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Inept Service professionals

  • 20-03-2013 12:33pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 20


    Yesterday I bought some groceries in a very well-known supermarket. Two of the items were loose onions and loose mushrooms. The cashier weighed these items at the counter but I noticed the digital scales read 0.89KG of onions and 0.5KG of mushrooms. I knew this could not be right so I said, “I could be wrong but I really doubt there is nearly a kilo of onions there could you way them again please”. She almost split me in two with the look she gave me but she rushed through the process and said you’re right. Then I challenged her on the mushrooms. I was right again. I almost got fleeced because she left half the items I bought on the scales while weighing the veg. completely inept.

    Let us know of any experience you have had of ineptitude from service professionals of any sort.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Ewww, mushrooms. Icky.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Inept professional is a bit of an oxymoron.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    A lady once charged my friend €50 for a blow job. He said she never even blew on it once.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    You went weigh out of your weigh to get her to way them again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,972 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    wellyhead wrote: »
    Yesterday I bought some groceries in a very well-known supermarket. Two of the items were loose onions and loose mushrooms. The cashier weighed these items at the counter but I noticed the digital scales read 0.89KG of onions and 0.5KG of mushrooms. I knew this could not be right so I said, “I could be wrong but I really doubt there is nearly a kilo of onions there could you way them again please”. She almost split me in two with the look she gave me but she rushed through the process and said you’re right. Then I challenged her on the mushrooms. I was right again. I almost got fleeced because she left half the items I bought on the scales while weighing the veg. completely inept.

    Let us know of any experience you have had of ineptitude from service professionals of any sort.

    :confused:

    I wouldn't use the term "professional" to describe someone working at a cash register.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    what you have for dinner OP


  • Registered Users Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Mocha Joe


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    :confused:

    I wouldn't use the term "professional" to describe someone working at a cash register.

    Snob.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,972 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Mocha Joe wrote: »
    Snob.

    :rolleyes:

    Far from it. I've never heard anyone use the term in that context.

    Have you?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭Yitzhak Rabin


    You sound like a horrible person OP.

    I'm sure it was an honest mistake by someone who had absolutely nothing to gain by overcharging you. Its not too often you'd find the owner of a supermarket chain working at the till and overcharging you for you fruit and veg.


  • Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Terry1985


    They're scanning thousands of items a day.
    I think you need some perspective, or else just use the self service tills.

    1kg onions are approx €1.50


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Crockholm goes to a deli counter in SV........

    C- "Hello, can I get a sandwich please"

    Deli Gal-"Sorry,we stop making sandwiches after 6 o' clock, why? what were you looking for"?

    C-"Umm...a sandwich"

    DG (with a look of derision)- No, we stop meking those after 6.

    Crockholm leaves bemused,yet ultimately sandwichless


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    :confused:

    I wouldn't use the term "professional" to describe someone working at a cash register.

    Well there's carrying out your job in a professional manner - diligently, etc. Then there's the narrow term we apply to some jobs as "professionals" - doctors, accountants, engineers.

    Agree, cash register personnel wouldn't usually fall into the latter catagory but no reason why they would still be professional in manner.

    Thing is, with the greatest of respect, you do come across as a snob when you point out what you've pointed out above.

    OP - good cathch on the weight. It constantly surprises me how many people don't have a firm grasp of basic weights and measures.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    :confused:

    I wouldn't use the term "professional" to describe someone working at a cash register.

    They could be a Chartered Accountant who once happened to be the highest ranking partner with KPMG until his daughter made a tool of herself in a pizza restaurant.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭**Vai**


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    :confused:

    I wouldn't use the term "professional" to describe someone working at a cash register.



    Whats else would you call someone who gets paid for their job? I lasted a week at a job at a cash register when I was younger, it does take some professionalism.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    wellyhead wrote: »
    Then I challenged her on the mushrooms. I was right again.

    You should really blog this stuff, priceless.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I always maintain that one's daily life is enriched by a bit of vicarious exasperation about nothing of any consequence whatsoever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Scartbeg


    crockholm wrote: »
    Crockholm goes to a deli counter in SV........

    C- "Hello, can I get a sandwich please"

    Somewhat related, I went into a Subway in Houston:
    Me: I'll have a 12 inch Cheese & Ham on rye please
    Server: I' m sorry sir, we only have Ham & Cheese...
    Me: Speechless!

    Maybe there is some subtle difference? Or more likely he was just a total plank


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    You sound like a horrible person OP.

    I'm sure it was an honest mistake by someone who had absolutely nothing to gain by overcharging you. Its not too often you'd find the owner of a supermarket chain working at the till and overcharging you for you fruit and veg.

    I think it was her attitude that annoyed him, not just her inept technique.

    Of course the lesson here is to weigh your own veg. And relax a little.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    Scartbeg wrote: »
    Somewhat related, I went into a Subway in Houston:
    Me: I'll have a 12 inch Cheese & Ham on rye please
    Server: I' m sorry sir, we only have Ham & Cheese...
    Me: Speechless!

    Maybe there is some subtle difference? Or more likely he was just a total plank

    the reliance on set units/packages with barcodes means till workers rarely have to do any calculations. Mine used to go like this:

    Me: can I have 25g of Drum please?
    Server: oh, we only have it in 12.5g.
    Me: could I have two of them so please?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    You sound like a horrible person OP.

    I'm sure it was an honest mistake by someone who had absolutely nothing to gain by overcharging you. Its not too often you'd find the owner of a supermarket chain working at the till and overcharging you for you fruit and veg.

    It's attitudes like yours that have the service industry in the state it's in.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭Yitzhak Rabin


    Sauve wrote: »
    It's attitudes like yours that have the service industry in the state it's in.

