A long time ago I sold Kirby vacuums, years later I was at a friends house when a Kirby vacuum salesman showed up. I convinced my friend to let the guy do his pitch and I'll add some insight. During the guys demo, just before he would point out a feature, I'd quietly remark to my friend what he was going to do (and say). After about three quarters through the demo the guy stopped and asked (a bit frustrated) what was going on, where upon I asked him if the demo was finished? He tried to continue but my interjections of future events caused him to loose his place, so he stopped again. My friend got up from his chair pulled out a well used Kirby from a closet and rolled it over. The sales guy shook his head, asked if I sold Kirby's, I told him I had, confirmed we were his last stop and offered him a beer. ;-)
1: Dude gets pushed into the Pond for "trying to kill the Fishies" but instead of being sacked he gets a raise, that woman must be PO'd after seeing her plan blow up in her face. 2: Eh dude, you do know the Comupter was created by "humans" right? Not to mention the guy knows his job like the back of his hand and if he says they don't have the item in stock, then they don't have the item in stock. 3: Sales people, I swear they must be more stupid then "Karens". And that is actually saying something.
I work in IT, but I'm just a programmer, so I have no authority to approve or purchase software of any kind. I don't even get to recommend anything, unless I've been asked to test a product for a proof of concept, and, even then, my opinion means little. I got a cold call once from a vendor. They wanted to set up a virtual meeting to demo me their software. Several times I told the sales person, "I don't have authority to make purchasing decisions, so it would be a waste of your time. Several calls like this. Finally, I let the guy set up the meeting, telling him, again, that I don't have authority to make purchasing decisions. Arrangements were made, a link was sent to me along with a time to connect to the meeting. The day of the meeting, I connect to their virtual meeting. The first words out of my mouth before they can start their presentation was to inform them that I do not make purchasing decisions and this meeting is going to be a waste of time, and let them know that I had informed the salesperson that called me of this several times. They were clearly angry, but they canceled the meeting and I stopped hearing from that company after that. So, I guess the only way to get rid of persistent salespeople is to waste their company's time.
1st story reminded me of an incident where I used to work. Was the manager of a large marina and was performing an inspection of a dock. At the end of a long dock I found a kayak stored on the dock, which is against the rules and a trip hazard particularly at night. It had a rope tied to one end so I tossed it in the water and tied it to the adjacent boat. All of a sudden I heard a fellow yell "hey put that back on the dock!" I look up and see an old busy-body on a nearby bridge. I responded "no its okay I work here" and the guy just keeps at it saying that if I don't put the kayak back on the dock, he was going to report me to the marina office. At this I was a little mystified and said "go ahead...I'm the manager" oddly he kept it up but I just ignored him continuing my dock inspection. What makes folks poke their nose where it doesn't belong?
PETA was initially started to "help" animals, but were taken over by a militant side that actually know very little about different species and their natural habitats. They now have a tendency to do more harm than good to the very animals they claim they are trying to help. more of a feel good rather than do good mentality.
PETA members habitually assume everyone but they are harming animals, and tend to assume animals have the same needs and consequences as humans (who they despise). So they "free" pets, who quickly die from inability to compete with their younger, stronger feral relatives, from predation by other species and humans, or vehicles. PETA is populated by predatory ideological fanatics, dangerous to all species. I think they should defend the rights of pathogens by refusing treatment to their own infections.
@@markedwards3647 They don't even get the chance at survival that being turned lose in the wild would give. PETA shelters have a 100% kill rate. PETA really means People for the Euthanasia Treatment of Animals. Kill all the pets because death is preferable to being owned.
Same kind of sales BS happened at my mother's house many years ago. I was visiting when it happened so I saw it first hand. The salesman was offering a free carpet cleaning to show off their latest and greatest new cleaner. I could see it was a Rainbow knockoff, and my mother wasn't interested but they kept droning on and on about a free cleaning so she let them do it, making sure they knew she wasn't buying anything. They cleaned the living and dining rooms and were about to start on the stairs to the 2nd floor when my mother stopped him. The rest of the house has hardwood floors, but they offered to clean those as well. Knowing what a wetvac will do to the finish on a hardwood floor, she declined. While the salesman was packing up his stuff and going through his sales pitch, I pulled out her Bissell and went over the entryway where he had already been. He scoffed at the little Bissell until it started sucking up the dirt his knockoff had left behind. He left with his tail between his legs. (Edited for grammar)
Hold the bus... 80 hours a week as a part-time seasonal worker? That's a lawsuit right there. As a matter of fact, 80 hours a week is close to slave labor if you don't get due compensation. Such as overtime pay after 40 hours. Labor laws don't take kindly to BS.
If it had not been a corporate hotel, i.e. a family owned hotel, and I owned the hotel, I would have made the woman, who threw trash and employee in the fish pond, to check out and banned her from the hotel. Forever. Because no one needs customers like that.
I would have her fucking arrested. That is assault and could easily result in grievous bodily harm. OP hit their head when they fell. People have even died from less.
Pretty sure that one was fiction. Clear case of littering and assault, and nobody even mentions pressing charges? I know it's Canada, but that doesn't mean it's a free pass.
john morgan Pets has been known to take pets from loving owners, including children and homeless vets then having them put down. They feel it’s cruel to have the live as slaves by being pets and they are better off being put down ! PETA sucks !
I've had a few idiots like the ones in the last story. As in telemarketeers. They tend to assume only married own a home and or a single male. That a single woman was incapable of owning her own home.
@@dacomputernerd4096 In that story. The guy appeared to be too young to own a home in the telemarketers' eyes. As though he looked like a teen. In my case, it was via phone.
My mother had a very young-sounding voice well into her 50s. (I have the same problem! 🙄) It caused her numerous issues on the phone. People were always asking, "Can I speak to your mother?" This was when she had teenage kids! We lived in a very small town with just three schools - elementary, junior high, and high school, which were all located fairly close together. You could walk from one to the other. One time when I was in high school, my mother called my school to tell my teacher that I was sick. The teacher didn't believe her. "That's you (my name), isn't it?" Mom: "No, it's her mother. She's got the flu and can't come to school." Teacher: "(Name), stop it! I know that's you. You're just trying to get out of giving that report, aren't you?" (No, but it was a nice bonus! 😊) Mom: "I'm telling you this is her mother!" This went back and forth for a while with both of them becoming increasingly upset. It ended when the teacher threatened to suspend me if I did not come in. Finally, Mom called the elementary school principal, who was our friend and next-door neighbor. He walked over to the high school and explained to my idiotic teacher that she had been yelling at my mother, not me. Teacher, sputtering: "But she sounds just like (name)." Mom was so upset that she called the principal to complain. I got a different homeroom teacher after this. The teacher got into some kind of trouble, but we never learned the specifics. The teacher did not return the following year, and I think this was one of the reasons. Once it came out about what had happened, other students started complaining about her, too. They had been too scared of her to say anything. It took my mother standing up to this woman to finally change things. Mom felt a little better about her "girly" voice after that. "I guess there's a reason for everything." 😊
The "where's the owner" story reminds me of someone who went to our daughter's house & asked to see her parents. She said "go to their house then." She has always looked a lot younger than her age. Many yrs later, she & her youngest son (who is 30 yrs younger than she is) were having an "argument." An older lady saw them & commented "aren't little brothers a pain." Our daughter just smiled & continued on. It didn't help that she had her hair in pigtails.
