Just about everyone I meet today needs a foot up their ass

[Crackpot]

the fucknuts are congregating and If I had a gun I'd be committing some perfectly justified homicides.

[Daisy]

Oh you had one of those days too .... Yep s'a good job guns aren't allowed here too!

[kristina]

Must be something floating in the air...all over the planet. Just had someone come if from a very well-reviewed, extremely expensive (read...kristina has never eaten there...) restaurant, complaining about an estimate I did last week to recover the seats of an "L" shaped banquette. After I explained to him that the labor charge included the cost of new foam, and that half the overall cost was the (pretty expensive) fabric they had selected, he pointed out that we mark up the fabric, and that he could do the upholstery himself, it's just not that difficult. Then he stormed out. What a grouch. If he's the owner, I feel sorry for his staff!

[Gob]

Yesterday I was part of a five man team (inc cops) taking a truculent PD out of our office and into a paddy wagon. He did the usual "going totally limp" routine on us and we had to carry him, cuffed, down four flights of stairs. If the cops hadn't been there I would have used some "unprofessional" techniques on him, the wanker. The stupid thing was we were giving him what he wanted ( hospitalisation) but he still had to go through this charade.,

[dales]

hostpitalization vs. food up the ass?


decisions...decisions...decisions...decisions...decisions...decisions...

[Lord Jim]

I had a day like that last week....Clients, vendors and IT people who all decided to write be a "complete friggin' mo-ron" at the the of their "to do" list...

I was joking with Kelly that I felt like I had somehow been transported into a bad black and white 50's B sci-fi movie: The Attack Of The Incredibly Stupid People....

"Quickly! I must get to the UN and warn the world!"

[Lord Jim]

food up the ass

"Food" up the ass?

Man. that really sounds gross....bleeeech...

[Guinevere]

Oh I get it Crackpot. You're not in MI, you're really a flight attendant living on Long Island . . .


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyreg ... f=homepage

Excerpt:

It has been a long time since flight attendant was a glamorous job title. The hours are long. Passengers with feelings of entitlement bump up against new no-frills policies. Babies scream. Security precautions grate but must be enforced. Airlines demand lightning-quick turnarounds, so attendants herd passengers and collect trash with the grim speed of an Indy pit crew. Everyone, it seems, is in a bad mood.

On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.

After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Mr. Slater, 38 and a career flight attendant, got on the public-address intercom and let loose a string of invective.

Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career.

On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.

[Lord Jim]

LOL

Well played sir!

That's what I call goin' out with style!

[Gob]

Oh man, I came so close to a similar exit from my profession last month.

A short-arsed runt of a consultant told me to; "go away and deal with this person," (he had cocked up the clients scripts, I had had to correct him) virtually threw my clinical notes back at me, and turned his back on me. If it hadn't been for my mate Lewis , who caught me by the arm and steered me out of the office, there would have been a consultant lying in a pool of his own blood with his face on back to front, and me looking for a job stacking shelves at Woolies.

Lewis told me, "next time, just don't correct him, just let the client know he can sue."

[dales]

food up the ass

"Food" up the ass?

Man. that really sounds gross....bleeeech...

Like you said, Jim......it's been one of those days.

[loCAtek]

Well, it wasn't that bad, but I had one of those days when you have to repeat yourself upmteen times in order to be understood; to a little old Chinese lady no less.

I told her 'Shrimp with stir-fried vegetables' for about 15 min. until she stopped pointing at everything else and parroted it back at for 5 min. more; where upon she finally took my order ...!

[Gob]

11 August 2010 Last updated at 12:33 GMT

How best to avoid the red mist

We have all felt like bashing our heads against brick walls when we cannot get what we want as a consumer. Conversely, many of us have suffered awkward customers. So how do we stop irritation boiling over into anger?


How can those of us with a short fuse avoid following in their footsteps? The Magazine asks two experts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10924556

[Daisy]

This thread is gonna run and run, it's only 20 past nine here in the UK and I already have a list of three people that need a FITA.

When some of our people here realise that we are here to service our customers not to inconvenience them I will raise a hallelujah...

heads off with a big stick to twat someone

[dales]

Well, it wasn't that bad, but I had one of those days when you have to repeat yourself upmteen times in order to be understood; to a little old Chinese lady no less.

I told her 'Shrimp with stir-fried vegetables' for about 15 min. until she stopped pointing at everything else and parroted it back at for 5 min. more; where upon she finally took my order ...!

Habla Espanol?