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firequall
Location: Ottawa / Thunder Bay, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | | Oh the dumbassery at work < on 3/4/2007 1:17 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Background: I work at a canteen at a fairly large hockey arena. We sell a lot of different foods and drinks. I'm getting sick and tired of so many misconceptions and general dumbassery hockey parents have. 1) We have three types of coffee (I have no idea why we just can't serve regular and decaf). We've dumbed the coffee types down to a strong, mild or decaf (for the sake of not further confusing the dumb hockey parents). Given that not everyone knows everything about coffee, I still get pissed off when they complain that they need caffeine and when I ask them what kind of coffee they want, they instantly go for the strong. Sorry sir, but just because the coffee is named strong does not mean it has more caffeine. In fact, the mild has more caffeine than the strong, but no, because it says strong, and you're a tough burly man, you go for that (black, no less) and disregard my little tidbit of information. 2) I don't care that you think decaf coffee is for pussies. Seriously, some people drink the stuff because they like the taste. Whatever. I can just as easily say your caffeinated coffee tastes like shit anyway. Next time you give me that rant you have, it's decaf for you. 2) Powerade is not healthier than orange juice for your 8 year old kid. I could tell you that and the fact that pumping your tiny child full of electrolyte shit that he doesn't need can result in health problems, but the customer is always right. It pains me every time I hear a parent override their child wanting a juice with a Powerade instead. It doesn't even taste good. 3a) Please try to listen to what I am saying. "Is that everything" means exactly what it means. No, it doesn't mean "yes, that's it with and small coffee." Proper response: "Actually, no, could I also have a small coffee?" and so on. 3b) When I ask whether you want a strong, mild or decaf coffee, I want to know whether you want a strong, mild or decaf coffee. The term "regular" doesn't exist here, so use whatever left of your hockey filled brain and make that life threatening decision. Also, when I ask if you want a small or large, those are your only two options. If we had a medium size, I'd say so. Actually, I could be hiding it in the back, behind the regular coffee. 4) Open your fucking eyes. The napkins are in the grey basket on the table. You know, right in front of the lids. And for fuck's sake, there's a garbage can right beside the table, USE IT. Those empty container that you just took the last milk cup out of isn't a garbage can either. Other people have to use that table too, fucker. *facedesk* I could go on and on...
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| firequall
Location: Ottawa / Thunder Bay, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes
| | | | Re: Oh the dumbassery at work < Reply # 3 on 3/16/2007 3:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Here's something else that's been irking me. The way everything is set up, we have the Concessions (food) staff, Tournament staff and the Operations (zamboni drivers/maintainance) staff. Next up the ladder is Management and the next step up is Upper Management. Because we're in a fast paced environment and Management/Upper Management takes for fucking ever to do anything, we often have to write our own signs by hand. Upper Management hates this because it looks sloppy and unprofessional and often takes our signs (of course, while we're not there) and hides them from public view or simply rips them down. My beef? Our managers can't write for shit. In the Operations Office (where I have to go to clock in), there've been two notes posted on the board. It took me three days before I took a red pen to it and if the damned pen weren't out of in, I would have corrected every fucking mistake in the notes (which there were two major mistakes per sentence). I fail to see how we can't have neatly printed, grammatically correct signs posted because they can't get off their lazy asses to make one for us while our managers type up public notices riddled with basic grammatical and spelling errors. I feel that if I sent Upper Management an email point out this flaw in the system, I'll just be overreacting and just asking for trouble. But fuck, what looks more unprofessional: sloppy spelling/grammar in a typed document or spelling/grammatically correct hand-written signs?
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1901 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: Oh the dumbassery at work < Reply # 6 on 4/29/2007 1:03 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by KublaKhan Honestly and truly, I feel your pain. Customers are generally stupid. They have no idea what they want, and when they finally get it, they usually don't know what to do with it.
| My unlimited FURY is aimed at MORONIC senior citizens, herein referred to as the old fucks, who waddle their AARP asses into fast food establishments and try to order something. It's like, look, the fucking menu is NUMBERED... how much more dumbing down do you need? Yes, the fucking burger comes with pickles, deal with it, pick them off. No, you fucking don't get a senior citizens discount. You get a free fucking coffee as is, take it and walk. Meanwhile, while these ancient fucking assholes are trying to order, the lines pile up behind them... it's enough to make you want to smash Granny and Grampie Grunt across the back of their brittle fucking skulls with a shopping cart. Samurai
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| SaraBellum Berkshire Hunt
Location: Villa Villekulla Gender: Female Total Likes: 16 likes
Coming to a cinema near you this summer.
| | | | Re: Oh the dumbassery at work < Reply # 14 on 5/9/2007 7:33 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Since we don't have a business center at the hotel where I work, I often give guests my work email address so I can print things for them. I did this tonight, "It's Sara, s-a-r-a, at hotelpreston dot com." I never receive the email. I call the guest to see if they'd sent it, and he said he had. I ask if he sent it to Sara, s-a-r-a, at hotelpreston dot com. He said, "You told me it was s-a-r-a-h." I stood, mouth agape, and struggled for a response. "Sir, I apologize that you misheard, but I know how to spell my own name." was the best I could muster, and then told him to send it again. Edit: to add picture.
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| [01:47:56] <GreyDeath> Sara just stares her enemies into submission and eventually madness "You can either be wise or a bad-ass gangsta, but not both. You must choose your path." ~~metawaffle |
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