If you don’t need 5 you can just buy one LH pencil and sharpen the other end. It works just as a right handed one then.
Lefty tax
Submitted 22 hours ago by restingOface@quokk.au to [deleted]
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zxqwas@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
morrowind@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
A sharpened eraser would be pretty hard to write with ngl
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Brilliant.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
My very first customer as a grocery cashier only bought 1 of a “2 for 1” item. My trainer was standing behind me, and had literally taught me nothing except how to unlock the register. It rang up at full price and the guy was instantly irate. “This is supposed to be half price!” As if I had any way to even know there was a sale. He pointed at the item so I walked over and looked and saw the 2 for 1 sticker. I glanced at my trainer and he just looked on dispassionately, so I told the guy “Uh, I think you have to buy two for the ‘2 for 1’ deal.”
Immediately started screaming at the top of his lungs. My trainer comes up and starts apologizing to the man “I’m so sorry this cashier is stupid. I’m not sure where he got the idea that he shouldn’t discount you. I trained them better than this. It’s so hard to find competent workers.” Then he swiped his badge (which I couldn’t have done without him), and changed the price manually.
After the guy walked away happy having saved 50 cents on his kinder egg, the trainer turned to me and said “Don’t waste my time again. You should know this all already, you fucking moron.” and walked off. We had spent exactly two minutes total together since training had started, and he spent most of that insulting me for not somehow knowing how to cashier already.
I had to call him back over two minutes later to show me how to process a check, and he was so angry.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
This sounds like ragebait fiction. Your trainer would be fired for talking to people like that.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Every customer service job I have worked has had managers like that. This was before smart phones so maybe they just weren’t worried about getting caught.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Absolutely.
When I was a retail manager any manager like that would have been out the door. Their job is to make it possible for the floor people to do their jobs, and part of that is protecting their staff from asshole customers.
Even when our people screwed up, we didn’t tolerate abuse of our staff. If the customer has a legitimate complaint they can be civil about it. Otherwise they’re welcome to leave. Even from a pure business perspective, you can’t tolerate abuse. New staff costs more than assholes spend.
DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Sounds like retail to me, that industry is a breeding ground for abusive environments.
At my last job the store manager got away with smacking the assistant manager on camera in front of people. Multiple reports sent up the chain. But the assistant manager had already put in two weeks notice a week before this happened, so head office just brushed it under the rug. I had watched the security video of it happening myself so I know it’s not for lack of evidence.
The running theory was that that manager gets transfered to stores as the company’s wrecking ball when they want to clean house. She would get transfered to a store, then all of the staff would end up quitting or getting fired for bullshit reasons. We weren’t the first store it had happened to. I ended up quitting to go work at a warehouse for more money with a fraction of the responsibility.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I did so poorly at Wal-Mart that they will not rehire me (I tried out of desperation), though I mostly blame them for hiring me right before a holiday and never giving me any training.
YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 4 hours ago
I don’t consider myself stupid at all but being at a new job with poor training was discombobulating and really hurt my feelings. I was supposed to call someone to let them know something they should have known themselves and then they got irate about not being told and left a review the higher-ups got upset about and I was like damn, am I actually dumb? Because a lot of people are criticizing me right now. In retrospect it was silly but at the time…
binarytobis@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Clearly you weren’t ready for the lifetime career of being a Walmart cashier.
axexrx@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This is state law dependent iirc.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Both are the same price guys!
5*0.20 = $1
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Lemmy’s top mathematicians cracked it!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
They did the monster mash.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Haven’t seen you in a while, but I’m glad to see you again.
How they give his own show to Tad Ghostal?
Any moment he could go mad postal.
tomi000@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Thanks Captain
wabasso@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Is this a righty tax since they are forced to buy a higher minimum quantity?
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Are you sure? Could you check again.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I don’t know, down the road they have buy one get one free at $0.40.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
5 times 0.20 cents?
axexrx@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Whether this is the same or not depends on the state.
In Mass I could grab 1 righty pencil for 20c, but in Colorado IIRC, I would still have to pay $1 for one. Pencils 2-5 would then not raise the price, #6 would raise it to $2, etc.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Pssh! Lefties always getting special treatment and righties always getting a handout, while us middles always miss out.
Klear@piefed.world 22 hours ago
Meanwhile the ambidexterous get to buy 6 pencils for $21. What a steal!
deacon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I think all lefties are at least a little bit ambidextrous. At least those of us born in the previous century.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Um. Mouth?
Prehensile… something?
imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
fuck, took me long enough to get this.
sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
the only thing wrong with this is that they should have reversed the signs
daannii@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This is how women’s boxers work.
Men’s. 5 for $20
Women’s. 1 for $20
Such b.s
I just buy mens boxers now.
papalonian@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This is how women’s boxers work.
They’re priced identically but sold in different sized packages?
daannii@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Womens boxers are typically sold individually but sometimes you can find a sale for 3.
Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
If women’s boxers worked like the pricing in the photo it’d be 5 men’s for $20 and 1 women’s for $4
daannii@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’m not sure I understand that logic.
Since boxers are more commonly worn by men. That would be more analogous to right hand.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Then you have to live with Bob The Builder and Chase themed boxers 😔
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Is that an issue though?
If a woman’s pants come off and she’s wearing bob the builder boxers, I instantly think of her more as a fun kind of person. You know, someone who doesn’t mind being silly.
And if nobody is seeing your boxers, there’s even less to worry about.
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 19 hours ago
As a lefty this is ludicrously unfair! I mean who the hell carries loose change anymore!?
