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    Just had a customer come in and tell me I look like crap in the nicest possible way. Thanks for that. I know, and I really needed you to confirm it for me.

    I am sorely tempted to close the doors, go home put on my pyjamas grab a bottle of gin and toddle of down to my friends place 4 doors down and watch Oprah and Dr Phil for the afternoon
    Yes. I know my typing sucks but I have a large orange cat sitting on my keyboard and a small disturbed dog trying to sniff his butt

  • #2
    I love it when customers tell me I look tired, which you know is a nice way of saying "Wow. You look like shyte."

    Well, thanks. Not only did I have to drag myself out of bed at 3 this morning to work, but I'm here for another x amount of hours.

    Don't listen to them, ever. Until they have worked your job for at least a year, they have no right to say that you "look like crap."

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    • #3
      Wow, do I really?! I'm only working on two hours of sleep, 103 degree fever and as many decongestants I can take without turning into a COMPLETE zombie! Thank you soooo much for telling me!



      ...yeah, I've been there.
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      • #4
        Quoth Evil Queen View Post
        without turning into a COMPLETE zombie!
        But as the Evil Queen aren't you already a zombie? I mean hello EVIL or am I assuming too much?

        Seriously though some people just need to be punched for making silly comments like this. I'm well aware I look like shit today. Probably because I feel like shit thank you very much.

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        • #5
          Zombies aren't evil so much as ravenous, brain eating machines. To be truly evil there has to be malevolence involved, and zombies are just too stupid. If you're going for evil undead you want vampires, or certain types of goul or lich.


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          • #6
            Someone at work last night said to me "Looks like the humidity is getting to you too!"

            I was confused. Then I looked in the mirror. Frizzy hair, check. Flaking skin, check.

            That was not necessary to say. Thanks for saying I look like shit.

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            • #7
              Usually when I get people saying that to me, it's because I'm working a morning shift after having gotten ZERO to little sleep the night before.

              Customer: You look tired.
              J2K: ..... *long, steady "no shit" stare*

              My usual reaction to so many clichéd customer stock phrases.
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              • #8
                Once I got told that I was a druggie. Hell it is winter, I am sick as hell & pushing carts for about 17 hours that day (I worked the earlier shift and the closer called in sick, so I had to stay and work). Of course I am going to have red eyes. Oh well, those days are in the past
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                • #9
                  I know exactly what you mean, portia911.

                  I just had surgery to remove a tumor. The incision the doctors made is on my lower abdomen right where my leg bends away from the rest of me. It's healing nicely, but walking is rather uncomfortable, so I've been using a cane at work the past two days. I get treated no differently by the customers on the phone. Those I speak to in person, however...

                  I've had many look at me curiously. That I understand. About half of them, though, quickly avert their eyes and walk away from me as if afraid my limp might be contagious.

                  I had one yesterday approach me and ask, in a tone usually reserved for children,
                  SC: Excuse me, young man. Can you find someone to help me find a router? It's something I need for my computer.
                  Me: Actually, I can help you with that. Are you looking for wired, wireless-G, or wireless-N?
                  SC: Oh! Uh... Well, wireless... but I don't know... which one... I'm, sorry, I thought you were, like, a bag boy or something.
                  Me: Nope. Just recovering from an operation. Right this way to the routers.

                  Yeah. These brilliant individuals are either avoiding me like the plague or are making the association "difficulty walking" = "mental handicap." I'm aware of my problems. I don't need my idiot customers to emphasize them for me.
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                  • #10
                    That's something that always struck me as odd : why would any one assume that, because a person have a physical handicap, that might even be temporary as far as they know, that person must be mentally handicapped as well. That's something I've never witnessed around here, but I've read quite a few stories that mention that over the Net (among others, the story line about Davan's sister in Something Positive), and I really have no freakin' clue about where does that come from.
                    "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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                    • #11
                      Quoth HawaiianShirts View Post
                      Yeah. These brilliant individuals are either avoiding me like the plague or are making the association "difficulty walking" = "mental handicap." I'm aware of my problems. I don't need my idiot customers to emphasize them for me.
                      I used to get that a lot when I had my cane. Due to some issues with my deformed knees, it was very hard for me to stay upright when I was going through a major growth spurt in my late teens. So, I toddled about with a cane (or sometimes 2.)

                      I was always getting people thinking I was a moron. Granted I actually was a bagger at the grocery store, but c'mon...

                      That or I'd get the senior citizens telling me I was too young to need a cane. Including an old woman who tried to use her cane to knock mine out of my hand. Obviously, because needing assistance walking is ONLY related to age.

                      She was told not to return to the grocery store by the awesome store manager at the time.

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                      • #12
                        I wear light makeup, nothing extreme but one day I didnt tone it down enough and my co-worker says "Wow you look so much better with makeup on"

                        grrrr
                        Miyon

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                        • #13
                          Quoth HawaiianShirts View Post
                          Yeah. These brilliant individuals are either avoiding me like the plague or are making the association "difficulty walking" = "mental handicap." I'm aware of my problems. I don't need my idiot customers to emphasize them for me.
                          it could be worse, you could have a slight speech impediment... which I've learned means I'm either gay or mentally handicapped, or here illegally (funny as I was born in the country, as were my parents and grandparents, and my great grandparents applied for and were granted citizenship, but sense my voice is different I'm illegal... uhuh... funny thing is that I don't look anything like any of the elasticities that people stereotype as coming here illegally).

                          My favorite "you look tired moment" happened just before the call center fired me... I had done a 6 hour shift at the call center, did my night audit shift, then my morning replacement called in... and people made comments like "wow, you look you didn't sleep well" or "you must not be a morning person"... I finally responded to one of they people saying I didn't sleep well with "well that's because I didn't, I started my first job at 4pm yesterday, I worked here overnight, and now my replacement called in sick so I have to cover her shift as well... when all is said and done I will have worked 23 hours straight, so forgive me for being tired"
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                          • #14
                            I always seem to get people saying, "Ooh, you look tired, late night clubbing last night?" *wink* -.- Most of the time it's due to either having to get up at the crack of dawn (I am NOT a morning person) or suffering from insomnia. In any case, I never go clubbing; I hate clubs with a passion.
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                            • #15
                              Quoth ArcticChicken View Post
                              Zombies aren't evil so much as ravenous, brain eating machines. To be truly evil there has to be malevolence involved, and zombies are just too stupid. If you're going for evil undead you want vampires, or certain types of goul or lich.


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