You must be a........

Dragan

Heys guys,

This thread springs from a different thread, so I will give you a brief outline!!! In a different thread where I was pointing out that maybe a posters actions were a bit OTT I was referred to as "dumb" and a "thug" simply because I have done and occasionally still do, doorwork. I have no particular issue with this, as everyone is entitled to there opinion no matter how arse ways it might be!

It did get me thinking though, about how in the past I have had a lot of "lower scale" jobs so to speak and was often treated poorly or met with certain assumptions just because of the job that I did.

As such, I now ensure that I am always mannerly to everyone, as every job needs doing!

My questions is this, have you ever been treated poorly by a stranger, or met with certain labels simply because of the job you did at the time? If so how did it effect you in the short/long term?

Huggles

I was working in a video store when I was in college. This lady dropped a dvd back late and I told her as nicely as possible that she owed an extra night as it was late. She completely denied it and questioned the whole computer system. :rolleyes:

Anyways long story short after proving every single way possible that the dvd was late, she turned around and told me that I didnt know what I was talking about being just a shop girl. She turned around and said she had a degree in english and who was I to ask her for her fine. Ugh

Like Dragan I treat everyone in all professions equally.

stovelid

TBH thats just their ignorance mate and not a slight on you.

Only thing I can think of was when I was a waiter. A group called me over to ask about specials. The specials board stated that one of the dishes came with a choice of bread or potato (can't remember) and I hadn't read this. One of the women asked me about it and I mistakenly said it didn't come with the side dish. She screwed up her nose and said something like "excuse me, but can you actually read..oh probably not" to stifled chuckles at the table.

Dragan wrote:

Heys guys,

This thread springs from a different thread, so I will give you a brief outline!!! In a different thread where I was pointing out that maybe a posters actions were a bit OTT I was referred to as "dumb" and a "thug" simply because I have done and occasionally still do, doorwork. I have no particular issue with this, as everyone is entitled to there opinion no matter how arse ways it might be!

It did get me thinking though, about how in the past I have had a lot of "lower scale" jobs so to speak and was often treated poorly or met with certain assumptions just because of the job that I did.

As such, I now ensure that I am always mannerly to everyone, as every job needs doing!

My questions is this, have you ever been treated poorly by a stranger, or met with certain labels simply because of the job you did at the time? If so how did it effect you in the short/long term?

humanji

I worked on the Port Tunnel, so you can just imagine the amount of sh1t I get! Thank god I moved on.

Karl Hungus

Meh, I've been a bouncer before. The fact of the matter is that there's some amazing twats out there who shouldn't be doing the job, and they pretty much give out a bad name for all persons doing the job.

I've got friends doing bouncing aswell, they're sound as hell, but I have run into some absolute ****ing scumbag bouncers, you'll have that. But if someone is going to make arbitrary comments about me, or anyone else simply because of the type of job, then it reflects a lot more on them.

6th

I've had some poxy jobs but I have to say I've been very lucky. I do make sure to treat people in general the same no matter what their job. If anything I can be nice to people in the service industry because they tend to get more crap - balance it out like.

xzanti

TheGooner wrote:

I was working in a video store when I was in college. This lady dropped a dvd back late and I told her as nicely as possible that she owed an extra night as it was late. She completely denied it and questioned the whole computer system. :rolleyes:

Anyways long story short after proving every single way possible that the dvd was late, she turned around and told me that I didnt know what I was talking about being just a shop girl. She turned around and said she had a degree in english and who was I to ask her for her fine. Ugh

Like Dragan I treat everyone in all professions equally.

OMG.. That sounds exactly like a woman I know .. lol.. Where was the video shop??

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Used to work in directory enquiries where I was constantly regailed as being ignorant because I didn't know where every little township in Ireland was. Especially by studenty country callers outsidee roaring nightclubs at 2am.

"I want the number for a taxi company in Ballyjaylackanvey!"
"In which country is that?"
"**** you! Your job to know that, not mine, you ignorant ****!"

Huggles

xzanti wrote:

OMG.. That sounds exactly like a woman I know .. lol.. Where was the video shop??

Hahaha Killester

tbh

when I was in college, I worked as a kitchen porter in a large bank building on Baggot st.

