Stupid Roommates

August 15, 2008

I have been living with my roomate for almost a year now. The last month has been hell. I dont have a job to pay rent, but I do work. For her that is. She will go to work at BlockBuster in a cool air conditioned place while I am mowing the lawn or cleaning the shrubs on the side of the house as part of her chore list. When she gets home she sits in the recliner and changes the channel without even asking me if I was watching tv or not. I am really hating her right now. On her days off she just puts me to work and watches me do it. In the kitchen she will make a big meal for herself and then tell me to clean it up. Pig she is! Her room and closet are filthy and who gets to clean it up…..ME! You would think she would help me out and maybe talk to her manager about getting me a job or soemthing. I dont know how much longer I can be her assistant.

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Stupid Bosses

July 6, 2008

I run a coffee house/bakery on a college campus and last semester, we had a large number of requests for bottled water to be sold in our shop. Now the reason that we didn’t sell bottled water was because we thought it would be in the students best interest to offer free water, by placing a water cooler in the back with little paper cups next to it. In our end of the year meeting, the vice president of the college said that he wanted us to sell bottled water instead, and that he would prefer that it have our logo on the bottle. So we nixed the water cooler idea and ordered some bottled water, personalized with our logo. The bottling company required that we buy 1 palletful(about 30 cases, with 25 bottles in each, costs about 250 bucks) of water to get the label done for free. This semester starts, complete with our new bottled water for sale, and we haven’t been open for a week when the same vice president comes down and says that he has changed his mind and that we need to have the free water cooler out within the next day or two, because the trustees will be taking a tour of campus. Now we can ignore the waste of money, because I am a retail center, and I can make up a loss of 250 bucks fairly easily, but tell me what the hell I am supposed to do with 30 goddamn cases of bottled water that no one will buy now that we have the same stuff in the back for free?

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Stupid Customers

June 21, 2008

(I’ve just finished setting up this individual’s service call to get a technician out to his house. I flub a few words, because it’s 2 in the morning.)

Me: “So the technician will be out sometime between 8 and 6 pm next Tuesday, then.”

Customer: “Is this call center located in The United States of America?”

Me: “Actually, we’re outsourced. I’m in Canada.”

Customer: “BECAUSE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 6 COMES BEFORE 8 YOU STUPID F**K. BE HAPPY THAT I DON’T DISCONNECT MY SERVICE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, YOU G***D**N FOREIGNER!”

Me: “…thank you for calling, have a great day!”

Customer: *hangs up*

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Stupid Customers

March 30, 2008

I work at Petsmart. A customer comes in an proceeds to explain to me that his fish tank that he purchased at our store had a crack in it. As usual he has no reciept. But I remember helping him buy the tank. I tell him no problem, bring the tank back and I will replace it with a new tank. Forty-five minutes later (the entire time he’s telling me needless details about the tank, and is blind to all my obvious attempts to leave to help the other 10 waiting customers staring at us) he leaves to pick up the tank from this house. Before going I tell him the following, “Check and make sure the crack is a REAL crack and not a loose string of aquarium sealant that has stuck to glass,…as that will often look like a small crack in the glass.”

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