I'll let the vacuum demo people clean my whole house. Sales guy: "So what do you think of the machine?" Me: "Look at my Oreck XL. Thanks for saving me a lot of work. Bye"
I made the mistake of letting some Kirby salesmen shampoo the floor in my apartment several years ago, and the only places in the unit that had soft, fluffy carpeting afterwards were the ones they didn't get to.
I've had door to door salesmen come to my home and I've been at my parents and grandparents houses when they've shown up at their houses and by the way they talked they would shampoo the entire carpet in 1 room to show the product...but every time it was ALWAYS just a small square spot in the rooms ... So that we ended up having to rent or borrow a shampooer to finish the rooms each time...I assume it was their way of trying to get us to go ahead and buy theirs...but after the lies it never happened lol
I thought it was kind of humorous that the kid that got pushed in the fish pond got a raise for discretion, while in the middle of writing a post about what happened. LOL
I had the opposite of what happened in the 3rd story happen to me when I was around 18, my parents had gone on a road trip so I was home alone watching the house and someone was going door to door about gutters. I've been 6'4" since about 8th grade so people tend to think I'm older. I also knew a little of what my parents were planning with the house, so when they came up I pretty much convinced them I was the owner and that I wasn't interested...I don't recall them ever even asking if my parents were home, and they just believed I was the home owner when I told them I was.
It doesn't matter if you tell D2D vacuum salespeople upfront you aren't buying anything because they are convinced once you see how amazing the product is, they can change your mind. Also, they are required to hit a certain number of showings per week, so if they can get their foot in the door, they are going to. Sidenote: I would never let any stranger who shows up unannounced into my home and I don't know any rational person that would either.
Had one of those carpet people come by wanting to clean our carpet...they didn't believe me when I told them we had hardwood floors throughout the house (old house, they built them with wood floors back then). They then tried to talk me into getting our couch cleaned, but we have a futon. Chairs? Nope, wood with cushions. They eventually gave up out of frustration and I just had to laugh about it. As far as the weird furniture...we have a cat that has a real problem with hairballs, no matter how much we take steps to prevent them, and so we finally broke down and bought stuff we could clean easily. Would've felt sorry for them but they were enough of a PITA to me so I just laughed and went about my day.
Kirby is a nice vacuum, but it's so overpriced it's ridiculous. That multilevel selling is the problem. If they would put the price where it should be and sell it in department stores they would actually make more money and not have the issues with the lying jerks who do the selling that they have. The issue is as follows: the "salesmen/women" actually have to buy the machines from whoever has the local office. They aren't actually salespeople. They are the owner of the machine they just used to clean your carpet. There are at least 5 sales of the machine before the customer gets the machine. Not only that, but the demonstrator only gets paid if you buy their machine because they are the actual owner of that machine. They don't get paid by the hour, they get no money other than the difference between what they paid for the machine and what you pay for it. They are usually desperate for cash, which is why so many of them are so persistent. Long ago and because of doing evil in a former life I worked as an appointment setter for a local Kirby place. It took a while, but I finally found out what a ripoff it was and what assholes the couple who owned the local place were and I moved on.
Had a Kirby salesman call and demo the cleaner a few years ago. As you say, ultra pushy and wouldnt take no for an answer. I eventually told him that yes, the Kirby might be better than my existing machine but it was more than three times the price of my existing machine, and there was no way it was three times better. He called me an idiot and flounced off in a huff.
I worked for Kirby as well. Worst week of my life. They had us doing demos for a whole day, no food or water. One of the customers took pity on me and offered me dinner. I remember that we left at 11 am and I returned home around 1 am. Not worth it!
Former shoe clerk. And the last story annoys me no end. Both the carpet cleaner sales rep AND the actual product demonstrator committed the worst offense in sales; REFUSING to listen to the customer. I worked in sales/retail/ customer service jobs as long as I was able to work, and the BEST way to make a happy , BUYING, customer is to SHUT UP AND LISTEN!!! What is the customer saying about their needs? What is it that you have in stock, or can GET in stock, that will fulfill their needs? Because they will NOT be handing you ANY money until you give them what they ask for!
Especially to protect the fish. The employee was shuffling, so as to not step on any. Then you throw them down? That's more likely to hit and kill a fish than someone shuffling along.
With our late one, the only danger he posed would be if you were allergic to slobber. Our female GSD was a terror to anyone who came to the door, however (although she was fine if we let the person in.)
Second one is pretty much exactly what it's like working at Canadian Tire. The websites numbers are VERY unreliable and don't update to our systems numbers anywhere near often enough. (FYI: It's always best to call customer service and ask for a visual confirmation if we have something showing low numbers on site.)
If you're good at Logistics you know exactly what's coming in, what's going out, what you have on stock, and the number. I still remember the last four NSN of several items when I did logistics for the Cav over ten years ago. The same things come up soo frequently that it all becomes muscle memory.
The last one...that`s a standard sales technique. Push on no matter how many times you say no. Annoying as hell. It`s why I was never good at sales. I`d rather be polite than badger someone for a sale.
That second story. I work at the store mentioned..no their exact store but another one in another location. During inventory time you get crazy hours and start to know what's in the store and where.
I worked for the inventory service that did thier annual counts. It was us you prepared for. After 15 years of that work, where I counted every single Walmart and big box retailer(Lowes, HDepot, Menards, etc) across four states. I have found myself leading customers to what they are wanting when I am out shopping on my own time and I witness employees who are clueless. You can only count the exact same aisle in a handful of locations before you know what should be in each slot on every shelf.
@@jamestaylor3805 I only had to deal with customers near closing time. The last minute ones that rush in. Since I'm on the night crew we're stuck working all aisles and departments. Guess Im kinda lucky I get to study and learn the store more without distractions. As far as clueless employees..you hit that one right on the nail. Alot of them just seem to get away with not doing things aswell. 🤔
Oof, I felt that inventory story. My work doesn't have a traditional, "back room." All our inventory is on the floor: if it's not on the floor we don't have it. If a costumer wants something we don't have we're to direct them to the Kiosk where another co-worker will order it to our store or tell them which nearest company store has them. However, most people don't want to hear that, and best case they're disappointed and decline. The more entitled ones will chew your head off for something you can't control. "Why don't you just check the goddamn back? You didn't even check, you're just lazy!" No, I didn't check because, as I've told you five times already, all our stock is on the floor and if it's not here we simply don't have it.
I like how the Kirby or ElectroLux sales person will vacuum a section with your vacuum and then go over the same spot with theirs - showing that theirs picked up stuff yours missed. Reverse it and you'll see that yours will pick up stuff that theirs didn't. That's because no vacuum will get everything. Also, at County/State fairs where they (Kirby, etc..) have a free free raffle to win great prizes - DON'T ENTER!!! No one wins a great prize. They will call and say, "We're sorry that you didn't win the big prizes but you did win a free carpet cleaning." This is just a way to get a list of suckers....errr...I mean Potential Customers where they can get in the house to pitch their vacuum during the cleaning. I used to sell vacuums for a short time back in the early 90's
Last story... happened to my Mum when she was 19, married and had my eldest sister as a toddler. Mum and Dad had just bought the house after living for a year with her (Karen) in-laws. Sales came a doorknocking and Mum.answered. He asked if her parents were home. Mum said this was her house. Salesman tried to push his way in by propping his foot in the door. Just then Dad came home in full uniform. And the salesman decamped. Dad worked for the Dutch AA, can so easily be mistaken for the police
I'm sorry but that guy with the carpet cleaning thing, I won't even let them in the house I'd tell them to go the hell away I don't have carpet go away, which for me is true. And on top of that I would have call them various bad bad words and tell them never to come back near my house.
