Without fail, and I'm talking greater than 75% here, when I'm out food shopping my wife will call JUST when I hit the checkout. It's like she's got a 6th sense for when I'm about to pay. And I ignore the call each and every time (which gets me grief, but meh). Now, if you shot me an IM (and she knows how) I could at least deal with it. But it's always a call.
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Quoth Totiono View PostShe resembled and was very lovingly called Miss Trunchbull by the rest of the staff, and 95% of the time the customer would instantly shut up and put their phone down. She often joked that she kept an entire chocolate cake underneath the counter just in case.
(Waits to be forced to eat the entire chocolate cake. )"I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Mom knows to text me first if I'm out; if I can call her back I will (when I'm on the subway, I can respond quicker to a text; also there's some quirk where voice calls may not make it through in a tunnel but text messages will)."I am quite confident that I do exist."
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor
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I work at a big box hardware store, and while I have customers on their phones at times, I don't mind too much. Its not like I need constant interaction with them. Whenever I need their input I just talk louder. Whenever my last day is though, I'm going to say real loud (so that the person on the other end can hear), "THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING ADULT MART!"
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Quoth Dreamstalker View Postalso there's some quirk where voice calls may not make it through in a tunnel but text messages will).Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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I'd have a family member that would call my cell for any and all reasons, usually at the worst possible time, like at the checkout. This is the kind of family member that doesn't keep it to one call a day, instead preferring to call whenever a random thought popped into their head (dear dogs, it really shouldn't have been that often, her head was like blown glass.)
One day, while at the check out, I'd had enough. This was the third time the woman had called during this shopping trip and I'd only been in the store for 10 minutes. These were her empty-headed thoughts (I guess she was just proud she'd actually gotten a thought and wanted everyone to know?) that just fluttered out of her mouth whenever she got me on line. And heaven help me if I failed to answer. I'd just gotten off the phone with her, when I got to the cashier, gotten everything scanned and was just about to pay. The. Phone. FARKING RINGS. And it is her. AGAIN. I glare at the phone and this time look at the cashier, shake my head and sit my phone to the side. I pay, the phone has already got to voicemail and guess what? She calls. Again.
I answer and to say I was a troll would be an understatement. I nod a goodbye to the cashier, step out of the way and answer, "You had better be dead, in the hopsital dying or your house is on fire. If this is another 'I just saw the most beautiful butterfly,' call, I will have you blocked for 24 hours."
I pissed her off for a week. A sweet, peaceful week. And then I changed my number....If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.
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Quoth raudf View PostI answer and to say I was a troll would be an understatement. I nod a goodbye to the cashier, step out of the way and answer, "You had better be dead, in the hopsital dying or your house is on fire. If this is another 'I just saw the most beautiful butterfly,' call, I will have you blocked for 24 hours."
I pissed her off for a week. A sweet, peaceful week. And then I changed my number...."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
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It's not just cashiers, it's any face to face position.
My current job is registering people for blood work. This involves a lot of questions to make sure I have the correct person, correct account, and correct blood work (you'd be amazed at the errors I catch just by talking to people).
This woman comes in and walks up to me on the phone. She just throws a insurance card at me and keeps talking away. Now Insurance cards have names on them but it could be theirs, spouses, childs, who knows so I can't go off of that and I NEED a birthday to go on, so I just sit there and stare at her. Took 10 mins before she realized that I hadn't moved then got an attitude over how long she was waiting. Long story short by the time she left, she was off her phone and was actually able to get my part of stuff done in 3 mins. That's about 12 mins longer then it should have taken. Hopefully the phlebotomist poked her with a dull needle when she was talking on the phone while they did their stuff.
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Quoth Really View PostHopefully the phlebotomist poked her with adullneedle that didn't have the burr removed after sharpening when she was talking on the phone while they did their stuff.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View PostSorta off topic but maybe not: am I the only person who flushes the nearest toilet when there's somebody on the phone in the bathroom with me?
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I've done that at work before; the employee restroom has 3 stalls, and for some reason the girls like to have their phone convos in there. They'll stand by the sink and do nothing but yak on the phone."I am quite confident that I do exist."
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up." The Doctor
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