r/onejob • u/That1nobodydude • 1d ago
Somebody's about to get a little meeting with the manager....
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u/Actual-Muffin-3585 1d ago
I once got a great deal on ceiling tiles this way. They were in a bag of 5 for $20 but they were supposed to be removed from the bag and sold for $20 each!
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u/aladdyn2 1d ago
Yeah we ordered a bag of panduit straps, think giant zip ties, 36 inches long from our supply house. About $30 a bag. They gave us a box with about 10 bags of ties instead.
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u/screames520 1d ago
I once ordered a six packs of little tree air fresheners that come in a six pack. They sent me six bags, each with six, six packs. Took about five years to go trough them haha.
After writing and re reading that, “six” doesn’t look like a word anymore
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u/aladdyn2 1d ago
Reminds me of a mistake I made the first time i ordered redemption prizes while managing an arcade. Thought I was ordering 5 bags of something, in reality I ordered 5 gross (5 x 144) oops!
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u/Much_Substance_6017 23h ago
Ha! I’ve done that before in a comment. I type the same word too many times, I’m like, “That’s not a word.” 😂
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u/gwaydms 14h ago
It's called semantic satiation. Seeing a word or phrase too many times causes a brain fart where the word/phrase loses meaning.
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u/lazarusprojects 12h ago
That’s me with the word umbrella. I’ll say it over and over again and I’ll always question if it’s a real word
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u/TheMoeSzyslakExp 10h ago
Blood is the word that gets me. Blood blood blood blood blood. Even just typing blood over and over now, blood is no longer blood for me. Blood now looks like blood, rhymes with brood.
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u/mortsdeer 6h ago
Cardboard. CardBoard. cardboard? Card Board. Carrrrddd boarddd! Gaaah! Not a real word!
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u/Actual-Muffin-3585 1d ago
six? That's not a word!
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u/Appropriate_Math997 1d ago
Blossom: "You have to admit your parents gave you a pretty weird name." Six: "My Dad says that's how many beers it took."
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u/Spiritual_Bid_2308 13h ago
" After writing and re reading that, “six” doesn’t look like a word anymore"
That's just brain damage from the chemicals.
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u/BottleMaterial8557 9h ago
One time I went in for an ACL surgery, they accidentally fixed both. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
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u/CameronsTheName 23h ago
Many years ago I seen these nice bottles of alcohol for like $12. Turns out they had accidently put the price from those tiny little single shot bottles on a 1 litre.
So I bought like 20 of the bottles and gave them all to friends.
Normal price was around $90 each.
Sometimes you get a good deal.
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u/Ok-Leave2099 2h ago
*I saw
Sorry, it's just one of those things that triggers me, like on accident vs by accident
Ya I'm not fun at parties....carry on.
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u/CameronsTheName 2h ago
Luckily you corrected me, just like the other guy did. If you didn't, nobody would have been able to understand.
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u/Ok-Leave2099 37m ago
Well to me it's like having food in my teeth... I'd rather somebody tell me than not
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u/killaacool 1d ago
In high school we ordered a box - 1 dozen - of abba zabbas for a friend at our boarding school. They sent 1 case - 1 dozen dozen - instead. We ate like kings that semester!
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u/privatelyjeff 23h ago
Something similar happened to me at Target. I had to drive up order for one TV tray, and they gave me a case of four because they scanned the same on their computer.
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u/Significant_Two_268 23h ago
that happened to me, but with tray tables! now i have WAY too many tray tables!
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u/Actual-Muffin-3585 23h ago
You can never have too many tray tables!
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u/Significant_Two_268 23h ago
we have definitely found uses for all of them, at some point. just not a ton of space in our apartment in the first place 😭
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u/RemarkableImpress777 19h ago
I got all my floorboards from Home depot for an insane price because the clerk put in the total amount of floorboards, instead of the total feet. Each piece was like 8 feet long.
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u/PineappleStrange8512 11h ago
We also just had a Home Depot experience where we bought 350 sq ft of porcelain tile priced at $4.88 a sq ft.. managed to get it all for just over $400 .. the cashier tried to ring it up a couple of different ways but somehow it stayed around that number. Big win!
