(September 21, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Exian Wrote:(September 21, 2015 at 2:36 pm)Chad32 Wrote: If I post something somewhere, and it gets a bunch of views, but no replies. Watching that view counter go up without a single reply is frustrating.
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Man, one of my favorite jobs I ever had was a customer service job. Such a great opportunity to flex my smartass. It was a Starbucks, but it was sort of a perfect storm, because it was at a turnpike rest stop, so we got a lot of non-Starbucks type customers. Namely, older folks. They would come over pissed off that the Micky D's line was so long, and they'd yell at me "I just want a coffee. Just a normal coffee. None of that fancy crap. Ok?" The best comeback, I found, was to just tell them the price.
I had a lady come up with the same attitude. I'm standing there smiling "Hello, what can I get you?" She sighs "Just give me one Starbucks." I shout to my drink maker "One franchise please."
My favorite rude customer snark, however, was from a young business douchebag. He came up talking into his Bluetooth, wearing sunglasses and a poorly fitted suit. Somehow he was able to order a strawberry frapp (of course) in between being a big shot on his phoneless phone. I make the drink and hand it to him. When he grabs it in his hurry, he squeezes out some from the top and it runs down the cup. He says "Hold on. Hey, would ya mind wiping this off first?! This suit costs more than you make in a week." And as sincere and as dry as I could, I say "That suit costs $80?" Haha I felt like a damn champion. My boss ran to the back room an was keeled over in laughter.
lol. I'm sure there could be another thread made about dumb customers.
I have a ton of stories, two things that happened that just popped in my head I'll share.. I used to work in a car wash, mostly scrubbing, but I stayed overtime to help cashier this time. One customer rolled up in the car and bought the best wash, which came with air freshener, and she asked, "Does this go in the inside of the car or the outside?" I almost wanted to say, "Put it on the outside of the windshield, and it makes the whole outside world smell like strawberry."
We would also have a great time watching people trying to work our free vacuums. There were about 8 large FREE stickers on each vacuum and we'd constantly get people come up to us to ask how to turn them on, when the only obvious instruction was Press Once Here. They'd also come up and ask how they could pay for them. When we told them it was free, it didn't quite compute in their minds. We could explain to them 3 times in a row, but they still wanted to hand us money.
We had this happen a few times: one of the FREE stickers was covering the hole where you used to be able to put money in it to pay for it, and we literally had people shove quarters through the FREE sticker and into the coin slot, then come to ask us for their money back. We'd tell them we could no longer get into the machine, but after awhile we'd go in there and split $10-$20. People can be huge idiots.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
