Caller: "I WANT THEM HERE NOW!"
Me: "Sir, I can't get someone out there before it's possible."
Caller: "[COMPETITOR] CAN!"
Me: "That's fantastic. I would call them, then, sir."
Customer: "This whole HD film thing is all a scam! They didn't have HD cameras back in the olden days. It's all a crock. You're just trying to rip us off!"
The whole place clears out around 2 PM so that we workers can sit down and have lunch, and relax a little. We open back up at 4 PM. The hours are listed clearly on the door, in both French and English.
A woman is standing outside the door to our store, angrily as we walk back at 3:59 PM.
The other bookkeeper closed and opened without complaining. But for me, that was absurd! Leaving the store at 11 PM and returning at 5 AM is unreasonable (also illegal). We spoke with the scheduler and management to no avail
A customer hands me a coupon. Today is a Tuesday.
Me: "Sorry, ma'am, those coupons are only valid on Mondays. That's why they're called Monday coupons."
Customer: "I know, but I couldn't make it yesterday, so you will do this for me today."
It’s during the middle of the Pokémon Go craze. I’m using my phone’s calculator to help figure out a discount, as my register is old and slow. Customer: “Oh, you have a phone on you.” Me: “Management doesn’t mind as long as we only use them for work purposes, like this.” Customer: “Did you know […]
Tour Guide: "If you overhear them talking about anything, and I mean anything at all, don't call HR. They're talking about The Sims."
Coworker #1: "Oh! Yes, please tell everyone. We don't want to talk to HR again."
Customer: *Rolling her eyes as if I should understand.* "Don't they train you properly? If I buy a gift card with a debit card, any amount left over after I make a purchase with that gift card goes back onto my debit card."
Me: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but that is absolutely not what happens. The balance remains on the gift card until it's all used up."
Customer: "That… that can't be right!"
However, being kids, we find it hilarious to randomly ask "Are we there yet?" every fifteen minutes or so.
Mom: "That phrase is now banned. Nobody is allowed to ask it again."
There’s about thirty seconds of silence. Then my twelve-year-old brother pipes up.
Brother #1: "Mother, has our vehicle successfully reached the geographical coordinates associated with our vacation lodging?"
I know that’s not really a correct translation of “Wuxian” but u have to admit it’s funny.
Same logic, Lan Wangji is Lan “Fogetta bout it”, but again: extremely not correct.
i mean, i’m pretty sure half the point of the whole courtesy name system is so parents can give their kids cutesy adorable baby names without needing to worry about them being taken seriously as adults in 20-30 years
pour one out for everyone in this day and age who’s had to introduce themselves to a board of directors as bambi or starshine
I mean @intheeveningsunrise you’re definitely on to something here! But this has its own whole separate tradition - Milk Names, which is basically when you either don’t give a baby a name until they clear the 100 day mark, or you do have a name picked out for the baby but don’t use it until after that point, so you call them something else (usually something derogatory, to try to ensure that evil spirits don’t think the baby is interesting enough to go after.)
In some places in the West I think parents just gave the same name to each successive child until one survived, which made for some very confusing burial records.
I can hear one of my neighbours, a musician, practising his violin. He's very good, and I don't mind it at all. But then I hear another neighbour banging on the wall on his side (walls are thin, remember, I can hear this one flat over). I hear them both open their respective front doors and have a conversation close to my own front door.
I work in a call center. We have a worker who proudly introduces himself as “a giant f***ing nerd” when meeting people; he knows all sorts of random stuff that SHOULD be irrelevant to this job. For whatever reason, [Nerd]’s knowledge often becomes pertinent when we get insulted by callers. It started with him stepping […]
About ten minutes in, she asked me to reach into the glove box to hand her a pair of glasses. I did so, a bit concerned, and found the glasses. These glasses were quite thick. I usually wear glasses; my prescription is -6. These glasses looked a similar thickness.
I couldn’t find work in my field immediately after graduating college, so I worked for several months at a small cafe (think gelato, coffee, and pastries) in an outdoor shopping center. Most of the staff working at the shop, especially during the summer, were high schoolers working their first jobs, and at 22, I was […]
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