give you a refund of the difference if the price drops within a certain time frame, usually two weeks. All you have to do is bring your receipt and they give you the refund. It's not considered sharp practice, just good customer service.

https://lifehacker.com/all-the-stores-that-will-give-you-a-refund-if-a-price-d-1661273299

If there’s a policy, good. If there was a policy in the shop he went into here, he would have said. Or not posted at all because it wouldn’t be much of a story.

olestoepoke · 06-12-2019 12:08am

Electric Sheep wrote: »

Quite a lot of chain stores in the US will give you a refund of the difference if the price drops within a certain time frame, usually two weeks. All you have to do is bring your receipt and they give you the refund. It's not considered sharp practice, just good customer service.

https://lifehacker.com/all-the-stores-that-will-give-you-a-refund-if-a-price-d-1661273299

Macy's in NY used to give you a discount if you showed them your Irish passport.

punisher5112 · 06-12-2019 12:09am

Oh dear lord please make it stop.....

Please more stinge....

bucketybuck · 06-12-2019 12:12am

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Or not posted at all because it would be much of a story.

Ironic, since you have posted about 24 times in response to his story, I think your stance is clear at this point.

Wayne Jarvis · 06-12-2019 12:12am

Tzardine wrote: »

Hilarious. If you are going to try and be funny, at least be accurate. The boots returned were not two weeks old. The receipt was.

My story was unrelated to the previous 10 pages of nonsense.

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

I'll give you a few bob there. Can I have a receipt please?

Yes I can provide you with a receipt for up to €5000. Please give me the money and you will get the receipt in 6-10 working days.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 06-12-2019 12:13am

punisher5112 wrote: »

Oh dear lord please make it stop.....

Please more stinge....

Will ye stop whinging? Feckin’ report posts if it’s such a issue instead of whinging. And yes, I’m whinging now.

Tzardine · 06-12-2019 12:18am

Mods please could this thread be made no chat and kept to stinge only posts.

I have reported my own post to raise this as a suggestion.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 06-12-2019 12:24am

bucketybuck wrote: »

Ironic, since you have posted about 24 times in response to his story, I think your stance is clear at this point.

Of course my stance is clear.

Quazzie · 06-12-2019 12:47am

olestoepoke wrote: »

Macy's in NY used to give you a discount if you showed them your Irish passport.

I think that's because it was assumed you would be bringing whatever you bought home to Ireland with you, and therefore didn't need to pay Tax on the item

punisher5112 · 06-12-2019 1:02am

Sure here many can claim tax back such as those from the US it's a big thing.

Knew a girl that worked in one of the offices.

Liamalone · 06-12-2019 11:09am

Tzardine wrote: »

Mods please could this thread be made no chat and kept to stinge only posts.

I have reported my own post to raise this as a suggestion.

Edgy.

Dodge · 06-12-2019 11:10am

Quazzie wrote: »

I think that's because it was assumed you would be bringing whatever you bought home to Ireland with you, and therefore didn't need to pay Tax on the item

They still offer it. It’s for all international passport holders

Plenty of exclusions too.

https://www.visitmacysusa.com/voucher/savings-international-visitors

elfy4eva · 06-12-2019 11:23am

Less Sanctimony more Parsimony!

charlietheminxx · 06-12-2019 11:53am

Dodge wrote: »

They still offer it. It’s for all international passport holders

Plenty of exclusions too.

https://www.visitmacysusa.com/voucher/savings-international-visitors

Can we laugh at how stingey this "offer" is? You're right, it basically excludes everything a tourist might buy!

olestoepoke · 06-12-2019 11:59am

charlietheminxx wrote: »

Can we laugh at how stingey this "offer" is? You're right, it basically excludes everything a tourist might buy!

Not all holders of international passports are tourists.

Dodge · 06-12-2019 12:10pm

charlietheminxx wrote: »

Can we laugh at how stingey this "offer" is? You're right, it basically excludes everything a tourist might buy!

Macy’s offer a discount for ‘domestic’ tourists too. When we were there a few years ago they had a big sale for ‘friends and families’ card holders or something like that. More than one staff member we dealt with swiped their own card to get us an extra discount.

