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>I think we can all think of times when someone at work "red-socked-it". When I worked at Best Buy years ago, they started making us wear earpieces. I hated tr
by learc83 9y ago
>I think we can all think of times when someone at work "red-socked-it".
When I worked at Best Buy years ago, they started making us wear earpieces. I hated trying to do my job with constant interruptions in my ear, but instead of telling management I hated it, I pretended to love it.
I started talking over the radio constantly, and I'd end every phrase by making a white-noise sound and saying over. Eventually the managers took my radio away, and they thought it was a punishment.
- bitwize 9y agoI'd be doing that all the time. "Copy that, HQ. Bravo Team is go. Repeat, Bravo Team is go."
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoSubject "Charlie" has entered the premises, operation Enduring Prosperity is a go
- gadders 9y agoWhen pissed and sitting in the front seat of taxis, my friend used to grab the microphone of the cabbie's radio and start calling in Napalm strikes. "[fake static noise] AWACS 1 AWACS 1 REQUEST NAPALM ACACIA AVENUE OVER."
- etjossem 9y ago"Golf Squad's pulling up outside."
- DonbunEf7 9y agoI went to private Catholic school. In theology class, the priest would punish chatty students by making them eat a dog biscuit in front of the classroom. I learned which biscuit colors corresponded to which flavors, picked the least-bad one intentionally, and proceeded to slowly savor it in front of everybody. After that, he retired the punishment.
- lr4444lr 9y agoI shudder to think how many you had to eat to become confident about their flavor ranking.
- NTripleOne 9y agoOne of each colour, I'd wager.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoThey don't taste that bad, they're just really hard.
- trhway 9y agowhy dog biscuit supposed be that bad that eating them would be a punishment? After all dogs are mammals like us and have pretty similar biology, tastes, nutritional requirements (with the exceptions for some things which are dangerous to them like chocolate, garlic, raisins, xylitol, etc). Though given the Catholic mindset - holier than thou top of the God's creation - the priests and the likes of course would fancy themselves as highly entitled higher beings.
- learc83 9y agoI see someone never tried dog food as a child. It's not pleasant.
- trhway 9y agothat is my point - why a lot of dog food so bad? Back at the USSR we didn't have dog food, and the dogs we had in my childhood ate what we ate (or a bit better as we, humans, could go on pasta/bread, while cats couldn't and dogs would better get some meat too). Coming in the US i discovered that there is a lot of crap biologically not suitable for consumption by mammals, especially by biological predators like cats/dogs/humans, which is sold under the guise of cat/dog food. Unfortunately for my cat back at the time it took some time for me to learn that.
- artmageddon 9y agoMy goodness, when was this? I worked there for a short stint in 2000, right around the launch of the PlayStation 2(which was an utter nightmare in of itself). I probably would've flipped if I had been subjected to that.
- kej 9y agoIt was sometime around 2005 to 2008. You could always take the earpiece off if you were in the middle of a deep conversation with a customer, and it was handy to be able to call a manager or another department without having to chase them down somewhere in the store.
- learc83 9y agoI was in Geek Squad, so if I was always either talking to a customer or fixing computers. Also like everything else at Best Buy, your experience varied dramatically depending on your managers. At my store, managers expected you to be available over the radio, customer or not. You could get away with taking it off very occasionally, but that was it.
- ianamartin 9y agoMalicious compliance. I love that.