[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

My girlfriend returned to try and get a name because I don't want anyone else to suffer a similar situation but they weren't wearing name badges. But in the 1/10 positive comments you'll see online for Homebase, people do name drop, "Katie was so lovely helping us choose a gazebo!" etc etc. so they would apparently wear them in store? My theory is they don't because that way they can act as they like.

Anyway, I'm going around in circles and I'm glad some people have helped understand my situation. Just trying to move past it and get on with my under stairs cupboard I'm building. I don't wish for anyone to wander into a public place/shop like that and get the gooseberry fool extracted from them, I was just going about my day to day business and went to buy (and return) a couple of items, like some doorknobs.... It could happen to anyone. Basically, don't return stuff at Homebase. I've learnt my lesson and that's all I can do! Take your business elsewhere. Everything publicised about their situation indicates they're going down the shitter, and I a decent plumber I know says he's not surprised at all. That particular store here in town has been dead for years, practically empty all hours with just 1 or 2 members of staff. Must be a hellhole working there.

Sat watching people giving money tips / glitches on GTA 5 on YouTube. They spend about 4 minutes bigging themselves up. Then they talk bollocks & I’m sat there thinking why don’t you just get in with it you drainers. Who gives a gooseberry fool how many subscribers you got?. Who gives a jolly Rodger if yours was the first video?.

Mafro wrote:

Errkal wrote:If something costs more than you think it should when they ring it up you go “oh sorry, it’s thought this was x £” you don’t buy it then kick off to the point someone is going to call the police.

Sorry I don’t see any route from “price is wrong” to “and they called the police” that isn’t the customer acting like an angry toddler that’s been told they can’t have sweets for breakfast.

Nah it sounds to me like the jobsworth member of staff was being a banana split and you're trying to wind GG up.

I’m really not, I honestly couldn’t care less about gecko, I had my rant, I had my break from here, I asked him to stop PMing me about it, it’s dont and finished and it’s time to move on, but fine, whatever.

It’s the same response I would give anyone. I honestly don’t understand how you go from mislabelled and want a refund to “you’re banned mate”, the guy does sound like a bell for sure but I dunno it doesn't make sense to me the guy would leap to your banned.

If the shop guy is being a dick you say “ok I don’t agree” and leave and then contact HQ for them to sort it.

Whatever, I'll ignore all gecko posts because I'm apparently evil and out to get him and have a personal vendetta or whatever.

LightWanderer wrote:Who the heck is Poser and why did he get banned? Did I miss some juicy internet drama?

I probably shouldn’t say this, but strawberry float it the evil bastard brought it on himself.

Poser was a long standing member and we all liked him. Charming, friendly and just seemed like a decent person.

But it was all an act, Poser was a deeply damaged individual who in real life was collecting hair. He’d sit behind women on the bus and was snipping bits of hair off.

We’d probably never have known that, but then he started PMing the female members of the forum begging them to send hair to him in the post. Things escalated (he was offering to buy hair clippers and travel to shear them) and after getting a ban, he was also reported to the authorities.

When the police searched his house, they found he had made an exact scale replica of the City of London out of the stolen hair. His bed was stuffed with hair. And his dog had been shaved and the fur was replaced with an unknown pensioners blue rinse.

We are not supposed to talk about it because of the ongoing legal proceedings but I think the forum has the right to know.

Dude come on, you may think you are a journalist but all you are doing is increasing the chance that a sick and dangerous individual is going to get away with their twisted acts!

Moggy Robinson.

#FreeMoggy!!

Errkal wrote:

Mafro wrote:

Errkal wrote:If something costs more than you think it should when they ring it up you go “oh sorry, it’s thought this was x £” you don’t buy it then kick off to the point someone is going to call the police.

Sorry I don’t see any route from “price is wrong” to “and they called the police” that isn’t the customer acting like an angry toddler that’s been told they can’t have sweets for breakfast.

Nah it sounds to me like the jobsworth member of staff was being a banana split and you're trying to wind GG up.

I’m really not, I honestly couldn’t care less about gecko, I had my rant, I had my break from here, I asked him to stop PMing me about it, it’s dont and finished and it’s time to move on, but fine, whatever.

It’s the same response I would give anyone. I honestly don’t understand how you go from mislabelled and want a refund to “you’re banned mate”, the guy does sound like a bell for sure but I dunno it doesn't make sense to me the guy would leap to your banned.

If the shop guy is being a dick you say “ok I don’t agree” and leave and then contact HQ for them to sort it.

Whatever, I'll ignore all gecko posts because I'm apparently evil and out to get him and have a personal vendetta or whatever.

You're just terribly insensitive is all and it's difficult to understand why you would side with "angry guy at Homebase bans customer for returning items". By raising the question of course you imply I deserved what happened especially with the childish metaphors. Are you honestly surprised it's been read that way?

