Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it?

postal · 11-07-2009, 01:24 AM

Ok where to start here .Who has to deal with the public as part of there job and hates it more words

can explain !!!Ok I work for a large gm "a" body parts reproduction company that makes and and sells

parts for all "a" body's and some newer G body's.I work in part re-production and as a tech adviser on

the phone to shops and customers wanting advise and now things slowed down for the winter and a

bunch of people have been let go I have to help out with dealer sales on the phones.Now if I had 3

weeks to tell all my stories it would not be enough.Let me start by saying it fvkin blows my mind how

totally fvckin stupid stupid stupid dumb and rude 99.9% of the people are out there when I have to

deal with the public aspect of my job!!!!!!!! First off when im on the phones people call up and start

with "yea where the **** is my order........" "or just sit there and go "uhhhhhhhh uhhhh"and not say

anything? Or just start off buy flying off the handle yelling and cursing at me without me knowing who

the fvck they are!!! And almost 99 % of these people call and give me no info on who they are not a

name ,number,address,order# invoice# nothing and expect me to know there entire order

history,status and details on there account on the fly instantly the second I pick up.Then when I ask

who they are they get pissed instantly like I insulted them because I don't know "who they are".Half

the time they cant even supply me with there name or even phone number or address to look them

up!!!!!!!!WOW......They just say uhhhh I dont know it and they actually don't know there own dam

phone numbers or address? People call up and wanna talk to me while pissing,shitting,farting,talking to

another person,calling while using air tools,driving down the highway with there head out the window

,chewing chips in my ear and they all get mad if you say something like "I cant hear you "or "could you

please leave the noisy area " That sets them off .Then the tech questions from car repair ""SHOPS""

are down rite bone chilling scary .These shops call all day asking shit like what way does a carb go

on.?Why dont a set of 2 inch primary tube headers just fit ?.Tell me size what my motor is by listening

to it on the phone?How do you put brake pads on? Does a rear diff really need fluid?How do you bleed

brakes?What way and how do you put on a rear quarter panel ?Give me a list of every part broken

down by part numbers that makes up a chevelle??? ..HAHA wtf people!People call up and say yes I

have your catalog in front of me but its big and I don't want to look it up myself its to much work so

"you" are doing it for me page by page...hummm ok lazy fvck.! Then people call me get me on the

phone and are completely not prepared with any info of any kind and want me to diagnose there car

problem without knowing what the problem is then they get mad at me cuz they supplied no car info for

me to work with and I can't help them hahaha!... Now these are the shops working and rebuilding

these cars !!And I was going easy with some of there questions its actually way worse!!!Its

scary..Then its like explaining step by step to a 9 year old how to perform tasks on these cars .But all

the while they all come off with attitude and rudeness like they know how to do what they are asking

and just want my opinion

.Then half the people who call have phones that are so full of static (rotary

phones from 1972)(sports illustrated football phones)that I cant hear shit.Or its people from the south

(no ofence southerners)That have such a dam accent that I in all honesty can not understand one

word they speak !Esp the Blacks from the south forget it not even a chance of any comprehension .I

know it seems like im bitching about my job but I honestly love what I do but now I have to help out

with the public because we downsized it sucks balls dealing with retards all day and since we are in a

time of economic hardships I cant complain at work about it and just have to suck it up and be glad im

working .The whole point of this story is dealing with sucky, rude ,nasty and dumb people all day

changes me in a way I don't like .Reason being is that I am a person who does not take shit from

anybody esp when they are in the wrong!!!!And now I have to help on the phones and the company's

new policy is that no matter what people say or do on the phone wrong or rite we can not fight back

or defend ourselves we must just let them walk all over us or get in trouble.So by the end of the day

after eating shit for hours from these asshats it makes me wanna smash the first person who looks at

me wrong after work .I really do not like feeling like this so I hope biz picks up and I can go back to

product develop and not have to deal with the public or customers !So who else deals with something

like this??And dont talk shat about me bitching im just sharing my life's work experiences haha

Just

glad im workin !You?

dimerunner88 · 11-07-2009, 01:32 AM

yeah, the public is full of morons. the ppl who only rebuild old cars are the dumbest,they just have to remove parts and clean/replace them and reinstall them. theres no diagnosis or any type of thought required. i currently work at a walmart TLE (i hate it,went to school for an education and here i am changing oil again) and i can't believe the morons that come into my work,they don't know what kind of car they have,what size the tire is,what tire they want,so you have to basically hold their hand while you tell them about what their car needs.

edit: and don't forget the members on here that want you to tell them whats wrong with their truck based on the noise they say it makes that sounds like ting-ting-bang-ting or some shit like that

postal · 11-07-2009, 01:42 AM

That's funny you know exactly what I am talking about ...They know NOTHING and expect me to read there minds and walk them through everything like a baby.Asking a customer .."Do you have a big block car or small block car is a major issue because 90% of the people answer what's a small block mean?I don't know what that is how do I know>.???? .I sure these people think we read minds and have physic power ! I had a guy call and say to me "Yea I saw this car on the side of the road for sale and I want you to tell me if it has the orig motor and trans in it and if its all numbers matching because I might buy it ...Then silence,........"Im like dude are you serious im In California and you are where ?And you want me to tell you if a car on the side of the road is numbers matching without any info or without looking at it at all?? Wowowowow

TheFue · 11-07-2009, 01:43 AM

I'm a pizza driver now, and am training to be a State Trooper, 'nuff said.

As my good friend Jason Sider once said, "Oh you think you hate society...just wait, just wait...."

old_skool_noma · 11-07-2009, 01:46 AM

yeah, i work at tractor supply, i deal with the public day in and day out, luckily farmers know how to pull their head out of their ass most of the time

dimerunner88 · 11-07-2009, 01:49 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by old_skool_noma

yeah, i work at tractor supply, i deal with the public day in and day out, luckily farmers know how to pull their head out of their ass most of the time

the problem with most farmers is they are the alpha male all the time so when you try to teach them something/inform them they won't listen and do what they think is best.

neo71665 · 11-07-2009, 01:51 AM

Electrician, Most of my calls are cause some dumbass has 80 things plugged into one recept and its tripping the breaker. They then can't understand why its bad cause "they sell those splitters at the hardware store so they must be safe" or why I can't just replace the 15 amp breaker with a bigger one so it will stop throwing.

TheFue · 11-07-2009, 01:52 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by neo71665

why I can't just replace the 15 amp breaker with a bigger one so it will stop throwing.

Start doing that, it'll solve the problem of repeat-idiots...

neo71665 · 11-07-2009, 02:00 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by TheFue

Start doing that, it'll solve the problem of repeat-idiots...

