Why L.f.s. Workers Are Crazy

[invader]

a man acutally walked in and took a net out of the steralizer bowl, and proceded to the tank with the assorted african cichlids,
he says, if you touch me or call your manager im pressing legal charges,
i then said ok, what are you going to do with those fish, he said, flat out im taking them home with me. i siad ok, ill be right back so i took the fish bags, and headed to the managers office, i walk out of the office without the fish bags, i come back and everything is torn apart in the fish department and the man began to leave, then the manager comes out and says i called the police, the man was caught, as he was walking out the door, amazingly there was a police car in the parking lot.
the man, suffered from a mental dissability.

thats all i can remember

When I worked at an LFS, something similar happened to me. There was a mentally disabled man that would come into the store at least once a week, asking for mollies. The lady who took care of him had come and told us long before not to sell him anymore fish, so every week I would have to tell him that I couldn't sell him fish, etc, etc. Come to find out, the reason why he couldn't have more fish, is because if the tank looked dirty, he would just put more gravel into it! I think we found out that it got up to 3/4 of his tank was gravel or something.

Another time, he got the net and was moving the mollies around. Quite weird. My manager had to make him leave.

 

[Davo86]

Lol another story here

a while ago we had a young boy who came into the store with his carer, and whilst the staff were busy serving etc, he opened a few of the lids on the tanks and grabbed a few sailfin mollys with his hands and stuck them into the plant tanks, other fish tanks and air pump display tanks, When he was caught he and his carer, (who on the cctv was seen to basicly just watched him do it) were asked to leave,

He and another carer came back about 4 days later with a map turtle that he had stuffed into his pocket and had been keeping in a lunchbox. The carer explained the lads situation to my manager and he was let off.

about a week later i came of my break one day to find that the boy and his original carer were back in the store, first thing i did was check all the tanks and plant tanks and gues what i found, more mollys in random tanks, as well as a turtle in the molly tank, I called the manager who asked his carer if he had any 'items' in his or her pockets, she said no so the manager then asked them to leave,

Guess you know what happened next, The day later the other carer returned with the boy and a dead map turtle, The boy was this time made to pay for it and he and his carer were banned from the store

 

[evilchild]

i walked into my lfs, there was one of the employees standing on a step ladders with a tuppa were box, and a pair of scissors. when i asked if she was ok up there. she then pulled at the tuppa were box that had a Red Belly Piranha stuck in this small tub, this piranha was almost fully grown. didn't have room to move. the lady was try to get the lid off with out much success so was try to make air holes in the lid with the scissors. (they wern't very sharp either, luckly i had my work knife on me and it made short work of the lid).

basicly someone had this Piranha when it was small and either it out grew the person tank or they just couldn't look after it as they should and returned it in the tuppa were box? some people shouldn't have animals.

on a good note i went back to the store a few days later and the Piranha was doing fine, after a lot of messing about they got it out of the box into the tank (with out being bitten. lol) and was sold a week or after.

 

[TribeOfShroom]

Shouldn't there be measures to protect our LFS from this type of incompetance of the general public?? Sedative injections or at least shackles for the children to ensure that they are kept under control?.. or is this a bit to strong?

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah parents who dont look after their kids in the LFS annoy me as well (as a customer). I was at my LFS at the weekend and there was a kid there banging on the glass scarying the crap out of the fish and his Dad was standing right behind him just letting him do it. I dont blame the kid, thats what kids do, its the parents responsibility to tell them not to.

 

[PRW1988]

Oh god I've had some great ones too, I work at Petsmart... LOADS of fun...

Guy came in 2 weeks ago, said he just set up a brand new 150gallon tank and he wanted afircan cincihlids, I said do you mean cichlids? He said no, those guys over there... Pointed at goldfish...

An older chinese lady came into the store on Saturday (the last time I worked) and told me about her sons south-american cichlid tank and how it wa beautiful but fish kept dying in it, when I asked what size the tank was, she said 30gallons. I expected small things like convicts in the tank. She had 4 oscars, 2 JDs, and 3 discus... The fish that kept dying in question? Neon tetras...

A lady (no older than 18) came in asking about the blue lobsters (I'm pretty sure they're blue crays), she wanted to know if she could do the same thing that Homer from the simpsons did and raise the lobster to be eaten.

An old greek guy got very upset when told that his Koi weren't going to live long in a 25gallon long, heated, unfiltered tank, so he splashed water from our plant tank at me.

In sort, we get some pretty "funky" customers, I think my favorite is this chinese guy that has one tooth (literally), he tried to steal african cichlids by scooping them with his hand.

 

[Ragtatter]

Shouldn't there be measures to protect our LFS from this type of incompetance of the general public?? Sedative injections or at least shackles for the children to ensure that they are kept under control?.. or is this a bit to strong?

Well, at the store I work we do sell several brands of quality muzzle, but people seem to take offense when you suggest them as a training tool in helping control their children.

 

[TribeOfShroom]

Shouldn't there be measures to protect our LFS from this type of incompetance of the general public?? Sedative injections or at least shackles for the children to ensure that they are kept under control?.. or is this a bit to strong?

Well, at the store I work we do sell several brands of quality muzzle, but people seem to take offense when you suggest them as a training tool in helping control their children.

LOL

 

[Azaezl]

Great thread, has made me laugh. Just goes to show there are twice as many(or should that be ten timesas many) crazy / ignorant customers as there are employees.

I also find kids irritating, my daughter is well behaved and knows that banging on tanks will result in a telling off, obviously with her only being 2 she doesn't realise how heavy handed she can be so when pointing at a fish she may accidently thud the glass, I just tell her to be careful or hold her away from the tank. I feel like throttling the parents of those little brats that run around banging tanks and causing mayhem in general. Maybe it's just me but I can't stand other people's kids, I just about have the patience for my own

 

[linda1503]

Very funny thread!!! I think we can all be a bit stupid sometimes! On an unrelated topic, we had a bit of mould appear in our bedroom so we went to B&Q to get something to treat it with. I found a bottle of '3 in 1 mould treatment' and was reading the bottle when an assistant came by. 'Excuse me I said 'will this treat mould!' Duh!! It does what it says on the tin!!!!!

Another time I was looking at a can of fly spray and asked an assistant if it would kill spiders? She read the can and said 'well it doesn't say anything about killing spiders but I suppose if you hit them with the can it'd work!

 

[evilchild]

ever found that when you ordered a cheese burger? "can i have cheese burger, please" the the guy behind the counter goes "would you like cheese with that?". well you never know it might help make it a cheese burger?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

A customer phones up one day and asks if he can put antifreeze into his swimming pool to stop it freezing over.

 

[cheesy feet]

A customer phones up one day and asks if he can put anti-freeze into his swimming pool to stop it freezing over.

Guess the guy didn't read the tin

 

[kribensis12]

A customer phones up one day and asks if he can put anti-freeze into his swimming pool to stop it freezing over.

Guess the guy didn't read the tin

lol!!!!!!!!!!!! That one made me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ragtatter]

A customer phones up one day and asks if he can put anti-freeze into his swimming pool to stop it freezing over.

Actually, this one does make sense in a bizarre, roundabout way. Assuming you have no idea what antifreeze actually is, and are just basing it off the name.

Y'know, like how you can use Tomato Paste to glue tomatoes together.