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I know! Of all the things in all the world to steal? Tau Battle Force...

He was a big guy too, not just some kid stealing for the sake of it.

The manager said he didn't fancy his CC chances if he chased and caught up so he just called the rozzers.

I was in the GW in blue-water shopping center, this is a tiny store and there were so many people there for the release party for IoB that security was called. apparently they thought it was a riot.

 Breotan wrote:
There are a lot of people interested in "historical" or other warfare related miniatures that aren't the things we build and play with. I cringe every time I see a GW employee try to steer a customer toward product they clearly aren't interested simply because they are so married to the GW sales script. I know they have to do it but I've never seen it actually make a sale or even create a new customer.

You do grasp how modern Retail Sales works, right? These guys can be sacked if they don't take every possible opportunity to attempt a sale, even if they've already met whatever ludicrous barely-achievable sales targets they've been set. They know it's not going to work, but the Regional Managers have to justify their existence somehow, and the easiest way to do that is to come up with moronic "policies" to "drive sales and customer acquisition". I trust you do all the things you're expected and required to do in order to keep your job, even if you personally think they're daft or unnecessary?

Besides that, I have no sympathy for consumers. Even generally pleasant people become complete idiots when they don their consumer hat, and the sheer malicious unreasoning abuse retail employees are put through for imposing the horrifying inconvenience of asking if a customer needs a hand finding something is one of the few things in this world capable of motivating a cynical git like myself to feel genuine rage.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
There are a lot of people interested in "historical" or other warfare related miniatures that aren't the things we build and play with. I cringe every time I see a GW employee try to steer a customer toward product they clearly aren't interested simply because they are so married to the GW sales script. I know they have to do it but I've never seen it actually make a sale or even create a new customer.

You do grasp how modern Retail Sales works, right? These guys can be sacked if they don't take every possible opportunity to attempt a sale, even if they've already met whatever ludicrous barely-achievable sales targets they've been set. They know it's not going to work, but the Regional Managers have to justify their existence somehow, and the easiest way to do that is to come up with moronic "policies" to "drive sales and customer acquisition". I trust you do all the things you're expected and required to do in order to keep your job, even if you personally think they're daft or unnecessary?

Besides that, I have no sympathy for consumers. Even generally pleasant people become complete idiots when they don their consumer hat, and the sheer malicious unreasoning abuse retail employees are put through for imposing the horrifying inconvenience of asking if a customer needs a hand finding something is one of the few things in this world capable of motivating a cynical git like myself to feel genuine rage.

Listen to this man, he speaks the truth.

And as for insane goals in retail, everyone has been through that. I don't know how anyone comes up with those goals, because they're never met.

I've been called into the head owner of the store's office for not selling enough BATTERIES at the checkout line as a cashier. I gave the owner a stare for a second, and then something along the lines of "I'm sorry, I was too busy checking the person out to try and sell them some batteries they didn't need". Only reason I didn't get fired was because I worked like 2 other positions there, so they just transferred me off of the registers. Should have thought of that months before

Not a game store story but I thought it was funny. Let me set the picture. Middle of summer in California so 100^ degrees ease. I'm in line at a Burger King. Lady in front of me is ordering she's "large, unpleasant and very sweaty. Cashier rings her up and she pulls her money out of her bra. No wallet just the cash. You can see the money was wet. The look on the cashiers face was hilarious. I had to cover my mouth to stop from luaghing. Felt bad for the guy but I'm glad I didn't have to do it.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
There are a lot of people interested in "historical" or other warfare related miniatures that aren't the things we build and play with. I cringe every time I see a GW employee try to steer a customer toward product they clearly aren't interested simply because they are so married to the GW sales script. I know they have to do it but I've never seen it actually make a sale or even create a new customer.

You do grasp how modern Retail Sales works, right? These guys can be sacked if they don't take every possible opportunity to attempt a sale, even if they've already met whatever ludicrous barely-achievable sales targets they've been set. They know it's not going to work, but the Regional Managers have to justify their existence somehow, and the easiest way to do that is to come up with moronic "policies" to "drive sales and customer acquisition". I trust you do all the things you're expected and required to do in order to keep your job, even if you personally think they're daft or unnecessary?