Sometimes I wish I could but also being a vol firefighter I'd just be creating my own headache all over again.

neel2008 · 11-07-2009, 02:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by dimerunner88

the problem with most farmers is they are the alpha male all the time so when you try to teach them something/inform them they won't listen and do what they think is best.

yea i work for Orscheln Farm and Home, similar store to Tractor Supply but we only have like 160 stores to TSC's 800+. but anyhow, its funny how the big bad old farmers will walk right past me and ask one of the old timers at work and they will go ah idk, ask that guy (pointing to me) over there, he'll know. lol they give me this look like wtf why does this young punk know more than the older guys. Its also great when I see something happen like a customer gets mad at the cashier who is like 40 and im 19 and im her "boss" (when the manager and assistant arnt there, i get to play boss man) guy gets pissed and asked for the manager and she points to me and i kinda smile and they get pissed knowing they arnt going to get anywhere and leave.

Or when a similar thing happens and they dont relize im the boss and they call in like 30 mins later when they get home and ask to speak with a manager, im like ah yea, i watch the whole thing, i was that punk kid standing right next to u. lol It is nice after a while when you start to gain respect from the older customers and workers.

But yea we do tires there too and I had this one guy the other day argue with me from the time that we looked at the tires through me putting them on his truck and even out the door. His truck had like a 245 65 16 on it and I only had 2 of that size, but had a set of 245 70 16's. I told him that I would be willing to throw them on the front and we will let it down and turn lock to lock and make sure nothing rubs because the 70 series tire is 5% taller than the 65. Hes like now the 245 is the height and the 65/70 is the width, I took like 20 mins explaining how the first three digit number is the sectiong width of the tire in mm's and the second number is the height of the sidewall expressed as a percentage of the width. 65 series has a sidewall that is 65% of the section width which is 245mm. He just kept saying I was wrong even though I put a 245 65 next to a 245 70 and showed him that they are the same width but but the 70 is a little taller. He looked at them and still said the 245 70 was wider than the 245 65 (no these were not mounted). I just put them on and gave up. lol

I find myself having to "dumb down" to communicate with the customer. You have to pretend ur talking to a 3 year old to get any kind of point accross.

sorry for the book. lol

Cliffs: work for farm store too, people are dumb

postal · 11-07-2009, 02:40 AM

HAHA nice the tire thing is always a problem with older people .They all think the second series of numbers like the 50,60,65 etc is the width not the height haha and they will sure argue !I have had people on the phone get mad when I prove them wrong and they say "you don't know what you are talking about "And hang up .I always chuckle at that

neel2008 · 11-07-2009, 03:09 AM

yea after you work retail for a few years, ur start to really wonder how the human race has come this far.

Here's another thing I just remember from work. Ok we have these sales flyers that come out like many stores. There is a date range (normally a week or so) printed in BIG ****ING LETTERS on the front and also in smaller print on the bottom of all like 12 pages in the ad. The local free news paper goes out on mondays and thursdays. so if the sale starts on like a wednesday, it has to be send out on monday otherwise it will get to the customers too late. So of coarse like a million people come in on the day before the sale and go "ahhhh diz iz 'pose to be on sale, i got the salzzz flyerzzz right hare!!" Ah yea see the nice big date at the top retard? They seem to think as long as that paper exists somewhere in the world then they should get whatever is on it whenever they want

Then you get the people that come in durring the sale and go "hey i bought this item last week, and now its on sale, can i get the difference in price now?" ahhh let me see here, its called a ****ing sale, you have to buy the item between the beginning date and the end date. Its not that frekin hard. "well im never shopping here again" "ok see u next week, have a good day" lol and sure enough here they come back again with their tail between their legs when a pipe burst and they are in a pinch and hand me a pile of parts and ask if I can fix it. lol

I gotta admit, dealing with the public frekin sucks but owning customers is funny as hell.

adamwilkes20 · 11-07-2009, 03:58 AM

I dont have to deal with the general public, but I do have to deal with panzie ass cry baby truck drivers. They ask me how much weight I am going to load on their truck and they bitch and moan about it being 44,000 pounds...well asshole, if you dont want to haul a load weighing 44,000 pounds, maybe you should get a job driving LTL or something and stop going over the road. Some truck drivers make me feel like going postal.

S-10MASTER · 11-07-2009, 04:58 AM

Yeah same with military people. Everytime I go somewhere like finance, or even at my job everyone is bitchy. All the crewchiefs sit there and bitch about how their job sucks and finance people are just bitchy. I would be too though if I had to sit in an office all day. Seriously grow up. I work 5 sometimes 6 days a week 12-16 hours. I dont really bitch about having to do my job. Its not the best job in the world but I enjoy it for now. And when I call somewhere to order something to eat or even go into the shopette. They barely speak english. Not being racial or whatever but they need people I can understand. Thats what really grinds my gears.

primerdnoma · 11-07-2009, 06:55 AM

Shit can be retarded. PennDOT is having a "problem" with one of our machines, well nothing is actually wrong with it and they've brought it to our shop a bunch of times. Last time they called corporate and ratted out my supervisor saying he is rude to customers...which is bullshit. So corporate calls my plant manager and chews him out for it, and he has to write my supervisor up. WTF, no verbal, and they almost gave him 3 days off unpaid. One more writeup and he's fired, all because they think they know what they're doing but hey don't. I always have to go "fix" problems with our rentals, even though 75% of it is operator error and poor training from the salesman. Oh well, doesn't bother me really since I still get paid, just a shame you can't fix stupidity.

MaveRankus · 11-07-2009, 07:27 AM

I work for Pepsi. Have a Walmart, Target and Marsh on my route. Deal with it day in and day out. By far the worst are at Walmart. And I'm not just saying that either. The stupidity level some people have reached is simply amazing.

Semper · 11-07-2009, 08:15 AM

word, I used to run a small independent repair shop and jesus it always amazed me how little people knew about their cars... Most people (euro bmw etc) didnt even know what model their car was...

now im working in graphics and I love people call and i need a set of these plans or i need another set... not explaining who they are, where there from, or what the job is called... lol

dngrous_dime · 11-07-2009, 09:27 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by dimerunner88

edit: and don't forget the members on here that want you to tell them whats wrong with their truck based on the noise they say it makes that sounds like ting-ting-bang-ting or some shit like that

Sounds like a catalytic converter heat shield, to me.

I would love to deal with the public, as long as I started getting a paycheck again...

elliot98SS · 11-07-2009, 10:57 AM

You sell reproduction parts for GM muscle cars all day long....I'll take your job in a heartbeat even if people are assholes lol You cant avoid idiots, might as well be invovled with a cool product line.

Most of my stores about stupid people involve forigners....