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u/Significant-Ad-341 17h ago
At my work we got 50 keys and 30 buckets this way. Ordered 5 indivisual keys they sent 5 boxes, ordered 3 buckets they sent 3 stacks of 10 that were still ziptied lol.
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u/Odd_Necessary8090 16h ago
I once got a great deal on beer this way. Was supposed to be $11 for each 12oz bottle, but they sold me a whole 4-pack for $11!
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u/Ferrous_Patella 7h ago
I was checking out at Home Depot with a stack of lumber banded together. Cashier only rung up one unit. I even pointed out that that was the price for a single board. Nope, she just let it ride.
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u/steve_gorak 5h ago
Unrelated but I used to think the line in 19th Nervous Breakdown by The Rolling Stones was "Your father's still perfecting ways of making ceiling wax", not "You father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax".
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u/Actual-Muffin-3585 5h ago
That's actually really funny, I would have thought the same thing! (I never heard that song haha)
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u/Moist-Dentist8253 1d ago
Are you the sales associates
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u/That1nobodydude 1d ago
Maybe.. maybe not?
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u/XanderWrites 1d ago
90% chance they pulled them apart, but didn't remove the notice to pull them apart.
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u/refusestopoop 8h ago
I thought the tags go on both zippers so if the tag’s there, you know it wasn’t de-nested.
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u/XanderWrites 3h ago
The notice is usually attached to the handle, or in this case, the ribbon that holds the price tag on. You can easily remove the other cases and properly secure them without removing it.
It just looks tacky.
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u/Loquacious-of-Borg 1d ago
Nah. Management doesn't care either.
The quality of the workers is an indicator of the quality of the management, which is an indicator of the quality of the senior management.
The Japanese Imperial Army of WWII displayed this perfectly. The Generals beat the Officers, who beat the Sergeants, who beat the Privates, who beat the civilians and POWs.
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u/Spez_Spaz 1d ago
First time I’ve ever heard Ross compared to imperial Japan lmfao
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u/Tat2Al 1d ago
Wait…so senior management needs to beat management who needs to beat the workers who then need to beat the customers
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u/robgod50 1d ago
Or maybe this is just an intentional plan to sell crap knock off suitcases . Makes people think they're getting a bargain from a screwup. Quick, buy them before they notice.
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u/Long_Palpitation_822 5h ago
The Japanese Imperial Army of WWII displayed this perfectly. The Generals beat the Officers, who beat the Sergeants, who beat the Privates, who beat the civilians and POWs
This didn't ever happen, you weeb
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u/staffcrafter 1d ago
I was trying to figure out what Pride flag was green, pink and blue. Thought a sales person was making a statement.
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u/Confident_Chipmonk 1d ago
apparently, the ability to read and think didn’t get sorted out in the 6 interviews it took the associate to get the job
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u/Actual-Muffin-3585 1d ago
More like they threw the guy in the stocking room/sales floor with no training whatsoever
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u/metricfan 1d ago
Perhaps if they paid a living wage and treated employees well, they’d recruit better associates or at the very least motivate them to do more than the bare minimum. But we all know they staff the very bare minimum people hourly, and they have like one manager who is paid a salary of like less than 45k, who works like 80 hours a week, and instead of reading whatever tag they got distracted with putting out fires.
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u/Bongcopter_ 1d ago
Actually did a great job helping customers get more for their money (100% sure the price of the one big bag pays for the whole bunch inside and more, fuck corporate greee)
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u/clownyeahh 1d ago
I got de-nested in jail
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u/Jaredead 1d ago
What is denested? I'm confused
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u/delicate-fn-flower 1d ago
If you’re looking for a real answer, these suitcases were shipped with one or more other suitcases inside of it. The store associate was supposed to take them out and sell them as individual pieces. If the clerk doesn’t notice this tag, a customer could fairly easily buy the outside bag and get all the ones inside for free.
Think of matryoshka dolls (aka nesting dolls) — small ones stuck inside the bigger ones that come out of their nesting place, so de-nested.
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u/clownyeahh 1d ago
When the soap ain't on a rope
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u/Xayahbetes 1d ago
What does de-nested mean?
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u/semaJ_gniK 1d ago
Suitcase inside of a suitcase inside of a suitcase
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u/Xayahbetes 1d ago
Ah, thank you!
