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My rant on my Sunday and Monday….
Oh, not that they were bad days but, there is one really dumb thing that just made me want to scream. Some of you already know but, I’ll tell you guys that don’t know. I work in a cash office in a smallish large store. You know the kind, it was big back in it’s day but, nowhere near the size of superstores today.
I swear our cashiers get dumber everyday. Here is a story of stupidity.
Do any of you guys have a chip’n’pin card? Or know what they are? They are Visas, Master Cards and Debit Cards with a chip in it. These are such a headache! Since we have set up for these cards it has been non stop problems. Anyways, here is a story of three Mennonite looking guys who “bought” three cell phones.
I was balancing the electronic lane. They are almost $700 short cash. I look through EJ (electronic journal) and find a sale for the exact amount that they were short. So, I thought, oh this must be a sale that was supposed to be post-voided. He must have forgotten. I keep looking through and can’t find where he put this sale through again. So, I’m thinking “oh this isn’t good…..” I page the manager of the department but, she doesn’t return the call. I can’t get the cashiers phone# (I don’t have a list of phone #s anymore…). So, I can’t call the cashier.
Anyways, I leave the over/short report on the managers bin and run upstairs to use the bathroom. I come back down and I run into the assistant store manager. So, I told her about this short. We both head into the office and here is the department manager. She found the over/short report and asked me about it.
Apparently just before she headed into the office the customers wanted to return the phones. They have the receipt that says they paid cash for these phones. Well, there is no way the department has $700 for this return so they were sent up to the service desk. So, while they are getting the phones returned, Lynn the department manager calls the cashier.
He claims that it was a visa with a chip in it. He had a problem with the card being accepted. Sometimes when that happens the machine will go offline and the register has to be re-booted. He says he accidentally cashed out the sale, and that he re-rung the sale right after.
That could have happened but, there would have been proof. Plus the customer wouldn’t have the cash receipt. Everytime one of those cards is used a popup is produced. There was nothing.
Well, now we are short almost $700, the customers are almost $700 richer, but, we now have the phones back…………
So, loss prevention is looking into this matter. I have a feeling this cashier will either be looking for a new job soon, or will not be put on cash anymore.
Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to share some stupidity….
On the upside I saw my cousins Kristi and Karen, Karen’s boyfriend and my Uncle Gord and Lisa. That made it worthwhile I never see them anymore.
Wow. This sound just like some of the stuff I had to put up with when I used to work at customer service at Wal-Mart. Situations like this used to burn me all the time.
I couldn’t follow what happened, but it sure sounds frustrating!
Do you think the cashier was friends with the customers?I think they are a bunch of morons looking for beer money. Unfortunatly they are probably belching and patting themselves on the back right now. 😕
Well, my rant was long winded and probably hard to follow. (I’m just like that. 😆 )
Basically, the customer(s) “bought” three phones. They more than likely got them for free, since we are short the amount of that sale.
The customers returned the phones for cash. So, we were out the phones plus the “cash” from this so called sale. Now the customer has the cash that we were missing but, at least we have the phones back.
We don’t know if the cashier was friends with these customers. The funny thing is Mennonites wouldn’t have phones let alone cell phones. (Well, there are Mennonites that do have phones and cars so, I guess they could have cell phones as well. But, if they looked Mennonite then they probably were old order…. oh, who knows.) They are confusing that way. It’s cute, they’ll drive their buggies up to the stock yards (on a Thursday or Saturday) or to Conestoga Mall on the other days. Then take the bus. (I don’t blame them though, I wouldn’t want to drive a horse and buggy through a city either.)
But, they also wouldn’t have been shopping on a Sunday….. hum, the whole situation just doesn’t add up. That’s the whole problem.
