The Agentic State, a concept first proposed by social psychologist Stanley Milgram, is a psychological phenomenon in which individuals act as agents or representatives for someone in a position of authority. In this state, individuals often feel compelled to follow orders or instructions, even if it goes against their own personal beliefs or moral compass.
But a lot of places price match so while I wouldn’t be a ass or least try to If I was Otto I totally would be like if u can price match ya can charge properly 🐱
after my first year of working retail if someone complains about a few cents off an item i just give it to them at that point and tell them its on the house today.
It's actually crazy how people can genuinely blame employees for stuff like this ik this a movie but ik for sure this has happened in real life like it genuinely blows my mind
@mikechoto21 A lot of the time, it's pre-set prices. For length it probably only displays it by the yard, not the foot. Your gripe is with the people who made the interface, not the employee
@@user-zn1zt1bi8r he is 100% wrong. You cant open a bag of chips and buy one chip, you cant cut a chair in half and buy half a chair, you cant buy just the hinges off of a prehung door, and you cant buy five feet of rope that they sell by the yard. The store decides what they sell and by what increments, not you. And that’s WHY you aren’t supposed to cut it yourself, because the employee is the one who knows by what increments its sold in. (Plus, they arent cut by knife, they’re cut with heat so the ends dont fray)
@@Vgamer311 you know, someone finally realizing he messed up the integrity of the rope by improperly cutting it. His 5 foot rope is gonna fray and last way less due to improper cutting. Though, in other countries, you can open a 6 pack and pull singles out. Only in America and a few other countries do they force people to buy a full 6 pack instead of allowing for singles to be bought. Homie could be from Germany, where they’ll sell you singles, and whatever you want to buy at the increments you want to buy it. Sure, you can’t open a bag of chips and buy one chip, but the system should allow for them to sell by the foot, by the yard, or by the meter.
Except the gallon of milk will go off quickly once it’s opened while the rest of the rope is not degraded in any way. You can also buy smaller amounts of milk if you want - no one is forcing you to buy a gallon but this is like charging people for a gallon when they’re only buying a quart jug/carton. Instead of hating the customer for rightly feeling ripped off why don’t you hate corporate for making things this way?
@@Gilberto90 the difference is they only sell it by gallon, liter, etcs. In this case they sell it by the yard. He’s the one who helped himself to the rope instead of following the instructions of the people who literally work there. He’s not trying to buy it in a smaller size that they have. He’s trying to buy it in a size they don’t sell it in. He’s pouring his own glass and demanding a discount and being mad when the system isn’t able to sell a glass of milk.
@@Amogus-zi6mi He plays an old curmudgeon named Otto, who evidently has measured and only needs 5 feet of rope to hang himself. It's a really good movie. A Man Called Otto.
Exactly, corporate HQ has too much pull over the people. His request was understandable and correct but because HQ doesn't want to so it they can't comply which is bullshit for both the employee and the customer.
I had a woman get mad at taxes and tried to claim since she lived out of town she didn’t have to pay the sales tax. My response was “ma’am the sale is happening here. When have you ever gone to a store and told them you didn’t have to pay taxes because you live out of town?”
They usually can just manually apply a discount of the 33 cents, it'd take like 2 seconds and they normally don't need managers approval for such small amounts
@@tailstechvideos2327 thats not true, discounts other than scanning existing coupons generally require manager overrides. you cant buy 18 eggs, you can buy a dozen or two dozen, but if they dont sell it in cartons of 6 you gotta buy what they have or go somewhere else, that person’s not responsible for your whining
@@tailstechvideos2327 yhh no. In a lot of places they know, they'll keep the option to do manual discounts locked behind a password the managers have. So the only way to do it would be to have a manager approve it.
@tailstechvideos2327 Walmart Retail worker here, sometimes it does not work that way. If the override is a giant amount, it will need supervisor approval. Even if you make claims like this, it needs to be approved by somebody higher up than the cashier because they're only there to keep sales going, they can't do everything they need to automatically. For example, if I wanted to price override something, it will be sent to by supervisor through the computer into their phones for approval. Sometimes the computers want them to log in manually too(which means literally punching in more numbers), to even override the items price at all. Plus if we are charging differently than you, it's best to keep to those measurements or go straight to costumer service desk for negotiating or for questions. Literally can't do much for ya other than call somebody up, even coupons need approved too at times if it's even $5 off.
Tom Hanks was so good in this movie, I'm a grown man and I cried a little when tjey showed his history. At the end he was really good with everyone that love him
Tom Hanks was a great casting choice. Watched this movie with my boyfriend and our friends, most of us don't cry with movies but this one had us all teary eyed (including two grown men who thought the movie was lame at first).
Think about it this way, if a store sells batteries in packs of 8 you can't just crack one open and buy 5. If the store sells rope in yards, you can't just buy 5 feet, you have to buy two yards
Just modify the price or change the amount to 1.66 yards. The workers depicted here didn’t respect the man and acted as if they were going to lose their jobs if they did help him. There is a price modify button and a customer service button for times like this, the rope was cut off a 1000ft spool of rope, nobody is losing their job over 0.33¢ ; they may in fact gain a recurring customer by charging the correct amount and helping by doing their job “customer service”
@@wilhoroshak6253too bad that’s not how it works and they could lose their job it’s not their rule it’s the company’s rule cashiers can’t just change prices on the spot and a couple cent may not seem like a big deal but if you do it for one person then you have to do it for everybody a mom and pop store can do that because they own the place as a retail employee myself i can’t just go doing shit to appease everyone,
@@wilhoroshak6253The whole point of this movie is that this guy is a miserable old bastard. Employees are not in charge of how the POS system is set up. You can go cut off another foot if you want it, but I’m charging you for 2 yards.
its an open rope its not like your opening a pack of eggs and choosing 11 to get instead of 12, and even if there isnt a button for 5 feet of rope just bill them for 3 and get the problem fixed next time around so the problem is fixed and a happy customer
I don't work in retail, I work at Chick-fil-A. One man wanted a sandwich with no butter on the bun. An unbuttered bun is 25 cents more than a regular bun, that is just how our operator designed the system. The guy called me "Stupid, incompetent, and not able to do elementary aged math." We just follow what our operator says. We don't try to be a pain.
I'm from the IT sector, once in a project I was on hand to test in loco a new system that we implemented. The amount of disrespectful customers scared me, one customer was furious with me for such a system nonsense and started screaming saying that I would stay there forever, I started laughing and replied that I was praying that she would never be a customer again. She insulted so many generations of my family after that even Charlemagne must have been offended
They allow you to cut the rope to the amount you need so they should be able to charge you for the amount you’re buying. In this scenario, it is on the menu.
On tills In the store I work you could have it set up as a quantity item which basicly has a preset price that for every one of it it ads up just instead of the an amount of individual items you’d just use the number of feet, this is just the system we use and the rope isn’t something we sell but I’d assume if we were to sell it and in that style we’d use a similar system Once again this is purely based on my experience so I don’t actually know how hard it’d be for other systems
@@cavaebi7890 because he cut the rope when the store doesn't sell the way he wants ? That's like taking 3 eggs from a carton of 6 and asking half the price....idk if you people even watched the movie but the character here is miserable and meant to be annoying...
