Attention-seeking shop managers.

Todays little escapade involved a three-till shop, and a manager who either made assumptions or just lied to get attention.

"Yes, the problem is with all the tills. It's been happening all day."
'So, which till can I take over, to see what's going on?'
"The third till. We haven't used it all day"
'How do you know if the third till is faulty, if you've not used it today?'
"Well, the other two tills have the problem, so the third one must"
'But the first till has no problem, I checked up before speaking to you.'
"Oh"
'I also checked the third till, I can't find a fault on that either'
"... so..."
'... so that leaves the second till. Can I take that one over?'
"Well, we're busy using that one at the moment"
'I can't fix it if you're using it'
"Oh"
'So, when do you want me to call back, so I can check it over and fix it?'
"Well... the second till's working ok at the moment. We'll contact you if it goes wrong again"

The analysis? No fault found, site was a time-waster, chargeable call.

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Attention-seeking shop managers. Todays little escapade involved a three-till shop, and a manager who either made assumptions or just lied to get attention. "Yes, the problem is with all the tills. It's been happening all day." 'So, which till can I take over, to see what's going on?' "The third till. We haven't used it all day" 'How do you know if the third till is faulty, if you've not used it today?' "Well, the other two tills have the problem, so the third one must" 'But the first till has no problem, I checked up before speaking to you.' "Oh" 'I also checked the third till, I can't find a fault on that either' "... so..." '... so that leaves the second till. Can I take that one over?' "Well, we're busy using that one at the moment" 'I can't fix it if you're using it' "Oh" 'So, when do you want me to call back, so I can check it over and fix it?' "Well... the second till's working ok at the moment. We'll contact you if it goes wrong again" The analysis? No fault found, site was a time-waster, chargeable call.

bloody fools

I found out yesterday that my OTHER acount is now overdrawn aswell

So sorry to hear about your wife Hugh, hope it all turns  out OK

Guy

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Some guy (a bf of a friend) had a huge go at me earlier for somthing that happened(or in fact didn't happen) over a year ago. then when i told him what happened/didn't happen he just refused to believe me. so what was the point even asking. all he wanted was to hear what he had desided was the truth.

the thing is i totaly understand why he's pissed at me. i'm just annoyed at her for making a big thing out of nothing. (we flirted a bit over msn then i desided i should'nt make any move because of him). so shes blocked and i'm pretty sure he's blocked me.

i'm sure it'll all blow over soon enough. it just kinda ruined my day.

Guy Roberts:

So sorry to hear about your wife Hugh, hope it all turns  out OK

Guy

Hi Guy,

Thanks for the thoughts. We find out tomorrow about the next stages.

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Well I haven't so much had a bad day as a bad weekend...

Try this lot on for size:

Saturday morning at half five, some little scrote had an argument with his girlfriend and in a fit of temper threw a rock through the back windscreen of my car. Despite the missus actually seeing him do it (she was woken by the argument) the police still haven't arrested the little git yet. Why not? Because they're understaffed and too busy to deal with it straight away AND because the incident took place within an hour of their shift ending, processing this scumbag would have meant the coppers would have had to work overtime!

If you want to commit a crime, come to North Wales - it's dead easy unless you're driving a car - then you'll get tailed for two miles by three police cars and the force helicopter!

Then on Saturday afternoon, Max and Natty were in the hospital seeing Max's gran who's 87 and on her last legs. While they're out, my 14 yr old Border Collie cross had some kind of seizure, cried out, collapsed and died on the spot. I couldn't even get him to the vets because of the damage to the car and none of the taxi firms I spoke to were willing to have a potentially dead dog in their cars. When I finally managed to get him to the vets, they told me there was a slim chance they could have saved him if I'd got him there sooner - even though they did admit it was unlikely.

Then I had to wait for the girls to get back from the hospital to tell them that the dog we've had since he was six weeks old - and we've had since Natty was six months old was dead. As you can imagine, Natty was pretty distraught.

They say that trouble comes in threes, well it did...

At 1:30 on Sunday morning we got a phonecall to say that Max's gran had passed away - hours after they'd been in to see her!

So now I have no car - the rear windscreen is gonna cost £375 to sort out (because I didn't have glass cover on my insurance). I can't get to work so I'm having to use up some of my annual leave. I can't even use a company van because of the risk that'll get it'll trashed outside this house by the local scrotes. And on top of all that, there's a funeral to get organised and the family to take care of.

And to top it all off, I couldn't even divert my attention to something enjoyable 'cos the damned forum was offline!

What a bloody weekend.

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Sorry about your bad weekend Spiritflier and Gran passing away. I bet if you had clipped the ear of the little toe rag, the police would have soon been around to arrest you!

Try writing to you local MP and/or radio/tv station as it might force some action.  

 

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@Spitfire: i'm really sorry to hear about that awful weekend. i remember how torn up i was about my mums Cat that i'd grown up with dying when i was young. and how subdued i got when my nan died. those events were years appart and i can't emagine how awful it would be to have them over the same weekend. Also even if they'd cought the little twunt that smashed up your car they wouldn't have done anything. i was mugged a few years ago and they cought two of the "muggers" there and then(fortunatly my friends were nearby and saw it happen and alerted the authoritys etc)  It  took over a year just to get to court and i think one of them got off with nothing and the other (who had just got out of prison the week before he hit me and stole my wallet for a tenner) got a couple of years in prison. i still havn't had any compensation eather and the case finished..... a year? two ago.
I can't believe that all happened to you over one weekend. Really sorry to hear it.

And after that little rant ive forgoten why i was going to post......

Sorry to hear of your losses spiritflier, they always say thing come in threes, but it never is anything good that comes in threes.

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Spiritflier,

I'm very sorry to hear of your troubles. Having been through a rough couple of weeks myself, I can only say that, while the windscreen et al. is really badly timed, it really becomes insignificant compared to the loss of Max's gran and your dog. It will all pass soon enough and life will return to its dull roar.

Your weekend does sound familiar though - in the middle of our medical troubles, some kids with a slingshot broke one of our living room windows, the next day the wife drove over a short bollard and bent up the front bumper...it all happens. While at the time I was less than amused, now it really doesn't seem important (glasiers are coming on wed. to finally replace the window).

Keep your chin up and concentrate on the important things,
Hugh

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Thanks for the comments everyone... they're very much appreciated.

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My games are hard i can't do them.

-i'm not childish -

Ants nests all over my front lawn - the little b*****ds are everywhere!!

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Jayms:

My games are hard i can't do them.

-i'm not childish -

Jayms :) What Games have you got ? ( bet my son will know so tips )

Age of empires 2 was the one i was getting beaten on lol
but its ok i can do it eventualy. i'm just lazy and i like to be able to do things as soon as i try or else i start hating myself lol

i've been playing Age of Mythologies which although increadably inacurate (both acording to the real myths and the history) is great fun and not quite so hard lol :)