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Thomus
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Posted - 2005.12.21 17:46:00 -
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I am a student, with part time job at the co-op. (For non-UK residents: a Co-op is a small shop that can be found in most parts of lots of towns here).
I work on Saturday mornings, among other times. I get to the shop just before we open at 7am.
The first thing I do is take all of the newspapers in bundles, and all of the inserts/magazines/adverts/alltheothercrap and have to put all the right ones in the right papers.
- no problem.
My problem is with the sad b@st@rds who come under one of the following categories, but all with the same sad obsession with their daily (not just saturday!) newspapers:
1) The stupid old fart who hangs outside the shop from 6:55am waiting for me to get there and get his paper and serve him, all the while telling me im late, despite the fact that I am 4 minutes early, and the according to the BBC on teletext, its already 7:01.
2) The damn annoying old fart who has a sodding pre-pay voucher for his paper and thrusts it up your nose, and giving you the money for the other paper he always gets on the counter, before attempting to walk off again, before I stop him and take the papers from him, explaining for the 175th week running that the papers GO THRU THE TILL just like every other item in the shop.
3) The areshole of an old fart who doesn't want the magazines in either of his two papers, which you so lovingly put in half hour ago, but instead of handing them to you to bin them, leaves them lying all over the place on top of other magazines that other people will need (see number 4).
4) The miserable complaining old fart that shouts at you because the inserts aren't in his particular paper, who, after you explain that because there are 114 of that paper and you have lots of other work to do, still wont accept that you don't physically have enough time to put all of them in. (Two out of the dozen or so newspapers there are on a saturday, are so popular, our number of copies of them run into the hundreds, and the resulting piles of papers would be stupidly high, resulting in many problems in itself, so I have chosen to leave them NEXT TO the relevant paper, (see #5)).
5) The female old fart who can't see the insert for her paper in front of her face, despite my layout of the papers being the same for the past 175 saturdays. (this applies to lots of this type of old fart).
6) The whining younger fart (old fart in training), who blames ME (thats ME, the previously mentioned student who has a little job in a little shop to get some money for EVE etc, who has nothing to do with the people who DELIVER the sodding papers, who puts out wot we have got in, and has no idea whether there should be a 17th insert to do with the decline in Llama sales in ******* Antartica), because his paper isn't complete! (One guy drove me nearly to tears by shouting at me cuz of this. "YOU are misleading customers by selling incomplete papers, YOU are breaking rules of tradse descriptions, I don't get this trouble round at the [rascist word]-shop round the corner" etc etc)
7) The selfish up-their-own-arse b@stard old farts who, when you hold out your hand for the money, put the coin down on the counter, right next to your hand. pompous gits. I don't have the guts to, but would really like to put their change on the counter instead of their hands when they hold it out to take change.... *ggggyaarrr*
8) The weird old farts who, instead of reaching down, picking up a paper and walk towards me, reach down, take the SECOND or third paper down, and then come to me - WHAT. THE. F. ??? who are you people - why ?!? wtf?!? Whats wrong with the top one?!/1/1/1? If its this bullsh*t 'the top one has germs' rubbish i'll shoot thm to put them outta their misery. I've already reordered the pile as I have had to to all the inserts in! Those people are crazy! The mess they make by knocking off the top few papers/mags is just crazy - they dont put it back, so then the next person can't find their paper cuz they STUPID too!
GAR!
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SpaceCleaver
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:05:00 -
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Ouch  Get a new job?
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JoCool
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:10:00 -
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Get a gun 
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:15:00 -
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(2) and (4) are the fault of the shop, not the customers. It may not be your fault that the store doesn't hire enough staff to do the work of inserting magazines, but it DAMN sure isn't the fault of the customer.
And putting papers through the till is one of the biggest bugbears I have. Seriously, how much effort is it to make a single plastic sheet with all the codes for the daily and Sunday papers on it? Most stores manage to do it in ten minutes on one morning, so why don't you have one yet? Why do you even need to scan the things anyway? They're always the same price every day.
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Stogee
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:17:00 -
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lol I know exactly how you feel m8.
I did the same job except only for a month. I had to quit before I ended up murdering half the regulars with a shotgun.
