When I went into the store today I notice that half the items were facing backwards so that you couldn’t read the labels. At first I thought that this would be a perfect way for a stocker to get even with The Boss. But then I realized that the boss won’t care, he’ll simple assign some other stocker to correct the error. Way to go angry stocker, thanks for making your fellow employees life more difficult!
Maybe the stocker forgot his glasses that day?
The second stocker should turn everything sideways. You know, to get even with The Boss for assigning him to fix the error of the first angry stocker.
Aren’t there Laws against Stocking?
How do you figure? Aren’t they paid by the hour? Look at it as job security!
Maybe he wasn’t trying to get even with the Boss. Maybe he was trying to get even with the customers, or perhaps even his co-workers.
ETA: BTW Fear Itself, you’re closer; please smack CalMeacham with a trout.
More than likely this was a customer playing a prank.
Every few weeks a patron will come in to the library and reverse all of the series DVDs so instead of being in order like they should be, they’re backwards. Pisses me off it does.
They’re doing inventory. I’ve seen that done at my grocery store before. Once I even turned a bunch of stuff back around because I was looking for something and needed to read all the labels. I asked about it at the checkout and they told me that’s for inventory, one person goes through and turns just the first item backwards so the next guy can inventory with a bar code scanner.
I had a laugh the next time I was at the store and I saw this there were a lot of customers turning the labels back around so they could read them.
This one blew right by (mild), past MPSIMS doing 100mph and had a head on collision with myspace.
Maybe it’s not too late to reel it back in. Quick! Somebody start cursing!
Look at the pictures and attempt to read the French!
That’s what I do when the labels are reversed…
Yeah, well fuck you AND your condescending attitude! FOBTMPSIMS!
There, that oughta put some sticky tape on its feet. You’re welcome!
Is it always the same guy?
At a job I held a few years ago there was an emergency telephone in the elevator. It hung exposed on the wall, not concealed behind a door like in many applications. Whenever I was alone in the elevator I would remove the receiver and hang it upside down with the wire going to the top.
It drove the laboratory director crazy. Every time he would find it upside down he would remove it and replace it correctly, all the while swearing vengeance on the perpetrator. I kept it up for years, until I changed jobs. When I left I engaged other people to continue the tradition, and when I visited a few years later found the receiver upside down.
Yes, stocking has been a serious felony since the 1980’s in most places. Several big stars have had stocking threats as well as perfectly normal people, usually females. The OP is reporting that there may be not one but multiple stockers working in the area and maybe even several in this store alone. Stockers often do weird things to mess with their target. Turning things backwards is an especially sick mind game that they tend to thrive on. I have no idea why people in this thread are sitting here making jokes when someones life is potentially at stake. That is sick. The OP lists his location as The Twilight Zone which is helpful but directory assistance doesn’t have a police number in that area code even after multiple attempts on my part.
I’ve never been able to catch him in the act, but I have a prime suspect and they’ve always been rearranged like that on days he comes in.
Right, it’s another dull meaningless task in an endless list of dull meaningless tasks. What’s the dif?
Ages ago, when I was but a wee lad, I thought I was helping the grocery store by shoving all of the stuff on a shelf to the back so they’d be able to see what they were low on.
Some years later, working as a clerk at a grocery store, I saw a kid pushing cans to the back of the shelf and smiled secretly knowing that the universe would even things out by making that kid work as a grocery store stocker and seeing some other kid do the same thing. And because I worked for the “drugstore” side of the store. Cans were a food stocker’s responsibility.
Wow. Just when I though that MY life was pathetic, you come along with an anecdote that there is at least ONE person out there (the library patron in question) whose existence is even emptier than my own.
I salute you sir, for a self-esteem boost found in a most unlikely place.
[Hijack]I’ve got this beat.
In the library I frequent, you can take a public computer out of the lineup by turning it off. From what I’ve been told, one reason is to ensure your favorite computer is available to you when you want it.
One guy was caught doing this (I saw it and a librarian shared the rest of the story with me) by pulling out the power cord in the back. He was given a warning by security, and the librarians were to told to keep an eye on him.
He did it a few more times, but on observation, was shown not even logging into the computer. You see, upon queueing up at the sign-in station and then turning on the computer at the right time, he would receive the assignment to that computer.* The assignment would hold for five minutes but get this – he almost never logs on to the computer and toward the end of the hold period was seen pulling out the power cord again!
He also takes off the caps lock on the sign-up computer when he’s around; the caps lock has no function in the sign-up procedure, other that typing in numerals in a PIN.
Talk about empty existence or just plain batshit craziness.
- You can also go directly to any open computer and log in directly.[/Hijack]