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30 May 2003, 13:43
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
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the most irritating thing about working with the public
come on, what do you find most irritating about having to work with the public?
for me (and i know this is going to get me flamed but who cares)
it has to be the retards.
now some of them are well behaved, come in with whoever and just pick their books, maybe say hello to the staff, but are generally quiet
but others, treat their retarded status like it allows them to do whatever they want, one such case just came in and picked up a scanner, and scanned him eye with the laser out of it before i could grab it off him
now his mother just laughed, but if he had been hurt, she would have been the first one complaining fs
that type of person really irritates me
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30 May 2003, 13:46
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Infallible
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Milton Keynes, UK
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Complaints.
Endless complaints, and having to deal with them.
Most people tend not to care that you are not responsible for their problems, but as your the one they speak to, your the one who gets an earfull.
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30 May 2003, 13:47
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Anon.
Join Date: Sep 2000
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heh
ace
for me its the people that haven't ever heard of Politeness.
"Oi, wheres the videos" etc.
oh and get back to work
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30 May 2003, 13:48
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Dazed and Confused
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: lost
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I have never worked.
But I imagine it would be the people that believe shop-assistants are there solely to serve them and adopt the kind of attitude that makes cooks in restaurants jizz in their lasagne.
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30 May 2003, 13:51
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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I am a taxman, every one or two weeks i have a public helpdesk day.
I don't need to explain more I guess.
One day I'll create a website Like Gart the Videostore owner.
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30 May 2003, 13:51
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: South Pacific
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the way that people's IQs appear to drop by at least two orders of magnitude. Particularly tourists. I worked on tourist sites and behind bars for four years, and this is why I have decided to be an academic and get as far away as is humanly possible from these people.
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30 May 2003, 13:51
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Has Soup On His Head
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Dealing with the public , period.
Members of the public who see GREAT BIG **** OFF SIGNS saying "Dont Do This" , and then proceed to do it anyway.
Sign above the door should read "We do not serve retards" , and allow staff to make Judgement calls on individual cases.
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30 May 2003, 13:52
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Lord Denning
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: City of London
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People who come into the newsagents to read the magazines annoy me greatly.
Oh, and LOLs who expect me to deliver their papers because their paper boy is a lazy git.
"I can't leave the house and I need the papers delivered every day!"
Get a computer then, fool!
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30 May 2003, 13:53
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Location: South Pacific
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people who ask stupid questions:
Q: "can I use my bus ticket here."
A: "no, it is a mini railway, not a bus."
sadly I have to be polite, and can't "do a gord" on them.
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30 May 2003, 13:56
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
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i think, in our own ways, we all look up to gord, and all that he stood for
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30 May 2003, 13:57
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Lord Denning
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: City of London
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Quote:
Originally posted by Radical Edward
people who ask stupid questions:
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Q: Are you open?
A: The door is closed and the lights are off. What do you think?
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He was crowned in York Cathedral as 'Expert in the West' by Pope Urban III in 1186.
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30 May 2003, 13:59
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Lord Denning
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: City of London
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Quote:
Originally posted by Toccata & Fugue
the press are even worse, they are either retards, people who think their clever but aren't, or overpaid self important jerks.
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You just described 95% of the human race.
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He was crowned in York Cathedral as 'Expert in the West' by Pope Urban III in 1186.
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30 May 2003, 14:03
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Henry Kelly
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Noone, noone likes the elderly.
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30 May 2003, 14:22
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Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
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The people who are unreasonable. Put simply.
The people who get angry. I understand some of their issues, but you can at least deal with these things with a smile on your face (well as best you can).
Two of the bastards I've spoken to recently (who both got irrationally angry) have been arrested for domestic violence (one for murdering his wife).
Oh, and solicitors are the worst people in the world to get calls from.
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30 May 2003, 14:30
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Dirte
Join Date: Apr 2002
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I don't work whit the public, but i notice a lot of things that i would find imensely annoying.
Like the angry people at trains, that just found out that their tickets are not valid, and gives the train-man the blame.
ITS THEIR OWN ****ING FAULT FOR NOT CHECKING WHAT TYPE OF TICKET IS REQUIRED BEFORE PURCASHING.