I had the best kirby vacuum cleaner story. It was night time when we hear a knock at my door. Im a young guy and just bought my house so im not expecting anyone coming over and usually my friends text me if they were coming. my buddy who rooming with me and my dad who lives with me goes and answers the door. two ladies ask if they can speak to the owner about a free product that we can receive. my buddy said ok and looks at me who is cleaning a shotgun on my coffee table. them not paying attention and looks to my dad and said sir we like to talk to you the owner about a free product. my dad looks at them and says im not the owner. they then ask who is looking at my buddy. my buddy, his girlfriend, and my dad point to me who still not paying attention to anything at the moment while cleaning this shotgun. my buddy then say hey they need to speak to you. me: huh oh ok. them: sir we have a gentleman who will speak to you about our free product. im like ok. so they leave go to their van and tell the guy he has a gun. salesguy is like oh great. he comes in and brings a kirby vacuum and im like oh great. so he starts doing his whole sales pitch with me cleaning my gun. i said sir are you ok. he nervous says yes fine. im like ok. he continues and demostrates the vacuum on my carpet then finishs. here comes the sale attempt. its 3 grand sir. me im just an E-4 in the military dude. we dont make that much. yeah i know but i got to try so the company will let him be. im like ok. he calls the office and after all the fail attempts they finally see no sale. im like cool, i know its hard work but good luck. he asked if he could wait inside since its cold outside. im like uh ok. i asked what happened to his coworkers. he said that they told him i have a gun and let him do the sale. as soon as he got off the car with the vacuum they sped off leaving him. im like what the fuck. he like yeah. sorry about that. he like nah its fine, at first i was nervous but then realized you guys are cool. i said thanks and his ride shows up and he leaves. fun night.
We get the people selling the Sun Gold cleaning product. You know, the ones who have their little demo bucket that actually cleans stuff, and then when you order a case, it doesn't clean anything? That crap. We saved a container and switched the product for the "demo" version..Guess what? When she started to clean something to show us the bait before the switch, it didn't clean like her demo. She freaked out, started crying, saying she would be fired if she lost the demo The owner pointed to the one we had switched, "It's right there in your hand." She threatened to call the police, "have our jobs" sue, and was dragged out by the security guards before the cops showed up;.
I'm confused as to how it was less dangerous to the fish in the deranged mind of the crazy lady to hurl a huge human being into the fish habitat, still holding his broom handle, than to let him keep poking at the water with the broom handle.
I have no idea why ppl think emlpoyees just dont want to sell something. Another thing is electronic inventories often take around 22 hours to update, and websites...maybe a week. When i worked retsil, the rule was that if the system showed less than 10 of something, then its probably sold out. I also learned rhst if you know you are out or dont have something, dont argue with the customer, just walk about back and play with your phone for a few minutes, come back and say "nope, dont have it."
Rowynne Crowley agreed, that is sorta the point why retailers are directed to lie to customers. When I worked retail, I would often get the question of why don't we sell two tangentially related items together? I could have given the company schpiel on specificity of regional markets like I was supposed to...but nahhh.... I said "oh, because ppl want that and we not having it forces you to keep coming back to check, and impulse buy." That was until I realised customers don't have a sense of humor.
I kind of get the second guy, since there should only be three reasons for the system being wrong. A) the employees got something wrong when stocking (bad, shouldn't happen) B) something got stolen (maybe look into it?) C) the last pieces got bought in the time between 'he looked it up' and 'he bought it' Or they use a shitty system
Ok, online catalogs are notoriously erroneous. The problem is internet sales do not always post to the locations system. This leaves "ghost inventory". Worse still are the "shopping cart" problems. Most systems, when you place an item in your digital cart, that item is put into a "hold", meaning that item doesn't appear on inventory registries anymore, even if you abandon your cart and not actually buy the stuff. This causes the opposite problem of items being on the shelf that the inventory system thinks is already gone.
I've worked at Home Depot. The inventory is a joke. It's rarely even remotely accurate. Trust the floor people. They have to move it all day. If they are adamant, they have been waiting for the product for either two days or two months.
7:19 the reason people like this refuse to believe an employee knows what they are talking about or that a customer does not in fact work there is because they are extreme narcissists and cannot even comprehend the possibility that their initial assumption might not be correct.
I worked in HD and I can confirm that at least 50% of the time our website says we have it, we don't. They are so inaccurate and inconsistent that I just physically walk to the said area to confirm it. It supposed to be our department head's job to keep the inventory up to date...but....they don't often do.
Carpet cleaner:. These people just won't take no for an answer, they keep asking the same questions over and over again. Just because an individual looks like they aren't old enough to own a house doesn't mean that they can't own one.
Ideal response to Karen or Kevin is "are you an idiot?" Wait for a beat, giving them a moment to formulate an answer and maybe start to answer, hold up a hand stopping them. "... no, no sorry that was a rhetorical question." Of course they are.
10:06 yeah I got set up with a job interview a few years ago. 21 in the room and nothing anywhere to give us the tip it was Kirby. Those people are sociopaths in marketing and will never hear NO, unless they are forced into a corner. They will bully people into accepting a contract just so the salesman leave. Even after I instructed a guy that I'm well aware of their tactics after seeing trainers in action, the guy still stuck his foot between my front doors, then discovered my dog. A 100lb Pitbull, Staffordshire Terrier, and Bull Terrier cross. Told him "looks like my dog isn't interested in your bull crap either, you predator. If I see you knocking on the doors in this Street I'll be taking my dog for a walk, in your direction". Fking arse, was trying to get fresh with my gf in front of me and wouldn't take the hint, that she was not only not interested, but he was scaring her, with his advances. IN FRONT OF MY FACE.
I have a Kirby story! I told the sales lady that I’m not buying but she could come clean the carpet. She said that she’ll keep cleaning the same spot and we sat there chatting for about 20 minutes. Suddenly my daughter starts to chock. The Kirby lady does the heimlich on my daughter twice and this clears the obstruction. After that the Kirby lady left very quickly. Too bad! I would have bought the Kirby from her as a thank you for saving my daughter’s life!
FYI, as a former Kirby sales rep. I can assure you that they are trained to push a sale no matter how many times you say not buying. They are told that people can not say no more than 52 times. Whatever Like I said former.
Any sale's person who comes to your house and asks too many questions doesn't seem to understand that"Yes, I'm the owner of this house and and what the hell do you want" doesn't seem to understand that you own your house and not some hired help or whatever. 😒🙄😒🤦🏻
I was in one of those stores w/ the orange aprons looking for a certain fan. When an employee told me they weren't in stock, I took his word for it & left. At home, I checked the website again & found the location of where it was supposed to be. The website said there were 11 in stock. We went back & looked in the designated area. Sure enough there were 11 on the shelf. We bought one, told the cashier what had happened, but didn't raise a fuss. Not all employees are as efficient as the one in this story.
