# Why must you be so controlling, Costco? (Lame) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289 "2010-03-22T00:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289/61 "2010-04-09T10:31:01Z")
Wow, I did a word search in this post, and not one suggestion that the clerk may very well be one of those anal types. Some can’t handle the smallest degree of disorganization. Relish in the fact that you probably sent her world spiraling out of control! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289/62 "2010-04-09T16:13:18Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > All I can say is that while something like that _seems_ minor at first glance… well, Mr. Straw, I’d like to introduce you to Mr. Camelsback. 😉 Wait, are saying that as a manager you would be okay with staff being rude to customers, as long as they told you they had reached maximum annoyance level? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289/63 "2010-04-09T16:27:51Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > Sure, everyone has a limit, and anyone can reach a point at which they freak out and are rude towards customers. But, IMHO, that point should be ‘customer won’t stop yelling at me’ or ‘people are demanding that I do something impossible for them’, not ‘customer is looking at the merchandise and _not putting it back correctly_!’ It’s rude to offer help to a customer, straighten the merch that the customer has messed up, and then give the customer the information they asked for? Because [that’s exactly what the OP was pitting](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12250189&postcount=1). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289/64 "2010-04-09T20:04:09Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Oddly, Sam’s Club was more than happy to let us look around- sans manager-, thus they got our business for both memberships and both products. Dunno about looking around, but every now and then, I’d get a free one-day membership to Sam’s Club in the mail, and one time a couple years back, I figured I’d take them up on it. So I get there, show them my one-day pass, and the greeter sends me to the front desk. Where they ask to see my driver’s license, and start writing down the license number. For a _one-day pass!_ I don’t think I asked why they needed that info - I was just completely steamed that they needed any personal info from me, just to take advantage of a one-day pass. I simply took my driver’s license back before they could finish writing down the number, and got the fuck out of there. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289/65 "2010-04-10T07:30:54Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > Wait, are saying that as a manager you would be okay with staff being rude to customers, as long as they told you they had reached maximum annoyance level? Depends what the customer had done to irritate them. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289/66 "2010-04-11T00:58:56Z")
Once at Costco I made the mistake of going back for a second sample of lobster spread on Club crackers, and the sample lady berated me… “Why don’t you just buy the can?” And I just said “It’s your job to make the samples and it’s my job to eat them.” Actually I didn’t say anything but I’m hoarding that quote in case I ever catch flak from that wrinkly busybody again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-you-be-so-controlling-costco-lame/533289.md?page=3)