Stuff People Will Complain About
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lizcam
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I actually get paid to listen to complaints. From both our booking agents and from the guests of the hotels they book. It\'s been interesting at times.
My favorite ones:
1) \"I have to complain about your booking agent!\"
\"What was the issue with the agent. Maybe I can help.\"
\"I wanted him to book me a room.\"
\"And he refused?\"
\"No, he kept asking me questions!\"
\"What kind of questions?\"
\"Things like WHere I wanted to go and when I wanted to go. That kind of thing. Heshould know that already! THen when he finally figured that out he wanted my name and address! What does he need that for?!?\"
2)\"Your company is trying to screw me over!\"
\"What seems to be the issue Sir?\"
\"I booked a room with you and now I find a rate at (Insert 3rd party web booking site here) for less! I want the lower rate!\"
\"What rate did they give you, sir? We do have a best rate guarentee.\"
\"I found a rate with (3rd party) for $195.50!\"
\"I see. How much are we charging you?\"
\"$196.00! It outragous!\"
I\'m really patient. If I wasn\'t I\'d kill something. I do drink occassionally after work. It\'s required.
Edit: I do basic tech support too. For at home agents that have never come into the center. Many have never had a computer before. Those are always entertaining. Try explaining to a 70 year old great grandmother how to hook up a modem. Lots of fun.
My favorite ones:
1) \"I have to complain about your booking agent!\"
\"What was the issue with the agent. Maybe I can help.\"
\"I wanted him to book me a room.\"
\"And he refused?\"
\"No, he kept asking me questions!\"
\"What kind of questions?\"
\"Things like WHere I wanted to go and when I wanted to go. That kind of thing. Heshould know that already! THen when he finally figured that out he wanted my name and address! What does he need that for?!?\"
2)\"Your company is trying to screw me over!\"
\"What seems to be the issue Sir?\"
\"I booked a room with you and now I find a rate at (Insert 3rd party web booking site here) for less! I want the lower rate!\"
\"What rate did they give you, sir? We do have a best rate guarentee.\"
\"I found a rate with (3rd party) for $195.50!\"
\"I see. How much are we charging you?\"
\"$196.00! It outragous!\"
I\'m really patient. If I wasn\'t I\'d kill something. I do drink occassionally after work. It\'s required.
Edit: I do basic tech support too. For at home agents that have never come into the center. Many have never had a computer before. Those are always entertaining. Try explaining to a 70 year old great grandmother how to hook up a modem. Lots of fun.
No Such Agency
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This is why \"the customer is not always right\". Clients like this are rightly seen as a waste of money and time by businesses. And rightly so.
Infidel Castro
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People complain to our office about such petty things. Examples:
\"I\'ve got shit all through my downstairs.\"
\"There\'s raw sewage entering the stream down the road.\"
\"I saw lots of dead fish by an outfall of yours - maybe you should check you\'ve not killed them with sewage.\"
\"Our street smells of rotting meat, and the smell is coming from your sewers.\"
I tell you, it\'s a pedantic world we live in!
\"I\'ve got shit all through my downstairs.\"
\"There\'s raw sewage entering the stream down the road.\"
\"I saw lots of dead fish by an outfall of yours - maybe you should check you\'ve not killed them with sewage.\"
\"Our street smells of rotting meat, and the smell is coming from your sewers.\"
I tell you, it\'s a pedantic world we live in!
always nice to read other peoples problems, so here are some of mine:
First of, i work at a McDonalds in Holland, these incidents happened while i was still a lowly crewmember (i\'m a crewtrainer now).
We had a guy, a manager actually. he wasn\'t that smart and did a lot of things i can complain about, but here are the two most memorable.
- using a plastic bucket to drain the fat out of a frying pan (the fat has a temperature of about 190*C, plastic melts at quite a lot less) I was amazed that he did not try to pick the bucket up.
-one week after the incident described above, that same guy attempts to drain the same frying pan, this time using a metal bucket (i guessed he learned something). he positions the bucket, opens the drain..... and walks away...... 20 liters of fat, 10 liter bucket...... took us all night to clean the floor, and it stayed slippery for more than a week.
now, on to customers.
- six o\'clock, the place is packed. six registers, 10-20 people in line for each register. An old geezer walks in, with his bike. parks his bike in the middle of the lobby, walks up to a register and demands to be helped immediatly, because he was here first, and all those \"youngsters\" skpped a few places....
-to many people come in, ask for French Fries, WITHOUT salt (stressing the without part), and the come back asking for salt......
-another thing that happens everytime. every once in a while we have themed burger, right now we have the CBO (Chicken Bacon Onions; bread with bacon on top, sauce with bacon, special onions, lettuce, bacon, cheese with bacon, and a Chicken patti). the first frickin\' day we have that sandwich on sale, in walks a guy. \"yeah, i\'ll have a CBO, without Bacon.\" we\'ve had the sandwich for 3 weeks now, and we\'ve had more than 10 people ordering it without bacon.
and all i can do is laugh....
