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  • Anybody know the name of this terrible customer service book?

    I'm not sure if "Sightings" is the place for this, but it made the most sense at the time.

    Years and years ago, when I worked at a bookstore, I read this really awful customer service book that seemed to be written by a major SC. He encouraged people to be SCish and one of his tactics was, I shit you not, forming a letter "C" with your hand and shoving it in the offending worker's face as "the sign of the customer"!

    Another passage I remember is the story of a gas station that was in the middle of changing their prices on their boards, and a customer (using this guy's "tactics") threw a fit because she wanted the cheaper prices they just had up rather than the new prices. According to the story, she ranted and made the "sign of the customer" until they relented! The author called this a success story!!

    So yeah. I mean, my memory could be off, I don't know. I was a teenager while reading it, and I haven't seen it since and remember feeling VERY offended. Signing up here made me think of it.

    Has anyone here ever seen this pile of crap? I tried Google and searching Amazon but I just can't find it.
    "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

  • #2
    apparently it must have died. cos when i google the "sign of the customer" I find only 3 pages. and one of them is this page...

    looks like he failed.

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    • #3
      The sign of the customer....bwahahahaha! It's the SC signal! To the store!
      I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
      Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
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      • #4
        OMG "sign of the customer"? Yeah, that's normal... throw up a hand signel that most of the world wouldn't even know what it means. Maybe it will intimidate the store because they will think you are part of a gang.

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        • #5
          Of course, the C could stand for another word entirely.........
          Engaged to the sweet Mytical He is my Black Dragon (and yes, a good one) strong, protective, the guardian. I am his Silver Dragon, always by his side, shining for him, cherishing him.

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          • #6
            Quoth Marmalady View Post
            Of course, the C could stand for another word entirely.........
            Can't.


            "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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            • #7
              But customers don't understand signs, so why would they understand the sign of the customer?
              To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...

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              • #8
                Quoth PepperElf View Post
                apparently it must have died. cos when i google the "sign of the customer" I find only 3 pages. and one of them is this page...

                looks like he failed.
                Thank goodness. The tone of the book was kind of a rallying cry, like "customer service is total crap these days! All us shitty-ass customers have to band together and make increasingly irrational demands like 2 year olds!! That'll show 'em!!"

                Back then I didn't think it was funny at all (probably because I was taking customers' abuse rather regularly at the bookstore) but now? Hilarious! "Sign of the customer" lol. How could the author have POSSIBLY thought this was a good idea?? All your responses are making me spit out my diet coke!
                "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

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                • #9
                  yeah someone throwing a hand in my face like a child would not get better service.

                  they might get the manager... but only because i feel it's his job to deal with the crazies and the screamers so i can go back to doing my work

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                  • #10
                    I wonder if somone tried throwing that sign to a gang member. Glad the book seems to be lost to the sands of time.

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                    • #11
                      If anybody ever throws me the "sign of the customer," I'll have a sign of my own for them.

                      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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                      • #12
                        Okay, I just about snorted my spaghetti!
                        "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

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                        • #13
                          I'm not really proud of this, because the book sounds repulsive, but I think I found it?

                          http://books.google.com/books?id=UmF...ed=0CHAQ6AEwCA

                          http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-My-Dep...9394081&sr=8-1

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                          • #14
                            What I find really amazing is that an Amazon reviewer gave it 3 stars.
                            My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.---Cary Grant

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                            • #15
                              Quoth flybye023
                              What I find really amazing is that an Amazon reviewer gave it 3 stars.
                              I saw that too. At least there was only one review.
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