# Please don’t yell at me anymore… **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578 "2003-04-14T06:13:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/1 "2003-04-14T06:13:06Z")
Yes I am the person who handles the complaints but please don’t yell at me. My hearing is perfectly fine, just because I’m 8 months pregnant doesn’t mean I’ve developed a hearing problem. I understand you are upset because: - There are not enough tents on display - The food stall is closed at 4.30pm - The seminar speaker cancelled at the last minute - It’s raining and your feet got wet - It’s sunny and your fudge melted Please just tell me your problem and I will do my very best to fix it but don’t yell at me anymore because it makes me sad. ☹ And a special note for the gentleman who’s toilet got stolen - I understand your upset, it is very distressing to not have a toilet but WHAT THE HELL CAN I DO!!! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/2 "2003-04-14T06:33:05Z")
FIX IT!!! I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/3 "2003-04-14T06:34:28Z")
It is almost always the little, petty things that get folk the most upset. Sorry you’re bearing the brunt of their aggro, **leechbabe**. Have a hug. (Yeah, yeah, this is th’ Pit. So, sue me!) {{{{ **leechbabe** }}}} ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/4 "2003-04-14T06:39:18Z")
I DON’T SEE WHY YOU HAVE A FUCKING PROBLEM WITH MY TAKING ALL MY DAY’S/WEEK’S/YEAR’S WORTH OF AGGRESSION OUT ON YOU, MISS COMPLAINT LADY! IT IS YOUR JOB TO KISS MY ASS! 'BOUT TIME SOMEBODY DID, FOR GOD’S SAKE! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT, ANYWAY? YOUR JOB IS JUST TO SIT THERE AND LISTEN TO ME BITCH AND THEN SAY, ‘YES MA’AM, YOU’RE RIGHT!’ THIS IS CORPORATE AMERICA AND I AM YOUR CONSUMER AND AS SUCH, I HAVE A RIGHT TO YELL FOR HOURS WITHOUT REASON, SANITY, OR RESTRAINT! AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, I’LL FIND YOUR MANAGER! _SOMEBODY’S_ GONNA KISS MY ASS TODAY! 😉 Been there. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/5 "2003-04-14T08:14:52Z")
My personal fav. complaint from the last week - “You have to listen to me I pay your wages!” This from a man looking for fire hoses - at a CARAVAN show! It took me 20 minutes to work out exactly what he wanted (I’m supposed to read minds now also). Then because there was no-one at the show selling them I looked up the phone book and got some phone numbers for him but apparently this wasn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/6 "2003-04-14T09:57:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > \*\*\<\\> > > - It’s raining and your feet got wet > - It’s sunny and your fudge melted > \*\* Ahhh! Melbourne weather. This all probably happened on the same day (and probably within 15 minutes of each other). ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/7 "2003-04-14T12:49:19Z")
How does someone steal a toilet? Hide a Port-a-Potty underneath his coat? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/8 "2003-04-14T20:30:10Z")
Yeah, really. And WHY would someone steal a toilet? ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/9 "2003-04-14T21:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > \*\*Yes I am the person who handles the complaints but please don’t yell at me. > > My hearing is perfectly fine, just because I’m 8 months pregnant doesn’t mean I’ve developed a hearing problem. > \*\* Stand up, and yell just as loudly, “_How dare you talk to me in that tone of voice! Can’t you see I’m pregnant?? Did you even stop to think what your yelling could do to my unborn child??_”\* \*Bursting into tears is optional, but always a good move. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/10 "2003-04-14T21:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*Bursting into tears is optional, but always a good move. That’s their ultimate goal in the first place. From years of working with the public, I’ve found that many people won’t stop screaming until someone’s crying. Then they feel better. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/11 "2003-04-14T22:26:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissa \* > \*\*That’s their ultimate goal in the first place. From years of working with the public, I’ve found that many people won’t stop screaming until someone’s crying. Then they feel better. \*\* Because of this and many other reasons, I am beginning to think that the human race is nothing more than a skid mark in the underpants of the cosmos. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/12 "2003-04-14T23:03:08Z")
I very rarely yell at the people who handle complaints. Only once that I can remember. She kept interrupting me before the finish (she assumed she knew my problem) and then, the kicker that sent me over the edge was “Which part of \ didn’t you understand?” I went off in a huge way. I lost my temper in such a way that I literally can’t remember when it last happened before that. And even though I believe she gave me incredibly bad service, I felt shame afterwards. I even wrote to apologize. But that isn’t usually me. Usually I tell the person in a very calm way that I know my problem isn’t his/her fault, that I’m not mad at him/her and that I just really want to work together to fix things. And I have found that most of them want to help me too, from department stores to the state government. (The woman I went off on was Federal Government.) I’m sorry you meet too many of the other kind. Sending warm thoughts your way. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/13 "2003-04-14T23:35:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neidhart \* > \*\*How does someone steal a toilet? Hide a Port-a-Potty underneath his coat? \*\* Reminds me of a _Far Side_ cartoon where this man is sneaking a grand piano out of a store under his coat. He has a furtive grin on his face. A store employee is running out saying, “Sir! You dropped something!” – and it’s the bench! The caption is “Stupid clerks”. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/14 "2003-04-15T00:30:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Audrey Levins \* > **THIS IS CORPORATE AMERICA AND I AM YOUR CONSUMER AND…** Aparently it’s corporate _Australia_, but otherwise right on target as an irate-customer impersonation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-don-t-yell-at-me-anymore/168578/15 "2003-04-15T01:23:39Z")
Do not ask me how anyone managed to steal a toilet or why?? the mind boggles. One loving soul even told me “don’t get your tits in a twist”. Sure I was a little stressed at the time - 4 phone lines ringing, a lost child to announce on the PA (a _screaming_ lost child standing right next to me) and security calling for me on the two-way - but I did my best “I’ll be right with you sir” only to be yelled at by the customer. And to the people who can’t see the huge “NO FREE PARKING” signs - ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND OR WHAT? And NO, I am not going to pay your parking fine so piss off and learn to read signs. **Caught@Work** you are right on the mark about the weather complaints. Good old Melbourne sunny one minute, raining the next. I am very proud of myself that the only time I got close to loosing it was when the really heavy rain started and all the [toilet critters](http://pub31.ezboard.com/fgdopefrm3.showMessage?topicID=781.topic) came flooding out - while I was in there! Even then it was more hysterical laughter than anything else.