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steveold7
USA
190 Posts |
 Posted - 03/24/2012 : 16:38:27
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I was thinking about when I first started in this field.I thought about the time a had to do some vapor recovery testing and I was shutting down the station.I was only doing testing for a few months.A customer parked behind the last person pumping while I was taping it off.This is how the conversation went.
"mam I'm sorry but the gas is closed for testing"
"Well I need to get gas"
"There is a station across the street that is open"
"No I want to get gas here!!"
"I DON'T CARE IF YOU WANNA GET F**KING GAS HERE YOU ARE NOT GETTING GAS HERE!!"
"JERK!!"
Thank goodness I was polite and professinal to the station manager.She went and complained to him and he didn't believe.
"you don't seem like you would say that to her"
LOL
Alrighty then who can top that?
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smellslikegas
USA
440 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2012 : 17:31:18
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I was at a station inside an Air Force base. The pumps were running very slow, needed filters changed. This place is always busy, they need 4 times the pumps they have. 3 people lined up at each pump. One dispenser at a time I got in line, put a cone in line behind the last car on the other side and gradually moved up. Knew this was going to take a long time but what you going to do. I was on the next to last pump, I had put cones in front of the pump I was going to do next when I had the chance. I had just removed the filter when a jeep pulled up and ran over my cone in front of the other pump. I just rolled my eyes and continued. This guy started pumping and started cussing because it was running so slow. He looked around and saw me and "ordered" me to fix his pump NOW.
sorry sir but I can't do that
*&^Dammit I said to fix this pump now
sir I have an open filter here, I cannot walk away from this, if that valve decides to stop holding you could end up with gas running down the street of this base
But this pump is running slow
Yes sir it is, that is the next one I am going to work on, that is why there was a cone in front of it
I don't see any f'n cone
Guess you didn't f'n see it when you ran over it either, look under your damn car.
You little (insert every curse word you have ever heard and a few I think he made up) I am a (repeat all those curse words) colonel in the (repeat again) United States Air Force and you will (and again) do what I say
As soon as I get this filter on
He walked inside and I was laughing until two cars of MP's pulled up and the colonel walked up
I want this (here comes those words again) van emptied and searched, and then I want him strip searched and if you find one ( and again) thing I want his ass locked up.
the MP's had me open the back door as the colonel drove away. Once he was around the corner they started laughing and wanted to know what I had done to piss him off so much. I explained to them what happened and they laughed and said do you realize that is probably the first time in 30 years somebody had told him no. they drove off still laughing.
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I can't fix stupid, But I can sure charge for it. |
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xardoz
USA
3482 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2012 : 22:57:28
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| Those are f'ing great! :D |
https://constitution.hillsdale.edu/201
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security
will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin |
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nelsonpw
USA
1104 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2012 : 10:49:51
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Great thread idea Steve. I don't think I can top yours...
The one time I really snapped was a quickie. I was at a Shell station in Pacifica working on a DL1390 and some slob walks up and asks me why the dispenser slows down near the end of a prepay. I start to explain that the dispenser needs to slow down to stop at the exact amount otherwise it might overrun. This ass interrupts me mid explanation and says "That's bull****." I looked him straight in the eye and said "F*** you".
He walked away. The next morning our service manager asks me if I told someone "F-U" and I said yep, sure did. The end. |
This is my signature. There are others like it but this one is mine. |
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Mrdangerous
USA
541 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2012 : 15:29:31
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I was contracted by another company to install Passports for a number of their stores and was trying to train a store owner and cashiers at on particular site where the owner had been underfoot and in the way the whole time. The guy begins interrupting me at dang near every sentence because he apparently doesn't like the way Gilbarco wrote the software. I can barely get started before he jumps ahead and wants something else explained, and then wants to argue about my answer. Then he begins arguing with me about how the cashier changes their own passwords and he doesn't. Then he wants to argue with me about running the report printer to his office at the other end of the store and that a Cat5 cable should operate a parallel printer just fine. Finally I snap and in front of his cashiers, customers, and 45 family members packed behind the counter I proclaim "Now you listen to me. THIS IS THE WAY THIS F___ING MACHINE WORKS. I DON'T GIVE A S__T IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT BECAUSE I CAN'T DO A D@MN THING ABOUT IT. BUT IF YOU INTERRUPT ME ONE MORE F___ING TIME, I WILL TAKE THIS F___ING CASH DRAWER AND BEAT YOUR F___ING HEAD IN WITH IT AND I WILL TRAIN YOUR WIFE HOW TO RUN IT STANDING OVER YOUR BLEEDING F___ING CARCASS."
When I finally get done, he hands me his card, tells me he likes my style, and wants me to install Passports at his other stores.
I flung it out the truck window on my way home. |
No, I can't sell you cigarettes. I don't work here and this pile of parts is the cash register. |
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jberthi2
508 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2012 : 09:07:05
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| Sometimes Verifone helpdesk has weird issues with their answering machine, it doesn't take message and sends you back to to the Que or just drops you. It can be really frustrating when you have been working a long day it just need a question answered, so one time I left a message "F*****u!", helpdesk called my company with a warning a lot quicker then they called me with a reply. |
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Pet. Equip. Dist.
88 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2012 : 09:17:56
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A friend of mine worked at a gas station when we were about 16 and he had a number of stories.
After checking a guys oil while the car was being filled, the driver demanded he wash the windshield also. My friend points to the sign and says, do you see what that sign says? The guy puffed up and said yep, Full Service! Friend replies, that's right it does not say f-ing car wash now does it!
