Holy hell. My Win10Pro copy in Parallels had over 32GB of crap mixed up in the “system files” area of disk cleanup. Previous windows installations, logs, etc.

I’d suspect this varies by state, but here in CA, if it’s on private property and no local codes are being violated, it cannot be ticketed.

Yeah, you really need to just do your job and shut the fuck up. You aren’t making buddies with the people returning shit, you are probably just pissing more of them off than you think. Especially when you show them something is working when they think it’s broken - or better yet, they have told you is broken so they…

Truth. I parked my car (a BRAND new car, mind you), on the street where my boss lives (high end neighborhood, median price about $300/sqft). There were a few cars on his side of the street, so I parked directly across. I was only there for an hour or so.

Now that is taking charge of the situation. Kudos to you, good sir.

You showed them good, eh? :/

Yeah sure. BUT, it’s evil week, and revenge feels SO DAMN GOOD when it’s effective.

Our old neighbor used to smoke on the side of the house. The same side where my kids’ bedrooms are. Because of that, I could NEVER open those windows, which for at least 7 months of the year, sucked because we usually get a very nice breeze in the evenings.

I was not paid to question if it was broken or not. I don’t know why you think you are? Is there some bonus on top of that sweet, sweet 8.50/hr that you get for playing gadget triage or “educating” the customer (who probably just wants their damn money back and is using whatever they are telling you as an excuse)? I…

Don’t know if anyone has noted it yet because, well, Kinja kind of sucks, but this won’t work for some new cars in California.

I don’t recall that being an issue - if the customer said “shit’s broken” then it went RTV with the customer’s reasoning for defect on it. If the customer said “I didn’t need” or “I didn’t like” and the item was clearly in saleable condition, it went RTS. If the item was questionable I let the mgr/asst mgr decide.

We had 3 categories for returns:

I have to ask - why? As in, why did you give a bleep? Were you a store manager or someone with aspirations to be one (was this a career path)?

A shit-smeared toilet would have been a line in the sand for me. Or a skidmark on the ... well nevermind.

What change are you talking about? The 1 year limit? Other than that, REI has not changed their policy.

While I haven’t done this since I was a yung’en, I do make sure to follow the general advice above when buying an item that I’m not 100% on and won’t know if it is a keeper until I get it home and put it in use. If I think this may be a concern, I avoid stores with restocking fees or unfriendly return policies. Good…

Speaking as a former retail associate: I don’t recall giving even a single fack when people returned things.

All Honda vehicles prior to about that time (1998 or so) were insanely easy to steal. A slim jim and a paperclip could get the job done, and very quickly.

I’ve done this road. For the first time, I’m the middle of the night, on my bike. It was not great. The whole thing was blind. Not fun.

Hey now, sleeping while driving is nice. You can catch up on all those missed nights of sleep you had when you were stressing over when the LR was going to break down on you again. Nightmares about center lane catastrophic failures while in the George Washington tunnel or something.