• imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee
    311·
    9 months ago

    Guess it depends on what it is, but 90day warranties are still a thing. Everything is just meant to be disposable now though so I guess the idea of refunds is an older person thing.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    9 months ago

    I believe McConnell is too old to be a boomer, and is from the Silent generation.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    15·
    9 months ago

    I actually had an old man insist I give him his money back, for an empty can of beets that he said were bad, I asked him when he bought them so I could look up the receipt. “Oh, I think about this time last year.”

    • eric@lemmy.world
      465·
      9 months ago

      Horrible advice. In many POS systems, the system enforces the refund policy. You have to input the receipt number, and once you do, the system tells you that a refund isn’t possible if it’s too old. And if the system allows it but protocol does not, it’s going to be real easy for management to find out who broke the rules and fire you for cause.

      • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
        155·
        9 months ago

        Nah just play it straight-faced and be smart. Lay your groundwork, cover your tracks, and do your follow-ups. I scammed employers (the big ones) out of tens of thousands over the years using whatever leeway afforded to me to reward the nice customers.

          • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
            147·
            9 months ago

            I can’t believe there are people out there just doing their job straight, while the excess value of their labour just goes into the pockets of some investor whose biggest contribution to society is, like, a blog from 2018 on the best altitude to take a power nap.

            • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              92·
              9 months ago

              I think one should leave high school with the bare minimum of social skills required to manipulate a manager to give a old fuck free shit from a ma-hoo-sive company.

              Old people have like zero money and rapidly declining health they can’t afford to address. Yeah, they’re easily manipulated by nonsense “news” and shit, but, like, they’re people, help em steal $50 of cheap appliances

            • ikiru@lemmy.ml
              2·
              9 months ago

              I might not be stealing money from work, but I am definitely a proud time thief.

          • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            9 months ago

            Occasionally. My retail experience was brief. I’m speaking mostly from experience on the phones. For some reason I was given more discretionary power there than in person

      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1310·
        9 months ago

        Press the feed button on the receipt printer to eject blank paper, pocket their receipt. Call management over saying dudes trying to return something he bought last week, but the receipt printer musta fucked up cause it’s blank. Managers gonna hem and haw, pull em aside and say “cmon it’s just a sad old man prolly didn’t even notice he got a blank receipt”

        Do they not teach cons anymore??

          • eric@lemmy.world
            10·
            9 months ago

            Exactly. Pocketing the customer’s receipt, then feeding out blank paper in order to lie to a manager would be so easy to determine with cameras. Anyone that’s half-competent in loss prevention would catch that.

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml
            7·
            9 months ago

            Seriously. Flip to another thread and it will be cashiers/servers/customer service workers complaining that cusotmers are such assholes because they are entitled to shit that they aren’t. This advice was just encouraging that.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      101·
      9 months ago

      I’m not rushing my job or even putting in the effort to help some mush brain boomer. They need to be told NO more often.

      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        53·
        9 months ago

        Sure but like not if they’re trying to con Walmart or Applebee’s or whatever, help em fuck the company.

        If you don’t know how to steal from your job and use it to help others, jeez louise, you’re the one who needs help

        • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 months ago

          I have a decent job with a union, pension and benefits. I’d be an idiot and a piece of shit for stealing here. And sure if I worked at Walmart I wouldn’t care, but I still wouldn’t do it for some random person I don’t know

  • lugal@lemmy.ml
    81·
    9 months ago

    But I read the book already, I don’t need it anymore!

  • Transcriptionist@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

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    Text at the top of the image reads:

    '“Sir, it’s like I told you the first six times. I can’t refund an item which you bought three months ago”

    Boomers-’

    Below the text is an image of American politician Addison Mitchell “Mitch” McConnell III standing in front of the self-service checkouts at Walmart.

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  • yyy@feddit.nl
    42·
    9 months ago

    Was surprised two months retour policy is common online, makes more sense online but still that’s quite the try out time.