Top 10 ways to piss me off at work.

[AC9breaker]

1. Wait in line then when your turn comes pull out your cellphone and see what everyone else at home wants.

2. Shout your order at me while I'm taking someone else order and assume I heard you.

3. Assume I or anyone else at my shop is italian and talk to us in italian.

4. Complain about how my prices are so high and how so&so store is selling their pizza cheaper.

5. Kids

6. Parents who don't shut their kids the fuck up or don't watch them as they run around.

7. Try to make small talk with me when I'm busy as shit.

8. Order shit 30 minutes to closing and assume you can sit down and eat it there.

9. Order complicated shit 30 minutes to closing.

10. Order some shit to eat in an hour before closing and assume you actually have that whole fucking hour to sit there.


Bonus: Assume I care how long you've been coming to the pizza shop or what history you have with the place or the owners.

[Kent]

5. Kids

6. Parents who don't shut their kids the fuck up or don't watch them as they run around.
If a parent won't do something about their child acting up in a public or private place, someone else should be allowed to do so.

[Retehi]

There's another I wanna throw on that list when I worked at a pizzeria before. . and that's to have a god damn address when you call to make an order. "I'm at a motel by a casino with a giant lion statue near by" doesn't work.

[Sayara]

Bonus: Assume I care how long you've been coming to the pizza shop or what history you have with the place or the owners.


Oh man; this. So many freakin people do this with me at my grocery store.

wah wah; everything sucks now i've been here for 20 years... Giant's been goin downhill after they sold the company blabla.

GETOOVERIT.

[BIG OLAF]

Man, I'm glad I don't have to deal with customers/schmucks all day. Hell, my job isn't even in the "civilian sector", as they call it.

[Pirrip]

Can this thread be stickied please?

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

8. Order shit 30 minutes to closing and assume you can sit down and eat it there.

9. Order complicated shit 30 minutes to closing.

10. Order some shit to eat in an hour before closing and assume you actually have that whole fucking hour to sit there.

Remember a lot of that.

Found out a good way to clear house near closing is the mopping seating/table areas, with extra ammonia smell. We didn't have that soo much - definitely should have, but a Monsoon Burgers or something had that going on when I went in about 20 mins to closing time. Forget this crap, lets go to another place.

And their workers probably wanted that more than another order.

[Leviathan]

I can relate to all of that when I worked for Subway.

Especially number 8.

[Dragwind]

I can relate to 3 with people doing the same thing with other languages, and especially 7.

[Weeaboolits]

I get people complaining about prices all the time at work.

I work at Goodwill.

[Delete]

Customers are some of the dumbest people in the world. When I was at K-mart, working in Electronics, I had people ask me questions like "Is this Electronics?" or "do you sell TV's?" All while everything is right in front of them. :/

[Gunslinger-08]

Customers are some of the dumbest people in the world. When I was at K-mart, working in Electronics, I had people ask me questions like "Is this Electronics?" or "do you sell TV's?" All while everything is right in front of them. :/

This is why I've always avoided working in retail.

[beatrixkiddo]

11. After I tell you the total of your order, back up and look at the menu for a while before paying.

[Delete]

This is why I've always avoided working in retail.

I wish I could of done the same, but sometimes you gotta settle for whatever you can get your hands on. Can't do too much when your 16 and moneyless lol. Also, it's better than flipping burgers.

[pso_crash]

Sometimes I also like to call my order in ahead of time and then call back 10 minutes later and change it.

[Delete]

I'd probably taser ya through the phone :wacko:

[Tetsaru]

Here's one I hate: bosses that constantly single you out and talk down upon you, even if you know you're doing a good job. I used to work at Wal-Mart as a truck unloader/stocker, and one of my managers was a total bitch to me. If we got a truck unloaded early, she'd say something like, "Well, you should do that ALL the time," or she'd nitpick about how things weren't stacked in a certain way when we were CLEARLY running out of room to put it, etc.

A friend of mine who was trying to find a job out of town (we're both unemployed atm) recently got hired to work at Chick-Fil-a, which you may or may not know, is very Christian-based in origin. From what he told me of his experience there, he was the only non-white person working there, and the district manager, who practically "lives" there and most likely bought his way into the position, kept telling him that it was "an insult against God" for him to be doing his job poorly, even though he was working his ass off, and his supervisor and multiple customers were complimenting him on how well he was doing, compared to the other new employees who were barely doing anything. Even worse, the district manager also didn't allow him his break until he finally went on his own about 6 hours into his 8-hour shift (from what I understand, breaks are required by law mid-way through the shift, btw) after he was having to REPEATEDLY hose down the dumpsters outside in 100-degree weather (because apparently it wasn't good enough the first time, in which he got it spotless) instead of clean tables where he was actually needed. He quit immediately after the first day and refused to relinquish his uniform and badge until he got paid his minimum wage for the hours he worked. I told him that he should've filed a complaint, but he felt like it wouldn't really go anywhere, as the district manager in question intentionally dodged most of the security cameras in the area to single him out, and it would've just been his word against the manager's. :(

[BIG OLAF]

Here's one I hate: bosses that constantly single you out and talk down upon you, even if you know you're doing a good job.