I usually go ahead and look around a bit before taking their word, just because sometimes things get rearranged or stocked w/o the person I'm talking to knowing about. Or I'll find something similar to what I was looking for originally and get that
@@poisonedflowers Their website usually has the location of the item in question. I didn't write that down the first time we looked & didn't have the time or inclination to look for it. W/ the Covid situation, we didn't want to spend any more time in the store than necessary. Other times, I like SHOPPING ... not necessarily BUYING. Our kids didn't like that idea & only go to the stores now when they need something.
I pressed charges on a guy for throwing chips at me at work. I don't fuck around with crazy people. Good thing, too. While I was looking at the video with the cops, the guy came back with one of those fluorescent tubes intending to bash my skull with it or something. Then ended up tackling him to the pavement, and he was still yelling obscenities at me from the back of the car. I guess it's a good thing he came back when he did, tho, or they might never have caught him.
I can get being annoyed because the website says has it out there for customers and it isn't but this might be overkill. I once wanted a simple little lamp but apparently they hadn't restocked it and the website didn't know that. None on the shelf. I had to show the page for them to look at the shelf which I already looked at a half dozen times and every other shelf in the area that might hold it. Then they look it up on their stuff and lo and behold it in the back!
I'm forever tellibg people that shop with us that just because the site says "collect from store" doesnt necessarily mean we have it. We have a location checker for this reasons. If A store has ONE in stock regardless of where the site flags it as collectable.
Kirby is the worst for ignoring people stating Im not buying. I worked for them for 2 hours. They don't train people. They just say go sell it. They're worse than the guys in white shirts that come to your door to promote religion.
What's a tortuous? You mean tortoise. PETA did release 500 minks that had lived their whole life inside out into sub zero temps about 15 years ago so they could "Live free". All of them died of exposure within 500 feet of the facility.
8:33 what ? I have Rustoleum in my cupboards and it is not used for concrete. It's a chemical used to treat RUST then convert it to non-oxidized steel or iron. Thus is the reason it's called RUSToleum. I've also worked in the concrete industry for over 8 years, and it's NEVER been used in any jobs I've been involved with. I've also been trained as a certified concrete tester, which involves the assessment of impurities that are detrimental to the structural integrity of the concrete construction. Rustoleum is acidic. Concrete is alkaline. 1 can of coke will destroy the entire batch due to sugar content creating retardation in settings. Rustoleum will destroy surfaces, creating holes, making it porous. Which then eats out rheo that's there to give strength in the first place. Is this BS deliberately done, so only some people recognise that a story is fabricated? RUSTex, is another name for the same product. These blatant lies really piss me off. 🤣🤣🤣
That second person said he was doing 80+ hours a week, for 5 months. That's 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, or 16 hours a day, 5 days a week. This seems a tad unlikely, even assuming the business is even open that long. The last guy was just being an asshole. He didn't want, or need his old carpets cleaned and was going to be throwing them out soon anyway. Yet, he still let them go ahead. It seemed he was getting a kick out of seeing them waste their time, even though they're probably low paid in the first place. All of which is said under the assumption that theses stories are actually true. Half the stories from this site sound either made-up, or exaggerated/altered beyond all recognition. It's not as if they're fact checked, after all.
In the active duty military, 80-hour weeks for 5 months is called an easy deployment. Multiple consecutive 100+ hour weeks aren't uncommon. So, that kind of time spent at a Home Depot is extremely believable. Hell, some would call that workload a walk in the park.
I love playing sales rep’s for the fools they sometimes are, whether in person or on the ‘phone! I let them do their spiel, then tell them variations on “no thanks”! They usually swear at me! I laugh!
Me to the salesman: If you really want to clean the carpet we're going to throw away, fine. But you have absolutely zero chance of selling me anything. I won't even listen to a sales pitch. That would waste your and more importantly *my* time." After cleaning the carpet and starting the pitch, I'd hold up my hand and say, "I let you clean the carpet like you wanted to. Now please leave. I'm not listening to a sales pitch and if you are still here 5 minutes from now, I am calling the police for trespassing. Your call."
The story of the home improvement store shows how stupid some people are. The idea of the store is to sell the inventory. Why would they lie and not sell it??? The customer was really having a bad day!
The woman who in the pond, I would have pressed charges against her. That was assault lady.
I would have practiced my right to self defense.
"Lady" ? I would say "w***e"
I'd have backhanded her. Yep, self-defense! 😡
@@seraglioborneo2803?
A long time ago I sold Kirby vacuums, years later I was at a friends house when a Kirby vacuum salesman showed up.
I convinced my friend to let the guy do his pitch and I'll add some insight.
During the guys demo, just before he would point out a feature, I'd quietly remark to my friend what he was going to do (and say).
After about three quarters through the demo the guy stopped and asked (a bit frustrated) what was going on, where upon I asked him if the demo was finished?
He tried to continue but my interjections of future events caused him to loose his place, so he stopped again.
My friend got up from his chair pulled out a well used Kirby from a closet and rolled it over.
The sales guy shook his head, asked if I sold Kirby's, I told him I had, confirmed we were his last stop and offered him a beer. ;-)
1: Dude gets pushed into the Pond for "trying to kill the Fishies" but instead of being sacked he gets a raise, that woman must be PO'd after seeing her plan blow up in her face.
2: Eh dude, you do know the Comupter was created by "humans" right? Not to mention the guy knows his job like the back of his hand and if he says they don't have the item in stock, then they don't have the item in stock.
3: Sales people, I swear they must be more stupid then "Karens". And that is actually saying something.
I work in IT, but I'm just a programmer, so I have no authority to approve or purchase software of any kind. I don't even get to recommend anything, unless I've been asked to test a product for a proof of concept, and, even then, my opinion means little.
I got a cold call once from a vendor. They wanted to set up a virtual meeting to demo me their software. Several times I told the sales person, "I don't have authority to make purchasing decisions, so it would be a waste of your time. Several calls like this. Finally, I let the guy set up the meeting, telling him, again, that I don't have authority to make purchasing decisions. Arrangements were made, a link was sent to me along with a time to connect to the meeting.
The day of the meeting, I connect to their virtual meeting. The first words out of my mouth before they can start their presentation was to inform them that I do not make purchasing decisions and this meeting is going to be a waste of time, and let them know that I had informed the salesperson that called me of this several times. They were clearly angry, but they canceled the meeting and I stopped hearing from that company after that.
So, I guess the only way to get rid of persistent salespeople is to waste their company's time.
1st story reminded me of an incident where I used to work. Was the manager of a large marina and was performing an inspection of a dock. At the end of a long dock I found a kayak stored on the dock, which is against the rules and a trip hazard particularly at night. It had a rope tied to one end so I tossed it in the water and tied it to the adjacent boat. All of a sudden I heard a fellow yell "hey put that back on the dock!" I look up and see an old busy-body on a nearby bridge. I responded "no its okay I work here" and the guy just keeps at it saying that if I don't put the kayak back on the dock, he was going to report me to the marina office. At this I was a little mystified and said "go ahead...I'm the manager" oddly he kept it up but I just ignored him continuing my dock inspection. What makes folks poke their nose where it doesn't belong?
So, what happened?
@@sirfrydryk360 did my job and ignored the guy.
I find it funny how PETA became something used to describe people “helping” but actually hurting animals, lol.
PETA: We love animals.
Also PETA: Puts down little girl's dog for literally no reason, 'by accident'.
