Seriously, wtf…

I don’t know what it is with customers lately, but I keep finding them on ladders at work. I was walking along the back of the store cause I had to check something on the computer in the furniture pad, and I see a customer moving a short ladder, and I just figured it was in his way, then he decides to climb it… Without putting the stop down… and the ladder started tipping towards him. He uprighted it before it fell on him, and I hurried over and asked if he needed help with something, and he showed me the chair he wanted to get. Since there is never someone in furniture at night, and therefore no one immediately around, he decided to get the chair himself. Now we keep chairs on the very top shelf, and use a stock picker to get those down. He decided to try and use a short ladder, stand on the very top of the rails, and try to pull the chair down. So I go and get the stock picker, put it in place, put the harness on, went up and got the chair down. Then once I’m down, he starts telling me how my harness isn’t legal because it doesn’t have a shock on it if I fall (the orange strap does, but it wouldn’t have given me the distance I needed). I should have said “Sir, it’s far safer than what you were about to try.”

~ by aaryanna on February 9, 2008.