OddDeer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I honestly hate this kind of “deals”. I only want one pencil, and don’t really want to hoard just because of a “good deal”, so I end up just buying below the deal amount and getting weird looks by the cashier. “But for an extra $5 you get two more products!” I know, I don’t care. I value more the peace of mind that comes form having an uncluttered space.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Well if it makes you feel any better, that’s precisely the point. Company gives you a deal but makes it condition on you buying more so they still make as much or more profit.
It’s also (part of) why large serving sizes are barely more expensive. As someone who doesn’t eat a lot, it is somewhat annoying every time I get the smallest size, knowing I could get like twice as much for 20% more, but also I would finish it.
sirico@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
This is outrageous discrimination, I’ve not seen such unfairness since they gave left handed screwdrivers the ability to go both ways. I used a left handed hammer once not nearly as powerful as my right handed one you’re being played for fools!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
The screwdriver isn’t the only one who can go both ways eh?
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The left are 1/3rd pounders
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’d be the idiot to have two pencils in each hand and reading off the UPC while blocking the irresponsibly narrow aisle. I gots to know!
xylol@leminal.space 20 hours ago
Kind of wild that pencils cost more than avocados but I guess you have to manufacture them instead if them just growing all over
valkyre09@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Did you not have a pencil tree growing up?
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
It’s actually the fungi on the tree that grows pencils. It’s called penicillin.
osanna@lemmy.vg 22 hours ago
I’ve been watching a lot of “gen alpha can’t do basic maths, spelling etc) and I have no doubt they’d by the right handed pencils because it’s a “much better deal”
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Look at how many more uave been taken from the right, and entire container is empty.
osanna@lemmy.vg 4 hours ago
What a sad sad world we live in :/
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
People in general, but Americans specifically, can’t do basic math. Hence the infamous 1/3 pound burger: www.snopes.com/…/third-pound-burger-fractions/
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
I love how your defense of over generalizing one group instantly devolved into over generalizing a different group.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
you say that, but i always see europeans whine so much whenever imperial units are used anywhere because they can’t figure out how to multiply by .3048
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Ok story time from the Fireworks stores.
First some background: My wife’s dad owns a couple fireworks stores. One sells items individually, the other sells everything as buy one get one free because it is right next to a competitor that uses that model. Fun fact about stores that sell everything as BOGO all the time… the prices are just double. You’re just paying for two. That’s the whole model. My father in law hates it too and wishes we didnt need to do it to compete with the other store. It’s not only not a deal, it’s arguably worse because you have* to buy two of the same visual display, meaning you’re just watching the same thing twice for no good reason.
*We don’t actually make anyone buy two of anything. We also tell them they can mix-and-match, i.e. buy one item and get a different item with the same price free. And we don’t really advertise it, because it actually pisses some people off, but if you just want one of the item, you can get it for “half price”. No problem at all. It makes no difference at all to me. I don’t even have to do anything fancy with the registers. We just ring up every item individually. They’re all priced exactly the same as they are at the other store. It’s all an illusion.
But there is a certain percentage of shoppers that absolutely, positively, will not buy a product unless they are “getting a deal”, and those people are univerally bad at math. We sell a select set of items as BOGO or mix and match at the other store too and those people will only buy those items. My father in law will even tell them that no one needs to watch the same thing twice. We actually use the stupidity of the BOGO model as a selling point at the other store. But that’s all that some people want. The people that shop at the BOGO store will come in saying they went to our other store (not knowing they’re related) and everything was so expensive compared to them and they didnt have any good deals, then buy a cart full of shit at THE EXACT SAME PRICE PER PIECE. It’s absurd.
So anyway, back to the fun story. I had to cover as a salesman and cashier at the BOGO store once. A couple came in, he wanted a bunch of fire crackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles, etc. The typical play stuff. His wife wasnt into all that, she just wanted to see something inexpensive and pretty. I showed her videos of a few smaller items that I thought she’d like and she really liked one in particular. It was the only one I had left on the shelf though. I tried to look around and see if there was a good mix and match to go with it, but it was at a less common price point, and I couldn’t find anything. So I told her that since I couldn’t find her another or a mix and match, I’d give it to her for half of the tag price (again, that’s also just… the normal price). She was very happy with that. She just wanted the one pretty thing anyway.
So we get up to the register and I started to scan out their cart… two rolls of firecrackers, 8 roman candles, 2 packs of bottle rockets, etc. Then I scanned her item. He asked where the second one was. I explained that that was the last one and we couldn’t find a mix and match so I was just going to charge her half of the tag price for it. He said, dead serious, “if I don’t get anything free with it, I’m not buying it.” He told me just to set it aside and put it back. They only thing she wanted. Becuase half price wasnt as good as buy one get one free… I ended up just handing it to her and telling her to take it. She has an ass for a husband, a stupid one at that. She deserved to see something pretty.
callyral@pawb.social 15 hours ago
I would buy the right-handed pencils, because I’m right handed. You shouldn’t buy mismatched pencils, below is a story showing what happens.
the story
Left-handed pencils for 20 cents each - Right-handed pencils, 5 for 1 dollar My friend Paul bought a pencil at this exact store. He’s left-handed, but the store had somehow ran out of left-handed pencils. So, being the smart-ass he is, Paul thought: — Golly! I’ll just buy a right-handed one. It’s a great deal, even! 5 whole pencils, all for one dollar! That was his gravest mistake. He picked up the pencil with his left hand, as usual. It beeped thrice, rang a bit, then exploded. He lost his left arm, and only survived because he received immediate medical attention. This is what happens when you use a mismatched pencil. It may not look like it at first, but which hand you use them with matters. Spread this message.