I have worked at several hobby shops over the years. The second one I worked at, I was in mail order. Now this guy I am talking about was not rude, just stupid. He lived in France. He purchased a Traxxas T-Maxx 2.5 over the web site. He was having problems with it and gave me a call. The phone call began with some blabbing in French and then he started the truck up, holding it up to the phone...wanting a diganosis. Well after getting though his broken english I took a guess that the motor scooted away from the spur gear (so the clutch bell and the spur gear no longer meshed). He was not checking the motor mount screws after every tank of fuel, which prevents that. So the thing would rev up but not engage lol. He couldnt figure that out.

postal · 11-07-2009, 12:23 PM

Neel2008 ..You hit that one on the head ! That is a big issue daily and causes many problems .We send out sale cards with a monthly sale every month .Now the same happens people call before and after the sales date listed on the front demanding the sale and they think just because they have something in there hand that had the sale on it that they are entitled to it even if expired .After I explain its not valid then they give me "well I have it rite here in my hand"!.The big one is the free shipping ones we do every few months ...People call in months after the sale MONTHS and say after taking an order"yea thats feww shipping rite!" I say uhh no we have not done that for 3 months ..Then there answer "Well you just sent this to me today its rite here in my hands"haha Its amazing how they will lie .Then just like you said they want the sale price ,want a manager,or if a sale comes along they all call up saying they want the sale price on crap they bought up to 3 yaers agoooooooooo!!! I also have people try to return 2000 worth of parts that were bought 9-10 years ago and they can't figure out why I will not do it they just say "Its ****in brand new" I say "Oh really next time you order I will give you all 10+ yr old parts that were in some guys garage in your order would you like that sir !?" Silence but still wanted to return them ....Then who gets the people that call up and say I have a recipt and did not get my parts !!? We have people all day long that call in and say they didnt get there order.Now not a day after ordering I'm talking years!!!!!!!!!!!! Guy this week tried saying he rec'd no parts after ordrering totaling value of 5k and he ordered them 4 years ago????????And they a fit that I didn't send a free order asap!HAHA .And yes as another member said something about forign people ..Most of the people ordering are forign!Then Black people call in alllllllllllllllllllll day long and never buy a thing and just want us to send every catalog aka "book" "magazine " "prescription" that we have for free and want me to look up every part they need and give tech adv and never buy a dam thing ever .

elliot98SS · 11-07-2009, 01:01 PM

Yep I could handle all that bs if I got to sell old car parts all day long. I don't go though a lot of bs selling under hood and trunk decals but...those are just soft parts.

old_skool_noma · 11-07-2009, 01:04 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by postal

HAHA nice the tire thing is always a problem with older people .They all think the second series of numbers like the 50,60,65 etc is the width not the height haha and they will sure argue !I have had people on the phone get mad when I prove them wrong and they say "you don't know what you are talking about "And hang up .I always chuckle at that

that because im pretty sure theyre used to the old numbering system like 31-10.50-16

dngrous_dime · 11-07-2009, 01:10 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by old_skool_noma

that because im pretty sure theyre used to the old numbering system like 31-10.50-16

I got into several heated discussions with rednecks that just didn't GET IT.

I proved to them several times that I could measure the actual outside diameter of any given metric tire, using the calculations.

Their basis for their argument? "It's how they're listed in the advertisements, in order."

/facepalm

Neveragain · 11-07-2009, 01:13 PM

Here! Here! Used to be a game warden, you could watch someone shoot from the road or fish from a dock and approach them only to have them say "I didn't do that or I wasn't fishing." It go to the point that I kept a video camera with me and showed them what I had on film. I don't miss those kind of people at all.

LowLady · 11-07-2009, 05:03 PM

I do customer service for a trash broker, i deal with haulers lying , store managers lying, have a bi polar boss and a drama queen supervisor I'm glad i am working but hate my job! Though we do hear about bodies in dumpsters and raccoons in compactors etc

Wrkn prgs · 11-07-2009, 05:29 PM

Oh boy, I work at Menards. Some people, I tell ya..

My favorite is when people walk right past me to my 'assistant department manager', and he points them right back to me because he doesn't know the answer. I trained both my Dept. Manager as Assist Dept. Manager

comics22 · 11-07-2009, 06:24 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by neel2008

yea i work for Orscheln Farm and Home, similar store to Tractor Supply but we only have like 160 stores to TSC's 800+. but anyhow, its funny how the big bad old farmers will walk right past me and ask one of the old timers at work and they will go ah idk, ask that guy (pointing to me) over there, he'll know. lol they give me this look like wtf why does this young punk know more than the older guys. Its also great when I see something happen like a customer gets mad at the cashier who is like 40 and im 19 and im her "boss" (when the manager and assistant arnt there, i get to play boss man) guy gets pissed and asked for the manager and she points to me and i kinda smile and they get pissed knowing they arnt going to get anywhere and leave.

lol i find it opposite here, i dont have a job where i deal with the public per say (i mow grass and other odd jobs) so i deal with one maybe 2 people. but sometimes i get some of the weirdest people wanting the simplest job done...

anyways sometimes ill walk into a TSC or ACE hardware and the old guys pretty much ignore me like im a dumbass that doesnt know anything. then i start rambling off somehitng like i need a bushing with a 1/4" id and a 1/2" od do you have one and suprisingly enough some of em barely have a clue to what a bushing is, they just hand me the box of all of em and let me pick it out...

i always have to laugh at some of the people i hear in auto parts stores trying to buy parts and how mad the worker gets.

i made a personal vow to never work in a place where i directly have to deal with lots of people. (any food place, department store, etc)

postal · 11-07-2009, 10:44 PM

I found this website today and it is great! Its people of retail all sharing how ****in stupid and rude customers are !HAHA some funny stories in here .
http://www.retail-sucks.com/index.php

neel2008 · 11-08-2009, 01:17 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by postal

I found this website today and it is great! Its people of retail all sharing how ****in stupid and rude customers are !HAHA some funny stories in here .
http://www.retail-sucks.com/index.php

wow, im not alone. lol and yea comics22 I used to get that when I would go into the hardware that just happens to be across the street from the farm store, but this was way back before the farm store was even built. The old guys would be like wtf are u talking about? lol

van_wilder · 11-08-2009, 03:05 AM

i used to be the operations manager at a family amusement center... i had to deal with dumbass kids all day, that wasnt a big deal. what sucked were the parents of said dumbass kids...

one day we had a birthday party, like we did every weekend. well from the time this one family checked in i knew there were going to be problems. sure enough about 30 minutes later i caught the dad of the birthday boy had picked the lock on a coin pusher, and was reaching for the money in there. we had 2 50's and 2 20s' in there. i asked wtf he was doing and he said trying to fix the game??? blew my mind cause i sat there and watched him open the lock, and stick his arm in. when i told him i saw his arm all the way in the game he flat out denied it... when i told him i was calling the cops he left, but forgetting i have his name, address, phone number and cc info on file fore a deposit...

GreatWhite00 · 11-08-2009, 03:11 AM

Working with people in general is bad enough. I am sick of lying scheming tools.

-YumYum97s10- · 11-08-2009, 03:31 AM

I work in a college fan store..we get the occasional idiot..but usually we do our cleaning list, and get to watch football and talk with some interesting people.

01cherryreds10 · 11-08-2009, 04:07 AM

OP what's the name of the company if you don't mind me asking? Not too many places make G-body parts...

