Posted: 12/7/2007 5:13:49 PM EDT
Now I have a problem with the part in red. She hired the employee, her employee screwed up, and because people passed the word around, she think people are "dishonest" because they purchased some gas at a price that was set in the computer. Of course I remember the gas run we had here in GA after Kitrina, and I watched the gas price change while I was pumping. |
How is it not dishonest to buy something you know is incorrectly priced? Not saying I wouldnt have done it either, but dont act all high and mighty about it either. Everyone knew it was not priced correctly. |
So it's stealing if you buy a bunch of bananas that ring up $.50, but are marked $.75? Every other store I've been to has erred on the side of the consumer. If you can't trust your employees to input prices, put them in yourself, so you can only kick yourself in the butt when something like this happens. This isn't screw big oil. This is take responsibility for your own actions, and the actions of ones below you. It's simple business practices. |
Reminds me of what happened to Denny. Yes, I think these people were taking advantage of the situation. Were they wrong legally? No. Were they wrong morally? Yes. |
And would this whiny-ass-bitch of a manager be willing to refund money if the error had been reversed, and the customers paid too much? I highly frickin' doubt it! That's what double-checking is for dummy. Go outside and come back in to be sure everything is correct. You know, "Measure twice and cut once". La ß Edited for format purposes. |
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Man, I have to wonder about people when I see all of you defending the people who bought the mispriced gas. IMO those people are scum. When I go to the grocery store and get too much change I let the cashier know and fix it, when an item rings up at a wrong price I let them know, etc. Seems to be how a decent person should act. |
I don't doubt it. It's been my experience that most businesses aren't in it to rip people off and if you point out a real error to them they'll fix it. |
Most gas station owners make very little per gallon. If anything they are probably making less now that the price of gas is so high. Just because you're fruserating with gas prices ( same as I ) doesn't give us an excuse to steal it from somebody else who is probably just as sick of it as you. |
Exactly. You know the station manager wouldn't have called to inform them of an undercharge. |
Exactly. I also find it quite funny that people are so quick to say that the station owner would have taken advantage of people if it were the other way around. Got proof of that? Otherwise it's libel. That smacks of #3 in the typical liberal tactic when caught lying or cheating: 1. Deny everything. 2. Admit nothing. 3. Make counter accusations. |
Actually pretty common out here. Never saw it when I lived in Connecticut though. hinkit is a regional thing. I stopped at a gas station in south dakota last summer that had NO EMPLOYEES, It was gas pumps and vending machines. |
No, actually you don't know that... You're just making a broad based assumption, based on your own perceptions. When you say things like this, you do realize you're no better than the libtard who says we all want guns because we're psychos and potential child molesters, right ? Lot of people saying that station owner wouldn't have paid what he/she owed, to try and justify their own immoral reasons for not paying either, were they in the same situation.... It's bullshit and it's dishonest. Plain and simple. |
I agree. And it sure says a lot about the folks who took advantage of it... |
I have been one of those people where the shoe was on the other foot. If you read the first post, during the post Kitrina mess that we had in the metro ATL, about 2/3 of the way through pumping my tank, I saw that the price had changed from 3.47 to 3.75 per gal. After getting my receipt, it was actually itemized as 4.6 gal at 3.47 and 7.1 gal at 3.75. When I pointed this out to the employee, I was basically told talk to the manager, and the manager coped a "Tough Shit" attitude. Since that incident, I absolutely refuse to purchase anything at a station affiliated with that company. At the time of purchase, I had agreed, grudgingly, to pay 3.47. If they wanted to swap prices so badly, they should have stopped all the pumps while they updated the prices. |
The gas station I used to work at was exactly that way (nobody could be pumping gas when the prices switched) |
That's a pretty good racket actually. Talk about low overhead... |