"Doug Miller" wrote in message
t...
In article 7mxSg.480$BC6.106@fed1read01, "Steve B"
wrote:

[...]
But at least I'm not saying I'm perfect and have never
done anything wrong.

Indeed. In fact, you've quite clearly said exactly the opposite.

I'm not perfect either. One difference between you and me is that I'm
*ashamed* of my misdeeds -- whereas you're proud of yours.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Damn right. I went to the door guy. The door guy went to the manager. The
manager wrote down the price on their form. I paid that price. I couldn't
be prouder.

Steve

"Goedjn" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:00:53 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:

Let's start a new thread.

I'd like to hear the stories of people who have pointed out mistakes to
the
cashier, or who have spoken up every time when such a thing happened. In
any transaction.

I think it will be a short thread.

Remember, you have to have pointed out the error to the cashier, and you
have to have done it EVERY time it happened in your life.

Steve, who's waiting in anticipation


I do so, whenever I notice. At food service places, they
generally just tell me to take it anyway. Presumeably
that's because fixing it is too much trouble.

Why are you putting so much effort into justifying your
behavior? You're not feeling anything like shame, are
you?

No. Just indignation at self righteous individuals who say they don't do
these things or never have and then start preaching.

Steve

Steve B wrote:
Let's start a new thread.

I'd like to hear the stories of people who have pointed out mistakes to the
cashier, or who have spoken up every time when such a thing happened. In
any transaction.

I think it will be a short thread.

Remember, you have to have pointed out the error to the cashier, and you
have to have done it EVERY time it happened in your life.

Steve, who's waiting in anticipation

Steve, I will waste neither the time nor the bandwidth recounting every
single time I reported an error in my favor to a cashier, teller, etc.
in my nearly 50 years on this planet, and there have been A LOT. The
most expensive error I remember was being undercharged $1,000 for
building materials because the cashier missed a decimal point, and she
was so relieved she nearly cried. I guess in your view I'm pretty
stupid, but I sleep well at night. I have pointed out every error I
have ever noticed, although I willingly concede that perhaps there have
been errors made in my favor which I failed to notice. I am certainly
not perfect, but I have never knowingly taken advantage of someone
else's mistake.

I think you will find that this will be a VERY long thread, because I
believe at least half of the world is honest, even when no one's
watching.

wrote in message
ups.com...

Steve B wrote:
Let's start a new thread.

I'd like to hear the stories of people who have pointed out mistakes to
the
cashier, or who have spoken up every time when such a thing happened. In
any transaction.

I think it will be a short thread.

Remember, you have to have pointed out the error to the cashier, and you
have to have done it EVERY time it happened in your life.

Steve, who's waiting in anticipation

Steve, I will waste neither the time nor the bandwidth recounting every
single time I reported an error in my favor to a cashier, teller, etc.
in my nearly 50 years on this planet, and there have been A LOT. The
most expensive error I remember was being undercharged $1,000 for
building materials because the cashier missed a decimal point, and she
was so relieved she nearly cried. I guess in your view I'm pretty
stupid, but I sleep well at night. I have pointed out every error I
have ever noticed, although I willingly concede that perhaps there have
been errors made in my favor which I failed to notice. I am certainly
not perfect, but I have never knowingly taken advantage of someone
else's mistake.

I think you will find that this will be a VERY long thread, because I
believe at least half of the world is honest, even when no one's
watching.


Yes, I, too must admit that there have been times when I was honest. Mainly
when it's going to land on the cashier and they will have to pay.

I just thought that with all the "Home Depot Sucks" threads and derogatory
comments about borg stores that I would share one.

I went through channels. Each employee handed me to the next. I paid and
left. I did not alter or conceal anything.

I to this day do not know that it may have been intentional on the part of
the manager to just get rid of the last of two discontinued doors, one of
them damaged.

I sure do get a kick, though, from those who howl in indignation and
righteousness as if they were challenging the Jewish carpenter for his spot
at the top of the honesty chart. And sound as if they believe they have a
chance of doing so.

I can live with my deeds. I have done good and bad. I've gone back and
fixed some. I've pointed out other mistakes when they were happening and
not taken advantage. And for those where I truly had evil intent, I have
confessed, or made them right.

