| Author | Thread |
|
|
09/04/2005 12:55:17 AM · #26 |
| You reminded me of a joke there scalvert, Lady at a bar ask the bartender for a falstaff beer, he said we don't have any falstaff, she said in that case give a falstaff. He gives her a bud. A few minutes later she says HEY bartender give me another falstaff so this time he gives her a miller beer. She drinks that and says HEY bartender give another falstaff. He walks over to her with a pen and paper and ask her to write down this, she said what? He said take the bud out of Budweiser and tell me what its says, she said Bud, he said take the mill out of miller, what does that say, she said mill. He said right you are, now he says take the F&*^ out of falstaff. She said there ain't no F&*^ in falstaff, THAT'S RIGHT LADY THERE AIN'T NO F&*^ FALSTAFF. |
|
|
|
09/04/2005 04:21:19 AM · #27 |
Haha I'm not alone. I love that fairground ride one, man that WOULD get annoying.
The opening times is funny. We bake fresh bread at the store, big sign FRESHLY BAKED DAILY. We still get people there BEFORE opening hanging around who come in and ask 'is the fresh bread ready yet?'. We've been open five seconds at this point.
The opening times story is so true as well. Some stand there for ages. Some get their mates over to double check.
|
|
|
|
09/04/2005 05:05:16 AM · #28 |
| I used to love customer service when I worked in the camera store. but, I agree, you do keep getting people using the same silly phrases at things all the time and in the end you just smile and want to smack them silly! But there were also nice people too who genuinely make it a pleasure to sell to. Then the people who think because you sold them a camera you are now their best friend and continually come into the store just to 'talk'! I don't want to talk to them...I am busy! But generally, it can be a nice experience in retail! |
|
|
|
09/04/2005 10:10:59 AM · #29 |
I always like screwing with these kids running cash registers these days by giving them the exact change after they ring it into the register.
The response is normally a dumbfounded look on their face or a comment like, "Uh, I already rang it into the register.".
Pretty scary when you think about it.
|
|
|
|
09/04/2005 10:12:37 AM · #30 |
ah yes, I was a cook at the Dairy Queen when I was in highschool. I actually started a club, called "The People-Haters Club". I was the president, and one other gy on staff was the membership. My love of customer service is why I went into science.
There are still a few fond memories:
1. Reaching through a small access hole into the walk-in fridge with an aerosol can of whipped cream and firing it blindly at on of the guys who was in there. I didn't know that the bitchy manager was also in there & got hit with the whipped cream. She screamed at the poor guy & he got in shit because she thought he did it, but he couldn't squeel on me because that would be against the 'code of Dairy Queen cooks'.
2. Playing quarters, a drinking game, after closing with the cool manager.
3. Loading a burger up with so much sauce it was virtually impossible to pick up, then watching the drunk guy who ordered it lick the sauce off the counter, while the bitchy manager had a fit over it & called the police.
4. Spitting in the hot fry oil to make it snap up at whoever was standing near it cooking.
5. Getting soaked with five gallons of water after work one night while unlocking my bike from the back of the building. The cool manager was up on the roof waiting for me with a five gallon bucket.
6. Waiting on the roof with a five gallon bucket of water for the cool manager to come out. I got him back & most of the water bounced off of him & into his car.
7. Getting bitched at by a customer who saw me drop a frozen burger on the floor, then put it through the grill anyway. He really flipped out when it came out the other end. I put it on a bun, stood in front of him, and ate it myself. He went away.
8. My first shift ever working there was with the owner. He gave me a hard time about not knowing how to cook a 'shrimp basket', I gave him a hard time about working as a Dairy Queen cook his entire life. He just walked away to the back and I pretty much never saw him again. I was never scheduled to work a shift with him again, which was a good thing.
|
|
|
|
09/05/2005 09:11:55 AM · #31 |
Hehe, I killed this thread to death.
|
|
|
|
09/05/2005 10:08:41 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Hehe, I killed this thread to death. |
Yes...yes you did! But I liked your little stories from Dairy Queen!
|
|
|
|
09/05/2005 10:40:07 AM · #33 |
My little sister (okay, younger, since she is 25 and stands 4 inches taller than me) is a manager at a said conv. store.
This weekend was really fun. NOT.
Yesterday, one of the customers from the store came up to my mom (who works in the store next to the gas station -- my little sister is over both of them) and started complaining about the night shift people and how my sister just needed to fire them because they were running all the "locals" off.
Seems that one of the third shift made this gentlemen prepay for his gas. Just like everyone else. "What, do you think "I" would drive off???
He got some (a few drops) and then went elsewhere. Mom told him that was fine because if another store serviced him better, he needed to go there, anyway. And if they fired everyone that got complained about that just meant that my little sister would get to work 24/7, because it is hard to find night shift people for a whopping $7/hr.
When I told my little sister about it, she just laughed and said, "oh yea, we can trust him. He's the one that cashed in a roll of quarters that was over half pennies." hahahhah
We won't even talk about the people that have complained about the gas prices or limits. . . . .
|
|
|
|
09/05/2005 10:44:39 AM · #34 |
I work with a detector dog sniffing baggage at an airport. The thing I hate hearing the most from ignorant passengers, as a joke or as a serious concern, is "Make sure your dog doesn't pee on my bag". To which I reply "Just let him do his job" and I move on.
|
|
|
|
09/05/2005 11:07:03 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
I work with a detector dog sniffing baggage at an airport. The thing I hate hearing the most from ignorant passengers, as a joke or as a serious concern, is "Make sure your dog doesn't pee on my bag". To which I reply "Just let him do his job" and I move on. |
That's interesting - a detector dog made a beeline for me whn I was collecting my baggage in Detroit airport. I was sufficiently nervous not to make any smart arse comments to the customs guy handlng the dog. But apparently, the detector dog had just picked up the scent of my own dogs on my clothes and was checking me out. I guess that if I had had something suspicious, he would have done more than that (ripped my leg off, or something)? |
|
|
|
09/05/2005 09:15:44 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
I work with a detector dog sniffing baggage at an airport. The thing I hate hearing the most from ignorant passengers, as a joke or as a serious concern, is "Make sure your dog doesn't pee on my bag". To which I reply "Just let him do his job" and I move on. |
That's interesting - a detector dog made a beeline for me whn I was collecting my baggage in Detroit airport. I was sufficiently nervous not to make any smart arse comments to the customs guy handlng the dog. But apparently, the detector dog had just picked up the scent of my own dogs on my clothes and was checking me out. I guess that if I had had something suspicious, he would have done more than that (ripped my leg off, or something)? |
Nah. Most dog are passive these days. They just sit by the target person/suitcase/crate/whatever. One of my colleagues has trained his dog to pin point the exact source with his nose by using the phrase: "Where's the bad guy?". Too funny.
Message edited by author 2005-09-05 21:18:22.
|
|
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 08/01/2025 03:09:39 PM EDT.
