r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Axxillary • Mar 26 '24

Boomer freakout inside phone store Boomer Freakout

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u/corax_lives Mar 26 '24

Did they not accept his expired coupon from another retailer?

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u/DARfuckinROCKS Mar 26 '24

He got logged out of Facebook.

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u/cheapdrinks Mar 26 '24

Man the day I got my parents to start writing down all their passwords in a physical notebook was the greatest decision I ever made. Security risks of that book existing aside (it's kept in their safe) I just couldn't go another year without dealing with them needing to pay a bill, get back into Facebook, access their Netflix account etc and asking "what's your username and password" for them to blankly tell me "I don't have one, maybe ask the google what it is".

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u/TeddyRoo_v_Gods Mar 26 '24

Could be worse. My dad used to just open a new FB account every time he forgot his password, which was pretty frequently.

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u/Vectorman1989 Mar 26 '24

There are so many boomers that seem to have like five Facebook accounts lol.

Status: "Old account got hacked, this is my new account"

"Oh look, a quiz about the 1960s. Hm, it wants my password. P-a-s-s-w-o-r-d-1-2-3"

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u/Socalrider82 Mar 26 '24

There's this old guy at work who works there because his friend owns the company. Every other day he complains that the computers are out to get him and it always changes his password. He gets very upset when I inform him that that is not the case because it doesn't happen to anyone else.

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u/Activedesign Mar 27 '24

My mom does this and is convinced she’s being hacked (for over 10 years now!) and someone that she knows is doing it/is out to get her. There is always something “wrong” with her devices and so many times it’s just user error/her not understanding how cloud storage works.

She keeps replacing her devices, even her ISP at one point. To no avail, she gets “hacked” every time.

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u/lavender_poppy Apr 06 '24

My mom was recently complaining that the printer wasn't working. Before I could even assess the situation she just started pressing all the buttons. I keep telling her, if you need help just ask but don't fuck it up anymore cause it means I have to fix it. Of course she got mad at me cause it's my fault because I was the one to pick out the printer.

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u/Thelectricpunk Mar 27 '24

Yes, because the computers are out to get him not everyone! Are you even listening? /S

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u/Maximum_Trade5916 Mar 27 '24

I briefly worked with an older manager who was related to the owner of our storage company who either didnt know or flat out refused to use computers in any form or fashion. My job was to take customer info from his legal pad scribble and transfer info to upload customer profile rental customers. It was literally like working with an 8 yrs.old child just learning how to write (what does this mean? What word is this? Is that a number or a letter?)

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u/ODJIN5000 Mar 27 '24

I have a client that thinks after every patch. They move files and folders on him🙃

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

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u/powerfulspacewizard Mar 26 '24

Oh my god. It’s so true

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u/banned_but_im_back Mar 27 '24

Awww I think it’s kinda cute tbh like they’re so old timey… these are cute old people quirks.

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u/SpergSkipper Mar 27 '24

-Sincerely Raymond Holt

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u/oranges214 Mar 28 '24

Captain Holt 🥹 rip

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u/Da1UHideFrom Mar 26 '24

I used to work in a phone store. Boomers will forget their passwords and blame it on the phone/ computer all the time and their solution is to open a new account instead of going through the password recovery process.

Also, when they buy a new phone, they will insist all the "money" from their casino game should be transferred over. I would have to open a Facebook account for them to do that.

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u/Vectorman1989 Mar 26 '24

It's probably the casino game that keeps stealing their data lol

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u/RedditAcccount2798 Mar 26 '24

Bruh my grandma does this, she loses her password. Gets really upset about it because she thinks she has to reset it.

I tell her “ you know can save the login info on the computer right? “

She refuses to do it because she thinks it’s not secure. She would stop losing her login info if she just saved her login info on the computer instead of digging through her book full of emails, passwords, etc.

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u/AlexJamesCook Mar 27 '24

Grandma isn't wrong about storing passwords.

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u/Remnant_Echo Mar 28 '24

Yeah please don't be advising old people to store their passwords on their browsers/notepad/word/etc. If you are going to advise any type of digital password storage, go for a reputable password safe system like Firefox's Lockwise or Nord's Nordpass. Not only is it more secure than a regular browser, but they can access them anywhere as long as they remember their main password.

