You RUINED Christmas!

[Becks]

Wow, Mysty...I'm truly sorry.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Wow, Mysty...I'm truly sorry.

It was a long time ago, I'm usually okay about it and just kinda ignore "ruined Christmas" sorts of things (unless someone's doing it right in front of me, then I let it go a little bit). I just got my berserk button pushed by this story for some reason. Thank you though

[lordlundar]

If someone comes in just a few days before Christmas expecting "Hot Toy X" to be in stock, they're fools. If they go on a tirade about the store ruining Christmas, they need to be lectured about what really constitutes a ruined Christmas.

"No, for Christmas is a time for family. To truly ruin it for someone, I would have to remove them from the mortal realm. Care to be my example?"

[draftermatt]

I've come to the conclusion that false advertising is anything that contradicts the unholy mantra of "The Customer Is Always Right"

Seems that way. I think the only time I sad the words "false advertising" was to a car salesman who had a sign on a car saying 11,000 miles, when it was actually 111,000 miles. Dude said the printer wouldn't print the extra 1.

I don't remember the start of the argument, I think he said something really assholish about me (or young people in general) so I said "well for someone who claims to be a former computer engineer I find it funny you can't get your printer to print a 1. That's flagrant false advertisement"

Him "So why don't you draw a 1 on there with a pen"

Me: "You work here idiot, why haven't you done that? Worried people will stop coming in and asking why that truck only has 11,000 miles?"

My mother in law stopped me then. I cackled with glee when the place was torn down a few years later.

[Rapscallion]

Guy at work two christmases back - his father dropped dead during christmas lunch. I feel for that guy.

Rapscallion

[DGoddessChardonnay]

When oh when will customers realize products don't poop out of our nether regions when you start complaining. They should also learn what false advertising means

Edited for my amusement (and because it's more the truth)

All I can say is that if all it takes to ruin BobbyJoe's christmas is not having Best Item since sliced bread in stock, he really needs to re-examine his priorities.

[Mike Taylor]

Guy at work two christmases back - his father dropped dead during christmas lunch. I feel for that guy.

Rapscallion

Now that's a ruined Christmas.

[brucetiki]

Had a customer play this line with me at work a couple of years ago.

They'd arranged a new membership for a relative, received a confirmation slip and all, and the membership was valid (all memberships are valid the moment they're paid).

So SC calls up saying she hasn't received membership card for relative and membership will not be valid until she receives the card. Despite my reassurances that the membership was valid and she had received the confirmation slip, the SC harps on about it's going to ruin their Christmas that they have to give someone a piece of paper for Christmas because we're too incompetent to send a membership card in time bla bla bla.

In the end she ends up wanting to speak to a supervisor, so they took over. Funny thing was, she wasn't the only person to call in relation to this before Christmas, but once I reitterated that the membership was valid and the card will come out, they were fine with it. This SC was the only one to ark up about it!

And just to prove how easy it is to deal with a postal delay in a Christmas present, I ordered a couple of books for some rellies for Christmas. As I didn't order them until early December, I thought if they're here beforehand cool, if not they'll get here eventually. Sure enough, Christmas Eve came, and no sign of the books. So two of my aunts got half a present on Christmas Day, and a story about the author of the book being a slow packer. We had a good laugh about it.

For the record, one book came the following week, the second book has gone AWOL. I've called the company about it so hopefully it gets here in the next week or two.

[Chromatix]

A good standby is to put an "IOU" note in a nice card, and wrap that up. You can get creative with that if you want to make it more special.