What things bother you the most?

tabana wrote:Was she drunk or she just don't know how to drive?

Nah, she is just a construction engineer, they come out of the university a little bit crazy from studies, know it from personal experience - I'm civil engineer too.

When people want you to bend the rules for them knowing full well that you can't.

Christmas Eve around 3 pm, a guy comes into the leather store. One of the jackets were mistagged as $129 and he said that we were obligated to sell him the jacket for that price. I would have agreed with him except for the fact that:

A. The correct price tag was right there on the hanger....yes, two price tags were on the jacket.
B. All of the other jackets (which were the identical to the one that he had) were marked $149....and he even told me so!
C. He swore that there was "no way another customer could have put the tag on the sleeve of the jacket"; and I simply pulled the tag off explaining to him that we tag our own jackets and that customers could indeed switch them at any given moment.

So he apologized (even though I could tell that he didn't want to because it was half-hearted) and decided to buy the jacket anyway. Now here's where the <b>thing that bothers me the most</b> comes in. He gives me his wife's credit card and his ID. I couldn't take it and man...the battle was on then. It got so to the point where he called me an ignorant little girl. Now, I understand that as sales associates we're not supposed to get impatient with the customers. But damn that. I was every hostile customer's worse night mare for the rest of the day. Yes, I rang his @$$ out. Yes, he complained to my managers. Yes, they scolded me. And yes, I told them that I could care less because he was out of line and I wasn't going to keep quite about it.

Just in case he didn't know, incidents of identity theft are quite high during the holidays. I didn't know him, I dindn't know his wife, and she was not there at the time. I wasn't going to take it, period. Identity theft is a felony with a huge freaking F. My managers actually take the time to check each and every one of those credit card slips when we close. They'll suspend the crap out of us.

When people take my things without asking...grrr that is really annoying

Working on Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

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NONE OF THE MAPS LINE UP CORRECTLY!$!$!@#*(!^&@(*&#%!@(#%!(@^%

and what's with the wierd Sections? can't you make them squareish like the rest of the country..?

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shoujo22 wrote:When people want you to bend the rules for them knowing full well that you can't.

Christmas Eve around 3 pm, a guy comes into the leather store. One of the jackets were mistagged as $129 and he said that we were obligated to sell him the jacket for that price. I would have agreed with him except for the fact that:

A. The correct price tag was right there on the hanger....yes, two price tags were on the jacket.
B. All of the other jackets (which were the identical to the one that he had) were marked $149....and he even told me so!
C. He swore that there was "no way another customer could have put the tag on the sleeve of the jacket"; and I simply pulled the tag off explaining to him that we tag our own jackets and that customers could indeed switch them at any given moment.

So he apologized (even though I could tell that he didn't want to because it was half-hearted) and decided to buy the jacket anyway. Now here's where the <b>thing that bothers me the most</b> comes in. He gives me his wife's credit card and his ID. I couldn't take it and man...the battle was on then. It got so to the point where he called me an ignorant little girl. Now, I understand that as sales associates we're not supposed to get impatient with the customers. But damn that. I was every hostile customer's worse night mare for the rest of the day. Yes, I rang his @$$ out. Yes, he complained to my managers. Yes, they scolded me. And yes, I told them that I could care less because he was out of line and I wasn't going to keep quite about it.

Just in case he didn't know, incidents of identity theft are quite high during the holidays. I didn't know him, I dindn't know his wife, and she was not there at the time. I wasn't going to take it, period. Identity theft is a felony with a huge freaking F. My managers actually take the time to check each and every one of those credit card slips when we close. They'll suspend the crap out of us.

OMFG, something very similar happened to me back when I worked in retail. Some snotty lady came up to have me ring her up. She was one of those that ignores your presence when you greet her and just throws the item on the counter and continues her conversation w/ the person she's with. Second of all, she was with some dude, I don't know who he was. I rang her up and she handed me an unsigned credit card with a dude's name on it. In my store, we were supposed to card everyone w/out a signed credit card b/c we had no way to compare signature (we had a lot of theft and fraud as it was w/ no security system). She saw me flip the card to see the back and said "Oh, it's my husband's card". I asked if the guy she was with was her husband, because I'd need to see ID to verify identity and accept the card. She said "No, he's not my husband, what's the problem?", copping a 'tude. I politely asked her if she had another way to pay because I couldn't accept the card without her husband present b/c it's his card, and his ID b/c the card was unsigned.

She said she didn't and started to make a stink. I called my manager out, and she said the same thing I did. She continued to make a stink and said "Fine, you just lost a sale". I said "Ok". :hehe: I'd rather lose a sale than to have it be fraud and lose the money anyway then have it fall back on me for taking that card.....

