"Do you know how many degrees I have?!"

[cashierbex]

A quote from a movie. I believe it was "Accepted"

"You can take that PhD and shove it up you A-S-S"

Yes, she prolly doesn't have a PhD but it still works here.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Honestly, I think I'd be too busy laughing to kill him.

Like full on point and laugh and be all "Hay look at the idiot on the bike who wants to take home his patio set with it!"

And instead you'll kill his ego with your laughter.

Back to the OP: Supreme Being, eh? Somebody forgot to tell her that the position was taken over years ago.

Besides, if she really had a law degree, then she should have been able to tell you what section of law that BS would have been located in or at least give you a case name to look it up under.

IE, the only degree she probably has is a BS.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

sirwired, thank you for the mental image of Irv near killing a guy on a bicycle wanting to pick up an entertainment stand or dining set or something.

Honestly, I think I'd be too busy laughing to kill him.

Like full on point and laugh and be all "Hay look at the idiot on the bike who wants to take home his patio set with it!"

[NorthernZel]

And of course, any actual legal expert should already know that at the mention of the words: lawyer, law, statute, regulation, lawsuit, suit, court, sue, etc. the only prudent action for any employee (who is not in the legal department) is to shut up like a clam, admit nothing, and offer NO further concessions.

Yup. Though we weren't threatened with lawsuits that often, every time I received a mail from a client stating something like "blargle, I'm a very important person and you will do what I tell you, or ELSE!" I always replied with a sweet but short answer:

"Your mail has been forwarded to my Supervisor/DM/CFO/CEO."

Now, much could be said about my former bosses, but one thing I knew: They don't tolerate BS. From ANYONE.

And yes, most of the time the bosses were kind enough to cc me on the epic pwnage that was thrown on the EW's

[sirwired]

The legal experts are always so vocal when they think that mentioning such will get them special treatment. Whenever anyone drops a threat to sue I clam up and tell them that I can't say anymore since it could be used against me.

And of course, any actual legal expert should already know that at the mention of the words: lawyer, law, statute, regulation, lawsuit, suit, court, sue, etc. the only prudent action for any employee (who is not in the legal department) is to shut up like a clam, admit nothing, and offer NO further concessions.

Anyone that claims to be a lawyer when complaining about something either isn't one, or is so bad at it they can almost certainly be safely ignored.

I believe it is the former in this case: What would a practicing lawyer be doing shipping pallets of packages?

[brucetiki]

Was one of SB's degrees a Bachelor of Arts (major: Wanker)

[Argabarga]

Bonus:
Guy calls complaining that the terminal mislead him. Apparently, he biked 3 miles to pick up his freight from the terminal to save a few bucks. He RODE HIS BICYCLE to the terminal to pick up 300LBS OF FREIGHT!
Why? He assumed the terminal would lend him a truck, free of charge, so he could toss his bike in back and drive home. CCG explained that, no, we don't lend trucks for free and that "WILL CALL" means "you come to our terminal with your own vehicle to get your own stuff.

Memory jog...

Reminds me of a guy who wrecked his car and had it towed to us. He was from out of state, so he went home and arranged for a truck to come by and pick it up. Now, when I say "wrecked" I mean wrecked hard, the entire left front of the car was pretty much destroyed, it was bent up badly enough that the wheel and tire on that side no longer touched the ground, in other words, the car wouldn't sit level on the ground and could not be rolled. It could be drug around with the tow truck, but otherwise wasn't movable.

Well, he neglected to tell the driver of the transport truck this, who was driving a regular car-carrying flatbed, not a wrecker, so when he arrived and took one look at it, he said he couldn't take it like that because there was obviously no way to get it onto his trailer, which was meant for the loading and unloading of running vehicles only.

So he called up the customer and told him there's no way he can get it on the trailer, customer asked to talk to me and asked why we couldn't just "use the forklift" to put it on.

"What forklift?" I asked

There was a long pause

"Come on! You can't just use a forklift to get it on the truck?" he asked

"I don't have any equipment like that, Sir"

There was another long pause

"You DON'T HAVE a forklift?!"

No, we don't, I dont' know of any TOWING company that has one. He seemed to have us confused with a junkyard. In fact, a lot of people do, I get lots of requests from people who want to know if we sell parts from scrapped cars... no, we don't do that either.

[Marmalady]

SB: Do you know how many degrees I have?

CCG: Three? *bursts into impromptu rendition of 'When Will I See You Again?' *

[PepperElf]

of course he was "rude" - he told her "no"

sounds like she was quite the EW

[Mytical]

"No I do not know how many degrees you have, what I do have is a meat thermometer..shall I see how many degrees you have?"

http://www.globeequipment.com/Kitche...meters/2238-06

[NateTheChops]

The legal experts are always so vocal when they think that mentioning such will get them special treatment. Whenever anyone drops a threat to sue I clam up and tell them that I can't say anymore since it could be used against me.

[barainga]

SB: Do you know how many degrees I have?

No idea, has hell frozen over? Cause thats when your tantrum is gonna help you.

[lvceline]

Wow! That lady sounds like a real peach! Isn't it so ridiculous that people threaten to sue so much these days? It's just crazy. When I talk to people who act like that, and then say our employee was rude to them, it makes it a little hard to believe doesn't it? And who cares about how many degrees she has. Something her precious degrees obviously can't give her are CLASS and RESPECT.

[Crossbow]

SB: Do you know how many degrees I have?

Um, 98.6 and rising fast?

Too bad you can't send them over to your legal department as soon as they bring up the "S" word.

[BrenDAnn]

sirwired, thank you for the mental image of Irv near killing a guy on a bicycle wanting to pick up an entertainment stand or dining set or something. Of course, you're probably not far off. As to Degree Wench in the first story, I smell a big fat liar. Either that, or they're all the lowest level degree one can get in certain fields, because she kept changing her mind what she wanted to do. I suspect she's a liar, though, and a stupid one with zero common sense at that.