@@tektyrant not a reason to annoy the workers. THey aren't at fault they didn't make the rule, he should talk to someone else and stop bullying ( not really bullying but you see my point) making minimum wage worker
Saw this short reel, watched the movie and now I’m back here. Pretty good movie. I’m a person that rarely cries (didn’t cry) but I can see some people crying for sure. It’s on Netflix for the ones wanting to watch it
@@felixf4378 the plot of this movie is that he is about to attempt to end his life. thats why he's buying the rope the scene is supposed to be funny in context, because why care about 33 cents if you think you'll be dead in a few hours? youre right that he's insufferable, but he's insufferable bc he's depressed and doesn't care anymore.
Worked in retail for five years. I got yelled at and called a horrible person for not letting an old lady make her husband move our cart corral for her to park “because all the handicapped spots are full”. A guy yelled “y’all are fuckin idiots” after I helped him find the greeting cards after a giant renovation. And I got called useless after a lady asked me where the air filters were and I didn’t know. It literally wasn’t even my department. People are wonderful aren’t they🙂
@@dallasyap3064 I say people need to work in retail at least once to learn how to treat people (and how not to). It thickens yours skin, but it can be miserable at times, yeah.
@@connormcgrath5800 I agree, that people need to work in retail or service jobs (whether long or short) to kinda have a simple understand of how people treat people. I have worked in service before (short one), but I don't think I'll work in 1 again unless I really have to.
@@connormcgrath5800 i've the feeling that you (or people who do your job) also sometime took the bullet for a decision you haven't made but your boss have. People should remenber that your are a facade to the company, not the man in charge. Also people are too individualistic and forgot that it's a human like them who have these job. Even extremely polite country like japan are not nice to store employees. I was shocked to see that most japanese didn't say hello or thanks when buying at a store, even if the store employees didn all the greeting and the bow.
I’m a retail worker and I agree with both points here , like yes he shouldn’t be charged for what he doesn’t have but we can’t do anything about it because it’s how the company sets it up, we can either ask you to get the full amount so it’s even or we all complain about how shit the system is.
but think about it, if he take a half of a banana, you cannot get charged for half a banana. You would stay get charged for a banana. You can't get mad for that. A lot of fabric seller does that too, if they sell by foot you can't buy by inches
Half true, i worked in Leroy Merlin as advisor, cashiers didnt even know then can do things like 0.## of product, they didnt even try that, people in whole store didnt try that, when i got idea and we did it was like second coming of jesus..... So Try that honestly, system probably will allow it.... Problem is you doing a math on 1/4 1/14 etc. I know its not your work to count it but its what most ppl dont even try and call it "system wont allow" type of thing
@@DevilDrako666yeah but then you get a new problem, say you take all those halves or quarters (whatever increment you want) what happens when I need 3 yards for example. It's not only for the sake of calculation it's also because in a store the product is a certain cut amount of rope. In this case the product is a yard of rope, and also the store would be taking a loss on all the extra pieces of rope they can't sell cause someone decided a couple cents was too much. You can't go take 6 eggs out of a carton then ask for it half off cause you didn't take them. Idk what crack station you worked at but every store I've worked in does it the same way. The product is buy it for the listed price at the set amount, otherwise the only person your shorting is yourself cause they're gonna have to get rid of that wasted stock anyway
Actually, i think he did it to himself in this situation; since he decided to cut the rope himself, instead of the employee helping & didn’t ask how it’s priced.
@@ROCKZSTAR. Rope is sold by the yard. He got over a yard, so he gets charged for the part he cut. You can't eat half a meal at a restaurant and expect to only pay half.
@@ROCKZSTAR.Then he should go to another store with different policies instead of whining and bitching at the people who didn’t even make the store’s policies.
@@jackjohnson8244 But they can't. It's left of the end of the spool as finding someone to buy odd lengths of rope is hard. It's the main reason it's sold by whole yards.
What an incredibly vibrant place! The colors, culture, food, temples, and people bring the tradition, and the city brings the modern flare! I hope you had a wonderful visit with friends and family. I just found this in my watch later list, I'll have to add it to my "places to visit" list too!
Retail worker here: we literally can’t do anything about it. If the system goes by meters/yards, it goes my meters/yards. There’s no getting around it. This is why they ask to cut things like fabrics , ropes, chains, etc. so that we can know what to put in the system. It sucks, yeah, but it’s not the workers fault. I’ve had people come into the supermarket I work at literally asking for only half of the sliced of bread in the bag. Like I can’t type that into the system, same goes for rope in this situation.
@@exb940 you overestimate what our shitty computers at the checkout can do. And from my knowledge it's only common to have like a 0.5 foot/meter/yard or whatever wiggle room when it comes to conversion. Hence why you get it done in the measurement system that said store offers. Again, unfortunate but it's not the employee's fault the system is shit.
@@exb940 no, because that's not how the system works. It'd be like asking why a computer running on temple OS can't download minecraft, its just the system is just incompatible, and that can't be changed without dealing with some back-end shit that retail employees are not paid enough to deal with and aren't guaranteed to be qualified for.
He isnt wrong, but he isnt right either. What he did was like oprning a can of soda and drinking half of it because he only wanted 6oz of cola instead of the whole 12oz can. They sell them by whatever unit they decide. If its more than you want/need, tough. Find another shop that sells by the unit you prefer, or figure out what you want to do with the extra rope.
Gotta love old people not understanding how system design or store operations dont care about their wants. I work at a grocery store and the amount of people that get mad because corporate makes a decision they don’t like and take it out on us is insane
People who actually act like this are the worst. As a retail employee, theres not much i can do unless I break rules that I also think are bullshit and then get yelled at and fired for it.
@@mcucrafts4840he was told they'd cut it for him and there was definitely a sign somewhere explaining that fact. Instead he took two yards and removed a foot. Perfectly fair if he's buying the full 6ft but this way he's leaving the store with an unsellable 1ft that's going to be left at the end. Stores sell you what they want to sell you at whatever price they choose to set. The only choice you have as a customer is to accept or reject that offer. You do not get to modify it. If there's a buy one, get one free deal going on mathematically you should be able to take 1 for half price, but that's not how the deal works. If the store is selling a cartoon of eggs you can't take 3 out and demand a 25% refund. Until he pays for it, what he has is a 2 yeard long rope that belongs to the store and that he vandalized. If he wants the extra foot he can go and take it. If he doesn't want to pay the extra 33c they'd probably let him leave if he left the rope. But the store doesn't sell 5ft of rope. He can't buy 5ft of rope.
@@mcucrafts4840 You don't have to pay less just because you took out 2 eggs from an 8 pack egg carton. Who do you think makes the rules? Because it's not the retail workers. And are you a child? Just plain stupid? Or just insanely privileged to think working minimum wage is a "choice"?
Y'ALL PLEASE WATCH THIS MOVIE! Its about an asocial suicidal man who's wife had passed away learning how to enjoy life again. A bit of a warning for suicide attempts! And it will probably make you cry, I've seen the most unemotional people I know start crying its such a beautiful movie.
Old people are the masters at making you go speechless like this. It’s kinda impressive and I love it (I’m a retail employee btw I’m just talking in general)
Retail employee here, please understand systems these days literally prevent anyone outside of corporate to manage pricing. Store level managers only have a certain amount of power in offering sales or giftcards or the like. We cannot change prices ourselves, something like this should be complained to corporate- not to the employee. Please remember we want to help and we see your side, but we only have so much we can do.
