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June 24, 2016 at 6:43 PM #22023June 24, 2016 at 6:46 PM #799070spdrunParticipant
Why not speak in English? If the lady was being a female dog, no shame in embarrassing the living hell out of her.
(Actually, female dogs are generally most polite.)
June 24, 2016 at 6:46 PM #799071CoronitaParticipantThere’s probably a reason why I wouldn’t make it in retail. If It were me, I would have refunded her money, but I would have demanded her to give me back the pizza, lol.
June 24, 2016 at 6:48 PM #799072CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Why not speak in English? If the lady was being a female dog, no shame in embarrassing the living hell out of her.
(Actually, female dogs are generally most polite.)[/quote]
Etiquette. Plus, it’s an amusement park with kids. Really, it was just funny, and entertaining for both of us…
June 24, 2016 at 6:50 PM #799073spdrunParticipantDisagree. Fight rudeness with rudeness. White trash needs to be put in its place.
If other rug-rats got a lesson in how not to be a common scold in English, maybe it will stick with them till adulthood.
June 24, 2016 at 7:00 PM #799075HatfieldParticipantMy very first “real” job (apart from paper routes and such) was at Jack in the Box. It was a pretty shitty job, but then I think everyone should have a shitty job at some point in their life. And a shitty boss too, so that they know what not to do when they become a boss themselves.
But I digress. So I’m doing my cashier thing, and some guy comes in with his two kids, orders a bunch of food, I deliver it to their table, and go on with my duties. About 15-20 minutes later he comes back with his tray and says he wants his money back.
“I’m sorry, what was it about your meal that you didn’t like? I can prepare you something else.” I should note, that they ate it all, three burgers, fries, soft drinks, the whole thing. Consumed. All he said was he wanted his money back. “Can you tell me what you had?”
“I had fourteen dollars!” he snaps at me. Even if I wanted to refund his money, I couldn’t. Voiding a sale requires a manager so I go get him to deal with it: “hey Bill, some asshole up front wants his money back.”
So the manager opens up my till and voids the sale and gives the guy back his fourteen bucks and change, and once he leaves, begins to lecture me about how I should never refer to a customer as an asshole. I protest. I said this is not a customer you ever want coming back. He’s obviously grifting. It’s not like he had a legitimate complaint, he and family ate the whole thing. They probably pull this crap everywhere they go.
Nope. The customer is always right. I did eventually get fired from that job, but that’s another story, hahahaha. Anyway, I share your daughter’s outrage. Terrible people need to be called out when they do obnoxious things.
June 24, 2016 at 7:03 PM #799074CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Disagree. Fight rudeness with rudeness. White trash needs to be put in its place.[/quote]
It’s not my job nor my place to fix the world’s “peculiarities”…Maybe she did have a point. I’m googling to find out what the average pepperoni count is on a personal pizza. I’m going to create a mathematical model, and assuming the peperoni pizza count on a personal pizza is gaussian distributed, I’ll check if “4” is lower than 1 standard deviation below average….
June 24, 2016 at 11:04 PM #799082njtosdParticipant[quote=Hatfield] It was a pretty shitty job, but then I think everyone should have a shitty job at some point in their life. And a shitty boss too, so that they know what not to do when they become a boss themselves.
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I completely agree about the importance of learning to deal with a tough boss/job. Most kids in high school have only dealt with people who have (or should have) the kids best interests at heart (teachers, coaches, etc.). Kids’ first jobs are a great way to learn that not everything is about them and what they want. So I told my son he should get a job this summer and, somewhat to my surprise, he was hired at a surf/skateboard clothing shop. He came home from his first day of work and said that most of the customers were girls trying on swimsuits. This isn’t quite the crappy job I had envisioned.
June 25, 2016 at 10:50 AM #799089zkParticipantWell played, flu. Little flu gets a life lesson and a laugh. Man, sometimes being a Dad is great, isn’t it? Happy Father’s Day!
June 25, 2016 at 1:49 PM #799083svelteParticipant.
June 25, 2016 at 3:24 PM #799097CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte].[/quote]
ok come on now, what’s wrong with what you posted?
June 25, 2016 at 3:32 PM #799098CoronitaParticipant[quote=zk]Well played, flu. Little flu gets a life lesson and a laugh. Man, sometimes being a Dad is great, isn’t it? Happy Father’s Day![/quote]
I’m not so sure… The lesson is “the customer is always right, no matter how unreasonable?”
It’s actually quite interesting though. My daughter thought the person was being completely unreasonable. But, I never taught her to think that way. It made me wonder where do people learn where to draw the line? I mean, to some people, this was outrageous, to others I’m suspecting otherwise….
June 25, 2016 at 3:55 PM #799099svelteParticipant[quote=flu][quote=svelte].[/quote]
ok come on now, what’s wrong with what you posted?[/quote]
Nothing wrong with it. Upon reviewing it today, I realized it was pretty much a threadjack and had the potential to give just enough info to ID me, if read by the right ppl. I like my anonymity and don’t like to drag conversations off track, so I deleted it.
If it intrigued you and you wanted to discuss, we could discuss in pigg message space, but not out here.
Shoot, wouldn’t even mind going out for a drink sometime (if no photos taken) since I feel like I know you from all your posts. I’ve never come to a pigg meetup because folks post pics of them on here afterward, and again I’d lose the anonymity that I want to protect.
June 25, 2016 at 5:52 PM #799108CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte][quote=flu][quote=svelte].[/quote]
ok come on now, what’s wrong with what you posted?[/quote]
Nothing wrong with it. Upon reviewing it today, I realized it was pretty much a threadjack and had the potential to give just enough info to ID me, if read by the right ppl. I like my anonymity and don’t like to drag conversations off track, so I deleted it.
If it intrigued you and you wanted to discuss, we could discuss in pigg message space, but not out here.
Shoot, wouldn’t even mind going out for a drink sometime (if no photos taken) since I feel like I know you from all your posts. I’ve never come to a pigg meetup because folks post pics of them on here afterward, and again I’d lose the anonymity that I want to protect.[/quote]
Just busting your chops…….and understand your interest for anonymity…. I figured that…Peace…
June 25, 2016 at 10:23 PM #799130zkParticipant[quote=flu][quote=zk]Well played, flu. Little flu gets a life lesson and a laugh. Man, sometimes being a Dad is great, isn’t it? Happy Father’s Day![/quote]
I’m not so sure… The lesson is “the customer is always right, no matter how unreasonable?”
It’s actually quite interesting though. My daughter thought the person was being completely unreasonable. But, I never taught her to think that way. It made me wonder where do people learn where to draw the line? I mean, to some people, this was outrageous, to others I’m suspecting otherwise….[/quote]
I meant kind of the opposite. That, even though “the customer is always right” is the mantra of many a retail outlet, and even though the customer might be treated as though they’re right, the customer is, in fact, not always right. Sometimes they’re just ignorant douchebags. I thought your “suggestion” that she go up there and say what you said to say sort of illustrated that, yes, that particular customer was a loser and, at the same time, gave you guys a laugh.
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