stupid people

[pbmods]

customer: this fan doesnt work, I cant feel the wind.
me: thats because its in a plastic package... (dumbass)

Heh. I had a similar experience. A customer came up to me while I was working in the lab and asked me about a fan. He said he read on the packaging that this was an amazing fan, and he wanted me to test it out for him. I shrugged and said ok, figuring that we needed another fan in the lab.

Now, you must understand that the fan in question is roughly 5 inches in diameter. We're not talking about a windbox here.

So I open the packaging, plug in the fan and turn it on. I'll admit, for a 5" fan, it's able to generate enough breeze to move the man's hair noticeably. But I guess this guy was expecting hurricane winds or something because he's clearly unimpressed.

Oh well. It's actually a really nice fan; it's still in my lab, as a matter of fact

[COMINATCHA]

When I worked for McD's, we'd have people come thru the drive-thru and they'd try to order from the trash cans that were placed along the drive-thru lane for people to (hopefully) throw their trash away. I heard some guy screaming (my d-thru window was open). I looked out, and he was about 7ft from the speaker box yelling into the trash can...which was labeled "Trash".

Then he has the nerve to yell at me when he got to my window for not taking his order from the "speaker box". I really wanted to charge him the "aggravation" fee for yelling at me. (15 cent miscellaneous charge we'd use when people wanted a lot of extra cheese or tomatoes on their sandwiches) He was only getting a cheeseburger and small drink, so he would have noticed the fee.

Omg that is so funny, how stupid must they have looked!
And if they actually figured out that it wasn't a speaker - how embarassing!

[Mixed Bag]

people come thru the drive-thru and they'd try to order from the trash cans that were placed along the drive-thru lane

"Hey, those alleged intercoms I tried to tell you my order on--they're garbage!"

"I'm afraid so, sir."


Who says the SC is never right? Better change the board's slogan.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I dont know what you think but I really dont think that it is a relevant question. The instructions doesnt say what wood it is made of so how am I supposed to know?

Next time tell them that it's made of 100% genuine solid matter comprised of the finest atoms, the most reliable of electrons, protons, and neutrons, and just to give it that exotic flair, a goodly number of Quarks, Leptons, and other sub atomic particles.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

I may be opening myself for ridicule here... But surely, no one is THAT stupid?

Stupidity has no boundries. There are many sayings used in here.

*God must love fools because he made a hell of a lot of them.
*As soon as you make something idiot proof, god comes along and builds a better idiot. (also sometimes described using evolution)

Just to list two.

People on this forum have been awash in a sea of jellybrains in some cases for years and we've seen most of it. Precious little surprises us anymore...until forumuserX posts the next low in the bizarre and the brainless

[Erin]

Omg that is so funny, how stupid must they have looked!
And if they actually figured out that it wasn't a speaker - how embarassing!

I've seen the same thing happen several times when I was a customer in a Burger King drive-thru. I think it's totally hilarious. Have to feel sorry for the BK employees when the guy gets up to their window and they have no idea what he just "ordered".

I also used to hate the customers who would whip thru the drive thru, passing up the speaker, and my cash window, to end up ordering at the pick-up window. These people dont realize just how much they fubar-ed our drive-thru times by doing that.

[dragonflygrrl]

How serendipitous it is that just as I was thinking, "Wow, these people are soooo stupid, I must start a 'stupid people' thread of cs.com to share their stupidity with the world," a thread entitled 'stupid people' pops up. Alright, here's my brush with profound stupidity for the day:

This morning, I had one of my stupider regulars, just to start off the Monday with a whimper. This woman comes in once a week, and has me check her voicemail. That's right, she can't figure out how to check her messages. At least she has the decency to come in when we are slow, but it is still the most irritating waste of time of my week. Every week I write down step by step directions on how to check her voicemail, every week she thanks me and puts them in her purse, and every week she comes in and tells me she couldn't figure it out, and could I listen to her messages and tell her who has called. Her purse has at any given point at least four of my very clear and concise directions.

