One time I was at a grocery store and they sold out of a particular drink I liked.
A manager was standing nearby and I asked when they would restock it.
"Never." He said. "It always sells out and I don't want to constantly order and restock it, so I'm not going to get more."
Reminds me of the story of the warehouseman who refused to give someone the last of an item in the warehouse because that would mean they'd be out of stock.
Ah. There's a reasons for that, as told to me by a supply sergeant in the military. A lot of suppliers had a BEL (Basic Equipment List), which says all stock must have a minimum and a maximum of XYZ in order to meet government spec. Some large items, like diesel generators, have a BEL minimum of 2, but also because of their size and storage complexity, have a maximum of 2. So it order to get a new one, you must get rid of one of the old ones. But if you get rid of the old one, you are below minimum BEL, and could fail inspection or an inventory check, if it takes a while to get a new one. Large items don't always "hang around," but they get manufactured on demand, so the only way to get a new one is to be without one for a very long period of time. Thus, you risk failing inspection. The best way to avoid that is to keep two and never order any.
Military logic.
On top of that, everything is ordered by article number. So it happened on a boat that they needed two replacement bolts for the engine. The engineer wrote the order, and the captain signed it and sent it to HQ.
They were informed the order would take (a long time). When they finally got the word that the order was in, they were astonished that two heavy load trucks were waiting for them. Each containing a turbine nearly as big as their boat. Which had nearly the same inventory number as the bolts. With two digits switched.
Reminds me of my buddy’s story from his time as a warehouse manager for Blockbuster (yeah, we’re old…) Blockbuster’s management did loss prevention and breakage based on item count, not item value. If a new hire shoved a $30 DVD down their pants and walked out with it every week, corporate wouldn’t care. After all, it was only 1 DVD each week. And 1 is an acceptably low number. But if that same hire shoved a $5 box of 100 pencils down their pants, corporate would lose their fucking minds. Because each pencil was counted as 1 item, so they were suddenly 100 items short.
It was sort of an open secret in the warehouse that if you were going to steal something, you should only go for the high value shit. And only do it if nobody else had already done so recently. So if the system said you had 5 in stock and there were 5 in the bin, it was open season. Because as long as you only stole one of them, corporate wouldn’t care. But if you pocketed a dozen 50¢ “impulse buy next to the register” toys, loss prevention would be patting people down as they clocked out.
That's how Dylan Moran runs his bookstore in Black Books.
Paraquoting off the top of my head: "Customers?? Who wanted to buy something???? What the hell do you treat them nicely for?!" ... "You don't get it; Paying customers who get what they want means books get sold. Which means you have to restock them and deal with additional customers!"
seems like a funny joke tbh
Which would have been funny. They didn't ever restock the drink, though.
Sounds like the shopkeeper was more interested in resting than infinite profits & money.
Trickle down economics.
You don't get it though! If you just let the absolute greediest people in the world keep all their profit then they'll definitely share with you!
I actually had a coworker say a few months ago that he's a Regan Republican because he believed in trickle down economics... I literally said "really man? And how many more decades of being wrong do you need before you realize it still doesn't work, is five decades enough?" To which he didn't have a reply...
We won't tax the rich more, coz they are gonna leave if we do.
Seattle just passed a millionaires tax. Howard Schultz, the old Starbucks CEO, made a big stink of it and moved away.
Thing is, Howard Schultz is universally reviled in Seattle. Even corporate shills agree that he fucking sucks.
The rich are job creators! /s
This is second hand from a friend, but he said he overheard a conversation between 2 coworkers:
Person A: looks like you got some sun this weekend
Person B (badly sunburned): Yeah, I just bought a convertible and did a lot of driving with the top down. I figured that the wind would stop me from getting sunburned, but I guess it wasn't cold enough
Person A: That's... not how that works
A coworker of mine thinks that climate change isn't real and that believing that humans have the capability is pure hubris. And a few months after he told me that, he claimed that windmills were making tornados worse.
Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly.
"Call volume is higher than normal"
The fuck it is. If anytime I call is 'higher than normal', change what your "normal" baseline is or stop lying to me.
An old boyfriends Dad never used indicators when he drove, because " they should know where I'm going"
I met a boy once who thought that a blowjob meant he'd take off all his clothes and then I'd blow on his skin ... I mean, it's subtle and probably pleasant, but most guys prefer the regular kind
I worked with this dude who i thought was pretty chill. Then one day we're talking about the future of the world and he tells me that he thinks global warming is a punishment from god coz we legalised gay people getting married in Australia. I thought he was joking and took me a few minutes to realise this guy was dead serious
Any of trumps speeches.
