That probably wasn’t the wisest post to make, Flander. There are only a few companies that make software for court reporters and captioners. Only one of those companies is headquartered in Florida, and you just quoted their price list. Although many of their customers are computer-illiterate, they have some rather clever ones, too, who just might be Straight Dopers. The lead programmer is a very clever chap. The owner is a robber-baron wannabe with the ethics of Al Capone, and you just insulted him and his company personally. You just might need a new job soon.
Okay, I know what “Make it a good one” means, and I can intuit “How’s your wrist feeling.” I’ve never heard “Hook it up.” Does it mean basically the same thing?
The programmer is a genius. No doubt about that. And I have no beef with the owner’s personally, they are quite nice people. Sometimes I just get burned out on this job. Everyone has that moment. There’s no option for promotion which makes motivation to excel hard to come by. My post was basically my way of venting. Think what you want.
We all should try many jobs.
I have been a shop assistant and a telephone troll. I learnt to always be polite to anyone just trying to earn a living.
Fuckers. Why the fuck did they wait so goddamn long?
We just spent about $500 to get our boy cat well with an allergic skin condition that he has - he was pretty miserable for awhile, and spiked a few very high fevers. I’d pay all of my life savings to make sure he was well, and I sure as hell wouldn’t grumble about it. Yeah, we took him to the emergency vet one Sunday because he had another high fever and was bleeding all over the place, but we expected the bill to be high when we got it. That’s why it’s an emergency vet.
I hope most of your owners are a lot nicer than these assholes.
Ava
Here is something that happens all too often.
The customer is as rude as can be to you, the retail drone. When you finally get a manager up front to deal with the completely unreasonable customer, why is it that that’s when they become calm and non-abusive? Where did they put their scorn and contempt?
I think that the customer in this situation is beneath contempt.
Respect to that VP.
Yes, essentially the same thing. My guess is that it evolved from the phrase “Hook me up,” which I take as meaning “Give me something free.”
Sometimes this isn’t always the case.
I regularly look for video games in these national chain stores and it’s ridiculous that they don’t take part in price cuts that were issued by the game publishers. They are pricing themselves out of the market and I think it’s fair to complain.
However, for a lot of these complaints, I’m very sorry that some of you had to deal with people like that.
Damn-one wonders how they cat became so severely injured.
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What I love is when they bitch, “You don’t have enough people working here!” Well, d’uh. Yes, I do this on purpose, it’s all me. I LOVE being overworked and abused! One woman told me that “You should pay your staff more, then more people would be willing to work here!” Oh, sweet Jesus, did I want to point out the obvious to her…
Justin Bailey-it’s fair to complain, but NOT TO THE RETAIL DRONES!!! They do NOT set the fucking prices!
You are not getting the point here, sir.
GAME PUBLISHER: Issues a price cut.
NATIONAL CHAIN STORE: Ignores the price cut.
PERSON AT THE DESK IN A LOCAL BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL CHAIN STORE: Has fuck-all to do with the price cut. FUCK-ALL. Nothing. Nada. Zip. It is NOT UP TO THE PERSON AT THE COUNTER whether or not the national chain store takes part in the price cut! Do you understand this? This is what the OP was about. If you have that much of a problem with the game pricing, RIGHT TO THE NATIONAL CHAIN STORE’S HEADQUARTERS, because the person at the counter has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.