As a non-american i can understand your and other people who work in retail comments That system sucks when i think about it even when i don't live in America
Just letting people know, my husband and I watched this movie and I thought it was going to be a happy go lucky movie. It was not. My pregnant ass cried the whole time. Also, it shows multiple attempts onscreen, so if you’re having issues in that department, not a good watch. It does end up super sweet, it was just a lot more emotionally heavy than I was prepared for.
My grandfather did this once at a walmart. On behalf of all them employees I stopped his ass, paid the cashier and had a very long talk bout him shitting on the workers. Ya just gotta let your elders know.
@@void.less. really showing those... minimum wage workers who are just doing their job and are well aware of how stupid the policy is too, but are so far down the ladder that they can't do anything about it. Being insufferable ≠ Having a backbone Grow up or grow old.
I can understand you both. This is stupid to not allowed the customer to do so but in the meantime the store employee or the customer service can't do a thing about it. In my humble opinion, most of the time customer service don't really help the customer to solve their problem but to accept that it is what it is. (they surely help but don't resolve the issue) Worst of it, they took the bullet, all the hate and the stupidity a customer can deliver instead of the director who did the shitty decision. For me that's the main job of customer service.
Ive been in retail my whole adult life. At this point id tell him "look man, i dont make the rules. I get that its stupid and that the way you described _does_ make more sense, but im just doing my job. That being the case, you can either pay the charge, or you can leave. If you dont like those options I can have the police escort you off the premises."
For those who haven't watched the movie: Otto here recently lost his wife (I believe in a road accident) who was the absolute world to him. They were dating since around high school I believe and had spent a whole life together. Much earlier on in their lives they tried to have kids but couldn't which caused a lot of pain for the two. Ever since his wife's death Otto has felt no reason to live as he has no family and has pushed friends and neighbours away due to his loss. He didn't know how to deal with what happened and this was easier for him. He spent his days wishing things could go back to how they were when she was alive and so went about his days trying to keep things the same (everything about his house was the same, his routine etc.). This was his way of coping with the horrific pain and is why he gets frustrated and argumentative when things don't go right for him. In this exact scene he is buying this rope in order to hang himself, which ends up failing multiple times as new neighbours move in and nearly witness him doing so. A true example of why you should be mindful of what other people might be going through. Just because they seem like an ass doesn't mean you shouldn't be nice to them. You have no idea what they've gone through in order to react the way they do. SPOILERS: Throughout the movie he also tries other ways of ending things but keeps being unable to due to the new neighbours. Eventually, he starts to feel like living again and becomes apart of the neighbourhood again and helps the new neighbours with their home and newborn. The movie then ends with him dying peacefully and leaving behind his will of everything he owns (money and all) to the new neighbours.
@@angelanderson7219I'm sorry bro idk if you've seen the movie yet...so basically this old man lost his wife and is in depression ,so in this situation right now he is buying a rope to kill himself
Yeah it's okay to be in pain but that doesn't mean you can be an ass to everyone around you and let your frustration out on others yeah you don't know what everyone is going through maybe the cashier is losing someone too who knows pain and trauma never excuses an shity behavior because maybe other people are going through shit too you never know so it's still not okay to treat someone that way
Yea that’s why honestly when dealing with customer service I always go to “it’s company policy and I’m just an employee, that’s not much else I can do” Because usually there isn’t anything I can do in these situations but I can’t let the walk all over me. I can be nice as long as you’re understanding or I’ll behave like a corporate robot and be efficient to move you along🤷🏾♀️
This movie is one of the saddest I’ve ever watched. Name is a man called Otto. The grumpy man’s name is Otto and he is very sad and depressed because his wife died carrying their child if I remember correctly. He lost the two things he cares about most and he has no one to turn to. His neighbors are very friendly but he acts mean to them too. One day a new family moves in and Otto gets so sad he is buying this rope to try to hang himself in his living room. His new neighbors knock on the door just as he is about to do it. Later he tries again but the thing holding the rope gives way and this plan is faulty. He tries a couple more methods of suicide throughout the movie like trying to use gas fumes in his car, a rifle to the head and so on but each time the new neighbors stop him unknowingly. Over time he becomes close with the family and is now like the childrens grandfather. They were very happy together and Otto never tried to hurt himself again until one day he had a heart attack in his room near Christmas . The wife of the family was the closest to him and was very worried. She noticed that he hadn’t shoveled his driveway of snow yet, which he does immediately after snowfall. She rushed over and found him collapsed on the bed. But Otto knew this was coming as he had been feeling groggy and has had a couple episodes so he wrote a sort of will. He left everything to the wife and her family and they were crying and mourning over him it was so sad he was finally part of a family. Would recommend this movie!!
If I had a nickel for every time Tom Hanks failed to hang himself in a movie. It would still be a smaller pile than the pile of nickels I got for every time Tom Hanks peed on camera in a movie.
"I only wanted 10 cans of soda out of this 12 pack of soda, so you better only charge me for the 10" kind of mindset. Also the second the guy said "shouldn't you be in gym class?" Would have been the moment he was tresspassed from the store permanently for harassment.
That example doesn’t even align with the example in the movie. A pack of can comes multipack so you have to buy the whole pack or choose to buy individual cans, but the rope one can choose how much they want so therefore they should charge for what he has or put a notice next to it saying we charge by the foot . Simple
@@user-rm3xn5yv2i he WAS notified, he ignored the notice. He wasnt supposed to cut the rope himself anyway and the reason why is because the employee would have cut it in yard-long increments. And even if it wasnt shown in the movie, i guarantee there was at the least a “please ask an associate for assistance” sign that the dude ignored because he thought he knew everything.
@@user-rm3xn5yv2i That’s right. It’s like a store selling loose peaches and expecting you to buy Ten because the computer is only able to charge for ten at a time and you only need seven.
I have worked big box retail home improvement, people that can't grasp simple concepts shouldn't shop there. They aim to steal from you. accept it, shop there, and hope your cashier is smart enough to give a store coupon when you complain or go shop at your mom and pop store. I have actually had this conversation with lumber because we didn't sell it it by the foot. We could cut it, but you were paying for that whole piece. Want it or not.
It might be the stores rules, but the store then needs to have those rules posted. If they don't, but they advertise a certain price and that you can choose the length, but then charge you for more than you got, that would be theft.
It is the store's rules, hence why he asked for the manager. Then he got a young woman who I think was hired by the manager to take all the Karens' insults without having actual power to help them. It's a very dick manager move imo
@@DarkDay2012 No it really isn’t lol and bitching about a little extra is retarded. If you can’t afford that small change in price maybe you shouldn’t be spending your clearly limited money on rope.
@@DarkDay2012they should have it posted, but it doesn't change the fact that's the rules and the employees can't di anything to change it. And it doesn't mean you get to be mean just because you don't like how things are done around there
Previous employee of Home Depot here - I do not control the price nor how the system processes it. With the power entrusted to me by the company, I can take off the overcharged amount up to $50, anything beyond that needs to go through a manager (or sometimes my team lead if we could get away with it). I understand that I, standing in front of you, represent the company of The Home Depot, but do not get mad at me for what's out of my control. If you will accept the discount, I will process the transaction. And as a reminder, our return policy states that cut product cannot be returned, so I hope you're happy with what you have.
The thing is there are actually people like this in real-life is killing me. The employees trying to be helpful, a random person/customer also just trying to help you without escalating the situation and still being a jerk for not want any help is make me annoying.
