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look at me look at my eyes do i look like somebody who likes to work or do i look like somebody who likes to eat pizza like a cookie personally i think it's kind of weird how much we're expected to work in high school like you have to go and serve people mcdoubles for four hours and then go home and sell for an ex that's a lot of work does anybody else think that's crazy or am i crazy i am crazy i really did not want to get a job when i was growing up i don't like to work i just like the money but if you want to go to the movie theater with your buddies you gotta have the cash one ticket your total is twenty dollars for my first job i wanted to avoid the food service because i feared people will be a little bit more abrasive when it comes to their meals you'll find rude customers anywhere but i just feel like when food's involved things get a little hairy i don't want people yelling at me about onions i don't care about onions i ended up working somewhere that's not food which i will show you through example that's right my very first job was here at the ups store it was not really that great just a regular job don't worry about that when i turned the age of 16 my dad helped me network with the local ups store and get me a job which thank you dad for helping me do that because at that age i was not the proper candidate for being an employee while working there i met a lot of really nice people and a lot of really cool people but when you work in retail it's impossible to not meet some um how would i say this in a nice way outliers so one time this uh woman and her daughter came into the store and they said they needed to ship something when you ship something out of the ups store you gotta ask a bunch of questions like where is it going is it going internationally do i need to be worried about what's in this box blah blah blah so i'm going through these questions and entering information into the computer as i did with any customer but apparently that was a wrong thing to do because she unfolded her cane which apparently just turned into a chair sit down and says this is gonna take a while excuse me why would you say that you could say a million things to me why not compliment me why not say wow andy your eyes look beautiful today she was shipping internationally which means i had to do extra steps to make sure it gets there so after a minute or so she turns to me and says you guys should really have the computers on our side of the desk so we can do it faster than you oh i'm sorry do you know all the rules and regulations for shipping overseas do you know how this computer works no the worst part about root customers is that you can't say anything despite if they're wrong or not the customer is not always right and the person who coined that famous phrase was very wrong and probably it was also a customer i think if you're mean to retail workers they get a yell back at you or at the very least you get to tell them that they're mean and make them leave you mean i've only ever encountered these kinds of people at work and i've never seen them in the wild but if i did and i didn't have to keep my mouth shut because it didn't work there then i go right up to them and say you're mean anyway then there was this other time when this guy tried to ship drugs that day was particularly slow nobody was coming in and it was just me and my co-worker tony tony and i got along really well cause uh neither of us like to work i wanna go home me too at one point a guy comes in to buy just one a single box simple easy he's in and out in a jiffy but five minutes later he comes back in same box but now something's packed up inside it i saw the box and how he packed it and he did the thing where he kind of fold the flaps on top of each other which is a problem because then it just falls out if it's not taped can i get a description of what's in this box it's uh it's private oh i mean we just need a general description like uh is it food perishable oh it's microchips okay microchips now because the box wasn't properly taped tony came over and was gonna tape it up for me while i was helping him on the computer but the guy stops tony uh i just need to re-tape the box really quick so it doesn't come out during shipment the tape's free if that's what you're worried about oh uh okay he timidly allows us to do that which i don't really know what his end game was because we opened the box and there was weed sir we can't ship this i'm no expert on illegal trade of illicit goods but i know a thing to do about shipping and i know that drugs uh you can't do that one that's on the no go zone we opened the box cause we needed to redo the flap so we could tape it properly so if he just came in with the box taped we wouldn't have known what he was shipping there's no x-ray machine at the ups store to see what's inside the box the only missing component here was tape more than anything the situation just was awkward oh um okay that's uh sorry i want to go home me too here's some advice if you want to ship drugs don't then there's this other time where this guy tried to overnight a misshapen magazine this time i was working alone it was a night shift it's dark out and this guy comes in holding a magazine hello sir i can help you at this register oh he's just getting an envelope probably to ship that magazine is he packing it up back there is he trying to hide something from me weird i want to go home i like to ship this next day air please when you ship like a piece of paper next day air ups has this special envelope that makes it cheaper and i saw that he's trying to do that so i talked to him about it oh actually uh we have these special envelopes that cut you a deal so it's cheaper to ship next-day air at first he was hesitant about that which is definitely a red flag because it was like a hundred dollars cheaper to ship through the special envelope and why wouldn't you do that you could spend a hundred dollars on buying like i don't know five guys that's a lot of five guys five guys good but still nobody would pass that up so it was weird that he hesitated i eventually talked him into it because i think he was like catching on that i was catching on that he was being suspicious so i started typing in the information for him and he started to move the magazine from the envelope he picked up already to the other envelope that i offered him and while he was doing this i saw that it had a big weird lump in it so uh that's another red flag two for two baby why was the magazine bulgy is he shipping drugs oh my god this is like a thousand dollars who is he sending this to what if it's the mob well now i have my fingerprints on it and then i sent it off i don't want to get involved with the mob or whoever that was i was 16 alone in this store at night and not paid enough for it to be my problem i guess now that i'm on the topic of illicit substance distribution there was this other guy he would always come into the store and be like hey i shipped a box to your store and it's big and we'd be like oh is this the one yeah that's the one of all the other customers this guy was very easy to deal with and really charming but one day a couple of other customers came in and they're like hello we're the police they asked to see the manager and they talked to him and then a couple days later that guy picked up a box and then was arrested in the parking lot turns out he was importing a lot of opium i think it was around this time that i realized i miscalculated when i passed up all those food service jobs but then again is any retail job good enough i don't know i bet i would have had a better time at five guys stop eating the french fries anyway hindsight is 20 20. other stuff that happened one dude asked me if the narwhal bacon's at midnight which was very cringe and trust me i know cringe a bunch of cheerleaders burst into the store cheered ran in a circle and then left we suspect they were just trying to cause a commotion while their friends would steal things but then realized there was nothing interesting to steal at a ups store and then went away there was a guy that would often come in and try to ship bath salts which again i'm not paid enough for that a man wanted me to send faxes and then when i told him the number wasn't working he shook the paper in my face and yelled facts it's not working facts another dude wanted me to help him with his email because the government was hacking his email there's a guy that would comment a lot and tell us about word affirmation but thought that it was literally magic and not just a self-motivator and told us that the sounds in our voices affected atoms and quarks on the quantum level and would make things a reality for example like if you just said i have juicy booty i have a juicy booty i have a juicy booty then it would be true there was always the classic handful of people that would knock on the door after we were closed and ask if we were open are you guys open no and that's all that i can think about if you subscribe i will throw this box help me into a volcano thank you villa for helping me animate this video and that's everything now i'm gonna play myself out [Applause]

Channel: Ice Cream Sandwich

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Length: 8min 46sec (526 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/sd51223]

I once had someone NDA "documents" to a "law firm." Pretty normal use of next day air, right? The guy came back in later demanding the envelope back. The "lawyer" was a scammer who told him his grandson had been arrested and he needed to send $5000 cash for bail. They somehow knew his grandson's name and everything.

He was damn lucky it hadn't been sent yet.

[u/bootlickerDavis]

"I wanna go home"
"me too"

Me and my co-worker at least once an hour.

[u/pawood47]

This is one of those things that I don't know how strict other operators are on, but I flinched at the video when he opened the lumpy magazine package to see what the issue was. My bosses are very clear that if you suspect the contents of a sealed package, we're not allowed to open it, we have to call Preferred and tell them "this tracking number is suspicious and should be inspected." I think it's considered an illegal search if we do it in the store.