I’m not sure but, I also think this cashier is from St. Jacobs, which is a Mennonite town….. Or it was, this was fought for years but, Walmart is going to build a store in St. Jacobs. I think they have to build outside the town but, still….. There goes the cute little town. 🙁
I’m not sure, it sounds like they have the same roots. But, I don’t know for sure. My grandma was a Mennonite…. Sadly I know very little about the history of Amish-Mennonites. Here is what I’ve found though:
actually there are awards for stupidity “The Darwin Award” only for the finest stupid folks
My son is dealing with a similar situation where he works. Only there some one made off with $2000.00 worth of electronics using a stolen credit card. The cashier never checked for I.D. Even though they are supposed to ESP for large purchases.
The Amish, Mennonites and Brethren all have the same roots out of the old Anabaptists (“re-baptizers”) of the 1500s Switzerland Brethren. They believed in only adults being baptized, and confirming their faith by re-baptizing each other as adults (hence their name). Considered radical for the time because of their beliefs in non-violence, adult baptism, and separation of church and state.
The groups started to separate. The Mennonites were named after Menno Simons (an important leader of the early Anabaptists). Ammann broke away in the late 1600s to form a very strictly following the original Anabaptist beliefs (Amish).
The main differences to the groups are their interpretation of the bible and their views on the use of modern technology, how they associate with outsiders, educational values, and language/use of English.
I’ll just quote from this site directly (I’m getting lazy to type :P, plus it’s a good description.
http://www.ritro.com/printable.bv?contentid=3590“The Amish believe that “worldliness” keeps one from being close to God, so they choose to live without many modern conveniences and technology, such as cars, television, videos, etc. Rather than use electricity, they have bottled gas stoves and refrigerators.
Mennonite, on the other hand, dress very similar to the Amish, yet will have electricity in their homes and drive cars. You will see them shopping side by side with you in Wal-Mart and grocery stores.”
I walked into a Staples/Office Max in Ohio and saw a Mennonite woman and her young daughter buying printer paper and an ink cartridge. They proceeded get into their car to leave (something fairly nice too, like a Buick or Ford Taurus). Someone who is Amish wouldn’t be found in that scenario 😉 It definitely got me and my coworker doing a double-take!
Romeo… it’s entirely possible they were Mennonite.
Necron99 wrote:actually there are awards for stupidity “The Darwin Award” only for the finest stupid folks
The Darwin Awards are one of my sick and twisted pleasures. You get to marvel at the stupidity of people but it’s hard to really enjoy because they are given to people who have managed to kill themselves. Mostly – there are a few living Darwins given out – especially to men who have managed to destroy their future chances to father children.
For example – the guy whose car was frozen one winter so he warmed up a gallon of gas on the stove…the guy who shot up a cliff at a deer and hit it and the deer fell off the cliff onto him…the various criminals who manage to hang themselves breaking into building…there are some female recipients but the male ones definitely outnumber the female!
Like I said, I know the Mennonites. Some of them do have electricity and cars, but, that’s where it does get confusing. Even the newer order Mennonites look like Mennonites, there are some obvious differences.
I personally have never seen one with a cell phone, but, it’s very possible. I know that they were Mennonites since even if you try to dress up like one, you won’t look like one to people who have always been around them.
It’s funny though. Kitchener was started by Mennonites….. but, they were German…. Confused? Yes, I think I am.
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ddvm wrote:Necron99 wrote:actually there are awards for stupidity “The Darwin Award” only for the finest stupid folks
The Darwin Awards are one of my sick and twisted pleasures. You get to marvel at the stupidity of people but it’s hard to really enjoy because they are given to people who have managed to kill themselves. Mostly – there are a few living Darwins given out – especially to men who have managed to destroy their future chances to father children.
For example – the guy whose car was frozen one winter so he warmed up a gallon of gas on the stove…the guy who shot up a cliff at a deer and hit it and the deer fell off the cliff onto him…the various criminals who manage to hang themselves breaking into building…there are some female recipients but the male ones definitely outnumber the female!
Ahh, the Darwin Awards. The one I always remember is where the guy tried to steal a live lobster by sticking it down his pants. he survived but won’t be able to have any kids.
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