I hate retail. :grumble:

Radio and TV talk show extremists (both liberal and conservative) who A) think the louder they shout the more right they are; B) are contemptuous of anyone who doesn't agree with them; and C) mistakenly think that by talking tough they are tough.

People who prey on the young and the elderly. Capital punishment is too lenient for these criminals.

Motorists who are stopped at intersections who have their car stereos cranked up so loudly that your car is vibrating from all that excess noise. The worst are those that play rap music; hearing profanity being spewed out, especially when there are little kids in the other cars, is especially disturbing to me.

shin2 wrote:Radio and TV talk show extremists (both liberal and conservative) who A) think the louder they shout the more right they are; B) are contemptuous of anyone who doesn't agree with them; and C) mistakenly think that by talking tough they are tough.

that's why i love rush limbaugh...a true populist hero of the people.....who cares if his fat greasy ass has taken 10,000 pills of oxycontin, he's always right, and the size of his belly proves that. there is no harm in a man that will eat you if don't agree with him.....

Some random pet peeves of mine (based on things I've seen):

-A rusted Geo Metro w/ spinning rims
-A minivan w/ spinning rims
-$500+ sound systems in cars worth less than $500.
-Size 28 tube tops :bleh:
-Thongs visible above the waist of your too-tight-pants that make a spare tire :doh:
-A color selection for mouse traps (If you need enough of them to care about the color and decorate, it's time to move.)
-People driving their luxury suv while repeatedly glancing at the TV they have in it and not paying attention to the road.
-People in line @ Social Security or Welfare with the latest cell phones, designer clothes, and handbags.
-People who signal after they changed lanes already

I can always think of more :hehe:

littlemissfab wrote:w. It annoys me the most when I just clean the car, top to bottom, inside and out... then it RAINS.

this is why i dont wash my car for the whole year :hehe: oh yeh and im lazy. of course i got them washed in the summer, my dad washed it for me :mrgreen:

The thing that bothers me the most (right now) is that I got sick before a 4 day weekend...... Friends from the mainland and Japan were coming and we was gonna party. But I'm stuck with a never ending cough and a freakin' fever. I don't care. I'm going out anyway! :hehe:
I still got 4 more days to rest before work on Tuesday!

this is why i dont wash my car for the whole year hehe oh yeh and im lazy.

lol. i haven't washed my car for 2 months. hehehe. i'm afraid it might rain or drizzle. i think drizzle is the worst because it looks more dirty. grr...

MixxDreamer wrote:this is why i dont wash my car for the whole year :hehe: oh yeh and im lazy. of course i got them washed in the summer, my dad washed it for me :mrgreen:

with white colored cars, the dirt is harder to notice, and can get away with it more, but i use to have a black honda, and it looked so nice when i wash/wax it, but when it got dirty, it looked bad, cause you can totally see the dirt.... :bonk:

When I had my car, I used to wash and wax that sucker every Thursday, regardless of what lyed ahead. :beaten:

Right now HYD getting #14 on Top 50 List and that I don't have 30 posts yet to vote :(

Don't worry, I'm sure others will vote too.

When people talk to me like I can't speak english, or even worse in butchered uber-americanized Spanish. (For the record, I'm Filipino and causcasian)

When customers ask if I can help pay for their groceries for their kids because they need to buy cigarettes :beatyou:

Those people are scumbags. Don't even sweat about them.

A lot of white people here think I'm part Spanish or Mexican or something to that Hispanic effect. To the ones who don't know right from left, I let them know what I am. For the onese who have IQs lower than a room temperature and talk a lot of shit, I tell them to fuck off.

Ahh yes another thing that annoys me is that my Golf becomes dirty very quickly. I wash and wax it every time I go to my villa and then 1-2 drives in the city and it's already covered with dust :doh:. My old family car (rusty battered russian Zhigula/Lada) stays next to it on parking lot and doesn't look that dirty =T

Girls who cry too much.... :rolleyes:

ahochaude wrote:Those people are scumbags. Don't even sweat about them.

A lot of white people here think I'm part Spanish or Mexican or something to that Hispanic effect. To the ones who don't know right from left, I let them know what I am. For the onese who have IQs lower than a room temperature and talk a lot of shit, I tell them to fuck off.

yeah, I set people straight (and if I'm feeling particularly caustic I'll correct them using excruciatingly proper and well anunciated english) And usually they're so embarassed about making a mistake they drop it. But everyonce in a while you get a genius who gives me a "Filipino??? What's that? :confused: " And then I lose all faith in the public education system.

Or even worse, the Hispanic people who think that I'm a snotty Hispanic girl that's trying to pass for something else (since when they ask me questions in spanish, I can understand most of it thanks to 6 years of learning it in school, but I always answer in english).

It just sucks that some people need to see your birthcertifcate before they decide to treat you like a human.