I worked as a retail employee. Dozens or hundreds of customers pass by, and each one has a specific request, it makes our brain melt during the day. And if we sleep bad, it's even worse
This movie has me in tears. He was a depressed widowed man and no longer wanted to live. He was actually buying that rope to commit suicide, but he failed. He ended up meeting this new family that had moved in and he became happy. He died loved and left all his stuff to them. They saved his life
As someone who works at a retail store. Bro needs to stfu. It genuinely can’t go into the majority of systems like that and if we do try to do something special then we could get fired.
The movie is called "A Man Called Otto". Though it is based on "A Man Called Ove", a Swedish movie and according to ratings, its slightly better than the one with Tom Hanks.
Every register I've ever used you can manually input figures or alter prices. If they have a keyboard you can typically type a note. Though it's obviously quite possible that not all can do that or there are blocks and restrictions
It wasn't about 33 cents. He even said that. You must be either a child or another fool who can't use your own two ears in cooperation with ur rational faculties( if u even have any)
Movie title: A man called Otto
That movie made me cry so hard. He was buying the rope to h@ņġ himself. Thats why he said, “ are you afraid im going to cüt myself?”
bro i watched it in the cimina and it was kinda sad but at the end it felt like they had to wrap it up in 5 mins
Just know there is attempted suicide in the movie and suicidal thoughts
The movie was good,that all I’m going to say is
Great movie it's on Netflix it's a little sad.
Retail employee here. We’re not trying to be a pain, we’re literally just complying with the system we work in so we don’t lose our jobs
The Agentic State, a concept first proposed by social psychologist Stanley Milgram, is a psychological phenomenon in which individuals act as agents or representatives for someone in a position of authority. In this state, individuals often feel compelled to follow orders or instructions, even if it goes against their own personal beliefs or moral compass.
But a lot of places price match so while I wouldn’t be a ass or least try to
If I was Otto I totally would be like if u can price match ya can charge properly 🐱
Still a bullshit system
after my first year of working retail if someone complains about a few cents off an item i just give it to them at that point and tell them its on the house today.
This guy was trying to k*ll himself with that rope so.....
It's actually crazy how people can genuinely blame employees for stuff like this ik this a movie but ik for sure this has happened in real life like it genuinely blows my mind
It’s a movie based on a real story. Idk if that specifically happened but this man was real 😂
i hate boomer characters like this theyre so annoying
@@waira_atomic.coffini mean, what kinda computer can’t do simple math
@@mikechoto21 don’t ask the employees ask the ones who set it up that way
@mikechoto21 A lot of the time, it's pre-set prices. For length it probably only displays it by the yard, not the foot. Your gripe is with the people who made the interface, not the employee
The fact customers are actually like this in real life is the worst part.
What's wrong with standing up for getting ripped off?
But he not wrong
@user-zn1zt1bi8r but he bitching for 30 cents, if it was more it'd be understandable
@@user-zn1zt1bi8r he is 100% wrong. You cant open a bag of chips and buy one chip, you cant cut a chair in half and buy half a chair, you cant buy just the hinges off of a prehung door, and you cant buy five feet of rope that they sell by the yard. The store decides what they sell and by what increments, not you. And that’s WHY you aren’t supposed to cut it yourself, because the employee is the one who knows by what increments its sold in. (Plus, they arent cut by knife, they’re cut with heat so the ends dont fray)
@@Vgamer311 you know, someone finally realizing he messed up the integrity of the rope by improperly cutting it. His 5 foot rope is gonna fray and last way less due to improper cutting. Though, in other countries, you can open a 6 pack and pull singles out. Only in America and a few other countries do they force people to buy a full 6 pack instead of allowing for singles to be bought. Homie could be from Germany, where they’ll sell you singles, and whatever you want to buy at the increments you want to buy it. Sure, you can’t open a bag of chips and buy one chip, but the system should allow for them to sell by the foot, by the yard, or by the meter.
“I poured myself one cup of milk out of the gallon you sell, so I demand you only charge me 25 cents!”
Old people really do behave like this and it pains me to have to deal with it
Reminds me of the girl who literally peels off bananas before weighing them to reduce the cost lmao
Except the gallon of milk will go off quickly once it’s opened while the rest of the rope is not degraded in any way. You can also buy smaller amounts of milk if you want - no one is forcing you to buy a gallon but this is like charging people for a gallon when they’re only buying a quart jug/carton.
Instead of hating the customer for rightly feeling ripped off why don’t you hate corporate for making things this way?
@@Gilberto90 the difference is they only sell it by gallon, liter, etcs. In this case they sell it by the yard. He’s the one who helped himself to the rope instead of following the instructions of the people who literally work there. He’s not trying to buy it in a smaller size that they have. He’s trying to buy it in a size they don’t sell it in.
He’s pouring his own glass and demanding a discount and being mad when the system isn’t able to sell a glass of milk.
@@Amogus-zi6mi He plays an old curmudgeon named Otto, who evidently has measured and only needs 5 feet of rope to hang himself. It's a really good movie. A Man Called Otto.
Man doesn't understand that he's talking to people who just opperate the store. Not people who can control the system.
Bullcrap he's not obliged to go the controllers.
This smooth Brian thinking that doesn't hold people accountable is what is wrong with the World
imo it's more bullshit that they can't get him a talk with the people who can actually control the system
Exactly, corporate HQ has too much pull over the people.
His request was understandable and correct but because HQ doesn't want to so it they can't comply which is bullshit for both the employee and the customer.
He was going to kill himself with that rope
@@yyhn7168you've never worked a corporate job have you?
"Your total is 3.47$"
"What?"
"The tax sir"
"Oh okay"
I had a woman get mad at taxes and tried to claim since she lived out of town she didn’t have to pay the sales tax. My response was “ma’am the sale is happening here. When have you ever gone to a store and told them you didn’t have to pay taxes because you live out of town?”
@@johnschwalb Crazy story but can't relate to that🔥. I actually never had to pay any kind of tax since I live in other country 😅
@@ChugzChunguS what country?
@yaboysix Probably somewhere in Europe, most likely Germany, the tax is included in the sale price 😊
@@RoseQueen_26its a based on s swedish thing
"Did you want another foot of rope?" 💀
@@Fnino42069 Management
“I don’t want six feet 😡”
“…so you want another foot? (6 feet)😊”
When I read that I thought it was a full $347 💀
Same I was so confused for a sec
Wait I THOUGH TOO BC I SAID TO ME “WAIT THAT MUCH DANG WHAT WORLD ARE THEY LIVING IN 💀
AI subtitles
Ohhh, it's not $347? Is it $3.47 actually? I'm so confused cause there's no way a $0.99 can be $347. 😂
Um the dollar sign goes on infront 🤓
"Ok sir, lemme just rewrite the system's code so that it does the math you want"
They usually can just manually apply a discount of the 33 cents, it'd take like 2 seconds and they normally don't need managers approval for such small amounts
@@tailstechvideos2327 thats not true, discounts other than scanning existing coupons generally require manager overrides. you cant buy 18 eggs, you can buy a dozen or two dozen, but if they dont sell it in cartons of 6 you gotta buy what they have or go somewhere else, that person’s not responsible for your whining
@@tailstechvideos2327they definitely do need manager approval to override the system??? What you smoking on bud
@@tailstechvideos2327 yhh no. In a lot of places they know, they'll keep the option to do manual discounts locked behind a password the managers have. So the only way to do it would be to have a manager approve it.