Not an hour later, I have a young guy come in and tell me he needs me to help him set up his voicemail. OK, now the older lady from earlier I can almost (but not quite) understand. But how is someone in his late twenties/early thirties unable to navigate voicemail set-up? Especially since all you have to do is listen to the voice prompts and do what they tell you to. I gave him our 'welcome guide,' which has the most clear, detailed directions possible, and he just stared at me for a second, then said, "Can't you just do it?" I told him that unless he wanted me to record his outgoing message he would have to set it up himself, and he said, "Well, just get it to where I need to talk and hand it over to me." Then he wandered off to look at our new phones. So I had to go through the set-up twice because he couldn't get over to get the phone in time the first time. Seriously, I never in my life had a problem with voice mail on a cell phone, even before I worked at a cell phone store. I'm not sure if these people are truly this stupid, or if they're just too lazy to do anything for themselves!

[theredbaron47]

Dragonflygrrl, it sounds like the older lady you had was a combination of stupid and lazy. The younger guy, however, just had "lazy" written in huge letters all over him, maybe with a side dish of entitlement to go with it. You know, the whole "I'm paying you money, so why should I do this myself?" type of mentality.

Damned sucky customers.

[dragonflygrrl]

See, but what I don't get is why they bother to drive all the way to my store. Isn't it more work to leave the house and have someone set up your voicemail than to just do it yourself and stay the **** home? Oh, wait, my mistake, I'm expecting logic to apply. I take it back.

[Tikki]

I think the guy probably is illiterate (probably due to laziness) and just didn't want to admit it.

[Mr. Rude]

http://members.shaw.ca/delajara/NormalCurveSmall.gif

Well, you have to remember that "normal" IQ is about 100....But, there's a mess of people above & below that rating....Rather scary isn't it?

Of course, IQ tests are IMHO descriminatory.....I don't put too much value in them. Hell, I rated at 147 on the wechsler...

Shows how bad that test is

[air914]

Totally understand the people w/ the drive-thru thing. I worked in a "popular" coffee drive-thru and people were such morons. THere would be a HUGE line and all of a sudden some idiot would come to the window and I'd open it up to tell them their total - and they would start to order. I'd look at them blankly for a minute and then say "you didn't order back at the speakerbox?" They'd look at me dumbfounded like "what box" - UM THE ONE BY THE HUGE FREAKIN MENU!!!! HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN THRU A DRIVE-THRU?????? Who ever orders at the window????? There's a reason there is a menu and a box - so you can figure out what you want to order, we can put hte price in, and get it started so when you're done paying you don't have to wait a really long time. And these people were so nuts.... I'd tell them it would take a minute b/c they had basically cut in front of all the people behind them and they totally didn't get it. It was stupidity at its best.

[HYHYBT]

They get it. They just don't care. Except the ones who do it on purpose, just to annoy you and your other customers, of course.

There is nothing so stupid that someone, somewhere won't do it.

The part about ordering at the trash can reminds me of the ones who tried to order from our newspaper box. While the store was closed. For renovation, and had had the roof, siding, windows, and doors completely removed.

Might as well list a few more: There was the one who asked if our french fries were low fat, several who asked if the apple pies had apples in them (and one who asked whether they were pies or sandwiches), "Do you sell hamburgers here?" "What's the difference between #x <McChicken> and #y<Filet-O-Fish>?", some who were *inside the store* looking at the menu that still thought we were a KFC (or in one case Dairy Queen), more than you'd believe that I had to bring actual product to the counter to show the difference between fried vs grilled chicken, or regular vs quarter meat... and none of that was language barrier, either.

[Jester]

I see you are from Sweden? If so. then you are the first person I have seen on here from anywhere besides, New Zealand, Austrailia, America or England. Cograts!

In addition to the ones Rapscallion mentioned, I know someone I read earlier today was living in Japan, I KNOW we have some Canadians in here, and I am sure there are other countries represented on the board.

[Erin]

I also remember people who would shake their heads "no" when I would ask them if there was anything else. These were people who were in the drive-thru ordering at the speaker box. I only know that they were shaking their heads "no" because I got curious about it one day and stood looking out the back window taking orders while another person was working the cash window.

me: "will there be anything else?"
sc: "shakes head"
me: "will there be anything else????"
sc: "shakes head again"
me: "hello? will there be anything else???"
sc: "didnt you hear me? I said NO!"