Posts tagged "variety"

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Read I am at a job interview in a tailoring shop which is part of a chain. Interviewer: “To demonstrate your sewing skills, please hem these jeans to where the chalk mark indicates.” There are two ...

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Read Back in the 1980s, robocalls were made by real, live people. I got a ton of them. Lacking caller ID, I had no way to screen the calls, so I answered them. My last name is non-Anglo-Saxon, so i...

No Suspension Of Suspicion

Read No Suspension Of Suspicion I worked in a bike shop. Some kid came in: Kid: "Can you fix my bike's 'suspicion'?" My colleague and I shared a look over this kid's mispronunciation of 'suspension...

How to Play Hytale With Friends and Host Your Own Server

Most games are more enjoyable when played with other people, and Hytale is no different. There is more than one way to play this game in multiplayer, so the fun never stops. Here are several ways y...

The Gift Wrapping That Keeps On Giving

Read The Gift Wrapping That Keeps On Giving A customer wants a gift wrapped, so I explain this to her. She picks out her paper, and I start trimming it to fit. Customer: "What are you doing? Don’t ...

Bee-Wildered

Read Bee-Wildered I was selling honey at a farmer's market. Customer: "What kind of honey do you have?" Me: "Oh, we have clover-honey, pine-honey, manuka-honey—" Read Bee-Wildered

The Call Was Coming From Inside The Bank

Read The Call Was Coming From Inside The Bank The fraud department of my bank called and started asking personal questions to verify my identity. Me: "Uh, why?" Bank: "We suspect your debit card ha...

Viscera

Your browser does not support the video tag. For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what I want to write about today. Well, my family might be getting a cat soon, but that's a bit too so...

No Sitting On The Fence With This Customer Service

Read No Sitting On The Fence With This Customer Service Customer: "So the caps arrived this morning." Me: "That's great to hear!" Customer: "But they would have arrived today anyway if we'd stuck t...

Meetception

Read Meetception Our new boss is talking to the office about how he plans to improve efficiency around here. Boss: "So, I've decided to drastically cut the number of meetings we'll all be having." ...

Linkfest #46: "Curse Tablets", a Robot Cellist, and Why Geologists Always Die In Movies

When The Customer Has The Best Offer Of The Day

Read When The Customer Has The Best Offer Of The Day Coworker: "Sorry, a customer came in right before you with an order for over twenty drinks, and it’s going to take us a while. We can still take...

Tactical Currency Deployment

Read Tactical Currency Deployment My husband lived, off and on, in the barracks during his time in the Navy, as he was moved around the country and sometimes even out of the country, and it took ti...

The Price Of Being Right

Read The Price Of Being Right Caller: "The deal is for £20 off an order over £50! I want that deal!" Me: "That deal code has expired, I'm afraid. But good news, since you're only ordering pizza and...

Hitze, Wasser, Abkühlung

Lauwarm bis kühle Duschen kühlen den Körper besser als kalte, 20 °C warme Getränke sind besser als eiskalte und Pizzakartons dürfen ins Altpapier.

Ctrl-Alt-Defeat

Read Ctrl-Alt-Defeat Clerk: "You shut down my computer?! I was working on my report." Supervisor: "I didn't shut it down, I just locked it." Clerk: "But my stuff is not there anymore." Supervisor: ...

Read The Room!

Read Read The Room! Customer: "Excuse me, do you have a copier?" Me: "You mean so you can copy that one page of the book and not have to buy it?" Customer: "Yeah." Me: "Sorry, sir. This is a bookst...

Coffee… Adjacent?

Read Coffee… Adjacent? I work in a Starbucks. A woman walks in as I am literally pouring a coffee into a mug for my current customer, and asks: Customer: "Do you do coffee?" Read Coffee… Adjacent?

Blue Screen Of Career

Read Blue Screen Of Career Manager: "Apart from the role as E-marketeer, could you manage systems?" Me: "Don't expect me to configure an Exchange server, but I can keep computers running." Manager:...

Shell Yeah!

Read Shell Yeah! Me: "Good evening. Do you have any questions about our menu this evening?" Customer: "Y'all got the fish that don't swim?" Me: "Do you mean shellfish?" Customer: "Yeah, those lil' ...