Most asinine ways to get your attention

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I hate it when I am checking someone in (or otherwise helping someone) and someone comes up, interrupts, and says GIVE ME A POOL TOWEL.

I especially hate this when I am mid sentence. When they do that, I completely ignore them until I am finished.

When kids do this, I have been known to be kind of rude....and say "Yeah, in a minute". I was never allowed to act like that and I am not going to bow to some bratty kid with no manners.

I also love it when I am finishing a phone call and some fucknut just starts talking. I understand that that can be annoying that I am talking on the phone when you are in front of me, but please...at least give me the chance to put them on hold.

I am one person. It is not my fault that management often schedules just one person at a time in a 4 story hotel. Bitch at them, not me....I am doing the best I can.

I guess my point is, if you are rude and or obnoxious, I will take my sweet time helping you.

Learn some manners.

[bean]

Tapping on the sneeze guard with your long nails not only is irritating as hell, it smudges the glass. Do it too much and I WILL pull the bottle of Windex and a towel out before I serve you, and I will make sure you see me doing so.

While helping someone else, just barging up to the window and yelling out what you want will get you ignored, and I've witnessed several customers turn around and tell them off - "Wait your turn, I was here first and can't you see he's busy?" has been heard many times. The best part of this is, management knows I have hearing loss in my right ear - the serving area is to the right of where I actually make everything.

Mumbling at the sneeze guard and expecting me to hear it? Hahahah that's funny. You see me cupping my ear with my hand? That means SPEAK UP - I have an incredibly loud PA system right over my head along with a roaring fire in the oven behind me.

[Ringtail Z28]

I usually respond to people yelling or whistling from across the store by going into the backroom and hanging out for a while until they leave or bother someone else.

I remember there was this old guy who came in just as the store opened. He was yelling as he walked down the aisles "HELLO! HELLO! I WANT SOME GODDAMN SERVICE! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE?!" Really all that did was let us know that he was a complete asshole and what areas to avoid. It was pretty funny watching employees and supervisors hiding and slipping quietly through the back aisles trying to avoid dealing with that guy.

[Phone Jockey]

I've heard snapping fingers...If you are calling your dog, call your dog. I won't interfere. If you want to talk to a person, however, you will have to speak some human language. And you will have to use this human convention was have called "manners."

This is so true. Nothing will get you ignored faster than by snapping your fingers or making other noises that generally would pertain to an animal. I'd start looking around to see if any animals were nearby before continuing to ignore the damned idiot.

Long time lurker first time poster.

I once had a customer call me & start out the conversation: "Hello...first time customer, long time Democrat."

[irateguy]

I hate when old people say yoo-hoo thats a damn chocolate drink not a greeting.
I also hate beingtapped or grabbed and people who come in my back room esp when there are employees on the flopor

[BlaqueKatt]

had a regular customer at the auto parts store I used to work who had a thing for me(I was the only female that worked there) and he would come up to the counter and yell "CERVIX-can I get some cervix here right now!" yeah the guys always got a laugh out of that, he refused help from anyone but me-I did accept his offer of dinner one night-turns out he really wanted to get my attention, and didn't think I'd hear the slight difference in words used -yeah I know....don't encourage them but he was nice to me after that{and so was his identical twin brother }but he never did stop the whole "cervix" thing....le sigh


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[Scottya21]

Well one good way to get my attention is to attempt to wander into our walk-in cooler ( you know, the one with drink racks and such out front, and the walk in cooler behind) looking for our bathrooms. Or to just randomly wander around the store. I just point them in the right direction, you can always tell.

Another good way is to stand in front of the coffee for 5 minutes trying to figure out how to use it. ( we have a coffee pot in which coffee is brewed, then put into caraffes for each falvor. We also have a cappuchino machine. People get confused.)

So oddly enough, mine are non-verbal. 0.o

Okok, the other weirdest ways people try to get my attention involves attempting to speak english and being poor at it, or randomly saying things in foreign languages, but I guess we don't talk about that here

[Rapscallion]

Okok, the other weirdest ways people try to get my attention involves attempting to speak english and being poor at it, or randomly saying things in foreign languages, but I guess we don't talk about that here

Depends if it descends into insulting other races or not, y'know?

Rapscallion

[iradney]

my personal favourite is when a customer calls me "Girly". as in "hey, you, girly!"
said in a similar tone of voice to "Rex! Heel!". grrr!

[AFpheonix]

I like the people that fly up to my window and yell "BANDAIDS"! or some other such thing, and I look at them and say, "No, I'm sorry, my name is Phe." Takes em' a second to figure it out.

Then there's the people who barge up to the consultation window, which is just to my right while I'm talking to someone at my first register, doing the "excusemeexcusemeexcuseme" thing, as if saying "excuse me" somehow negates the rudeness of talking over the top of me while I'm explaining something to another customer.

[Deceptitech]

Hmmm.

I once had a customer call me & start out the conversation: "Hello...first time customer, long time Democrat."

"Hello, Long time conservative, not my first time dealing with a moron."

Actually i don't let too many politics get in the way with my dreams of exterminating all the SCs in the world.(that's a big dream) I have noted this:

Republicans: SCs who demand to serve them immediately because they have more money than you, and they are better than everyone, which makes you less attractive to them than seeing a nude calendar of Hillary Clinton, Bea Arthur, and Rosie O'Donnell.

Democrats: SCs who demand to serve them immediately because the world owes them everything because they are the most important person in the world, and your opinion doesn't matter.

Yes, I AM a conservative.(Please note I am NOT like that blowhard Limbaugh, nor am I religious. I follow the thinkings of those like P J O'Rourke... Live and lets party)

[Geek King]

I once had a customer call me & start out the conversation: "Hello...first time customer, long time Democrat."

Hmm, I'd be tempted to shake his hand and state, "Pleased to meetcha! Long time employee, recently-armed Libertarian."

[Lace Neil Singer]

Nothing can beat the idiot who shouted "Girl! Hey, girl, come help me!" at me at the time I was at the garden centre. Cept maybe the complete shit for brains woman who kept screeching "Excuse me! Excuse me!" at a time when not only was I helping another customer, I also had my hand in a budgie cage.

[Gawdzillers]

Next time you have one yell "CUSTOMER!" at you, look at them and yell "FISHSTICKS!"

If only I could remember where that story came from.

[iradney]

If only I could remember where that story came from.

C_S Livejournal, from a poster who was as sick as we are of the one-worded demands (if my memory serves me correctly)