Annoying customers

Later on in the day at another till a school child in full unhidden school uniform tried to pass of as over 18 to buy alcohol.

I've bought booze in my school uniform before - admittedly I was 18 and had my ID, and worked at the Tesco I bought it at, but you can still be 18 and have a school uniform...

More likely than not you wouldn't be though

I've bought booze in my school uniform before - admittedly I was 18 and had my ID, and worked at the Tesco I bought it at, but you can still be 18 and have a school uniform...

I used to work there too - every now and then we'd get someone shoplift, or attempt to There was one guy came in that we always kept an eye on like a hawk, because although I don't think I ever actually caught him red-handed, he always acted in such an incredibly suspicious manner. (Trying to turn his back on all the counters, spreading his coat out, glancing up at us all the time to see if we were looking at him... which I always was, as soon as I saw him come in the shop.) My manager caught a schoolgirl redhanded trying to walk out with a drink in her coat pocket without having paid for it, made her give it back and then banned her. Once I saw two chavs walk in, pick up two sandwiches and walk out again as calm as you like - I rushed to the door, they were obviously surprised at me being so quick and ran for it, I shouted after them that they were banned, and I never saw them again. Oh, and a couple of times me and another woman ran out of the shop and chased shoplifters down the road, but they managed to lose us round corners.

Your school made you wear uniform in sixth form?

I've bought booze in my school uniform before - admittedly I was 18 and had my ID, and worked at the Tesco I bought it at, but you can still be 18 and have a school uniform...

That sounds pretty reasonable lol.
My friends and I paid £5.40 a pint for strawberry beer last night. It is so worth it.

Not that I'm stalking but was it by any chance the white cross?

(they tend to be most expensive in lancs)

I've not been there.
It was Odder in Manchester. I love the place but it is expensive.

On the subject before of different McDonalds having different rules, everytime I get a meal with a free student cheeseburger with friends, sometimes the staff takes the uni card, other times they need to see the NUS extra card with expiry date, or won't allow it. Or even if the staff are standing next to each other, one accepts the uni card without expiry date, and their colleage needs the NUS extra card, with an expiry date.

They take their uni card? WTF?! I haven't done that. I ask for expiry date/and or their academic year, like on some it will have 2010/2011, then I will accept that. I didn't used to ask for it, but I got told off for not checking properly and had to look :P

Yeah, well we have the same uni card for the time we are there, and there's no dates on it or anything, so my friends who don't have NUS extra were screwed if they got the girl who served me.

It's probably due to a lack of information. One offer requires you to present an NUS Extra card whilst the other only needs a student ID - see here

Personally I only give the card a quick glance, I've never been told anything regarding the student offer so as long as I see they have a student card then I assume they're good to go.

To be fair we don't really get told much at work. Most of what I know about my job I've had to find out for myself.

To be fair we don't really get told much at work. Most of what I know about my job I've had to find out for myself.

i work in a call centre, its horrific the amount of idiots who call up, my boilers broken - have you switched it on? oh no sorry bye, or how its my personal fault that youve drilled through a powercable and your house is in the dark now means you cant see your tacky council house furniture at least, people call up bang on about there problem for 10 minutes then say when can i have someone out? well your name and address would be handy first thanks, people who argue when they get the wrong number, people who think i have a magic wand to summon carers or technicans to there every non emergency whim, i once had a woman complain for 20 minutes about how she needed an engineer out that very minute because her sky wasnt working, at 4am on a sunday.