Thanks, everyone. I'm very touched by Victor's faith in my little story. Especially since in the beginning there were so many notes, I had my doubts as to whether we'd reach an agreement. But we did, and we both are very proud of that story. So I hope it gets in!
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
erikaj - Aug 01, 2007 11:21:44 am PDT #9206 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
victor infante - Aug 01, 2007 11:23:03 am PDT #9207 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I fully admit to being a bitch of an editor to write for, but damn it, that's what makes writing better.
javachik - Aug 01, 2007 11:25:03 am PDT #9208 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I really love that story, erika, and am so pleased for you!
erikaj - Aug 01, 2007 11:28:18 am PDT #9209 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
You know I like it when you make me sweat, Victor. I might complain, but it's part of the act.
Ginger - Aug 01, 2007 11:33:54 am PDT #9210 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Congratulations, erika!
Miracleman - Aug 01, 2007 11:47:21 am PDT #9211 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Okay, so I think I'm getting somewhere.
I could use more vengeance of the rep stories, though. If you got any, e-mail addy is good.
Allyson - Aug 01, 2007 11:49:56 am PDT #9212 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I once gave a free rental to a random customer at Blockbuster just so an asshole who was coming down RIGHT NOW couldn't have it, and I could honestly say it was out.
askye - Aug 01, 2007 3:08:28 pm PDT #9213 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
My Customer Service story:
When I worked at Suncoast we had a guy come in and pick out $1000 worth of laserdiscs (back when people still bought them and dvds were a rumor) in the summer when sales were thin and our store was small so $1000 was a huge deal, I wanted our store to get that sale so bad. (My asst manager was in the backroom at the time, probably watching the playboy videos we sold)
There was one catch, the guy was here on vacation and couldn't take them back on the plane, he wanted them shipped to his house. So I get the asst manager to tell him this. I was all excited, assuring my customer, that yes, we could do that. (we'd shipped stuff before) And I'm all "a THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! WHOO!!" , all we have to do is ship it. And the guy will PAY for the shipping!
AssManager says No. Absolutely not. We won't ship it doesn't matter if you'll pay we will not send this to your house. No.
I can't remember everythign that happened but the guy got upset and my assistant manager was a huge asshole and it ended with my asst manager leaving me and going to the backroom. The customer was so pissed off he pushed everything off the counters and stormed out.
He'd also told me I couldn't call the manger or the district manager about this and I was young so I did what he said.
After he and the manager left the new managment cleaned out the backroom and found opened playboy and soft core videos hidden all over the backroom and we started having dramatically less losses.
JZ - Aug 01, 2007 3:23:18 pm PDT #9214 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ugh, that bites, askye. And what a worm of an asst. manager. That could easily be an extra chapter or two: the many ways management can dick you over and make the customer hate you; taking advantage of young folks on their first job; just so much unpleasant stuff if you unpack every rotten element of stories like that.
Volans - Aug 02, 2007 8:08:31 am PDT #9215 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I only worked customer service for a couple years, being dramatically un-cut-out for it. But I'm sure between those couple years and living with an exotic dancer for a couple years, I can come up with some stories.