Shop Talk

This guy just walked into my store(with a very gay accent) and asked "DO you guys have any casesssss????". Then he pulled out his pink phone 🤨 I'm thinking WTF. Oh you can tell it's monday!!!

If you are going out somewhere, to a place where there are going to be other humans, why would you not take a shower. TWICE, twice I've had people come in that smelt like horse sh*t. The first customer that came in wanted to upgrade his phone. My co-worker dealt with him...thank god. He smelt so bad that we opened the door for air when it was in the middle of January and there was snow on the ground. He even left a trail of 'slime' on our stainless steel display cases. It was so bad that when he wanted to purchase the phone, we lied to him and told him we were out just so he'd leave. The other lady came in and said her phone wasn't working. She handed it to me and there was like grease or pam or something on it. I took of the battery to see ...
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Somebody just tried to give me their food stamp card to pay for a RAZR!

Argumentative

anyways... people just seem like they want to argue today. IE.

Scenario 1

Cust: Why can't I have the sim card.

Me: Because you already have one and I am required by policy to return it to my system.

Cust: Well what if I want it.

Me: You have to pay 20 dollars for it.

Cust: But it comes in the box, why can't I have it for free.

Me: You are not paying an activation fee that is why.

Cust: What if I lose my sim then I will need that one.

Me: If you lose yours we will give you a new one.

Cust: Well why not give me that one then?

Me: That is not how our policy works.

Cust: I think you are trying to screw me.

Me: Mam, I assure you I am just following policy.

Cust: Fine whatever.

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LOL so I know this isn't really "good parenting" but I find it funny. A guy brought his kid in the store who started whining. The kid was like 4. He started screaming "EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" really loud in that whiny I'm-not-actually-crying-I'm-just-throwing-a-t antrum sort of way. The guy yelled back at the kid "Don't you know any other letters?!" The kid continued "EEEEEEE!!!! EEEEEEEEEE!!!" And the guy yelled back "F! G! H! I! JAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!"

LOL It was truly a sight to behold. 😁 😁 🤣 🤣 😁 🤣 😁 😈 😈 🤣

Don'cha just love it when a customer says their phone isn't working, and when you open it up and find water dripping from the inside and all over your hands.... THAT'S when the customer says, "oh, yeah, it fell in the TOILET!"
(after I clean my hands of toilet water..) I'll wipe my nose real good with my fingers and then touch all the customers' stuff.
Fair is fair!

I've just been told that the new National ID card (the Real ID) card is, in fact, the Mark of the Beast.

He gave me a site, www.nonationalid.org which honestly makes me go 'you're all loony'

He's been preaching to me for the last twenty minutes and quoting scriptures and telling me how the world is going to end soon... and how the use of retinal scans is also a sign of the end of times because the mark of the beast is going to be on your hand or for-head and how the retinal scans and fingerprints are going to be part of that.

Oh and 'this is socialism.'

Wow.

Customer: "I'd like a twenty dollar phone prepaid card"

Me: "We don't carry twenty dollar cards, but we do have twenty five dollar cards."

Customer: "How much do those cost?"



Is this not the stupidest possible question ever? What could she possibly been thinking?


And then, later:

Customer: "How many minutes does this give me?"

Me: "It depends on your plan."

Customer: "Oh, I don't have one of those."

Customer came in and said he bought a prepaid card at Food Lion and he couldn't get it to activate on his phone. (I'm thinking, Oh lord, here we go, of course its not working! You purchased it from a grocery store!) So I try to add it on and what do ya know, it doesn't work. So he then tells me he called customer service and they told him that if it didn't work, take it in to a Cingular store and they would give you your money back. Well #1 - No. Its prepaid. #2 - You didn't buy it from us. So he says, well I have my receipt here. Then he hands me, yes he actually did this, his receipt from Food Lion and says, "Well I have my receipt, I don't understand why you can't give me my money back" Because you purchased it from FOOD LION....not CINGU...
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It appears that you are the one whining and crying about the info on this forum!