@tailstechvideos2327 Walmart Retail worker here, sometimes it does not work that way. If the override is a giant amount, it will need supervisor approval. Even if you make claims like this, it needs to be approved by somebody higher up than the cashier because they're only there to keep sales going, they can't do everything they need to automatically. For example, if I wanted to price override something, it will be sent to by supervisor through the computer into their phones for approval. Sometimes the computers want them to log in manually too(which means literally punching in more numbers), to even override the items price at all. Plus if we are charging differently than you, it's best to keep to those measurements or go straight to costumer service desk for negotiating or for questions. Literally can't do much for ya other than call somebody up, even coupons need approved too at times if it's even $5 off.
Tom Hanks was so good in this movie, I'm a grown man and I cried a little when tjey showed his history. At the end he was really good with everyone that love him
Tom Hanks was a great casting choice. Watched this movie with my boyfriend and our friends, most of us don't cry with movies but this one had us all teary eyed (including two grown men who thought the movie was lame at first).
I didn't cry a little. I sobbed like a little bitch when the bus crashed
As a retail worker, I have never been more annoyed with Tom Hanks than I am right now.
Think about it this way, if a store sells batteries in packs of 8 you can't just crack one open and buy 5. If the store sells rope in yards, you can't just buy 5 feet, you have to buy two yards
But the thing is your not allowed to crack open a pack of batteries but you are allowed to buy 5 feet of rope
Just modify the price or change the amount to 1.66 yards. The workers depicted here didn’t respect the man and acted as if they were going to lose their jobs if they did help him. There is a price modify button and a customer service button for times like this, the rope was cut off a 1000ft spool of rope, nobody is losing their job over 0.33¢ ; they may in fact gain a recurring customer by charging the correct amount and helping by doing their job “customer service”
@@wilhoroshak6253too bad that’s not how it works and they could lose their job it’s not their rule it’s the company’s rule cashiers can’t just change prices on the spot and a couple cent may not seem like a big deal but if you do it for one person then you have to do it for everybody a mom and pop store can do that because they own the place as a retail employee myself i can’t just go doing shit to appease everyone,
@@wilhoroshak6253The whole point of this movie is that this guy is a miserable old bastard. Employees are not in charge of how the POS system is set up.
You can go cut off another foot if you want it, but I’m charging you for 2 yards.
its an open rope its not like your opening a pack of eggs and choosing 11 to get instead of 12, and even if there isnt a button for 5 feet of rope just bill them for 3 and get the problem fixed next time around so the problem is fixed and a happy customer
If an actor makes you mad, you know they’re doing it, right😂
Unless they were suppose to make you happy
You're a liberal
Right the store clerk has the most punchable face 😂
@@hoomad165 that too!
I'm the 999th likes, can someone round it up?
The stare at the end is priceless
“I don’t want 6 feet of rope!”
“Want me to make it 6 feet of rope?”
I don't work in retail, I work at Chick-fil-A. One man wanted a sandwich with no butter on the bun. An unbuttered bun is 25 cents more than a regular bun, that is just how our operator designed the system. The guy called me "Stupid, incompetent, and not able to do elementary aged math." We just follow what our operator says. We don't try to be a pain.
I'm from the IT sector, once in a project I was on hand to test in loco a new system that we implemented. The amount of disrespectful customers scared me, one customer was furious with me for such a system nonsense and started screaming saying that I would stay there forever, I started laughing and replied that I was praying that she would never be a customer again. She insulted so many generations of my family after that even Charlemagne must have been offended
@@nyx4592 “She just cursed your entire bloodline, She just cursed the entire Nigerian Football team, She just cursed your 5th grade teacher”
How in the hell is an unbuttered bun more than a buttered bun. That makes no sense
@@twistedwookie327 I don't know. Its just the way the corporate manager decided to do it.
OMG HI BESTIE I WORK AT CHICK-FIL-A TOO
"Sir I do not want your 33 cents, this is about..."
The person behind, "I am not paying it as charity, I just want you to go away".
For real, holding up the line.
Thanks for writing that headline. It really helps with context.
that face at the end lmfao
Its like telling a waitress that you want something that is not in the menu 😂😂
They allow you to cut the rope to the amount you need so they should be able to charge you for the amount you’re buying. In this scenario, it is on the menu.
@angle3808 policy says pay by the yard, chances are its rounded up because he got half or over half a yard.
On tills In the store I work you could have it set up as a quantity item which basicly has a preset price that for every one of it it ads up just instead of the an amount of individual items you’d just use the number of feet, this is just the system we use and the rope isn’t something we sell but I’d assume if we were to sell it and in that style we’d use a similar system
Once again this is purely based on my experience so I don’t actually know how hard it’d be for other systems
No no it's not
That not even a remotely close comparison.
That stare he gave her when she said did you want another foot of rope🤣
I think that's supposed to indicate how he thinks she's to young to be a manager, but she proves him wrong by resolving the situation
@@kuchaungorman4416 how the hell does she resolve the situation lol. How is making him pay more than what he should resolving the situation?
@@cavaebi7890 are you slow?
@@cavaebi7890 Because they "charge by the yard not by the foot" he's in the wrong.
@@cavaebi7890 because he cut the rope when the store doesn't sell the way he wants ? That's like taking 3 eggs from a carton of 6 and asking half the price....idk if you people even watched the movie but the character here is miserable and meant to be annoying...
bro locked in when she asked if he wanted another foot of rope
I usually dont cry during movies but this one got me in tears
This shows you that even the most polite and helpful retail staff get abused and mistreated
They get treated like that cuz you have annoying ass “guests” who think minimum wage covers the mental abuse they wanna dish out to let off steam
watch the movie first.
The old guy wanted the rope to make himself into a hashtag
You should watch the movie because that has nothing to do with it.
@@Dr.C-gl1okif he wanted to do that why does it matter if he was charged more, it’s not like he’ll need it😭
i know he's acting but god is he insufferable
The old guy?
@@yeetking2804the store clerk dumbass
I'm on his side, alot of waste comes from not being able to get exactly what you need without being f*cked over.
@@tektyrant not a reason to annoy the workers. THey aren't at fault they didn't make the rule, he should talk to someone else and stop bullying ( not really bullying but you see my point) making minimum wage worker
@@tektyrantYou are free to shop elsewhere. Now f off.
Nobody talking about how someone in line was carrying a chainsaw like they were a horror movie villain 💀
The scene takes place in a hardware store my dude.
Saw this short reel, watched the movie and now I’m back here. Pretty good movie. I’m a person that rarely cries (didn’t cry) but I can see some people crying for sure. It’s on Netflix for the ones wanting to watch it
“Oh, you don’t have to do that”
“Thanks but I literally have to”
Yeah people don't understand that others have their employers
This is what grandpa watches before he yells at the mcdonalds cashier
forest gump doing some quick maths
"the same reason you can't buy 1 and a half carton of eggs sir 😊"
This scene reminds me of the scene where George Banks is removing hot dog buns from the packaging at the store in father of the bride lol.
But you can buy a carton and a half of eggs.
@BarefootKommando no you can't lmao. What place allows you to do that, because most dont
@@wolf-mv1drMost places also sell cartons of 18. That is a carton and a half. 12+6=18
@@stephaniejean9956Clearly you don't get what they're saying, 18 is still one carton, not a carton and a half.