First of, i work at a McDonalds in Holland, these incidents happened while i was still a lowly crewmember (i\'m a crewtrainer now).
We had a guy, a manager actually. he wasn\'t that smart and did a lot of things i can complain about, but here are the two most memorable.
- using a plastic bucket to drain the fat out of a frying pan (the fat has a temperature of about 190*C, plastic melts at quite a lot less) I was amazed that he did not try to pick the bucket up.
-one week after the incident described above, that same guy attempts to drain the same frying pan, this time using a metal bucket (i guessed he learned something). he positions the bucket, opens the drain..... and walks away...... 20 liters of fat, 10 liter bucket...... took us all night to clean the floor, and it stayed slippery for more than a week.
now, on to customers.
- six o\'clock, the place is packed. six registers, 10-20 people in line for each register. An old geezer walks in, with his bike. parks his bike in the middle of the lobby, walks up to a register and demands to be helped immediatly, because he was here first, and all those \"youngsters\" skpped a few places....
-to many people come in, ask for French Fries, WITHOUT salt (stressing the without part), and the come back asking for salt......
-another thing that happens everytime. every once in a while we have themed burger, right now we have the CBO (Chicken Bacon Onions; bread with bacon on top, sauce with bacon, special onions, lettuce, bacon, cheese with bacon, and a Chicken patti). the first frickin\' day we have that sandwich on sale, in walks a guy. \"yeah, i\'ll have a CBO, without Bacon.\" we\'ve had the sandwich for 3 weeks now, and we\'ve had more than 10 people ordering it without bacon.
and all i can do is laugh....
alextheartist
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The thing that really freaked me out in Holland in the summer is that you can take your dogs into maccy d\'s..
Alex
Alex
Amazon warrior
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Germany\'s pretty relaxed about the whole dogs-in-eaterys thing too. I have to say, it shocks me rigid.
a teachers view on stupidity.
being an art teacher this is my number one question
\"am i done yet?\"
for example a student draws a smiley face when we are doing a portrait drawing lesson in 8th grade. they look at me and say that same stupid question.
eeerggghhh..
oooh gotta go teach.... will post more later.
being an art teacher this is my number one question
\"am i done yet?\"
for example a student draws a smiley face when we are doing a portrait drawing lesson in 8th grade. they look at me and say that same stupid question.
eeerggghhh..
oooh gotta go teach.... will post more later.
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
well now, I have to laugh at some of my students sometimes - you should know that many of them come from a very local sort of place, where they or their families haven\'t ever travelled 20 mins away from home before. Politics was always my favourite topic of discussion
\"who\'s gordan brown?\"
\"he\'s the leader of our country\".
\"so who\'s our president then?\"
\"no, we have a prime minister\"
\"so who was Obama?\"
\"He is the American presidential nominee\"
(at this point I kick myself for saying presidential nominee, what a rookie error - I\'m normally good at dumbing down my vocabulary...a long conversation ensues on the american elections and how labour and conservatives were parties over here and the democrats and republicans weren\'t the same as them)
\"so...(she looks thoughtful) if in america they have a president, I have another question\"
\"what\'s that?\"
\"where\'s America? is it in Europe?\"
This girl is 19 years of age.
oh I could go on all day...
other favourites:
\"so I have TWO ovaries?\"
\"Can I vote for myself in the elections?\"
\"you come from london? where\'s that?\"
\"was pavlov the name of the dog?\"
\"how do you get to work if you live so far away?\" (I\'m 20 mins by car up the road)
oh my... These are adults of at least 17 years of age...
Cybersquig
\"who\'s gordan brown?\"
\"he\'s the leader of our country\".
\"so who\'s our president then?\"
\"no, we have a prime minister\"
\"so who was Obama?\"
\"He is the American presidential nominee\"
(at this point I kick myself for saying presidential nominee, what a rookie error - I\'m normally good at dumbing down my vocabulary...a long conversation ensues on the american elections and how labour and conservatives were parties over here and the democrats and republicans weren\'t the same as them)
\"so...(she looks thoughtful) if in america they have a president, I have another question\"
\"what\'s that?\"
\"where\'s America? is it in Europe?\"
This girl is 19 years of age.
oh I could go on all day...
other favourites:
\"so I have TWO ovaries?\"
\"Can I vote for myself in the elections?\"
\"you come from london? where\'s that?\"
\"was pavlov the name of the dog?\"
\"how do you get to work if you live so far away?\" (I\'m 20 mins by car up the road)
oh my... These are adults of at least 17 years of age...
Cybersquig
AinuLainour
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It can be shocking how little some actually do know about their own country, however the USA related ones are absurd. How oblivious CAN a person be?