That's what's nice about being flawed and being able to admit it. You
always get another chance, and you try to get it right next time. If there
were no forgiveness and we didn't get another chance, and you had to get it
right all the time, we would live in the perfect world these pontificating
hypocrites are trying to tell me they live in.

Life is not a test. If it were, we would have been given better
instructions.

Steve

a story about a person in law enforcement comes to mind here

rumor was he bought a machine that makes upc labels, and got people to go to
home depot and put the labels he made over the label the store had on items,
with his label being of a significantly lower price, then the person would
check out and pay, rumor was $69 for an $800 item, etc.

"Steve B" wrote in message
news:dnxSg.481$BC6.122@fed1read01...

"Tim Fischer" wrote in message
. ..

"Steve B" wrote in message
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I do this when it involves too much change because the cashier has to
pay that out of their pocket. But no one can make or count change
nowadays, and they give your change to you in a wad.

So Steve, in your little world, it's ok to steal from a company, but not
from a cashier.

Got it.

-Tim

I go in. I get my goods. I plop them on the counter. I pay what they
say it is unless they say it is too much. If that makes me a thief, than
that's what I am.

Steve

if the bible is correct, the only human we know for sure made it into heaven
was the thief that was hung on a cross when jesus was (i.e. jesus told him
something like "i'll see you in heaven")

Oren wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:41:56 GMT, "dadiOH"
wrote:
I don't have a HD story but one time a brokerage firm credited me
with an extra $50,000. I called my broker, told him and he said,
"Wait and see what happens". I waited...what happened was that a
couple of weeks later they caught the error and grabbed the 50
large.

Did they collect the earned interest from your account, also?

Yes sob

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Why are you putting so much effort into justifying your
behavior? You're not feeling anything like shame, are
you?

No. Just indignation at self righteous individuals who say they don't do
these things or never have and then start preaching.

Way to externalize, dude. You go.

Steve B wrote in message ...
Careful, Cheri. With that position, you may soon be called a thief.

Steve ;-)


Steve, I never once passed judgment on you and your wife or called you a
thief. I was just "sayin" that when I saw your original post, I knew you
were going to catch all kinds of Hell. I know that, because I caught all
kinds of Hell once for posting that I have 125 of the "oldies but
goodies" that I downloaded from Napster before they shut it down. I
really enjoy those songs, and play them often. :-)

Cheri

In article 9XySg.489$BC6.348@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
et...
In article dnxSg.481$BC6.122@fed1read01, "Steve B"
wrote:

I go in. I get my goods. I plop them on the counter. I pay what they
say
it is unless they say it is too much. If that makes me a thief, than
that's
what I am.

When you *know* it's too little, and you don't speak up, then you *are* a
thief.


I paid what the MANAGER wrote on the ticket. How does that make me a thief?

That's odd -- I thought you said you didn't know what he wrote.

What makes you a thief is that you *believed* the price to be higher than the
price you were charged, and you didn't say anything.

The following is an answer I wrote to Cheri:

Ever think maybe the manager said, "Geez, these are the last two. They're
discontinued. One is damaged. Let's blow them out of here. Let him have
both at $39 each." They do this all the time with orphan pups. I never
looked at the slip, and don't know what he wrote. I just paid the girl.

"I paid what the MANAGER wrote on the ticket."

"I never looked at the slip, and don't know what he wrote."

At least one of the above statements is false. So by your own admission,
you're a liar as well as a thief.

Ever hear the saying, "when you're in a hole, the first thing to do is quit
digging"?


And PUHLEEZE, just say what you'd have done, and don't assign your values to
me.

I would have pointed it out, and paid what I believed to be the correct price.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

In article %_ySg.493$BC6.255@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
et...
In article 7mxSg.480$BC6.106@fed1read01, "Steve B"
wrote:

[...]
But at least I'm not saying I'm perfect and have never
done anything wrong.

Indeed. In fact, you've quite clearly said exactly the opposite.

I'm not perfect either. One difference between you and me is that I'm
*ashamed* of my misdeeds -- whereas you're proud of yours.


Damn right. I went to the door guy. The door guy went to the manager. The
manager wrote down the price on their form. I paid that price. I couldn't
be prouder.

