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two things that annoy me on a daily basis [Jul. 6th, 2008|11:25 pm]

retail_is_hell

[myrags]
(i work in a coffeeshop)

1) we have a policy in our shop, that we need to point out to the customer where cutlery & sugar is. we say it to everyone if they're buying a hot drink. and i get SO MANY PEOPLE saying to me when i tell them, "no, i don't take sugar" looking at me as if i've just offered them diabetes in a cup. am i supposed to know the intricate details of what someone who i know nothing about, has in their coffee?? and am i trying to shove 48 sachets of sugar down their throats?? no. i am simply pointing out that they are quite free to take it as they please. what's the point in telling me they don't want sugar? if you don't want it, JUST DON'T TAKE IT!

2) when we say to people, "eat in or takeaway?" 80% of customers will say, with a bemused look on their faces, "i am sitting outside." - i can't for the life of me figure out why this is so confusing for people! eating in = eating on the premises of the shop. that includes the tables outside. eating out = leaving the shop, drinking as you walk, or shop, or go home or whatever. why do so many people think that eating on a table outside that STILL BELONGS TO THE SHOP is taking away, when you are clearly NOT taking the product away??
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[Jul. 6th, 2008|11:00 pm]
customers_suck
[ciccia15_31]
      I work as a front end coordinator at a grocery store on  the East Coast.  Yesterday, one of my cashiers flashed her light and she looked a little upset.  Apparently, before I got there, her customer, a middle aged guy with his kid, handed her a bottle slip (we have bottle return machines, and when you are done with them, they spit out a receipt that you hand to the cashier for either your money from returning the bottles or it is applied to your order). This is what happened before(as relayed to me by my cashier) and then when I got there.

C-cashier
CM-complete moron
M-me

CM:  I have a bottle slip
C:  Um, this looks different, I'm not sure how to put this in.
CM:  Are you kidding me? It's a bottle slip.  Did you just start today or something?
C:  Actually, I've been here for 6 months, but hold on I'll get my manager over here *flashes her light*
CM:  This is so ridiculous.  I didn't realize doing your job was so hard for you. 

Enter me, cheerfully, though he looks irate, and my cashier looks slightly battered.

M:  Hey there, what can I do for you?
CM:  I just gave this cashier a bottle slip I got out of your machine, and she can't figure out how to put it through.  I think maybe she needs a little bit better training before dealing with the public.
M:  OK, C, can I see the bottle slip?  *examines it for a moment, there is obviously something wrong*  Um, sir this is a Barnes and Noble receipt.
CM .......  *followed by glaring at his daughter*  what is wrong with you?  Uh sorry, she must have grabbed the wrong paper.  *Walks away yelling at his 6 or 7 year old daughter.

     Oh, and a quick question....what could possibly be the circumstances that would lead someone to leave a clear bulk food container filled with poop (tipped over and leaking, I might add) in a grocery cart?  Just wondering.
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Thirty whole dollars! AND tell my secrits. [Jul. 6th, 2008|08:45 pm]

customers_suck

[borealis_belle]
[mood |irritated]

Recap: I'm a PI.

So, I get a phone call.
Here's a cut. )
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The following is NOT the correct response to "I need to see your ID, please"... [Jul. 6th, 2008|09:50 pm]

customers_suck

[rmorales2005]
[mood |annoyed]

1) Your partner-in-crime offering hers, when she is not the buyer.
2) You huffing about the previous customer taking up time with her tobacco request
3) Grunting your D-O-B
4) Telling me I'm being a dick about following the law
5) Asking for a manager, then storming off after shouting "Shove it up your ass!"

I didn't appreciate you leaving the bag of ice behind, either, since it got mixed in with the next guy's order. And he didn't say anything until after being cashed out. And he didn't even speak English!
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childfree quotes [Jul. 6th, 2008|10:27 pm]

childfree

[automatism]
the boy and i ended up having a bill hick's discography marathon today and yesterday. he was ranting about kids at one point so i went looking for the quote on wiki quote. i ended up finding two gems instead of one. enjoy!

