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Post by Mr. Faptastic on Jun 17, 2010 17:06:11 GMT -5
Random drops in Castlevania games. Whose fucking idea was that?
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Post by muteKi on Jun 17, 2010 18:19:49 GMT -5
While we're at it, the sheer rarity of some items from Rock Smash in HG/SS.
FUCKING HELL NO I WANT A HEART SCALE NOT ANOTHER FUCKING GEODUDE GODDAMMIT
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Post by camanchi on Jun 17, 2010 19:38:07 GMT -5
I don't live in a major city. Or even a minor city. I live in a pretty rural area just outside of a very small city. I do, however, live in Left Turn Hell. You see, every arterial, almost-arterial, and not-an-arterial-but-maybe-thirty-years-from now-it-could-be-an-arterial road has a concrete divider separating the two halves of the road. This is both in my little town, and the small city. Even if you wanted to make a left-hand turn, half the time it's not even possible. When I first moved here a couple years back, I spent most of my time driving fervently hoping to meet the street designer so I could punch him in the fucking face. Do you live in the States? |
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Post by Feynman on Jun 17, 2010 20:37:19 GMT -5
Yes, yes I do.
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Post by thethird on Jun 17, 2010 21:11:42 GMT -5
Getting sick so damn often.
AP Exam: SICK.
Commencement: SICK.
If I'm sick for prom and banquet and whatnot I am not going to be happy one bit.
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Post by camanchi on Jun 17, 2010 23:18:40 GMT -5
Michigan? I heard roads there were messed up in some parts of the state. |
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Post by Feynman on Jun 18, 2010 1:23:59 GMT -5
Washington, actually. Moved from the east to the west side of the state, which is better in every way so far except the aforementioned stupid road design.
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Post by camanchi on Jun 18, 2010 14:44:37 GMT -5
When a customer treats an employee with no respect what so ever and like they're an idiot simply because they are an employee.
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Post by dooz on Jun 19, 2010 2:22:36 GMT -5
When a customer treats an employee with no respect what so ever and like they're an idiot simply because they are an employee. Agree. |
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Post by kal on Jun 19, 2010 3:08:00 GMT -5
When a customer treats an employee with no respect what so ever and like they're an idiot simply because they are an employee. The opposite, an employee treating a customer with no respect (ala Comic Book Guy) on the basis that they're a customer is also pretty lousy. |
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Post by Feynman on Jun 19, 2010 3:47:37 GMT -5
How about just "people not being disrespectful towards other without good reason?" =P
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Post by bioniccommando83 on Jun 20, 2010 23:43:49 GMT -5
The oil disaster makes me sad. I want to cry when I see all those pictures of birds covered in oil. Also god damn it, I wanted a salmon crêpe and couldn't get one because of the oil spill. It sounded sooo good too.   |
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Post by Jave on Jun 21, 2010 18:00:04 GMT -5
When a customer treats an employee with no respect what so ever and like they're an idiot simply because they are an employee. The opposite, an employee treating a customer with no respect (ala Comic Book Guy) on the basis that they're a customer is also pretty lousy. Not the same. A customer can always complain to management about being mistreated by an employee. While it's theoretically possible for a company to protect it's employees from disrespectful clients, I can honestly say I've never seen it happen. Also, employees who dare stand up for themselves risk getting in trouble for doing so, maybe even to the point of losing their jobs if a shitstorm ensues. |
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Post by camanchi on Jun 21, 2010 20:35:27 GMT -5
I once worked for a call centre that took calls from all over the States. We were technical support for DSL internet connections. I have been called pretty much every name in the book on one of my first calls by some drunk guy from Texas who received a message from someone from our centre about helping him. He called the number back that they left and ASSUMED I was the same person from before who knew what they had talked about. There were some notes in the systems, but not enough to troubleshoot.
I had a 'call buddy' who was someone who had been there for a while who was helping coach me.
I told the customer that I was not the person who left the message, but could definitely help him. I just had to go through a few troubleshooting steps to determine the exact problem. He starts swearing and taking a fit, saying he had already done something called troubleshooting. I explained that troubleshooting can involve a lot of different actions and processes on the computer and possibly even the router/modem.
He FREAKS and still thinks I'm the same person form before, so I should know what is wrong already and to just "do something on my end to make it work/fix it".
I explain to him that if he lets me use an internet based program I can remotely access and control his computer and likely fix the problem faster. He calls me the 'c' word among a few other words, insist I'm the same person and that now I'm trying to hack into his computer and steal his banking information.
I try to calm him down at the this point while he is verbally abusing me, but he just gets worse and finally I transfer him up the line to some form of 'management/floor supervisor' call line for 'escalations'.
This type of thing happens very regularly at pretty much all call centres. I think it's worse when dealing with any type of computer technical support. I can't work in these kinds of places anymore. They push you to take waayyy more hours than you can handle usually.
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Post by Jave on Jun 21, 2010 21:23:03 GMT -5
I work in retail inventory, so most of our clients are either managers or owners of their own stores or chains. They never get quite that hostile, but I've seen my share of brow beaters over the years.
- people who try to make you re-count the entire store
- people who threaten to make you re-count the store solely so they can have their way over something else
- people who throw a bitch fit if you try to take a lunch break and then proceed to eat their own lunch right in front of you
- people who don't actually tell you to disregard safety protocols but want something done right fucking now despite the fact that it would be impossible without
- people who refuse to sign off on an audit thus leaving you stranded in the middle of nowhere for hours on end until someone caves and fudges the numbers to say what they want them to (which pretty much negates the whole purpose of us going there in the first place)
- people who are buying/selling a store, and are using the results of our audit to haggle over the price. (imagine two clients, one standing over each shoulder, the one on the left wants you to lowball the audit, the one on the right wants you to inflate it... and either one can call your manager at any time and throw a fit)
- people who work in filth and expect you to do the same.
The only one that really pushed me over the edge was a woman who ran a convenience store at an airport who had, in her stockroom, a plastic bag filled with chocolate bar wrappers, some empty, some partially empty, all opened, unsellable, and the chocolate therein had all melted into a disgusting mess... and this woman has the gall to tell me that she hadn't written them off yet, and therefore I was to count each individual wrapper at full price.
Now, I'm usually covered in dirt, dust and whatever fell off the shelf, and anybody who happens to be shopping on inventory day is privy to the sight of me crawling around on the floor in public. You can even stop and watch if you like, not much I can do about it. But up until that day, I'd been spared the indignity of being ordered by a client to rummage through their fucking trash!
Here's the thing... after the fact, I told my employers that I was never setting foot in that woman's store ever again, and they kindly agreed... but this was, like I said, after the fact. At the time, even though there was a general manager on site who was aware of what was going down, our instructions were to just bite our tongues and do whatever the crazy bitch told us to do. Get the money first, complain later... and even though I didn't have to go back on account of the garbage picking incident, the company still goes back to that store once a year, meaning a whole slew of other employees are still stuck having to deal with her... and as far as I know, she hasn't gotten so much as a slap on the wrist from any direction despite starting some kind of ordeal each time, because getting the customer to give you the money is the top priority.
Yeah, I have much, much less sympathy for customers who get sassed by employees than I do for employees who take it from customers.
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