Let alone the stuck up middle aged types who think their the cream of society (which they are, rich and thick, thats where the analogy ends!) because they work for a large corporation in big corporate building and have to hurry for the train! And they blame you for 'being slow' when theres a queue of 20 people long and going as fast as you can. How about they get up 10 minutes earlier so that their NOT late for the train?
I commend you for sticking it out for that long m8!
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Aaronus
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:19:00 -
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Watch the movie CLERKS.
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DeepScarlet
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:22:00 -
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Stop being so repressed and tell these people how much you hate them, letting your anger out by teling people you dont have to look at over the inernet leave you exactly where you were in the firstplace.
Grab number 1 by the collar and tell him to **** off, if you don't ask you never recieve....
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MaxPower
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:33:00 -
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Edited by: MaxPower on 21/12/2005 18:34:31
Ageist. Santas old. He may be offended by this post.
Lump of coal for Thomus this year 
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Chrisb6122
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:34:00 -
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you missed the part where the papers don't turn up,
blame WHS
The dirty old git
who comes in at like 8 am who buys **** and wants it sticking in the middle of the paper,
the bastards who ask for a reciet once's the transactions compleded,
the young parents who come in with kids who then proceed to destroy any and all dispplays in the shop,
I used to then have an old fart complain at me for not working fast enough,
would add more but i can rant about my old job basically what you do, for hours and hours, best part of the job was 1st day off in like 4 years and i got sacked cause of it
yay for Uk law for under 18s!
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Glassback
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Posted - 2005.12.21 18:43:00 -
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 Originally by: Thomus
and the according to the BBC on teletext, its already 7:01.
Teletext! and you moan about people who buy papers? What were you doing, checking out the daily joke?
G.
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Stogee
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Posted - 2005.12.21 19:01:00 -
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Originally by: DeepScarlet
Stop being so repressed and tell these people how much you hate them, letting your anger out by teling people you dont have to look at over the inernet leave you exactly where you were in the firstplace.
Grab number 1 by the collar and tell him to **** off, if you don't ask you never recieve....
shortly after which they make a complain to your superior, shortly after which your handed your notice (if your lucky enough to get any)
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MaxPower
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Posted - 2005.12.21 19:04:00 -
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Originally by: Stogee
Originally by: DeepScarlet
Stop being so repressed and tell these people how much you hate them, letting your anger out by teling people you dont have to look at over the inernet leave you exactly where you were in the firstplace.
Grab number 1 by the collar and tell him to **** off, if you don't ask you never recieve....
shortly after which they make a complain to your superior, shortly after which your handed your notice (if your lucky enough to get any)
After which he sues for unfair dismissal, and wins (seems you can sue anyone for anything and win these days)
End result? Eve subs paid for another year 
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Galk
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Posted - 2005.12.21 19:14:00 -
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Man i love you.
Telling it how it is n'all, everybody should be like that, life would be a lot less hassle, we would all understand one another a little better...
Umm ok, reading through it yeah, best thing you can do...
Smile.
Humour breaks the ice everytime, no matter what you think of them, or what they think or you.
You do that yeah, next time that guy won't seem so anoying, whatever he does, you will take less of a hostility to it.
And take it from me yeah, what might happen after all that, you.. or he... might start saying good morning at the start of every saturday.
And thats only the start
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Seasons greetings, merry christmas to one and to all.
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Ebedar
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Posted - 2005.12.21 19:21:00 -
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Heh, I used to work in a newsagents so I can sympathise.
Type 7 in your post used to particularly annoy me, so I would make a point of putting the money down on the counter. One particularly cantakerous old woman complained and I politely pointed out that if she wanted the money in her hand she should extend the same courtesy (which she still never did).
Be thankful you haven't had the unholy day where you get 120+ tabloid newspapers delivered... And no inserts to go with them 
Worst part of the job for me, though, was handling all that money. Had to wash my hands every half hour due to how dirty they would get.
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Najek Yuma
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Posted - 2005.12.21 21:40:00 -
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Here in the U.S., most folks I know who actually read the newspaper anymore (which isn't all that many) get it delivered to their door every day. Is this not an option in the UK? Seems like these old farts would do much better having it delivered to their doorstep.
And what are these "magazine inserts?" Are these advertisements that go in the middle of the paper? Why aren't those put in at the newspaper printing press? They're delivered to your shop separately and then the shop is expected to put them in? What happened to the wonders of modernization, industrialization, and mass production?
Sorry for my American ignorance.