Another guy was upset because some gas kicked back out onto the ground when the nozzle shut off and he refused to pay the full amount. "That's .50 worth of gas on the ground that I'm not paying for!" This was when gas was probably $1.20/gal. My friend says, no this is what 50 cents worth of gas looks like as he pumps it onto the lot.
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crscyn717
USA
288 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2012 : 13:36:12
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working for a jobber, texaco with BK.
owned both, 4 miles from talladega speedway.
PREM B units, replacing a mother board and 3 bad meters,
had doors, meters my truck cones, barricades, dude pulls up moves my cones and then leans over hey does thing F*^&)*^ thing even work,
no sir but thee are 14 other Fp that do im kinda working on this one.
IM GONNA CALL ***, THE OWNER.
dialed his number, and told dude hes gonna say " hey man" when he answers the phone. |
Hibernation science has come a long way since Han Solo was frozen in carbonite |
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jgar477
USA
241 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2012 : 16:03:46
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quote:
Originally posted by crscyn717
dude pulls up moves my cones and then leans over hey does thing F*^&)*^ thing even work,
By biggest pet peeve is people moving my cones, people running over my cones, and people walking through my cones. And then some people think cones means park right here even though you have 10 other fueling points open. Last time somebody messed with my cones their bumper met my "18 offset wrench. Too bad I missed I was aiming for the back windshield. |
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smellslikegas
USA
440 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2012 : 18:29:38
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| Sounds like the lady that pulled up in a parking space while I was calibrating. I had 3 cones with flags in them around the fill. When she backed out of the space she ran over 2 of my cones and smashed my funnel. She then proceeded to yell at me for putting them behind her car. I told her that I had been there all day and if she didn't see them when she pulled in and drove right by them, if she didn't see them when she got out of her car and walked right by them, if she didn't see them when she walked right by them a second time walking back to her car, and still didn't see them when she started to back up then she should trade her damn car in for a seeing eye dog. |
I can't fix stupid, But I can sure charge for it. |
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pumpguy55
128 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2012 : 11:06:15
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I was calibrating a pump in Shoshone, ID. Cones on both sides. The Fire Marshall pulled up, moved my cones from side 7, pulled up and got gas.
The chief of police was inside the store laughing his ass off watching this. |
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nelsonpw
USA
1104 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2012 : 11:27:58
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quote:
Originally posted by pumpguy55
I was calibrating a pump in Shoshone, ID. Cones on both sides. The Fire Marshall pulled up, moved my cones from side 7, pulled up and got gas.
The chief of police was inside the store laughing his ass off watching this.
Hard to snap on those two... |
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pumpguy
USA
195 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2012 : 14:11:27
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| I went to a call about the premium not pumping. Get there to find a bad relay in one of the esco relay boxes. You know the ones with 4 relays in one box. I'm not about to change one relay with any of them running so I proceed to bag the rest of the pumps. After watching me bag 2 pumps and following me to the third a customer says to me are you just gonna walk around and bag every pump so that I can't use it. Yes sir I replied. To which he said you can't bag it if i get there first. so I replied no I don't guess I can. As he walked in to prepay I bagged the pump that he pulled up to. On his way back out he saw the bag and asked why i bagged it. I told him that it was f*** U day and he was the winner of the first F U of the day. |
Is the big red button in or out? Yes the big one that says emergency shut off... Yes ma'am someone did touch it. I do not know who or why, I only know that someone pushed it. |
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steveold7
USA
190 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2012 : 14:23:02
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That reminds once when I was in Aspen repairing Americas favorite flex pipe TC in a UDC and a customer told me to check her oil and wash fluid
"Sure for fifty dollars I'll do that"
"It's free here I thought?"
"Oh well in that cas u might wanna ask someone that works here!" |
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petro_tech60
33 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2012 : 06:09:42
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| I could write forever because I don't have a very good bedside manner and have no problem being rude to people who don't pay attention or think that the rules don't apply to them. That being said, about a year ago I was working at a station that had been closed for 5 years. After a couple of trips I was to finish the lightening struck dispensers and install a 2nd Ruby that the owner had found in a cabinet somewhere in the store. After putting the dispensers in working order I turned my attention to the Ruby. It would power up but not go into sys manager. I told the owner that he needed a new CPU board on the Ruby. He asked me how much it was and I usually don't price anything but I was prepared for this and I told him the price. He then asked me how much a new Ruby was and I told him that he would need to talk to one of our salesmen. At this he blew up and started cussing me and told me that I was of no use to him. I tried to explain that my job was to make it work, not sell it. Being middle eastern, he just kept up his tirade. I finally had enough and let him have it. I called him everything from a piece of sh&^ to a no good mother f*%$er. The man is about 5'2" and when he threatened to beat the sh*^ out of me that's when I got mad. It was all I could do not to hit him. He called my boss when I told him that I was gonna shove his turbin up his a$$. My boss was cool about it and just told me to leave. |
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Cbuffington
USA
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Posted - 03/29/2012 : 10:56:40
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| Man the stories, where to begin? one of my favorites-this happened about 15 years ago, we were installing a replacment Tokeim 162 dispenser and it was being lowered off the tailgate of the truck. somebody pulled up to it and tried to get it to work. They looked at me and said it has no price on it, how much is the gas? Today, this pump is free, we watched for 15 minutes laughing before they gave up and left. |
Chaos, Panic, Disorder!
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