In another post, you said you never looked at the ticket, and don't know what
he wrote on it. So now you're a liar as well as a thief. And you're proud of
it.

Way to go, Steve. What an example you must be for your kids.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Steve B wrote:

-Tim

I go in. I get my goods. I plop them on the counter. I pay what they say
it is unless they say it is too much. If that makes me a thief, than that's
what I am.

Steve



Why is it a unilateral thing? You won't speak up if it is in your favor
but if you think it is too much then you will speak up?

A good rule is to reverse roles. For example suppose your paycheck was
short by $800, would you complain or just say OK? What if you went to
your boss and mentioned the shortage and he responded that its a wash
anyway because (same as you rationalized that hd somehow screwed you in
the past but you chose not to settle it properly) he saw your car parked
in your driveway on a day when you were supposed to be working two years
ago?

"Cheri" gserviceatinreachdotcom wrote in message
...


Steve B wrote in message ...
Careful, Cheri. With that position, you may soon be called a thief.

Steve ;-)


Steve, I never once passed judgment on you and your wife or called you a
thief. I was just "sayin" that when I saw your original post, I knew you
were going to catch all kinds of Hell. I know that, because I caught all
kinds of Hell once for posting that I have 125 of the "oldies but
goodies" that I downloaded from Napster before they shut it down. I
really enjoy those songs, and play them often. :-)

Cheri

I like you. I still got old Napster stuff. And I know you didn't call me
anything or talk down to me. That is why I wrote on your experience. I
failed to thank you.

Thank you.

Steve

"Doug Miller" wrote

I would have pointed it out, and paid what I believed to be the correct
price.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller

Uh, pardon me. Your halo is a little crooked..............

"Doug Miller" wrote

In another post, you said you never looked at the ticket, and don't know
what
he wrote on it. So now you're a liar as well as a thief. And you're proud
of
it.

Way to go, Steve. What an example you must be for your kids.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller

What I said was that I didn't know who wrote what. I just know that I
didn't fill out anything.

Sorry you missed that small point.

And yes, my children are proud of their old man and love me. My grand kids,
too.

We all must be a band of degenerate liars and thieves.
ARRRRGGGGGHHH Matey!

Steve

"George" wrote in message
...
Steve B wrote:

-Tim

I go in. I get my goods. I plop them on the counter. I pay what they
say it is unless they say it is too much. If that makes me a thief, than
that's what I am.

Steve

Why is it a unilateral thing? You won't speak up if it is in your favor
but if you think it is too much then you will speak up?

A good rule is to reverse roles. For example suppose your paycheck was
short by $800, would you complain or just say OK? What if you went to your
boss and mentioned the shortage and he responded that its a wash anyway
because (same as you rationalized that hd somehow screwed you in the past
but you chose not to settle it properly) he saw your car parked in your
driveway on a day when you were supposed to be working two years ago?

Imagine this ( Rod Serling is speaking) a car drives slowly through a small
town. Not just any small town, but one that has secrets to hide. Dark
secrets ............

GO TAKE YOUR PROZAC AND LIE DOWN!

Steve

In article SwBSg.509$BC6.215@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote

I would have pointed it out, and paid what I believed to be the correct
price.


Uh, pardon me. Your halo is a little crooked..............

You know, I don't really care whether you believe me or not. You've already
shown what kind of person you are ... and the opinions of that type of person
are of no importance to me.

I notice you snipped the part where I exposed your lying in your own words.
Nice going.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

In article g6CSg.513$BC6.346@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote

In another post, you said you never looked at the ticket, and don't know
what
he wrote on it. So now you're a liar as well as a thief. And you're proud
of
it.

Way to go, Steve. What an example you must be for your kids.


What I said was that I didn't know who wrote what. I just know that I
didn't fill out anything.

Sorry you missed that small point.

No, Steve, *you* missed the point. You've missed several points, in fact.

And yes, my children are proud of their old man and love me. My grand kids,
too.

Uh-huh. Do they know you steal from Home Depot, brag about it on the internet,
and then lie about it too?

We all must be a band of degenerate liars and thieves.

Nope. Just you.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

"Doug Miller" wrote

You know, I don't really care whether you believe me or not.

