Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Songbird76

Songbird76

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JenniferS said:
This is where security cams are your best friend.
I have 7 cameras at my office - 5 inside and 2 outside. Do I like being on camera every minute of my work day, not really; but I do appreciate the peace of mind they afford.
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We have cameras, but the laws are really weird here and you can't actually view the footage. Like, one time a woman came into the store I worked in before and she was looking around and set her phone down somewhere and couldn't remember where. She came and asked if we could look at video footage to see if we could see where she put it, but we weren't allowed to view the recordings. And even for things like shoplifting...like, we aren't allowed to accuse someone of shoplifting even if they put something in their bag and walk out of the store. We HAVE to treat it like a mistake and give them a chance to pay for it. Only if they refuse to pay for it can we call the police. There are very limited circumstances in which you are allowed to view footage....I think only police are allowed to ask for it if they suspect a crime has been committed. We can't use footage to prove someone was shoplifting, because you can't prove they INTENDED to steal it.
 
trr1

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Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
It's more difficult because stores tend to just give into pressure for fear of losing customers. I hold that they are that way because management is afraid to say no. The only thing that would happen if they refused is that the word would get out that the store in question would not be a good place to try a con. That is what happens when they ethically give in to entitled people. All that does is increase the cost of business and you don't gain or lose any customers that you really want. Do they really want to encourage people to cheat when it results in higher prices for honest people.

It's sort of like how Disney did, and probably still do, ignore people that cut in line. All that ever did was anger the people that were cut in front of making them wonder if that is a place they want to be instead of making the person that cut angry. It just doesn't make any sense. The numbers don't work out. But, all it takes is loud talk to get their own way. I suspect as a child they were taught that if you scream long enough and loud enough you will get what you want. The true meaning of arrested development.
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Unfortunately, these entitled customers don't restrict their commentary to the store employees, so it can actually cost us business. They'll scream to anyone and everyone, and they will make stuff up to try to pressure the business into complying. If this woman wants to, she can go around telling everyone we threw kleenex at her...it's her word against ours. We know we didn't do that, but only the customers who witnessed the interaction know that. So she can cause some serious problems for us in the hopes that we'll give in so that she'll call off the dogs. She could call the media if she wanted to...I don't know that we would be allowed to use the video footage to prove it was slander. It's easier for the head office to just call and tell us we have to give her what she wants so she DOESN'T lose us business.

And as for kids learning if they scream enough, they get their way...if I had a nickel! There were 2 kids with their parents and the older kid had the younger kid with his arm around his neck and was dragging him backwards, dangerously close to clothing racks on one side and home decor, some of it glass, on the other. The parents were less than 5 feet away, looking at the kids, and didn't say a word. So I told the kids this wasn't a playground and it wasn't safe to be wrestling in the store. The little one started crying and the parents looked at me like I was horrible and left the store. I got in trouble with my boss because it lost us business. I was like, if telling kids "no" loses us business, better that than that they knock over a display and get seriously injured and get sued by the parents because it was unsafe. And I had a woman in the store with a baby...like....around a year old. But she was in the store for hours, and the baby kept crying and she was just ignoring the kid. Finally she comes up to me and asks me where the candy is. I point it out to her, she grabs a lollypop, and says "I pay later??" And I said no, she would have to pay right away, BUT that we don't allow consumption of food or drink in the store. The baby can not have the sucker while you are shopping. So what does she do? She gives it to her baby still in the wrapper. Which, seriously, not only is that a huge choking hazard for a child that little, but she also did not PAY for it before giving it to her, and I certainly couldn't have sold it anymore if she decided to put it back once she was done shopping. Fortunately I had a paper with the barcode for those suckers at the cash register, so when she came up to the register and her baby still had the sucker in her hand and was gumming away at it, I scanned/charged her for it even though she didn't put it up with the rest of her purchases. She did eventually remember to tell me her kid had the lolly, but it made me mad that she gave it to the kid AFTER I told her her kid couldn't have it and that she'd have to pay for it before giving it to her kid.

I also had a kid about 4 who grabbed some candy and when mom said no, he put it in his mouth so mom would HAVE to buy it. Had one of MY kids tried that, I would have asked the cashier to ring it up and throw it in the trash where my kid could see and then we'd be out of the store and my kid wouldn't be getting any treats for a while. You don't reward bad behavior. But mom paid for it because she had to, and then let him keep it. I was like...yeah, that's WHY the kid does that. If you give it to him, he's going to do that every time you're in a store. Congratulations....you just taught your kid that if he puts it in his mouth, you'll buy it for him. If you take it away, pay for it, and throw it in the garbage, they learn that that kind of manipulation doesn't work.

The things I see, man....
 
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JenniferS

JenniferS

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Goofyernmost said:
Sloth is a good thing... I've been practicing for that all my life.

Everytime I read about @Figgy1 and her cooking adventures all I can think of is little house on the prairie. My oldest daughter has the same affliction. Between her and her husband they make almost all their own edibles.
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You know this now means special brownies (or something similar), right?

When we were seasonal camping last summer, the people on 10th Ave. had edible parties every weekend. Brownies, banana bread, homemade gummies ….

Totally legal, nobody driving anywhere, so I have no problem with it. Nonetheless, not our jam, so we always left once the baked goods came out.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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FutureCEO said:
Fire alarm goes off in my building (some idiot accidently set paper towels on fire)

Don't ask how you do that!

A few people were outside and a older guy goes: they didn't tell us to leave 🫣 Like, what! It's a fire alarm.
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Having lived in multiple sized apt. buildings, I can attest to the fact that many people don't pay much attention to the fire alarm, particularly if it's during the daytime. Also, I was surprised that the firemen (in this one very large bldg. I lived in years ago) tended not to go around knocking on doors, unless it's an emergency. They usually contain any fire in the apt. it's coming from. And -- 90% percent of the alarms are from the kitchen smoke alarms. Hence, some residents had alarm fatigue, and usually ignored them.