I won't address the other stuff because you've already phrased that in such a way that makes me look bad when you sent abuse my way. So yeah it's pretty rich to read that from someone who's previously insulted me.

Sorry I don’t see any route from “price is wrong” to “and they called the police” that isn’t the customer acting like an angry toddler that’s been told they can’t have sweets for breakfast.

The reason you personally cannot "see any route" is because your mind wouldn't make one and neither would I because I'm not a banana split. When you're dealing with awful people they react in strange and incomprehensible ways. Which is what happened to me. I didn't get a chance to leave because before I was even walking to the checkout to buy other stuff I was told I was banned and the police would be called unless I left immediately. Literally for requesting a refund, not even from the guy who forced me out, but somebody else (the lady actually serving me). Who the strawberry float actually does that? Some disturbed old bloke who feels he needs to jump in and protect young blonde girls in public places? That's at best weird and at worse misogynist, and inappropriate anyway. He wasn't serving me, there were 5 other customers to serve and I was not being rude in any way. I barely even finished explaining the situation before he butted in and started defending himself, even though he had nothing to do with it (nobody did, it was a simple mistake somewhere along the line? Who personally gets upset about a price label being potentially maybe wrong?) And kept shouting "you're banned" etc while I was trying to hand over my card to process refund with the girl actually serving me. All while 6 members of the public just stared at me with nonchalant, confused expressions. I'm not sure even they understood what was going on; why was this mild mannered if lanky tall dude being told the police will be on the way while standing there shaking in fear because they're threatened as such?

Answer: The angry man clerk who butted in is a monumental arse who is abusing his power to shout down a customer making a reasonable request. I never even raised my voice or swore even once. It's a disproportionate response most easily explained by a bad actor.

If your mind is filling in the blanks with, "maybe Gecko was a banana split?", "maybe his request was rude or unjustifiable?", or even "what the strawberry float?" then it's perfectly fair for me wonder why you think that. You didn't question the situation, you strongly implied the most likely answer was it was reasonable to threaten to call the police based on something I'm omitting from the story.

Which says what about me? How would you feel if in this situation someone was like, "Ah, well maybe you deserved it? It doesn't make sense otherwise. You must have done something wrong." Maybe just consider that. It's a bit shitty to feel anyone here would even begin to think I'd behave like that.

"Sorry but" you don't walk away from a situation crying your eyes out and shaking with the other guy the victim. I did not deserve that.

It's as if you've never witnessed a public fight before. What if some guy says, "Arsenal is going to lose, because they have a poor midfielder" and some other guy jumps in and just starts ripping into him and threatening unreasonable force? This kind of thing can and does happen in professional settings. It's rare, because they usually get fired eventually, but the same psychology occurs in lots of settings. I'm glad you've not experienced it or for whatever reason can't imagine it happening but that's a bit naive. That's the lesson I've taken away from it anyway. I still don't think you can be vigilante and emotionally prepared all the time for the possibility of things like this occurring, especially if you suffer from anxiety like me;- and that's the shittiest side effect and something I'd make a claim about if it came to it. Just yesterday I was thinking, "That lady is looking for a draft excluder. I've just spotted it on this page in the catalogue, maybe I should clue her into it?" Instead I thought, or rather felt, "No, no, don't interact with the public. Keep to yourself. Stay indoors. Be isolated, lonely and miserable because there is a risk you might upset someone or get upset and feel all those horrible symptoms." (while at the same time these thoughts being one of the symptoms). That's what it is to be the victim of a situation like this if you are suffering from anxiety.

And it strawberry floating sucks, big time. My mum has PTSD/generalised anxiety and is the same. She has no friends and has barely been outside in 10 years. It destroys lives and some people are driven to suicide or thinking about killing themselves because they keep having this experience of failing to function within society on a basic level like, going to a shop, getting a bus without having panic attacks. It's a dreadful existence. Maybe writing about it helps someone understand another or themselves, don't really care if Errkal reads this at this point.

Anyway, on that note, of course I'm going to try and move on from whatever animosity there is or isn't here. I shared my experience here because I wanted to let off some steam and somewhat warn other people that, "Hey, there's banana splits out there." Doesn't achieve much but that's what this topic is for.

Edit: I am wasting my life posting on forums

Green Gecko wrote:A wild gecko appeared

I’ve never been in a shop where there is a militant dick splat running the till so from my experience (which is all I can draw on) I couldn’t find a path from refund to banned.
It just seems so very strange that someone employed in which is effectively a customer services role would act like that.
However, evidently, these moron exist.
I apologies for implying as I did, it wasn’t meant to read as accusatory, just that from what I’ve experienced I’ve never seen a situation where a person is banned that isn’t their fault.

Hope that makes sense, I wasn’t blaming or trying to make out your a cock and what not, from all of our arguments and things I think I’ve always made it clear I don’t think you are a bad person, anyway that's irrelevant.