Regards,
Doug Miller

Then, really. STFU. I know I'm finished talking to you.

Steve

In article ZdCSg.516$BC6.324@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote

You know, I don't really care whether you believe me or not.

Regards,
Doug Miller

Then, really. STFU. I know I'm finished talking to you.


Sucks to have other people call you a liar and a thief, doesn't it?

Next time you steal something, don't brag about it on Usenet. Or lie about it
on Usenet, either.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:34:51 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote Re Home Depot True Stories:

GO TAKE YOUR PROZAC AND LIE DOWN!

On your wife? Is she that ugly?

"nowforsale" wrote in message
...
a story about a person in law enforcement comes to mind here

rumor was he bought a machine that makes upc labels, and got people to go
to home depot and put the labels he made over the label the store had on
items, with his label being of a significantly lower price, then the
person would check out and pay, rumor was $69 for an $800 item, etc.

Didn't they think it was odd when the description on the register was
completely different than the item being scanned? UPC codes don't codify
pricing, just the item SKU. So to get a lower price, you'd have to make the
item 'describe' a cheaper one, and then the display on the register wouldn't
match what's being scanned.

-Tim

"nowforsale" wrote in message
...
if the bible is correct, the only human we know for sure made it into
heaven was the thief that was hung on a cross when jesus was (i.e. jesus
told him something like "i'll see you in heaven")

Not sure what that has to do with the thread in progress. Nobody's saying
that anyone is beyond repentance, forgiveness, and salvation.

But the thief on the cross was still a thief.

-Tim

"Tim Fischer" wrote in message
...

"nowforsale" wrote in message
...
a story about a person in law enforcement comes to mind here

rumor was he bought a machine that makes upc labels, and got people to go
to home depot and put the labels he made over the label the store had on
items, with his label being of a significantly lower price, then the
person would check out and pay, rumor was $69 for an $800 item, etc.

Didn't they think it was odd when the description on the register was
completely different than the item being scanned?

don't know that it was completely different, and logic dictates it would be
a similar item


UPC codes don't codify pricing, just the item SKU. So to get a lower
price, you'd have to make the item 'describe' a cheaper one, and then the
display on the register wouldn't match what's being scanned.

-Tim

"Tim Fischer" wrote in message
...

"nowforsale" wrote in message
...
if the bible is correct, the only human we know for sure made it into
heaven was the thief that was hung on a cross when jesus was (i.e. jesus
told him something like "i'll see you in heaven")

Not sure what that has to do with the thread in progress. Nobody's saying
that anyone is beyond repentance, forgiveness, and salvation.

But the thief on the cross was still a thief.

-Tim

Yes. And he ended up in heaven. I wonder why that was.....................

Steve

"Steve B" wrote in message
news:lsGSg.548$BC6.457@fed1read01...

Yes. And he ended up in heaven. I wonder why that
was.....................

Because Christ paid for his sins.

-Tim

Tim Fischer wrote in message
Because Christ paid for his sins.

-Tim

I doubt if getting a couple of doors at a discounted price could really
be compared to Chirst dying for the sins of mankind, but if it does in
your world, I'm sure it includes the doors. Geez.

Cheri

I went to Lowe's a couple of month's ago to buy drywall. I bought 20
(twenty) 8' x 4' sheets and drywall sheets generally come in a pack of
two. If you look at the huge pile of Sheetrock, two sheets are usually
attached together by a piece of paper along one edge. The price sign
is listed as $8.86 (or something similar) per 8' x 4' sheet.

I go to buy my sheets and not until I get home do I realize that I was
charged $8.86 for 10 (of two 8' x 4' sheets) of drywall. Seems goofy
to me that they sell them only as a "two pack", yet price them as only
a one-pack. Apparently, the cashier did not know this and charged each
two-pack as the $8.86 one-pack cost.

A week later when I as back at Lowe's I mentioned this to the cashier
and she blankly looked at me like I was nuts. Maybe the sign was
wrong? What is the going price for ONE 8' x 4' sheet of Sheetrock?

"Tim Fischer" wrote in message
. ..

"Steve B" wrote in message
news:lsGSg.548$BC6.457@fed1read01...

