What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.

Angel ,'Conviction (1)'


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Miracleman - Jul 31, 2007 6:23:37 pm PDT #9170 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

I've heard of that, yes. From ND, I think.

Also "you've got an ID10T error, there."


Laga - Jul 31, 2007 6:27:34 pm PDT #9171 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Are you having a PHB section? I once worked for a lady who (when we were hurting for staff) called the "Bereaved Parents Association" to ask if any of their kids needed jobs. She thought Bereaved was a place.


Miracleman - Jul 31, 2007 6:35:43 pm PDT #9172 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

PHB?


Laga - Jul 31, 2007 6:36:43 pm PDT #9173 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Pointy Haired Boss (Dilbert reference.)


Toddson - Aug 01, 2007 4:00:37 am PDT #9174 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Ah ... food service revenge.

A friend of mine once worked at a restaurant where the wait staff was treated like crap. The boss/manager was playing games with their pay and tips so they always ended up getting shorted a little - not enough that they could take legal action, but enough to sting. And he treated them badly in general. So ... one night, in the middle of the dinner rush, one of the wait staff rang a bell/tapped on a glass/whatever and announced that the entire wait staff was quitting. En masse. At once. And they all walked out.


Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2007 5:42:29 am PDT #9175 of 10001
brillig

Customer services hell:

Customers who think the phrase "That is not acceptable" is the key to getting what they want. "I'm sorry, sir, we don't support you trying to remotely program the computers on the space station from your Commodore 64. You need to have at least Windows XP." "That is not acceptable."

One wants to yell "I canna change the laws of physics!" but I'm sure they'd say "That is not acceptable."

(Actually, it's more often, "Hi, we cobbled together a system that goes against your stated recommendations, and our entire corporate structure is based on that system, and now we need to upgrade to your newest program but we want to keep our cobbled-together configuration." "I'm sorry, we don't support that configuration, and if you try to upgrade to the new program, it will crash your entire computer system." "But we want it this way. Make it work. Oh, and you're right, it did crash our system when we tried to do the standard upgrade, help us fix that, OK? We need our non-supported configuration back. Oh, and the person who actually did the configuration left the company two years ago."


Daisy Jane - Aug 01, 2007 5:43:48 am PDT #9176 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I worked at a microbrewery here in Uptown. Uptown=snotty, entitled clientele. So, we're really busy one night, wait time is about an hour and a half, and a guy grabs me by the arm and yanks me to the podium and asks if I can't give him a table that has been vacated no more than 5 seconds before.

Luckily for me, NSM for him, a good hostess is adored by the waitstaff. My friend, waiter Rob, would take dude's drink order, disappear, then reappear with the drinks after the guy had gone up to the bar, waited in line and gotten his own damn beer.


Miracleman - Aug 01, 2007 5:49:18 am PDT #9177 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

There are few phrases that will set my teeth a-grindin' like "That is not acceptable".

I actually got yelled at by a supervisor because someone used that phrase on me and, before I could stop myself I snapped out "You'll learn."


Daisy Jane - Aug 01, 2007 5:54:37 am PDT #9178 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I actaully did have to pull out that phrase with the bank, but in my defense, they were trying to give me $75 when their screw up cost me around $500. So it was totally not acceptable.


Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2007 5:56:08 am PDT #9179 of 10001
brillig

before I could stop myself I snapped out "You'll learn."

Heh heh heh. I do tech support over chats/IM, and it's wonderfully freeing to be able to mutter, "My god, you jackass, who let you out of the house, much less access to a computer" or "Just do what I told you to do, already! We've done this step five times, why do you need me to walk you through it again! Rats would have learned this process by now! Rhubarb would have learned this process by now!"