Used to get treated like crap by the bankers, and it seemed the younger they were, the worse they would treat you.

xzanti

TheGooner wrote:

Hahaha Killester

Not her so, sounded a lot like her, a friends mother, she went back as a mature student and would gloat constantly about her "letters" afaik it was an English degree.. Total nut job.. she would ask strangers about their education and er, other personal details.. Very unstable woman

fozzle

Was working in a sailing club bar during an intervarsity being organised by the local IT. All the students were really sound except the local ones. Three staff in the bar, me, my younger cousin and a mate of ours. One of the local students starts giving off at my cousin cos she wouldn't serve him (he was roaring drunk) and he starts yelling at her that she's only a fncking barmaid, what right has she to tell him what he can and cannot do, he's in college etc etc. Cue enraged fozzle taking up arms in support. Told him that between us we were studying geology, law and veterinary science in university and that if he thought that having enough pride to work our way through colege instead of living off mammy and daddy made us less than him then he could fnck off and take his attitude with him, at least some day we'd have real jobs.

Felt really bad about it after, I don't really give a damn if someone goes to rd level or not let alone what kind of institution they attend. He just got me so angry with his pompous superiour snobby attitude. But then I must have sounded just as bad as him.

Anyway, I've gotten that sort of treatment from lots of people in various bars I've worked in and I've learned to just ignore it. some people are just plain morons.

connundrum

Worked as a bouncer for a year + and got the usual crap, but I actually found that most people were friendly to me.. maybe it was just in the places I was working

Worked as a barman for ages - people just thought I was deaf ie. 'CAN I GET A STRAW PLEASE??!!' - I'm busy, not deaf!

Worked in a cinema, where I used to clean after every showing. People would often look at me with the pity eyes.. which was annoying at first as I was nearly embarrassed to be doing my job, but then I got on with it and realised that it was possibly the easiest job I'd ever had.

I'm now a sales manager, and I get all the crap form me mates about not doing a real job ie. sparky, chippie, blockie etc. I'd rather sit on my ass all day and take phone calls, have internet access and make some moola. Working on a site in winter doesn't really appeal, that makes me not a real man tho.. Oh well

J.R.HARTLEY

came accross this kind of **** too, when myself and the brother tried to join a golf club as junior members in west county dublin we were told we didn't get in, the member that proposed us said they rejected us simply because our father was dead and we worked as waiters in the local bar that our mother cleaned for a living, our kind of people weren't wanted. went and joined hollystown instead.

joejoem

A little bit off topi, but while working in New York Behind a bar I had the biggest gimp of a manager. THis guy had all the annoying traits, he had really bad breath but insisted on standing right next to you. He would interrupt you doing a remedial job to show you how to do it his (longer, more drawn out) way. Anyway I had to work paddys day and then the following morning one of the lads rang me to say that he had pulled and woken up in upstate New york, about 4 hours away. I said I would go into work. So I left the late bar (this is at around 12pm) and went into work. I had to restock all the glasses and get all the liquer out of the basement and bring it up to the top floor etc.... I could barely see I was so drunk.

Anyway the manager came in hungover and started breaking my balls about something. We had a shout off against eachother which led to him coming over and taking hold of my arm and putting his mouldy face close to mine and saying "Do you want to be working here tomorrow?" I didnt reply and he walked off.

About five minutes later while walking by the walk in fridge I saw him inside taking a stock count of the wine. Knowing that the inside handle was broken I kicked the door closed and walked away. About twenty minutes later the owner walked in. I fixed him a drink while he went to the toilets. As he made his way toward the toilets he passed by the fridge where he heard the thuds of the trapped manager. He was released and I played dumb. I was fired before my next shift. No regrets. Seeing that dirtbags purple shivery face will stay with me till the day I die!

layke

TheGooner wrote:

I was working in a video store when I was in college. This lady dropped a dvd back late and I told her as nicely as possible that she owed an extra night as it was late. She completely denied it and questioned the whole computer system. :rolleyes:

Anyways long story short after proving every single way possible that the dvd was late, she turned around and told me that I didnt know what I was talking about being just a shop girl. She turned around and said she had a degree in english and who was I to ask her for her fine. Ugh

Like Dragan I treat everyone in all professions equally.