I’ve seen staff in Dunnes here whip out discount vouchers too for people who don’t have any

So shout out to the retail stuff trying to get the best discounts for stinges and frugals everywhere

ILikeBoats · 06-12-2019 12:43pm

Dodge wrote: »

I’ve seen staff in Dunnes here whip out discount vouchers too for people who don’t have any

So shout out to the retail stuff trying to get the best discounts for stinges and frugals everywhere

I'd usually give any leftover vouchers to the staff to pass on to someone who doesn't have one or whatever. I was informed recently that they're not allowed do that anymore, orders from management. So Dunnes have become the stinge!

ELM327 · 06-12-2019 12:45pm

I posted in a stinge thread but was so stingy I didnt include an example.

Dan Jaman · 07-12-2019 2:37am

ELM327 wrote: »

I posted in a stinge thread but was so stingy I didnt include an example.

<reports post>

Ya feckin' stinge, yah!

Paddy Cow · 07-12-2019 9:09am

Tzardine wrote: »

A friend of my wife is as tight as they get. Think of Tam in Still Game and you are getting there.

Her and her husband both in well paid public service jobs. They are going out about 15 years or so. Despite this, she refuses to open a joint account and insists of everything being split 50/50. We were all in Tesco recently and she bought about 7 euros worth of burgers and buns. She made her long suffering partner transfer her the 3.50 odd before they left the store.

She told my wife she has about 50 grand in savings. Despite this, they got married about 3 years ago and the husband paid for everything out of an inheritance. She didn't put a cent of her savings towards it. She is just the worst. She refuses to spend a cent of her savings. I swear she would not dip into it if she needed a life saving operation.

She probably still has her communion money :pac:

Viscount Aggro · 07-12-2019 9:23am

I still have my baptismal money

sligojoek · 07-12-2019 12:12pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

She probably still has her communion money :pac:

Probably has the husband's as well.

ArnoldJRimmer · 11-12-2019 3:50pm

A tale of double tightness. Firstly, my workplace is too tight to keep the place stocked up with washing up liquid, so it usually falls on myself and one other lad to replace it when its empty. Loads of other people use it, but I don't mind as I use it quite a bit myself.

Anyway, I bought an absolute enormous container yesterday which was meant to see out the year. Came in this morning and it looks like some tight so and so has siphoned off the top of it, and taken it home with them, about a quarter of the bottle is gone.

Bigbagofcans · 11-12-2019 5:01pm

Tzardine wrote: »

Her and her husband both in well paid public service jobs. They are going out about 15 years or so. Despite this, she refuses to open a joint account and insists of everything being split 50/50. We were all in Tesco recently and she bought about 7 euros worth of burgers and buns. She made her long suffering partner transfer her the 3.50 odd before they left the store.

I'd say he's constantly on online banking transferring bitty amounts here and there. The poor chap.

The fact she made him transfer the 'tree fiddy' before they left the store is pathetic.

My friend's ex boyfriend was miserable. She'd ask him the odd time when they were out drinking if she could get a cigarette off him. He charged her €2 each time.

SusieBlue · 11-12-2019 5:31pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I have nothing but contempt for people who pull shit like that. They genuinely don’t see what’s wrong with it. SO entitled.

I have a relative that bought a tagging gun on eBay to reattach labels to clothes. She buys expensive dresses & outfits, wears them, washes them & reattaches the tags & goes back in with her receipt for a full refund.
She tells people about too, as if its some badge of honour.

dubstarr · 11-12-2019 5:39pm

SusieBlue wrote: »

I have a relative that bought a tagging gun on eBay to reattach labels to clothes. She buys expensive dresses & outfits, wears them, washes them & reattaches the tags & goes back in with her receipt for a full refund.
She tells people about too, as if its some badge of honour.

I dont think thats really the same.The shoes that where brought back were unworn.

El_Duderino 09 · 11-12-2019 5:42pm

dubstarr wrote: »

I dont think thats really the same.The shoes that where brought back were unworn.

Oh please, no more about the shoes (boots). I wish there was this thread for the stinge stories and another thread to discuss the living daylights out of whether things are stingy or not. That way I could read the stinge stories and never, ever look at the other thread.

SusieBlue · 11-12-2019 5:43pm

dubstarr wrote: »

I dont think thats really the same.The shoes that where brought back were unworn.

The post ODB was replying to was about someone who wears clothes, leaves the tags on and then returns them afterwards. It wasn't about the shoes.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 11-12-2019 6:05pm

SusieBlue wrote: »

I have a relative that bought a tagging gun on eBay to reattach labels to clothes. She buys expensive dresses & outfits, wears them, washes them & reattaches the tags & goes back in with her receipt for a full refund.
She tells people about too, as if its some badge of honour.

