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One time I employed a bit of self-depreciating humor about one of my physical features I felt was not my best due to being out of proportion. Apparently she had the opposite view and would've liked to trade with me; therefore I must be subtly bragging."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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Working for Major Electronics Retailer. Walked out of the stock room--exhausted and slightly dazed--at the end of a ten-hour shift, looking for a computer at which I could clock out. Approached the Appliances computer just as the person working Appliances that day also approached it. I asked, "Do you mind if I clock out before you take over?" She said she needed to place an order for a customer. At that point, the customers (a couple) came around the corner. I said, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were helping someone. I'll go clock out in the camera department instead."
The customers stopped to complain to a manager on their way out of the store. They acknowledged that I apologized, but they said it was still "rude" of me to want to clock out on a computer that someone else needed to use to help them with their purchase.
(Manager told me about it the next day and we both laughed at the stupid complaint. He then said, "Hey, I pretended to be concerned. You should at least pretend to be chastised.")
Quoth Chazzie View Post-- Asking someone if they'd like their penny change. (Apparently this made them feel guilty for not tipping if they were to say they wanted it.)
Quoth notalwaysright View PostHaving to go find a SKU. I should magically know all the prices and SKUs for everything.
Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post...and withdrew the complaint.I suspect that... inside every adult (sometimes not very far inside) is a bratty kid who wants everything his own way.
- Bill Watterson
My co-workers: They're there when they need me.
- IPF
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Quoth HawaiianShirts View PostBut they wouldn't feel guilty about leaving a measly penny as a tip?
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I was rude for not letting a customer reach across the scanner and scan their own card. Sorry, that's getting your paw too close to the drawer and screen for my liking. My side of the counter is my space. You want to scan your own stuff, that's what the SCO kiosks are for."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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- For being overworked and for the phone lines being busy.
As background - half of my folks have been poached by other departments at the same exact time that our base is expanding by around 50,000 people. These 50,000 are transferring to our jurisdiction from another agency that had no automated records and never informed their base that they would be transferred.
This means there are a lot of phone calls, with a maximum of 5 people at any given time to answer them. This in turn means that instead of being able to write procedures, test software, and train employees in processing all these new files, the dept. manager and I have to keep stopping everything we're doing to take escalated calls saying "why isn't this done? Why can't you do mine first? What's taking so long?"
And because all the phone lines are tied up, we started getting emails to the public box complaining about how rude it is and how poor customer service it is for the phones to be busy.
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Quoth hyperion View PostI once asked a local cop his ID to check to be allowed to pick up something he ordered online. He had to go back to his squad car to get it.
Thought it funny at the time...well, i still do...but I realize I probably was being rude even though his car was about 10-15 ft away
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Quoth Kittykat View PostYou weren't rude, there is such a thing as pretend police officers.
Was called rude, cuz I wouldn't open another till to cope with the massive queue. Reason I didn't? It was broken, with an out of order sign displayed prominently and I was stacking shelves while I waited for IT to call me back.
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I was rude for not being instantly available (to a stand-and-stare SC) despite two other SCOs with open transactions deciding to freeze up simultaneously.
The kicker is Shithead tried to lecture me about "serving the customer" as I was in the middle of rebooting both SCOs and keeping those customers happy while keeping an eye on everything else going on (just because you can't handle this doesn't mean you get to distract me from doing so)."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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last week a father of one of my clients called a supervisor (not my supervisor, nor a person in my department) and advised her that I was rude and unhelpful because I advised him that I cannot release any information regarding his son, and that it was against privacy laws for me to do so. I advised him to ask his son to sign a release of information. That wouldn't work, because his son didn't want to tell him anything. I explained to him that his son is an adult and does have a right to the information that he wants to hand out.
(I realized how many times I write "Advised" in just this short paragraph. I write a lot of letters to judges LOL)
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