Ever go to the parts store for a quart of oil and find somebody in the aisles barking like a dog?
Too much Puppy Bowl yesterday?
Looks like another Florida Man. 
Ever go to the parts store for a quart of oil and find somebody in the aisles barking like a dog?
Too much Puppy Bowl yesterday?
Looks like another Florida Man.
I was a parts-slinger for about 4 years back in my college days. The short answer is YES.
The customer base for the store I worked in was something else. I saw some of the craziest, unhinged, and most insane human behavior on display while working there. Having a customer barking like a dog for an extended period of time is totally on brand for most of the people I encountered.
Yes, and they're just as often behind the counter as in front of it..................yes, you Autozone person who was working at Kohls the week before.
"I need 3 feet of 5/16" fuel line"
"What's the year, male and model?"
Yeah, a few times of this and I might start barking too.
Tom1200 said:Yes, and they're just as often behind the counter as in front of it..................yes, you Autozone person who was working at Kohls the week before.
My first thought was that the barking guy worked at the auto parts store.
Sad consequence of me (and everybody else) buying all my parts online is that the parts stores can't afford to pay for competent help. It's been ten years or more that the quality of counter help at my FLAPS has plummeted. On the plus side, you'll more often find women behind the counter, some of them quite knowledgeable.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
I've noticed the women at the name stores seem to put more effort into learning about what they are doing than the young guys do.
Tom1200 said:In reply to 1988RedT2 :
I've noticed the women at the name stores seem to put more effort into learning about what they are doing than the young guys do.
This, every time!
I will admit to feeling bad for the employees at the Autozone that opened (in what was an old Dollar General, if I recall correctly!) in our area in the last year.
Staff for any business is hard to come by in our rural area, and I've found the folks there working long hours, frequently alone.
I guess it's at least a job where you don't have to worry about your schedule coming up short on hours.
Out in the suburbs where I live you have older retired guys who are fairly knowledgeable. When you drive into the city, they bark. Behind the counter. In front of the counter. Out in the parking lot in front of the place. Doesn't matter. More barking there than in the dog park.
At least he didn't lift his leg on the motor oil shelf.
I have a single person I like at NAPA and she does my big orders like transmissions and anything with a core charge. How she is still sane after dealing with all the other idiots i do not know.
I mean, I guess there are worse things you could do while high on meth than barking in/at a store?
Colin Wood said:I mean, I guess there are worse things you could do while high on meth than barking in/at a store?
I mean, at least he wasn't high on PCP.
There was a guy at out local FLAPS named Leo.
Leo once supplied me with a flex plate that fit a Buick 455 when I had ordered one for a Chevrolet 350. I had ordered by year, make and model. 1970s Camaro. These never had a Buick 455.
That was the last straw after many, many incorrect parts.
After that, when I phoned the parts store and Leo answered, my reply was "Get me anyone else".
He wasn't there very long after that.
I worked at a parts place in St. Pete for a couple years in high school. I guess it was toughly equivalent to an Autozone or Advance, but for whatever reason the management was always adding weird, non-car promotions. So one year we'd have a big aisle of holiday decorations, or maybe we'd have a whole pallet of Coke 12 packs, or maybe we'd sell beach umbrellas. None of the stuff ever moved and most of it dry-rotted before it sold out.
The store I mostly worked at was in a pretty rough neighborhood, so we were constantly getting ripped off. And the manager I mostly worked with (because everyone else hated him) was a burned out former NFL practice squad QB who signed a couple league-minimum contracts that went pretty much entirely up his nose. So when we discovered someone had stolen something particularly valuable, his response would always be "Let's go get 'em." and he'd lock up the store and I'd have to drive him around the local neighborhoods while he looked to throw hands to recover a Sun tach or an Edelbrock air cleaner or something.
Anyway, a barking guy would have been a nice distraction.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
My old store manager was pretty awesome and a great guy. He was also crazy when it came to dealing with thieves. Loss Prevention constantly told him to let the thieves go and just call the cops. Nope, not happening. He would always engage and sometimes fight them. The best was when a kid stole a trailer brake controller (a high ticket item on the floor) and tried escaping through a path behind the store to another parking lot. My boss just went out the back door, waited around the corner, and SPEARED the kid. Trailer brake package went flying out of his coat. He sat on the guy until the cops came.
He did that enough times that our district manager relocated him to another, quieter store.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Money laundering is my guess.
grover said:In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Money laundering is my guess.
I'd believe that, but I'd also say that these did not seem like particularly savvy people. I could definitely see someone washing fund or products through this company and the company simply being used as an unwilling dupe in the whole thing.
I mean, we have customers ask us why we don't carry dog food...
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