Besides that, I have no sympathy for consumers. Even generally pleasant people become complete idiots when they don their consumer hat, and the sheer malicious unreasoning abuse retail employees are put through for imposing the horrifying inconvenience of asking if a customer needs a hand finding something is one of the few things in this world capable of motivating a cynical git like myself to feel genuine rage.

Listen to this man, he speaks the truth.

And as for insane goals in retail, everyone has been through that. I don't know how anyone comes up with those goals, because they're never met.

I've been called into the head owner of the store's office for not selling enough BATTERIES at the checkout line as a cashier. I gave the owner a stare for a second, and then something along the lines of "I'm sorry, I was too busy checking the person out to try and sell them some batteries they didn't need". Only reason I didn't get fired was because I worked like 2 other positions there, so they just transferred me off of the registers. Should have thought of that months before

WAHRGARBLEF***, "addon" sales, I hate them with the burning fury of a thousand stars. I worked in a Threshers offlicense when I was doing my undergrad course, and once during a visit from Jobsworthy McJobsworth our Regional, I got a twenty minute lecture about the importance of pushing tobacco adds at the till. When he finally finished pontificating, I pointed out that the customer involved in the transaction he was berating me over was a regular, a friend of mine, and a sodding non-smoker. The didn't even have the common courtesy to be embarrassed, just grumpily mumbled something about it being a "general principle" and went into the back.

 wowsmash wrote:
Not a game store story but I thought it was funny. Let me set the picture. Middle of summer in California so 100^ degrees ease. I'm in line at a Burger King. Lady in front of me is ordering she's "large, unpleasant and very sweaty. Cashier rings her up and she pulls her money out of her bra. No wallet just the cash. You can see the money was wet. The look on the cashiers face was hilarious. I had to cover my mouth to stop from luaghing. Felt bad for the guy but I'm glad I didn't have to do it.

I've had that one myself. After the aforementioned Threshers job, I ended up Deputy-managing a GAME, and the shopping centre it was located in was rather dilapidated. The aircon system essentially didn't work, so in the summer our wee store got up to 35 Centigrade on occasion(which for a Scottish person is like being buried up to the neck in the Sahara and left to bake ), and one time a rather "ample" bloke came up to the counter and tried to pay one of my staff with a sodden twenty note he'd just pulled out of his back pocket. He was sweating so hard his jeans were actually wet. The poor cashier didn't know what to do, she just kept looking from the note to the guy to me and back again, so I had to step in and tell him to jog-on. He was not pleased

What if it is wet and it came from a really hot person?

 heartserenade wrote:
What if it is wet and it came from a really hot person?

Duh, switch it for an equal bill from your pocket and keep it. If I got a sweaty twenty dollar bill pulled out of Natalie Portman's bra, you can bet I'd switch it for one of my own to make sure I kept it. Lol.

Yea, when I'm playing a game at my local GW there are about an average of about eight people per game that walk in thinking they sell video games. One time I even tag teamed the sales pitch with the guy working there. Basically it went along the lines of: "Do you like Starcraft? We've got our own version of the Zerg and the Terrans that might have been the inspiration to Starcraft." They seemed interested, but they left.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 heartserenade wrote:
What if it is wet and it came from a really hot person?

Duh, switch it for an equal bill from your pocket and keep it. If I got a sweaty twenty dollar bill pulled out of Natalie Portman's bra, you can bet I'd switch it for one of my own to make sure I kept it. Lol.

Aaaaaaand sig'd

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 heartserenade wrote:
What if it is wet and it came from a really hot person?

Duh, switch it for an equal bill from your pocket and keep it. If I got a sweaty twenty dollar bill pulled out of Natalie Portman's bra, you can bet I'd switch it for one of my own to make sure I kept it. Lol.

That is mildly creepy.....hell I would do it with megan fox, so nevermind this is completely normal.

I don't care what you look like I'm not touching your sweaty money.

