In my town these human ****roaches have become a literal plague. You can't go anywhere without seeing them sitting at the intersections holding their cardboard signs or in your face at the gas stations, public library or other public buildings.....and grocery stores.
Oh, they'll come right up to you in the produce dept. 'Scuse me please, do you have just a coupla dollars....' And BTW, I'm talking about legit bums who don't want food or jobs, they want booze, dope and cigarette money.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Anyone here been dealing with that?
We use to have this one lady hold a sign that said 3 kids, got kicked out of our apartment. We need $3-5 to help pay rent. Or any amount will help.
Sometimes it goes up a kid or down a few kids all within a few days. Finally a customer called them on it. For some reason the "homeless lady" with the fluctuating number of kids thinks our store is a rude ****hole and that we put the customer up to getting them kicked off the property.
Uh, no. The customer did that on his own. Learn to get a job and give up cheap ass scams that won't woek.
I had a guy come up to me as i was walking to my car yesterday and say "oh hey you work here?" and i was just like "yeah, i just got off work at 2" and he's like "oh i didn't see my friend here today, she normally helps me out, could you give a couple dollars to help a vet get a room?". There's a hotel across the street from the store. I'm just like no, i can't sorry, and he left to go up to another car in the lot. he wasn't super pushy or anything but it was the first time i'd seen this happen in my current store.
That happens at my store. Only rather than vets, it's usually this young couple who have a grandmother in for minor surgery and they want you to give them gas money to go see her. Sometimes said granny is dying, sometimes it's to get her from the airport. I said "No." One time because I KNEW it was a scam. All of a sudden I was a "Rude ass motherfu*cker." As the dude and his bitch sped off. I flipped them the bird and the slammed on the breaks, his lady stuck her head out the window and screamed "FU*CK YOU!" Before speeding away. Yeeahhh... go pull that on someone else.
That happens at my store. Only rather than vets, it's usually this young couple who have a grandmother in for minor surgery and they want you to give them gas money to go see her. Sometimes said granny is dying, sometimes it's to get her from the airport. I said "No." One time because I KNEW it was a scam. All of a sudden I was a "Rude ass motherfu*cker." As the dude and his bitch sped off. I flipped them the bird and the slammed on the breaks, his lady stuck her head out the window and screamed "FU*CK YOU!" Before speeding away. Yeeahhh... go pull that on someone else.
I had an almost identicle situation happen, and these bums have been getting more and more aggressive. It's prompted me to start carrying pepper spray and a knife, and I may start packing something else, too.
This is a lucrative profession; zero physical work involved, 100% tax / deductions free money.
Just one of endless examples: there's a guy and his dog dropped off at a busy intersection; both he and the dog are fat a$$es, obviously not starving. But they'll both sit out there all day, every day, til his wife pickes them back up around 5 p. It does no good to call the cops, they have a circuit of stores. And what kills me is you'll see people giving them money. I wanna beat their a$$es as much as the bums'.
Nope, no soliciting allowed on any company property unless authorized by store director or district. If I have to warn someone off from soliciting once, then I simply report them to MOD or LP afterwards and have them handle it. I simply tell the peeps "sorry it's our corporate policy to not allow soliciting on the property without permission" and ask them to move on. And if I see them again afterwards, then they can be trespassed by management or LP / cops. We as employees can warn first, then afterwards, it escalates to management and the cops. So it's a good system, if you fail to listen to an employee, then you get to talk to the cops.
That includes beggars, as it's a form of solicitation. We once played a game of cat n mouse with one of em who after warning them of it, they moved to a different spot (right by the exit door) and did it. Us UCs just kept an eye on them and were visible nearby when doing carts while management was keeping an eye inside to make sure they didn't enter the store after someone was going to "help" them purchase some stuff. That was a fun few hours.
-- Edited by UC151 on Friday 30th of March 2018 03:25:17 PM
Had a young guy approach me late one night. He had a very solid sounding story; he was driving farm machinery parts across state for an old guy, his truck ran out of gas, he needed just a few bucks to walk to a station, buy a gas can and some fuel, yada yada. I was actually listening to him when a Kroger cart pusher from behind him caught my eye and violently shook his head NO. Which I basically relayed to the truck driver. He yelled, quite loudly, 'FUUUUCK!!!!!' and stomped away.
Turned out he'd been out working that lot for hours, had had the cops called on him multiple times, would fade when they showed, re appear after they left.
For some weird reason they like to hang out in the produce dept at our store-our manager has kicked out this one dude numerous times- Last time the homeless guy was told not to come back.
For some weird reason they like to hang out in the produce dept at our store-our manager has kicked out this one dude numerous times- Last time the homeless guy was told not to come back.
What makes it bad is there are many legit poor homeless and starving people out there. But there's also so many scammers you dont know who is who.
