ATTN: LFS employees

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15684081#post15684081 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EnderG60
Lady comes in and starts yelling at my boss(the owner). After a few minutes I wander over to see whats up. He sees me there and asks the lady to explain to me what her problem is to see what I think.

Apparently she wanted him to replace ALL her livestock in a 90g because he didnt tell her that spraying the rocks with RAID to kill all the "bugs" would kill everything in the tank.

I literally laughed and walked away, boss tells the lady "Guess I'm not the only one that thinks your an idiot."

We never saw her again.
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It's hard to believe that people are that stupid but we all know that they do exist.
 
One of my favorite song quotes "been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding."

This is why Im happy to no longer be in retail, not being exposed to those people really helps my faith in humanity.
 
The cretins cloning and feeding!

There are some pretty cool customers. It's just the enjoyment of talking to someone that isn't an idiot is quickly nullified by dealing with someone who is. It's pretty painful sometimes.

"I need Frontline for my dog."
-"Okay. How much does the dog weigh?"
"I don't know."

"How can I tell if the hampster is going to bite my kids?" (The ones running around the store screaming & yelling. The ones picking things up off the shelves & just being nuisances in general.)
Stick your finger near it's mouth & see if it bites you. Chances are that since your kids don't know how to behave they're going to scare the hell out of it & it'll chew their fingers off.
 
I dont understand why people here get mad when someone not in the hobby refer clowns to Nemo. Before I got ino the hobby I would always refer clownfish as nemo to my children.

Anyway I was in one of those chain pet stores checking out their fish. Most of their fish looked sick so I asked the employee if they quarantine and treat their sick fish. She said "On none of our fish are sick" and pointed to her big frag tank and said "We run copper in all our systems" I said oh ok and walked out.
 
A lady was arguing with her husband saying that a fish would only grow to the size of the tank & he said it would keep growing.

I said "You can stick a kid in a closet & it'll live but it's not going to function like a kid that gets to run around in the yard. Same goes for fish."

She looked really offended & walked away. Her husband thought it was funny as hell. Guess she should let her kids out of the closet. :lol:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15691079#post15691079 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by inthesea
I dont understand why people here get mad when someone not in the hobby refer clowns to Nemo. Before I got ino the hobby I would always refer clownfish as nemo to my children.
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How about when I as a breeder drop in to the LFS with about 50 true percs trying to sell em. The owner askes if they are Nemo's, I tell him no Nemo was an Ocellaris these are Percula. He doesnt know the difference but tells me his customers always ask for nemo and declines the sale...
 
sorry but "Nemo" drives me absolutely nuts. any time someone calls my perc "Nemo" I snap at them, "Nemo was a movie, his name is Mr. Bojangles!"
 
Arati said:
How about when I as a breeder drop in to the LFS with about 50 true percs trying to sell em. The owner askes if they are Nemo's, I tell him no Nemo was an Ocellaris these are Percula. He doesnt know the difference but tells me his customers always ask for nemo and declines the sale...
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wow.... that's sad.
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I was at walmart in the aquarium/fish dept. Two older women had a 10 gal. tank in there cart, they were excited they were picking out some other stuff also. I made eye contact with one and smiled, I said "Starting a new tank is fun." One of the women "Oh yes... we want some of those Nemo fish." I replied "Well those are saltwater fish and I think your going to need a bigger tank." They gave me a blank (deer in the head lights) look. I tried to be helpful and told them there was quite a bit to know about running a saltwater tank and they could get a lot of info. at the libary or online. They gave me a dirty look. I thought well ok then.... I tried to tell them. They didnt know the diff. between saltwater an freshwater or even that a Nemo fish is really a clown fish. I hope they kept there reciept.
 
one i have been getting recently is about sea horses.
customer- "ooooh look, seahorses we should get one for our tank", i ask and they have a freshwater tank.
me -"seahorses are from saltwater."
customer- "oh, do they make them in freshwater?"
me- "sorry, god hasnt gotten that far yet"
 
Yesterday was rough. I had 3 people at one time ask me for help with their sick oscars. The one guy got a tank off his friend who told him it was 80gal. when it was only 40, then he got 2 oscars and put them into the uncycled tank with no gravel and then proceeded to add a dozen shiners. Needless to say all the shiners died, the oscars had ick and a bacteria infection, and the ammonia was through the roof. While he was being helped another lady came up and had an oscar with popeye. The original guy says "What is it with oscars? Do they give everyone troubles?" I told him "only when you don't care for them properly."
 
While I was bagging one customer's fish they told me they got some feeders or something from Wal-Mart a few days prior & that the guy that bagged the fish was trying to get all of the air out of the bag. Apparently the guy worked in another department but since they don't have an aquatics person on staff he was trying his best to help the customer.
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I had a group of people come into the aquatics section. It was a lady with her teenage daughter & her boyfriend, plus the lady's (I'm presuming) son. The whole bunch of them was aggravating, but the little boy in particular. Kid's running around, pushing through other customers, yelling, tapping on the glass, ect.

Well- the big fish holders don't fit into the tanks so I have to hang them on the side & fill them with a smaller one. As I fill the small container & get ready to pour it into the bigger one the lady's kid pushes in front of me & as a result I miss the container & pour it all over the kid's head. "Hay! I got aw wet!" As screwed up as it may seem it felt really good, even if I didn't do it on purpose.
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One thing that really gets me is how crappy people get when the feeders are under observation. If we get a bunch of sick feeder fish we're not going to sell them. The company doesn't want to be liable for selling sick fish & as employees we actually care about animals & can't morally sell sick fish. The reason we won't sell you the sick feeder fish is because we don't want your fish to get sick. I'd be pretty PO'd if someone knowingly sold me a .20 cent fish that could possibly kill my other fish.
 
Ok, here it is, the question of the year:

Lady: Hi, I'm looking for a pump that can produce about 100 lbs of pressure

Me: Ok... I'm not really sure I know how to convert gph to lbs of pressure...they're aquarium pumps

Lady: Oh they're aquarium pumps?

Me: Yeah, what were you looking to accomplish?

Lady: Well I need something that can sort of lift a child a few feet up into the air

Me: Oh wow...I don't know that I have anything that can umm...yeah, no. No...I dont know what to say really. I don't have that.

Lady: Ok, thanks!


....***!?!
 
inthesea said:
I dont understand why people here get mad when someone not in the hobby refer clowns to Nemo. Before I got ino the hobby I would always refer clownfish as nemo to my children.

Anyway I was in one of those chain pet stores checking out their fish. Most of their fish looked sick so I asked the employee if they quarantine and treat their sick fish. She said "On none of our fish are sick" and pointed to her big frag tank and said "We run copper in all our systems" I said oh ok and walked out.
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Because "Nemo" is a cartoon character not the name of the fish it would be just as dumb of me to teach a little kid that cats and dogs a called garfield and odie Just picture a person walking into a pet store that sells dogs and cats and asking one of the workers how much are the Garfields and odies do you have any Tweetys (canarys) and I need two feeder Mickeys (mice)
 
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Ive never really liked Odie's, Ive always been more of a fan of goofie's and some of the pluto's. I used to have a Tramp though and he was really cool.
 
Just yesterday, I had a young lady tell me she wanted a Dory of her own after learning what I did for a living. And I was at the doctor's office, of all places. :lol:
 
my best so far happened today...

idiot girl says to idiot boyfriend: "Woah, look at that cool hot pink and yellow fish!"
idiot guy responds to idiot girl: "Yea! that orange one?!"

i laughed in their faces and walked away. i hope theyre infertile
 
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