StantonCree
Watch your beer
- Jan 23, 2011
- 23,946
Not a good experience at Bass Pro
- Thread starter subman
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RepublicanJD
Active Member
I worked in retail for a long time to get through college. Bass Pro doesn't need your business. You won't be going back anyway, so removing you from the store would not have been a problem. What YOU did was in no way acceptable and you, sir, are a disgrace to the 2A community.
BigSteve57
Ultimate Member
- Feb 14, 2011
- 3,245
It's on you. You frequent sub-par places. You made your bed now lie in it. Don't go back to Bass Pro.
Yes, subman, give pop-gunner a chance by shooting him a PM. I have worked with him many times and he is a straight shooter as well as a long-time respected member of the MDS and 2A community.
You have little class... Bass Pro isn't just a grown up place and has many things to cater to kids. I'm not saying he got the best customer service but how about a little self control? I don't care if someone doesn't have kids, they need to act like an adult and not a punk...
When you bring profanity (especially the F word) into a simple adult disagreement - especially in a business disagreement - you lose.
You may have won "the battle". (You got your firearm.) But you lost any credibility if you were to complain about the employee. (Which is what I, instead, would have preferred to do.)
You may have won "the battle". (You got your firearm.) But you lost any credibility if you were to complain about the employee. (Which is what I, instead, would have preferred to do.)
A chance at what? He can post any info he has here or he can PM me. Why do I need to send him a PM? Is his broken or something?
Cry me me a river. I said the F word. Pull ya panties up and get over it.
If this was in the Tupperware section of bed bath and beyond, would he be a disgrace to kitchen utensil users everywhere?
Maverick0313
Retired and loving it
redeemed.man
Ultimate Member
Yeah probably not....Ummm...I wouldn't recommend telling them to f*** off either.....
- Dec 22, 2009
- 4,759
+1....and with every additional post he has made in this thread he shows just how little class....I'm sure he does his momma proud...
smokey
2A TEACHER
- Jan 31, 2008
- 31,589
I'll give some experience here. When you clock in at basspro to work at the gun counter, you go through a routine to bring you up to speed if you're a good employee. For me, part of that routine was checking on any procedural changes with gun sales, checking sales flyers, and looking at the pick-up paperwork to see what date they were on. Paperwork ready to be picked up is in a box in the gun room. Typically paperwork comes back to basspro in bunches and is roughly aligned with the date of purchase. If you see what day they're currently caught up to, you've got a pretty good guideline to work with if a customer calls or asks at the counter.
That said, it's just a guideline to help set the customer's expectations in the initial contact. If they're on 9/15/15 and a customer comes in asking about a purchase from 9/17/15, I'd say something like, "We just got in the paperwork from 9/17, but let me go check for you. What's your name and what gun did you buy?"
While the employee came across as lazy, he may just have known what the current date was. He still should've double-checked, but that's most likely where he was coming from. It sounds like he realized the answer didn't satisfy you and readily attempted to make it right, but you didn't give him the opportunity. He also asked if you'd like him to get his boss for you, and you just acted like a child and cussed him out.....solving nothing.
Basspro is a box store, with good employees and bad employees. The good employees really do want the bad ones ax'd so their lives can be made easier. That happens when they're consistently coming up on management's radar in a bad way. As a customer, you can cull the work force and shape it how you want it to be by talking with management when you have a bad experience. You should have taken up the offer to talk to management, and told the manager what happened. You'd be helped right away, would get that employee corrected so he doesn't make the mistake again for future customers, and would have the highest likelihood of getting helped out.
That said, it's just a guideline to help set the customer's expectations in the initial contact. If they're on 9/15/15 and a customer comes in asking about a purchase from 9/17/15, I'd say something like, "We just got in the paperwork from 9/17, but let me go check for you. What's your name and what gun did you buy?"
While the employee came across as lazy, he may just have known what the current date was. He still should've double-checked, but that's most likely where he was coming from. It sounds like he realized the answer didn't satisfy you and readily attempted to make it right, but you didn't give him the opportunity. He also asked if you'd like him to get his boss for you, and you just acted like a child and cussed him out.....solving nothing.
Basspro is a box store, with good employees and bad employees. The good employees really do want the bad ones ax'd so their lives can be made easier. That happens when they're consistently coming up on management's radar in a bad way. As a customer, you can cull the work force and shape it how you want it to be by talking with management when you have a bad experience. You should have taken up the offer to talk to management, and told the manager what happened. You'd be helped right away, would get that employee corrected so he doesn't make the mistake again for future customers, and would have the highest likelihood of getting helped out.
RepublicanJD
Active Member
I didn't realize that kitchen Tupperware was a national political issue. Frequently, these Tupperware crazies are called nut jobs and people protest outside of these stores when they are opened in local neighborhoods. Sorry, context matters. When you're purchasing a gun you absolutely cannot show people a propensity for anger or being crazy. Again, I wouldn't have let him take the gun after a blowout like that.
'When you are in a hole, stop digging' comes to mind.
The only punk was the employee.
I have little class? Why because I don't have a pole up my rear end?
How do you guys walk with it so far up there?
All you foul language nazis are hilarious
How about If this was the main cabin of a trans-Atlantic 777 and a passenger starts cursing and cussing the FAs over their meal or adult beverages?
How much cursing, profanity and temper tantrum is tolerated before the Cpt requests a diversion or you get to go all Liam Neeson on them?
The only punk was the employee.
I have little class? Why because I don't have a pole up my rear end?
How do you guys walk with it so far up there?
All you foul language nazis are Hilarius
There's a time and a place for everything. I'm sure my vocabulary contains all the same words that yours does and the OP's does.
The difference is I don't feel the need to use them in a crowded store on a Saturday afternoon when kids and women could possibly hear it.
It's called self control, but I guess it's not for everyone.
Agreed.
I just hate seeing a new member getting ganged up on...."he's a disgrace to the 2A" and all this.....cmon
