PMS, Birthdays and Self-entitled Assholes!

[Salted Grump]

Because railguns eat enough power to require a dedicated nuclear reactor, and they still haven't figured out how to fire it without warping the rails themselves (which are contact points for the slug during launch)

And jay? 30mm Shells from the GAU-8 are somewhat larger than .50 BMG. :P

[RetailWorkhorse]

Can we just say cannonball?

I have the duct-tape cannon someplace, I'm sure I kept it.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

You know, most of the time I come to CS because it helps me realize I'm not alone in dealing with the suckiness that is the general public...and yes, I'm glad I don't have to deal with your customers But at the same time, posts like yours are just plain depressing...and it's not at all YOUR fault, RB, it's just that the total suck adds up to more than I can process and I start despairing about the world again.

Seriously, you've had some major crap the last few days. Glad you're off today...me too *passes the spiked punch*

[Retail's Bitch]

You know, most of the time I come to CS because it helps me realize I'm not alone in dealing with the suckiness that is the general public...and yes, I'm glad I don't have to deal with your customers But at the same time, posts like yours are just plain depressing...and it's not at all YOUR fault, RB, it's just that the total suck adds up to more than I can process and I start despairing about the world again.

Seriously, you've had some major crap the last few days. Glad you're off today...me too *passes the spiked punch*

Oh dear! Lol I never mean my posts to be depressing. They're ranty recaps of my day. Aaaand I was PMSing when i wrote them. In the scheme of things I'm extremely lucky of a few things. Like how my bosses have my back and realize these customers are nuts. I have friends i can come home to and freak out with after a bad day. And i shoot club photos on the tuesday night that it happened and it was cheap drink nite. Which madmike and ree can attest to because i promo like nuts on fb. LOL :-)

[Ironclad Alibi]

Why go small? 50-cal.

The .50 cal is being discussed in this thread.

[dalesys]

I have the duct-tape cannon someplace, I'm sure I kept it.

Potato Cannon?


You can get some really big spuds up north of here...


We have to shoot them down with our Patriarchs.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Oh dear! Lol I never mean my posts to be depressing. They're ranty recaps of my day. Aaaand I was PMSing when i wrote them. In the scheme of things I'm extremely lucky of a few things. Like how my bosses have my back and realize these customers are nuts. I have friends i can come home to and freak out with after a bad day. And i shoot club photos on the tuesday night that it happened and it was cheap drink nite. Which madmike and ree can attest to because i promo like nuts on fb. LOL :-)

Please don't worry -- I probably phrased that post badly and sure didn't mean to imply that YOU had depressed me I'm depressed no matter what happens, LOL. Before I had a full time job (just the part time at-home job I still have) I was depressed all the time partly because I knew I should be doing more with my life and partly because my husband doesn't understand depression and was usually on my case about something -- he has plenty of his own issues to work on

Like you, there are many many positives I can find about my job. Casual dress, mostly casual conversation, rockin' managers, mostly helpful team leads (a few are iffy, lol), and mostly very cool coworkers. I also think that my call center itself is very good to its employees and tries to make us happy. I wish I could say the same for the client - they do SOME good stuff for us and other stuff is just plain crappy. Still, I have a job making decent money, I am encouraged and praised (or gently coached when necessary), and other than freezing my tuckus off, the actual working environment is great. Here's what needs fixing (mostly client side):

1) Sucky Customers...yeah, I know this is a pipe dream...
2) Leads/supervisors who are condescending and instead of just helping me with an answer or gently helping me find it or figuring it out on my own, implying I am bothering them with my petty issues - so this one is partly the client's fault (as some of the leads work for them) and some is our company's fault (the ones that work in our center for our company)
3) Idiot and/or rude brick-and-mortar store staff who lie to customers, mislead them, or totally mess up their orders and then we have to fix it (and I am sure they are in the minority amongst all the store staff)
4) Same as above only with delivery agents/drivers
5) Really dumb corporate policies...supposedly we go above and beyond to make our customers happy but you'd never know it sometimes

...ok, I just realized I could go on and on Anyway, RB, have a drink on me, and keep posting your stories...just as I'm glad I don't have to deal with your customers, take comfort that you don't have to deal with ours They may be on the other end of a phone instead of in my face, but many times I have to follow up with them after the initial phone call too...which usually ends up opening another can of worms

[Andara Bledin]

Can we just say cannonball?

I have the duct-tape cannon someplace, I'm sure I kept it.

Forget that. I've got a full-scale replica civil war cannon barrel. You can provide your own chassis. And with enough powder and packing, wadded up newspaper can go through steel siding.... >_>

^-.-^

[hornet95]

Forget that. I've got a full-scale replica civil war cannon barrel. You can provide your own chassis. And with enough powder and packing, wadded up newspaper can go through steel siding.... >_>

^-.-^

What's all this with Quick-Death'ing the SC???

Flamethrower.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I've got a full-scale replica civil war cannon barrel.

What's all this with Quick-Death'ing the SC???

Flamethrower.

It goes like this;

Step 1!
Use the >FLAMETHROWER< to make the SC run like heck. DON'T RUN, SC! DON'T RUN!

Step2!
Load up the SC using the >CANNON< and send them to..., uhm, I dunno, where did we wanna send them?

[CHOOSE LOCATION]
DESERTED ISLAND
SAHARA DESERT
ANTARCTICA
MARYLIN MANSON'S HOUSE (during one of his DnD sessions)
OTHER

[mharbourgirl]

What's all this with Quick-Death'ing the SC???

Flamethrower.

Naw, we need to build one of these:

Sun Launcher

[tropicsgoddess]

Damn, you got quite the bit of EW's RB! I had my stints in retail (thankfully they were brief) but I used to HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE the SC's that would come in around closing time and take their sweet ass time despite the announcements and the like. Assholes.

[Retail's Bitch]

So apparently she came in the next day and told the manager that she offered to rebook (lies) and that I was angry and upset and throwing shit (sorta true... LOL I was extremely frustrated and pitched our CLOSED sign across the room and announced. "OKAY! I GUESS WE'RE OPEN THEN!!! ANYBODY ELSE WANT A DAMNED PHOTO?!"

This is what five minutes to close, PMS and inconsiderate customers do to me.

and I explained this to the manager and she laughed, and said that's what she told the customer - that it was closing time and like anybody, we all have family at home and at closing time after being here for 8 hours we just want to go the fuck home.

She ended up giving her a $25 gift certificate and telling her to vamoose. I hope that's the last we see of her.

Last night I got another one along the same vein, unable, unwilling to realize that I close in ten minutes and I'm not going to take her in to do something that takes an hour. Sorry. She paced and kept coming back as I was closing. "Why? Why can't you?"

"Cuz I have a family to feed at home. They're hungry. So am I. G'night!"

"I don't know why I need to make an appointment. I don't see why we can't do it right now. You don't have anybody.."

"Because my studio's closed m'am... I'm going home. See you Wednesday."

"I don't know why I need to make an appointment..."

and this went on and on as I was counting my til and doing my paperwork. She FINALLY left.