Well, for what it’s worth, I agree.
It’s very off-putting to have someone be non-verbally rude to you. Happened to me just today at Staples.
Touche! However, we all know the difference between the effects of smoking and the effects of common courtesy.
Weaker rants have been posted with less fanfare. Where is this iron-clad standard regarding Pit-worthiness?
Also, surely the raison d’etre of the Pit is not to address only truly greivous problems?
C’mon, Tars! “Crapped on all day” indeed! Never in 8 years (see my first post in this thread) did I have a shift where the entire shift was constant crap (though some were close, to be sure!). 99 out of 100 shifts, 99 out of 100 customers you deal with are fine.
“Manually masturbating them while you rape your grandmother with a garden hose”!!! Look, I understand hyperbole, but let’s get real – common courtesy is just not that painful. “Common” courtesy – not “uncommon” courtesy. Once in a while a customer will demand some “uncommon” act that one, as a service person, is not obliged to perform. That’s not at issue here – COMMON courtesy is.
Shane I just had another thought. Although you may not realize it the handle of the pizza oven gets pretty hot. Thus, its more practical to just push it up and let momentum then deal with the heat.
Since I didn’t see it I’m not sure what you mean by “threw” the pizza cutter" but I don’t see anything wrong with tossing it onto the counter.
When I’m on the job, I’m very polite to people (although there are some who I’d like to bitch slap, like the woman who yelled about me to my boss because she couldn’t add) but everyone has their moments. Did you “sense” he was rude to the other customers?
That should read “…just push it up and let momentum take it than to deal with the heat.”
Well, like I said in my most resent post, I was the only other customer he was serving at the time. The other two customers were already just sitting there waiting for their stuff to finish cooking or whatever, they had already ordered before I got there.
I understand your points, but I’m telling you, he was showing attitude. It was obvious.
Qwerty, the thing here is that we weren’t there, and we really have nothing with which to analyze Shane’s visceral. We can give Shane all the “might have this” and “maybe that” we want, but we were not there. <shrug>
C’mon, current service workers! Defend your man! Hardly a peep from you guys since yesterday! I didn’t nail you all to the wall THAT convincingly, did I?
Well the thing is, we’ve reached the point where there’s no longer much confusion about what happened. we are now just argueing that “common courtesy rules! I would be offended(or mildly annoyed, as it were)” vs “ummm… i wouldn’t really care if that happened to me”. not much point in arguing that any further. its just a difference of opinion and neither side is really any more or less valid than the other.
Yes. Thats exactly what I said. you can get all that education overnight.
sigh :rolleyes:
Bernse, you ogre! Demanding that someone actually WAIT on gratification! Absurd!
I’m sorry, driving to MA and back in a day, then moving all of my belongings tends to limit online time. Diminishing interest in idiots who aren’t satisfied when they get what they ask for with no problems means that less of that time is spent caring what you dribble out of the keyboard.
Sorry, i’m too busy working hard on my non-service industry job that i actually care about to argue for long. Just know that i am right, as always! 
Yeah … non-service industry jobs do tend to make you kind of placid, huh?
As of this week, I’m assistant manager of a pizza restaurant. I promise, my employees will never slam over doors or throw spatulas at customers…
[sub]Yes, this is a shameless attempt to promote business…is it working? [/sub]
I worked for Domino’s for almost five years, a couple of them driving, and three in management.
Domino’s is the place that I learned that any person who complains about service and then yells ‘The Customer Is Always Right!’ is usually scamming you for free pizza. I had a woman who deliberately gave us the incorrect apartment number, then tried to say that we had heard it wrong when we took the order, and then demanded that their pizza should be free. Never mind that she had verifed the incorrect number once on a call back (that would have gotten her pizza there on time) and that the two apartment numbers didn’t sound anything alike (S-4 and D-10, if I remember correctly). When I refused to give her the pizza for free, she then stated that she knew my boss, and that she was going to talk to him personally. She actually did call the home office the next day to complain, but as my supervisor had already heard about the incident from me she was given nothing. Hah!
As to bad attitude teens at work - I agree that most of them probably don’t want to be there, and that most of the summer jobs open to them aren’t going to be much better. Oh… and I worked at Domino’s AFTER I got my college degree. It was all I could find, thanks to that wonderful economy that we had during the first Bush administration.