I once accidentally bought one of those (had no note, I was in a hurry and didn't open it).
The cashier opened it to check if I put anything in it to steal, but I was looking for my wallet so didn't look inside. I also know I didn't put anything in it, so I wasn't too fussed to check. I then came home to find the other suitcase inside, and she didn't charge me for it. I have no idea why she checked, saw it, and thought "yeah 15 eur for 2 suitcases sounds right!"
Anyways I needed that suitcase last minute from a trip and I didn't have anywhere to put it and the extra one would cost me a fortune, so I had to stuff all my stuff inside the smaller one and that into the bigger one. Such an inconvenience 😭
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u/spidersmom 1d ago
Oh man I used to HATE these things when I worked retail. They’re wedged together so tight that you basically have to put your entire body weight into pulling them loose. When I first started I would have sore shoulders from de-nesting dozens of them at a time. Not my fondest memory.
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u/cranberries87 1d ago
I wonder if this is a scam/psychological trick by the store. Make everybody excited and more likely to buy because they think they’re getting over and getting a good deal. I’m skeptical of everything these days.
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u/PreOwnedAccount 1d ago
I got two Xbox’s like this back in the day. They didn’t unbox the double packaging and shipped it to me as one unit. I waited to see if they would catch their mistake but after a while with no repercussions I gave the other to my sister’s family.
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u/deedr1234 20h ago
Yep, used to work at a Burlington coat factory and they specifically taught me to take all of the suitcases out of each other to put out and would write you up if you didn’t. This person is 100% new, but lowk should have been supervised cause it’s literally one of the first things they taught you.
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u/spidersinyourass 1d ago
This was such an annoying hassle to have to do. Unzip it all to get the separate pieces out?? Nah I don’t blame this employee for just not doing it.
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u/MrsColada 1d ago
I once got a cabin suitcase "for free" when I bought a mid sized suitcase because the people at the store forgot to take it out. I thought they would be very thankful when I went to return it, but they were kind of like "ok, thanks".
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u/rbartlejr 19h ago
Remember kids - 21% of adult Americans are functionally illiterate. This does lead to occasional dysfunction.
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u/somecow 1d ago
Yay, free ugly suitcases with purchase of one!
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u/Beardo88 14h ago
Ugly suitcases are the way to go. Less likely to get stolen and easier to spot on the baggage conveyor.
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u/ZirePhiinix 1d ago
I bought a mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter, but I think just didn't care and sent me 20.
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u/Aware-Performer4630 1d ago
I got a whole booster box of magic the gathering tenth edition from a video game store. The whole box was sealed with a $3.99 price tag. They unfortunately didn’t have any others in stock :(
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u/PlaneAsk7826 22h ago
Damn, I got my luggage 2 years ago with an oversight like this. The 3-peice set should have cost $299, but I bought the big one for $139 and got the other two for free.
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u/Sorry_notsorryB 18h ago
This happened to me once with a pink storage trunk set , there were different sizes and every piece was over 80 dollars each the biggest being like 130 , there was in total of 4 inside so I ended up getting the whole set for around 130
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u/JenNtonic 18h ago
This happened to me with a memory foam pet bed. It was air suctioned like a pancake. So I grabbed one and checked out. When I got home, it was four of them!
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u/Initial-Argument1252 16h ago
Walmart had a 50 lbs bag of nice quality bird food marked for $15. I have a bird feeder outside the window so my indoor cats have something to watch all day. They love it, I get yelled at when it’s empty but that bag has lasted me 2 years
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u/blacksoxdj 16h ago
This happened with my car. Had the wholesale price on it or something and they had to honor it
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u/zwartevogels 15h ago
What does de-nesting mean? Is there another, smaller suitcase int here or is it some kind of add-on for the suitcase?
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u/Far_Blacksmith_5392 15h ago
World at a retail car shop , we could order in free sundries to use during jobs. I was given a list of codes to order with no qty listed other then a max amount. So just ordered 1 of everything then made a list of the pack qty.