I got the newspaper delivered for my first year of college, and then realized I almost never read any of it. Now I only read the paper if I don't have any other reading material at a coffee shop or something.
Internet & TV > newspaper
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Thomus
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Posted - 2005.12.21 22:36:00 -
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Wow, thanks for the great variety of feedback guys.
There were so many good points made that i just won't be able to remember them all here, but here's a few:
- to the mods, sorry about the language filter, was not meant to 'bypass' it.
- get a new job: this shop is 75 yards from my door, its the perfect job really lol. tis just a hanful of hours per week, 16 or so, to get me some money. no travel costs makesit better.
- get a gun: i wish i could.
- 2) and 4) are the faultof the shop: stuff in shops go thru tills, just like papers - the till is linked to a computer which orders the stuff in so people get their groceries etc, and so that stocktake can be comared to wot the computer says 'should' be on the shelves <- thats why it goes thru the till. with regards to #4, if this guy is politely asked by me almost every week if he wants the insert which he didn't pick up, why can't he always pick it up rather than forget it again then complain. its just a magazine with totall life-UNchanging info in it lol.
- i know how you feel m8: <- thank-you to you.
- CLERKS <- will look that up
- stop being so repressed: on my last day, i will tell people how i feel, show them how not to be an xxxxhole to me or anyone else, including customers and other staff.
- ageist: its the older people who turn up at 7am to pee me off for just papers, theres people of all ages that are horrible in so many other ways, which i'll save for another thread ;-)
- papers don't turn up: OMG how did i forget! lol - so true, its a NIGHTMARE when this happens, and you know what? its MY fault apparently! The other problems you mentioned are a nightmare too.
- Teletext! : I'm referring to the guy at the door at 6:55, he says his watch is done by teletect - its him that says teletext, not me, sorry for that confusion.
- Man i love you: <3 you too. I'll do you some favours for ISK  ahem... i mean, uh... yeah - I smile. in fact, despite my reputation in these forums for being a really UNFUNNY bloke, i try to make most of the customers laugh a lot. the people who are nice, see me as a funny guy - the people who are xxxxholes just see the upset/angry/peed off me. Some customers only come in to talk to me and get this weeks jokes hehe. I reckon I go way above the basic 'learn to use the till, be nice to people, heres ur money, go home' system that is technically all is required of me.
- I used to work in a...etc : LOL - good for you, i wish i had the guts to do that. as i get older, i get stronger, and i will, one day, do the same, then throw some attitude in their face when they get narky with me for it.
- Here in the U.S: Evening Gazette is normally done by hand for lots of people, but not by 'my' shop, but the other newsagents in the village. the inserts are usually only the weekend. some are just a weekly TV guide, some are extra articles of more information you could live without, some are in cellophane with a free CD or DVD as well as a TV guide and Travel and Money and Weather and OMFGWTF sections. One paper we get here, is TRIPLED in thickness by the number of inserts it has. Its madness.
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Coconut Joe
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Posted - 2005.12.22 00:27:00 -
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I remember when I was a paper boy (over a decade ago) when I took a guys route for him one week. It was all the old fogies. That day the Times had been delivered late so all teh customers who got the Times got the Telegraph instead.
No less than 5 of them actualy came out of their houses and chased me up the street demanding to know why they'd got the wrong newspaper. Geez, it's only a bloody paper. I never took that route again
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DarK
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Posted - 2005.12.22 01:00:00 -
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Work in a coffee shop. Then you too can experience the pain that is soccer mums ordering "half strength skinny decaf lattes".
Or old people who have had the same coffee every day for the last 2 years, but still find it necessary to stand gawping at the menu like spastics.
I swear you have to hold people's hand through their order.
Anyone seen Denis Leary Lock 'n' Load? that's how I feel. It should be necessary for everyone to work in customer service for at least a year, it would make society a better place.
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Filan
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Posted - 2005.12.22 01:11:00 -
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im from the US, i used to work in a Supermarket. we used to have a problem with the old farts who came in and cleaned the ads and coupons from the news papers and walked out of the store.
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Kalahari Wayrest
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Posted - 2005.12.22 01:39:00 -
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People seem to think if there's a till seperating themselves from the staff, they can treat them like ****. And they can.