Been there mate, I remember my days in chartbusters. We used to have a Bosnian family come in rent DVD's bring them back over a week late, refuse to pay and then bring the wife/siters/brothers in to sign up for a new account.

One day I put the foot down and he started raving at me about how I was racist? Hilarious.

Anyway point being people will say anything to avoid paying.

c - 13

I'd say nearly everyone has come across people like that sometime in one or more of their jobs.
Long one here lads.
I used to work for a well known hardware store franchise, some really really ignorant customers but some really sound ones too. Anyway one sunday evening during the summer this old cow comes in with her daughter and son at 5.55, starts wandering around (place closes at 6). Decides she wants a BBQ worth about €700 manager asks me to get one. Went to the stock room, none left, came back said so she starts off at me saying "Your only not getting one because its your finishing time blah blah blah", called the manager, showed him we were out of stock, he tells her and she demands the display one at a reduced price.
After a bit of argument the manager agrees to give it to her, but shell only take it if it works so we had to get a gas cylinder and demonstrate it working. Then it wont fit in her car so it has to be taken apart. We explained to her it was "sold as seen". As I was taking it apart she was making smart ass comments to the son and daughter about "people working in these kind of places".
Finally got it apart, boxed, no one else around so I ask the son to give me a hand with the box, the thing was nearly 50KG, the whole family looked at me like I asked him to suck my dick or something.
Wouldnt carry it with me, got a trolley got it to the car. Put it in no thanks or anything. So I told them I forgot to give them the user manual, and helped myself to a few hard to replace screws and the starter wire (hard to replace) when I put the manual in.

She was on the phone the next day crying about how it wont go together, the manager told her that she must have lost something as it was all working when it left here.

Moral of the story
c - 13 : 1
Snotty Cow : 0 and minus €700

//Feels good to get that rant out

The Sweeper

...slut.

You must be a slut, because you slept with more than one person. You must be a slut, because you had sex before you got married. You must be a slut, because otherwise I'd have to admit there may have been an emotional attachment between you and the person you were having sex with while we were on a break, and that can't be that case, so you're a slut. You must be a slut because you're a woman who's dressed up. You must be a slut because your cleavage is on display. You must be a slut because you're wearing a short skirt. You must be a slut because you rejected me. You must be a slut because I thought I was going to get somewhere but I didn't.

You must be a slut, because I can't find the correct words to properly express my own sense of paranoia and insecurity so I'm going to choose some fairly offensive terminology and accuse you of being a slut even though it's a pretty meaningless term.

Slutslutslutslutslut. If you say it enough it becomes like Oatibix on the tongue - a tasteless paste of nothing.

layke

Oh sweet sweet vengence.

TheGooner

TheGooner wrote:

I was working in a video store when I was in college. This lady dropped a dvd back late and I told her as nicely as possible that she owed an extra night as it was late. She completely denied it and questioned the whole computer system. :rolleyes:

Anyways long story short after proving every single way possible that the dvd was late, she turned around and told me that I didnt know what I was talking about being just a shop girl. She turned around and said she had a degree in english and who was I to ask her for her fine. Ugh

Like Dragan I treat everyone in all professions equally.

You're female?!

Miguel_Sanchez

Used to work in a coffee shop and always found that the 'suits' were the worst customers. Now there's exception to every rule but I found a lot of them seemed to have aversions to the words 'please' and 'thank you'.
There was one guy that used to always rip up the sugar packets and leave them on the floor under his table. Felt like following him back to his office one day and throwing files and **** around to see how he liked it. Outside sweeping down the footpath you'd get looks for people walking past as if to say 'look at that poor eejit all he can manage is to get a job cleaning'.

Once had a girl decline to go to a party that she was very enthusiastic for because it would be full of people who were going to college at GMIT. Obviously her and her NUIG buddies were too good for us common slobs.

People always make assumptions about you. I go to work in my regular scruffy clothes - hoody, cords and converse. People presume I have a **** job because of the way I dress but I have a pretty decent one. It doesn't bother me though as long as they don't start talking down to me like I'm a serf.

Heisenberg.

