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Eilan ([info]eilan) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-03-08 12:34:00
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[info]customers_suck wank. Yeah, what else is new?

Short story: Customer comes in, demands full refund because the game he bought was mislabeled, the orignal poster refuses because it has been opened.

Long story here.

We have legal-wank, we have politeness-wank and fat-wank. OP has since deleted his/her journal.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-03-08 12:44 pm UTC (link)
And the usual cries of "Doesn't this story belong on [info]bad_service?" Which I think is probably wankier to them than it seems to the outside.

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[info]esclaramonde
2007-03-08 02:38 pm UTC (link)
I think Tigerwolf has a point. D: D: D: Unclean!

And I want to slap the people who are going, "Why do people always get mad when you describe someone as fat, but not when you call a skinny person anorexic? lololol!"

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[info]ladyvorkosigan
2007-03-08 05:51 pm UTC (link)
I am indescribably sick of those people. Maybe I could eat them or something.

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[info]lady7jane
2007-03-08 02:44 pm UTC (link)
Fat annoying Trekkie

Doh. Now that's just unnecessary. Like there's any other kind.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-03-08 02:53 pm UTC (link)
{*snicker*}

Actually, I have a friend who's a thin, attractive Trekkie -- should I submit a photo to a science journal or sell her on eBay?

;)

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(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2007-03-08 04:17 pm UTC
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[info]darthmaligna
2007-03-09 01:24 am UTC (link)
..... *goes off to cry in the emo corner*

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-03-08 02:52 pm UTC (link)
I'm amazed at all the people insisting it's bad service for the employee to follow store policy when so many of the stories on that site are about customers abusing employees for doing the exact same thing.

If she'd described the customer as anything other than an overweight Trekkie, I wonder if so many people would bother getting offended and up in arms over the sort of post that happens all the time. It's a description, not a damn value judgement!
Makes me think of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, actually.

Calling me a pasty-white girl with small boobs would also be neither offensive nor a value judgement -- it's true and a completely valid way to give a mental image of me. Describing someone's appearance =/= discriminating against them.

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[info]luckdragonfujur
2007-03-08 06:05 pm UTC (link)
It's a description, not a damn value judgement!

It's a description that implies value judgment in a society where the "desirable" is to be thin and where the nerds/geeks/etcetera are at the bottom of the food chain for those who are not into that.

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(no subject) - [info]altoidsaddict, 2007-03-08 06:51 pm UTC
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[info]april_hurst
2007-03-08 07:58 pm UTC (link)
It's not bad service - it's exactly what an employee should do. However, if there's a manager or shift supervisor on duty (and there almost always is), it's best to have him/her come over to handle customers who demand things outside of policy instead of holding up the line and arguing. It's part of a manager's job and also part of why they get paid more.

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[info]splorch
2007-03-08 04:07 pm UTC (link)
In my head that customer totally sounds like Comic Book Guy. Must...fap...in classic...Lorne Greene...position!

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[info]an_igor
2007-03-08 04:30 pm UTC (link)
I'd totally trade her our Halitosis Man for that guy.

Actually, you know, I always thought it would be a fun idea to make trading cards of 'favorite' store patrons, because it's really pressing for me to know if Yellow-Green Legal Pad Lady or Clinton $10 Bill Conspiracy Man would win if they fought each other.

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[info]hallidae
2007-03-08 05:25 pm UTC (link)
They'd both lose against Psychotic Dyed Four-Hour Harpy and Drunken Petting Man.

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(no subject) - [info]grand_sealink, 2007-03-08 09:05 pm UTC
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[info]lady_red
2007-03-09 02:50 am UTC (link)
You know, I think someone on c_s designed a set of cards detailing types of sucky customers...

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[info]panthea
2007-03-08 05:30 pm UTC (link)
...wait, what's the big deal about an adult shopping with his mom? I like my mom! I like shopping with her! And sometimes she buys me things!

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[info]papervolcano
2007-03-08 06:51 pm UTC (link)
It never occured to me that going shopping with my mum might not be a socially acceptable activity.

I also go drinking and on holiday with my mum (not as a family holiday - just me and her). I wonder how lame that makes me. Probably very - she can drink me under the table without even trying.

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(no subject) - [info]altoidsaddict, 2007-03-08 06:53 pm UTC
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[info]soupspooks
2007-03-08 07:17 pm UTC (link)
Coming from a family who is used to having younger members take care of older ones, and dating in a family that does similarly, I think people just need to grow up a bit.

Besides, I like going shopping with my grandmother.

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[info]april_hurst
2007-03-08 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it's not like he's having her pick our his clothes, or asking her permission to buy a game rated T.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-03-08 08:05 pm UTC (link)
Because it totally means he's living her basement and is a 40 year old virgin.

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-03-08 08:31 pm UTC (link)
I always shop with my mom! Although, I'm not so much an adult as a college student and share a car with my brother, who *always* has the car, so going with my mom is the only way I can get to stores.

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[info]wtf
2007-03-08 09:45 pm UTC (link)
I like shopping with my mom! Especially now that I'm having a baby in a couple weeks and she's buying us tons of baby stuff! :D

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[info]anonyrat
2007-03-08 09:47 pm UTC (link)
Please tell me there's a full filk of "Barret's Privateers" to go with your icon.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2007-03-08 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Heh, well that wasn't an easy situation on either hand. The guy's perfectly entitled to feel a bit cheated, but store clerk nobody really can't help you fix that, Captain Kirk.

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[info]wtf
2007-03-08 09:46 pm UTC (link)
I hate it when crappy game store employees make the good game store employees look bad :( At my store, we'd have refunded him or at least given full store credit, no problem.

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[info]eclair
2007-03-09 03:15 am UTC (link)
Sometimes you just have to give the god damn refund and spare yourself the grief. I really just... don't see the point of arguing if the client has a legitimate reason. Sometimes the policy doesn't take into account human reactions and emotions.

I tend to give the customer the benefit of the doubt if they're not rude, otherwise I let the manager handle it. Maybe that makes me a bad employee, don't care. Being a game adviser is a dangerous job if you're not careful!

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[info]mochibuni
2007-03-10 02:06 am UTC (link)
Haha, the game in question IS a multiplayer game (though that particular aspect of the game is regarded as being bad).

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