Banned for life

[Grapes]

Hmmmmmmm...

[penguinabc123]

"tastes like more"
ive gotten to the point where im willing to hit someone over this!

[esoter1c]

Asking "Is it hot enough for ya ?".

[(val)Liam]

the way people budge in bus line ups by merging into the line at the door should be banned...

stupid fuck bags

[spunsugar]

hands free cellphone thingies.
sorry, it just looks like your talking to yourself, not cool.

[prozac]

^ I love my headset. It makes everything so much easier. Even if I do look like I'm talking to myself.

Banned: Assuming you deserve to get some kind of deal from me. This is a store! We sell things, not give them away for free! If I gave discounts to every asshole who walked through the door we'd go broke and I'd be out of a job!

[sidekick]

^i also think that should be banned. people are always asking me if they can get discounts off books and stuff. it's like NO IT ONLY COSTS 20 BUCKS COUGHT IT UP BUDDY!@#$$

banned:

people who talk on their cellphone loudly on the bus. not everyone wants to hear about your incredibly boring life, okay?

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by 3507321C

Asking "Is it hot enough for ya ?".

Nope, sorry. Makes me lol, plus may be used ironically.

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by spunsugar

hands free cellphone thingies.
sorry, it just looks like your talking to yourself, not cool.

YES!!! Absolutely!

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by prozac

^ I love my headset. It makes everything so much easier. Even if I do look like I'm talking to myself.

Banned: Assuming you deserve to get some kind of deal from me. This is a store! We sell things, not give them away for free! If I gave discounts to every asshole who walked through the door we'd go broke and I'd be out of a job!

Not only do I have to follow through with the headset ban, but I have to overrule your ban and allow negotiating prices, something that has been done since the dawn of time. Now, admittedly, these people are dumb enough to argue sticker prices with employees who probably don't care and don't have the authority to change things even if they did. But there's a reason some people do these things (Besides the fact they're cheap fucks) and that's that more than occasionally it works and they get their precious discount.

Sorry, I can't ban being cheap, part of me would be banned out of existence.

PS ----> In my favorite net cafe in Sydney, some joker came in and asked the guy if he could get online for free. Guy was like.. "umm... no." Joker left. On my way out I commented that "The way you turned that guy down.. it's almost like you're trying to run a business or something!" It got a laugh.

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by penguinabc123

"tastes like more"
ive gotten to the point where im willing to hit someone over this!

I am just confused by this.

[Disco_Whore]

How about that stupid and annoying phrase "Hard at work? Or hardly working!?" (usually by some balding man who is never funny.)

[prozac]

Originally Posted by Grapes

Not only do I have to follow through with the headset ban, but I have to overrule your ban and allow negotiating prices, something that has been done since the dawn of time. Now, admittedly, these people are dumb enough to argue sticker prices with employees who probably don't care and don't have the authority to change things even if they did. But there's a reason some people do these things (Besides the fact they're cheap fucks) and that's that more than occasionally it works and they get their precious discount.

Sorry, I can't ban being cheap, part of me would be banned out of existence.

PS ----> In my favorite net cafe in Sydney, some joker came in and asked the guy if he could get online for free. Guy was like.. "umm... no." Joker left. On my way out I commented that "The way you turned that guy down.. it's almost like you're trying to run a business or something!" It got a laugh.

negotiating is one thing. acting all snotty like you deserve to get a whole bunch of expensive stuff for free because you are so generously taking a free phone from me is crap. you catch more flies with honey, people!

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by Disco_Whore

How about that stupid and annoying phrase "Hard at work? Or hardly working!?" (usually by some balding man who is never funny.)

Office banter is a language unto itself. The 'joke' is obviously dumb, but it's not really about the joke. It's more about aging office guy trying to break the ice with cute office girl.

The difference is, office guy KNOWS he's not being particularly clever. The guy at home working on some graphic and overlaying the text about these things costing money but the thing in his graphic being "priceless" thinks he's fucking hilarious. And so every time I have to see another one of those gags, I also have to involuntarily picture the geek giggling to himself as he makes it.

And it must stop.

[miss.myra]

Originally Posted by prozac

negotiating is one thing. acting all snotty like you deserve to get a whole bunch of expensive stuff for free because you are so generously taking a free phone from me is crap. you catch more flies with honey, people!

I love it. People think that because there is competition in the cellphone industry that we should be willing to do *anything* to keep somebody's business. Don't get me wrong, I love customers because without them I'd be out of a job, but like seriously, it gets under my skin when people feel like they're paying all this money to their provider for nothing. They are being provided with a service! And we are a business! I'm not calling shaw every month to see what they can do to keep me as a customer because I happen to pay my bill on time every month for a service they provide me with. Fuck.

