When one simple request shuts down a station

This morning’s happy fun time:

Me: would you mind turning on the outside lights?
Attendant: sure

... sounds of circuit breakers flipping on and off feverishly...
Attendant clearly has no idea how to turn the lights on.
Several customers can no longer pump gas.
Attendant is on the phone with owner.
Station is closed until owner can get there.

All I did was ask him to turn the lights on.

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Did you wait for the owner to arrive to finish your inspection or did you report "station closed"?

LOL.

I'm sensing a mandatory training for how to turn on the lights for ALL employees.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

wow...I wonder if he tried to turn it on from the breaker instead of flipping a wall switch.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

Honny, a lot of places are like that. There's no on/off switch, just the breaker. I once accidentally turned off all the ice makes and beer boxes when I worked at a bar because none of the damn switches were labeled and I was trying to turn on the stupid fluorescent sign. That was fun.

Shopping the South Jersey Shore

I think that most of the stations I visited in the past did exactly that - the circuit breaker was the on-off switch.

@HonnyBrown wrote:

wow...I wonder if he tried to turn it on from the breaker instead of flipping a wall switch.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

Yeah. It's an older station so it's all breakers. I didn't have to mark it closed or wait. I was able to finish, though I did choose "Employee didn't know how to turn on the lights" because clearly he did not.
I felt bad for the guy. After he shut the power down to the whole place, he casually said "This is usually something the night shift does. I've never done this before."

Whoops.

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Now, this is funny!!

@Hoju wrote:

All I did was ask him to turn the lights on.

A Dad shopping the Ark-LA-Tex and beyond.

Uh-oh! When I worked at Burger King, everything was breakers too, but we had ours clearly labeled. We also had a back-up "map" saved on the computer in case the labels fell off. Easy fix!

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