JChapoton · 11-08-2009, 04:29 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by adamwilkes20

I dont have to deal with the general public, but I do have to deal with panzie ass cry baby truck drivers. They ask me how much weight I am going to load on their truck and they bitch and moan about it being 44,000 pounds...well asshole, if you dont want to haul a load weighing 44,000 pounds, maybe you should get a job driving LTL or something and stop going over the road. Some truck drivers make me feel like going postal.

the reason they bitch is because depending on how you load it and what kind of product it is will usually be the difference on whether it will scale out or not when the truck get to the scale. about 50% of the loads will have to be taken back to the shipper (you) when then don't scale out right and have to be reloaded until they do and that takes time. I am telling you this because obviously you are the ASSHOLE who obviously don't know what it takes legally to get your load to point B when it comes to following each states bridge weight laws which govern the amount of weight that may be present at each of the trucks axles. While the gross vehicle weight (truck, trailer, load, and driver) is legal up to 80,000 lbs, the truck weighs 18,000 lbs, the empty 53' trailer before you load it weighs 15,000 lbs which gives you roughly 48,000 lbs remaining that you can work with. When the loads start going over 41,000 lbs that is when scaling then out to legal axle weight distribution becomes harder and harder with each 500 lbs added on to that. I've gotten 20 miles from the shipper to the 1st available scale to look at the weight distribution only to find out I had to go back to have it reloaded. They don't get paid for that time. I don't drive truck anymore cause of all the shit the government puts in one's way, but before you go calling someone an asshole maybe you should have asked him why he was concerned about the weight.

nti06 · 11-08-2009, 04:59 AM

I work in a parts store. Some people just don't need to work on cars.

People buy new pads only, then come back and ask why they squeal. New flat pads will raise hell when you put them on the same grooved and gouged rotors. My store turns rotors. Sometimes I wish we didn't. I can resurface a rotor thats about .010 away from the cooling fins in the middle of it.

The biggest thing that gets me is how cheap people are. If you drive a Mercedes you should be buying something better than crappy ass yellow box brake pads. If you drive a BMW, nothing is cheap. Go buy a KIA you cheap s.o.b.

Then there are the hispanics and black people. Hispanics can't speak english, can't seem to read english, and then I have to ride next to them on the road. Then black people make up their own gibberish for words and expect me to understand it. Don't get me wrong, I have some intelligent conversations with some well educated black people too, its the ones lacking education that are just horrible at speaking.

A song lyric comes to mind - "...I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding...."

The world is becoming more and more like that movie Idiocracy.

Pharacyde · 11-08-2009, 05:06 AM

I'm a bouncer at a nightclub... i love working with the public....

bouncing their heads off the pavement.....

old_skool_noma · 11-08-2009, 05:12 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by nti06

I work in a parts store. Some people just don't need to work on cars.

People buy new pads only, then come back and ask why they squeal. New flat pads will raise hell when you put them on the same grooved and gouged rotors. My store turns rotors. Sometimes I wish we didn't. I can resurface a rotor thats about .010 away from the cooling fins in the middle of it.

The biggest thing that gets me is how cheap people are. If you drive a Mercedes you should be buying something better than crappy ass yellow box brake pads. If you drive a BMW, nothing is cheap. Go buy a KIA you cheap s.o.b.

Then there are the hispanics and black people. Hispanics can't speak english, can't seem to read english, and then I have to ride next to them on the road. Then black people make up their own gibberish for words and expect me to understand it. Don't get me wrong, I have some intelligent conversations with some well educated black people too, its the ones lacking education that are just horrible at speaking.

A song lyric comes to mind - "...I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding...."

The world is becoming more and more like that movie Idiocracy.

its the truth, i personally think that you should have to pass a test to reproduce, it would prevent so many abused/neglected children and help weed out people who sit around watching nascar waiting on their next welfare check

nti06 · 11-08-2009, 05:33 AM

...past the edit time limit-
I can't resurface a rotor thats about .010 away from the cooling fins in the middle of it.

If I don't correct that now people will flock to my store with wafer thin rotors wanting to get them turned.

primerdnoma · 11-08-2009, 07:53 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by nti06

...past the edit time limit-
I can't resurface a rotor thats about .010 away from the cooling fins in the middle of it.

If I don't correct that now people will flock to my store with wafer thin rotors wanting to get them turned.

You can resurface a rotor that's .010 away from the cooling fins, but whether or not it's practical is a different story.

comics22 · 11-08-2009, 03:48 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by nti06

The world is becoming more and more like that movie Idiocracy.

ya know ive thought about that statement a few times and its scarily true....

new laws are being passed to protect the dumb, always seems like the lazy ass welfare people have like 20 kids, hell even at my college you can still graduate with a degree even if you cant read or write (several people here have notetakers and people to read for them) its absurd thier even allowed to graduate 8th grade and not be able to read or write...

dngrous_dime · 11-08-2009, 03:55 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by comics22

ya know ive thought about that statement a few times and its scarily true....
new laws are being passed to protect the dumb, always seems like the lazy ass welfare people have like 20 kids, hell even at my college you can still graduate with a degree even if you cant read or write (several people here have notetakers and people to read for them) its absurd thier even allowed to graduate 8th grade and not be able to read or write...

Collidge, it's for everyone!

bg's · 11-08-2009, 10:03 PM

You don't know what "working with the public" is until
you drive a school bus loaded with kids from Kinder's to
6th and then mid school and finally high school out in
the I.E SoCal where most don't even speak English.

How bout hauling 49 to elementary school 11 miles.
Doesn't seem like such a long ways does it..You have
no idea.

When the economy is tough like it is and you're an old fart
like me, not many choices around for work, so one sucks it
up and plays the "game" as best one can.

comics22 · 11-08-2009, 11:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by bg's

You don't know what "working with the public" is until
you drive a school bus loaded with kids from Kinder's to
6th and then mid school and finally high school out in
the I.E SoCal where most don't even speak English.

How bout hauling 49 to elementary school 11 miles.
Doesn't seem like such a long ways does it..You have
no idea.

When the economy is tough like it is and you're an old fart
like me, not many choices around for work, so one sucks it
up and plays the "game" as best one can.

that explains why all my bus drivers had either full brakes or all gas

neel2008 · 11-09-2009, 12:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by old_skool_noma

its the truth, i personally think that you should have to pass a test to reproduce, it would prevent so many abused/neglected children and help weed out people who sit around watching nascar waiting on their next welfare check

X2452523542353245

If you have to get a license to get married, why not have to get a license to prove you are able to take care of children?