I don't much like nikoletta so I just ignore her and don't read her posts!
You are causing unnecessary trouble!

Also, did your boyfriend give you your sn?
Your obviously more experienced than the rest of us with sacs

So an older redneck guy walks into my store and makes a payment on his sons account. before he leaves the store he starts this conversation.

Cust: What's the deal I saw on TV with sprint together with cingular?

Me: I think you mean nexte

Cust☹️interupting) no cingular

Me: We merged with nextel not cingular

Cust: I'm just tellin you what the TV said


What kind of retard is this guy really?

My coworker and I had a guy walk through our door (which by the way has a big cingular sign on it) and says and i quote" Do y'all know of any cell phone store around here called shingular??" We were like no but i think you mean cingular and we are a cingular store. This man got totally pissed at us and said "NO NOT CINGULAR I"M LOOKING FOR SHINGULAR!!!!!!!!", and walked out of the store. I was so mesmerized ny this guys stupidity. So just a warning wach out for the new competitors shingular!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

So i'm in the kiosk location today (I mainly work at a stand alone store) and the mall is completely void of potential customers. The only people coming up to the kiosk are 10 year old girls looking at our "totally awesome" pink camera phones, talking about how their parents are buying it for them next week.

I think by the end of the day I may claw my eyes out.....

Is there anything interesting happening anywhere, any new customer stories????

My manager just slammed one down. We had someone come in for an interview today, a SECOND interview. This interview involves my District Manager. Those words alone should give a person the idea to dress a little more professionally, but no, this person decides to come in wearing jeans. My store manager stopped them in the front and told them that jeans were unprofessional and to take this as a life lesson. Sucks to be that person.

Sorry to start a thread like this again, but I just had an idiot steal something I can't replace. We carry external antennas, and they come with three (count em)adapters to fit with various brands of dongles that go from phone to antenna wire. We sell two of them separately, and the third we can't find anyone who will sell them in a package of 10-20 so we don't have any. It happens that our dongle provider just changed ends on his dongle (that sounds naughty) and we need that third rare one more than the other two. Well I had a customer come in on Monday asking if we had an adapter for his antenna, we did, and we only charge like $1.50 for them. He said he wanted to look around. I'll be danged if he didn't tear into our antennas and st...
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"its a flip flop"
"a what?"
"a flip flop"
"thats cool...but whats the make and model number?"
"Oh, I dont know...but its a silver flip flop"





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So I just got off the phone with the most retarded lady I've ever spoken with.

"Thank you for calling U.S. Cellular - ### ##############. My name is Ken. How can I help you today?"

"Hi, I just got a T-Mobile phone. I am constantly roaming in between Saint Louis, and Iowa, where I live. I am interested in getting a line with U.S. Cellular, who from what my friend says, has great coverage in this area. I'm looking for 1000 minutes for $40. How much is this plan?"

"Well, ma'am. We do have a 1000 minute plan for $40. It includes unlimited USCC m2m, and unlimited incomming calls."

"I'm not looking to call USCC people, I don't know any of them. I just want a thousand minutes!!!!"

"This plan includes 1000 local minutes."

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MY manager is outselling me left & right because I keep having to step out to deal with problems; the other guy we work with(it's an independently owned kiosk with only myaelf, the manager, our other co-worker, and the owner who's never here) is talking sh!t behind my back to the owner, to take attention away from his own screw-ups. The owner, who after almost 5 months with the company doesn't have faith in my ability to work a full Sunday alone, and told me so on the phone, before telling me it's "not his place" to "interfere" with the business between me and my coworker. Hello, he @##$in owns the business, of course it's his place!

And on top of that, the idiot customers. I had a guy today threaten to cancel his 5 lines, tantrum in t...
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when is the treo 700 going to be released for alltel? Thanks