Christmas Threat, Christmas threat

[Sapphire Silk]

Some, like one of the local papers here, have a call in/e-mail section that limits you to x amt of time/words to voice a comment or complaint on current issues.

Ours puts the actual e-mails in, spelling mistakes and all.

Mine's the same way: 200 words max per letter, and they don't do much correcting for spelling or grammar.

[katzklaw]

You laugh, and rightly so. However, our local news ran stories about long lines at the post office and other places during the holiday season. You'd think that'd be a "duh" story, but apparently someone thought it was newsworthy.

slow news day

[Mike Taylor]

At the Big Yellow Price Tag, at least one of our stores had a customer pull the "that's why you're going out of business" line because FastCard's giftcard activation system crashed.

[An Haddock]

C : Are you open today?

Me: We sure are ma'am!

C : Okay, what time do you open?

Me: Since an hour and 10 minutes ago?

C : Oh! You're already open!!

Me: Well yeah! how else could I answer the phone!

Both of us:

See, this one you have to allow with a grain of salt. There have been plenty of times when I've been in our shop either after hours, before opening time or a day when we're closed and I answered the phone. I just figure it's easier for a customer to talk to a live person rather than a machine.

[Geek King]

You know, I went to pick up a couple of last-minute gift cards Christmas Eve, and found out the store's system wasn't transmitting the cards at all for activation.

Funny enough, I went down the street to someplace else to get them. Maybe I should have went ballistic instead? Who knew?

[PepperElf]

I get the feeling that she's really gonna call the newspaper

And when the guy at the copy desk sees that number flash on his caller ID, he'll roll his eyes, groan a large groan and think "Oh man, not HER and the "store running a scam" story again"

and then she's going to have a shit fit that they IGNORED her important impotent story. again.

[mikoyan29]

You mean stores run out of stuff? Go figure. Here I thought the back room was infinitely large and contained stuff from an infinite time period.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

When I told the story to my dad, he bellowed "What the f*ck happened to putting money in an enveloppe???"