Stupid cashier at Lowes garden center, I bought something for less than $10 and handed her a $10 bill, some woman walks up and asks how much some plants are. She says excuse me and walks away to help this woman and leaves me waiting for my change. She comes back after about a minute and apologizes but the time it took her to apologize she could have told that woman “just a second” and given me my change. I said as nicely as possible, “I think that woman could have waited a couple seconds” and she says “no comment”. Bitch, you know nothing about customer service. I couldn’t even get pissed and walk away without forfeiting my $10. If it weren’t for the hot guy in the garden center I might consider not shopping there again.
You were totally in the right, Wile E (for what that’s worth). This is slightly annoying, but not too terrible - we went out for dinner as we usually do on Fridays, and Jim ordered pasta as he usually does, and the restaurant was out of pasta (and a significant number of their entrees are pasta dishes). At 6:00 on a Friday. It was like that time we went to a fast food hamburger joint and they were out of buns. Wha…?!?
Emphasis added. When you’re not well, bitch needs to step the fuck up and clean his own messes.
This is why god gave you pointy, pointy elbows.
She walked away with your bill in her hands? :dubious:
My response to the “no comment” would be “I wonder if your manager will have a comment about you walking away from the register with a customer’s money in your hands. Let’s find out, shall we?”
Yeah, she walked away with my $10. I thought about following her and asking for the ten back and telling her to void the purchase when she went back to the register but I really wanted what I was buying. I didn’t want to walk away without the change because it was 40 to 50 cents and I don’t like throwing away that much change plus she’d probably pocket it and she shouldn’t be rewarded. If it were only a couple pennies I might have left but then I wouldn’t have a receipt and if I needed to return it I’d be SOL. So yeah, I was trapped.
It did sort of lose them a $400 sale as I was pricing air conditioners and went back later to buy it. The guy working in that section was helping someone and then they both walked down an aisle and disappeared. I waited a few minutes and went looking and couldn’t find him in the nearby area. Granted, I didn’t tell the guy I needed help before he disappeared but I had been in that area a couple times that day, he spoke to me earlier and I told him I was deciding, so I thought he’d get the hint when istood next to my choice and waited for him to finish with tge other guy. That coupled with my earlier experience made me decide to continue looking elsewhere for what I wanted to purchase.
I have not been impressed with Lowe’s. I went in there to buy gardening stuff and no one could offer me any of that “advice” they advertise so frequently.
Instead, I got shuffled around and finally just walked out. When I complained to corporate, they promised someone from the store would reply within 24 hours. When I pointed out 3 days later that I never heard from the store, the GM said it wasn’t his fault - he couldn’t read the form well enough to find my email address.
Then he proceeded to tell me that he had found out what had happened (I love when they tell you they found out about an experience from someone else, not you the customer.) He offered to give me “a couple of the ceramic planters you were looking for.”
I wasn’t looking at any planters.
Sad thing is, they have a nice job here in town I’ve applied for in the corporate office. It would be nice if I could do some good from the inside - but I don’t think that will happen.
This is pretty mini, I’ll grant you, but the principle of the thing is bugging me - restaurants here are offering sweet potato fries as an option, which is great - I love sweet potato fries. Often they charge extra for them as noted on the menu, and I can live with that. When they charge extra for the dipping sauce for the sweet potato fries (and it’s not noted on the menu), that’s when I get a little torqed. If it’s going to bankrupt your restaurant to include a couple of tablespoons of a garlic mayo sauce for sweet potato fries, then charge an extra $2.50 for them instead of $2. Don’t play these bullshit games with customers (“You can have the sweet potato fries as an option, but the sauce that makes them worth eating is extra. SURPRISE!”) I’m just going to start bringing my own bottle of peppercorn ranch with me from now on. 
No! Bring a bottle of maple syrup!
We had a really bad experience in a restaurant in Kimberly, BC on Saturday (we were there for a triathlon). We were sort of in a rush but the restaurant was almost empty (four tables had people sitting at them) and we figured we could be in and out in 45 minutes.