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Nanus Parkite
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Posted - 2005.12.22 01:51:00 -
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During the summer I worked in a petrol station shop and experienced customers just like these. What did I do? I kicked back and enjoyed every minute of it. You see my previous job was working at McDonalds. Working in a shop is a blinking holiday comparatively so don't be so fast to complain. There are a lot of people who have jobs a lot worse than you.
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Amataras
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Posted - 2005.12.22 02:42:00 -
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Originally by: SpaceCleaver
Ouch Get a new job?
Actually, the co-op is one of the best places to work (for Students)  Quite generous with breaks and pay, at least they were for me when I was there 
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OperKot
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Posted - 2005.12.22 03:14:00 -
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Edited by: OperKot on 22/12/2005 03:16:49
dude...step up...what is he going to do to you if you tell him to **** off,and wait a little longer...i work in a supermarket ,staying at the register and packing things that people buy...i got into 4 fights already there,because of some jackasses not liking the way i pack their ****...
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Thomus
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Posted - 2005.12.22 07:25:00 -
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Originally by: Nanus Parkite
During the summer I worked in a petrol station shop and experienced customers just like these. What did I do? I kicked back and enjoyed every minute of it. You see my previous job was working at McDonalds. Working in a shop is a blinking holiday comparatively so don't be so fast to complain. There are a lot of people who have jobs a lot worse than you.
sounds like you need to go back to the shop?
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xiphia
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Posted - 2005.12.22 11:46:00 -
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I know what you mean!
The general public are moaning bastards. I hate working in customer services.
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FireFoxx80
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Posted - 2005.12.22 11:49:00 -
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*makes a point to complain about the papers at all the Co-Ops in Colchester*
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Ikvar
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Posted - 2005.12.22 11:57:00 -
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Aaahnult say: STOP WHINING!
Originally by: Avon
I actually enjoy crafting in EQ2.
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Lord Aradon
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Posted - 2005.12.22 12:22:00 -
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ROFLCAKES
I used to run my local co-op, oh the joy of bossing the workers nearly twice me age around MWUAHAHAHAHA
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Kalahari Wayrest
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Posted - 2005.12.22 14:21:00 -
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As far as I knew, the co-op has a policy of not allowing staff to stick up for themselves against rude customers
So telling them to **** off would probably get him sacked 
A friend of mine worked there before I moved away...they messed up her pay and kept messing it up so she told me never to work for them. I'd guess that kinda stuff would differ from branch to branch though.
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wayz
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Posted - 2006.01.03 05:07:00 -
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hehe yeah I Worked in a news agents once and it was even worse for me, but it was mainly because I worked for a family of weirdos that thought that because they owned a shop they were some massive corporation and kings amongst men. It got to the point were I could no longer refrain from laughing at them when they handed out this letter to all the staff 'all 6' which stated that we all had to attend an 'important meeting' and if we could not attend to report to our line manager/human resource manager. Seeing that the meeting was unpaid I decided to go and inform my 'human resources' manager that I could not attend before bursting into hysterics, going hoome and printing my own translation of the letter and passed it around all the staff.
I just found it funny that somehow everyone else put up with this ludicrous crap.
I left shortly after a 'diciplinary interview' heres pretty much how it went.
Matt (corporate human resources director...of the corner shop): blah blah blah your work performance has been unsatisfactory (I took the micky out of his stupid letter) so I'm going to have to give you a written warning.
Me: oooh no please matt please, not a written warning
Matt: (odviously didnt get the sarcasm) so I take it you'll be showing more professionalism in the future
Me: Yes Matt definately!! this is like a nightmare.... I mean now I've got a written warning, I'll have to watch myself
Matt: Yes thats the idea
Me: because... otherwise I'll get fired
Matt: that could happen
Me: THEN I'D HAVE TO GET A PROPER JOB BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHASHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Matt: ummmmmmm heres your copy of the warning
Me: pttf stop being lazy and put it in the bin yourself
ah those were the days lol
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Bhaal
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Posted - 2006.01.03 11:35:00 -
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I put myself through college working as an auto mechanic.
I mainly did oil changes, transmission fluid/filter changes, brake jobs & some other stuff...
I learned that some ppl are so stupid & ignorant that they should not even be alive let alone driving around out there on the highways etc...
I'm glad I don't work a service job anymore, because I would have murdered some ******* customers by now...
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Grimwalius d'Antan
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Posted - 2006.01.03 13:00:00 -
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I saw number 8 a few days ago. It made me think of this thread. Then I laughed. Hahaha.
