Submitted by whatthefunniest
Banoffee Pie is my friend Denise’s favourite dessert and seeing as it was her birthday this weekend, I thought I’d make one and bring it into the office on Friday so we could start the celebrations early. This is a great dessert to make as it is so easy, and…
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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.Top Text: “Guests?.”Bottom Text: “This isn’t fucking Disneyworld.”]
- Shout out to all my fellow robins who call their customers guests. And if you work at Disney, respect to you.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fkcwEBZS1qm3qzeo1_400.jpg)
[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.
Top Text: “Guests?.”
Bottom Text: “This isn’t fucking Disneyworld.”]
- Shout out to all my fellow robins who call their customers guests. And if you work at Disney, respect to you.
Mom: “Get off the damn computer and read.”
Me: “Mom, I read.”
Mom: “Oh yeah, what do you read?”
Me: “You know….articles and stuff…”
Haha! I remember those days.
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[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.Top Text: “Lotto.”Bottom Text: “Crazies.”]
In all jobs, there are rules. There’s the rules of corporate and then our in-store bosses that set rules for that location (managers in our case). For the stores that sell lotto, there are also rules set by the customers and frankly, like certain ones set by our bosses, some are lacking logic and are just all around insane.
For example: “Good luck Cashiers” and “Bad Luck Cashiers.”
Some customers will only buy lotto from certain cashiers and will flat out refuse to buy from others. There is absolutely no regard to the general attitude, professionalism, customer service skills or really anything else that’s normally relevant to any other aspect of sales that leads a customer to choose who and who not to buy their tickets from. They think that merely buying a ticket from certain cashiers or not buying it from others will influence whether they win or not.
I had the misfortune of being this one woman’s “lucky cashier” that she would flat out ignore whomever else I’m working with even if they’re not busy to lean over the counter when I’m trying to eat and take a break and demand my attention to get her her tickets. She even went so far as to go into the employee-only area when I went back to use our private restroom to demand tickets the moment I stepped out.
Ticket Numbers
Now this actually makes some relative sense. Perhaps the place that prints these tickets decides to have winning tickets at certain points in the roll to ensure that there is a set amount of winners out and about to be sold. It’s not absolutely a guarantee if a person’s gonna get a winner, but it makes more sense than most of the other rules.
Other issues of circumstance
That damned part where the tickets separate can be pretty weak so sometimes when a person asks for one ticket, another one comes off when I barely touch it. No problem, right? Just separate and give the customer the first one. Pfft, not that simple. Now they want both because the second one would automatically be a winner if they didn’t buy it. I can’t tell you the number of times I got the stinkeye when that happened. Not like I’m forcing you to buy the ticket, buddy. I heard one story from a clerk at another store in the same chain that this one man would buy any ticket from the slot numbered “8,” regardless of what it was or how much it cost. He bought up the last tickets from it the one day and she put a different ticket in it to go with the new plan-o-gram and he then started to buy up those. My favorite though was this one woman who had this belief that no one should watch her scratch. If you so much as even GLANCED her way, the ticket she would be scratching would automatically lose and she would FLIP. HER. SHIT. at you. As a bonus, she even eventually got hired and started to beg money off the rest of us to feed her lotto habit. Joyous of joys, I was so happy to leave her and the rest of the madness behind when I eventually quit.
TL; DR: People have insane rules for lotto to increase their odds despite utter lack of millionaires in my hometown.
So I’m guessing these folks never heard of Probability?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rw2hji7O1qm3qzeo1_400.jpg)
[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.
Top Text: “Lotto.”
Bottom Text: “Crazies.”]
In all jobs, there are rules. There’s the rules of corporate and then our in-store bosses that set rules for that location (managers in our case). For the stores that sell lotto, there are also rules set by the customers and frankly, like certain ones set by our bosses, some are lacking logic and are just all around insane.
For example: “Good luck Cashiers” and “Bad Luck Cashiers.”
Some customers will only buy lotto from certain cashiers and will flat out refuse to buy from others. There is absolutely no regard to the general attitude, professionalism, customer service skills or really anything else that’s normally relevant to any other aspect of sales that leads a customer to choose who and who not to buy their tickets from. They think that merely buying a ticket from certain cashiers or not buying it from others will influence whether they win or not.I had the misfortune of being this one woman’s “lucky cashier” that she would flat out ignore whomever else I’m working with even if they’re not busy to lean over the counter when I’m trying to eat and take a break and demand my attention to get her her tickets. She even went so far as to go into the employee-only area when I went back to use our private restroom to demand tickets the moment I stepped out.
Ticket Numbers
Now this actually makes some relative sense. Perhaps the place that prints these tickets decides to have winning tickets at certain points in the roll to ensure that there is a set amount of winners out and about to be sold. It’s not absolutely a guarantee if a person’s gonna get a winner, but it makes more sense than most of the other rules.
Other issues of circumstance
That damned part where the tickets separate can be pretty weak so sometimes when a person asks for one ticket, another one comes off when I barely touch it. No problem, right? Just separate and give the customer the first one. Pfft, not that simple. Now they want both because the second one would automatically be a winner if they didn’t buy it. I can’t tell you the number of times I got the stinkeye when that happened. Not like I’m forcing you to buy the ticket, buddy. I heard one story from a clerk at another store in the same chain that this one man would buy any ticket from the slot numbered “8,” regardless of what it was or how much it cost. He bought up the last tickets from it the one day and she put a different ticket in it to go with the new plan-o-gram and he then started to buy up those. My favorite though was this one woman who had this belief that no one should watch her scratch. If you so much as even GLANCED her way, the ticket she would be scratching would automatically lose and she would FLIP. HER. SHIT. at you. As a bonus, she even eventually got hired and started to beg money off the rest of us to feed her lotto habit. Joyous of joys, I was so happy to leave her and the rest of the madness behind when I eventually quit.
TL; DR: People have insane rules for lotto to increase their odds despite utter lack of millionaires in my hometown.
So I’m guessing these folks never heard of Probability?