But I'll tell you this. Where's this idea that childbirth is a miracle come from? I missed that fucking meeting, okay. "It's a miracle. Childbirth is a miracle." No, it's not. No more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out of your ass, all right. It's a chemical reaction, that's all it fucking is. You wanna know what a miracle is? Raising a kid that doesn't talk in a movie theatre. Okay, there. There is a goddamn miracle.

Not a miracle if every nine months any yin yang in the world can drop a litter of these mewling cabbages on our planet. And just in case you haven't seen the single mom statistics lately, the miracle is spreading like wild-fire. "Hallelujah!" Trailer parks and council flats all over the world, just filling up with little miracles. THUNK, THUNK, THUNK – like frogs laying eggs – THUNK. "Look at all my little miracles" – THUNK – "filling up my trailer like a sardine can." THUNK. "You know what would be a real miracle? If I could remember your daddy's name." THUNK. "I guess I'll have to call you Lorry Driver Junior." THUNK. "That's all I remember about your daddy, was his fuzzy little pot-belly riding on top of me shooting his caffeine-ridden semen into my belly to produce my little water-headed miracle baby. Oh, there's your brother, Pizza Boy Delivery Junior."



That's why my girlfriend and I broke up: she wanted kids, and I … well, she wanted kids. [laughs] I had no idea her philosophy was that flawed. She goes, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a kid? To have this fresh, clean slate which we could fill. A little clean spirit, innocent, and to fill it with good ideas." Yeah, yeah, how about this? If you're so fucking altruistic, why don't you leave the little clean spirit wherever it is right now? Okay? Horrible act, childbirth. Nightmare. Bringing … I would never bring a kid to this fucking planet.
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Suing Over Bleu Cheese [Jul. 6th, 2008|07:25 pm]

customers_suck

[kitschaster]
[music |Ragtime - Journey On]

Sooooo, I'm new to this community, but not a day into being a member here, I had a rather foolish customer try to pull some shit on me, because he was "with" (not actually with, just stalking) two pretty girls. I work at a medium service cafe/bakery/marketplace type thing, and have only worked there for almost two weeks. I'm a newbie, but if I had been an old face, I would have not hesitated to be blunt in this situation. Instead, I stayed calm, and focused.

So I had just rang up two girls, and near the end of the the transaction, this guy cuts into their conversation, and insistently asks them about our chopped salad. They give it a thumbs up, he walks away with them, then comes back to order.


Me: = me.
DS: dipshit.


DS: I'd like a chopped salad, no bleu cheese.
Me: I'm sorry sir, but that salad is pre-made in the morning, and packaged. We cannot remove the bleu cheese.
DS: *snerk* So, what? You can't do it?
Me: No, sir, the salads are pre-made.

At this point he walks back over to the girls, and they tell him to say they just got it made that way. Then tell him to start a fight. They actually encouraged his behavior.

DS: So...wait. What if I'm allergic to it? Can you take it off?
Me: *BRAINPOP* No, sir, we can't.
DS: And what if I went to the hospital? And I sued you? What if I sued you?
Me: That...wouldn't be...good. *just blinks*
DS: Whatever. I'll take the salad.
Me: *rings him up, feeling ill due to the stupid aura* Thank you, and have a good afternoon.
DS: Yeah, I certainly hope i don't get sick. I'll have to sue you.


If this had been my last job, I would have told him it is not wise to get something that would make you sick, but I don't know what constitutes as fair, and bad customer service yet. No, jerkoff, we're not going to a) remake it, nor will we b) pick out little bits of bleu cheese for you. We make good tips, and good money, and we don't particularly need your patronage. He was a jerk, merely to look cute for the girls who wouldn't have fucked him anyway. ~sighs~

I told my manager about it, and she made a very serious note to tell me if a customer -knows- what is in something, and eats it anyway, they can't sue. I know my fellow employees told me about this crappola, but that was middle school antics at best. It is expected that we, as cashiers and counterpersons are kind and respectful. Why can't customers be this same way?