Why I always tell my kids don't put your money in your mouth and wash your hands. You don't know we're that stuff has been. That dollar bill might have marinated in somebody's sweat before you got it. Yuck

At my local GW we sometimes get the odd crazy person that comes in, but mostly chavs who swagger in with their trousers round their ankles, trying to take the piss out of the games in the store.

 wowsmash wrote:
Not a game store story but I thought it was funny. Let me set the picture. Middle of summer in California so 100^ degrees ease. I'm in line at a Burger King. Lady in front of me is ordering she's "large, unpleasant and very sweaty. Cashier rings her up and she pulls her money out of her bra. No wallet just the cash. You can see the money was wet. The look on the cashiers face was hilarious. I had to cover my mouth to stop from luaghing. Felt bad for the guy but I'm glad I didn't have to do it.

I work in banking. I started as a bank teller.
I had this happen to me once. The woman gave me the money to deposit to her account. Pulled it out of the bra right in front of me. I could SEE that it was wet.
Now, I'm REQUIRED to take this money from her, as it's legal tender.

I just looked at her for a minute with my "You gotta be kidding me" face on. Then, I proceeded to grab two pencils from my drawer. I separated and counted the money -right in front of her- with the pencils. Once counted, I shoved it into my "mutilated" envelope with said pencils -again, as she looked on, then ran her deposit.
Oh... and I threw away the pencils while she watched, BEFORE processing the deposit.

Here's hoping she took the hint (though I doubt it).

Knowing what's ON money and that about 48% of it is contaminated with feces, I'd have done the same with Natalie Portman's sweaty money, too (then bought it, held it with latex gloves, and put it on ebay for some psycho to bid on LOL).

Eric

 MagickalMemories wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
Not a game store story but I thought it was funny. Let me set the picture. Middle of summer in California so 100^ degrees ease. I'm in line at a Burger King. Lady in front of me is ordering she's "large, unpleasant and very sweaty. Cashier rings her up and she pulls her money out of her bra. No wallet just the cash. You can see the money was wet. The look on the cashiers face was hilarious. I had to cover my mouth to stop from luaghing. Felt bad for the guy but I'm glad I didn't have to do it.

I work in banking. I started as a bank teller.
I had this happen to me once. The woman gave me the money to deposit to her account. Pulled it out of the bra right in front of me. I could SEE that it was wet.
Now, I'm REQUIRED to take this money from her, as it's legal tender.

I just looked at her for a minute with my "You gotta be kidding me" face on. Then, I proceeded to grab two pencils from my drawer. I separated and counted the money -right in front of her- with the pencils. Once counted, I shoved it into my "mutilated" envelope with said pencils -again, as she looked on, then ran her deposit.
Oh... and I threw away the pencils while she watched, BEFORE processing the deposit.

Here's hoping she took the hint (though I doubt it).

Knowing what's ON money and that about 48% of it is contaminated with feces, I'd have done the same with Natalie Portman's sweaty money, too (then bought it, held it with latex gloves, and put it on ebay for some psycho to bid on LOL).

Eric

Hey!

I've heard tell that a lot of notes have trace amounts of cocaine on them too, among other things.

Man, reading some of these posts makes me so glad that Australian notes are plastic and therefore not absorbent. Sure, they're probably still covered in crud, but at least they're easy to dry off.

 Makutsu wrote:
Last week was my first time gaming at an official GW store...

The situation at the GW store was really funny.

People came in and ask if they sold, Minecraft, Wii, Call of Duty etc...

I heard from my friend that one time a guy just stormed in dropped his NDS at the counter and said "I want it to be fixed when I get back in an hour", then he just left

Do you guys have any funny stories at stores?

In their defense some war gaming stores do sell new games and second hand games.

 wowsmash wrote:
Not a game store story but I thought it was funny. Let me set the picture. Middle of summer in California so 100^ degrees ease. I'm in line at a Burger King. Lady in front of me is ordering she's "large, unpleasant and very sweaty. Cashier rings her up and she pulls her money out of her bra. No wallet just the cash. You can see the money was wet. The look on the cashiers face was hilarious. I had to cover my mouth to stop from luaghing. Felt bad for the guy but I'm glad I didn't have to do it.

I've been that cashier...

 Ovion wrote:
I've heard tell that a lot of notes have trace amounts of cocaine on them too, among other things.

Most the people I do commission work are recreational coke heads!

I always hear about here how bad hygiene/stench issues are.