DFitty · 11-09-2009, 12:48 AM

work at wal mart,,,im sure most of you know how stupid some people are lmao.

adamwilkes20 · 11-09-2009, 01:15 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by JChapoton

the reason they bitch is because depending on how you load it and what kind of product it is will usually be the difference on whether it will scale out or not when the truck get to the scale. about 50% of the loads will have to be taken back to the shipper (you) when then don't scale out right and have to be reloaded until they do and that takes time. I am telling you this because obviously you are the ASSHOLE who obviously don't know what it takes legally to get your load to point B when it comes to following each states bridge weight laws which govern the amount of weight that may be present at each of the trucks axles. While the gross vehicle weight (truck, trailer, load, and driver) is legal up to 80,000 lbs, the truck weighs 18,000 lbs, the empty 53' trailer before you load it weighs 15,000 lbs which gives you roughly 48,000 lbs remaining that you can work with. When the loads start going over 41,000 lbs that is when scaling then out to legal axle weight distribution becomes harder and harder with each 500 lbs added on to that. I've gotten 20 miles from the shipper to the 1st available scale to look at the weight distribution only to find out I had to go back to have it reloaded. They don't get paid for that time. I don't drive truck anymore cause of all the shit the government puts in one's way, but before you go calling someone an asshole maybe you should have asked him why he was concerned about the weight.

lol, I have been doing this for 11 years now, I know how to load our commodity on the trailer. I dont mind them being concerned about the weights, however, the broker is made well aware of the weight and before an owner operator accepts a load, he should ask the broker, instead of waiting until he is done dealing with the Port Authority and getting to our plant to ask about it. If he would do that, then he wouldnt be wasting time at the scale spreading axles trying to get the load to weigh out legally. We also have two scales at our plant, so they dont have to go very far.

ka_jd7and1 · 11-09-2009, 11:58 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by nti06

A song lyric comes to mind - "...I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding...."

I don't know what's worse, that you quoted a Harvey Danger song, or that I knew what the hell that line was from.

van_wilder · 11-09-2009, 08:44 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Pharacyde

I'm a bouncer at a nightclub... i love working with the public....

bouncing their heads off the pavement.....

shit i wish it was that way here... a friend of mine went to jail for assault... there was 2 guys fighting in the club we worked at, and he grabbed the guy and used his head to open the back door and the douche filed charges. apparently you aren't aloud to touch someone when you want them to leave...

indyrado4 · 11-09-2009, 09:49 PM

i work for the power company......... nobody likes my ass unless they need something....

dngrous_dime · 11-09-2009, 09:51 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by indyrado4

i work for the power company......... nobody likes my ass unless they need something....

NIPSCO?

