This is your flight attendant speaking...FUCK YOU.

[Ed Hocken]

Still kind of bummed that I never got to work at a book store.

[Lisa]

I was actually a flight attendant for Delta not long after I got out of college. Oh man the stories. Especially working the flights from New York to Florida or vice versa. We called them the nearly dead or newlywed flights.

CASS!!! You need your own stickied thread, just like Tim's Great Adventure thread, where you can post your flight attendant stories! TELL US!!

[BillyG]

You and Jake should get a second job together at a book store and use your experiences for a quirky sitcom. Or web series.

[Ed Hocken]

You and Jake should get a second job together at a book store and use your experiences for a quirky sitcom. Or web series.

That or open a bar.......IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!

[Matt]

CASS!!! You need your own stickied thread, just like Tim's Great Adventure thread, where you can post your flight attendant stories! TELL US!!

I was totally thinking the same thing.

And Billy, I honestly think that the full year is necessary. The kid needs to experience the mind crushing boredom that is experienced 75% of the time to fully appreciate the learning exercise.

[BillyG]

That or open a bar.......IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!

Jake will be co-owner and bouncer so he can keep the lava elementals from getting inside. A couple gin and tonics and those guys get wild.

[Ed Hocken]

Yeah, we don't see many rockmen coming around here.

[Matt]

call it 'McClure's'

[BillyG]

And Billy, I honestly think that the full year is necessary. The kid needs to experience the mind crushing boredom that is experienced 75% of the time to fully appreciate the learning exercise.

This is true. They need to experience the 6 hours of zero customers with the sales manager coming around with his newly printed numbers on the clipboard every 30 minutes saying "Well I see you aren't meeting your accessories or warranty numbers" when I am in the goddamn software section.

[Matt]

This is true. They need to experience the 6 hours of zero customers with the sales manager coming around with his newly printed numbers on the clipboard every 30 minutes saying "Well I see you aren't meeting your accessories or warranty numbers" when I am in the goddamn software section.

oh God THIS. THIS X 1000.

Me, managing my dept (more or less an abbreviated version of a true story):
You're not making your numbers.
Well, we don't have any customers. I've seen the numbers for the store and the entire store is down. Actually, my dept is doing pretty well compared to others.
Well, regardless, you're not making your numbers and I have to write you up.
So, you're writing up the entire store, then?
I can't discuss what's going on with other departments, only with yours.
OK, what about my employees?
You're going to have to write them up as well.
So, essentially the entire store is getting written up and put on warning?
(manager walks away)

(later on, I chat with some other managers over lunch)
So, yeah...half of the store put in their 2 weeks notice today.
Yep, typical Monday.

[Lisa]

Oh, man, Matt, YES! They were doing construction on the building we were in, so our whole storefront was covered with scaffolding. From July 07 to March 08, no one knew we were there! And what did our district manager say? "Your numbers are down. The Herald Square store is doing TWICE your business, and there's no reason for it." Really? Well, no one can see our store because it's covered by construction scaffolding, and the Herald Square store is fucking next to Macy's. You do the "numbers".

[Sarah]

Ugh, costumer service. That's all I know and have worked since I was 17. People can be down right assholes when they want to be. Or all the time, take your pick.

[Lesley]

When I worked at the salon I had some lady yell at me because she couldn't get her hair cut. She had an appointment but her stylist had a death in the family and all the woman gave a shit about was her hair.

[Timothy225]

I'd mentioned in my GA thread that I'd used to have to deal with visitors at the park who wanted to see where the Haunted Mansion was, even though it was quickly broken down and taken away after the fire that killed all those people. Had to deal with that all three years I worked at the park.

Some of these folks would also ask me all sorts of weird-ass shit, too. "Can you introduce me to him/her (usually somebody working in the park)?" which was creepy in and of itself, especially if the person asking the question was almost twice the age of the worker they wanted me to introduce them to.

I'd also get the following "Hey! They said my kid can't ride this ride 'cause he's too young/short/disabled! Can you do something about this?", "What kind of place are you running here?", "Anybody ever get killed or hurt on that ride?", "Why is this ride closed?" (I'd hear that one a lot on days we had thunderstorms, especially if the ride had a lot of metal on it), "How do I get free season passes?", etc.

Geez, all I did was sweep up trash and puke, and have issues with monkeys. Park visitors really used to fuck up any love I had for the human race, lemme tells ya.

Also, I sympathize with everyone here re: customer service, thanks to my days working as a cashier at Cumberland Farms and working as a sign maker, then cashier/janitor and shopping cart wrangler, for Shop Rite in Lakewood. Got some stores about those jobs too!

[Lisa]

When I worked at the salon I had some lady yell at me because she couldn't get her hair cut. She had an appointment but her stylist had a death in the family and all the woman gave a shit about was her hair.

There aren't enough bad things that can happen to a person like that.

And I feel for you, Lesley - I worked as a receptionist at a high end salon near Atlantic City (in Margate, which Margate and Ventnor are the two really wealthy neighborhoods about two minutes from AC), and there were just miserable customers there. I mean, I'm thinking, you live in a McMansion on the beach, you have money coming out of all your holes, do you have to be this much of a fucking bitch about how soon we can book you for a color appointment?