Remove your helmet

**Gremlin** · 17th May 2009, 19:06

No, I don't. One asked me to remove it a couple of months ago, and I couldn't be bothered going elsewhere, so did ... to reveal a full balaclava, and I said to him, oh, so thats better is it? He didn't have much to say after that, and it looked like just about everyone in the station was getting pissed off at the circus he was creating.

Just a week or two ago, I was at a regular station with my boss in a cage, and the attendant was able to recognise me from the jacket alone and said hello, so attendants can recognise people with helmet on, so bullshit to the excuses they give.

edit: The station was on the outskirts of Otara, and I've noticed Shell seem to be much better on the service than Caltex, BP or Mobil.

**FJRider** · 17th May 2009, 19:11

Originally Posted by avgas

Thing about the people that walk around town wearing helmets......

Sorry ... just back from a ride. My ears are still buzzing... did you say something ... worth listening to ... ???

**duckonin** · 17th May 2009, 19:22

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Repost!

If the station requires bikers to take their helmets off, take the frikken helmet off. Rude and bolshie pricks who ride bikes give the rest of us a bad name.

Get over it. And yourself.

Bull shit Hitcher ..And yes I know it is 2009, but theoretically unless the law has been changed it is illegal to fuel your own vehicle, we are all dealing with a hazardous substance..

Also it is a danger under the occupational health and saftey to be walking around on forecourts, this should be done only by the now invisible forecourt staff..

Not that many years back you could sit in your vehicle be gassed up pay the dude and they would return your change to the vehicle or motorbike and know where near the amount of drive offs..

Since bloody credit cards came in or any bloody card at all, the fuel companines have laid off staff and you now pump your own, if you do not then you would need to have a feed and a bed organised, as no buggar is going to serve u at all, this in its self is profiteering..

Now with all this in mind If I have to pump my own gas, then they can take me as found, helmet and all, for christ sake it is only a hat at the end of the day, if there is so much concern at these places then they should come out and be present ready to take your money, to ask a motorcyclist to remove his her helmet at the best of time is a crock of shit let alone on a cold wet day when you have all your wets on, ..

Get over it Hitcher you take your's off but think again when you say that we are RUDE and BOLSHIE, as most are not we only want some gas .... ..

**beyond** · 17th May 2009, 19:27

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Nobody is being "treated" by anybody. Some service stations require motorcyclists to remove helmets when buying gas. Why? Goodness knows. It doesn't matter why. Take your helmet off. I suppose you're one of those who wears their shoes into other people's homes without either taking them off or offering to do so?

Always offer to take my shoes off and normally do. I'm not going into someones home when getting gas. I'm not paying them for a service when I visit someones home.
I herald from the old school that the customers are why you exist and why you are in business and they pay your bills. The customer is always right.

**sunhuntin** · 17th May 2009, 19:29

Originally Posted by Mom

I have no idea what the criteria is to get a job in a petrol station, but the Mobil up here seems to have a policy of employing complete idiots, with piss poor english, poor coping under stress skills (you know 3 people waiting to pre-pay their gas) and/or general could not actually give a shit about anything slothful, shoe scuffing neanderthals. On the other hand I also know they pay appaling money so only attract this type of employee. It has been liberating to have made the decision NOT to go there anymore.

hmmm... ive done my servo time, and i know damn well that am and was not one of those things. i valued my customers [most of the time. some i could have happily strangled with the petrol hose] and the majority of the customers valued me.

i was on min wage and for that i got:
12 hour shifts on public hols with NO breaks. the only time i got to sit down during those shifts was when i went to the loo. those days also meant that a sandwich or pie could take upwards of 4 hours to finish eating [literally a bite every 20 or so customers]
i got called everything from "fucking bitch" and worse by customers who blamed me for the price of petrol, and also every other problem in their lives.
one co worker got held up with a sawn off shotgun. he didnt get jack out of our employer by way of compensation etc.
i got sole charge shifts every sunday, which meant i was on my own for 2 hours on sunday mornings. im just lucky nothing ever went wrong on those days.
many seemed to think i was their personal baby sitter, counsellor, tour guide, etc. for the stuff i had to do and put up with, i should have been on at least $15 and hour, and the same applies for most other servo staff i know.

im now at the $2 shop, and a large number of my bp customers have been coming in. they are all happy to see me again, and i still get people telling me i
was the best servo attendant theyve ever known. and that includes the ones that used to abuse me.

gremlin... i was actually really bad for recognising people. if a local rider came in sans helmet, i wouldnt have a clue who they were. LOL.

**Mom** · 17th May 2009, 19:33

Originally Posted by sunhuntin

hmmm... ive done my servo time

I take my hat off to you too mate! Crap money for a "shitty at times" job!

Dealing with ordinary pissed off/stressed out Joe Public would be hard enough to take at best of times, being the victim of an armed holdup is above and beyond what could be termed a minimum wage job!

**Skyryder** · 17th May 2009, 19:39

I decide if I take my helmet off or not and that is based on my conveniance not the policy of the station or the company.

I don't let security guards look into my bag when leaving a shop or a store.

Unless I act in a manner that is threatening to staff or customers I expect to be treated in the same manner that the employer expects me to treat their staff.

Skyryder

**saltydog** · 17th May 2009, 19:46

Originally Posted by beyond

I've just been reading this thread and laughed at all the PC bullshit.
I refuse to be treated like low life scum because some areseholes screw it for everyone else.
No one should have to undress to pay for some gas.

Just take a look at the pool results. Most of us say "fuck it" (not ego based just common sence).
I've stopped buying gas at our local BP here in Whaka's (Falcon, mitzi, 2 bikes, 2 outboards, chainsaws and bloody line trimmers)
In fact, you watch me start another thread right now....
Wankers.

**dipshit** · 17th May 2009, 19:47

Originally Posted by FJRider

Sorry ... just back from a ride. My ears are still buzzing... did you say something ... worth listening to ... ???

Riders that wear full-face helmets inside buildings look like lazy as fuck retards.

**Sidewinder** · 17th May 2009, 19:48

Originally Posted by dipshit

Riders that wear full-face helmets inside buildings look like lazy as fuck retards.

like a fat cunt on a harley!

**saltydog** · 17th May 2009, 19:54

To all the people that for whatever reason couldnt be bothered to take their helmets off while filling up..... I propose we start a list of servos to avoid.
I'd probably be labelled an egotistical cunt if I said, All BP stations, so I wont.
So heres my personal fav.....

1/ BP Peace Street Whakatne.

Anymore?

**Ragingrob** · 17th May 2009, 19:55

Originally Posted by dipshit

Riders that wear full-face helmets inside buildings look like lazy as fuck retards.

Why take the 30 seconds to get your helmet off and on when you're only going to be inside for 30 seconds?

Sometimes doing things the lazy way is the smart way, time is money

**JimO** · 17th May 2009, 19:57

whats so hard about taking you helmet off

**FJRider** · 17th May 2009, 19:59

Originally Posted by dipshit

Riders that wear full-face helmets inside buildings look like lazy as fuck retards.

Thank-you for your opinion.
On a cruisey sunday ride, a gas stop is a rest stop too. Helmet comes off and ears scratched (other bits too ... but I dont want you to get excited) and do the business of gassing up. On other times, often just when I'm heading away, or have miles/other things to do ... I am in a hurry to gas up. I do not like wasteing time trying to please people whose job it is to please/assist me.