PETA was initially started to "help" animals, but were taken over by a militant side that actually know very little about different species and their natural habitats. They now have a tendency to do more harm than good to the very animals they claim they are trying to help. more of a feel good rather than do good mentality.
PETA members habitually assume everyone but they are harming animals, and tend to assume animals have the same needs and consequences as humans (who they despise). So they "free" pets, who quickly die from inability to compete with their younger, stronger feral relatives, from predation by other species and humans, or vehicles. PETA is populated by predatory ideological fanatics, dangerous to all species. I think they should defend the rights of pathogens by refusing treatment to their own infections.
@@markedwards3647 They don't even get the chance at survival that being turned lose in the wild would give. PETA shelters have a 100% kill rate.
PETA really means People for the Euthanasia Treatment of Animals. Kill all the pets because death is preferable to being owned.
I believe in "PETA". People Eating Tasty Animals! 😎
Same kind of sales BS happened at my mother's house many years ago. I was visiting when it happened so I saw it first hand. The salesman was offering a free carpet cleaning to show off their latest and greatest new cleaner. I could see it was a Rainbow knockoff, and my mother wasn't interested but they kept droning on and on about a free cleaning so she let them do it, making sure they knew she wasn't buying anything. They cleaned the living and dining rooms and were about to start on the stairs to the 2nd floor when my mother stopped him. The rest of the house has hardwood floors, but they offered to clean those as well. Knowing what a wetvac will do to the finish on a hardwood floor, she declined. While the salesman was packing up his stuff and going through his sales pitch, I pulled out her Bissell and went over the entryway where he had already been. He scoffed at the little Bissell until it started sucking up the dirt his knockoff had left behind. He left with his tail between his legs.
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Hold the bus... 80 hours a week as a part-time seasonal worker? That's a lawsuit right there. As a matter of fact, 80 hours a week is close to slave labor if you don't get due compensation. Such as overtime pay after 40 hours. Labor laws don't take kindly to BS.
PETA logic: that person could only possibly be harming the fish so I'm going to throw my GARBAGE and then a WHOLE PERSON into the pond!
GARABE
@@LogiBear59 oooops. Fixed.
They're trying to spear a fish so I'll throw trash into the pond and poison the fish. PETA logic
LOL, Right
They should have pressed charges
If it had not been a corporate hotel, i.e. a family owned hotel, and I owned the hotel, I would have made the woman, who threw trash and employee in the fish pond, to check out and banned her from the hotel. Forever. Because no one needs customers like that.
I would have her fucking arrested. That is assault and could easily result in grievous bodily harm. OP hit their head when they fell. People have even died from less.
Worried about the fish, throws trash in with them, caffeinated trash at that, pretty sure fish don't drink coffee that often.
As we all know PETA specializes is endangering animals rather than save them
Pretty sure that one was fiction. Clear case of littering and assault, and nobody even mentions pressing charges? I know it's Canada, but that doesn't mean it's a free pass.
@Johanna Freethinker To PETA's way of thinking, killing them is mercy and anything else is torture. So they ARE saving them by killing them.
Caffeine is broken down into toxins if consumed by animals. One reason not to give coffee and chocolates to pets and other animals.
john morgan Pets has been known to take pets from loving owners, including children and homeless vets then having them put down. They feel it’s cruel to have the live as slaves by being pets and they are better off being put down ! PETA sucks !
I've had a few idiots like the ones in the last story. As in telemarketeers. They tend to assume only married own a home and or a single male. That a single woman was incapable of owning her own home.
Well a lot of the times they are from cultures and countries where that's a rarer thing than in europe or north america.
@@dacomputernerd4096 In that story. The guy appeared to be too young to own a home in the telemarketers' eyes. As though he looked like a teen. In my case, it was via phone.
@@suzettekath9860 They can't see a wedding ring or lack of one over the phone.
My mother had a very young-sounding voice well into her 50s. (I have the same problem! 🙄) It caused her numerous issues on the phone. People were always asking, "Can I speak to your mother?" This was when she had teenage kids!
We lived in a very small town with just three schools - elementary, junior high, and high school, which were all located fairly close together. You could walk from one to the other. One time when I was in high school, my mother called my school to tell my teacher that I was sick. The teacher didn't believe her. "That's you (my name), isn't it?" Mom: "No, it's her mother. She's got the flu and can't come to school." Teacher: "(Name), stop it! I know that's you. You're just trying to get out of giving that report, aren't you?" (No, but it was a nice bonus! 😊) Mom: "I'm telling you this is her mother!" This went back and forth for a while with both of them becoming increasingly upset. It ended when the teacher threatened to suspend me if I did not come in.
Finally, Mom called the elementary school principal, who was our friend and next-door neighbor. He walked over to the high school and explained to my idiotic teacher that she had been yelling at my mother, not me. Teacher, sputtering: "But she sounds just like (name)." Mom was so upset that she called the principal to complain. I got a different homeroom teacher after this. The teacher got into some kind of trouble, but we never learned the specifics. The teacher did not return the following year, and I think this was one of the reasons. Once it came out about what had happened, other students started complaining about her, too. They had been too scared of her to say anything. It took my mother standing up to this woman to finally change things. Mom felt a little better about her "girly" voice after that. "I guess there's a reason for everything." 😊
The "where's the owner" story reminds me of someone who went to our daughter's house & asked to see her parents. She said "go to their house then." She has always looked a lot younger than her age. Many yrs later, she & her youngest son (who is 30 yrs younger than she is) were having an "argument." An older lady saw them & commented "aren't little brothers a pain." Our daughter just smiled & continued on. It didn't help that she had her hair in pigtails.
I got mistaken for my son's girlfriend.
@@dizzysdoings Why? Do you look similar?
@@Kelle0284 he didn't have a girlfriend. I just looked young for my age.
Should have called the police and pressed charges for assault. Management should have kicked her out of hotel.
I'll let the vacuum demo people clean my whole house.
Sales guy: "So what do you think of the machine?"
Me: "Look at my Oreck XL. Thanks for saving me a lot of work. Bye"
I made the mistake of letting some Kirby salesmen shampoo the floor in my apartment several years ago, and the only places in the unit that had soft, fluffy carpeting afterwards were the ones they didn't get to.
I've had door to door salesmen come to my home and I've been at my parents and grandparents houses when they've shown up at their houses and by the way they talked they would shampoo the entire carpet in 1 room to show the product...but every time it was ALWAYS just a small square spot in the rooms ... So that we ended up having to rent or borrow a shampooer to finish the rooms each time...I assume it was their way of trying to get us to go ahead and buy theirs...but after the lies it never happened lol
To Scam a Scammer 101.
7:00
"You have it, you just want to give it to me"
"Oh shit you caught me, i can't stand the thought of parting with my dear beloved STONES"
i love the almost running joke of "if he sais we don't have it we don't have it, he knows our inventory better then our system".
Im not buying anything
I can confirm this usually happens at HD.
@@randommindz6782 so 9
I thought it was kind of humorous that the kid that got pushed in the fish pond got a raise for discretion, while in the middle of writing a post about what happened. LOL
I didn't hear anything about any kid getting pushed in the fish pond.