That or the things his followers say to justify why they follow him.
I’ve mentioned this one before, but it’s worth retelling.
I briefly knew a guy, absolute hick ass trailer trash, who said a large number of incredibly dumb things to me, but this one stands out. He once told me that Southern Baptist was the one true religion, because, and this is a direct quote, “His name is John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”
And for him that was a QED moment.
Dumbest motherfucker I’ve ever encountered.
I was at a trailer park party once as a non-white person in the south.
Apropos of nothing, I was approached by probably the skinniest human on the planet. Like, he was so skinny you couldn't tell if you were looking directly at his bones, or if his skin was actually a paper thin covering over his bones. He was so skinny, he could have performed in some sort of advertisement explaining how the price of a cup of coffee could help feed the starving southerners.
As I was scanning my periphery to see if I could identify the Necromancer that was animating this creature, this person told me, of their own volition, that in church they had learned that white people were made by God and therefore had souls and black people evolved from monkeys and therefore did not have souls.
In his mind, this was a way of reconciling the truth of evolution with the faith of his church.
He had no idea that he had just lobbed the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life at me.
This is extremely close to what the Mormon church told their followers for a long time. Cain slew Abel. God found out, marked Cain, and cast him out of the garden… The Book of Mormon states that the Canaanites (Cain’s children) were cursed by a “blackness” descending upon them. Yes, that was interpreted in the most racist way possible.
The Mormon church used to officially preach that Cain was marked by being turned black. So black people were descendants of Cain, and therefore couldn’t officially be part of the church. Black people being accepted into the church is still a relatively recent thing, and only because of massive amounts of external pressure. The church didn’t disavow their racist teachings until 2013. Literally less than 20 years ago. There are fucking middle schoolers who have been alive longer than black people have been in the Mormon church.
the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life
Damn, the white southerners have started behaving themselves since I left a couple of decades ago if that’s the worst you heard! Barely even joking, I’ve met so many people where I live now who are from the south that say ‘I just had to get the fuck out’. Gorgeous places, tiny clusters of great people, and vast swathes of shit straight out of Deliverance.
I was once stopped by an elderly couple.
One side of the couple was arguing that the sun went out at night.
The other couple was arguing that the moon covered over the sun at night, and that's why we couldn't see the sun.
They asked me to clarify which one of them was correct as an independent third party, and I told them that the earth rotates, and so when you can't see the sun, it's because it's on the other side of the planet.
They both paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then looked at me and said, "oh, yeah", and that was the end of the argument.
Sounds like they were made for each other.
Somebody once told me they don't read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.
Hey, we got a reader over here!
I've already told that story but anyway: a relative told me that the GDPR was a conspiracy from Europe to destroy the European internet (why? why not!)
So that guy literally deleted his own web site (full of old stuff, it was a big project) so that... he would not be forced to delete his own web site by the big bad Europe.
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth... except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
I knew a girl that was convinced that ~90% of planes crash...
I had to ask her "do you really think they'd keep making them if almost all of them killed people?"
That AI will make jobs.
united states is a democracy
"Going faster with the car doesnt use more fuel".
Not the very dumbest because i heard lots of dumb stuff to really list it all but this is defenetly up there just like: "Water does take longer to boil with salt". While true, it is so minimal that its not even a second for a regular pot
Once in Kindergarten I overheard two adults talking. They were concerned about kids drinking from the same cup because of ... AIDS. That day I learned that even adults could be ignorant. I definitely knew that AIDS could only be transmitted through blood and specifically not through spit.
I didn't know about the other way but after hearing about AIDS in the news my (I think) brother assured me that it couldn't be transmitted through spit.
"Monkeys are brown because they eat bananas. You know how flamingos turn pink because they eat shrimp? Well monkeys eat bananas and bananas turn brown" -two dead ass serious girls I met
"People didn't use crossbows when trying to siege a castle because the bolts fly in a straight line, so they fly over castle walls" -college history professor, about to be surprised gravity existed in the middle ages
giving rich people more money is important for 'job creation'.
the lie that killed the middle class
Sony is choosing to support Marathon over Destiny 2.
"If democrats want to make the vaccine free because it's 'life saving', why come they don't want to make cancer treatment free too???"
"This isn't what I voted for!"
Indigenous people in Canada believe a giant Sasquatch creature called Sabe is real. Really real. Give me a fucking break guys.
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