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Dec 4, 2018 - 6:54 AM
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jackfu
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Borrowing from Thor's great "In films, don't you just hate it when" thread.
You have the worst cold in years, if not ever, sinuses stuffed so that you can’t breathe, yet snot is draining down the back of your throat and down your nose onto your upper lip, you’ve gotten no more than 3 or four hours of sleep the last two nights combined, ears are clogged, you’re achy with chills, and you feel like someone’s disconnected about 90% of your synapses. You can't go 5 minutes without coughing and cough medicine doesn't help at all. You know your doctor won’t give you anything because you’re not sick enough, you’ve dragged yourself thru your work day and now you need to stop by the grocery store on the way home. Seems like this is “whiny toddler’s day” at the store as every aisle you walk down has at least one kid with the same symptoms as you and they’re throwing a tantrum because mommy won’t buy them some stupid toy.
You finally have all the groceries you need and make it to a cashier that has only one customer. Turns out to be great-great grandmawmaw whom really needs someone to help her as she can’t lift anything from her cart heavier than a jar of mayo, so you help her with loading them onto the conveyor belt. Then she starts writing a check! Who uses checks nowadays?!? Or worse, she pays in cash and has to dig thru her change purse for that last penny. She thanks you for your help and now you feel guilty because you’ve tainted her groceries with your rhinoviruses and fear she’ll get sick and spend weeks in the hospital and likely die of pneumonia.
Now all you want to do is get home, eat some soup and try to sleep, which of course ain’t gonna happen.
Or is it just me whining again? 
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Dec 5, 2018 - 5:37 AM
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jackfu
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You're absolutely swamped with orders from customers at work. The busiest day you've had in months. Then, in a short amount of time, customers who haven't placed an order in a year or more will choose THAT DAY to order from you. It's as if they conspire to wait until the exact same time to hit you. It's maddening.
Exactly! In my case it mostly revolves around fiscal year end and budget money that the customers have to spend so it goes against the current year and they're not forking over big bucks at the start of the new fiscal.
Another work-related one that bugs me is when there is a break room and you go there to eat your lunch and someone has the door closed and they're in a skype call via their laptop. You start in and they give you a look like you're some lawbreaker when the room is clearly designated as a break room, not a conference room and everyone in the company knows it! I'm an easy-going guy, but there are plenty of conference rooms around, so I'm comin' in!
One more work-related. You’re having the kind of day Adam B described and someone just walks up to your desk and starts asking you about something you might be able to help them or their customer with. They don’t even have as much courtesy as Bill Lumbergh to at least say “Hello, (your name), what’s happening?” or call or skype you to check if you’re busy, they just expect you to drop what you’re doing and devote your time to them.
Our group just relocated near our old area, but the previous residents actually had some small, amber lights installed at their (now our) desks so that they could illuminate them to let folks know they’re busy-not that that would stop anyone. I’ve even had folks start talking to me when I’m using my phone. I’ve gotten to the point that when someone does that now, I simply put my other hand over the unused ear and ignore them until I finish up my phone call.
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I used to have a boss, who when he would come into my office, the look I dreaded most was when he had a big smile on his face, and tell me he had a "great opportunity" for me. It was inevitably a POS that required me to drop everything and work on whatever project he dumped on me, which made an already stressful day much worse. It wasn't quite on the level of Professor Farnsworth's "Good news everyone!", but close enough.
If he had been straight with me, and told me something had blown up, or he had forgotten something and it was now the last minute and he needed my help, I would have respected his being straight with me. But adding a layer of condescension to the added stress made for a nasty stew. Fortunately I was able to transfer away from him eventually.
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Dec 5, 2018 - 9:44 AM
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jackfu
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Solium – yes! to all of those!
I could add: when a store has six or seven checkouts but only one of them is manned and there's a gradually increasing queue at it because the person currently being served has got some item under query (and/or the checkout operator is a dimwit). Other members of staff are visible in the store but they seem to be inordinately busy, I dunno, having an in-depth discussion of shelf-bay stocking techniques, instead of getting behind a till for five minutes to ease the backlog.
Oh, I hate that too! My local Walmart (a very busy place) has one register open at 9pm on a Saturday. WTF?!
Absolutely! Does any megastore like that have more than 2 or 3 cashiers available nowadays anyway?!? One of our local Walmart Super Centers did away with the self-check express lines some time ago so that you only had those with cashiers. They must have gotten deluged with complaints because they reinstalled them and added even more. I use those most of the time, but if I'm buying more than 12 items or so I really prefer a cashier.
And, is it just my perception or does everyone try to checkout at exactly the same time, like salmon swimming upstream to spawn? It's really noticeable when it's the top of the hour. It's like folks think, "Ooh, it's ____o'clock, I've got to check out!"
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Dec 5, 2018 - 9:54 AM
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Solium
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Solium – yes! to all of those!
I could add: when a store has six or seven checkouts but only one of them is manned and there's a gradually increasing queue at it because the person currently being served has got some item under query (and/or the checkout operator is a dimwit). Other members of staff are visible in the store but they seem to be inordinately busy, I dunno, having an in-depth discussion of shelf-bay stocking techniques, instead of getting behind a till for five minutes to ease the backlog.
Oh, I hate that too! My local Walmart (a very busy place) has one register open at 9pm on a Saturday. WTF?!
Absolutely! Does any megastore like that have more than 2 or 3 cashiers available nowadays anyway?!? One of our local Walmart Super Centers did away with the self-check express lines some time ago so that you only had those with cashiers. They must have gotten deluged with complaints because they reinstalled them and added even more. I use those most of the time, but if I'm buying more than 12 items or so I really prefer a cashier.
And, is it just my perception or does everyone try to checkout at exactly the same time, like salmon swimming upstream to spawn? It's really noticeable when it's the top of the hour. It's like folks think, "Ooh, it's ____o'clock, I've got to check out!"
I refuse to use self checkout. Should I stock the shelf's for them also? As long as I use a check out with a cashier I'm keeping someone employed. (Though I understand in these busy times some may elect to self check out.)
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I get a lot of calls at my job, and sometimes the first thing I hear upon answering is the caller coughing loudly right in my ear. It hurts. I have good hearing and I'm trying to keep it that way.
Why can't they cough before calling, or at least cover the mouthpiece when that's going to happen? Between that and other kinds of loudness, I've taken to keeping the receiver two inches from my ear when I pick it up. Every call is guilty until proven innocent.
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