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pbsuxok1znja4r

I'm a student and I work part-time in a small shop. My town is mostly full of knackers anyway so I'd rarely if ever get looked down on. But when I finish college and have my fancy job I'm sure I'll get all the usual inverse-snobbery.

Huggles

bluewolf wrote:

You're female?!

Yes?!??

Just My View

Rememeber the old saying "Be nice to people on your way up, you'll meet them on your way down".

tribulus

dragan you're by far the most articulate doorman i've met!!

A slightly diiferent one:

It was halloween and I had just left my cousins house with him, which is quite big and in a nice area. A few young kids were trick-or-treating with their mother's and came by my cousins neighbours house, which is quite smaller and dingy looking.

The mother said upon looking at the neighbours house "come on kids, we'd better go next door instead (my cousins house)." So my cousins says quite clearly that they're actually very nice people and would love to have kids knock around. She does some kind of weird snort as if that couldn't be true based on it's appearance and walks off. :mad:

That and a woman who used to treat me like crap in the supermarket i worked in suddenly changed her tune when she found out what school i went to - well "respected" :rolleyes: in the area, yet she still said she never would have thought so:mad:

iguana

Dragan wrote:

as every job needs doing!

Really, does the world really need maketing executives?

Wacker

When I worked in a newsagent, I was serving this forty-something woman. As I am a friendly, articulate bloke I guess I made some sort of impression on her. She said that I seemed to be very smart to be working in a shop (!). I told her that I was only doing this to put myself through college, and on her enquiring, I told her I was studying philosophy. She then asked if that had turned me away from Christianity (!), and I told her that I had been an atheist for years, and I didn't need to go to college for it. She than handed me a pamphlet about God's love for me! I guess once I mentioned atheism she was no longer impressed by my intelligence. I laughed at first, but I later got furios about being patronised like that.
To be honest though, I only ever heard one or two people ever say the likes of "Well what do you know, you work in a shop." Judging basded on career is silly.

matrim

Just after I'd finished college I had a job in an offlicence. One day some woman came in and bought something (IIRC a bottle of wine). She paid and I gave her the change. She started to leave, but came back saying I had given her the wrong change. She said she had paid with a 50. I was just after doing the till and knew there were no 50's there. So I was polite and told her that it was a 20. There were no 50's in the till.
She procedes to tell me how she has a degree and knows better than some shop assistant what she gave me. I was pissed off with her because there was queue forming so just smiled, asked her what her degree was in and what she got. She said a 2.2 in some arts degree (I can't remember what). Which prompted me to tell her I had a 2.1 degree in computers and know exactly what she gave me, and if she didn't mind I'd like to deal with the queue that was forming behind her. The best thing was the look on her face as she left, especially as the guy that was behind her started to burst out laughing at it.

bug

I worked in the service industry before & during college. You name it, spar, catering, general dogsbody in a clothes shop...

In one particular outlet we made sandwiches.
They were made as per the board.
i.e.: one million sandwiches with different fillings, and you pick one.

An old bag came up to me on the counter and said that she wanted "x" off the board but minus certain fillings.

Rather than initially explaining to her that we made them up in bulk in the mornings, sealed them, fridged them, and sold them in the afternoon and this wasn't a deli, but your typical production line, I just told her simply that she couldn't and asked if she could pick an alternative from the board.

Not a chance, she went mental, and me not really being a people person, (mostly kept in the kitchen doing dishes away from the general public, which suited me), told her if she wanted a specifically made up sandwich, then a deli was where she should go after a hard days shopping.

I was in bad form, I had been taken away from my easy dish washing and substituted for someone who was off with a hangover. I had to deal with people.

I turned my back and she called me all the names under the sun, remarking to her haggard mate, that "how stupid was someone who couldn't even make a sandwich in a sandwich company."

well, straw, camel, back.

My rant started off with "listen lady"... went on with "go somewhere else"... continued with "premade, prepacked sandwiches, the meaning of which seems to escape your intelligence", and ended with a pot of tea being slung across the counter, swivelling in circles as it landed just in front of her. Before shouting NEXT!

To which i turned to the next customer who was my sister, looking at me in disbelief.

I was back in the kitchen the next week and it was great.

