Use your words.

[guitardude1987]

At the restaurant I work at, people attempt to order food without talking to me. Seriously, they just sort of stare at me. Then, after patiently waiting for a few minutes for them to start...you know, speaking, I go and do other things, like take orders from the people that are using their voices. Then of course, the people who are trying to telepathically order their food get angry and then gain the power of speech.

SC: "Hey! I'm first in line!"
Me: "Yes, yes you are, but you were just staring at me, even after I asked you several times if there was anything I could do to help you. You're replies to me were nothing but silence. I assumed you didn't want anything and simply came here to take up space." (Yes, those are my exact words from this particular encounter).
SC: "Well then, you should've waited till I was good and ready to order! Now, I demand you serve me first!"
Me: "Well, sir, I'm sorry, here it's 'first speak, first serve."

He left after that and called the owner of the store. Scary.

Owner comes in, asks if I got a little "lippy" with a customer. My motto in life is "if you're gonna do it, be proud of it", so I owned up to it 100%. She sort of just shrugged and said "well, I probably would have said the same thing. He was a dumbass anyway..."

Fin.

[bainsidhe]

Heh. If I were the customer behind him, I would've laughed my ass off.

[South Texan]

You're replies to me were nothing but silence. I assumed you didn't want anything and simply came here to take up space." (Yes, those are my exact words from this particular encounter).

You are fortunate to have such a glib manager.

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[XCashier]

Me: "Well, sir, I'm sorry, here it's 'first speak, first serve."

Or, "You snooze, you lose."

I've had customers like that too, and I just do not understand their thinking. Maybe on their home planet everybody is telepathic, but here on Earth we speak with our mouths. Didn't their alien leaders teach them this before dumping them here?

[BlaqueKatt]

Maybe on their home planet everybody is telepathic, but here on Earth we speak with our mouths. Didn't their alien leaders teach them this before dumping them here?

they were probably given a manual....that they didn't bother to read...

[BookstoreEscapee]

they were probably given a manual....that they didn't bother to read...

I was thinking there was a reason they were dumped here in the first place and they weren't told a damn thing!

[Ironclad Alibi]

I was thinking there was a reason they were dumped here in the first place and they weren't told a damn thing!

Why am I reminded of middle managers, hairdressers and telephone sanitizers?

[Jester]

He left after that and called the owner of the store. Scary.

Owner comes in, asks if I got a little "lippy" with a customer. My motto in life is "if you're gonna do it, be proud of it", so I owned up to it 100%. She sort of just shrugged and said "well, I probably would have said the same thing. He was a dumbass anyway..."

Ain't it great working for awesome management?

My apologies to those of you that aren't as fortunate as Guitar and myself!

Why am I reminded of middle managers, hairdressers and telephone sanitizers?

42!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Why am I reminded of middle managers, hairdressers and telephone sanitizers?

Great comparison. And yep, they all seem to have the same function:

clean up other people's crap.

[edible_hat]

ugh! I have so many customers who refuse to speak! Sometimes I stand there looking as dumb as they are until they tell me what they want.

I have a few regulars who physically can't speak but that's different, most of them are deaf and come to my store becuase they know I know Auslan. And Throat Cancer Man always writes things down.