Things you're sick of hearing at work.

[louise draven]

Imaging a Friday night, about 10.45, when the line to get into the catty is fairly long:

me: hiya, five pounds please.
them: How much?
me: (ignoring the fact I've been cut off and talked over, as always) five pounds

which results in:
"What, really?" no, I just said it to be funny
"Aren't you taking piyp's anymore?" well, maybe if you SHOWED it to me, I'm not psychic!!
"But I'm a student" once again, not pschic.
"Isn't it £3 before 11?" If it was, would I have said it was a fiver?!?

also, tha age old "do you need to see my student card/ piyp?" no no, of course not, we opperate on a trust basis... actually, they're thinking of replacing myself and the stewards with boxes- one to put the entry price in, one to put any weapons or alcohol you shouldn't be bringing in with you.

Also, on the cloakroom "I've lost my ticket" makes me want to cry. ESPECIALLY when it's followed by "issa black jacket. sgot sleeves n stuff." Why is it never the people with, I dunno, the pink furry coats that loose their tickets?!? There's only ever one of those!!

[Semprini]

"Someone's parked in my disabled space"

(To clarify, I have no problem with this if it's one of the ten or so folk in the building who are actually disabled, as opposed to the other 55 who have been given disabled spaces)

[Ghostsuit]

"Your a Facist"

Yes and your point is?

[Zero]

Imaging a Friday night, about 10.45, when the line to get into the catty is fairly long:

me: hiya, five pounds please.
them: How much?
me: (ignoring the fact I've been cut off and talked over, as always) five pounds

How hard can it be to put a sign up at the cashdesk? It'd make the queue move faster.

[fallen_nemesis]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

"Your a Facist"

Yes and your point is?

stop making me laugh. My big goth jaws aren't used to such emotions. It hurts

[alice_in_a_maze]

"she's doin ma fuckin head in!"

Look girls, you are (almost) all adults, get over it!!!!!!

[Ghostsuit]

"I have freedom of speech, your breaching it"

I think you'll find your talking utter pish!

See reason for this here

Freedom of Speech!

Their rant usually scrapes the universe with their limited understanding of their rights contained in the U.S. Constitution. Their anger is spewed in emails and in posts (that are quickly swept away and archived) that I would have the audacity to not allow them to pursue life, liberty and happiness on my forums, guaranteeing their freedom of speech and rights to say whatever they want, however they want, whenever they want.

The U.S. Constitution:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Freedom of speech from the first amendment can be summed up this way:

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech

As a forums owner and administrator: I am not Congress. The Constitution does not say that a privately owned website must guarantee that members can say whatever they want on the forums. It simply states that CONGRESS must not abridge the freedom of speech.

Members have rights to say whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want: on their own property, within the confines of their own space in accordance with the laws of the land. However, members do not have freedom of speech on privately owned websites, privately owned forums.

The owner of the website/forums has the right and responsibility to create, establish, maintain rules that best fit the community and edit, ban, disable the account of any member who does not follow the website TOS. TOS (Terms of Service) or Guidelines are king.

[Vonnie]

It's really cold in here, can you fix the heating?

No pal. If I could fix the heating I wouldn't be sitting at the fucking RECEPTION DESK.

[cupotea]

'Can I get that without the vegetables. And the potatoes?'
Okay, enjoy scurvy.

'Can you do that withough the sauce?'
No. Its cooked in the sauce.

'Whats this? *waggles half chewed physalis in my face*' (we use it as a garnish)
Its physalis.
'Syphilis?'

[Fenntastic]

' i ordered *such and such*'

'no you didnt. everyone is having the same thing'

'no but i definatly asked for *such and such*'

'well since this is a fucking BOWLING CLUB DINNER and WE are catering i think we know what was ordered!! just take what you are given and eat it you fucking old sweaty wanker'


i fucking hate working bowling clubs

[Kath]

"I have a Pay as you go (prepayment) meter, how can I have a debt?"

"Im on a Pay as you go (prepayment) meter and I dunno how I can have a credit but can I have ma money?!"

NAW!

[cupotea]

Originally Posted by NuroFenn

' i ordered *such and such*'

'no you didnt. everyone is having the same thing'

'no but i definatly asked for *such and such*'

'well since this is a fucking BOWLING CLUB DINNER and WE are catering i think we know what was ordered!! just take what you are given and eat it you fucking old sweaty wanker'


i fucking hate working bowling clubs

ha ha. i hate them too. not as much as you though.

[Fenntastic]

Originally Posted by cupotea

'Can I get that without the vegetables. And the potatoes?'
Okay, enjoy scurvy.

'Can you do that withough the sauce?'
No. Its cooked in the sauce.

'Whats this? *waggles half chewed physalis in my face*' (we use it as a garnish)
Its physalis.
'Syphilis?'

man, i forgot about the 'no vegetables, ill just have one lonely wee pathetic chicken breast for dinner' people. wierdos. atleast it means more for us

[Elfaba]

*phone rings in box office where general public arent supposed to have the number for*

VOICE: "Whisson for kids the day?"

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr gggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh i actually wanna kill ppl when they do that - u go through every single fucking movie trying to be polite telling them synopsis' then they fucking as you

"whit was the first wan again?"

and follow up by standard with a shit load of fucking shitey inane questions

we're not a fucking information line - thats what our website/the newspapers/teletext/our INFORMATION LINE is for grrr we're there to serve the customers who have by this point formed a queue out the door whilst we have been tied up answering phone calls and subsequent relentlessly stupid questions

sorry *breathes*

i do have some sort of customer service ethics sometimes

another one is "the prices in here are ridiculous i refuse to pay it and u should be ashamed selling x at that price" (why actually bother to queue up to tell me this like it's my fault and when i have to pay the exact same prices as you for retail goods when i come in too??)

its even better when the prices are in great big illuminated signs above ur head and they ask how much things are then seem totally shocked even though its literally staring them in the face

oooh another is "MY child IS twleve/fifteen and shouldnt need ID for coming to the cinema!" (when theyre clearly ten anyway and its a legal licensing restriction)

erm

theres a few more but thats enough rantage for now i reckon

[Elfaba]

Originally Posted by fallen_nemesis

things I hear every fecking week in the taxi rank of doom

- Punter "How long is it going to be"
Me " I have a car free in that area at the moment, so it's on it's way"
Punter Aye, but how long is it going to be
Me a few minutes
Punter Aye, but how long?
Me under five minutes
Punter Could you not have said that?

I seriously have to fight the urge not to answer "about 14 fucking feet" everytime I'm asked how long is it going to be

That and the other utterly rediculous one from Sunday night

Punter Can I pay for it by credit card ?

^^ seriously what the utter fuck?!

Only in Bearsden and Milngavie I tell you

ooh what company do you work for?

and yes as a fellow former bearsdenonian certain ppl from that wee corner of the world do indeed suck and are a bit tim nice but dim esque

*note* I'm saying certain ppl not wanting to start an argument or what im from there!