Worker #1: Oh, I love that ringtone! That’s from Wizard of Oz, isn’t it?
Worker #2: Yeah, Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead is my favorite song in that whole movie.
Worker #1: Who called?
Worker #2: My mother-in-law.
Worker #1, lauhging: Got any others?
Worker #2: Yeah, I’ve got If I Only Had a Brain on there, too.
Worker #1: Who’s that one for?
Worker #2: My boss.
Customer: “Hey, how good is this book?” *holds a fantasy book*
Me: “I don’t know, I haven’t read it. But you might want to start with the first one in the series, if we have it right now…”
Customer: “You haven’t read it? You’re gotta be kidding me! Really, they hire anyone these days. I guess I’ll try it, then. You said it’s not the first
one?”
Me: “No, and it seems that we don’t have the first book in this series. If you want, you can leave your name and number and we will call you if someone sells it.”
Customer: “No, no, that will be fine. I’ll just come back. When will you get it?”
Me: “I don’t know, sir. We’re a used books store. We only get books when people sell them to us.”
Customer: “I know that, I’m not stupid! When will someone sell you this book?”
Me: “I don’t know, sir.”
Customer: *rolls his eyes* “I can’t believe they hired you. I bet it’s only because you’re pretty!”
Me: “Er…thanks, I guess?”
I work in a hospital transporting patients. I have for the past six years, it pays decent enough for me to afford to work and go to school full time. The hospital i work for decided to outsource the management of the dept.
This is a management company brought into a unionized hospital. I for one am in the union but I’m not big on unions. i believe they can keep people in a job that deserve to be fired. now that is stated, the employees are what you might say idiots. if you have a concern about an issue, say a patient issue. where patient safety could be an issue, they will respond with “i will have to talk to ______ about it”. that is it. that is all you will get out of the whole thing. you will never see any change, or anyone ask you about it, that is it.
Once I got called to the office of a co-worker (let’s call him Joe User) to help him figure out his username (he knew his password).
* Me: “Your username is ‘Joe User’.”
* Him: “Unacceptable! How much am I supposed to remember? I can only remember a certain number of things.”
* Me: “Wouldn’t one of those things be your name?”
* Him: “I guess I’ll have to write it down.”
He proceeded to write his own name on a sticky note and attach it to his monitor.