That’s so... pathetic. I’m sorry that I’m insulting your relative in saying that.

enfield · 11-12-2019 6:20pm

I am a pensioner now but in ye olden days we were living on very little because we just did not have it. When we began saving for a house, the stingiest thing, and it makes me cringe when I think of it, was I took the bulb out of the radio. I must have saved about a penny in 15 years doing that, and do you know something else? I never put it back in. Anyone want to buy a radio bulb?...

Stevieluvsye · 11-12-2019 6:21pm

enfield wrote: »

I am a pensioner now but in ye olden days we were living on very little because we just did not have it. When we began saving for a house, the stingiest thing, and it makes me cringe when I think of it, was I took the bulb out of the radio. I must have saved about a penny in 15 years doing that, and do you know something else? I never put it back in. Anyone want to buy a radio bulb?...

What is this misterious thing?

enfield · 11-12-2019 6:23pm

When you plugged in the radio, the bulb lit up the dial.

Mundo7976 · 11-12-2019 6:31pm

enfield wrote: »

When you plugged in the radio, the bulb lit up the dial.

Circa 1900, ye aul miser...

TopOfTheRight · 11-12-2019 8:23pm

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

I'd say he's constantly on online banking transferring bitty amounts here and there. The poor chap.

The fact she made him transfer the 'tree fiddy' before they left the store is pathetic.

But are we sure she's even a girl scout and not about eight stories tall and a crustacean from the Proterozoic era?

decky1 · 11-12-2019 8:42pm

one of the guys on our street puts wire on the gate at Halloween so the kids can't get in. same guy i did some work for years ago asked me would i like a drink before i left opened the press full of spirits beer etc and took out the tea bags. honest truth.

BeardySi · 12-12-2019 11:39am

enfield wrote: »

I am a pensioner now but in ye olden days we were living on very little because we just did not have it. When we began saving for a house, the stingiest thing, and it makes me cringe when I think of it, was I took the bulb out of the radio. I must have saved about a penny in 15 years doing that, and do you know something else? I never put it back in. Anyone want to buy a radio bulb?...

Sure a penny went a long way back then!

12-12-2019 12:07pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Came in this morning and it looks like some tight so and so has siphoned off the top of it, and taken it home with them, about a quarter of the bottle is gone.

I've a shedload of workplace misers on my CV. Some places had toilet roll you could see through, it was that thin. I worked in a place years ago and was by far the youngest person in the whole shop. I used to bring in stuff to make sambos, a carton of milk and a newspaper every day. I'd sit down and do the crossword over lunch.

After about a month, I noticed that the same fellas would be hanging around my table as I neared the end of my lunch asking if I was finished with the paper. Two in particular would be competing against each other to get their spoke in ahead of each other. It degenerated to the stage where they'd ask me first thing in the morning "can I get a loan of your paper after lunch?".

One day I got stuck with a customer and was late getting to the break room. Found the two of them sitting at a table having taken the paper out of my bag and split the thing between them. "Didn't think you'd mind, like". I was raging, but didn't say anything. As I was putting it back together I noticed they'd done the crossword and all (well, started it and gave up after making a bags of it). I blew me top, nealry got in rouble over the outburst. Next day...."Can I get your paper after lunch?".

I stopped buying it for a while to see if either of them took the hint but then had to talk with the stingy feckers. Just brought a book in after that.

About 6 months later, a new fella started and they were up to the same with him, fighting over his paper. I had a word with him, told him what the story was. Little genius said "why don't we buy it every second day between us"? Next day, one of them walks into the canteen and is straight over to your man, who had no paper. The other one saw me doing the crossword and his face lit up. "Gis a shot of that paper when your finished?"......."sorry mate, I already promised it to someone". The image of that smug look vanishing from both their faces as I walked over and gave it to the new fella will stay with me forever.

KevRossi · 12-12-2019 12:14pm

I was on a job in an office for the past 3 days. The toilets have those huge rolls of bog roll where it comes out a small hole in the centre. There was one fella working there who would spend 15 mins in the jacks a couple of days a week, pulling out enough for himself to take home for himself and the wife, he had a huge plastic bag of it. He made no secret of it either.

He's middle management, so on about €75,000 per year, wife is a lecturer for last 20 years, so on about the same. No kids, mortgage paid off (as he seemingly reminds anybody who mentions house hunting).

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