I had the opposite of what happened in the 3rd story happen to me when I was around 18, my parents had gone on a road trip so I was home alone watching the house and someone was going door to door about gutters. I've been 6'4" since about 8th grade so people tend to think I'm older. I also knew a little of what my parents were planning with the house, so when they came up I pretty much convinced them I was the owner and that I wasn't interested...I don't recall them ever even asking if my parents were home, and they just believed I was the home owner when I told them I was.
It doesn't matter if you tell D2D vacuum salespeople upfront you aren't buying anything because they are convinced once you see how amazing the product is, they can change your mind. Also, they are required to hit a certain number of showings per week, so if they can get their foot in the door, they are going to. Sidenote: I would never let any stranger who shows up unannounced into my home and I don't know any rational person that would either.
Had one of those carpet people come by wanting to clean our carpet...they didn't believe me when I told them we had hardwood floors throughout the house (old house, they built them with wood floors back then). They then tried to talk me into getting our couch cleaned, but we have a futon. Chairs? Nope, wood with cushions. They eventually gave up out of frustration and I just had to laugh about it. As far as the weird furniture...we have a cat that has a real problem with hairballs, no matter how much we take steps to prevent them, and so we finally broke down and bought stuff we could clean easily. Would've felt sorry for them but they were enough of a PITA to me so I just laughed and went about my day.
Kirby salesmen are horrible. Pushy and totally incapable of taking a hint. I worked for one week as one, and they're just the worst.
Kirby is a nice vacuum, but it's so overpriced it's ridiculous. That multilevel selling is the problem. If they would put the price where it should be and sell it in department stores they would actually make more money and not have the issues with the lying jerks who do the selling that they have. The issue is as follows: the "salesmen/women" actually have to buy the machines from whoever has the local office. They aren't actually salespeople. They are the owner of the machine they just used to clean your carpet. There are at least 5 sales of the machine before the customer gets the machine. Not only that, but the demonstrator only gets paid if you buy their machine because they are the actual owner of that machine. They don't get paid by the hour, they get no money other than the difference between what they paid for the machine and what you pay for it. They are usually desperate for cash, which is why so many of them are so persistent. Long ago and because of doing evil in a former life I worked as an appointment setter for a local Kirby place. It took a while, but I finally found out what a ripoff it was and what assholes the couple who owned the local place were and I moved on.
Had a Kirby salesman call and demo the cleaner a few years ago. As you say, ultra pushy and wouldnt take no for an answer. I eventually told him that yes, the Kirby might be better than my existing machine but it was more than three times the price of my existing machine, and there was no way it was three times better. He called me an idiot and flounced off in a huff.
I worked for Kirby as well. Worst week of my life. They had us doing demos for a whole day, no food or water. One of the customers took pity on me and offered me dinner. I remember that we left at 11 am and I returned home around 1 am. Not worth it!
Former shoe clerk. And the last story annoys me no end. Both the carpet cleaner sales rep AND the actual product demonstrator committed the worst offense in sales; REFUSING to listen to the customer. I worked in sales/retail/ customer service jobs as long as I was able to work, and the BEST way to make a happy , BUYING, customer is to SHUT UP AND LISTEN!!! What is the customer saying about their needs? What is it that you have in stock, or can GET in stock, that will fulfill their needs? Because they will NOT be handing you ANY money until you give them what they ask for!
Why would anyone think it's a good idea to push someone into a fish pond!?!
Especially to protect the fish. The employee was shuffling, so as to not step on any. Then you throw them down? That's more likely to hit and kill a fish than someone shuffling along.
The last one is the reason why I own two pitbulls
(Sadly enough they wouldn't mind strangers coming in to my house unwelcomed)
With our late one, the only danger he posed would be if you were allergic to slobber. Our female GSD was a terror to anyone who came to the door, however (although she was fine if we let the person in.)
Second one is pretty much exactly what it's like working at Canadian Tire. The websites numbers are VERY unreliable and don't update to our systems numbers anywhere near often enough.
(FYI: It's always best to call customer service and ask for a visual confirmation if we have something showing low numbers on site.)
It might be that way at a lot of businesses.
First of all, that lady who pushed me would have gotten punched right in the throat.
I would have lost my job if pushed in the pond cuz seconds later, that lady would have been the one in the pond...
If you're good at Logistics you know exactly what's coming in, what's going out, what you have on stock, and the number. I still remember the last four NSN of several items when I did logistics for the Cav over ten years ago. The same things come up soo frequently that it all becomes muscle memory.
Shame on the writer for not demanding that the PETA woman be arrested for assault.
In these manufactured stories, the OPs rarely want to press charges.
The last one...that`s a standard sales technique. Push on no matter how many times you say no. Annoying as hell. It`s why I was never good at sales. I`d rather be polite than badger someone for a sale.
That second story. I work at the store mentioned..no their exact store but another one in another location. During inventory time you get crazy hours and start to know what's in the store and where.
I worked for the inventory service that did thier annual counts. It was us you prepared for. After 15 years of that work, where I counted every single Walmart and big box retailer(Lowes, HDepot, Menards, etc) across four states.
I have found myself leading customers to what they are wanting when I am out shopping on my own time and I witness employees who are clueless.
You can only count the exact same aisle in a handful of locations before you know what should be in each slot on every shelf.
@@jamestaylor3805 I only had to deal with customers near closing time. The last minute ones that rush in. Since I'm on the night crew we're stuck working all aisles and departments. Guess Im kinda lucky I get to study and learn the store more without distractions. As far as clueless employees..you hit that one right on the nail. Alot of them just seem to get away with not doing things aswell. 🤔
Oof, I felt that inventory story. My work doesn't have a traditional, "back room." All our inventory is on the floor: if it's not on the floor we don't have it. If a costumer wants something we don't have we're to direct them to the Kiosk where another co-worker will order it to our store or tell them which nearest company store has them. However, most people don't want to hear that, and best case they're disappointed and decline. The more entitled ones will chew your head off for something you can't control. "Why don't you just check the goddamn back? You didn't even check, you're just lazy!" No, I didn't check because, as I've told you five times already, all our stock is on the floor and if it's not here we simply don't have it.
Walk through a random door, wait 5 minutes come back, say nope all out. Bonus, the longer you stay there the harder you appear to be working.
I like how the Kirby or ElectroLux sales person will vacuum a section with your vacuum and then go over the same spot with theirs - showing that theirs picked up stuff yours missed. Reverse it and you'll see that yours will pick up stuff that theirs didn't. That's because no vacuum will get everything.
Also, at County/State fairs where they (Kirby, etc..) have a free free raffle to win great prizes - DON'T ENTER!!! No one wins a great prize. They will call and say, "We're sorry that you didn't win the big prizes but you did win a free carpet cleaning." This is just a way to get a list of suckers....errr...I mean Potential Customers where they can get in the house to pitch their vacuum during the cleaning.
I used to sell vacuums for a short time back in the early 90's
That person had much more restraint than me. That lady would have been sleeping with the fishes.
Poor fishes...
That PETA-Freak was the worst garbage polluting the pond.
in the first story i would have pressed charges on that karen its the only way they are gonna learn
Home improvement store, the company uniform is an orange apron...subtle. Hahaha.
7:12 anyone else notice that it says “I grab my cow’s phone?”😆
Yes, I noticed.
gotta love autocorrect. 🤣
Cows phone???? Only he knows I guess??😂😂😕😕
I did
I’m glad the first person got a raise!
Last story... happened to my Mum when she was 19, married and had my eldest sister as a toddler. Mum and Dad had just bought the house after living for a year with her (Karen) in-laws.
