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customers, as a general rule
« on: September 09, 2004, 12:33:29 PM »
are stupid heads.

I can't even remember why I was posting that. But they are.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2004, 12:51:18 PM »
Deja vu.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2004, 01:08:57 PM »
Yeah
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2004, 01:09:11 PM »
yeah, the original was "people, as a general rule" and hte next thread was "coworkers...."
I felt customers deserved their own thread. It must not have been too traumatic for me though, because after speaking with one other customer, I can't even remember what the stupid head was doing.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2004, 07:13:31 PM »
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2004, 10:26:48 PM »
too many amusing stories.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2004, 01:33:08 PM »
Customers Suck.com
To quote Linus: "I like mankind, it's people I can't stand."
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2004, 05:36:24 PM »
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!

Geeze. Here i am, 15 minutes late to leave, and this stupid customer is STILL talking to me! WHY won't she shut UP!
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2004, 12:51:24 PM »
I didn't post about the 2 hour conversation I had with one customer on Thursday. That was maddening. But I'm more cheerful today.

I really cherish some of the things that happen. No, not the idiot who calls and insists that he have a technician on site TODAY, especially when I've just told him that his problem CANNOT be fixed anywhere but at OUR location -- here, in VA, not there, in SC. No, not that guy.

What I cherish are the people who call in wanting service on an instrument that is 15 years old. Naturally, we haven't serviced these instruments in nearly a decade. "What are my options?" they ask. "Well, some trash haulers will come to you. Others make you take it to the dump. I suggest you call around." No, that's not what I say. I'm good on the phone. But really, it's that or buy a new instrument. We MIGHT give some value for trade in for an instrument that we don't sell or service anymore. What I cherish most about these conversations are the long silences after I tell the customer that his equipment is worthless as they try to process the info. It makes me feel warm and tingley.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2004, 04:15:58 AM »
Oh yes.

Customers, as a general rule, are: petty, stupid, rude, immature childish piles of excrement who throw tantrums when faced with the cold hard truth of their own rampant stupidity.

I wish to stab them all with something pointy and sharp, and watch them drown panicking, in a frothing mass of their own bodily fluids.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2004, 04:28:17 AM »
Uh....

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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2004, 08:54:55 AM »
make sure you run backwards, or she's likely to come up on you unawares.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2004, 09:25:56 AM »
Why is it, that out of everyone on this board, it's fuzzy that I feel would be most likely to actually kill someone for real?
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2004, 02:16:06 PM »
Because you haven't met Skar.
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Re: customers, as a general rule
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2004, 02:17:55 PM »
and i'm a ninja, I keep my murderous impulses hidden with good humor.
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