Lust4Life

When I forst started working at the Hospital I was treated quite poorly by many of the nurses.
I'm just a lowly receprionist after all. I'm not making the big money.

But I've been there 6 months now, and have gotten a chance to really know them and visa versa. Most I really like. But those that treated me sh1tty at the start are just uptight wenches through to the bone!

Sad Professor

I work in a supermarket part-time and I have experienced a lot of abuse and rudeness from customers. It just goes with the territory, I guess. The Celtic Tiger has created a population of stuck up bourgeois types who think because they have a little money now that they are royalty and expect the most ridiculous things.

Then of course you have your usual line-up of ignorant morons who talk to you like your dirt. I've experienced every kind of stereotyping, insult and stupidity in the job. What's worse is that management look down on you almost as bad as some of the customers do so you get no backup whatsoever.

Fair play to anyone who works in the service industry full-time as I don't think I'd be able to stick it. I'd end up killing someone eventually. The only thing that makes it bareable for me is that its just a job. I don't have to rationalise and bull***t to myself that I love it.

veXual

Work part-time in a DIY shop. One day a woman & her husband asks me for a certain item (cant really remember what it is) but told them to follow me and i'd find it for them no problem.

Got to the section where I knew it was and said "Ah, it must be knockin round here somewhere".

Upon this husband says to her "God thats dreadful English isn't it", she nods in reply as if i had ceased to exist.

FIGURE OF SPEECH for christs sake. The amount of restraint I had to use unbelievable.

BlitzKrieg

Well... been working in Starbucks in Cambridge for the past month and a half (not long.) leaving at the end of this month cause I'm coming home (woohoo!) but will prob work in Starbucks there as well curse my entirely useless degree.


But yeah, before this job, I had like Bug I worked mostly in the back cleaning dishes, stocking etc.

Made it a b*tch when I wanted to work with customers because no one would hire me cause I didnt look like a peoples person.

So working in Starbucks (I hate the food industry, any kind!) and I finally get a chance to work with customers.

The good news is it turns out I have a natural friendly customer relations sort of personality, which coupled with the best advice I was given for such work has made my experiance fault free except with one minor gripe (with a drunk.) I handled complaints well and am friendly.

But the advice, thats the main thing, very simple, no matter how wrong the customer is, never tell them they are wrong, if you can figure out what they actual want (easy in a coffee shop.) just nod and write the real order. If you cant gently ask them details until you can figure out what they want. I've seen the people on the till beside me getting chewed apart by customers because they corrected them.


Though on the 'you must be a...' comment, I find how some of my workmates feel towards me a bit unsettling, my bosses are fine because they can tell the job is only a stepping stone and that while I will put as much energy as I can into the job, if they demand too much from me they know its no skin of my back if I walk away from it, hence its a friendly polite back and forward game of I do this, they give me that, I do that, they allow me time off for this. But some of my co-workers.

They're nice people.

But one seems to have detest for me because I am not a career starbucks employee, just only here for the brief moment, so she seems to grill me for a mistake more because she thinks I dont care. (which is an oxymoron, I care because its my job and income and I dont want to make mistakes, I just dont care about the company much.)

The other is in the other end of the spectrum, we are both stopping off to work here moving on to greater things, and the unspoken tension that builds up over the idea of 'who deserves to move on' just builds and builds,we'd talk about our aspirations, but far too often he would point out dire personality faults such as I dont take 'responsibilty' or how I *cheated* through some aspects of life. which granted some are true but its worse just to give up because I havnt climbed from the bottom.


I think i'm just ranting, time for a PI thread.

kahlua

Worked in McDonalds all through college, it really teaches you to be nice to others in similar jobs. Please and thank yous were rarely heard.