Whatever. I got $50 in tips for two days today, AND I rung up Kanye West's order (I don't particularly like Kanye, it was just fun to know I talked with somebody my stupid ex would probably kill to meet, and schmooze with). That asshole couldn't spoil my day.
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[Jul. 6th, 2008|09:35 pm]

childfree

[starandmuses]
[mood | pissed off]

Soo, I have a story from work today. That made me realize why I never want a kid. .-.

Cut for tl;dr )
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Other People's Children....'s Puke. [Jul. 6th, 2008|09:10 pm]

customers_suck

[kitty_kittie]
[mood |confused]

Manager trainee working under the "Golden Arches" with a WTF. The other day, I served a woman and her young son. After getting their food, they walked off to the PlayLand and I thought nothing more of it.

Fifteen minutes later, she walks back up and says: "My son threw up in the PlayLand. You probably want to go clean it up," then she walked away again. Not even a "sorry." Nice. It was pretty dead, though, and everybody was busy cleaning and stocking, so I took it upon myself to get the mop and bucket and trudge down there myself, figuring no one would miss me for a minute or two.

Yeah, the kid threw up alright, SIX TIMES. And not just in one place, but in six different places, including two in the womens' bathroom that I didn't notice till I went to wash my hands and was greeted by the stale stench of kiddie puke upon opening the door. Seriously... did this woman just let her kid run around puking?

Who does that?
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Wall-E and stupid kids [Jul. 6th, 2008|09:31 pm]

customers_suck

[starandmuses]
[mood |pissed off]

Ugh. Today is just pure and complete stupid, seriously. Being up at work at five in the morning to put up stupid flipping ad and then in electronics until two... (I got maybe three and a half hours of sleep).

Anyway. This family comes in to get a Xbox 360, no big deal, I talk him into getting the standard one as he really didn't need the Arcade or the Pro. All going as planned, nothing wrong. Except for his three little spawn being horribly annoying but I can deal.

After getting the Wall-E game for the 360 out and letting the kid hold it he starts shoving it in my face every two freaking seconds trying to copy the way Wall-E says his name. It's cute the first time but after twenty minutes of this I'm about ready to bitchslap a kid. Honestly.

Please, please, please if you're going to bring in little kids PLEASE teach them that bothering the workers here is NOT a good thing to do at ten in the morning. Honestly, you're standing right there and you're seeing him shove it in my face and it's obvious that I'm not amused by this so WHY aren't you doing something about him? >O
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sick [Jul. 6th, 2008|07:24 pm]

childfree

[missmuffcake]
I have been really sick the last few days, like I can't leave bed sick. My mom picked me up today and we had a convo about kids. I told my mom that I am glad that I do not have kids and being sick the last few days I have thought that if I was sick and had kids I would go crazy. I told her if I had a kid and I was asleep in bed and said kid was like 'mommy make me a peanut butter sandwich' I would say 'make it your damn self'...I have a boyfriend who does not understand that while I am sick picking up pizza is not me being lazy, I cannot cook from bed, I cannot get out of bed. I blame the Nyquil 99% for elbowing him in the stomach while he tried cuddling me the other night but that 1% is for him being an ass!

While talking to my guy's brother/bro's girlfriend last night about how we are getting a 3 bedroom house and each of us having an office the girlfriend asked about me wanting kids and i said "I hate children" she said that at least I know before having one...
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“這就是我們如何軋輥” [Jul. 6th, 2008|07:25 pm]

jwz
[Tags|, , ]
[music |Sneaker Pimps -- Roll On]

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Fine, I will go to Sears! [Jul. 6th, 2008|07:11 pm]

customers_suck

[pinacoladagrl]
[mood |cheerful]

This one happened the other day.

