Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Places people love to complain about.

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Places people love to complain about.

    Most know that I work at a fabric store. People loooove to complain about the lines. "I was here yesterday but I had to LEAVE because it was so busy!" First off, why are you telling me? Second, that's okay, I understand not wanting to wait. I'd rather you leave instead of staying to yell at me. Oh wait, you managed to leave, then come BACK to yell at me about how long the wait was YESTERDAY. Btw, don't complain when you come in at lunch. Gah.

    But there are other places people love to complain about even more. A few months ago a Red Checkmark retail location opened near my store. And now I heard that we might get an xfinity location in the same shopping center as the store I work at. Who can think of places people complain about more than cable and cell providers? Maybe the post office?

    I recall the last time I was at a cable store. It was to turn in equipment. I didn't want to send it, I wanted paper which said "turned in!" It was... bad. At the time, Tacoma only had one physical location. Yeah, for a city of over 200,000 people. I felt so bad for the employees. You could hear the conversations, and they were painful. And of course on google that location has a score of 1.5. It really wasn't the employees fault. The system was terrible, but you know they didn't set it up. It was set so that you selected the service you needed and a number was spit out. Well, if you wanted to pay your bill, you were automatically helped next. So all of us waiting got to watch people walk in and barely sit down before they got helped. It was unpleasant.

    Anyway, it's an open ended question. What places are easy targets, especially for SCs?
    Replace anger management with stupidity management.

  • #2
    Quoth notalwaysright View Post
    Most know that I work at a fabric store. People loooove to complain about the lines. "I was here yesterday but I had to LEAVE because it was so busy!" First off, why are you telling me? Second, that's okay, I understand not wanting to wait. I'd rather you leave instead of staying to yell at me. Oh wait, you managed to leave, then come BACK to yell at me about how long the wait was YESTERDAY. Btw, don't complain when you come in at lunch. Gah.
    People are so ridiculous.
    "I had to wait too long! It's too busy in here!"
    So, what do you want us to do, kick everyone else out so we can wait on you and only you, Your Majesty?

    It's even stupider when you realize that this is the busy season for fabric stores. Halloween costumes and Christmas gifts, makes sense, doesn't it? Yet people are always so gobsmacked to see the store insanely busy right before Halloween and Christmas. And they always take their anger out on us, as though we personally dragged half the city into our shop for fits and giggles.
    I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
    My LiveJournal
    A page we can all agree with!

    Comment


    • #3
      There's no corporation I complain about more than my cable company. I DUN WAN A CABLE BOX! Takes up room where meh knick-knacks should go! I'm going to decorate my cable box with stickers of cartoon poop and Grumpy Cat. MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA

      *coughs from evil laughing too much.*

      Comment


      • #4
        Bottle return places. I hate them with a passion because no matter when I walk in, there are a bunch of people ahead of me with six garbage bags each, stuffed full of empty beer bottles and cans, none of which have been washed and which therefore stink to high heaven. Thank god I rarely have any cans or bottles to return.
        When you start at zero, everything's progress.

        Comment


        • #5
          Ugh, SCs loved to bitch at the repair center for the FEDEX ship center across the street, when I worked at MW Repair.

          Yes, you can drop off and pick up packages there. Huh? YOU couldn't because of the LINE?! Why ever not? Oh, because it's Christmas, the busiest time of year for shipping companies. Your package is gonna be laaaaaatttteeeeeee, because you couldn't drop it off right that moment! Not that it matters, because they have a fixed time they start processing their drop offs to ship out, so that "Magic Moment" you wanted to drop off your package means jack in the grand scheme of things.

          Complaining to me isn't gonna accomplish anything. I'm neck deep in "a lack of planning on your part" people whose stove broke down after finishing Thanksgiving dinner, which they waited until two days before Christmas to call and schedule a tech to come out on. Yes, that's why the phones are ringing off the hook. I get to hear "ZOMG, I'VEGOTTOCOOKAMEALFOR20FAMILYMEMBERSANDINEEDMYOVEN NAOOOWWWEVENTHOUGHIT'SBEENBROKESINCETHANKSGIVING!! !!!*" a million times today alone. So, complain to someone who gives a damn.

          * I don't know how these customers managed to scream without taking a breath without passing out. It would have been nice if they'd passed out after that kind of fit.
          Last edited by raudf; 10-02-2015, 03:36 PM.
          If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.

