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  • #1

    Fingers are a privlege, not a right

    I vanquished a button monkey today.

    The call button in seasonal had gone off for the third time and against my better judgement, I went over to clear it because I was working nearby anyway. There was a woman standing by the button and stabbing it repeatedly with her finger.

    "ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY GOT OVER HERE! I'VE BEEN WAITING TWENTY MINUTES!"

    Uh, yeah, sure, nice try, the call button wouldn't keep going over the PA that long. I think there's thirty seconds between pages until an employee clears the button and it went off three times, so this pillar of the community was waiting an entire minute and a half. Unless it took her eighteen and a half minutes to decide to hit the button, which I doubt.

    And to top it all off, the thing she wanted help finding was right behind her!
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily
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    Isn't it always 20 minutes? Isn't the wanted item always right behind, or next to, the idiot I mean customer?

    I hope she got home with it and someone tells her, "You were supposed to get [a different item]!"
    When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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      Quoth MoonCat View Post
      Isn't it always 20 minutes? Isn't the wanted item always right behind, or next to, the idiot I mean customer?

      I hope she got home with it and someone tells her, "You were supposed to get [a different item]!"
      Ah, but then it's STILL the employee's fault, for not knowing that the item she said she wanted was the wrong one!! Don't forget where you are, and the impossibility of winning with sucky customers. (and HOW is the word sucky NOT in the spell checker for this forum??)
      You're only delaying the inevitable, you run at your own expense. The repo man gets paid to chase you. ~Argabarga

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      • #4
        Well, add up the time it took her to drive from home to the store, park her car, walk inside, wander to seasonal and start pounding the button... yes, in THAT situation, I'll believe the time spent would indeed be 20 minutes........
        - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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        • #5
          Well, sure -- 90 seconds in real time = 20 minutes in Customer Standard Time...
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          • #6
            Quoth Kittish View Post
            (and HOW is the word sucky NOT in the spell checker for this forum??)
            That would be your browser. Right-click, select "Add to Dictionary" (or whatever your browser names that concept).
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            "Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77

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