Thanks for explaining the situation more you didn't need to but it shows as I say aren't a dick.

I will say for the future, can we please move past our previous issues, I hold no animosity towards you as I'm now not part and never wish to be part of GR other than as a member, and that is where our issues were, if I don't have to attempt to work with you you won't boil my piss so all good.

If I post I do it as a member and anything I say to you is the same as I would post toward anyone else, it isn't a hangover from before, it's not salt in old wounds or a personal attack, it's a comment on the events as I see them, nothing more.

Its a point I want to make absolutely clear, I don't and won't post to annoy or antagonise you as I'm not a pathetic child so I would appreciate if you and the mods can accept that.

The LOL gaming force are out again this morning because of this fortnight thing.

"12 hour days practicing?! WHAT? That's not a job!"

Me - "he's earned more than you'll earn in your entire lifetime"

"Yeah but where will he be in a year's time!!!"

Me - "he'll have a major sponsorship deal which will probably carry him for the next 5 or so years and he'll have enough money to not work again"

"....I dunno. computer games Dear oh dear!"

Ad7 wrote:The LOL gaming force are out again this morning because of this fortnight thing.

"12 hour days practicing?! WHAT? That's not a job!"

Me - "he's earned more than you'll earn in your entire lifetime"

"Yeah but where will he be in a year's time!!!"

Me - "he'll have a major sponsorship deal which will probably carry him for the next 5 or so years and he'll have enough money to not work again"

"....I dunno. computer games Dear oh dear!"

Just wait until they find out what happens when gamers go to DIY shops....

Moggy wrote:

LightWanderer wrote:Who the heck is Poser and why did he get banned? Did I miss some juicy internet drama?

I probably shouldn’t say this, but strawberry float it the evil bastard brought it on himself.

Poser was a long standing member and we all liked him. Charming, friendly and just seemed like a decent person.

But it was all an act, Poser was a deeply damaged individual who in real life was collecting hair. He’d sit behind women on the bus and was snipping bits of hair off.

We’d probably never have known that, but then he started PMing the female members of the forum begging them to send hair to him in the post. Things escalated (he was offering to buy hair clippers and travel to shear them) and after getting a ban, he was also reported to the authorities.

When the police searched his house, they found he had made an exact scale replica of the City of London out of the stolen hair. His bed was stuffed with hair. And his dog had been shaved and the fur was replaced with an unknown pensioners blue rinse.

We are not supposed to talk about it because of the ongoing legal proceedings but I think the forum has the right to know.

Irrelevant of the above post, has Poser actually been banned?

Rex Kramer wrote:

Moggy wrote:

LightWanderer wrote:Who the heck is Poser and why did he get banned? Did I miss some juicy internet drama?

I probably shouldn’t say this, but strawberry float it the evil bastard brought it on himself.

Poser was a long standing member and we all liked him. Charming, friendly and just seemed like a decent person.

But it was all an act, Poser was a deeply damaged individual who in real life was collecting hair. He’d sit behind women on the bus and was snipping bits of hair off.

We’d probably never have known that, but then he started PMing the female members of the forum begging them to send hair to him in the post. Things escalated (he was offering to buy hair clippers and travel to shear them) and after getting a ban, he was also reported to the authorities.

When the police searched his house, they found he had made an exact scale replica of the City of London out of the stolen hair. His bed was stuffed with hair. And his dog had been shaved and the fur was replaced with an unknown pensioners blue rinse.

We are not supposed to talk about it because of the ongoing legal proceedings but I think the forum has the right to know.

Irrelevant of the above post, has Poser actually been banned?

No, he’s had that custom title for ages.

Ad7 wrote:The LOL gaming force are out again this morning because of this fortnight thing.

"12 hour days practicing?! WHAT? That's not a job!"

Me - "he's earned more than you'll earn in your entire lifetime"

"Yeah but where will he be in a year's time!!!"

Me - "he'll have a major sponsorship deal which will probably carry him for the next 5 or so years and he'll have enough money to not work again"

"....I dunno. computer games Dear oh dear!"

Is this a fair representation?

People who walk around snapping their fingers and slapping their palms to make a tune. Yes we'll done you can make a little beat, now shut the strawberry float up doing it every time you move around.

SLAPPY SLAP CLICK CLICK SLAP CLICK LEG SLAP

Stop living in a Tui advert?

eSports is still a stupid name for it, it clearly isn't a sport. No idea what it should be called, maybe eNerd Comps?

Pedz wrote:eSports is still a stupid name for it, it clearly isn't a sport. No idea what it should be called, maybe eNerd Comps?

It has to be a sport, all the people competing look really sweaty.

That's from all the wanking they do to video game characters.

Pedz wrote:That's from all the wanking they do to video game characters.

...and anime characters.

Sometimes they watch anime characters ploughing video game characters as a means of spicing things up.