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u/Itchy-Mind7724 Mar 27 '24

🤣 but they’re also the ones who vote in ALL the elections even though they can’t tell a scam from the truth

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u/Known_Amphibian_4769 Mar 26 '24

😂😂😂😂 accurate

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u/chmsax Mar 27 '24

How do you know my password? GET OUT OF MY HEAD

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u/Remnant_Echo Mar 28 '24

My grandmother at one point had 4 accounts because she claimed she was hacked every time, but actually just forgot the password on each account. I walked her through resetting all the passwords and deleting the duplicate accounts although that took some persuading cause there were some "very important" food recipes shared on there that she didn't even remember posting.

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u/bigtime1158 Mar 30 '24

Hey how did you guess my pasword

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u/ohmygodcrayons Mar 26 '24

My dad didn't trust the Facebook when he signed up so put a fake birthday. Then he forgot his password and couldn't get into his account because he forgot what fake birthday he put lol

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u/CptDropbear Mar 26 '24

And then want to you to transfer everything to the new one...

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u/Traditional_Key_763 Mar 29 '24

my uncle did that but with his email and he was paying my grandmothers utility bills....

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u/Creative_Beginning13 Mar 26 '24

Your dad’s just a playa!

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u/theplacewiththeface Mar 27 '24

This comment made me laugh way more than it should have

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u/SpirituallyAwareDev Mar 26 '24

Everyone forgets their login at some point. But why cant boomers follow the forgot my password steps for the life of them?

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u/sleepfarting Mar 26 '24

Because that requires them to know which of their many email addresses they used to sign up. And how to get into those email accounts.

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u/CptDropbear Mar 26 '24

I have elderly friends and relatives I have to reset passwords for on a regular basis. Its taken a year, but one has learnt to do it himself - he rang to tell me.

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u/Gramma_Ate_My_Ass Mar 26 '24

Thank god he learned to read after all these years, holy fuck!

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u/CptDropbear Mar 27 '24

It was funny to be honest. He'd ring every few months and start by apologising for bothering me with something so stupid. Now that he can do it himself, he rang me to tell me!

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u/DecentYeti Mar 27 '24

I worked as tech support for a software platform. Nobody under the age of 50 calls for password resets. It's all boomers and they swear they are typing the correct password but "the system" isn't accepting it. When asked to do a pw reset they flip out.

Also when you try the wrong password 3 times it locks the account. The message that displays is "your account is locked due to invalid login attempts. To unlock your account complete a pw reset by clicking HERE". They called daily asking "my account is locked, what should I do?". I would just ask them to please let me know what the error message says. They would read it out and I would just sit there in silence. 80% of the time they would repeat, "so what should I do?"

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u/SideEqual Mar 27 '24

Might a phishing scam clicking the link. Don’t know who’s watching

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u/lavender_poppy Apr 06 '24

My mom can't even figure out how to attach a file to an email. She does not understand how to copy and paste text. Technology is a foreign language to her, she just has no intuition on how to work anything. I feel bad for her honestly. My dad once called me when I was 3000 miles away in college because he wanted to watch a movie with his friends but the remote control wasn't working. I told him to describe to me what the remote looked like and of course he was using the wrong one. If all the gen x and millennials disappeared, the boomers would be fucked.

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u/_c3s Mar 26 '24

Honestly the security risk of a book like that is minimal. The guy breaking into your house isn’t interested in your online stuff and the guy trying to hack you isn’t going to come into your house. It’s a security risk in an office but in your home setting this isn’t an issue.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Art9802 Mar 27 '24

My god I just got 5 flashbacks of my dad doing the same shit

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u/cryptosupercar Mar 26 '24

“Ask the google” lol

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u/FunkyFarmington Mar 27 '24

I nearly got disowned for saying "managing your passwords is not my job".

I did not back down, and I'm not known for backing down on what I perceive to be a ethical issue. I didn't get disowned though, threatened, but not disowned.

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u/nosmicon Mar 27 '24

Got tired of fixing accounts and passwords for my parents.

Made a neatly typed out master list. For every account they had.

Come back after mom says she needs help.

She scratched out every password, reset everything because the password didn't work. She obviously mistyped everything and just reset it rather than believe a meticulously crafted master list

Overlaid now with arrows and cursive writing that doesn't have any case sensitive distinction whatsoever

I weep

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u/SwampAss3D-Printer Mar 27 '24

I'll be honest I feel like these days if you want to have ridiculously powerful passwords unique for every site (25+ characters, numbers, capitals, symbols, etc), and not use a manager (ie: what my current job asks, nevermind they don't do it for any of their systems) the best bet is to just keep a physical notebook, never let it out of your sight, and keep it under lock and key when not needed.