I can sort of relate to this. My boss at my old job never really talked down on me, but I definitely got singled out, a lot. I always did my job quickly (which was very important where I worked) and correctly. The latter being very uncommon around those parts. Other people could get away with murder in that place. Hour long lunch breaks, sitting around basically not doing a damned thing for a good 90% of the day, and I know she saw them doing it.

But, as soon as I went one measly minute over the allotted lunch time, or was seen relaxing for ten damn seconds, I was given "a talking to" about my "bad work ethic". It was like that from day one, all the way up until six months later, when I got laid off.

Coincidence? I think not. I've since concluded that they were probably planning to get rid of me from the start, as a few other people who got hired the same time I did also lost their jobs the same week as me. Funny thing is, that was my first job, and it definitely didn't leave a good first impression of the "working world" on me. I'm kind of dreading getting another job now, for fear of the same bullshit.

[Tetsaru]

Funny thing is, that was my first job, and it definitely didn't leave a good first impression of the "working world" on me. I'm kind of dreading getting another job now, for fear of the same bullshit.

That was one of my first jobs too, and it sucks because college seemed to treat me similarly in a lot of ways - just lots of random bullshit, teachers always talking you down because you do things differently, etc. I mean, if I had the past 6 or 7 years of my life back when I was just out of high school, had several scholarships, and could afford college, I'd probably go to a different school, hopefully with a better idea of what I want to pursue, and actually have a degree that could net me a good job that I would enjoy... but I live in fucking Newport, Arkansas - Wal-Mart and burger-flipping's about it around here, unless you want to bust your ass doing industrial or agricultural shit... not like they'd hire me anyway. And if I want to move, or go back to college, I have to earn some money first... it's always something to do with fucking money. :disapprove:

[BIG OLAF]

always talking you down because you do things differently


Oh, I dealt with that quite a bit at my old job, too. Everyone had a certain "set-in-stone" way of doing things around there, and it was pathetic. After being there a couple of weeks, I developed my own "style", if you will, of doing my job. That was greatly frowned upon by my boss, as that's not how I was instructed to do it. Keep in mind, my work style was faster, and more efficient than the run-of-the-mill routine everyone else in my job position generally did. I even had a lot of my co-workers tell me so.

But that wasn't how "the company" wanted the process done, so I was scolded for it many times. People are so tight-assed about doing things "by the book", even if their "book" is no longer in print (meaning obsolete).

[DragonForce]

I'll never work in retail again. Apparently it's company policy to let the customers walk all over you and talk shit. I'm sorry, but I'd rather give them a mouth full of broken teeth than get minimum wage.

[Retehi]

You're so tough man, I wish I could be as badass as you.

[DragonForce]

LOL, I luv sarcasm.

I can say for a fact that working in retail for the few years that I have has changed my outlook on people for the worse. It's too bad.

[Zeek123]

When a boss keeps that one slow, really creepy guy around because he's too afraid that the guy would bust in and shoot up the place if he were fired.

[KodiaX987]

How to piss off a Shuri:

1 - Have me to a task, only to realize you screwed up and call me up to do it all over again because you had the wrong information. Oh, I don't mind billing you for it. I just hate having to start something over no matter the circumstances.

2 - Hand me a very precise list of rules that my new module must follow. Then some months later, complain that my module is shit by design when I really have only been following directions and that it's now being applied to something it wasn't originally meant for.

3 - Wait until 4:45 PM to test the update I delivered and then go into a panic because a bug popped up.

4 - Tell me in my face that the new software we installed is the best thing since sliced bread. Then call up my boss and complain that the software is shit.

5 - Fail to ring up your requests with the relevant departments and have them check the work I've done. You said my work order reports were OK. You didn't bother showing them to production. The next week, they saw the reports, and they took a giant shit on them. I didn't even bother talking to you when I redid them. Should've cut out the middle man from the get go.

6 - Ask me "So how are we doing with this project?" You are an executive. You most likely have no clue and no interest in the work I've done and are only concerned about if it'll be delivered on time. Which is perfectly fine. But don't come up to me, a programmer, and expect me to answer with anything else aside from technical mumbo jumbo. Talk to the guys upstairs if you wanna ask questions about time and budget. But if you want me to bore you by talking about how I fixed the nasty transaction import bug, then go ahead and be my guest.

7 - Blame your data loss on me. Automated backups wasn't part of the contract. Never was and never will. It was up to you to schedule your backups properly. But since you have no actual IT person in your outfit, you didn't. And this is why I can remote-desktop to your completely unsecured server across the Internet without even needing a VPN let alone a certificate key.

