This Thread From Customer’s Suck Hyperboard.
First off, MALT VINEGAR???:smack:
I apologize folks, the thread in Question is 4 pages long, and there’s a lot of inbetween, but This story is just rediculous. I worked in Retail, and I didn’t enjoy it. It’s Managers like this story that really are common in the world of retail.
Goddamn Fucktards of managers. Asshats abound in this story.
~SkY~
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Hi, Sky!
Note: The link above requires you to register before being able to view the thread.
So, in light of that, can we get a summary here?
With the only problem being, I’m not registering for EZBoards just so I can read a thread THERE.
Why not, you know, SUM UP for the people on the board where you’re actually posting?
Guh? The fuck?
Oop, Sauron said it first, and was much nicer about it.
Status quo is maintained. 
Sorry, but to summarize.
(BTW this storys from Austrailia)
Lady first shows up with cops, demands they arrest cashier cuz her son drank malt vinegar guy sold to son. When Cops refuse, Manager gets called. Manager Demands Cashier apologize. Cashier refuses. Thinks its over. Its Not.
Next day, Cashier is ambushed by Lady, her family(Including kid) Manager and Distict Boss. All demand apology . They watch the Security tape of transaction. Lady claims its fabricated, because cashier “told her son its safe to drink”.
District Boss still says to apologize, Cashier refuses, and is fired. He refuses to answer machine when he goes home. But when he checks, he finds his former Bosses trashing him and telling him he will be backlisted.
That’s the basic Summary so far. BUt GEEZUS! Where do all 3 fucktarding asshats get off. Of course Malt Vinegar is unsafe to drink. I can find no fucking words, to describe the apperently large amount of stupidity involved in this.
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I’m sorry, but Customers are not always right. I say they should be forced to work retail for minumum wage forever as punishment, with no hope for any advancement.
~SkY~
How can it be safe to eat and unsafe to drink. It may not be pleasant to drink but unsafe? I mean the kid showed up in the store the next day, how unsafe is it?
What did the tape show?
What is the cashiers version of events?
I retract my request for a summary.
Can I now get a translation?
Yeah, I don’t get it either. I use malt vinegar on chips and fries.
Well, lesse. Vinegar is generally weak acetic acid. I’m not sure what they put in malt vinegar. Too much acid, even that weak a one, could lower your internal pH and throw your system out of whack, but we’d have to know what we’re looking at and whether or not it’d be even enough to overwhelm your internal buffer.
My WAG: It’s probably not the smartest thing you could do, but it probably wouldn’t kill you. I’m thinking it’d be about the same type of thing as if you drank a whole thing of soy sauce. The sodium in soy sauce could have a bad effect, but as long as you balanced out the electrolytes with some water you should be okay.
Since I have such a low opinion of human intelligence (outside this board at least), I have to ask:
Was the son a teenager confusing malt vinegar with malt liquour? If so, I’d say he earned whatever stomach ache he got.
I read the thread. Zebra, that was the cashier’s version of events - mother comes barging in complaining about idiot teenage kid drinking malt vinegar. Manager and manager’s manager, while seemingly realizing idiot kid is at fault (tape backs up cashier), demand apology from cashier. Cashier refuses. Idiot managers go overboard, cashier goes to union, union litigates. Owner gets involved, backs cashier. Manager is fired, and things will settle if manager’s manager is demoted and censured, else it goes to court. (I’m guessing this is a franchise, as owner doesn’t seem to be able to directly demote or censure manager’s manager, but could fire store manager).
One thing I find humorous is how the cashier refers to himself as being in the ‘petrol’ industry. My brother, when he worked for Stern’s, talked like he was in the ‘retail’ industry and when he worked for The Wiz (yes, employing him seems to be the kiss of death), he was in the ‘consumer electronics’ industry (the implication being he did more than sell stuff to people who walked in off the streets). When I did my time behind a register (over 3 years), I was simply a cashier. Sure, they tried to get me to cross sell, but that didn’t make me a ‘catalog showroom’ specialist. What next, will trash collectors become sanitation engineers? :smack:
I don’t understand. Did the kid drink a whole bottle of malt vinegar? Or just a swig? What’s unsafe about it? It is a food, after all. And if he really did drink the whole bottle just because the cashier supposedly told him it was okay to do so, why wouldn’t he stop after one swallow it was so awful? Did he get sick from it?
Cashier’s version of events is very simple. Teenaged male arrives at checkout with bottle of vinegar, purchases said bottle. Pretty standard retail transaction, evidently … The mother’s initial call to the police claimed the cashier had tried to poison her small child (of fifteen :rolleyes: ). She later added the claim that the young man had asked the cashier if the vinegar was ‘safe to drink’, and the cashier had said it was. The security tape was pulled and it was plainly verified that no such event occurred:
I liked the part where the mother claims her son could have died. Um, from drinking vinegar? As the son discovered (the hard way), vinegar will induce vomiting long before an unsafe amount could be drunk … You’re more likely to poison yourself with water.
Supposedly, he drank half a bottle and redecorated the walls. I would suspect the idiot either overtlymistook it for malt liquor or (me not knowing Australian liquor laws) perhaps this was his idea of the cough-syrup method of getting drunk.
[points at stupid kid, stupid mom, stupid manager, and stupid district boss]
HAW-haw!
Hey, suits… If certain “customers” try to rip you off at every opportunity, it is not in your best interest to keep them coming back, dumbasses. It’s amazing how often blatant theft is pardoned because the “customer is always right.”
Heh, Thanks for translating that horrible mess.
I just checked back, and the ex-manager is apparently still harrasing the guy. He hasn’t got his job back, and it doesn’t sound like he wants it back either. I know i wouldn’t.
~SkY~
I used to mod over at CS. Cool site.
What is the difference between malt vinegar and regular vinegar?
And why the hell would anyone DRINK vinegar? I can’t even stand the smell of it straight-only when mixed with oil or whatever, on salads or as a marinade! I never really liked dying Easter eggs as a kid because the stuff reeks so bad!
Drinking vinegar! Jesus, lady, if your kid had died, he would have won a Darwin!
From this article.
So the kid was trying to get drunk by buying malt vinegar?
How could the cashier know the kid was trying to get sauced?
My impression was that the kid did indeed confuse malt vinegar with malt liquor, and presumably continued to drink half the liter bottle in a sitting regardless of the taste for the same reason that people who hate the taste of beer drink it. He must have figured he hadn’t developed a taste for it yet or something. He then proceeded to barf his guts out, prompting his mother to accuse the cashier of “poisoning” him.
Reminds me of the story of the thieves in search of oxycontin (psychotropic drug) who instead stole oxytocin (female hormone that causes labor contractions).
When I reflect on the type of managers who fired this guy, I really think we need an international school of management run by The Gord.