"Did you want another foot of rope" 😂😂😂
His face after she asked that is priceless 😂😂
Smart though
@@sevensecondsagowhattttt... smart? That's dump as F
Exactly what my response would be
That's why she is the Manager. 😂😂
Never thought I'd see Tom Hanks acting like a Karen.
What a happy movie, I'm so glad nothing sad happens AT ALL
His face says everything
I swear, some people just have that face that when you look at them you know they are nothing but a pain in the ass.
@@felixf4378 they build it over years of complaining at fast food and retail workers
@@felixf4378 the plot of this movie is that he is about to attempt to end his life. thats why he's buying the rope the scene is supposed to be funny in context, because why care about 33 cents if you think you'll be dead in a few hours? youre right that he's insufferable, but he's insufferable bc he's depressed and doesn't care anymore.
@@ViewerEmif that's the thing spend 347 ur not gonna be paying 6ft under
@@RandomLED lol yeah thats the joke
Worked in retail for five years. I got yelled at and called a horrible person for not letting an old lady make her husband move our cart corral for her to park “because all the handicapped spots are full”. A guy yelled “y’all are fuckin idiots” after I helped him find the greeting cards after a giant renovation. And I got called useless after a lady asked me where the air filters were and I didn’t know. It literally wasn’t even my department.
People are wonderful aren’t they🙂
That's why I wouldn't want to work in retail or service unless I really have to. Respect to u for being able to take punches.
@@dallasyap3064 I say people need to work in retail at least once to learn how to treat people (and how not to). It thickens yours skin, but it can be miserable at times, yeah.
@@connormcgrath5800 I agree, that people need to work in retail or service jobs (whether long or short) to kinda have a simple understand of how people treat people. I have worked in service before (short one), but I don't think I'll work in 1 again unless I really have to.
@@connormcgrath5800 i've the feeling that you (or people who do your job) also sometime took the bullet for a decision you haven't made but your boss have. People should remenber that your are a facade to the company, not the man in charge.
Also people are too individualistic and forgot that it's a human like them who have these job. Even extremely polite country like japan are not nice to store employees. I was shocked to see that most japanese didn't say hello or thanks when buying at a store, even if the store employees didn all the greeting and the bow.
Yeah wellts rn tscsde
This is the only movie to this day that made me cry
This movie was so sad to watch I cried multiple times and I hope that everyone who watches it gets the message
What's the name of the movie
A Man Called Otto
I’m a retail worker and I agree with both points here , like yes he shouldn’t be charged for what he doesn’t have but we can’t do anything about it because it’s how the company sets it up, we can either ask you to get the full amount so it’s even or we all complain about how shit the system is.
but think about it, if he take a half of a banana, you cannot get charged for half a banana. You would stay get charged for a banana. You can't get mad for that. A lot of fabric seller does that too, if they sell by foot you can't buy by inches
Half true, i worked in Leroy Merlin as advisor, cashiers didnt even know then can do things like 0.## of product, they didnt even try that, people in whole store didnt try that, when i got idea and we did it was like second coming of jesus..... So Try that honestly, system probably will allow it.... Problem is you doing a math on 1/4 1/14 etc. I know its not your work to count it but its what most ppl dont even try and call it "system wont allow" type of thing
💯
@@DevilDrako666yeah but then you get a new problem, say you take all those halves or quarters (whatever increment you want) what happens when I need 3 yards for example. It's not only for the sake of calculation it's also because in a store the product is a certain cut amount of rope. In this case the product is a yard of rope, and also the store would be taking a loss on all the extra pieces of rope they can't sell cause someone decided a couple cents was too much. You can't go take 6 eggs out of a carton then ask for it half off cause you didn't take them. Idk what crack station you worked at but every store I've worked in does it the same way. The product is buy it for the listed price at the set amount, otherwise the only person your shorting is yourself cause they're gonna have to get rid of that wasted stock anyway
Actually, i think he did it to himself in this situation; since he decided to cut the rope himself, instead of the employee helping & didn’t ask how it’s priced.
He does a great job of portraying an absolutely insufferable, entitled old man
He shouldn’t pay for something he is not getting.
@@ROCKZSTAR. Rope is sold by the yard. He got over a yard, so he gets charged for the part he cut. You can't eat half a meal at a restaurant and expect to only pay half.
@@ROCKZSTAR.Then he should go to another store with different policies instead of whining and bitching at the people who didn’t even make the store’s policies.
@@SendarSlayer The restaurant can't sell the rest of the uneaten meal. This place could still sell that rope.
@@jackjohnson8244 But they can't. It's left of the end of the spool as finding someone to buy odd lengths of rope is hard. It's the main reason it's sold by whole yards.
What an incredibly vibrant place! The colors, culture, food, temples, and people bring the tradition, and the city brings the modern flare! I hope you had a wonderful visit with friends and family. I just found this in my watch later list, I'll have to add it to my "places to visit" list too!
Great movie & great book. But don’t watch or read unless you wanna cry
Retail worker here: we literally can’t do anything about it. If the system goes by meters/yards, it goes my meters/yards. There’s no getting around it. This is why they ask to cut things like fabrics , ropes, chains, etc. so that we can know what to put in the system. It sucks, yeah, but it’s not the workers fault. I’ve had people come into the supermarket I work at literally asking for only half of the sliced of bread in the bag. Like I can’t type that into the system, same goes for rope in this situation.
Can you literally not just run a conversion? Do you seriously have to run it in whole numbers?
@@exb940 you overestimate what our shitty computers at the checkout can do. And from my knowledge it's only common to have like a 0.5 foot/meter/yard or whatever wiggle room when it comes to conversion. Hence why you get it done in the measurement system that said store offers. Again, unfortunate but it's not the employee's fault the system is shit.
Ok. I don’t wanna be robbed.
@@exb940 no, because that's not how the system works. It'd be like asking why a computer running on temple OS can't download minecraft, its just the system is just incompatible, and that can't be changed without dealing with some back-end shit that retail employees are not paid enough to deal with and aren't guaranteed to be qualified for.
@@billbrennan2347 then take your extra foot of rope or your business elsewhere.
He isnt wrong, but he isnt right either.
What he did was like oprning a can of soda and drinking half of it because he only wanted 6oz of cola instead of the whole 12oz can.
They sell them by whatever unit they decide. If its more than you want/need, tough. Find another shop that sells by the unit you prefer, or figure out what you want to do with the extra rope.
this right here
Exactly my thoughts! I also like the metaphor.
No it would be like if they had 40 gallons of soda that you have to get your self but the minimum size is a gallon and you only want a can.
@@davhardie2356 You can simply go to another store that do sell a smaller unit of Cola
I feel like this could have been resolved a lot sooner if he had accepted the help offered to him.
"Can i speak to your manager?" Is every retail worker's pet peeve 🙄
Gotta love old people not understanding how system design or store operations dont care about their wants. I work at a grocery store and the amount of people that get mad because corporate makes a decision they don’t like and take it out on us is insane
People who actually act like this are the worst. As a retail employee, theres not much i can do unless I break rules that I also think are bullshit and then get yelled at and fired for it.
Well than don't do the job , cuz how can he charge for 2 yards if he didn't bought two yards thats literally robbing a person
@@mcucrafts4840he was told they'd cut it for him and there was definitely a sign somewhere explaining that fact.
Instead he took two yards and removed a foot. Perfectly fair if he's buying the full 6ft but this way he's leaving the store with an unsellable 1ft that's going to be left at the end.
