When did a chair become the place to return stuff?

[depechemodefan]

I hate mental people. Not like they will learn anything when anyone tries to correct them, but their logic is not Earth logic.

I go put up something. When I come back I see 3 people passing my chair at the reference desk. One person is heading toward me, the other two going the other way.

The lone person looks like a street person.

So as the lone person passes me I say, "You don't leave books on the chair."

then this epic battle of wits (granted, I have very little wits) ensues:

me:
cp: crazy person

cp: I was returning the book.
me: next time, leave it on the desk.
cp: But it's a valuable book. It has to be left on the chair.
me: but next time, leave it on the desk. Books go on tables and desks, not chairs.
cp: NO! that book goes on the chair! It's valuable!
me: that doesn't make sense. No one leaves books on chairs.
cp: It does make sense! It's a valuable book!
me: ok, that's just stupid.
cp: what's your name! someone has to correct you!

egad.

[MannersMakethMan]

Ah, but if you put the book on the chair, the pixies can wheel it away to the section of the warehouse marked 'important'. That's how they know.

[EricKei]

Well, maybe he just wanted the book to be comfy...?

[MilitantLibrarian]

Lazy scutters

What really irks me is when I see someone approaching the desk obviously about to hand in a magazine, book or newspaper, I hold out my hand to receive it so as to save the effort of reaching for both of us and some choose to place it just out of easy reach on the desktop, or worse, directly on top of my mouse, usually while I'm looking up something else for another customer on the database. They invariably give that little smile, you all know the one "I'm better then you cos I'm the customer" and wander off. I have been known to knock the item off of the desk so that it falls loudly behind them, causing some of them to think that they failed to place said item far enough onto the counter. I know that it's their brains that really need the exercise, but making them walk back and pick it up is some small pleasure.
On the subject of chairs, we have a young lad with what appears to be OCD who comes in and re-arranges the chairs, we are all trying to find a pattern, but it doesn't seem to be by colour, height of chair, or any logical criteria that we can decipher. Maybe he is using the often-observed Customer Lalaland logic(TM)

[depechemodefan]

The bitch decided to complain, and her written complaint included the statement "She called me stupid."



Oh, and 4 other people complained, including this one:

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=54176

Why do my managers give two shits about what crazy people think?

[Aisling]

Why do my managers give two shits about what crazy people think?

Maaaaaybe because, when you're at work, you should act professionally and not call people stupid? Regardless of how stupid and/or crazy they're behaving, there are some thoughts that really should be kept to yourself...until you get to share them here.

[Andara Bledin]

Maaaaaybe because, when you're at work, you should act professionally and not call people stupid? Regardless of how stupid and/or crazy they're behaving, there are some thoughts that really should be kept to yourself...until you get to share them here.

Technically, however, she never called the person stupid.

She said her reason was stupid, but never called the person, themselves, stupid.

And calling it stupid was being quite generous, I thought.

^-.-^

[Broomjockey]

And calling it stupid was being quite generous, I thought.

^-.-^

Calling it stupid to the "patron's" face though, was mayhaps ill-advised. Crazy people don't know they're crazy. You need to out-crazy them. Next time, just say that there's ninjas protecting the special books, but they need to be on the counter so the ninjas can see them.

[gremcint]

Calling it stupid to the "patron's" face though, was mayhaps ill-advised. Crazy people don't know they're crazy.

some of us do.

[Broomjockey]

some of us do.

Sorry, that's actually a snippet of a quote. "Crazy people don't know they're crazy. They don't say to themselves 'You know, this is a little crazy.' They just keep on talking to the cheese."