Don't you dare be tired!

[IHateStupidCustomers]

[QUOTE=Seshat;227605]For all she knew, you were undergoing chemotherapy AND dialysis, while caring for an autistic child and a downs syndrome child, AND working.[QUOTE]

That's a GREAT thought actually. A great comeback (with a little fib) to the "you can't be tired!" comment: "Yeah, I know. I'm just terrible, letting the chemo make me lazy..."

I'd love to see the look on someone's face after hearing that.

I used to work at a lingerie catalogue call center (take a wild guess which one...) and we used to get a lot of pervert customers calling in. One in particular had a foot fetish and would ask you questions to try to get you to describe slippers and panty hose and stuff, and how they felt...just annoying crap. And, we are not allowed to hang up. One of my coworkers was sick of it one day, and when he kept on asking about how the shoes/slippers felt, and if she'd tried them, she starts sniffling and goes "will you please stop asking me if I've tried them on? I don't have any feet!"

The guy hung up after that, lol.

[rerant]

[ One of my coworkers was sick of it one day, and when he kept on asking about how the shoes/slippers felt, and if she'd tried them, she starts sniffling and goes "will you please stop asking me if I've tried them on? I don't have any feet!"

The guy hung up after that, lol.

That is amazing!

And oddly enough I just had someone who I used to go to elementary school with message me online asking if I paint my toenails, if my feet look pretty, and telling me he just likes feet.
Since I'm sufficiently creeped out I have since blocked him.

[Slow-Jo]

you work a 9-5 job and have kids? woopy freaking do! that was your choice to procreate, so dont bitch. and from what rerant has said she hasnt been a very good mommy now has she?

[Rapscallion]

"Yawning? Surely you can't be tired."

"Sorry - I became a father last night."

"Oh really? Boy or girl?"

"Dunno. We'll find out in nine months."

Rapscallion

[Reyneth]

I won't ever forget this one.

I opened the gate about 5 minutes late one morning at a place I worked at a few years ago. Lady waiting there bitched at me that I wasn't open on time (seriously? this is a small store, it's winter and the holidays are over, five minutes is NBD).

me: Sorry, had a hard time getting moving this morning.
snarky woman: Out too late partying, huh?
me:
me: Actually, couldn't sleep at all considering it is the one month anniversary of my dad's death. (100% complete and total truth)
snarky woman: HUMPH! Yeah, right

I didn't speak to her again, let her wait until my coworker came in about 20 minutes later (she was on the photo kiosk for that time).

I wish my manager had been there, he would have ripped her one. He wanted to when he heard about it later.

[bean]

I always hated it when I'd yawn or something and it was around eleven AM, and a customer would say something like "you can't be tired already! It's too early for that!"up.

Worse is coworkers making the same comment when they ask how I am, I respond "fucking tired", they roll their eyes and say it's only 8am "How can you be tired?". I read them the riot act about how I've been there since about 11:30 pm the night before. My job is a lot more physical than most others in the store, too. I'm really surprised I don't have any regular aches/pains aside from my left wrist being a little bitchy.

The best? Walking out of work at 8am with a 6 pack of beer. I've gotten some real asshole comments from both coworkers and customers about "partying early", and every time I rip them apart and tell them I just finished an 8-10 hour shift, woke up at 9pm the night before, and this is my "evening". I even get to sit in rush hour traffic on my way home on weekdays - my weekday drive home takes about 30 minutes (it takes about 5 minutes to drive the 1.8 miles to work, and under 5 to get home on weekends). Yesterday it took me almost an hour to get home since there was a bad wreck pretty much in front of my apartment complex - no real detour since my store is on the same street as my apartment, since I live in a different city and roads don't really connect between the 2 cities except for major roads.

Apparently even a lot of employees in my store don't realize that we have people on the clock 24/7.

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[Jester]

While I was checking through her items her and her father stood there and pretended to yawn and laughed at me.

"Ma'am, please close your mouth. You're attracting sailors."

"All you do is clean theatres and you're tired? HA! You don't know a hard day's work."

"Actually, sir, you don't realize what hard work it is dealing with some of the assholes we get in here."