Besides, if you talk whit a smile, apologzie for the fault and ask what you can do "to make up" for it, they usually let you go, instead of giving you fines. (The train men, that is)
Or people that get's angry at bus-driver's when the bus is late. Its not their ****ing fault it was a accident down the road, or that 15 elderly people began to argue about prices.
Smile to public workers = the win.
(OF COURSE; this does not always apply, and never whit the cops)
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30 May 2003, 14:39
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Location: South Pacific
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Quote:
Originally posted by Snurx
Smile to public workers = the win.
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yeap, it is always hard to argue with a nice person.
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30 May 2003, 22:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The New British Empire
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i have to hate (working in an aquatic retail outlet) that stupid idiot who walks past you and makes the off-hand comment 'i guess no-one's gona get me any fish then' only to be told "sure, i'll catch you some" and for that idiot to go 'nah, don't want any now'
****ing prat
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30 May 2003, 23:19
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: I hate you all
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Scottish and asylum seekers - cant understand them a lot of the time.
Idiots (eg, When i ask for somthing they need every time they call and they dont have it - what makes this time different? Piss off.)
Complains should be irritating, but i enjoy telling people what they dont want to hear - if they leave the call feelling as miserable as i do it makes me a little happier.
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30 May 2003, 23:56
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Snake of the Sand
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Florida, USA
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I work part-time in a bookstore:
"How much is this with tax and <insert random discount>?" LIKE I HAVE A CALCULATOR ON HAND
"Hey! This has no label! I guess that means it's free! hyuck hyuck!" - Only funny the first 500 times I heard it.
Rich people who act like we're anally raping them by charging the price set by the publisher, or the cashier made a $.10 error.
Rich people period. worst customers EVER.
Women's bathrooms (once we close)...most vile location on the planet. used "feminine products" on the floors, blood/urine on the seats, toilet paper everywhere...fking pigs, the lot of em!
Best one yet was the guy who was looking for a book: "I don't know the name or the author, but I read it when I was six and the cover is red!"
"How old are you, sir?"
"38"
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"Which of these <insert high-level test exam> study guidess are the best" - Like if I'd taken that damn test, I'd be working here?
"I heard this guy on the radio, I didn't catch anything but it's about World War II..."
"Have you read <insert extremely obscure title>"
I could go on forever...
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30 May 2003, 23:58
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1Up
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Location: The Netherlands
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I am a claims adjuster at a major insurance company. So i decide if they should get paid their claim and how much.
Need I say more ?
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31 May 2003, 00:01
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1Up
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sandsnake
"Hey! This has no label! I guess that means it's free! hyuck hyuck!" - Only funny the first 500 times I heard it.
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I also work at a toystore 1 saterday a week and this really is common practice yeah. They think they are actually funny. Allthough there are sad cases who actually mean it when they say that.
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31 May 2003, 00:06
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Guy next door
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Quote:
Originally posted by KillGhost
1 saterday a week
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only one saturday a week?!?!?!!?!
:P
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31 May 2003, 00:12
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Damn Dog
Join Date: Jan 2001
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working behind the bar, at a hotel, that has mainly middle class businessmen as residents is a ****ing nightmare. i managed it for 5 months, so good for me i suppose!
worst ever ever ever people were when we had a masonic lodge from down south staying. absolute ****ing twats.
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31 May 2003, 00:15
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1Up
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Quote:
Originally posted by SilverSmoke
only one saturday a week?!?!?!!?!
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yeah i knew people would quote that but hey i couldn't be arsed to edit my post for that
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31 May 2003, 00:23
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Henry Kelly
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Quote:
Originally posted by the_dastardley_chihuahua
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Damn your layout-destructive name.
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31 May 2003, 00:32
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1Up
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Quote:
Originally posted by pablissimo
Damn your layout-destructive name.
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31 May 2003, 00:39
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Anal Crumb
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Location: Liverpool
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Would you like any cashback with that?
No LOL ill only spend it!
We cant have you sitting there all bored can we *chuckle*
They do 'blah' in such a store for me!
WELL **** OFF BACK THERE AND LET THEM DO IT YOU ****ING ****
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