Sales came a doorknocking and Mum.answered.
He asked if her parents were home.
Mum said this was her house.
Salesman tried to push his way in by propping his foot in the door.
Just then Dad came home in full uniform.
And the salesman decamped.
Dad worked for the Dutch AA, can so easily be mistaken for the police
I'm sorry but that guy with the carpet cleaning thing, I won't even let them in the house I'd tell them to go the hell away I don't have carpet go away, which for me is true. And on top of that I would have call them various bad bad words and tell them never to come back near my house.
I had the best kirby vacuum cleaner story. It was night time when we hear a knock at my door. Im a young guy and just bought my house so im not expecting anyone coming over and usually my friends text me if they were coming. my buddy who rooming with me and my dad who lives with me goes and answers the door. two ladies ask if they can speak to the owner about a free product that we can receive. my buddy said ok and looks at me who is cleaning a shotgun on my coffee table. them not paying attention and looks to my dad and said sir we like to talk to you the owner about a free product. my dad looks at them and says im not the owner. they then ask who is looking at my buddy. my buddy, his girlfriend, and my dad point to me who still not paying attention to anything at the moment while cleaning this shotgun. my buddy then say hey they need to speak to you. me: huh oh ok. them: sir we have a gentleman who will speak to you about our free product. im like ok. so they leave go to their van and tell the guy he has a gun. salesguy is like oh great. he comes in and brings a kirby vacuum and im like oh great. so he starts doing his whole sales pitch with me cleaning my gun. i said sir are you ok. he nervous says yes fine. im like ok. he continues and demostrates the vacuum on my carpet then finishs. here comes the sale attempt. its 3 grand sir. me im just an E-4 in the military dude. we dont make that much. yeah i know but i got to try so the company will let him be. im like ok. he calls the office and after all the fail attempts they finally see no sale. im like cool, i know its hard work but good luck. he asked if he could wait inside since its cold outside. im like uh ok. i asked what happened to his coworkers. he said that they told him i have a gun and let him do the sale. as soon as he got off the car with the vacuum they sped off leaving him. im like what the fuck. he like yeah. sorry about that. he like nah its fine, at first i was nervous but then realized you guys are cool. i said thanks and his ride shows up and he leaves. fun night.
We get the people selling the Sun Gold cleaning product. You know, the ones who have their little demo bucket that actually cleans stuff, and then when you order a case, it doesn't clean anything? That crap. We saved a container and switched the product for the "demo" version..Guess what? When she started to clean something to show us the bait before the switch, it didn't clean like her demo. She freaked out, started crying, saying she would be fired if she lost the demo The owner pointed to the one we had switched, "It's right there in your hand." She threatened to call the police, "have our jobs" sue, and was dragged out by the security guards before the cops showed up;.
I'm confused as to how it was less dangerous to the fish in the deranged mind of the crazy lady to hurl a huge human being into the fish habitat, still holding his broom handle, than to let him keep poking at the water with the broom handle.
The inventory thing is so true. Half the time the system doesnt know what we actually have.
I have no idea why ppl think emlpoyees just dont want to sell something. Another thing is electronic inventories often take around 22 hours to update, and websites...maybe a week. When i worked retsil, the rule was that if the system showed less than 10 of something, then its probably sold out. I also learned rhst if you know you are out or dont have something, dont argue with the customer, just walk about back and play with your phone for a few minutes, come back and say "nope, dont have it."
I don't think this person would've been appeased by that, tho.
Rowynne Crowley agreed, that is sorta the point why retailers are directed to lie to customers. When I worked retail, I would often get the question of why don't we sell two tangentially related items together? I could have given the company schpiel on specificity of regional markets like I was supposed to...but nahhh.... I said "oh, because ppl want that and we not having it forces you to keep coming back to check, and impulse buy."
That was until I realised customers don't have a sense of humor.
I kind of get the second guy, since there should only be three reasons for the system being wrong.
A) the employees got something wrong when stocking (bad, shouldn't happen)
B) something got stolen (maybe look into it?)
C) the last pieces got bought in the time between 'he looked it up' and 'he bought it'
Or they use a shitty system
Ok, online catalogs are notoriously erroneous. The problem is internet sales do not always post to the locations system. This leaves "ghost inventory". Worse still are the "shopping cart" problems. Most systems, when you place an item in your digital cart, that item is put into a "hold", meaning that item doesn't appear on inventory registries anymore, even if you abandon your cart and not actually buy the stuff. This causes the opposite problem of items being on the shelf that the inventory system thinks is already gone.
Last story. Letting them in is the worst mistake. I lived in a sub division and someone was always trying to sell something.
I've worked at Home Depot. The inventory is a joke. It's rarely even remotely accurate. Trust the floor people. They have to move it all day. If they are adamant, they have been waiting for the product for either two days or two months.
7:19 the reason people like this refuse to believe an employee knows what they are talking about or that a customer does not in fact work there is because they are extreme narcissists and cannot even comprehend the possibility that their initial assumption might not be correct.
I worked in HD and I can confirm that at least 50% of the time our website says we have it, we don't.
They are so inaccurate and inconsistent that I just physically walk to the said area to confirm it.
It supposed to be our department head's job to keep the inventory up to date...but....they don't often do.
Carpet cleaner:. These people just won't take no for an answer, they keep asking the same questions over and over again. Just because an individual looks like they aren't old enough to own a house doesn't mean that they can't own one.
Ideal response to Karen or Kevin is "are you an idiot?" Wait for a beat, giving them a moment to formulate an answer and maybe start to answer, hold up a hand stopping them. "... no, no sorry that was a rhetorical question." Of course they are.
I love people who think when you are in service or retail you don't want their money, so you withhold product from them.
10:06 yeah I got set up with a job interview a few years ago.
21 in the room and nothing anywhere to give us the tip it was Kirby.
Those people are sociopaths in marketing and will never hear NO, unless they are forced into a corner.
They will bully people into accepting a contract just so the salesman leave.
Even after I instructed a guy that I'm well aware of their tactics after seeing trainers in action, the guy still stuck his foot between my front doors, then discovered my dog. A 100lb Pitbull, Staffordshire Terrier, and Bull Terrier cross.
Told him "looks like my dog isn't interested in your bull crap either, you predator. If I see you knocking on the doors in this Street I'll be taking my dog for a walk, in your direction".
Fking arse, was trying to get fresh with my gf in front of me and wouldn't take the hint, that she was not only not interested, but he was scaring her, with his advances. IN FRONT OF MY FACE.
Now the type. Worked for a very short time as a vacuum cleaner salesman. Nothing backs these guys down. Not in touch with the real world.
I have a Kirby story! I told the sales lady that I’m not buying but she could come clean the carpet. She said that she’ll keep cleaning the same spot and we sat there chatting for about 20 minutes. Suddenly my daughter starts to chock. The Kirby lady does the heimlich on my daughter twice and this clears the obstruction. After that the Kirby lady left very quickly. Too bad! I would have bought the Kirby from her as a thank you for saving my daughter’s life!