I was born without a sense of smell (Anosmia) so I'm uneffected, but am always curious as to how true this stereotype is. I also notice the accusation doesn't appear with other nerdy hobbies like video games or comics of etc.

 Ovion wrote:
I've heard tell that a lot of notes have trace amounts of cocaine on them too, among other things.

The majority, in fact - ~95%!

 Harriticus wrote:
I always hear about here how bad hygiene/stench issues are.

I was born without a sense of smell (Anosmia) so I'm uneffected, but am always curious as to how true this stereotype is. I also notice the accusation doesn't appear with other nerdy hobbies like video games or comics of etc.

Don't know what you're talking about, I hear this almost as often towards comic book nerds and gamers just as much as tabletop gamers, if not more so. But that's probably only because many people where I live don't even know what tabletop gaming is, let alone what the people that play it are like.

Video gamers don't interact with other people compared to TT gamers. Same fror comic nerds.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
I always hear about here how bad hygiene/stench issues are.

I was born without a sense of smell (Anosmia) so I'm uneffected, but am always curious as to how true this stereotype is. I also notice the accusation doesn't appear with other nerdy hobbies like video games or comics of etc.

Don't know what you're talking about, I hear this almost as often towards comic book nerds and gamers just as much as tabletop gamers, if not more so. But that's probably only because many people where I live don't even know what tabletop gaming is, let alone what the people that play it are like.

I've found the greater the number of MtG players or other CCG the worse the gammer stank.

 MisterMoon wrote:

I've found the greater the number of MtG players or other CCG the worse the gammer stank.

It's like distributive computing, but with body odor. One or two isn't that bad, but you get a group and their strength increases.

Here's one that happened to me last weekend. I was super excited to go pick up my box of DV because we have to drive an hour to the capital city to pick it up. I had my family with me. We go in and I'm having a blast looking at all the models and different things. I'm not really paying much attention to other customers, just talking with my wife and showing my 4 yr old the display cases with all the painted models. So we get in line to buy my DV box and my daughter starts tugging at my pants. I look down and she asks me out loud why the man behind us is wearing a dress. I look at my wife and she's just got the biggest smile ever. I'm not sure why I did it or what caused me to assume the man was wearing a kilt, but started trying to explain the difference to my 4 yr old. This is made doubly difficult since i my self have difficulty in understanding the difference as well. No offense intended I'm just not very familiar with consecept other than knowing they exist and it's cultural. I thought I was doing the good parent thing teaching my kid about the world and different people in it. Needless to say it doesn't sink in and we get into the endless "why" zone loop hole that every parent fears. At this point were drawing a crowed and everyone's smiling at me like I'm the butt of some joke. I turn around to apologize to the guy behind me only to discover he's actually wearing.....a dress. At which point my mind kinds locked up and I wasn't sure what to say. So I said I was sorry and he was really cool about it. On the way out I asked my wife why she didn't tell me he was actually wearing a dress. Why wife's response was that my daughter already did.

 wowsmash wrote:
At this point were drawing a crowed and everyone's smiling at me like I'm the butt of some joke. I turn around to apologize to the guy behind me only to discover he's actually wearing.....a dress.

I feel for you. I was walking with my 4 year old nephew through our church Sunday and he see a lady that's undergoing chemo. At which point he says louder than I could comfortably yell, "Look! That lady has no hair!

I also spent almost fifteen minutes this past week telling him why the football players weren't playing baseball. To which his response, inevitably, was "But...why?".

 Ricedaddy wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
At this point were drawing a crowed and everyone's smiling at me like I'm the butt of some joke. I turn around to apologize to the guy behind me only to discover he's actually wearing.....a dress.

Spoiler:

I feel for you. I was walking with my 4 year old nephew through our church Sunday and he see a lady that's undergoing chemo. At which point he says louder than I could comfortably yell, "Look! That lady has no hair!

I also spent almost fifteen minutes this past week telling him why the football players weren't playing baseball. To which his response, inevitably, was "But...why?".

I'll take clueless kids over mildly jingoistic and racist grandparents any day; you've not known embarrassment until you've sat in a Chinese restaurant and, not even half way through the main course, had your half-deaf grandad exclaim at an uncomfortably loud level "here, these [racial epithet]'s may be a wee bit shifty, but they cannae half cook, eh?"