11-07-2009, 01:24 AM	#1
postal The photo terrorist Age: 99 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,981 Location: up shits creek User is: OffLine	Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Ok where to start here .Who has to deal with the public as part of there job and hates it more words can explain !!!Ok I work for a large gm "a" body parts reproduction company that makes and and sells parts for all "a" body's and some newer G body's.I work in part re-production and as a tech adviser on the phone to shops and customers wanting advise and now things slowed down for the winter and a bunch of people have been let go I have to help out with dealer sales on the phones.Now if I had 3 weeks to tell all my stories it would not be enough.Let me start by saying it fvkin blows my mind how totally fvckin stupid stupid stupid dumb and rude 99.9% of the people are out there when I have to deal with the public aspect of my job!!!!!!!! First off when im on the phones people call up and start with "yea where the **** is my order........" "or just sit there and go "uhhhhhhhh uhhhh"and not say anything? Or just start off buy flying off the handle yelling and cursing at me without me knowing who the fvck they are!!! And almost 99 % of these people call and give me no info on who they are not a name ,number,address,order# invoice# nothing and expect me to know there entire order history,status and details on there account on the fly instantly the second I pick up.Then when I ask who they are they get pissed instantly like I insulted them because I don't know "who they are".Half the time they cant even supply me with there name or even phone number or address to look them up!!!!!!!!WOW......They just say uhhhh I dont know it and they actually don't know there own dam phone numbers or address? People call up and wanna talk to me while pissing,shitting,farting,talking to another person,calling while using air tools,driving down the highway with there head out the window ,chewing chips in my ear and they all get mad if you say something like "I cant hear you "or "could you please leave the noisy area " That sets them off .Then the tech questions from car repair ""SHOPS"" are down rite bone chilling scary .These shops call all day asking shit like what way does a carb go on.?Why dont a set of 2 inch primary tube headers just fit ?.Tell me size what my motor is by listening to it on the phone?How do you put brake pads on? Does a rear diff really need fluid?How do you bleed brakes?What way and how do you put on a rear quarter panel ?Give me a list of every part broken down by part numbers that makes up a chevelle??? ..HAHA wtf people!People call up and say yes I have your catalog in front of me but its big and I don't want to look it up myself its to much work so "you" are doing it for me page by page...hummm ok lazy fvck.! Then people call me get me on the phone and are completely not prepared with any info of any kind and want me to diagnose there car problem without knowing what the problem is then they get mad at me cuz they supplied no car info for me to work with and I can't help them hahaha!... Now these are the shops working and rebuilding these cars !!And I was going easy with some of there questions its actually way worse!!!Its scary..Then its like explaining step by step to a 9 year old how to perform tasks on these cars .But all the while they all come off with attitude and rudeness like they know how to do what they are asking and just want my opinion .Then half the people who call have phones that are so full of static (rotary phones from 1972)(sports illustrated football phones)that I cant hear shit.Or its people from the south (no ofence southerners)That have such a dam accent that I in all honesty can not understand one word they speak !Esp the Blacks from the south forget it not even a chance of any comprehension .I know it seems like im bitching about my job but I honestly love what I do but now I have to help out with the public because we downsized it sucks balls dealing with retards all day and since we are in a time of economic hardships I cant complain at work about it and just have to suck it up and be glad im working .The whole point of this story is dealing with sucky, rude ,nasty and dumb people all day changes me in a way I don't like .Reason being is that I am a person who does not take shit from anybody esp when they are in the wrong!!!!And now I have to help on the phones and the company's new policy is that no matter what people say or do on the phone wrong or rite we can not fight back or defend ourselves we must just let them walk all over us or get in trouble.So by the end of the day after eating shit for hours from these asshats it makes me wanna smash the first person who looks at me wrong after work .I really do not like feeling like this so I hope biz picks up and I can go back to product develop and not have to deal with the public or customers !So who else deals with something like this??And dont talk shat about me bitching im just sharing my life's work experiences haha Just glad im workin !You? 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11-07-2009, 01:32 AM	#2
dimerunner88 whore turned lurker Age: 23 Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 19,766 Location: Clay City,IN User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? yeah, the public is full of morons. the ppl who only rebuild old cars are the dumbest,they just have to remove parts and clean/replace them and reinstall them. theres no diagnosis or any type of thought required. i currently work at a walmart TLE (i hate it,went to school for an education and here i am changing oil again) and i can't believe the morons that come into my work,they don't know what kind of car they have,what size the tire is,what tire they want,so you have to basically hold their hand while you tell them about what their car needs. edit: and don't forget the members on here that want you to tell them whats wrong with their truck based on the noise they say it makes that sounds like ting-ting-bang-ting or some shit like that Last edited by dimerunner88 : 11-07-2009 at 01:37 AM.
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11-07-2009, 01:42 AM	#3
postal The photo terrorist Age: 99 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,981 Location: up shits creek User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? That's funny you know exactly what I am talking about ...They know NOTHING and expect me to read there minds and walk them through everything like a baby.Asking a customer .."Do you have a big block car or small block car is a major issue because 90% of the people answer what's a small block mean?I don't know what that is how do I know>.???? .I sure these people think we read minds and have physic power ! I had a guy call and say to me "Yea I saw this car on the side of the road for sale and I want you to tell me if it has the orig motor and trans in it and if its all numbers matching because I might buy it ...Then silence,........"Im like dude are you serious im In California and you are where ?And you want me to tell you if a car on the side of the road is numbers matching without any info or without looking at it at all?? Wowowowow Last edited by postal : 11-07-2009 at 01:45 AM.
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11-07-2009, 01:43 AM	#4
TheFue is a Prick. Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 840 Location: Brockway, PA User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I'm a pizza driver now, and am training to be a State Trooper, 'nuff said. As my good friend Jason Sider once said, "Oh you think you hate society...just wait, just wait...."
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11-07-2009, 01:46 AM	#5
old_skool_noma ... i dont know? Age: 21 Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 7,244 Location: Heath/Newark, OH User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? yeah, i work at tractor supply, i deal with the public day in and day out, luckily farmers know how to pull their head out of their ass most of the time
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11-07-2009, 01:49 AM	#6
dimerunner88 whore turned lurker Age: 23 Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 19,766 Location: Clay City,IN User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by old_skool_noma yeah, i work at tractor supply, i deal with the public day in and day out, luckily farmers know how to pull their head out of their ass most of the time the problem with most farmers is they are the alpha male all the time so when you try to teach them something/inform them they won't listen and do what they think is best.
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11-07-2009, 01:51 AM	#7
neo71665 4x4 v6 blazer Age: 29 Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,002 Location: rison arkansas User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Electrician, Most of my calls are cause some dumbass has 80 things plugged into one recept and its tripping the breaker. They then can't understand why its bad cause "they sell those splitters at the hardware store so they must be safe" or why I can't just replace the 15 amp breaker with a bigger one so it will stop throwing.
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11-07-2009, 01:52 AM	#8
TheFue is a Prick. Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 840 Location: Brockway, PA User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by neo71665 why I can't just replace the 15 amp breaker with a bigger one so it will stop throwing. Start doing that, it'll solve the problem of repeat-idiots...
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11-07-2009, 02:00 AM	#9
neo71665 4x4 v6 blazer Age: 29 Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,002 Location: rison arkansas User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by TheFue Start doing that, it'll solve the problem of repeat-idiots... Sometimes I wish I could but also being a vol firefighter I'd just be creating my own headache all over again.
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11-07-2009, 02:32 AM	#10
neel2008 Custom User Title Age: 19 Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Huntington, Indiana User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by dimerunner88 the problem with most farmers is they are the alpha male all the time so when you try to teach them something/inform them they won't listen and do what they think is best. yea i work for Orscheln Farm and Home, similar store to Tractor Supply but we only have like 160 stores to TSC's 800+. but anyhow, its funny how the big bad old farmers will walk right past me and ask one of the old timers at work and they will go ah idk, ask that guy (pointing to me) over there, he'll know. lol they give me this look like wtf why does this young punk know more than the older guys. Its also great when I see something happen like a customer gets mad at the cashier who is like 40 and im 19 and im her "boss" (when the manager and assistant arnt there, i get to play boss man) guy gets pissed and asked for the manager and she points to me and i kinda smile and they get pissed knowing they arnt going to get anywhere and leave. Or when a similar thing happens and they dont relize im the boss and they call in like 30 mins later when they get home and ask to speak with a manager, im like ah yea, i watch the whole thing, i was that punk kid standing right next to u. lol It is nice after a while when you start to gain respect from the older customers and workers. But yea we do tires there too and I had this one guy the other day argue with me from the time that we looked at the tires through me putting them on his truck and even out the door. His truck had like a 245 65 16 on it and I only had 2 of that size, but had a set of 245 70 16's. I told him that I would be willing to throw them on the front and we will let it down and turn lock to lock and make sure nothing rubs because the 70 series tire is 5% taller than the 65. Hes like now the 245 is the height and the 65/70 is the width, I took like 20 mins explaining how the first three digit number is the sectiong width of the tire in mm's and the second number is the height of the sidewall expressed as a percentage of the width. 65 series has a sidewall that is 65% of the section width which is 245mm. He just kept saying I was wrong even though I put a 245 65 next to a 245 70 and showed him that they are the same width but but the 70 is a little taller. He looked at them and still said the 245 70 was wider than the 245 65 (no these were not mounted). I just put them on and gave up. lol I find myself having to "dumb down" to communicate with the customer. You have to pretend ur talking to a 3 year old to get any kind of point accross. sorry for the book. lol Cliffs: work for farm store too, people are dumb