FYI, as a former Kirby sales rep. I can assure you that they are trained to push a sale no matter how many times you say not buying. They are told that people can not say no more than 52 times. Whatever Like I said former.
in the last story usually the sales people have to go through the whole pitch in order to get credit for the meeting
Any sale's person who comes to your house and asks too many questions doesn't seem to understand that"Yes, I'm the owner of this house and and what the hell do you want" doesn't seem to understand that you own your house and not some hired help or whatever. 😒🙄😒🤦🏻
Kirby sales people. I had them promise me they were the best. Could not even pick up dog hair off carpet or wood floors
I was in one of those stores w/ the orange aprons looking for a certain fan. When an employee told me they weren't in stock, I took his word for it & left. At home, I checked the website again & found the location of where it was supposed to be. The website said there were 11 in stock. We went back & looked in the designated area. Sure enough there were 11 on the shelf. We bought one, told the cashier what had happened, but didn't raise a fuss. Not all employees are as efficient as the one in this story.
I usually go ahead and look around a bit before taking their word, just because sometimes things get rearranged or stocked w/o the person I'm talking to knowing about. Or I'll find something similar to what I was looking for originally and get that
@@poisonedflowers Their website usually has the location of the item in question. I didn't write that down the first time we looked & didn't have the time or inclination to look for it. W/ the Covid situation, we didn't want to spend any more time in the store than necessary. Other times, I like SHOPPING ... not necessarily BUYING. Our kids didn't like that idea & only go to the stores now when they need something.
Minecraft player with 30 Skulker boxes: I AM THE INVENTORY!!
Modded Minecraft player with the parts of a basic AE system: Sure you are.
Fun fact, if you never pay for your kirby, it's a free vacuum! 🤣
They never ever ask for confirmation of the name you give them, or sign on thier papers. Such a shitty industry.
Ahh Kirby.
The business that trains no one. Not even a script. They just tell you its a vacuum and send you out on unsuspecting customers.
always press assault charges
I pressed charges on a guy for throwing chips at me at work. I don't fuck around with crazy people. Good thing, too. While I was looking at the video with the cops, the guy came back with one of those fluorescent tubes intending to bash my skull with it or something. Then ended up tackling him to the pavement, and he was still yelling obscenities at me from the back of the car. I guess it's a good thing he came back when he did, tho, or they might never have caught him.
The last one is just how they sell them be as annoying as possible and make you pay to make them leave...
I can get being annoyed because the website says has it out there for customers and it isn't but this might be overkill. I once wanted a simple little lamp but apparently they hadn't restocked it and the website didn't know that. None on the shelf. I had to show the page for them to look at the shelf which I already looked at a half dozen times and every other shelf in the area that might hold it. Then they look it up on their stuff and lo and behold it in the back!
I'm forever tellibg people that shop with us that just because the site says "collect from store" doesnt necessarily mean we have it. We have a location checker for this reasons. If A store has ONE in stock regardless of where the site flags it as collectable.
That ended kind of abruptly. The story wasn't finished.
Kirby is the worst for ignoring people stating Im not buying. I worked for them for 2 hours. They don't train people. They just say go sell it. They're worse than the guys in white shirts that come to your door to promote religion.
Good its not click bait yay!😄😄😄
an em would throw a tortuous into a lake to "save it"
(tortuous cant swim)
What's a tortuous? You mean tortoise.
PETA did release 500 minks that had lived their whole life inside out into sub zero temps about 15 years ago so they could "Live free". All of them died of exposure within 500 feet of the facility.
they did a similar thing in the uk and the very few that survived the qeather ended up decimating our native water vole population
Of course a PETA nut-job would throw GARBAGE into a pond thinking they were somehow helping the fish...
Home depot is notorious for bait and switch.
I know from experience that the website isn't always right. I've gone to buy things that the website says they have and don't.
Ladies and gentlemen, I do believe we’ve found one of, if not the first, companies to be run entirely by Kevins.
Kevin = Male Karen I assume?
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You deserve more then 28k you should have 1/2 a mil to 2 mil
Keep up the good work, I really enjoy your vids
8:33 what ? I have Rustoleum in my cupboards and it is not used for concrete.
It's a chemical used to treat RUST then convert it to non-oxidized steel or iron.
Thus is the reason it's called RUSToleum.
I've also worked in the concrete industry for over 8 years, and it's NEVER been used in any jobs I've been involved with.
I've also been trained as a certified concrete tester, which involves the assessment of impurities that are detrimental to the structural integrity of the concrete construction.
Rustoleum is acidic. Concrete is alkaline. 1 can of coke will destroy the entire batch due to sugar content creating retardation in settings. Rustoleum will destroy surfaces, creating holes, making it porous. Which then eats out rheo that's there to give strength in the first place.
Is this BS deliberately done, so only some people recognise that a story is fabricated?
RUSTex, is another name for the same product.
These blatant lies really piss me off.
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Ohh these people itch the carpet cleaners are so dark they get paid to be In Your home and have To stay a few hours!
Hi i love your stories. read one every day. makes me smile.xx
Be glad you didn't buy the vacuum that company is a mlm
that last story stopped short.
Karen’s be like : imma get u employeeted
Made my day
Is it just me or does this guy sounds like Penn off of Penn and Teller
He does. I didn't notice till I just read your posting.
People for the unethical treatment of animals.
I thought it stood for - Perpetually & Eternally Total Assholes
For R1, "you should have asked for a raise".
Life is quite amusing if there are no karens around. 😂😂
That second person said he was doing 80+ hours a week, for 5 months. That's 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, or 16 hours a day, 5 days a week. This seems a tad unlikely, even assuming the business is even open that long. The last guy was just being an asshole. He didn't want, or need his old carpets cleaned and was going to be throwing them out soon anyway. Yet, he still let them go ahead. It seemed he was getting a kick out of seeing them waste their time, even though they're probably low paid in the first place. All of which is said under the assumption that theses stories are actually true. Half the stories from this site sound either made-up, or exaggerated/altered beyond all recognition. It's not as if they're fact checked, after all.
In the active duty military, 80-hour weeks for 5 months is called an easy deployment. Multiple consecutive 100+ hour weeks aren't uncommon.
So, that kind of time spent at a Home Depot is extremely believable. Hell, some would call that workload a walk in the park.
But I wanna know on the carpet. Did it actually get cleaner?
No one:
Not even a single person:
Him: I DON'T BELIEVE YOU. YOU'RE LYING
I love playing sales rep’s for the fools they sometimes are, whether in person or on the ‘phone! I let them do their spiel, then tell them variations on “no thanks”! They usually swear at me! I laugh!
How did the last story end? What happened with the carpet cleaner?
Me to the salesman: If you really want to clean the carpet we're going to throw away, fine. But you have absolutely zero chance of selling me anything. I won't even listen to a sales pitch. That would waste your and more importantly *my* time."
After cleaning the carpet and starting the pitch, I'd hold up my hand and say, "I let you clean the carpet like you wanted to. Now please leave. I'm not listening to a sales pitch and if you are still here 5 minutes from now, I am calling the police for trespassing. Your call."
People Eating Tasty Animals, PETA
The first story shouldve ended with "btw im having fish and chips, and it's absolutely delicious"
rub it in her face
with salt and pepper
and citrus juice
The story of the home improvement store shows how stupid some people are. The idea of the store is to sell the inventory. Why would they lie and not sell it??? The customer was really having a bad day!
Nothing to comment about but just putting it out there..#4👍 have a happy day all you good people😊
im gonna put my story at R/IDOWORKHERELADY.
how the hell im gonna put my story crap
That Kirby's a real suck-up.