ATTN: LFS employees

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As Ive said before- there are plenty of threads out there dogging LFS employees. If you cant take what you dish out, dont read this thread ;) We deserve our little gripe area too. Luckily, most of my customers are pretty cool. That being said..

In college, I was taking an intro Biology course. One of our first labs was to go out to this wooded area and collect bugs, leaves, whatever and bring them back to 'form our own taxonomic system'. Lame, but whatever. So we get back with our pile of stuff, in addition to which we are to use this little terrarium/aquarium thing in the classroom with moss and guppies and such in it.

We split up into groups of about 8 people; I watch these people try to figure out how certain things might be related to eachother, and how they should be grouped together. When, from the group next to mine, I hear a question that makes me a little sick to my stomach. The 8 people in that group discuss for a few minutes, and theyre all Completely stumped. So, they ask someone in my group. To my horror, NOONE in my group can come up with the answer either. I just sat there in shock. I mean... this Is college, right?

The baffling question? "So, are fish Animals or Fungus?!?!" I was the only one who was able to give the answer.

I beg of you, vote in favor of any school levy your district puts up in November... lol
 
Are fish animals or fungus?!
Well what did you tell them? I dunno either!
:lol:

Its amazing how many stupid people make it to college. Unfortunately I guess that's why most of the world doesn't respect our educational system.
 
haha yeah I can't really see how some of the people I see around college could be the future of anything except more stupid kids.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10767704#post10767704 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kathainbowen
To the defense of customers everywhere, here's a gem from the client side with stupid or just foolish LFS/pet shop customers. I hope this makes you guys feel a bit better about all these stupid customer stories.

We were out of heat bulbs at work, and my ex and I had just adopted a beautiful ball python from a gent who's unit was shipping out the next day. It was also just too cool a day to go without heat, so it was off to the local PetSmart to pick up a bulb. Now, I must give the employees of out local PetSmart credit; they are REALLY dedicated to their adoption programs.

She asked my ex, "Can I help you find something?"

"Nah, I'm just looking," he answered.

Although he was giving her all the body language of go-away, she pressed, "What kind of pet do you have?"

My ex replied, "Oh, we just adopted a ball python."

"A snake? Why would you want a snake?" (THAT statement rubbed my ex completely the wrong way) "Why don't you adopt a nice small dog or cat?" She pointed to the front and to the commotion just outside. "We're even heaving an Adoption Day today! Would you like to see some of them? They've got the cutest little Chihuahua puppies!"

I'm very proud of my ex for this one moment, for, without missing a beat, replied, "Oh, really? About how big are they?"

"Just a few pounds! They're tiny," the all-too-perky employee responded.

My ex nodded, pretending to think. "Do you get in small puppies often?"

"Well, you could adopt them today if you wanted!" She sounded very excited, like she had just sold this individual on throwing out his newly acquired snake and get a dog that our lease wouldn't allow.

My ex shook his head. "No, no. Do you get them in all the time?"

At this point, she looked a bit confused and unsettled. "Well.... it depends on what they have..."

My ex gave another nod. "Well, would you say you get small, 5-10 lb dogs at least once or twice a month?"

The employee is looking mighty confused at this point. All snake owners are probably seeing where this is going. In fact, at this point, I was almost falling all over myself snickering at the end of the aisle listening to this.

"Maybe..." She seemed frightened. "Why?"

My ex had the trump card of a slam for her in store. "So I can feed them to my snake!"

"What, what?"

And off she went, suddenly very horrified. I actually spied her as we were walking out the door talking in hushed voices to the people at the adoption day and pointing at us. The people at the desk from the adoption looked shocked as we passed them. I stopped to look at a puppy, and it was immediately snatched up by the employees who said that the puppy needed a break from being played with.

We get into the car, and I look at my ex, asking, "Do you think we should have told them that a ball python could hardly SCRATCH a puppy, let alone eat it?"
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Im a snake owner myself and i cant believe the "A snake? Why would you want a snake?"...
A pet store employee should´nt say such a thing :(...
But kudos to your ex for keeping his cool, i would have pis.sed my pants lol
 
Well, mine isn't about dumb customers...more about new LFS employees, and I figured I'd help keep this thread going as its truly funny and at times...aggravating (can't believe some people lack the basics of common sense). It's not as good as others tho.