I agree with the student bit, it disheartens me when i hear some of the stuff my fellow students say.
While i was off the road recovering from a car accident i was taking the train to my uni, another person who was contemplating catchin the train also instead of living in asked me if the student rail card was worth the money. So i said you save about £3.50 per ticket and you pay this three times a week for about 30 weeks, his maths conjured up 7 from somewhere!!!
Also yesterday these two girls were doing a presentation on the Brand and Ross scandal and the media policy involved. It was fine until one of them said that if they took the license fee off that would teach the BBC allowing such scandals.
I sighed
While i was off the road recovering from a car accident i was taking the train to my uni, another person who was contemplating catchin the train also instead of living in asked me if the student rail card was worth the money. So i said you save about £3.50 per ticket and you pay this three times a week for about 30 weeks, his maths conjured up 7 from somewhere!!!
Also yesterday these two girls were doing a presentation on the Brand and Ross scandal and the media policy involved. It was fine until one of them said that if they took the license fee off that would teach the BBC allowing such scandals.
I sighed
Amazon warrior
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Cringe! Do you work in Royston Vasey? And if so, how do you escape each evening?
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
lol! nope not quite R.V., but sorta the same sort of feel
apologies I guess to anyone who actually didn\'t know the answers to the geography questions!
apologies I guess to anyone who actually didn\'t know the answers to the geography questions!
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
isn\'t it amazing how many of these you get?
\"can we finish now?\" (2 mins into lesson)
\"can we have a break?\" (see above)
\"but I came, isn\'t that good enough?\" (not when you haven\'t brought a pen, paper, textbooks, materials or even an ounce of intellect to the lesson, no!)
\"are you gay?\" (piss off)
\"will this be in our assignment?\" (no, but it\'ll be in your life you inbread twit, so shut up and listen as I explain that america adjoins canada by means of a border!)
\"the other class didn\'t do this\" (yes they did, it just took 5 mins rather than a full hour because I didn\'t have to start by explaining the meaning of the word \'psychology\' in the middle of the 8th lesson in the subject to them)
\"but I don\'t want to\" (not caring)
\"but I don\'t want to so I won\'t\" (you can always leave)
\"we don\'t get this much work from the other teachers\" (you don\'t get learning like this from the other teachers, so shut up, sit down and learn you little slimy toerag, I\'m trying to culture you...refer to inbred comment above for further commentry on this one)
aah. That\'s better
Amazon warrior
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Fixed.Originally posted by cybersquig
isn\'t it amazing how many of these you get?
\"can we finish now?\" (2 mins into lesson)
\"can we have a break?\" (see above)
\"but I came, isn\'t that good enough?\" (not when you haven\'t brought a pen, paper, textbooks, materials or even an ounce of intellect to the lesson, no!)
\"are you gay?\" (piss off)
\"will this be in our assignment?\" (no, but it\'ll be in your life you inbread twit, so shut up and listen as I explain that america adjoins canada by means of a border!)
\"the other class didn\'t do this\" (yes they did, it just took 5 mins rather than a full hour because I didn\'t have to start by explaining the meaning of the word \'psychology\' in the middle of the 8th lesson in the subject to them)
\"but I don\'t want to\" (not caring)
\"but I don\'t want to so I won\'t\" (you can always leave)
\"we don\'t get this much work from the other teachers\" (you don\'t get learning like this from the other teachers, so shut up, sit down and learn you little slimy toerag, I\'m trying to culture you...refer to inbred comment above for further commentry on this one)
Are you local?
aah. That\'s better
cybersquig
Dangerous when wet
lol!
Aliengod3
Active member
I think I would completely snap if I had to listen to someone say something like that to me with attitude.
When I worked for gamesworkshop here were the most common stupid things I heard.
\"Are these video games?\"
\"No these are model kits you assemble and paint.\"
\"So no video games?\"
*phone rings*
\"Thank you for calling games workshop where the storm of chaos is beginning to gather. This is Damian how may I help you.\"
\"How many people can I bring in for my sons party?\"
\"We actually do not hold parties in the store.\"
\"Yes you do! You are Gameworks and I had a party there for my son last year!\"
\"Miss this is Games Workshop not Gameworks.\"
\"What is the difference?\"
\"Gameworks is an arcade and Games Workshop is a hobby store.\"
\"Well give me the number to Gameworks then.\"
\"Sorry I do not have that number.\"
*hang up*
*customer enters*
\"Hi and welcome to Games Workshop. How are you today?\"
\"I would like that miniature in the case.\" *Points to Space Marine Commander*
\"Ok let me get the model kit for you\"
\"Wait a minute... it is a model?\"
\"Yes all the miniatures you see in the case are model kits you assemble and paint.\"
\"You mean I have to assemble and paint it? It does not come like the one in the case?\"
\"That is correct you have to paint them.\"
\"That is false advertisement!\"
*I look at her confused*
