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Author: | Eaglo Jeff [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:34 pm ] |
Post subject: | More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Speedway attendant is too nice and holding up the line! Mac, I thought you were the same guy that said give yourself enough time to get to where you're going, so....WYC!? |
Author: | chaspoppcap [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Very petty indead"Father" |
Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Speedway is the worst. I appreciate that they are friendly and all, but its fucking 6:10am and I just want to pay for my coffee and get the fuck on the road. I don't care to discuss my weekend plans or last night's game because 10 minutes before I was in your stupid little line I was sleeping. |
Author: | Eaglo Jeff [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:37 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Maybe they need a "friendly and chatty" line as well as a "quickly, I'm important and have leather bound books" line. |
Author: | Free Ajent [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:38 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Speedway is awesome. They have tv's on top of the pump, gives me something to watch while i'm filling up |
Author: | Eaglo Jeff [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:40 pm ] |
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Free Ajent wrote: Speedway is awesome. They have tv's on top of the pump, gives me something to watch while i'm filling up euphemism? |
Author: | rogers park bryan [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:43 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Frank Coztansa wrote: game because 10 minutes before I was in your stupid little line I was sleeping. shower? |
Author: | A7X [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:44 pm ] |
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Free Ajent wrote: Speedway is awesome. They have tv's on top of the pump, gives me something to watch while i'm filling up Nah, Speedway is just okay. If they were awesome the tv's would show porn. |
Author: | Free Ajent [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:45 pm ] |
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A7X wrote: Free Ajent wrote: Speedway is awesome. They have tv's on top of the pump, gives me something to watch while i'm filling up Nah, Speedway is just okay. If they were awesome the tv's would show porn. ok i'll give you that rogers park bryan wrote: Frank Coztansa wrote: game because 10 minutes before I was in your stupid little line I was sleeping. shower? |
Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:46 pm ] |
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Shower after work, yes. |
Author: | Eaglo Jeff [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:49 pm ] |
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Frank Coztansa wrote: Shower after work, yes. Customer wrote: Your bulbs smell funny and I found a golf ball in one of my packages! "What am I... hard of smelling?" - Elaine to Jerry, in "The Smelly Car" "So when somebody has B.O., the "O" usually stays with the "B". Once the "B" leaves, the "O" goes with it." - Jerry, in "The Smelly Car" "I *loooove* horse manure." - Elaine, who would rather smell anything other than Jerry's car, in "The Smelly Car" "Well, sometimes we do actually have to get up early, but a man will always trade sleep for sex." - Jerry, in "The Smelly Car" "There should be a B.O. squad that patrols the city like a "Smell Gestapo". To sniff 'em out, strip 'em down, and wash them with a big, soapy brush..." - Jerry, in "The Smelly Car" "Y'know, the funny thing is, somehow I find her more appealing now... It's like if I knew she was a lesbian when we went out, I never would've broken up with her." - George, finding out that his former girlfriend is a lesbian, in "The Smelly Car" "You don't understand what I'm up against. This is a force more powerful than anything you can imagine. Even Superman would be helpless against this kind of stench." - Jerry, describing the B.O. smell in his car, in "The Smelly Car" "I still smell!" "You see! You see what I'm saying to you? It's a presence! It's the beast!" - Elaine and Jerry, in "The Smelly Car" "Amazing! I drive them to lesbianism, and he brings 'em back!" - George, on Kramer, in "The Smelly Car" "First he vomits on me. Then he burns down my father's cabin. And now he's taken Mona away from me." - Susan, George's ex-girlfriend, on Kramer, in "The Smelly Car" |
Author: | Urlacher's missing neck [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:50 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
At least it isn't a quick trip. Not sure if they even have them in the area, but they have them all over the south and whoever designed the entrance/exit/pump layout is a god damn moron. Nothing like a completely gridlocked gas station. |
Author: | Eaglo Jeff [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:04 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
I understand Mac's frustration at Speedway. There's a point where you have to scrap the member card, cookie specials or 2 for 1 things. If you're working a register, you really have to get feel for how the line is moving along before making unimportant special offers. The other frustrating thing is when you get someone in front of you who is redeeming a bunch of member card products. "I tell ya, they throw the receipts at ya!!!" The worst though, is the people who get in line with a list of lottery numbers right before a rush and the register person doesn't move them aside until things die down. |
Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:08 pm ] |
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The Speedway by me is not chatty, and they have the best gas station coffee in my area. |
Author: | Gloopan Kuratz [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:04 pm ] |
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Speedway really needs to have a priority line. |
Author: | Cuda [ Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:35 pm ] |
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Eaglo Jeff wrote: The worst though, is the people who get in line with a list of lottery numbers right before a rush and the register person doesn't move them aside until things die down. And then after going through that long list of numbers, they start looking around and start rattling off numbers and get about 10 more tickets. |
Author: | bigfan [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:25 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
I don't carry a discount card to anything Grocery, Staples, CVS etc.and nothing is worse than the exchange of info of 'do you have a card?" "No" 'would you like one?" blah blah blha!!! 'You can save 10% on what you buy today" Oh and you can just ask them for the discount and they have to give it to you and slide a card through! 'Preferred" my ass! The only card I signed up for is STAPLES and I give them my phone number because the coupon savings they send me are pretty significant, like $20 gift cards, etc. |
Author: | don12x12 [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:35 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
The only thing I buy at a gas station is gas, and I pay at the pump. Problem solved. |
Author: | SteveSarley [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:51 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