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11-07-2009, 02:40 AM	#11
postal The photo terrorist Age: 99 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,981 Location: up shits creek User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? HAHA nice the tire thing is always a problem with older people .They all think the second series of numbers like the 50,60,65 etc is the width not the height haha and they will sure argue !I have had people on the phone get mad when I prove them wrong and they say "you don't know what you are talking about "And hang up .I always chuckle at that
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11-07-2009, 03:09 AM	#12
neel2008 Custom User Title Age: 19 Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Huntington, Indiana User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? yea after you work retail for a few years, ur start to really wonder how the human race has come this far. Here's another thing I just remember from work. Ok we have these sales flyers that come out like many stores. There is a date range (normally a week or so) printed in BIG **ING LETTERS on the front and also in smaller print on the bottom of all like 12 pages in the ad. The local free news paper goes out on mondays and thursdays. so if the sale starts on like a wednesday, it has to be send out on monday otherwise it will get to the customers too late. So of coarse like a million people come in on the day before the sale and go "ahhhh diz iz 'pose to be on sale, i got the salzzz flyerzzz right hare!!" Ah yea see the nice big date at the top retard? They seem to think as long as that paper exists somewhere in the world then they should get whatever is on it whenever they want Then you get the people that come in durring the sale and go "hey i bought this item last week, and now its on sale, can i get the difference in price now?" ahhh let me see here, its called a **ing sale, you have to buy the item between the beginning date and the end date. Its not that frekin hard. "well im never shopping here again" "ok see u next week, have a good day" lol and sure enough here they come back again with their tail between their legs when a pipe burst and they are in a pinch and hand me a pile of parts and ask if I can fix it. lol I gotta admit, dealing with the public frekin sucks but owning customers is funny as hell.
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11-07-2009, 03:58 AM	#13
adamwilkes20 Registered User Age: 30 Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,394 Location: Zephyrhills,FL User is: Online	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I dont have to deal with the general public, but I do have to deal with panzie ass cry baby truck drivers. They ask me how much weight I am going to load on their truck and they bitch and moan about it being 44,000 pounds...well asshole, if you dont want to haul a load weighing 44,000 pounds, maybe you should get a job driving LTL or something and stop going over the road. Some truck drivers make me feel like going postal.
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11-07-2009, 04:58 AM	#14
S-10MASTER You can't say fuck Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,620 Location: 26.34°N 127.78°E -39.96Ft. User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Yeah same with military people. Everytime I go somewhere like finance, or even at my job everyone is bitchy. All the crewchiefs sit there and bitch about how their job sucks and finance people are just bitchy. I would be too though if I had to sit in an office all day. Seriously grow up. I work 5 sometimes 6 days a week 12-16 hours. I dont really bitch about having to do my job. Its not the best job in the world but I enjoy it for now. And when I call somewhere to order something to eat or even go into the shopette. They barely speak english. Not being racial or whatever but they need people I can understand. Thats what really grinds my gears.
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11-07-2009, 06:55 AM	#15
primerdnoma doored Age: 22 Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4,726 Location: Pen Argyl, PA User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Shit can be retarded. PennDOT is having a "problem" with one of our machines, well nothing is actually wrong with it and they've brought it to our shop a bunch of times. Last time they called corporate and ratted out my supervisor saying he is rude to customers...which is bullshit. So corporate calls my plant manager and chews him out for it, and he has to write my supervisor up. WTF, no verbal, and they almost gave him 3 days off unpaid. One more writeup and he's fired, all because they think they know what they're doing but hey don't. I always have to go "fix" problems with our rentals, even though 75% of it is operator error and poor training from the salesman. Oh well, doesn't bother me really since I still get paid, just a shame you can't fix stupidity.
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11-07-2009, 07:27 AM	#16
MaveRankus ..... Age: 23 Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 2,688 Location: Wanamaker, Indiana User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I work for Pepsi. Have a Walmart, Target and Marsh on my route. Deal with it day in and day out. By far the worst are at Walmart. And I'm not just saying that either. The stupidity level some people have reached is simply amazing.
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11-07-2009, 08:15 AM	#17
Semper MacDaddy Heimlich county Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 95 Location: Arlen,TX User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? word, I used to run a small independent repair shop and jesus it always amazed me how little people knew about their cars... Most people (euro bmw etc) didnt even know what model their car was... now im working in graphics and I love people call and i need a set of these plans or i need another set... not explaining who they are, where there from, or what the job is called... lol
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11-07-2009, 09:27 AM	#18
dngrous_dime Project Classified LIVES! Age: 29 Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 15,192 Location: 49633 User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by dimerunner88 edit: and don't forget the members on here that want you to tell them whats wrong with their truck based on the noise they say it makes that sounds like ting-ting-bang-ting or some shit like that Sounds like a catalytic converter heat shield, to me. I would love to deal with the public, as long as I started getting a paycheck again...
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11-07-2009, 10:57 AM	#19
elliot98SS Registered User Age: 25 Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 177 Location: Vicksburg Michigan User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? You sell reproduction parts for GM muscle cars all day long....I'll take your job in a heartbeat even if people are assholes lol You cant avoid idiots, might as well be invovled with a cool product line. Most of my stores about stupid people involve forigners.... I have worked at several hobby shops over the years. The second one I worked at, I was in mail order. Now this guy I am talking about was not rude, just stupid. He lived in France. He purchased a Traxxas T-Maxx 2.5 over the web site. He was having problems with it and gave me a call. The phone call began with some blabbing in French and then he started the truck up, holding it up to the phone...wanting a diganosis. Well after getting though his broken english I took a guess that the motor scooted away from the spur gear (so the clutch bell and the spur gear no longer meshed). He was not checking the motor mount screws after every tank of fuel, which prevents that. So the thing would rev up but not engage lol. He couldnt figure that out.
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11-07-2009, 12:23 PM	#20
postal The photo terrorist Age: 99 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,981 Location: up shits creek User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Neel2008 ..You hit that one on the head ! That is a big issue daily and causes many problems .We send out sale cards with a monthly sale every month .Now the same happens people call before and after the sales date listed on the front demanding the sale and they think just because they have something in there hand that had the sale on it that they are entitled to it even if expired .After I explain its not valid then they give me "well I have it rite here in my hand"!.The big one is the free shipping ones we do every few months ...People call in months after the sale MONTHS and say after taking an order"yea thats feww shipping rite!" I say uhh no we have not done that for 3 months ..Then there answer "Well you just sent this to me today its rite here in my hands"haha Its amazing how they will lie .Then just like you said they want the sale price ,want a manager,or if a sale comes along they all call up saying they want the sale price on crap they bought up to 3 yaers agoooooooooo!!! I also have people try to return 2000 worth of parts that were bought 9-10 years ago and they can't figure out why I will not do it they just say "Its ****in brand new" I say "Oh really next time you order I will give you all 10+ yr old parts that were in some guys garage in your order would you like that sir !?" Silence but still wanted to return them ....Then who gets the people that call up and say I have a recipt and did not get my parts !!? We have people all day long that call in and say they didnt get there order.Now not a day after ordering I'm talking years!!!!!!!!!!!! Guy this week tried saying he rec'd no parts after ordrering totaling value of 5k and he ordered them 4 years ago????????And they a fit that I didn't send a free order asap!HAHA .And yes as another member said something about forign people ..Most of the people ordering are forign!Then Black people call in alllllllllllllllllllll day long and never buy a thing and just want us to send every catalog aka "book" "magazine " "prescription" that we have for free and want me to look up every part they need and give tech adv and never buy a dam thing ever .
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11-07-2009, 01:01 PM	#21
elliot98SS Registered User Age: 25 Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 177 Location: Vicksburg Michigan User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Yep I could handle all that bs if I got to sell old car parts all day long. I don't go though a lot of bs selling under hood and trunk decals but...those are just soft parts.
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11-07-2009, 01:04 PM	#22