The waitress came over after we arrived and we ordered our drinks. She came back almost 10 minutes later with HALF the drinks, left, came back almost 10 minutes later with the rest of the drinks. She then left again, though all of our menus were sitting in a nice pile and we were obviously ready to order. She came back about 10 minutes later to take our order (we’d been there almost 30 minutes by that point). We told her we were in a rush and gave our order. 20 minutes later she returns and tells us that they are out of one of the orders, do you want to look at a menu. WTF? Fine, we look at the menu and order an appetizer instead so everything will come out at the same time. FORTY FIVE minutes later she comes back with half our food! We had gone inside to try and find her and there was no one around! We were the only party left there and had been alone for almost half an hour. When the second half of our order finally arrived, one member of the party commented on the wait and the waitress didn’t say a word. We should have left after waiting for our food for 30 minutes.
We scarfed down our food and didn’t leave a tip. I went inside to try and talk to the manager but after waiting around at the front for five or six minutes and not seeing a soul, I left. That’s only the second time in my life I’ve ever not left a tip.
I’m trying to find a full time job (I’m a temp/contractor). I find a great job on my agency’s site. I ask them about it. Only problem? It’s working for the exact same client I’m working for now.
What chance in hell do you think the client will let me leave my temp job with them to take a full-time position with the agency working on-site at their location in a different department?
Can we all say “awkward”?
bangs head on desk
I am so friggin’ sore. I mowed my lawn yesterday morning because it looked like rain and I wanted to get it done (stupid neighbours, mowing their lawn so it was obvious how shaggy ours was ), then I got a call to go do a gardening job. I can do about three hours of hard labour per day without getting sore; five and a half is too much.
Stop wasting my time by assuming I’m a fucking idiot. Answer the question I asked you; not the question I *would *have asked you *if *I were retarded.
If I ask you if there’s any way to pull a list from our employee database based on practice so that I can create a new distribution list, don’t tell me how to create a distribution list. If I ask you specifically what criteria you’re using to determine who should be part of the new list, don’t forward me the email chain I’ve already seen that I’m asking for clarification of 'cause I don’t work with any of these teams.
SEETHING PIT OF RAGE.
Is it Thursday yet?
My lesson horse bit me right smack on the bicep while I was tacking him up for the lesson and I now have a large, tender, garishly colored bruise that I keep hitting as I move around. Fucking horse, I’m one of the few people who’s nice to him.
Listen up, Trigger: You’ve already lost value because you can’t jump any more. Don’t push your luck, or your new barn name will be “Alpo.”
I bought a case of Costco’s brand of vitamin water stuff in a probably-misguided effort to wean myself off soda. Four different flavors in the case, and the Raspberry Green Tea, the Dragonfruit, and the Tropical Mango were all tasty as hell. The Kiwi Strawberry is weak fruity piss. Fuck you, Kiwi Strawberry.
Move somewhere that you have little to no access to soda for several months. The next one you drink will taste disgustingly sweet. Happened when I got back from Japan.
Pff, I found soda there too. Even smuggled a few bottles of Ramune back in my suitcase. Of course, I can find the stuff at half the stores I shop at now…
Anyway, it’s less about getting off soda (I drink diet, so calories aren’t a real issue) and more about drinking stuff that’s more water than chemicals. Water itself gets real boring after a while, though.
Next time it does rain, spend the time indoors working out how to design a hybrid between a lawnmower and a Roomba.
You’ll make millions! And save wear and tear on your back.
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Pretty much the only reason I’ve not left a tip, and I’ve only done that twice too.
First time: Friend and I are two of the four whole people in the place for lunch, yet at one point I had to throw a piece of silverware about 50 feet at a wall near the waitress to get her attention when yelling for her didn’t work. No tip, walked around corner to cash register and found elderly local celebrity owner sitting there. Gave her an earful about the bad service. Never went back.
Second time: Four of us at a packed to the gills Billabongs. Waitress obviously higher than a kite, kept disappearing, didn’t know specials, brought us the wrong drinks 30 minutes after we ordered them and only after we finally asked someone else where the fuck our drinks were. Another 45 minutes before we sent someone to find her so we could order our food. More than an hour before we got THE WRONG FOOD. Never saw waitress again, had to ask other servers for more drinks and to replace missing silverware, fix our food orders, etc.
Again, no tip, never went back. Asked for a manager, he never came around.