A man came in with a pair of dress pants that he wanted to have shortened. Our price for dress pant hems is $7.99 or two for $12.99. It is the best price in the town I live in (we are a medium sized town with not a lot of tailor shops, so we don't have to have low, competitive prices), so please no comments about how high the price is, I know it is high compared to some places. Anyway, we told him what the price would be and his jaw dropped a little. He demanded we do them for $5.89, our casual hem (jeans, dockers, etc... the ones where you can see the stitches on the outside) price, but he still wanted the more expensive hem (where you can't see the stitching). He was told no and he asked a few more times.

Finally he bursts out: "I just bought these at Sears. I will just go back there. They will do them for FIVE DOLLARS!!" Then he left.

Well, we have the last laugh. Why is that you ask? We used to have a second location three or four years ago. It was in that Sears store. There is no tailors in there anymore and hasn't been since we left.

We didn't see him again. He must have been to embarrassed to come back or something. Oh well, now he has to pay more at some other shop to have them done.
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Here kitty kitty [Jul. 6th, 2008|10:00 pm]

too_much_info

[alas_pequenas]
[music |Two Coins-Dispatch]

So I took anatomy class this year in school. We learned some stuff, then for the last three weeks we dissected cats. So this brought much fun and excitement to the class. Actually, no, just me and few people who were excited to take pictures. Finally I have them!

You )

All in all dissection was fun. I think I enjoyed it more than some people in the class. The formaldehyde was the worst part honestly. It made my eyes burn when I got too close.
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U-Haul woes [Jul. 6th, 2008|10:03 pm]

bad_service

[stah_chica]
[mood | annoyed]

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I WANT CHUBBY CHICKEN!!!!!11111!!1! [Jul. 6th, 2008|06:37 pm]

customers_suck

[drakefn]
[music |How Am I Doin' - Dierks Bentley]

So at my work (Initials for Allen & Wright) we don't have headsets. Instead we have a speaker, so ther entire store can hear people's drive thru orders. Last night this guy comes through and YELLS his entire order. Wasn't a big deal until we got to the last part...

LM (Loud Man): CHUBBY CHICKEN COMBO!
ME: Which one sir?
LM: CHUBBY CHICKEN COMBO!
ME: Sir would you like the strips, chicken pieces of the burger?
LM: CHUBBY CHICKEN COMBO!

Cut For Language )
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Woodlands Asylum with a Holga [Jul. 6th, 2008|06:12 pm]

urban_decay

[ladylickwid]
[mood | awake]

So a few weeks ago we went back to Woodlands armed with a Holga and who-knows-how-many rolls of expired film. The place is still fenced off like a fortress, but wouldn't you know it, AFTER we ran out of film, we discovered a hole in the fence. *grumble*

If anyone bitches about image quality, I shot these with a $20 camera that leaks a crapton of light.

Please to clicker )

the images are kinda big, sorry. If you have 56K, you might want to go walk your dog.
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Pizza shop bad service [Jul. 6th, 2008|09:20 pm]

bad_service

[alphawox]
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That is NOT in my job description! [Jul. 6th, 2008|06:38 pm]

customers_suck

[outsdr]
I don't like touching strangers, which normally is not a problem at one of my jobs...



Bob, I guarantee the hotel I work for and its staff will do everything we can to make your stay with us as pleasant as possible, as long as it doesn't require being possibly exposed to blood-borne pathogens doing things that the medical clinic just down the road is properly staffed and trained to undertake.
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[Jul. 6th, 2008|07:58 pm]

customers_suck

[goombaw]
[mood |aggravated]

Just one from my shift at the kid's clothes store at the MoA today:

Someone's kid peed all over the floor and the parent never told us. We know it was urine because someone else's kid happened across it.

I don't care if the kid had an accident, I just want to get it cleaned up ASAP. Tell us next time!
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A few sucks, wtfs, and letters all in one! [Jul. 6th, 2008|07:07 pm]

customers_suck

[sinewed_wrist]
Recap: cosmetic girl at greenwall

Haven't posted in a while, but these all happened over the holiday weekend...

The prospect of controlled explosions in pretty colors makes people ANGRY! )
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