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Urban Hat€monger ? · 12-07-2014, 08:16 PM

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DwnWthVwls · 12-07-2014, 08:35 PM

I started out with a post picking at your quotes, and than I remembered you're not in the states so I edited it. Glad I did.

The Batlord · 12-07-2014, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

Customers have serious issues with entitlement. On top of that, they're usually stupid, so it's no surprise that they're dependent on Yelp to figure out your restaurant hours, instead of, you know, calling the fucking place and talking to someone who actually works there.

Why would I do that when I could, ya know... not?

ladyislingering · 12-07-2014, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Why would I do that when I could, ya know... not?

well, at least if you do the most sensible thing, you can't get all mad when things don't go the way you expected them to.

GuD · 12-07-2014, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

Customers have serious issues with entitlement. On top of that, they're usually stupid, so it's no surprise that they're dependent on Yelp to figure out your restaurant hours, instead of, you know, calling the fucking place and talking to someone who actually works there.

That's the crazy thing! He did call! He's been to our place before! He knows we close at 4. He just called at 3:55, trying to get hot food, and expected me to stay late because on yelp it says we close at 5:30. I told him I could make him a cold sandwich but that's all we were serving at that hour. I WAS NICE ABOUT IT. But then he expects me to reboot the whole damn store just so he can get what he wants? Piss off with that, boy-o. It would've taken 20minutes to serve one customer.

ladyislingering · 12-07-2014, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by WhateverDude

That's the crazy thing! He did call! He's been to our place before! He knows we close at 4. He just called at 3:55, trying to get hot food, and expected me to stay late because on yelp it says we close at 5:30. I told him I could make him a cold sandwich but that's all we were serving at that hour. I WAS NICE ABOUT IT. But then he expects me to reboot the whole damn store just so he can get what he wants? Piss off with that, boy-o. It would've taken 20minutes to serve one customer.

What a giant piece of shit. I imagine this guy angrily walked away, then went to Starbucks, babbled off a lengthy order to the barista, then got angry because she forgot the 2 and a half Splendas, and his drink doesn't seem to feel extra hot.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-08-2014, 06:23 AM

that's the one thing i do like about working in a wharehouse/factory setting. no more interaction with the public. in a way it's a good thing and a bad thing at the same time because you see a lot less women but you also deal with less bull****.

i remember when i used to work at walmart. i worked overnight and i was the electronics assoiciate. basically they looked at me and saw a young white guy, probably likes video games and computers and **** and threw me in electronics. truth was i don't play video games and at the time i only used computers to download free **** and browse the web for entertainment. so i really knew very little about it.

i couldn't afford a smartphone or a console or a blu ray player or a high quality tv and i really had very little need for that sort of thing so i basically just ignored it. and they gave me no training whatsoever just expected me to basically know about it all, then customers would ask me the most random questions about **** and i would basically just have to look at the box and make up some bull****. then they get annoyed at me like this is your job man, then i basically get annoyed back at them like i work at walmart mother****er i didn't go to school for this **** and you're crazy if you think i'm doing research on my off time to make your life easier when i get the same rate regardless at the end of the day. you came in here expecting best buy service when really you should've googled the **** like i would've done if i needed to buy some **** from walmart. cause really they only expected me to go over to electronics whenever someone needed help. the rest of the time they had me stocking shelves in other departments. i guess a lot of people don't understand how haphazard most companies are in terms of their organization and management structure.

DwnWthVwls · 12-08-2014, 07:55 AM

They don't pay you to be an expert you're there to assist customers. Instead of being a bullsh*t artist, try explaining to them you're just there to help people find what they are looking for and don't know about they product they are asking about. I've found over the years people tend to be much less b*tchy if you just acknowledge the fact that you can't help them instead of trying to bullsh*t them. There will always be the a$$hole who expects you to know everything but most people would understand your a minimum wage employee at a dead end job.

Most of the people I've worked with that complain about customers are just as unapproachable as the customers they complain about.

The Batlord · 12-08-2014, 08:01 AM

Or you can go full *******, and come up with a way that all of the electronics are somehow involved in a conspiracy. Everything has its different purpose: TVs have a different mission than iPods, flash drives are targeting a different world leader than XBox games, universal remotes are in cahoots yet still operate separately from the Justin Bieber albums, etc. The customers will be too busy putting distance between themselves and you to bother being uppity.

**Janszoon** · 12-08-2014, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Most of the people I've worked with that complain about customers are just as unapproachable as the customers they complain about.

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~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	that's the one thing i do like about working in a wharehouse/factory setting. no more interaction with the public. in a way it's a good thing and a bad thing at the same time because you see a lot less women but you also deal with less bull**. i remember when i used to work at walmart. i worked overnight and i was the electronics assoiciate. basically they looked at me and saw a young white guy, probably likes video games and computers and and threw me in electronics. truth was i don't play video games and at the time i only used computers to download free and browse the web for entertainment. so i really knew very little about it. i couldn't afford a smartphone or a console or a blu ray player or a high quality tv and i really had very little need for that sort of thing so i basically just ignored it. and they gave me no training whatsoever just expected me to basically know about it all, then customers would ask me the most random questions about and i would basically just have to look at the box and make up some bull. then they get annoyed at me like this is your job man, then i basically get annoyed back at them like i work at walmart motherer i didn't go to school for this and you're crazy if you think i'm doing research on my off time to make your life easier when i get the same rate regardless at the end of the day. you came in here expecting best buy service when really you should've googled the like i would've done if i needed to buy some ** from walmart. cause really they only expected me to go over to electronics whenever someone needed help. the rest of the time they had me stocking shelves in other departments. i guess a lot of people don't understand how haphazard most companies are in terms of their organization and management structure.