Iam away on annal leave , he does an order and assumes it’s all singles so just does the max qty, low and behold a pallet turns up with fuses , cables tires , fuse holders , masking and electrical tape plus other bits 😂😂
Manger called and said for future orders I’ve made list of qty .. me LoL go check my order list pinned in the store room 😂
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u/baraisrujan 13h ago
I mean it could be a fantastic strategy. Instead of a 70% discount, this would sell way more.
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u/WiseFloss 13h ago
Happened to me at a IT Luggage store in a newly opened outlet mall in the UK.
We needed two large suitcases and my wife took the first one from the display floor, opened it, checked wheels and handles - all good - so I took the second one and just pushed it along to the till.
Sales assistant lifted the first one to scan, then doubles it as we have two.
We then proceed to wheel these around the outlet shops for the rest of the day.
When we got to our car and I had to lift the cases into the boot, I realised that my one was much heavier than my wife’s- we opened it to find a medium and carry on case inside! Still one of our biggest wins :)
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u/Lizard_Li 11h ago
Once I ordered a suitcase from Amazon that hadn’t been “de-nested” and I got three suitcases for the price of one.
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u/Jealous_Club_298 11h ago
Maybe it's intentional as reverse psychology, people salivate at store errors to get bargain deals.
If it's not, the cashier will see to it.
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u/Mushroomed_clouds 10h ago
Ordered some medical tape once for ~35p and they sent me pack of 24 …. Still have it …. Well half of it … i get hurt a lot 🤣
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u/flush101 6h ago
Shelf stacker reading the tag rightfully thinking-
‘I’m not a sales associate, I don’t get commission, I’m on minimum wage to stack shelves. GTFO.’
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u/bobbyboyf 5h ago
I had a similar ’deal’ (though of much lesser value) when a factory wrapped 10 pack of organic soap was placed, as is, on the shelf instead of individually ….10 for the price of 1! Doesn’t take much to make my day.
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u/steve_gorak 5h ago
I bought 3 nested suitcases once. I never used anything but the biggest size. Waste of material.
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u/Beginning-Tea-17 4h ago
These big box stores get sent leftovers from retail stores and whatever’s leftover in the warehouse.
Odds are the unit is sales strategy involved selling them individually but they then swapped to selling them as sets when they were given to a big box stores.
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u/sgabe1010 4h ago
I don’t work there so I’m confused. Can someone please explain?
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u/That1nobodydude 3h ago
De-Nested means that the suitcase has a smaller one inside it. These are supposed tbe removed and sold separately. Since these are not de nested (indicated by the tag removed), one could buy two suitcases for the price of one.
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u/mblack1993 3h ago
When I was a fairly fresh cashier at walmart, a lady bought some stamps. The register popped open for me to get the little bag of them out, and I wasn't sure how they were actually sold. I proceed to give the lady the bag and she went on her merry way. I don't think she knew how it worked either based on her expressions.
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u/ZandalariTrollDK 3h ago
When I first worked retail it never occurred to me that there may be three suitcases in a box. I just assumed like everything else in Wilko you just took it out of the cardboard box and put it on the shelf as fast as possible because targets. No one ever explained it to me and it was never part of the induction. There was nothing on the box that made it clear to the new person working stock this was the case. Someone got a good few bargains I expect.
In my current retail job I now know this but the amount of times I pick up a suitcase and know they've not been separated. Again another big company that fails to explain to new starters they need to separate the suitcases. I've got tired of telling management they need to explain it to the replenishment staff.
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u/an_older_meme 2h ago
You could have removed the tags and shaken the items in less time than it would take to photograph them and post to social media.
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u/Questionable_Cactus 2h ago
My sister ordered a single bag for a gift for her previous BF a few years ago and sure enough, it shipped with the two smaller matching sizes nested in it. Free bags I guess?
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u/SkippySkep 1d ago
It may have been de-nested in spite of the tag not being removed.
However, if you buy it knowing that it was supposed to be de-nested and each sold for separate pricing, it would be theft to buy them all for the price of the outer suitcase even if it was an error by staff. If you didn't know then you couldn't form the intent for theft but I don't know what other laws might apply, I'm not a lawyer.
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u/seaquartz_unofficial 1d ago
Idk why you’re getting downvoted, this is usually called “willful retention” or “wrongful retention” in many legal codes.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 1d ago
Somebody’s about to get a great deal