8 - Call my boss directly everytime you get a bug and treat it like the barbarians are at the gates in the hope you'll get a free lunch ticket. Customers that treat me and my buddies well get luxury treatment. People like you who scream more than they talk on a daily basis, I'll do the barest minimum to get rid of you and move on to a project that brings me more enjoyment.

9 - Flag every request as urgent.

10 - Complain that our software is too demanding on hardware. We are in 2010. Your fifteen-inch CRT monitors with a maximum resolution of 1024x768 won't cut it. Higher-resolution LCDs are dirty cheap, so go get some. You didn't, so you actually spent more money on having me take out fields and buttons out of every form so the important ones weren't out of people's reach.

[Randomness]

How to piss off a Shuri:

7 - Blame your data loss on me. Automated backups wasn't part of the contract. Never was and never will. It was up to you to schedule your backups properly. But since you have no actual IT person in your outfit, you didn't. And this is why I can remote-desktop to your completely unsecured server across the Internet without even needing a VPN let alone a certificate key.


Wow. And people wonder how hackers get in.

[AC9breaker]

How to piss off a Shuri:


Great read, I love your rants.


an addendum to my original post.


1. Make an order to me while having a conversation on the phone and get mad at me when I show you an equal lack of interest or attention to our interaction with each other.

2. Place an order for pickup and show up in 5 minutes assuming it's done after I told you it was a 15-20 minute wait.

3. Repeat conversations. I literally have the same conversation 40 times each with different people.

4. People who play music from their cellphones loud.

5. Indecisive motherfuckers.

6. Empty out the bottle of parmesean cheese on a fucking slice and expect me to fill it up for you. (I hope you die from fucking high cholesterol. )

7. Ask me if I'm close when the Iron shutters and open sign as well as most of the lights are down and off.

8. Repeat jokes. "Can I get you something to drink?" "Yeah a cold beer!" That joke was not funny the first time I heard it, and definitely not funny the millionth time I heard it. On Halloween, "Trick or treat, can I get a free pizza?"

9. Make a mess that can only be explained that you where eating with your elbows when you eat in and don't even leave a fucking tip.

10.Ugly girls and old women who hit on me.

[DragonForce]

lol, ugly chicks are the worst. xD

[ShinMaruku]

People can be quite shitty I shall never take such jobs because I live in a Jamaican neighborhood and those people take mile if given an inch.
That and I am no people person it enrages me to see the people that lower my quality of life.

[DragonStriker]

The best part of this topic is the "tags". Anyways a great read and when I was like 15 I worked in a fast food place for a couple months(Arbys) so I completely understand a lot of this stuff.

"Can I get a burger?"

-"Sir we don't sell burgers"

"Fuck you and your shit resturant I'm going to McDonalds"

Also something that irritates me is when I go somewhere like Burger King for lunch and the idiot in front of us goes "Can I get a McDouble?" or "Can I get a McChicken?" and then when corrected just says "Just get me a McDouble".

[Volcompat321]

Holy shit, it's Alpal.

And wow, I just looked at the tags when you mentioned them.
I'm surprised they are allowed to be that. Haha.
:wacko: either way.

At work, it pisses me off when kids take their time picking stuff, when they had the whole damn time we were open to choose.
Then we get stuck cleaning up 30 minutes after we close, cause these kids are dicks.

[DragonStriker]

Holy shit, it's Alpal.

And wow, I just looked at the tags when you mentioned them.
I'm surprised they are allowed to be that. Haha.
:wacko: either way.

At work, it pisses me off when kids take their time picking stuff, when they had the whole damn time we were open to choose.
Then we get stuck cleaning up 30 minutes after we close, cause these kids are dicks.

What?


You should just hang the kids by their feet and beat them with bats like they are pinatas.

[Volcompat321]

You haven't been around here for a while.
Not that I noticed anyway.

And yea, I should. I know I've wanted to do that.

I am slowly starting to hate kids.

[Bomber The Cosmonaut]

The best part of this topic is the "tags". Anyways a great read and when I was like 15 I worked in a fast food place for a couple months(Arbys) so I completely understand a lot of this stuff.

"Can I get a burger?"

-"Sir we don't sell burgers"

"Fuck you and your shit resturant I'm going to McDonalds"

Also something that irritates me is when I go somewhere like Burger King for lunch and the idiot in front of us goes "Can I get a McDouble?" or "Can I get a McChicken?" and then when corrected just says "Just get me a McDouble".

Fuckin' hate that. Now we get people coming in asking for "Frappe's". This isn't Mcdonalds. Don't get mad when I correct you, either. Don't give me a stupid look when I call out your drink. Don't get angry at me when you grab the wrong drink right after I call it out and hand it off. Know what you order, for gods sake.

Also, don't come yanking the door, trying to get in, when you damn well know that we're closed.

[DragonForce]

The only thing close to annoying is working with almost nothing but middle-aged people. I can work with them and get along with them, but it's hard to be friends with them because of the age gap.