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I would like to have a store clerk try that with me or my wife.
I Have An Attitude Problem
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I would like to have a store clerk try that with me or my wife.
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Have truly enjoyed catching up on this thread. I think all young folk should be busboys and waiters/waitresses for awhile. I started at age 15 in 1965 off the farm as a busboy. You learn a lot of valuable people skills which can be translated into Sales skills.
You don't call a woman "ma'am", you call a woman "Miss". "Ma'am" may imply respect, but it also implies age.
Wow this made me feel old. That was exactly how I was taught when I started bussing at age 15 in the largest restaurant in our small town. And likely most expensive, and that's when I learned how to milk the locals. Empty and clean their ash tray (everyone smoked? always a dollar bill arrived. Paid for work done. The towns only pharmacist used to come in every Saturday night with his wife and sit in the bar, and since he and my Father were friends, that man had the cleanest ashtray in town. I could earn 75 bucks a night on Friday and Saturday night as a busboy in the mid sixties. Parents allowed me one night out on weekend to work, and Saturday night for sure was an earner. As long as it wasn't snowing
Geez, so It's Miss not Ma'am. That's really good to know.
Because he's wrong. Some RVs especially ones with multiple air conditioners do have 50 amp hook ups. Not that it even matters. Sell the guy the 50 amp plug he wants. Now not having the 50 amp plug which probably isn't a big seller is understandable.
Definitely understandable. I owned a small town Radio Shack for five years, did about $1M in gross, remember stuff in the 80's was a lot more expensive. 1600 dollar bag phones, etc. I made a decision to stock every single component part Radio Shack offered in the catalog, so the engineers working over in the tech corridor in NJ could stop in on the way home in PA to pick up something, though not always for work. They knew they could find it there, and also a lot of other cool stuff.
Basically an adult toy store with Tandy 1000's and then Acer for the MSDOS folks. Most inventory you want to turn three or four times a year. So some stuff you just can't stock, you have to special order.
I sold very few turntables but sold quite a few better quality phone cartridges because hi fi had been a hobby of mine. Yes, go make money in something you know and like, if you can. You can always offer to order it for them, if you value their business.
please know it's not ok to treat people in our state like this."
I really liked this, keep your dignity while others are losing theirs, and if we are to be even a little bit civilized, the strong must protect the weak. Otherwise we are no more than cattle on the African Savannah, just someone else's next meal. There is a time to roll and a time to step up.
In case anyone wonder, there are large luxury RV's that actually uses 2 50 amp services. Most bus style RV's uses 50a.
Very similar to boating. Same connectors, similar adaptors, same amperage problems.
I had a 50 amp boat with a 100 amp wife. You can imagine how well that worked.
As it is... I just say aloud (to no one in particular) "Gee, guess I should of called to go to the front of the line."
that's a tough problem for stores when everyone seems to call at once. If it becomes a problem the store has to have a full time phone person to free
up trained staff to do their jobs, not answer the phones to see if something is in stock or what their store hours are. It means staffing up and many businesses won't or can't afford to do that. Having folks wait too long in line is death on a business if you have competition. I had seven employees and three on at all times, and usually four.
Now you go in some Radio Shacks and you are lucky to find two staff in there.
sorry this is long.
You don't call a woman "ma'am", you call a woman "Miss". "Ma'am" may imply respect, but it also implies age.
Wow this made me feel old. That was exactly how I was taught when I started bussing at age 15 in the largest restaurant in our small town. And likely most expensive, and that's when I learned how to milk the locals. Empty and clean their ash tray (everyone smoked? always a dollar bill arrived. Paid for work done. The towns only pharmacist used to come in every Saturday night with his wife and sit in the bar, and since he and my Father were friends, that man had the cleanest ashtray in town. I could earn 75 bucks a night on Friday and Saturday night as a busboy in the mid sixties. Parents allowed me one night out on weekend to work, and Saturday night for sure was an earner. As long as it wasn't snowing
Geez, so It's Miss not Ma'am. That's really good to know.
Because he's wrong. Some RVs especially ones with multiple air conditioners do have 50 amp hook ups. Not that it even matters. Sell the guy the 50 amp plug he wants. Now not having the 50 amp plug which probably isn't a big seller is understandable.
Definitely understandable. I owned a small town Radio Shack for five years, did about $1M in gross, remember stuff in the 80's was a lot more expensive. 1600 dollar bag phones, etc. I made a decision to stock every single component part Radio Shack offered in the catalog, so the engineers working over in the tech corridor in NJ could stop in on the way home in PA to pick up something, though not always for work. They knew they could find it there, and also a lot of other cool stuff.
Basically an adult toy store with Tandy 1000's and then Acer for the MSDOS folks. Most inventory you want to turn three or four times a year. So some stuff you just can't stock, you have to special order.
I sold very few turntables but sold quite a few better quality phone cartridges because hi fi had been a hobby of mine. Yes, go make money in something you know and like, if you can. You can always offer to order it for them, if you value their business.
please know it's not ok to treat people in our state like this."
I really liked this, keep your dignity while others are losing theirs, and if we are to be even a little bit civilized, the strong must protect the weak. Otherwise we are no more than cattle on the African Savannah, just someone else's next meal. There is a time to roll and a time to step up.
In case anyone wonder, there are large luxury RV's that actually uses 2 50 amp services. Most bus style RV's uses 50a.
Very similar to boating. Same connectors, similar adaptors, same amperage problems.
I had a 50 amp boat with a 100 amp wife. You can imagine how well that worked.
As it is... I just say aloud (to no one in particular) "Gee, guess I should of called to go to the front of the line."
that's a tough problem for stores when everyone seems to call at once. If it becomes a problem the store has to have a full time phone person to free
up trained staff to do their jobs, not answer the phones to see if something is in stock or what their store hours are. It means staffing up and many businesses won't or can't afford to do that. Having folks wait too long in line is death on a business if you have competition. I had seven employees and three on at all times, and usually four.
Now you go in some Radio Shacks and you are lucky to find two staff in there.
sorry this is long.
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I just came from the Grocery Store. Only went in to buy milk, but quickly ended up with an arm full of sale items. Walked back out (Could have left with the stuff, unchallenged) to get a buggy. I dropped my pound of butter within three feet of a young male employee making himself a coffee. He just stared at the butter lying on the floor for a second or two and went back to his coffee.
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We have them in MD, Starbucks.