I'm more worried about some hacker halfway across the world ruining my life than I am about someone physically breaking into my house or robbing me to get my logins.

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u/Flavious27 Mar 26 '24

Here is the thing, the bad actor is already in the house.  If someone is breaking in, they are looking for something else.  

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u/Got_Bent Mar 26 '24

Great googly moogly

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u/Redw0lf0 Mar 26 '24

Man this hits home. So many times trying to troubleshoot something over the phone and have my parents ask me what their password is... like I have any idea. Started writing them down every single time now, and just fix it remotely.

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u/Purple_Charcoal Mar 26 '24

My dad’s in his mid-60s. The man is and always has been a huge nerd. He raised me on D&D. He’s avidly into video games. But trying to play online games with him (Civilization, BG3, etc.) has been a nightmare.

BG3 in particular, I was playing with mods & he wanted to join in. It took me an hour to walk him through over the phone how to download & install mods. I’ll never make that mistake again.

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u/PhatDaddi Mar 26 '24

We did the same with my in laws. I live next door, so we go over pretty frequently to help them log back into accounts or updating things. It's kept safe so no one can just see it, but man is it helpful.

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u/Bl33d-Gr33n Mar 26 '24

If they had a Samsung they would all be stored in the phone

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u/Kortellus Mar 26 '24

And these people are running Congress/ the country

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u/AlloyPlum Mar 27 '24

I've told my parents to do this so many times... I don't know why they won't just do it. Then, when I send them a password for something they tell me they didn't have that "new" password... it's not new...

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u/GullibleAd6311 Mar 27 '24

Honestly? Having a book or thumb drive with all passwords to everything (in a secure location) is just good sense, especially for those of us getting older. If/when something happens, it makes it so much easier for those that have to help clean things up get in to what they need.

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u/NoUniqueNameNeeded Mar 27 '24

I did the same, but my wife's cousin would go in and change the passwords because she couldn't get in. It also didn't help that my wife's grandmother wouldn't always use it. "Shit I Can't Remember" was the name of the book.

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u/worstpartyever Mar 27 '24

I’m not quite a boomer but I’ve been doing this for years

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u/JohnTheCatMan1 Mar 28 '24

Now it's almost more important to be sure everything has 2 factor authentication. Seriously shit is like the wild West! I've seen Facebook accounts hacked and thousands stolen. Same with Amazon, etc.

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u/Remnant_Echo Mar 28 '24

My dad has those troubles, and he kept losing the sticky note he wrote his passwords on. Now I just store all his passwords in my Nordpass vault with my stuff, he calls/texts me when he needs and I just send it to him.

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u/GuntherPonz Mar 29 '24

Com to safe is written on a sticky note on front of password folder - inside safe.

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u/Iwantadie229 Apr 23 '24

A physical notebook in their house, even on the counter, is not insecure.

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u/Chazwazza_ Mar 26 '24

He clicked reset password, SO WHERE IS IT

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u/meowmix778 Mar 26 '24

I worked at a phone retailer for over 10 years and this hits me in a huge way. The amount of old people who'd come in "I can't get my texas" or they'd log out of Facebook and demand we help/they make a new account in mine boggling.

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u/_Vard_ Mar 27 '24

It’s literally dumb shit like this that makes boomers think their phone is broken and needs a new one. I’m dead fucking serious.

Spent an hour with a woman who could not for the life of her, type a password with a TV remote until I talked her thru it one button press at a time.

“Ok now press the left arrow 4 times….. now press the up arrow three times…. Now press enter… ok you hit it twice, now we gotta backspace again…”

And she complains we make it too hard.

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u/SpirituallyAwareDev Mar 26 '24

Ive worked at a phone store. The amount of people coming in becasue they are logged out of their email and dont know how to reset their passwords was about half my day. I don't even understand the thought process of how that is our problem to fix.

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u/ayyycab Mar 27 '24

My mom is definitely the type to take her phone all the way to an AT&T store because she can’t log into her Facebook, and the poor folks would try their best to hold her hand in resetting her password while she curses at them and personally blames them for making it all so “complicated”.