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Halo Serenity
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Posted - 2006.01.03 14:04:00 -
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I worked in a shop once, was a horrible place, though I did get discount on clothes and shoes which kinda made up for it
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Lay's Biatch
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Posted - 2006.01.03 14:09:00 -
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Edited by: Lay''s Biatch on 03/01/2006 14:09:35
hahaha thomus for the rage win. come blow up noobs with me someday.
alt for the lose tho ><
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Thomus
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Posted - 2006.01.03 14:53:00 -
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Originally by: Lay's Biatch
alt for the lose tho ><
y does everyone call me an alt? this is my main! lmao at posts btw
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pshepherd
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Posted - 2006.01.03 17:08:00 -
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Tesco > Co-op.
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Layrex
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Posted - 2006.01.03 17:19:00 -
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Originally by: Thomus
Originally by: Lay's Biatch
alt for the lose tho ><
y does everyone call me an alt? this is my main! lmao at posts btw
no dude I meant i'd accidentaly posted with my alt.
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skullzer
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Posted - 2006.01.03 18:37:00 -
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One day you will be an old git yourself - a moany old git judgeing by this post
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JeanLuc Picarde
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Posted - 2006.01.03 20:12:00 -
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Edited by: JeanLuc Picarde on 03/01/2006 20:12:22
rofl, come to manhattan.
despite hollywood's best attempts to impress the world with how rude new yorkers are, the opposite is true.
its a very rare occurance to get excessively rude behavior *beyond snottiness in some retail areas* from customers in manhattan, cause yer just as likely as not told to go **** yourself in no uncertain terms and shown the door. heh.
thats the beauty of a customer rich environment.
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Dalieus Dakarn
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Posted - 2006.01.03 23:04:00 -
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Oh no.. I deal with much worse. Dumb Americans are far worse than dumb Europeans.
1.) Customers who pick off merchandise from a peg/shelf (with the price tag right above/under it(respectively)): "How much is this?" *points at price tag* "I AXED YOU HOW MUCH IT BE, NOT POINT AT NO F*****N TAG!" Some day I'll tell them to stop being a dumb***, and use their eyes.
2.) Customers that blame YOU for their cellphone bill, because obviously, YOU are to blame for THEM going 3000 minutes over their limit. Or their daughter for calling China.. Or whatever. -- Smile, nod, "I'm sorry, but I just sell the phones. If you would like, I can get you in touch with customer service; but otherwise, I am unable to help you."
3.) Customer comes in to pay their cellphone/credit card bill. "How much do I owe?" I dunno, it's your phone!
4.) Customers that want a new phone, but can't understand the question:
"Do you already have service with *said company*, or are you a new customer?"
"I'm a new customer."
*couple minutes later*
blah blah "Oh, I just lost my phone and want a new one. I don't want another 2 year contract." *cry*
5.) Customer walks in the store 1 minute before you close. "What time do you close?" "Now." "Oh, ok. I'm just going to look around for a bit." ... While you're looking, we do carry hearing aids.
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Wanoah
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Posted - 2006.01.04 02:45:00 -
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Anyone that has to deal with the general public will have similar tales of woe. No matter how laid-back, open-minded, and liberal you are to begin with, you end up being cynical and ultra right-wing. You realise that people are scum. They are ignorant, stupid *******s. You start thinking that maybe eugenics isn't such a bad idea after all. There will never be a shortage of idiots. We will never see headlines that say, "World breathes collective sigh of relief as idiot crisis is averted."
It's a shame really. There are lots of decent people out there, but all you remember are the 10% that give humanity a bad name.
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Thomus
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Posted - 2006.01.04 14:15:00 -
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Originally by: Wanoah
We will never see headlines that say, "World breathes collective sigh of relief as idiot crisis is averted."
hehe
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Kyozoku
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Posted - 2006.01.04 14:24:00 -
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I quite like tabloid smack. The other week I saw a story abou mr. sulu being *** and the headline was "queen me up scotty!". It was the happiest moment of the day.
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Thomus
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Posted - 2006.01.04 14:25:00 -
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Originally by: Kyozoku
I quite like tabloid smack. The other week I saw a story abou mr. sulu being *** and the headline was "queen me up scotty!". It was the happiest moment of the day.
ahahahahah
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