Once i finished college started working in a tech support job for financial traders, every single one of the traders was an asshole. Like having a highly pressured job was any excuse to treat another person like crap..... :mad:

Our man in Havana

c - 13 wrote:

I'd say nearly everyone has come across people like that sometime in one or more of their jobs.
Long one here lads.
I used to work for a well known hardware store franchise, some really really ignorant customers but some really sound ones too. Anyway one sunday evening during the summer this old cow comes in with her daughter and son at 5.55, starts wandering around (place closes at 6). Decides she wants a BBQ worth about €700 manager asks me to get one. Went to the stock room, none left, came back said so she starts off at me saying "Your only not getting one because its your finishing time blah blah blah", called the manager, showed him we were out of stock, he tells her and she demands the display one at a reduced price.
After a bit of argument the manager agrees to give it to her, but shell only take it if it works so we had to get a gas cylinder and demonstrate it working. Then it wont fit in her car so it has to be taken apart. We explained to her it was "sold as seen". As I was taking it apart she was making smart ass comments to the son and daughter about "people working in these kind of places".
Finally got it apart, boxed, no one else around so I ask the son to give me a hand with the box, the thing was nearly 50KG, the whole family looked at me like I asked him to suck my dick or something.
Wouldnt carry it with me, got a trolley got it to the car. Put it in no thanks or anything. So I told them I forgot to give them the user manual, and helped myself to a few hard to replace screws and the starter wire (hard to replace) when I put the manual in.

She was on the phone the next day crying about how it wont go together, the manager told her that she must have lost something as it was all working when it left here.

Moral of the story
c - 13 : 1
Snotty Cow : 0 and minus €700

//Feels good to get that rant out

Legend!

Black Swan

Not a job, but on a particular macho man forum where most of them treated me as an equal for several weeks until they found out my gender.

Big Nelly

You think Irish are bad, I used to work on a support desk for a well known computer maker and we supported the US.

They are the most ignorant people I have ever met. From one person losing the rag with me because I laughed when he was trying to convince me that his computer turned itself on every night at 3 in the morning and there must be a "ghost in the system":p he heard that phrase in some film. Thick

Then had one guy who rang in, was after pulling out the memory, graphics card, HDD, systemboard etc out of the PC. Rang up because when he turned it on smoke came out of the back. This was a 5 year old box and well out of warrenty so I told him not to plug in again and bring to shop to get fixed. 30 min long ranting session at me cause I was calling him "thick" according to him cause he couldnt build a PC.

Then had a person, rang up. Asked wat part of America I was in, said Ireland and he took 5 mins then asking which state that was in. Finally figured out it was in Ireland. Then had 20 min long rant about I was taking American jobs and that I was too thick to help him fix the PC. I just replied at end "Well if America is so good why do you think they have to move a PC support desk all the way to Ireland? says something about the education over there!" knew I shouldnt have. He lost it completely. I though was so funny but after 3rd abusive comment.....release.....much to the amusement of my manager who had been listening in and recording in tears laughing.

There is many more, Some just pure stupid but most calls ended up with me being called every name under the sun. One funny was was ag colour blind man and the half deaf women putting a PC together, me trying to tell the colour blind man to get on the phone so the half deaf woman could see the colour cable goes into the colour port

Etc Etc Etc.

c - 13

Big Nelly wrote:

One funny was was ag colour blind man and the half dead women putting a PC together,

LOL

Dan133269

fair play c-13 that was class.
I used to work in Tesco giving out trolleys, but seeing as this was in an area where trolleys were often not returned and dumped everywhere, they had to bring in a 5 euro deposit for a trolley rule, and of course I had to explain this to the customers. There were 3 reactions
(i) regulars from the area who were fine and knew the system and even once or twice I got a tip
(ii)those who would literally look at me for 5 minutes thinking I was joking, and keep saying "ah good one, seriously how much for a trolley?"
(iii)people who thought it was the decision of a 16 year old secondary school student to charge 5 euro for a trolley and give me an earful as to how it was too much.
Nice insight into human behaviour though

ambro25

scouser.tommy wrote:

But when I finish college and have my fancy job I'm sure I'll get all the usual inverse-snobbery.

Then you should get out of your way to play on it and/or avert it

I can't say I've had any bad experiences such as yours Boardsies (some here are so bad they're really good! ), but then I did start as a general labourer on building sites way back when. I'm now a professional, after many years and qualifications.