Stores sell you what they want to sell you at whatever price they choose to set. The only choice you have as a customer is to accept or reject that offer. You do not get to modify it.
If there's a buy one, get one free deal going on mathematically you should be able to take 1 for half price, but that's not how the deal works.
If the store is selling a cartoon of eggs you can't take 3 out and demand a 25% refund.
Until he pays for it, what he has is a 2 yeard long rope that belongs to the store and that he vandalized. If he wants the extra foot he can go and take it. If he doesn't want to pay the extra 33c they'd probably let him leave if he left the rope.
But the store doesn't sell 5ft of rope. He can't buy 5ft of rope.
@@mcucrafts4840 You are incredibly stupid
@@mcucrafts4840
You don't have to pay less just because you took out 2 eggs from an 8 pack egg carton.
Who do you think makes the rules? Because it's not the retail workers.
And are you a child? Just plain stupid? Or just insanely privileged to think working minimum wage is a "choice"?
@@mcucrafts4840so your solution is to just become unemployed 💀
"I don't want your 33 cents"
"Tf you complaining for then????"
It wasn’t even about the money, it was about his massive ego. If he didn’t have an ego then he wouldn’t mind paying another 33 cents.
@@H.K.5 pretty sure you don’t understand the context
@@a-turkey-in-abush7787 I don’t need to, I know what’s going on here.
@@H.K.5 you definitely don’t but ok
@@a-turkey-in-abush7787the context is he wants to kill himself, but also yes he has a big ego and wants to be miserable.
Nicest employee ever: can I help you with that?
Old bastards: Do I LOOK like I need help??
Y'ALL PLEASE WATCH THIS MOVIE! Its about an asocial suicidal man who's wife had passed away learning how to enjoy life again. A bit of a warning for suicide attempts! And it will probably make you cry, I've seen the most unemotional people I know start crying its such a beautiful movie.
Old people are the masters at making you go speechless like this. It’s kinda impressive and I love it (I’m a retail employee btw I’m just talking in general)
One day for no particular reason I decided go for a little run
This made me laugh way harder than it shouldve so thank you
This movie made me cry and it is so heart warming and you'll feel attached to otto
His face at the end was like bruh really
I love how he’s planning to use it to k word himself but cares about the 30 cents
Fairly sure he just wants to talk to people
K word himself?? You don’t have balls to say the English word kill? What is your age -5??
'Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves'
-Donald stewart
Retail employee here, please understand systems these days literally prevent anyone outside of corporate to manage pricing. Store level managers only have a certain amount of power in offering sales or giftcards or the like. We cannot change prices ourselves, something like this should be complained to corporate- not to the employee. Please remember we want to help and we see your side, but we only have so much we can do.
As a non-american i can understand your and other people who work in retail comments
That system sucks when i think about it even when i don't live in America
@@finlandguy427it's not specific to America. I work retail in the UK, this is something we deal with here as well
Just letting people know, my husband and I watched this movie and I thought it was going to be a happy go lucky movie. It was not. My pregnant ass cried the whole time. Also, it shows multiple attempts onscreen, so if you’re having issues in that department, not a good watch. It does end up super sweet, it was just a lot more emotionally heavy than I was prepared for.
That's awesome. I watched it too and it broke my heart
My grandfather did this once at a walmart. On behalf of all them employees I stopped his ass, paid the cashier and had a very long talk bout him shitting on the workers. Ya just gotta let your elders know.
You're the real hero here
Fuck that.
That makes you a prick.
@@void.less. really showing those... minimum wage workers who are just doing their job and are well aware of how stupid the policy is too, but are so far down the ladder that they can't do anything about it.
Being insufferable ≠ Having a backbone
Grow up or grow old.
Dad does things like this at restaurants with his waiter
Im working as a customer service and these kind of customers are the worst!
I can understand you both.
This is stupid to not allowed the customer to do so but in the meantime the store employee or the customer service can't do a thing about it.
In my humble opinion, most of the time customer service don't really help the customer to solve their problem but to accept that it is what it is. (they surely help but don't resolve the issue) Worst of it, they took the bullet, all the hate and the stupidity a customer can deliver instead of the director who did the shitty decision.
For me that's the main job of customer service.
i HIGHLY recommend this movie. slow paced movie, but really well done. a nice date night movie.
This movie made me cry so much 😭 10/10 recommend
Ive been in retail my whole adult life. At this point id tell him "look man, i dont make the rules. I get that its stupid and that the way you described _does_ make more sense, but im just doing my job. That being the case, you can either pay the charge, or you can leave. If you dont like those options I can have the police escort you off the premises."
then you walk out to slashed tires at the end of your shift :)
@@yungvinnii For real, bluddicus will taste thy open carry should he say that whilst I am on the premises!
@@yungvinnii Then you end up in jail. Ffs I'm tired of people like you insisting on making retail workers lives hell for doing their jobs"
@@yungvinniiTis why I walk to work. I'll be impressed if they slash the bus tires and not get in trouble.
I literally just don’t have the patience to argue with customers if the dispute is nothing over a dollar I’ll just let them have it.
For those who haven't watched the movie:
Otto here recently lost his wife (I believe in a road accident) who was the absolute world to him. They were dating since around high school I believe and had spent a whole life together. Much earlier on in their lives they tried to have kids but couldn't which caused a lot of pain for the two. Ever since his wife's death Otto has felt no reason to live as he has no family and has pushed friends and neighbours away due to his loss. He didn't know how to deal with what happened and this was easier for him. He spent his days wishing things could go back to how they were when she was alive and so went about his days trying to keep things the same (everything about his house was the same, his routine etc.). This was his way of coping with the horrific pain and is why he gets frustrated and argumentative when things don't go right for him. In this exact scene he is buying this rope in order to hang himself, which ends up failing multiple times as new neighbours move in and nearly witness him doing so.
A true example of why you should be mindful of what other people might be going through. Just because they seem like an ass doesn't mean you shouldn't be nice to them. You have no idea what they've gone through in order to react the way they do.
SPOILERS:
Throughout the movie he also tries other ways of ending things but keeps being unable to due to the new neighbours. Eventually, he starts to feel like living again and becomes apart of the neighbourhood again and helps the new neighbours with their home and newborn. The movie then ends with him dying peacefully and leaving behind his will of everything he owns (money and all) to the new neighbours.
what is the name of the movie?
a man called otto
They were being nice to him, he's the one who was being insufferable.
@@angelanderson7219I'm sorry bro idk if you've seen the movie yet...so basically this old man lost his wife and is in depression ,so in this situation right now he is buying a rope to kill himself
Yeah it's okay to be in pain but that doesn't mean you can be an ass to everyone around you and let your frustration out on others yeah you don't know what everyone is going through maybe the cashier is losing someone too who knows pain and trauma never excuses an shity behavior because maybe other people are going through shit too you never know so it's still not okay to treat someone that way
Read the book and this is EXACTLY how I picture Ove!
I have not seen the movie, and I am not ready to ugly cry again.
Yea that’s why honestly when dealing with customer service I always go to “it’s company policy and I’m just an employee, that’s not much else I can do”
Because usually there isn’t anything I can do in these situations but I can’t let the walk all over me.
