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Floyd R. Turbo

(31,960 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:39 PM Nov 12

Forget those stupid Customer Service buttons at Home Depot. For immediate attention

crank up a chainsaw!

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Forget those stupid Customer Service buttons at Home Depot. For immediate attention (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Nov 12 OP
Crank up? underpants Nov 12 #1
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 12 #3
LOL... Here's a story (remembrance for ya: hlthe2b Nov 12 #2
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 12 #4
Oh, my goodness! electric_blue68 Nov 12 #5
Speaking Of Working At Sears... ProfessorGAC Nov 13 #6
Hah... Comparatively, all my professional employment since those teenage year jobs have been pretty hlthe2b Nov 13 #7

hlthe2b

(112,339 posts)
2. LOL... Here's a story (remembrance for ya:
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:00 PM
Nov 12

I'm going to age myself, but among my first jobs was working the catalog department at Sears in a new store/new mall that faced out to a very wooded area beyond the parking lot and was closest (within the store) to the garden/hardware department. Well, among the bizarre occurrences on day 2, was a deer buck that did not see the glass and ran directly through and literally over the counter--just missing me and one other--and then just as quickly jumped back up and outside the now broken glass.

So, day 4 of the same week (with glass taped/boarded over), a big, burly guy goes to the hardware/garden department, grabs a chainsaw on display, and proceeds to run out that same glass door, but not before menacing those of us still vigilantly staffing the catalog counter. Shortly thereafter, the store security and supervisors (whom WE had called) chastised us for not stopping the guy with the chainsaw. Yeah, right... Just like we were going to stop the deer buck.

So, yeah... crank up a chainsaw (or follow the deer buck into and out of the store).

electric_blue68

(25,210 posts)
5. Oh, my goodness!
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:16 PM
Nov 12

I guess if there's woods right near by "events" might happen! (Hopefully not !)

ProfessorGAC

(75,469 posts)
6. Speaking Of Working At Sears...
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:43 PM
Nov 13

...a guy I used to hang around with took his dad's car to Sears where he worked. (In hardware, IIRC) He was in late HS at the time.
He was there for his 4 hours and when he went to the parking lot, there was no car.
You worked at Sears & had wild animals & psycho chain saw guy; he got his car stolen.
Really makes me wish I worked at Sears.

hlthe2b

(112,339 posts)
7. Hah... Comparatively, all my professional employment since those teenage year jobs have been pretty
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:52 PM
Nov 13

unremarkable! I don't recall having to duck for antlered wildlife even once---much less a chainsaw-wielding idiot.

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