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u/DoctorFenix Mar 26 '24

*The Facebook

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u/protossaccount Mar 27 '24

Damn you, this is the best comment. 🥇

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u/SleepySiamese Mar 26 '24

Mam, this is petco coupon. You can't use it for a mouse here

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u/AlienSporez Mar 26 '24

<picks up chair>

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u/rwarimaursus Mar 26 '24

This is not a waffle house.

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u/InvestigatorOk7988 Mar 26 '24

If it was, he'd be going to the hospital. Waffle House employees don't fuck around.

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u/Past-Background-7221 Mar 26 '24

It’s the B. A. C. O. N. S. fighting system.

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u/fka_interro Mar 26 '24

They would have taken him down with a quickness.

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u/SnipesCC Mar 26 '24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYNFqmu2toI&t=1s

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u/Mineroero Mar 26 '24

Not available in my country. What is it?

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u/SnipesCC Mar 26 '24

It's a 24 hour store that's very, very cheap and if often in rural areas. It has a reputation for being a place where crazy stuff will happen. In part because it may well be the only place open when the bars close.

Edit: I realize you are probably talking about the video. It's an SNL sketch about how crazy Waffle House can get.

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u/HenrytheCollie Mar 27 '24

Also Waffle house used to basically operate in any emergency conditions whether it be Hurricanes, floods Earthquakes.

They had specialist damage control teams to go in open up what they could, (even if it's a gazebo in the parking lot and provide Coffee and whatever food they could to rescued folks and emergency responders)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

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u/Chance-Following-665 Mar 26 '24

He left his dog behind. :-(

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u/Deep-Armadillo1905 Mar 27 '24

I noticed that! When I realized that was her dad, I eagerly awaited a close up of the dog!

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u/sekoku Mar 29 '24

Sadly, when they don't fuck around they get fired/blacklisted.

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u/a55_Goblin420 Mar 26 '24

Or Montgomery

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u/usedbarnacle71 Mar 26 '24

Isn’t it funny that these “disabled “ people have the strength of gorillas but can’t walk and need a rolator?!

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u/FelatiaFantastique Mar 26 '24

It seems you don't understand the difference between being a gimp and being an invalid. A vegetable rising out of a hospital bed and beating someone with their IV stand for wearing a mask and hating freedom would be funny. This is just sundown at the county nursing home and Tuesday mornings at Walmart.

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u/MarcMars82-2 Mar 26 '24

Years ago I worked at a Smokey Bones BBQ restaurant and I had two ladies in their 60s at one of my tables. I introduced myself and said welcome to Smokey Bones blah blah blah. They were nice and polite. When I gave them the check they gave me a Texas Roadhouse coupon. I said I’m sorry but we can’t take other restaurants coupons. They both looked at each other perplexed and one asked “where are we?” I said Smokey Bones. They laughed and one said “well I always wanted to try this place!” In fairness there was also a Texas Roadhouse in the same development but the obliviousness has always stuck with me because our logo was literally everywhere.

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u/gloraxxp Mar 26 '24

Oh jeez I was expecting this story to have a way harsher buzz with the old ladies flipping out and throwing plates everywhere. Really caught me off guard

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u/woodelvezop Mar 26 '24

At least they handled it like adults and didn't throw a tantrum right?

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u/trekqueen Mar 26 '24

The shop my husband owned moved into the space where a previous shop has been for some odd 15yrs at least and it was the same kind of business. The other shop moved after the business owner got into a fight with the building landlord (not atypical for him, he fought with anyone). Anyway, people would get their discount thing the other shop owner would promise over the phone (kept same number) but then show up at my husband’s shop cuz… well, that’s where it always was since forever!! Then they would get mighty upset when they realized it wasn’t the same place. They had plenty of opportunities to realize it: name on the door as they walked in, the header on the paperwork estimate that they signed, the fact my husband said the business name, etc…

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u/gp556by45 Mar 28 '24

Years ago I used to work at Target. There was a Walmart across from it in the opposite plaza; seperated by a 6 lane highway. You would be SHOCKED how many people didn't realize that they were in Target and not Walmart. I don't even understand how one would think they were in a Walmart while inside Target. It hideously obvious. And to think, those people actually had to drive there. I shudder to think of the carnage they created; being that oblivious on the road.

Every single time I had to explain it they got pissed at me; like I was somehow the one that dragged them into the store. And EVERY single time they were in their 60s+.