          Comment


          • #6
            I'm not a fan of the local post office. Mostly...because they have 5 windows, of which only 1 or 2 are open...and there's a line out the door. They won't open another, yet there are multiple employees standing around behind the counter, doing nothing. Little wonder that if I have to ship something, I don't use the post office...and all of my bills get paid online.
            Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

            Comment


            • #7
              Quoth MoonCat View Post
              Bottle return places. I hate them with a passion because no matter when I walk in, there are a bunch of people ahead of me with six garbage bags each, stuffed full of empty beer bottles and cans, none of which have been washed and which therefore stink to high heaven. Thank god I rarely have any cans or bottles to return.
              It's even worse when you have to work in one of those places. So many horrible memories.Thankfully I'm in another dept now.

              Comment


              • #8
                Quoth XCashier View Post
                People are so ridiculous.
                "I had to wait too long! It's too busy in here!"
                Come to the tax office on 4/15 without an appointment and the only way you'll avoid waiting would be to catch me opening--like one couple did a few years back.
                I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

                Who is John Galt?
                -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

                Comment


                • #9
                  My experience of being on benefits, I've noticed that the more essential the service or product being provided, the less bitchy people are. Food bank lines and at the benefits office people are sweet as can be, or at least they keep their grumbling to an occassional under-the-breath mumble. But go to the craft store (it's my sanity, I'll collect cans to get a few dollars for beading wire) and OMGBBQ do people complain. You'd think fake leaves and cheap Chinese ornaments were essential to life.
                  "I try to be curious about everything, even things that don't interest me." -Alex Trebek

                  Comment


                  • #10
                    Quoth MoonCat View Post
                    Bottle return places. I hate them with a passion because no matter when I walk in, there are a bunch of people ahead of me with six garbage bags each, stuffed full of empty beer bottles and cans, none of which have been washed and which therefore stink to high heaven. Thank god I rarely have any cans or bottles to return.
                    Ugh. Tell me about it. Our bottle machines are inside the store (every other location I've seen has them outside, and I know we can do that), and we get a few people who I swear climb into dumpsters. One always hijacks a shopping cart to empty her garbage bags and the entire area (which includes Coinstar, Redbox and other things that normal people use) smells horrible.

                    I'll collect cans/bottles from our trash room to fund my coffee cards, but the tenants know someone takes them so they're generally organized in bags and clean (if they're not rinsed, I will rinse them).
                    "I am quite confident that I do exist."
                    "Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor

                    Comment


                    • #11
                      I didn't realize there were so many states which still had bottle returns. Even though mine all get recycled, I rinse them so they don't smell or attract bugs.
                      Replace anger management with stupidity management.

                      Comment


                      • #12
                        You forgot the DMV! First you have to wait in line to tell someone what you need but that only gets you a number. Then you have to wait for your number. I'm lucky enough I can go at less busy times. But I think almost everyone hates the DMV.

                        Comment


                        • #13
                          In California, at least in my city, appointments are an option, and I've used it. Actually works nicely.
                          "Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit

                          "Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77

                          Comment


                          • #14
                            I am an eligibility worker for food stamps (along with medicade and cash assistance) The lines are always long and people bitch about it all the time. I'm not allowed to say what I think which is "Do you see all of those other people sitting here for hours? Do you think that you are such a special snowflake that I should kick them all out so someone can take care of you right now? GDIF!!!"

                            Comment


                            • #15
                              Quoth Shyla View Post
                              You forgot the DMV! First you have to wait in line to tell someone what you need but that only gets you a number. Then you have to wait for your number. I'm lucky enough I can go at less busy times. But I think almost everyone hates the DMV.
                              I hate the DMV with a passion, I am lucky that I don't have to get my DL renewed for another eight years. But then I figure a 3-6 hour wait every ten years is decent -- no, that's not a typo, that's pretty much standard at my local DMV. Unless you're the first five in line at the door waiting to get in before it opens, you're looking at least a two hour wait ten minutes after it opens.

                              It's not the amount of people that's the problem, it's the fact that 95% of the people that go to this DMV office either wait until the last minute and tie up two or three employees or have about a hundred issues they need to work out before they bring up another fifty.
                              Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

                              Comment

                              Working...
                              X