[fritz]

When your job involves moving around the office a fair bit and assuming other people's positions: smartass will always walk by, see you at someone's desk, then exclaim "wow <desk owner's name>, you have gotten <thinner/fatter/uglier/taller/promoted/manly>!"

Banned from my advice for a week!

[prozac]

^ not to mention, since we are an independent dealership (btw what phone company do you work for, myra?) when people say "I pay you guys so much money every month!" they are totally talking out of their ass because I don't see a dime of that, but accessories do cost us money. So I don't care how much your phone bill is, that bluetooth headset cost me $60!!

edit: for myra

[Grapes]

I'm not calling shaw every month to see what they can do to keep me as a customer because I happen to pay my bill on time every month for a service they provide me with.

Ahaha, great line, "What are you prepared to do to keep me a customer". You might be an asshole if....

Try telling them "We're prepared to keep your phone working."

[prozac]

^YES!

I wish I could use that on some people.

[Grapes]

***UPDATE***

We *bump* this thread to bring you an important new, long overdue banning.

This one goes out to all print and TV journalists, and relates to your interviews.

The question "How did/does that make you feel?...", or any variation thereof, is now strictly and permanently banned. Should you find this question in your pre interview notes, please set aside 10 minutes for yourself, so that you may think of a suitable replacement, as opposed to relying on this hackneyed, lazy excuse for journalistic investigation.

Should you find, at the end of the 10 minute period, that you are unable to come up with anything to replace "How did that make you feel???........", please immediately quit your job and kill yourself, secure in the knowledge that in the subsequent interviews regarding your death, none of your relatives will be asked how your suicide "made them feel".

[Senior]

Originally Posted by prozac

^ I love my headset. It makes everything so much easier. Even if I do look like I'm talking to myself.

Banned: Assuming you deserve to get some kind of deal from me. This is a store! We sell things, not give them away for free! If I gave discounts to every asshole who walked through the door we'd go broke and I'd be out of a job!

Call me cheap if you want but I never (almost anyway) pay full price. You know that "price protection guarantee?" I've used it, more than once. Really why wouldn't you? For anyone else out there that likes good deals here's a suggestion. Go online and find whatever electronics you might want to buy. Say a memory card for a camera. Lets say they happen to be the best deal at Costco. Rather than driving all the way to Costco simply go to the closest Future Shop, Best Buy or London Drugs and mention you saw it for a better price at Costco. They will look it up online and then beat the price by 5% or something.

I will add the word cheap to the list when used by sales people. If you tell me that something is cheap I figure that it is garbage and really don't want it. Sales people remember a product is inexpensive, not cheap.

[Senior]

Originally Posted by Grapes

***UPDATE***

We *bump* this thread to bring you an important new, long overdue banning.

This one goes out to all print and TV journalists, and relates to your interviews.

The question "How did/does that make you feel?...", or any variation thereof, is now strictly and permanently banned. Should you find this question in your pre interview notes, please set aside 10 minutes for yourself, so that you may think of a suitable replacement, as opposed to relying on this hackneyed, lazy excuse for journalistic investigation.

Should you find, at the end of the 10 minute period, that you are unable to come up with anything to replace "How did that make you feel???........", please immediately quit your job and kill yourself, secure in the knowledge that in the subsequent interviews regarding your death, none of your relatives will be asked how your suicide "made them feel".

The hockey journalist walks up to the captain of whatever team just won the Stanley Cup and asks "So are you guys excited that you won?" Like WTF, on this note all of the TSN analysts should be fired for this sort of crap.

[prozac]

For that matter, interviewing athletes at all should be banned! They all say the same thing: "yada, yada, all we've got to do is give it 110%, you know i think we've got a really good team here, and we just need to keep our defense up, I think we've played the best that we could...yada, yada..."

Blech.


And Senior, I don't work at effin Future Shop, I work at a small independent dealership. And while I can allow a bit of wiggle room for someone who has/is going to purchase something from me, if you walked into my store and told me you could get a better price at Costco, I would suggest you go to Costco. May sound bitchy, but any discounts I give are coming out of my own pocket!!!

[Senior]

Originally Posted by prozac

For that matter, interviewing athletes at all should be banned! They all say the same thing: "yada, yada, all we've got to do is give it 110%, you know i think we've got a really good team here, and we just need to keep our defense up, I think we've played the best that we could...yada, yada..."

Blech.


And Senior, I don't work at effin Future Shop, I work at a small independent dealership. And while I can allow a bit of wiggle room for someone who has/is going to purchase something from me, if you walked into my store and told me you could get a better price at Costco, I would suggest you go to Costco. May sound bitchy, but any discounts I give are coming out of my own pocket!!!

Doesn't sound bitchy at all. I'm just pointing out that some stores offer a best price guarantee. Yours doesn't I guess.

[penguinabc123]

Originally Posted by Grapes

I am just confused by this.

tastes like more, meaning is tastes like you want more
i hate this saying,