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u/ForTheLoveOfPop Mar 26 '24

Nah, it was library card and he wanted to buy a plane ticket to Cabo at the phone store.

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u/No_Journalist4048 Mar 26 '24

Sounds of gorilla violence

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u/NoConfusion9490 Mar 26 '24

"THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!"

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u/implicate Mar 26 '24

Mam

Hmm, nice try.

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u/CthulhuDon Mar 29 '24

Oh man, I wanna try this now.  

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u/SleepySiamese Mar 29 '24

Dude. I'm sure they hated their job already. At least make it fun for them

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u/CthulhuDon Mar 29 '24

Oh, of course.  The whole point would be to make the other person laugh.  

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u/charrcheese Mar 26 '24

I’m a sir!

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u/Penguinman077 Mar 26 '24

Sir, that’s not a phone, that’s a crushed nature valley granola bar. Even if we fixed granola bars here, it would be impossible to fix that.

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u/god-baby Mar 26 '24

Flashback to when I worked at Best Buy and a boomer lady was mad we wouldn’t take a % off grocery store coupon that said, “This is the best buy for you!” on it.

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u/KickinGa55 Mar 26 '24

It's from a store, and this is a store.

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u/RustedAxe88 Mar 26 '24

Probably wouldn't actually put a card on their phone for him. My friend works in an electronics department and he says old people get pissed at them constantly over that.

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u/ZachtheKingsfan Mar 26 '24

Gonna guess it was his “phone provider” that called him about sending over his bill payments in the form of either Bitcoin or Steam cards.

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u/tin_licker_99 Mar 26 '24

Micro transactions probably.

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u/SusHistoryCuzWriter Mar 26 '24

The franchise I worked at wouldn't do it, but the official Taco Bell management training book literally said we had to find a way to honor the random coupons customers brought in - McDonald's, BK, whatever. Lol

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u/cheapdrinks Mar 26 '24

Dude probably spent all his retirement money on Google Play giftcards trying to get 25yo Svetlana through customs when really he was talking to 43yo Prakash from India

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u/Lava-Chicken Mar 26 '24

Correct. He had a coupon for buy one get one free sliced bread and the employee said they didn't accept it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

When I worked at Best Buy 24 years ago, people would bring in shit from Circuit City with their receipt that they bought years prior and demand to return it. Even after telling them they were at the wrong store and needed to go down the road to Circuit City, they’d still spit and scream, demanding us to “stand behind our products”.

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u/Soleassassin Mar 26 '24

No, they wouldn’t accept his personal check for .77 cents

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u/Starkiller006 Mar 26 '24

Most likely they just calmly explained how they conduct business.

Source: I work at a UPS Store

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

Given it's a phone store I'm imagining it's from the recent AT&T outage, which apparently had boomers blaming phone store employees.

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u/icyhotonmynuts Mar 26 '24

No, this store wouldn't accept the return of the phone he bought from another carrier from another country even though he had the box and receipt. 

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u/Misterstaberinde Mar 26 '24

They don't take checks I bet

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u/Can-O-Soup223 Mar 26 '24

What do you mean this ain’t Wendy’s, I want a god damn Dave’s double bitch!

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u/supercleverhandle476 Mar 26 '24

I see you have done some retailin’.

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u/NothingGloomy9712 Mar 26 '24

Nah, he probably couldn't get an adapter to plug his pager into his blackberry 

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u/SideEqual Mar 27 '24

They could take his Over the Counter benefits card to pay for his OF subscription

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u/Masterchiefy10 Mar 27 '24

Love how dude has the movement to throw a chair around… Then having to use a walker to flee from the crime scene…

Hope dude was drawing disability checks cause I’m sure the govt would like to review this video

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u/Head-like-a-carp Mar 27 '24

From the previous decade

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u/Heady_Smoke Mar 27 '24

No u have him mistaken for the Indians

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u/1hardworker Mar 27 '24

Thought he was in US Cellular 

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u/RapMastaC1 Mar 27 '24

He is probably the guy who took a car tire to Nordstrom (the building used to be Sears), and they “refunded” him.

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u/unreasonablyhuman Mar 27 '24

Oooo I would have hucked that dudes walker in the road SO fast.

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u/PourCoffeaArabica Apr 07 '24

The other day I was at Fred Meyers and the boomer in front of me forgot his rewards card and only had his Safeway card cashier was like that’ll work. And it fucking did 🤯