Customer grouch loves the trash

Yesterday was yet again another completely boring day at work. The main difference is that now that our backdock is out of service we have to take our loads at the front of the store and drag them out to the back dock, a process which is very, very annoying and time consuming. This will be happening for about a month and sucks the fat one, big time.

Due to this we also have to take our rubbish out into the carpark out the front to get rid of it. This is the setting for this little story of mine.

It was about 2 o'clock and a group of the woolies crew had to take a shitload of rubbish out to the bins. In this delightful stock of rubbish there was a variety of out of date meat and grocery items along with the general rubbish of the store.

So we are there putting rubbish in the bin when a lady with a stroller and her small child comes along and starts to look through the meat and other goods on one of the flat tops.

"Can I take some of these, you aren't just going to throw this all away, I'll take some meat to give to my dog."

Upon this our store manager for the day says to the lady that it is all out of date stock and that we have to throw it out, basically that no she can't take any of it because we can't just give people free stuff.

The lady begins to argue with the store manager (here starts the problem not that it hasn't already started).

The lady continues to go on about it asking why she can't have any of it, wha wha, whinge whinge.

She then proceeds to start taking things off the flat top, to which the store manager takes it back saying "I'm sorry we are not allowed to give away our stock, against store policy.

The lady continues to argue

Meanwhile the rest of us are laughing at the whole incident.

Eventually the lady gives up saying, "I'll just come back later when you aren't here", and walks off.

We all just smile and nod, knowing very well that the bins will be locked.


So there are a few things wrong here.

Let me get this straight first however.

Woolworths does indeed dump alot of stock some of which is still perfectly fine, I don't agree with them doing this however it is alot easier than handing it out to people. It is also against our store policies to give stock away for free (although the mark down policy does mean that we practically give stock away sometimes).

This lady wanted something for free and couldn't grasp the concept that we couldn't give it to her.

You are indeed a knob.

I would have liked to have been there when she went back only to find the bins locked, hahaha. Even if she did get them open the hilarity in her swimming through the piles of rubbish would again bring tears of laughter.

Why are some people so fucking stingey that they have to ask for free out of date stock? These people are the real tight arses of our community. The fact that she was wearing pearls and Armani says that you can afford to buy meat for your dogs.

All these rich people who frown upon us for wasting food when there are millions of people starving.

Here's an idea take out your own check book you rich fuck and donate some money to feed the starving children yourself. Oh no too hard, I need that money to pay for our butler, then don't fucking critise us you tight arses.

Also the fact that the meat is clearly off due to the fact that it is both out of date and hasn't been sitting in a fridge for 3 days would suggest to me that it isn't good for anyone, including your stupid fucking dogs.

What a complete bitch.