bigfan wrote: I don't carry a discount card to anything Grocery, Staples, CVS etc.and nothing is worse than the exchange of info of 'do you have a card?" "No" 'would you like one?" blah blah blha!!! 'You can save 10% on what you buy today" Oh and you can just ask them for the discount and they have to give it to you and slide a card through! 'Preferred" my ass! The only card I signed up for is STAPLES and I give them my phone number because the coupon savings they send me are pretty significant, like $20 gift cards, etc. Nothing worse than "Do you have a card?" Cosmo Kramer: Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know. |
Author: | Home5licE [ Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:28 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
SteveSarley wrote: Cosmo Kramer: Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know. I actually had that conversation at the radio shack once...they didn't have a good answer for me, so I didn't give them my address... |
Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:45 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Its actually because they want to mail you sale papers and things. The only way to make sure you are dealing with the correct person is with phone#, as names can be duplicates. I hated asking for the PH# though. |
Author: | A7X [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:03 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
I tell them I'm Amish and don't have a phone. Then I walk out with my electronic device. Give em something to think about. |
Author: | Douchebag [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:06 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Home5licE wrote: SteveSarley wrote: Cosmo Kramer: Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know. I actually had that conversation at the radio shack once...they didn't have a good answer for me, so I didn't give them my address... Who actually shops at Radio Shack anymore. There are number one on my list of companies that I cannot believe are still in business. |
Author: | Douchebag [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:14 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Quote: Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business
FORT WORTH, TX—Despite having been on the job for nine months, RadioShack CEO Julian Day said Monday that he still has "no idea" how the home electronics store manages to stay open. CEO Julian Day"There must be some sort of business model that enables this company to make money, but I'll be damned if I know what it is," Day said. "You wouldn't think that people still buy enough strobe lights and extension cords to support an entire nationwide chain, but I guess they must, or I wouldn't have this desk to sit behind all day." The retail outlet boasts more than 6,000 locations in the United States, and is known best for its wall-sized displays of obscure-looking analog electronics components and its notoriously desperate, high-pressure sales staff. Nevertheless, it ranks as a Fortune 500 company, with gross revenues of over $4.5 billion and fiscal quarter earnings averaging tens of millions of dollars. "Have you even been inside of a RadioShack recently?" Day asked. "Just walking into the place makes you feel vaguely depressed and alienated. Maybe our customers are at the mall anyway and don't feel like driving to Best Buy? I suppose that's possible, but still, it's just...weird." A RadioShack store that somehow manages to bring in enough paying customers to turn a profit.After taking over as CEO, Day ordered a comprehensive, top-down review of RadioShack's administrative operations, inventory and purchasing, suppliers, demographics, and marketing strategies. He has also diligently pored over weekly budget reports, met with investors, taken numerous conference calls with regional managers about "circulars or flyers or something," and even spent hours playing with the company's "baffling" 200-In-One electronics kit. Yet so far none of these things have helped Day understand the moribund company's apparent allure. "Even the name 'RadioShack'—can you imagine two less appealing words placed next to one another?" Day said. "What is that, some kind of World War II terminology? Are ham radio operators still around, even? Aren't we in the digital age?" "Well, our customers are out there somewhere, and thank God they are," Day added. One of Day's theories about RadioShack's continued solvency involves wedding DJs, emergency cord replacement, and off-brand wireless telephones. Another theory entails countless RadioShack gift cards that sit unredeemed in their recipients' wallets. Day has even conjectured that the store is "still coasting on" an enormous fortune made from remote-control toy cars in the mid-1970s. Enlarge ImageDay admitted, however, that none of these theories seems particularly plausible. "I once went into a RadioShack location incognito in order to gauge customer service," Day said. "It was about as inviting as a visit to the DMV. For the life of me, I couldn't see anything I wanted to buy. Finally, I figured I'd pick up some Enercell AA batteries, though truthfully they're not appreciably cheaper than the name brands." "I know one thing," Day continued. "If Sony and JVC start including gold-tipped cable cords with their products, we're screwed." In the cover letter to his December 2006 report to investors, "Radio Shack: Still Here In The 21st Century," Day wrote that he had no reason to believe that the coming year would not be every bit as good as years past, provided that people kept on doing things much the same way they always had. Despite this cheerful boosterism, Day admitted that nothing has changed during his tenure and he doesn't exactly know what he can do to improve the chain. "I'd like to capitalize on the store's strong points, but I honestly don't know what they are," Day said. "Every location is full of bizarre adapters, random chargers, and old boom boxes, and some sales guy is constantly hovering over you. It's like walking into your grandpa's basement. You always expect to see something cool, but it never delivers." Added Day: "I may never know the answer. No matter how many times I punch the sales figures into this crappy Tandy desk calculator, it just doesn't add up." |
Author: | Turd Ferguson [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:19 am ] |
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don12x12 wrote: The only thing I buy at a gas station is gas, and I pay at the pump. Problem solved. Amen to that. Walking into a gas station and slowing down to pay a toll are the 2 things that I used to do regularly that seem like absolute torture to me now. |
Author: | SteveSarley [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:06 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
Douchebag - I hope you realize that story is a spoof from the Onion, even though it seems very, very true. |
Author: | Douchebag [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:07 pm ] |
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SteveSarley wrote: Douchebag - I hope you realize that story is a spoof from the Onion, even though it seems very, very true. |
Author: | rogers park bryan [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:08 pm ] |
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Douchebag wrote: SteveSarley wrote: Douchebag - I hope you realize that story is a spoof from the Onion, even though it seems very, very true. What was that green thing under the story? |
Author: | Eaglo Jeff [ Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:13 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: More Stories of Gas Station Frustration |
SteveSarley wrote: Douchebag - I hope you realize that story is a spoof from the Onion, even though it seems very, very true. I was hooked until I saw the logo at the bottom. |
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