Pet Peeves

[Anvil]

People who are constantly late.  Boils my piss. 

[Carnage]

Mustbhave gotten sunburned on my ceann the other day, the top of my head is peeling. Middle age is shite.

[Ducky]

I've been chopping what's left of the hair shorter and shorter of late. Was on the bus into town, there was a fella sitting directly in front of me with nasty looking sunburn on his noggin.

First port of call in town for me became buying a decent peaked cap.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Cunts in Lidl, who, when their groceries come to €110, dump a bag of coins on the counter and say "Take it out of that". 10s and 20cent coins. Then when the checkout guy wearily says "That's only €77", the husband opens his wallet and takes out a €50 note.
Women behind me says to him, "You should have given their change back in those coins."

Fucking cunts.

[Ducky]

Haha what the actual fuck is wrong with some people.

I remember my dark days of working in GameStop, December 24rd AKA every is fucking frazzled and just want to go home. Queue out the door, phone ringing off the hook (no ye gowls, we sold out of the "Intendos" last week, stop leaving it until hours before Christmas before looking for one), young fella with his father buying four or five secondhand games (which means I have to root around instead of the usual Christmas Eve rapid fire predictable-as-fuck items).

Grand, here they are, that's fifty-something quid please. Father looks at the young fella, then hands over a massive bag of change, barely anything over 50c in there.

I open it, freeze, and think to myself "like fuck am I doing this right now". So I tell the father I'm refusing to serve them. He ain't happy. "Why not?!". Dafuq ya think, mate.

"You have to serve me!". Actually, I fucking don't. Can't remember the actual numbers, but if a transaction is over a certain amount and they're looking to band you a bag of coins, you can tell them GTFO. And also I'm exercising my free will, so no, I don't have to do shit. Smart cunt thought he'd be a dick on Chrimbo eve and you love to see it backfire.

Told my manager she can "manage" the situation as the €8.65 an hour I was being paid didn't cover that stress.

[Emphyrio]

Intendos, ya I remember that 

[Sworntothecans]

Haha what the actual fuck is wrong with some people.

I remember my dark days of working in GameStop, December 24rd AKA every is fucking frazzled and just want to go home. Queue out the door, phone ringing off the hook (no ye gowls, we sold out of the "Intendos" last week, stop leaving it until hours before Christmas before looking for one), young fella with his father buying four or five secondhand games (which means I have to root around instead of the usual Christmas Eve rapid fire predictable-as-fuck items).

Grand, here they are, that's fifty-something quid please. Father looks at the young fella, then hands over a massive bag of change, barely anything over 50c in there.

I open it, freeze, and think to myself "like fuck am I doing this right now". So I tell the father I'm refusing to serve them. He ain't happy. "Why not?!". Dafuq ya think, mate.

"You have to serve me!". Actually, I fucking don't. Can't remember the actual numbers, but if a transaction is over a certain amount and they're looking to band you a bag of coins, you can tell them GTFO. And also I'm exercising my free will, so no, I don't have to do shit. Smart cunt thought he'd be a dick on Chrimbo eve and you love to see it backfire.

Told my manager she can "manage" the situation as the €8.65 an hour I was being paid didn't cover that stress.

I never minded when kids would bring in a nail bomb of change. Means they were gonna take care of the console as they saved up. They were usually bang on with the final figure. If the parents were with them, the sums were always off and sorted like they were drunk counting it.

[Mooncat]

I worked in Xtra Vision (Blockbuster) and we sold stuff as well as the usual rentals.

I remember it was one of the big Halo releases (I think it was 3) and there was fever pitch excitement around the release. We had them in the back early, but with all sorts of warnings off legal retribution if we sold them before release day. Some cunt in a suit comes in the day before with that real 'I'm better than you' attitude and throws down the money and actually demands we sell him one a day early. Didn't even ask. Was kind of a, "I'll take one Halo and there's 10 extra to get it early." But with the real entitled attitude off him.

When I tell him no he gradually descends into a near fit for not getting what he wants. He's actually ranting and stomping around the place furious. Of course doesn't give the slightest fuck when I tell him we could be prosecuted for doing that. Eventually storms off out of the place (unfortunately no 'you'll never work in this town again!' rhetoric, though he seemed like that type of guy). One thing customer service really opened my eyes to many times over the years: so many grown adults genuinely can't comprehend hearing the word no, and immediately resort to genuine child/brat behaviour in response.

[Goosebumples]

I worked in Xtra Vision (Blockbuster) and we sold stuff as well as the usual rentals.

I remember it was one of the big Halo releases (I think it was 3) and there was fever pitch excitement around the release. We had them in the back early, but with all sorts of warnings off legal retribution if we sold them before release day. Some cunt in a suit comes in the day before with that real 'I'm better than you' attitude and throws down the money and actually demands we sell him one a day early. Didn't even ask. Was kind of a, "I'll take one Halo and there's 10 extra to get it early." But with the real entitled attitude off him.

When I tell him no he gradually descends into a near fit for not getting what he wants. He's actually ranting and stomping around the place furious. Of course doesn't give the slightest fuck when I tell him we could be prosecuted for doing that. Eventually storms off out of the place (unfortunately no 'you'll never work in this town again!' rhetoric, though he seemed like that type of guy). One thing customer service really opened my eyes to many times over the years: so many grown adults genuinely can't comprehend hearing the word no, and immediately resort to genuine child/brat behaviour in response.

I had the exact same scenario when I worked in a games shop too! Some hot shot lad suited up throwing a temper tantrum because I wouldnt accept his meagre bribe to sell him a game before release day 

[Sworntothecans]

Worked the GTA V launch. Got offered weed, coke, pills to break the date on it. Had a laugh bullshitting them for the whole week.
"lads I've to come in to the shop within 20 mins of the text from Securicor and have three witnesses watch me sign off on the allocation and lock it up in the safe."

All the shams thinking the back of the shop was Fort Knox.

To be fair the FIFA launch on the Friday was harder as we were all running on fumes.

[Goosebumples]

To be fair the FIFA launch on the Friday was harder as we were all running on fumes.

These were always the worst. Hordes of people. The mindnumbing repetitive conversations about how theres "no good games anymore" and call of duty need to go back to "boots on the ground".The inevitable uptick in controller sales/returns as rage fueled manlets smashed up their shit from losing. The few poorly adjusted freaks who would come back angrily demanding refunds because the game was released as an unfinished mess, implying that we tried to scam them...I'll never work retail again