No sir, you have to put the nozzle in your car...

Minako-chan · Post by **Minako-chan** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 4:51 pm

I work as a gas station attendant right now trying to save up to go back to college and major in biology so I can work at the zoo. Unfortunately, every day that I work at this station, the more I love animals. Example:

Someone came in today insisting that I didn't put the money in the prepaid like I said I did, his pump wasn't working! He failed to press the start button.
How hard is it to read a sign on a pump that says prepay (on our outer pumps) or prepay after 7 (on our inner pumps)? Evidently it's like asking monkeys to do brain surgery. These people will take the pump out of the holder, put it in their car and stand there for 5 minutes waiting for it to miracoulously turn on! Like magic! And then they get angry and tell me off because I tell them it's prepay after 7 and won't make the magic happen.
How many drunk people can fit in a car? Well obviously as many can fit in the gas station. And they ALL want the beer that we don't have. And then, they all seem fit to try and get me (through bulletproof glass) because I don't have their beer
What do you mean you're amazed with the bulletproof glass? I'm scared to death it has to be there! Do you know what it means that it's there? No? I didn't think so, it means we've been ROBBED before. That's right. Put your hand to your mouth. That's right my monkey. A gas station being robbed is so unheard of correct?
What does a wet floor sign mean to you? It means wet floor to me. To some of these people I swear it means free floor skating! Have a blast!
"How much is the coffee?" *twitch* I don't know...take a look at the HUGE ASS SIGN we have hanging over the coffee cups. Or maybe you can't read? Let me teach you! I so have time! Y-O-U-A-R-E-A-N-I-D-I-O-T.
And I swear to god, if one more, nasty, ghetto, teeth missing, booze guzzling, drug smoking uber gross man asks me for my phone number I'm going to scream.

Yeah, I'm gonna like working with the animals.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:01 pm

[quote="Minako-chan";p="172115"]
Yeah, I'm gonna like working with the animals.[/quote]

But ... You work with them already!

Heh, okay, seriously, that sucks. Hope you get the money to get out of there soon.

( I've just got one question : do they arm you? )

Fixer · Post by **Fixer** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:01 pm

Minako-chan wrote:And I swear to god, if one more, nasty, ghetto, teeth missing, booze guzzling, drug smoking uber gross man asks me for my phone number I'm going to scream.

Give him the local phone number for the police station and not tell him about it. I recommended this to a female friend of mine, apparently she got a kick out of it.

Post by **Martin Blank** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:03 pm

Go watch Clerks.

Five times.

In a row.

It will help you realize that you are not alone.

Minako-chan · Post by **Minako-chan** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:03 pm

[quote="Fixer";p="172129"]

Minako-chan wrote:And I swear to god, if one more, nasty, ghetto, teeth missing, booze guzzling, drug smoking uber gross man asks me for my phone number I'm going to scream.

Give him the local phone number for the police station and not tell him about it. I recommended this to a female friend of mine, apparently she got a kick out of it.

[/quote]

ROFL omg I'm so gonna do it too. That's priceless. And we don't wear nametags so I'm gonna tell him my name is Jo. I don't know why. Just cause I can.

[quote="Martin Blank";p="172131"]Go watch Clerks.

Five times.

In a row.

It will help you realize that you are not alone.[/quote]

I own that movie. It still feels like it's me every single time. -_- And yes, I have gotten the question about the ice with the coffee.

Fixer · Post by **Fixer** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:06 pm

[quote="Minako-chan";p="172134"][quote="Fixer";p="172129"]

Minako-chan wrote:And I swear to god, if one more, nasty, ghetto, teeth missing, booze guzzling, drug smoking uber gross man asks me for my phone number I'm going to scream.

Give him the local phone number for the police station and not tell him about it. I recommended this to a female friend of mine, apparently she got a kick out of it.[/quote]
ROFL omg I'm so gonna do it too. That's priceless. And we don't wear nametags so I'm gonna tell him my name is Jo. I don't know why. Just cause I can.[/quote]
Better... find out the name of a woman police officer and use that one instead.

StruckingFuggle · Post by **StruckingFuggle** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:26 pm

After seeing this thread name again, I hear it as a partial quote, finished by "...after you stick it in your mouth and drink a pint!"

(and yes, I am. Oh well, the wonders of unnatural deselection..)

One thing : I dunno about Fixer's last suggestion, but it would seem to me that if you deliberatly give him the name of a female police officer, might it be harassment, in this oversensitive and humorless society we live in?

Oh, and if your station doesn't sell beer, well ... are you over 21? Does your station have laws about bringing in a cooler with some beer in it for when the drunks or college students come in - and then selling it .... at exceptional markup?

But, I feel your pain. People are dumb, and becoming a 'customer' only makes most people more so. Your job's worse, but I used to be the guy at the front desk at Comp USA (not customer service, the little 'guard' guy who's near utterly worthless... and I've seen my fair shair of stupid people. My best advice is to mock them. In your head or, if you have the opportunity, under your breath (because it sounds like to their face wouldn't be the smartest thing - unless the fact it's an insult flies way over their head. That's the best.). /me gives Minako-chan a hug

EDIT: Oooh! Re: Fixer, again! Don't get the name of a female police officer! Get the name of a male police officer with an androgynous name!

Fixer · Post by **Fixer** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:38 pm

Good idea, SF. I like the way you are thinking.

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:39 pm

One thing : I dunno about Fixer's last suggestion, but it would seem to me that if you deliberatly give him the name of a female police officer, might it be harassment, in this oversensitive and humorless society we live in?

Completely legal. Ggravity heard this suggestion FROM a polic officer, and was going to suggest it, but Fixer beat her to it!

Heh, just don't have a wooden gun, a friend of gravity's carried a wooden gun, and a cop arrested him, thinking it was real.

;

Jamie Bond · Post by **Jamie Bond** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:04 pm

What does a wet floor sign mean to you? It means wet floor to me. To some of these people I swear it means free floor skating! Have a blast!

Weee! =D

SothThe69th · Post by **SothThe69th** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:12 pm

/me hugs Oregon, where he doesn't have to pump his own gas.

Quietus · Post by **Quietus** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:15 pm

And I swear to god, if one more, nasty, ghetto, teeth missing, booze guzzling, drug smoking uber gross man asks me for my phone number I'm going to scream.

Yeah... sorry about that. I just wanted to call and talk.

Post by **Martin Blank** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:15 am

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="172178"]Oh, and if your station doesn't sell beer, well ... are you over 21? Does your station have laws about bringing in a cooler with some beer in it for when the drunks or college students come in - and then selling it .... at exceptional markup?

[/quote]
That's selling alcohol without a license. Bad mojo.

EvilElf · Post by **EvilElf** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:18 am

[quote="Minako-chan";p="172134"][quote="Fixer";p="172129"]

[quote="Martin Blank";p="172131"]Go watch Clerks.

Five times.

In a row.

It will help you realize that you are not alone.[/quote]

I own that movie. It still feels like it's me every single time. -_- And yes, I have gotten the question about the ice with the coffee.[/quote][/quote]

But have you gotten people checking the eggs?
and a Jay and Silent bob out front? >.>
/me huggles Mina
Also be glad you have a job. :/

Minako-chan · Post by **Minako-chan** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:23 pm

Thanks for the support guys... /me snuggles anyone who huggled her I just get so frustrated with this job. People CANNOT be this supid. But yet, they are. And it scares me.

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