Finance & Legal OUT of STOCK

jim787 · Oct 7, 2019

I usually identify myself by which state of the U.S.A. As for "American" referring to all the countries of the Western Hemisphere, most do not take it that way. To a gentleman from Brazil who once poked me about it, I pointed out that we (the USA) were first to get free of Europe and form a republic, and the model for those of La America Latina. And besides, we ended slavery earlier than Brazil.

MikeP64 said: ↑

Perhaps it is just nit picky on my part. It is an avoidance on my part t0 prevent anyone from the rest of the Americas from feeling I think I represent or speak for them.

I'm an American certainly is easier to roll of the tongue than I'm a United States of America man . Usually I tell Filipinos I meet, I'm from Chicago.
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osodelnorte · Oct 7, 2019

Notmyrealname said: ↑

Here is a variation of the 'out of stock' theme so prevalent in the Philippines: A friend has been told to wait 5 days for a bank ATM pin number as they have run out of them (she has the ATM card, so it is just the pin number - that thing which is a random 4 to 6 digits and which can be changed!). Have I missed something? Can this be possible?
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There was a store that opened recently in the Philippines that was selling "Out of Stock" signs. It did such great business it ran out of stock and they had to shut the store down.

osodelnorte · Oct 7, 2019

Pompolino said: ↑

I wonder if it is their lack of English or confidence in English which makes them state the same line which they have learned of "out of stock" rather than having to deal with a ... nose bleed (their term not mine). I notice when in Handyman at Robinsons as how they all scatter from the areas I approach and I am certainly not intimidating but possibly my language is. These guys are shop assistants and my guess is their English education is limited. And before someone reminds me that English is one of the national languages of the Philippines, it is only the more educated that are proficient.
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The problem is Filipinos are given no instruction or training in sales or customer service. Add to this they aren't allowed to make a decision and everything must be cleared through the "In Charge". There are no deal makers only order takers.

osodelnorte · Oct 7, 2019

grandpainak said: ↑

My latest memorable "out of stock sir".
City Hardware, I looking to buy a drill press. Im at the front end of the "Tool Department" and I ask in a loud voice to the sales person in the back where I can find a drill press. He comes back with "out of stock sir". No problem and no surprise. After all I'm in the big boys toy department. I continue to wonder around trying to find something else to spend some money on. I end up in the very same corner where the sales person said "out of stock sir" and lo-and-behold less than 12 inches from where he was standing is THREE drill presses. I go to the manager and inform him that he should try training his employees on where the things they are selling are located at. He offered a discount if I wanted to buy. I said no sale because I do not like being told "out of stock sir", just because the sales person was to laze or to ignorant to know where it is. I got my new drill press down town at ₱300.oo more than it was at City Hardware for the very same drill press.
This was some years ago. Did the sales person learn anything? NO. Did the store manager learn anything? NO. Did I learn anything? YES. I learned that, "out of stock sir" could really mean one of several things;

1. We are really out of stock.
2. We have never ever stocked it in the first place.
3. I'm to lazy to look for it.
4. It is buried in all the other stock on the back and I'm not going to look for it.
5. I do not get paid well enough to look for it.
6. Screw this store I hope they go bankrupt.

I no longer fret over the reply "out of stock sir". I just keep on looking.

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You forgot "don't wake me up... cant you see I am busy"

Liverpool fan · Oct 7, 2019

osodelnorte find a corner and play with yourself, sorry I forgot you are also out of stock, morning all!

DavyL200 · Oct 7, 2019

I think this thread has run its course now.

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