All the same, since I can't be arsed to do the brand thing or grow my hair (I'll have grid size 1 coz it's in winter, 'ta very much ), needless to say I don't exactly portray/advertise the higher professional or wealth achievements when chilling in town at the week-end. Not that I'd want to, mind. I'm just me, reasonably fashion conscious, but conspicuous and not really bothered all the same: I drive a '97 Impreza because I want to, even though I could 'do' the 06 Beemer or Merc thing that seems so indispensable to professionals all over Dublin Hey, it's their ego and I can understand that

Whereby in some stores... many in Dublin center, actually (let's not talk about Dundrum/Liffey, wherein if you're not dolled up to the 9s for browsing in a mall, then surely you must be a lesser lifeform :rolleyes: ) I get the very exact reverse snobbery you Boardsies are referring to, e.g. "surely he can't afford to even look at them shirts, never mind buy one". 'Tis funniest when at its worst, whereby I'll take the time to get the offender to sweat it out and bring out everything, then be about as ignorant as humanly possible and get a colleague over to make the sale

[I do say please and thanks in McD and Tesco ]

The Hill Billy

Slightly different, but along the same lines...

As a young buck may years ago I was flying back to Dublin from Heathrow after a few days working in the UK. My company paid for a business-class seat & I was dressed casually - biker jacket & jeans. Anyhoo, when we landed in Dublin I got up to take my brief case from the overhead bin. I said quite clearly to the well-dressed businessman in the seat below - "Excuse me - Mind your head there while I get this out of your way."

He thought that he'd have a bit of a laugh & make sh!t out of a young lad who obviously shouldn't be travelling in the same section as a man of his own importance. He stood up & deliberately banged his head off my case. In a loud voice he said something along the lines of "You stupid, clumsy fool - you've just hit me! Idiot! I demand an apology!"

I explained quite clearly that I had already warned him that I was taking the case down & I was not going to apologise for his actions. He then launched into a rant about ignorant kids & looked around to see if anyone would back him up. No one did. I tried to leave, but he grabbed me & shouted that he insisted I apologise. Again, I point out that it was not my fault & that he should get over it. (At this stage the doors were open & no one could get off because he was hanging on to me & blocking the aisle. Passengers are getting p!ssed off & the cabin crew are getting edgy.) Little-Sh!t continues to rant & try to make me look like an eejit to all & sundry.

I'm pretty pissed off myself at this stage & consider delivering a swift smack, but am aware that there are rather harsh penalties for doing this on an aircraft.
To counter his ranting for all to hear I say, "Hang on! I know what the problem is!"
He shuts up - a bit taken aback.
"What's that?" says he.
"You haven't had a good ride in ages, have you? That's why you're an up-tight little sh!t."
Cabin crew & passengers crack up, Little-Sh!t picks up Financial Times & legs it.
Yours truly gets round of applause.
(And 2 miniature Jemmys from a stewardess on the way out.)

Yeah, I used to work in mcdonalds when I was in the 3rd&4th year of my degree (theoretical physics ftw). The amount of people who assumed I must be stupid because I was working there was amusing.
As well as their own stupidity... "can I get a cheeseburger with no cheese" "can I get a latte with milk" "my artic coffee (coffee with icecream) is cold"... :rolleyes:

c - 13

Actually I was just thinking and this doesnt just happen between the customer/worker. Managers are notorious for it too (as another poster stated).

This was the cause of me leaving Dunnes when I was 18/19 in college. I got moved into the Cold meats/Deli area and the manager took a disliking to me used always get on my case.

The final straw was one day when he told me the chicken fillets werent laid out straight enough for his liking - not boxed ones mind, the bloody loose ones. At that point I told him to get fucked and where to stick his job. Only time I went back in was the next day to give my written notice to HR.

ambro25

Kind of reminds one really bad one many years ago, come to think of it. I'm sure I've posted this in motors already but wthell...

Years back, I was struggling to start a small business and shamelessly running one of my dad's company cars (his company = nothing to do with mine) to cut down my own overheads.

Just got my license at the time and was still a bit 'young' with the whole car thing -as we've all done :rolleyes:- and getting a bit of a rep for raising running costs/breaking things (mostly cars under me, mechanical/not crashes) at the local dealer...

Anyhooo - the car in question gets a service at said dealer, I picks it up and what do you know, 20 kms down the road (on the motorway, in a road works section and thick fog 75 meter visibility, actually), the engine blows up. Turns out the car had been serviced by a trainee, who'd replaced the driving belt and mounted it the wrong way around (go figure how :rolleyes:). So recovery guy tells me (that belt wrong way around), and my engine is a now big puzzle and it's gonna cost thousands to fix.