All that aside, if I ever hear a fire alarm (regardless of where I am -- home or elsewhere), I'm OUTTA there, until the alarm clears! I don't tempt fate.
 
trr1

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MinnieM123 said:
Having lived in multiple sized apt. buildings, I can attest to the fact that many people don't pay much attention to the fire alarm, particularly if it's during the daytime. Also, I was surprised that the firemen (in this one very large bldg. I lived in years ago) tended not to go around knocking on doors, unless it's an emergency. They usually contain any fire in the apt. it's coming from. And -- 90% percent of the alarms are from the kitchen smoke alarms. Hence, some residents had alarm fatigue, and usually ignored them.

All that aside, if I ever hear a fire alarm (regardless of where I am -- home or elsewhere), I'm OUTTA there, until the alarm clears! I don't tempt fate.
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my spouse uses the smoke alarm to know when the food is done ;)🤣🤣
 
Goofyernmost

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MinnieM123 said:
Having lived in multiple sized apt. buildings, I can attest to the fact that many people don't pay much attention to the fire alarm, particularly if it's during the daytime. Also, I was surprised that the firemen (in this one very large bldg. I lived in years ago) tended not to go around knocking on doors, unless it's an emergency. They usually contain any fire in the apt. it's coming from. And -- 90% percent of the alarms are from the kitchen smoke alarms. Hence, some residents had alarm fatigue, and usually ignored them.

All that aside, if I ever hear a fire alarm (regardless of where I am -- home or elsewhere), I'm OUTTA there, until the alarm clears! I don't tempt fate.
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I think I told this story before but when my wife and I were first married we lived in a one bedroom apartment that had to be at least 100 years old. One night I woke up and could smell smoke. I got up and looked out the window and could see that a block away one of our old Cathedrals was burning and being downwind from it, glowing embers were getting to our location. All I could think of was our roof. We were on the top floor so I went back in the bedroom and woke my wife up and told her about the fire up the street and that the embers were making it near us. She looked up, yawned and told me to get her up if our building catches on fire. Then turned over and instantly went back to sleep. I remained vigilant the rest of the night. The next morning I went out and looked up at the roof only to find out it was slate and not as flammable as I thought.

I'm not sure how it works in my current location as there are at least 80 apartments in this building and so far (knock on hopefully non-flammable stuff) so far nothing has happened that I know of. We have very, very, very loud fire alarms in every single room in every single apartment, Also sprinkler systems in every room as well. I would think that most of the damage would be in the room where the fire is and only set off the alarms if the fire were in the common areas. We have four floors in this building and a number of folks with mobility issues living on the top floor. As usual, the rule is in case of a fire we are not to use the elevators which makes me wonder how people with problems are going to make it out. I am on the second floor but to the back of the building which is at ground level due to the slope of the land. At worst all I have to do is climb (probably fall) out a window and it's only a four foot drop. I have more than enough fat covering the old bod that I should be OK.
 
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MinnieM123

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Goofyernmost said:
I think I told this story before but when my wife and I were first married we lived in a one bedroom apartment that had to be at least 100 years old. One night I woke up and could smell smoke. I got up and looked out the window and could see that a block away one of our old Cathedrals was burning and being downwind from it, glowing embers were getting to our location. All I could think of was our roof. We were on the top floor so I went back in the bedroom and woke my wife up and told her about the fire up the street and that the embers were making it near us. She looked up, yawned and told me to get her up if our building catches on fire. Then turned over and instantly went back to sleep. I remained vigilant the rest of the night. The next morning I went out and looked up at the roof only to find out it was slate and not as flammable as I thought.

I'm not sure how it works in my current location as there are at least 80 apartments in this building and so far (knock hopefully non-flammable stuff) so far nothing has happened that I know of. We have very, very, very loud fire alarms in every single room in every single apartment, Also sprinkler systems in every room as well. I would think that most of the damage would be in the room where the fire is and only set off the alarms if the fire were in the common areas. We have four stories in this building and a number of mobility issues living on the top floor. As usual, the rule is in case of a fire we are not to use the elevators which makes me wonder how people with problems are going to make it out. I am on the second floor but to the back of the building which is at ground level due to the slope of the land. At worst all I have to do is climb (probably fall) out a window and it's only a four foot drop. I have more than enough fat covering the old bod that I should be OK.
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Not sure about your building, but in one of my past jobs, I worked in a 60-story office tower. We had the same "no elevators" rule; however, Boston Fire had an emergency "key" to all elevator stacks, and would enable 1-2 of them to work (depending upon where the fire was located in the building). The firemen (and building security) would go up and get the people in wheelchairs, etc. and bring them down. (Hence, maybe there is a similar type of routine in your senior apt. building, as it would be anticipated that some residents might be disabled.)
 
Goofyernmost

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MinnieM123 said:
Not sure about your building, but in one of my past jobs, I worked in a 60-story office tower. We had the same "no elevators" rule; however, Boston Fire had an emergency "key" to all elevator stacks, and would enable 1-2 of them to work (depending upon where the fire was located in the building). The firemen (and building security) would go up and get the people in wheelchairs, etc. and bring them down. (Hence, maybe there is a similar type of routine in your senior apt. building, as it would be anticipated that some residents might be disabled.)
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I hope so but considering some of the other odd things with organization here I'm not sure. When I first moved in I was able to have helped but now if I were on the top floor I would be concerned. All the stairs are at each end of the building and nothing in the middle except the elevators. It's a very long building. I guess it all hinges on what part of the building has the problem and where you are located. Where you see the white car is at the middle of the building.

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