I can be nice as long as you’re understanding or I’ll behave like a corporate robot and be efficient to move you along🤷🏾♀️
I thought It was $347 for a moment 😭
This movie is one of the saddest I’ve ever watched. Name is a man called Otto. The grumpy man’s name is Otto and he is very sad and depressed because his wife died carrying their child if I remember correctly. He lost the two things he cares about most and he has no one to turn to. His neighbors are very friendly but he acts mean to them too. One day a new family moves in and Otto gets so sad he is buying this rope to try to hang himself in his living room. His new neighbors knock on the door just as he is about to do it. Later he tries again but the thing holding the rope gives way and this plan is faulty. He tries a couple more methods of suicide throughout the movie like trying to use gas fumes in his car, a rifle to the head and so on but each time the new neighbors stop him unknowingly. Over time he becomes close with the family and is now like the childrens grandfather. They were very happy together and Otto never tried to hurt himself again until one day he had a heart attack in his room near Christmas . The wife of the family was the closest to him and was very worried. She noticed that he hadn’t shoveled his driveway of snow yet, which he does immediately after snowfall. She rushed over and found him collapsed on the bed. But Otto knew this was coming as he had been feeling groggy and has had a couple episodes so he wrote a sort of will. He left everything to the wife and her family and they were crying and mourning over him it was so sad he was finally part of a family. Would recommend this movie!!
If I had a nickel for every time Tom Hanks failed to hang himself in a movie. It would still be a smaller pile than the pile of nickels I got for every time Tom Hanks peed on camera in a movie.
Its a redo of a swedish movie
@@tormodhag6824 and based on a book
@@elsiecrumbcake yup
I forget this is Tom Hanks, he can play a grumpy old man now. Crazy how time flys!
“You want another foot of rope?” Got me rolling on the floor 🤣
“Shouldn’t you be in gym class?”
Shouldn’t you be in the funeral home?
"I only wanted 10 cans of soda out of this 12 pack of soda, so you better only charge me for the 10" kind of mindset. Also the second the guy said "shouldn't you be in gym class?" Would have been the moment he was tresspassed from the store permanently for harassment.
That example doesn’t even align with the example in the movie.
A pack of can comes multipack so you have to buy the whole pack or choose to buy individual cans, but the rope one can choose how much they want so therefore they should charge for what he has or put a notice next to it saying we charge by the foot .
Simple
@@user-rm3xn5yv2i he WAS notified, he ignored the notice. He wasnt supposed to cut the rope himself anyway and the reason why is because the employee would have cut it in yard-long increments.
And even if it wasnt shown in the movie, i guarantee there was at the least a “please ask an associate for assistance” sign that the dude ignored because he thought he knew everything.
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That’s right. It’s like a store selling loose peaches and expecting you to buy Ten because the computer is only able to charge for ten at a time and you only need seven.
@@user-rm3xn5yv2iThey told him, though
@@user-rm3xn5yv2ihow are YOU so simple?
That cut off was the funniest sh I’ve seen all day
I have worked big box retail home improvement, people that can't grasp simple concepts shouldn't shop there. They aim to steal from you. accept it, shop there, and hope your cashier is smart enough to give a store coupon when you complain or go shop at your mom and pop store. I have actually had this conversation with lumber because we didn't sell it it by the foot. We could cut it, but you were paying for that whole piece. Want it or not.
"I only want a sip of water, I am not gonna pay for the whole bottle"
he didn't buy the whole bottle tho he bought just that one sip
@@beaconblaster33 It's not sold that way. It's sold by the yard. So either buy it how the business wants to sell it or don't buy it.
@@stalemate123matt6 well don't price it by the foot
@@beaconblaster33 it's not
@@stalemate123matt6 it is
If he had let the salesperson help him, he would have understood what was happening before he got to the register.
I felt this so hard. We can't "just fix it" unfortunately alot of the time. Systems are dumb
I’m glad you let the bug stick around
I'm sorry, but it's the store rules, not the employees. They are just trying to make a living
It might be the stores rules, but the store then needs to have those rules posted. If they don't, but they advertise a certain price and that you can choose the length, but then charge you for more than you got, that would be theft.
It is the store's rules, hence why he asked for the manager. Then he got a young woman who I think was hired by the manager to take all the Karens' insults without having actual power to help them. It's a very dick manager move imo
@@yyhn7168 manager doesn't make the rules. The corporate office does
@@DarkDay2012 No it really isn’t lol and bitching about a little extra is retarded. If you can’t afford that small change in price maybe you shouldn’t be spending your clearly limited money on rope.
@@DarkDay2012they should have it posted, but it doesn't change the fact that's the rules and the employees can't di anything to change it. And it doesn't mean you get to be mean just because you don't like how things are done around there
Previous employee of Home Depot here - I do not control the price nor how the system processes it. With the power entrusted to me by the company, I can take off the overcharged amount up to $50, anything beyond that needs to go through a manager (or sometimes my team lead if we could get away with it). I understand that I, standing in front of you, represent the company of The Home Depot, but do not get mad at me for what's out of my control. If you will accept the discount, I will process the transaction. And as a reminder, our return policy states that cut product cannot be returned, so I hope you're happy with what you have.
The ending of this movie made me cry.
I loved how both of them are confused as hell just because of a simple math error.
Kinda reminds me of school
"i take 5 feet, not even 2 yards"
"We do yards, and we don't do decimal"
He attempts to kill himself in the next scene
I-… okay 👌🤨😭
Thank goodness
@@daycejohnson wtf 💀
I was gonna say- pretty sure he was using the rope for suicide.
Why the hell is he so angry then god damn
The thing is there are actually people like this in real-life is killing me. The employees trying to be helpful, a random person/customer also just trying to help you without escalating the situation and still being a jerk for not want any help is make me annoying.
I worked as a retail employee. Dozens or hundreds of customers pass by, and each one has a specific request, it makes our brain melt during the day. And if we sleep bad, it's even worse
I love Tom Hanks in everything he's in, he always portrays his characters so well
I know right?
Old man: Do not want you 33 cent
Stranger: And I don't want you to waste my time, move.
Oh, wow. I didn’t recall that John Higgins was in this movie. He’s fantastic on SNL. 😊
this movie is so sweet, i love it sm
This movie has me in tears. He was a depressed widowed man and no longer wanted to live. He was actually buying that rope to commit suicide, but he failed. He ended up meeting this new family that had moved in and he became happy. He died loved and left all his stuff to them. They saved his life
"I don't need to pay another foot of rope because i dont want another foot of rope😑"
"Did you want another foot of rope?😊"
What's upppp., Sorry what.
😂😂😂😢
simple. it’s only sold by the yard. either we give you an extra foot or we keep it and charge you for it anyway.
Otto's look at the end 😂 I loved this movie and highly recommend it ❤
As someone who works at a retail store. Bro needs to stfu. It genuinely can’t go into the majority of systems like that and if we do try to do something special then we could get fired.
The manager couldn't be more spot on 😅😅
The movie is called "A Man Called Otto". Though it is based on "A Man Called Ove", a Swedish movie and according to ratings, its slightly better than the one with Tom Hanks.
Every register I've ever used you can manually input figures or alter prices. If they have a keyboard you can typically type a note. Though it's obviously quite possible that not all can do that or there are blocks and restrictions
Demanded a manager over $.33
It wasnt about the money.
I've had this happen over a women forgetting the existence of taxes and was expecting more change and I had to show her the math
Worked as a cashier, people have screamed at me and insulted me for less
@@maxpettit2343yep
It wasn't about 33 cents. He even said that. You must be either a child or another fool who can't use your own two ears in cooperation with ur rational faculties( if u even have any)