I went into a large chain pet store looking for some blue-legged hermit crabs. I told the employee I wanted about 3 of them and pointed to the tank they were in. She looks at em for about 5 sec and tells me they have bigger ones. A bit confused b/c I had pointed to her the specific ones I wanted, but figured I'd bite. I said "Oh really? Where?" She then leads me to their reptile displays and points to the large land hermit crabs. I said "Nah, I need the ones that live underwater" So she begins trying to capture the blue hermit crabs with a net. She was having a difficult time b/c she kept getting the substrate AND crab in the net and would dump everything out and try again. After about a minute of this I told her "You can always use your hands." Her response? "I'm new"

Visited the same large chain pet store but at a different location. Saw 4 green hairy mushrooms they had on a rock. Told the employee I wanted it and pointed to it. He looks at it for a bit and picks it up, turning it every which way examining the mushrooms. Sensing he was new, and got a feeling he was wonderig how to remove the shrooms from the rock, I told him, "I'm pretty sure you're suppose to sell me the entire rock" He replied, "I'm new and I usually only deal with FW, I know nothing about SW. Let me ask my manager". So he leaves for a few minutes....meanwhile I'm examing the shrooms a bit more closely and noticed the rock had two small turbo snails on it. The guy comes back, states "You're right" and bags up the rock and shrooms. He even looks at the snails and goes "huh, what's this?" and hands me the bag. I walk out with the mushrooms and two free snails.

This last one has to deal with me being the schmuck. Went into the LFS without the intention on buying anything, just seeing what they had. A really cute girl was working back there, so I began talking to her. After about 30 minutes, I walked out with a carribean pygmy angelfish, a yellow tail damsel, 3 African ropefish (for my FW tank).....and no phone number.
 
i may have posted this already but im not sure, so . . .

i have been asked this on 3 seperate occassions and not by an 8yr old, "What's the difference between fresh and salt water?"
its always someone who at least 30. i mean dont they teach that in grade school? or ya know, common sense.

ocean = salt water
rivers/lakes = fresh water

i mean come on. the next person to ask me is just going to get laughed at.
 
lol, honestly maybe its my faith in humanity, but I can't believe something so fundamental as SW vs FW is lost on many ppl. Sometimes ppl have legitimate questions...just don't know how to ask it correctly. Aside from the obvious, maybe they wanted to know why a fish's biologic make up allows one type to live in SW and the other in FW. BTW instead of laughing at them, i suggest when someone asks that question, just simply say "You've answered your own question" And enjoy the further confused look on their face.
 
normally i answer kindly and explain the difference. but they dont mean in the care of the animals. i always say "well the salt first of all" and one of the guys i asked actually went "oohhh"
 
i try to believe that people are generally smart and good natured. but iv been at a pet store for alomst 3 yrs and the amount of dumb questions has made me lose that faith, and not just fish questions.

normally i answer kindly and explain the difference. but they dont mean in the care of the animals. i always say "well the salt first of all" and one of the guys i asked actually went "oohhh"
 
ok this one happened today, we got a new guy and he knows nothing about anything fish related (and im not kiding) the owner uses him for installs and services, but let's him work in the store a couple hours a week for exsperience. (here's a little back ground) in the back of the store is where all the plumbing parts and such are and only people who have been back there befor know there there, and the new guy was filling water jugs and one of my good friends walks back there to get some plumbing, and the new guy sees him and sarts freaking out (the back area is strictly employees only unless we know them really well or they've worked there befor) i mean like going into a full blown panic attack he's paseing up and down the store to try and get some answers on who that guy is, he's sweating and asking everybody "who's that guy", and i'm not a mean guy but i have fun. i go what theres somebody back there ,who ,who, nobody's allowed back there, why did you let him go back there, and he storms off to catch the offender but i decided it was enough and tell him the real story
 
i have been to several public aquariums and seen many families get all excited when they see Nemo.

i like to ask them if they know how Nemo got his name? many know that they live in an anemone so i tell them they are called clownfish or anemone fish, A-Nemo-ne fish. sometimes there is an ah ha moment, sometimes not.

i can't really explain Dori though...
 
This is not about fish but more about this customer and how rude people can be when they think they are right.

Manager(M):can I help you with anything.
c:yeah I am needing a protein skimmer.
M:ok.what size tank do you have
c:75g
M:how many fish do you have
c:90
M:What kind of fish are they
c:neon tetras and live bearers
M:Protein skimmers don't work for freshwater.
c:yes they do.

Then manager then talks to the customer trying to explain how a protein skimmer works for 30mins. Then the manager sees that he can't win this one so he simply goes over to the skimmer picks out a $250 skimmer and hands it to the man.

Then 2 days I went to the store and this guy came back in cussing up a storm, and yelling at the manager.
c:it didn't work.
M:I knew it wouldn't sir.
c:why did you sell it to me then.
M:I tried telling you that skimmers only work in saltwater.

Then the customer walks up to the front desk asking for a refund. The the lady at the front desk told him that if it is a saltwater product it must be returned in 24hrs(they have problems with people returning stuff because they didn't want to replace parts such as bulbs) unless it is broke. The customer then breaks the protein skimmer over the desk and leaves. He juast broke $250 of his money.
 
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