old_skool_noma ... i dont know? Age: 21 Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 7,244 Location: Heath/Newark, OH User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by postal HAHA nice the tire thing is always a problem with older people .They all think the second series of numbers like the 50,60,65 etc is the width not the height haha and they will sure argue !I have had people on the phone get mad when I prove them wrong and they say "you don't know what you are talking about "And hang up .I always chuckle at that that because im pretty sure theyre used to the old numbering system like 31-10.50-16
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11-07-2009, 01:10 PM	#23
dngrous_dime Project Classified LIVES! Age: 29 Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 15,192 Location: 49633 User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by old_skool_noma that because im pretty sure theyre used to the old numbering system like 31-10.50-16 I got into several heated discussions with rednecks that just didn't GET IT. I proved to them several times that I could measure the actual outside diameter of any given metric tire, using the calculations. Their basis for their argument? "It's how they're listed in the advertisements, in order." /facepalm
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11-07-2009, 01:13 PM	#24
Neveragain Registered User Age: 54 Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 362 Location: Queensbury NY User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Here! Here! Used to be a game warden, you could watch someone shoot from the road or fish from a dock and approach them only to have them say "I didn't do that or I wasn't fishing." It go to the point that I kept a video camera with me and showed them what I had on film. I don't miss those kind of people at all.
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11-07-2009, 05:03 PM	#25
LowLady Ghetto Sled Age: 25 Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,768 Location: NJ User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I do customer service for a trash broker, i deal with haulers lying , store managers lying, have a bi polar boss and a drama queen supervisor I'm glad i am working but hate my job! Though we do hear about bodies in dumpsters and raccoons in compactors etc
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11-07-2009, 05:29 PM	#26
Wrkn prgs Useless posting member Age: 20 Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 8,736 Location: Conover, Oh User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Oh boy, I work at Menards. Some people, I tell ya.. My favorite is when people walk right past me to my 'assistant department manager', and he points them right back to me because he doesn't know the answer. I trained both my Dept. Manager as Assist Dept. Manager Last edited by Wrkn prgs : 11-07-2009 at 05:30 PM.
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11-07-2009, 06:24 PM	#27
comics22 Pac is a hackin! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,124 Location: Middle of freakin IL User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by neel2008 yea i work for Orscheln Farm and Home, similar store to Tractor Supply but we only have like 160 stores to TSC's 800+. but anyhow, its funny how the big bad old farmers will walk right past me and ask one of the old timers at work and they will go ah idk, ask that guy (pointing to me) over there, he'll know. lol they give me this look like wtf why does this young punk know more than the older guys. Its also great when I see something happen like a customer gets mad at the cashier who is like 40 and im 19 and im her "boss" (when the manager and assistant arnt there, i get to play boss man) guy gets pissed and asked for the manager and she points to me and i kinda smile and they get pissed knowing they arnt going to get anywhere and leave. lol i find it opposite here, i dont have a job where i deal with the public per say (i mow grass and other odd jobs) so i deal with one maybe 2 people. but sometimes i get some of the weirdest people wanting the simplest job done... anyways sometimes ill walk into a TSC or ACE hardware and the old guys pretty much ignore me like im a dumbass that doesnt know anything. then i start rambling off somehitng like i need a bushing with a 1/4" id and a 1/2" od do you have one and suprisingly enough some of em barely have a clue to what a bushing is, they just hand me the box of all of em and let me pick it out... i always have to laugh at some of the people i hear in auto parts stores trying to buy parts and how mad the worker gets. i made a personal vow to never work in a place where i directly have to deal with lots of people. (any food place, department store, etc)
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11-07-2009, 10:44 PM	#28
postal The photo terrorist Age: 99 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,981 Location: up shits creek User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I found this website today and it is great! Its people of retail all sharing how ****in stupid and rude customers are !HAHA some funny stories in here . http://www.retail-sucks.com/index.php
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11-08-2009, 01:17 AM	#29
neel2008 Custom User Title Age: 19 Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Huntington, Indiana User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by postal I found this website today and it is great! Its people of retail all sharing how ****in stupid and rude customers are !HAHA some funny stories in here . http://www.retail-sucks.com/index.php wow, im not alone. lol and yea comics22 I used to get that when I would go into the hardware that just happens to be across the street from the farm store, but this was way back before the farm store was even built. The old guys would be like wtf are u talking about? lol
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11-08-2009, 03:05 AM	#30
van_wilder No Bull Age: 24 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,747 Location: myrtle beach, sc User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? i used to be the operations manager at a family amusement center... i had to deal with dumbass kids all day, that wasnt a big deal. what sucked were the parents of said dumbass kids... one day we had a birthday party, like we did every weekend. well from the time this one family checked in i knew there were going to be problems. sure enough about 30 minutes later i caught the dad of the birthday boy had picked the lock on a coin pusher, and was reaching for the money in there. we had 2 50's and 2 20s' in there. i asked wtf he was doing and he said trying to fix the game??? blew my mind cause i sat there and watched him open the lock, and stick his arm in. when i told him i saw his arm all the way in the game he flat out denied it... when i told him i was calling the cops he left, but forgetting i have his name, address, phone number and cc info on file fore a deposit...
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11-08-2009, 03:11 AM	#31
GreatWhite00 I just cummed. Age: 25 Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 17,473 Location: Mantua,OH User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Working with people in general is bad enough. I am sick of lying scheming tools.
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11-08-2009, 03:31 AM	#32
-YumYum97s10- David Age: 20 Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 942 Location: North Charleston, SC User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I work in a college fan store..we get the occasional idiot..but usually we do our cleaning list, and get to watch football and talk with some interesting people.
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11-08-2009, 04:07 AM	#33
01cherryreds10 Former S10 enthusiast Age: 19 Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,639 Location: Illinois User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? OP what's the name of the company if you don't mind me asking? Not too many places make G-body parts...
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11-08-2009, 04:29 AM	#34
JChapoton orangesonoma supporter Age: 36 Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 618 Location: Warren, MI -- Home of GM's Tech Center--soon to be the new GM Headquarters User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? Quote: Originally Posted by adamwilkes20 I dont have to deal with the general public, but I do have to deal with panzie ass cry baby truck drivers. They ask me how much weight I am going to load on their truck and they bitch and moan about it being 44,000 pounds...well asshole, if you dont want to haul a load weighing 44,000 pounds, maybe you should get a job driving LTL or something and stop going over the road. Some truck drivers make me feel like going postal. the reason they bitch is because depending on how you load it and what kind of product it is will usually be the difference on whether it will scale out or not when the truck get to the scale. about 50% of the loads will have to be taken back to the shipper (you) when then don't scale out right and have to be reloaded until they do and that takes time. I am telling you this because obviously you are the ASSHOLE who obviously don't know what it takes legally to get your load to point B when it comes to following each states bridge weight laws which govern the amount of weight that may be present at each of the trucks axles. While the gross vehicle weight (truck, trailer, load, and driver) is legal up to 80,000 lbs, the truck weighs 18,000 lbs, the empty 53' trailer before you load it weighs 15,000 lbs which gives you roughly 48,000 lbs remaining that you can work with. When the loads start going over 41,000 lbs that is when scaling then out to legal axle weight distribution becomes harder and harder with each 500 lbs added on to that. I've gotten 20 miles from the shipper to the 1st available scale to look at the weight distribution only to find out I had to go back to have it reloaded. They don't get paid for that time. I don't drive truck anymore cause of all the shit the government puts in one's way, but before you go calling someone an asshole maybe you should have asked him why he was concerned about the weight.
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11-08-2009, 04:59 AM	#35
nti06 O'Reilly R.S.S Age: 23 Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,049 Location: Hephzibah, GA User is: OffLine	Re: Who has to deal with the public at work and hates it? I work in a parts store. Some people just don't need to work on cars. People buy new pads only, then come back and ask why they squeal. New flat pads will raise hell when you put them on the same grooved and gouged rotors. My store turns rotors. Sometimes I wish we didn't. I can resurface a rotor thats about .010 away from the cooling fins in the middle of it. The biggest thing that gets me is how cheap people are. If you drive a Mercedes you should be buying something better than crappy ass yellow box brake pads. If you drive a BMW, nothing is cheap. Go buy a KIA you cheap s.o.b. Then there are the hispanics and black people. Hispanics can't speak english, can't seem to read english, and then I have to ride next to them on the road. Then black people make up their own gibberish for words and expect me to understand it. Don't get me wrong, I have some intelligent conversations with some well educated black people too, its the ones lacking education that are just horrible at speaking. A song lyric comes to mind - "...I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding...." The world is becoming more and more like that movie Idiocracy.
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