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notalwaysright_feedRead They’re On To Us And Our Staff Inflation Meetings!
Customer: "Why have you put up the prices again?!"
Me: "I know, it's also annoying for me as I shop here, too."
Customer: "That's so stupid! Why would you raise the prices if you shop here too?!"
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james_davis_nicollnotalwaysright_feed
Me: "[Worker], this is the third time I've told you. PPE when you're welding!"
Worker: "You can't make me."
Me: "Well, you're right in that I can't physically make you, but you can be written up and lose your job if you persist."
Worker: "It just gets in the way!"
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Me: "Hi, this was given as a gift. We don't have a receipt, so we're not expecting a refund, but we were hoping we could exchange it for something here of equal value?"
Clerk: "Hmm, it's not scanning. Let me get my manager."
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notalwaysright_feedRead A Survey Survivor
Me: "Look, you ask me if I'm interested every time you see me. And I tell you no every time you see me. Why do you keep asking?"
Rep: "Well, you can't expect me to remember every person I see!"
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wychwoodnotalwaysright_feedRead A Receipt Offender
My manager comes back a minute or so later and continues talking to the customer for a few minutes, until the shopping centre's security guys have arrived and walked up behind the customer.
Manager: *To the security guys.* "That's her."
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davidgillonThe House of Lords have been taking evidence on the Assisted Suicide Bill.
Disabled folk to Parliament: The possibility of being compelled into assisted suicide scares us
Pro-assisted suicide mob to Parliament: a few disabled people coerced into assisted suicide is still worth it.
Honestly couldn't make it up
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For complicated reasons, I find out that my dad is dying and has a matter of days left.
Me: "I need this weekend off."
Manager: "No, that's too last-minute."
davidgillonAfter three days in a row of not getting to sleep until after the sun was up (and then being woken mid-morning), I've basically spent the entire day asleep, apart from answering several phone calls from my sister and then almost immediately falling asleep again*.
I answered those sitting cross-legged on the bed, and I fell asleep in that position and then slept that way for several hours. My hips are NOT happy with me.
notalwaysright_feedRead How About ‘Ha Ha You’re Dead’?
Coworker: "Hello, this is [Coworker's Name] calling from [Funeral Home]. I got your email about the music you'd like to be playing as your mother-in-law's casket is carried in."
Pause.
Coworker: "Well, you need to understand, we'd need to hear from both you and your wife to confirm you'd like that particular piece of music played."
petraOnly the really lucky characters get to turn 16 more than once.
lilisonna_tumblr_feedSergio Outdoors
These are all fascinating, and Sergio clearly knows his shit, but some of these helpful hacks are so amazingly specific that I am struggling to find an actual use case outside of Major and yet Very Arbitrary Apocalypse.
Like, when an I going to have a large amount of cordage, a knife, lighter, giant water jug and over large syringe and *not* just have a camp shower?