Yes. And he ended up in heaven. I wonder why that
was.....................

Because Christ paid for his sins.

-Tim

I knew the answer, but was seeing if you did. He paid for all our sins.
The good part is that we are forgiven and don't have to be perfect. As far
as east is from west ...........

Good thing, or I'd fry.

Steve

In article bvISg.557$BC6.208@fed1read01, "Steve B" wrote:

I knew the answer, but was seeing if you did. He paid for all our sins.
The good part is that we are forgiven and don't have to be perfect. As far
as east is from west ...........

True, you don't need to be perfect -- but you *do* need to be repentant.

Good thing, or I'd fry.

You might want to think that over a bit...

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

In article .com, wrote:
I went to Lowe's a couple of month's ago to buy drywall. I bought 20
(twenty) 8' x 4' sheets and drywall sheets generally come in a pack of
two. If you look at the huge pile of Sheetrock, two sheets are usually
attached together by a piece of paper along one edge. The price sign
is listed as $8.86 (or something similar) per 8' x 4' sheet.

I go to buy my sheets and not until I get home do I realize that I was
charged $8.86 for 10 (of two 8' x 4' sheets) of drywall. Seems goofy
to me that they sell them only as a "two pack", yet price them as only
a one-pack. Apparently, the cashier did not know this and charged each
two-pack as the $8.86 one-pack cost.

A week later when I as back at Lowe's I mentioned this to the cashier
and she blankly looked at me like I was nuts. Maybe the sign was
wrong? What is the going price for ONE 8' x 4' sheet of Sheetrock?

Last time I bought drywall (January of this year) it was around $7.50 per
sheet.


--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

"Steve B" writes:
We all must be a band of degenerate liars and thieves.
ARRRRGGGGGHHH Matey!
A TARDY band of degenerate liars and thieves at that... talk like a
pirate day was over a week ago: http://www.talklikeapirateday.com



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"Steve B" wrote in message
news:bvISg.557$BC6.208@fed1read01...

I knew the answer, but was seeing if you did. He paid for all our sins.
The good part is that we are forgiven and don't have to be perfect. As
far as east is from west ...........

Steve,

I'm not here to judge you- that's not my place. One thing, though, you seem
to be going through an awful lot to try to get folks to say you're not
wrong. That might be your conscience telling you something. On the other
hand, it's possible that the situation was different than we understand it
to be from afar and that you didn't intentionaly try to cheat anyone (or
perhaps the price you paid was the price that HD wanted you to pay). In any
case, what's done is done.

None of us are perfect 100% of the time. I just hope most of us try our
best...

-Tim

Tim Fischer wrote:
"Steve B" wrote in message
news:bvISg.557$BC6.208@fed1read01...

I knew the answer, but was seeing if you did. He paid for all our sins.
The good part is that we are forgiven and don't have to be perfect. As
far as east is from west ...........

Steve,

I'm not here to judge you- that's not my place. One thing, though, you seem
to be going through an awful lot to try to get folks to say you're not
wrong. That might be your conscience telling you something. On the other
hand, it's possible that the situation was different than we understand it
to be from afar and that you didn't intentionaly try to cheat anyone (or
perhaps the price you paid was the price that HD wanted you to pay). In any
case, what's done is done.

None of us are perfect 100% of the time. I just hope most of us try our
best...

-Tim



Tim,

I get the same reaction with all the effort he is going thru especially
when each has some sort of clever response like he made to me:

"GO TAKE YOUR PROZAC AND LIE DOWN!"

George

Steve B ) said...

I'd like to hear the stories of people who have pointed out mistakes to the
cashier, or who have spoken up every time when such a thing happened. In
any transaction.

A couple of years ago, I was visiting relatives in Brooklyn while I was
nearby on business and gave them a hand with wiring an outlet for a new
clothes dryer they had. The material they had was wrong, so we needed to
run out to the BORG to pick up the correct gauge cable.

The person who cut the 10 gauge cable labelled it correctly but somehow
the cashier rang it up at one-tenth the price it should have been. We
pointed this out the cashier, but she mumbled something that was not
heard clearly by either of us. No correction was made.

Well, we tried. It was the BORG who originally sold the wrong gauge cable
in the first place which couldn't be returned.

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