So I get car towed straight back to garage, have a moderately 'gentle' go at them for their mistake, demand they fix for free and gets them to call my dad to pick me up. Then to my utter amazement, the car guy proceeds to tell my dad that 'I've broken the car again' and whatnot - essentially, that it's my fault :eek:

Not really an object lesson, this, but straw & camel back connection = big reaction. About the size of a transit van in their dealership main window

So there, in reply to OP - people have a go at me undeservedly, my reaction is usually disproportionate. And f*ck the consequences.

Mr Magnolia

Done some electrical maintenance when I was going through college.

There was a table of about 18-20 people in the local one night, they were all sound bar 1 woman who had serious 'airs and graces' about herself (they're all from Belfast, try and imagine the accent).

"Can you come and look at my toilet there's an awful smell coming from it."

To which I immediately replied " It must be what ever your putting into it" and walked off.

It took her a moment to realize what I'd said as the rest of the table went into hysterics laughing.

Beetlebum

c - 13 wrote:

I'd say nearly everyone has come across people like that sometime in one or more of their jobs.
Long one here lads.
I used to work for a well known hardware store franchise, some really really ignorant customers but some really sound ones too. Anyway one sunday evening during the summer this old cow comes in with her daughter and son at 5.55, starts wandering around (place closes at 6). Decides she wants a BBQ worth about €700 manager asks me to get one. Went to the stock room, none left, came back said so she starts off at me saying "Your only not getting one because its your finishing time blah blah blah", called the manager, showed him we were out of stock, he tells her and she demands the display one at a reduced price.
After a bit of argument the manager agrees to give it to her, but shell only take it if it works so we had to get a gas cylinder and demonstrate it working. Then it wont fit in her car so it has to be taken apart. We explained to her it was "sold as seen". As I was taking it apart she was making smart ass comments to the son and daughter about "people working in these kind of places".
Finally got it apart, boxed, no one else around so I ask the son to give me a hand with the box, the thing was nearly 50KG, the whole family looked at me like I asked him to suck my dick or something.
Wouldnt carry it with me, got a trolley got it to the car. Put it in no thanks or anything. So I told them I forgot to give them the user manual, and helped myself to a few hard to replace screws and the starter wire (hard to replace) when I put the manual in.

She was on the phone the next day crying about how it wont go together, the manager told her that she must have lost something as it was all working when it left here.

Moral of the story
c - 13 : 1
Snotty Cow : 0 and minus €700

//Feels good to get that rant out

Fair play to ya....that's a f*cking great story. I hope she had a big bbq planned that all fell to **** aswell: )

c - 13

Beetlebum wrote:

Fair play to ya....that's a f*cking great story. I hope she had a big bbq planned that all fell to **** aswell: )

LOL, yeah she was mouthing off to the kids about great uncle cecil-on-thynesborough-somesuchwhat* coming over from england and stuff so I think it could have been a family event. I bloody hope so anyway.

* May not be actual name

Beetlebum

You can be damn sure her kids will grow up to be narrow-minded brats aswell, Jesus I pity her poor husband!!

I was working as a waitress a few years back in a restaurant/bar in town. We got paid cash in hand on a weekly basis. After my first week in the job my boss hands me my wages in an enevelope. When I got home I opened it only to discover €150 plus a post-it saying 'I.O.U €150'. That's all it said!
The next day I went into work and confronted my boss. He actually had the audacity to act as if he knew nothing about it. His exact words were 'Sure there's no signature or anything on that, you could have written that yourself'. There was nothing I could do about and I remember feeling so helpless and cheated.
F*cking charlatan....I called him a wanker and told him to shove his job up his tight ass...grrrrr...prick!!

Big Nelly

c - 13 wrote:

LOL

Yeah classic, she sounded half dead but was only half deaf

c - 13

Big Nelly wrote:

she sounded half dead but was only half deaf

I know how it is, was she one of the ones that tells you no need to shout when you raise your voice so she can hear you ? I bloody hate that.