Some people

1_reaper
1_reaper Posts: 322
edited April 2011 in The bottom bracket
Was out on a ride with a mate on Sunday doing the tonne. Anyway stopped at a garage to buy water to refill bottles and get a few snacks in. Now bearing in mind i was in Lycra, cycling shoes, helmet and shades the bloke behind the counter asked me if i had any fuel to pay for WTF ! :roll: Did not know whether to laugh or cry. Just gave him a puzzled look and then got asked if i needed a bag :lol:

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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    You should of said yes and handed him the snacks
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    The old ones are the best. I usually pre-empt this by saying "This is the only fuel I've had."
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    talk about staff working on auto pilot
  • BBH
    BBH Posts: 476
    :lol::lol::lol: ("computer says no" generation)
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  • Lightning
    Lightning Posts: 360
    Homer J wrote:
    You should have said yes and handed him the snacks
    This.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Right, I'm going to play drivel's advocate. You walked into a cheese shop and the lass behind the counter thought you might want to buy cheese...

    Oh, no, a petrol station and they thought you might want petrol... :wink:
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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    Right, I'm going to play drivel's advocate. You walked into a cheese shop and the lass behind the counter thought you might want to buy cheese...

    Oh, no, a petrol station and they thought you might want petrol... :wink:

    Or diesel :wink: or if you are that way inclined LPG :wink:
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    Maybe he thought he was being very witty by asking it when you clearly didn't intend to buy petrol.......long shift at work, feeling a bit bored!
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    He earns £3.60 an hour working 12 hour shifts serving people who buy petrol, who, judging by most of the population, have forgotten how to say please, thankyou or actually be nice to anyone.

    He doesn't care if you are buying snacks, fuel or a dozen jazz mags to spank yourself senseless to in the nearest layby before rogering yourself with a Ginsters.

    Of course he's on autopilot - he turns his brain off the minute he walks in, turns in back on again when he goes home. For all he knows you could be in a mate's car just dressed like a twonk.

    I wouldn't particulary slag him off on the internet over this.

    One of my jobs at university was in a factory making plastic bottles for B & Q creosote. Needless to say I wasn't the wittiest most erudite employee ever, but boy did I do a lot of thinking. And make a lot of plastic bottles.
  • mattshrops
    mattshrops Posts: 1,134
    good morning sir my names useless and ive made some disasterous life choices, im lonely, bored, underpaid and even my dog hates me. what can i do for you today sir?
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  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    mattshrops wrote:
    good morning sir my names useless and ive made some disasterous life choices, im lonely, bored, underpaid and even my dog hates me. what can i do for you today sir?

    Harsh. Least he is doing that to either help himself through uni and rack up less debt (i did), or least he has the work ethic to actually take a job like that rather than sitting around on benefits doing nothing as its pays better to do nothing than actually take a job such as that.
  • mattshrops
    mattshrops Posts: 1,134
    mr_poll wrote:
    mattshrops wrote:
    good morning sir my names useless and ive made some disasterous life choices, im lonely, bored, underpaid and even my dog hates me. what can i do for you today sir?

    Harsh. Least he is doing that to either help himself through uni and rack up less debt (i did), or least he has the work ethic to actually take a job like that rather than sitting around on benefits doing nothing as its pays better to do nothing than actually take a job such as that.

    might have slightly missed the point- hes doing a crap boring job why would he care if you had on a gorilla suit? im not actually intending to knock him. hello cake stop can you hear me in there?
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  • 1_reaper
    1_reaper Posts: 322
    Right this is all getting a bit serious. I am ex forces and may have a different sense of humour to civvies. Yes i take the point of boring job, auto pilot, blah, blah.... but I personally found it amusing. If people are not liking it well that's up to the individual . Just my view that's all. :roll:
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    The ancedote was amusing and to be honest I was in the same situation on Good Friday, all lyrca'd up grabbing some fluids in a garage and the guy behind the counter looked at me and you could see he was almost about to ask about fuel. Just thought it was harsh to categorise someone as useless or making bad life choices just because they happen to work in a job that is "below" someone else's.
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    mr_poll wrote:
    Just thought it was harsh to categorise someone as useless or making bad life choices just because they happen to work in a job that is "below" someone else's.

    Not sure anyone was classing him as useless or making bad lifestyle choices. We're just having a laugh at the situation. If he did it as a joke then good on him trying to keep himself entertained, if he did it on autopilot then it's not so good and its fair enough for people to moan a bit as he should have the sense to see what a customer needs, I'm currently working minimum wage in a well known fast food retailer and I still treat every customer as an individual and don't go into auto pilot, i've also had worse jobs than that and I still didn't go into auto-pilot when dealing with customers
  • 1_reaper
    1_reaper Posts: 322
    Ollieda wrote:
    mr_poll wrote:
    Just thought it was harsh to categorise someone as useless or making bad life choices just because they happen to work in a job that is "below" someone else's.

    Not sure anyone was classing him as useless or making bad lifestyle choices. We're just having a laugh at the situation. If he did it as a joke then good on him trying to keep himself entertained, if he did it on autopilot then it's not so good and its fair enough for people to moan a bit as he should have the sense to see what a customer needs, I'm currently working minimum wage in a well known fast food retailer and I still treat every customer as an individual and don't go into auto pilot, i've also had worse jobs than that and I still didn't go into auto-pilot when dealing with customers

    +1 :D
  • mattshrops
    mattshrops Posts: 1,134
    usually if i post on cake stop i am making some pathetic attempt at being humorous. obviosly if i then need to explain that then i have failed. so i shall now go to my job arranging crap into neat rows, i will never darken this thread again
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