    The ranks of our service industry will always be filled from the more dulled tools in the box. That's just supply and demand. My attitude won't change that, love.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pfft, clearly the OP is poor. Superquinn make you weigh your own veg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Ewww, mushrooms. Icky.
    Mushrooms are one of the best Veg ever!!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve



    The ranks of our service industry will always be filled from the more dulled tools in the box. That's just supply and demand. My attitude won't change that, love.

    Let me guess- got promoted to 'supervisor' in Aldi, did we? :rolleyes:

    Oh and don't call me love again. Bet you're some middle-aged creep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,165 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Gee_G wrote: »
    Mushrooms are one of the best Veg ever!!:D

    The best fungus?:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    ejmaztec wrote: »

    The best fungus?:P
    Ssshh....don't like to think of them like that! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    **Vai** wrote: »
    Whats else would you call someone who gets paid for their job? I lasted a week at a job at a cash register when I was younger, it does take some professionalism.

    And then you became the Financial regulator


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    I've heard of this happening quite a bit in a certain well known supermarket...

    ****ty attitude form checkout lady, but hardly ineptitude... More likely woefully inaccurate scales leading to "accidental" overcharging....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,972 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Well there's carrying out your job in a professional manner - diligently, etc. Then there's the narrow term we apply to some jobs as "professionals" - doctors, accountants, engineers.

    Agree, cash register personnel wouldn't usually fall into the latter catagory but no reason why they would still be professional in manner.

    Thing is, with the greatest of respect, you do come across as a snob when you point out what you've pointed out above.

    Hang on a sec.

    You actually agree with me, but think I'm a snob? :confused:
    **Vai** wrote: »
    Whats else would you call someone who gets paid for their job? I lasted a week at a job at a cash register when I was younger, it does take some professionalism.

    I'm not disputing that, but if you actually read my post, I merely pointed out that the term is not usually associated with that position even if it technically meets the description.

    I have a job but I still wouldn't call myself a professional.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Spare a thought for the people working in retail that have to put up with tossers on a daily basis


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    I have a job but I still wouldn't call myself a professional.
    Do you get paid for it? Then you're a professional. If not, then you're an amateur.


  • Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭cuana


    Recently went into to pay a bill while in the queue a woman was disgruntled, speaking loudly and aggressively to customers! I couldn't believe it she was bang out of order yet what shocked me most was her that none of the other staff members intervened either a whole queue of people watching while she preceded to humiliate fee paying customers!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭starlings


    Do you get paid for it? Then you're a professional. If not, then you're an amateur.

    I think that only counts for sport and arts - otherwise the distinction is between a job you're just doing and a job you intend to advance in. So someone who works a short while at a till in a supermarket has a job in retail; if they work up to management level it's a career, therefore a profession.

    2¢, open to correction, but some of the snob schtick might be down to terminology. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Gee_G wrote: »
    Mushrooms are one of the best Veg ever!!:D
    Why did the mushroom get invited to the party?

    Because he was a funguy! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,972 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Do you get paid for it? Then you're a professional. If not, then you're an amateur.

    Why don't you actually read what people post? :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    cuana wrote: »
    Recently went into to pay a bill while in the queue a woman was disgruntled, speaking loudly and aggressively to customers! I couldn't believe it she was bang out of order yet what shocked me most was her that none of the other staff members intervened either a whole queue of people watching while she preceded to humiliate fee paying customers!!
    No one cares about gruntled customers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭**Vai**


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    I'm not disputing that, but if you actually read my post, I merely pointed out that the term is not usually associated with that position even if it technically meets the description.

    I have a job but I still wouldn't call myself a professional.

    Thats you, not the wider world. I did actually read your post, honestly, I didnt just post random words or anything.

    "An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, "lover") is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science in a non-professional or unpaid manner."

    "A professional is a person who is engaged in a certain activity, or occupation, for gain or compensation as means of livelihood; such as a permanent career, not as an amateur or pastime."

    No thanks necessary.


  • Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭cuana


    No one cares about gruntled customers.

    whoops! I wasn't clear the sales assistant was the one being aggressive and shouting at actual customers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    If most people had any idea how much stupidity, ignorance, arrogance, condecension, disregard and apathy anybody who works in retail has to put up with on a daily basis, they shouldn't be complaining that a single retail worker was a bit rude to them once, they should be thankful that they made it another day without them snapping, rising up en masse and cleansing the population of anybody who has never worked in the service industry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    orestes wrote: »
    If most people had any idea how much stupidity, ignorance, arrogance, condecension, disregard and apathy anybody who works in retail has to put up with on a daily basis, they shouldn't be complaining that a single retail worker was a bit rude to them once, they should be thankful that they made it another day without them snapping, rising up en masse and cleansing the population of anybody who has never worked in the service industry.

    I think "Cries of Retail" should be made available to read by anyone it's not available to.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Treadhead wrote: »
    I've heard of this happening quite a bit in a certain well known supermarket...

    ****ty attitude form checkout lady, but hardly ineptitude... More likely woefully inaccurate scales leading to "accidental" overcharging....

    Yes, accidental. The store makes an overall loss. Its complicated but basically the cost from a small accounting error is greater than the difference.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Hang on a sec.

    You actually agree with me, but think I'm a snob? :confused:

    I said you "come across as a snob" i.e. you could be mistaken for a snob for pointing out that technically a shop worker isn't or shouldn't be called a professional. You're technically correct but, lets put it this way, I wouldn't like to go up to any non-professional (non-Doctor, non-Engineer, etc) and say "You are not a professional".

    There's too fine a difference between "You are not a professional" and "You are not professional"

    Just a question of perception.


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