Why Oh Why?
I work for a moving company. I manage one of our three offices. It happens to be one of the smallest offices the company has, so I don’t keep a lot of material on hand here in the warehouse. However, every once in a while someone will come in wanting something odd. It’s not at 9am, or even 3pm… it’s ALWAYS 5 minutes before I am going to leave. It’s not just a dishpack for packing their “fine china” it’s always a box for something completely random, and very few people on the planet have. Yet, for some reason they always think *I* have the box just sitting here waiting for THEM. If said customer would just walk in ask for the carton, find out I don’t have it, and leave that would be wonderful. No, NO NO… that doesn’t happen in my world.
(Nothing EVER happens as it should in my world)
The conversation usually goes something like this…
Shipper: You don’t have a carton to fit my random crazy shaped item that only one person on the planet owns?
Me: *tries to looked shocked* I’m sorry we don’t.
Shipper: well when do you think you could get a carton to fit my random crazy shaped item that only one person on the planet owns?
Me: *Really IS shocked* I’m sorry I can’t get that.
Shipper: I thought you were a moving company? (pronounce move like you are part cow)
This is the part were I smile and act like I don’t want to stuff them and their random crazy shaped item that only one person on the planet owns item in a carton and send them to the moon for being completely ignorant.
Me: Yes ma’am we are movers, perhaps you should try the UPS store? *chortle*
Some days, I wonder why I get out of bed…
One of the smallest of 3 offices??? Look either you are the smallest or the 2nd largest, sheeesh get with the program. And yes I just love customers that come in and want you to actually do something 5 minutes before closing.
I love my mom. i thought there would be something exciting on here… I’ll wait.
Ugh! I feel your pain. I used to get that too but over the phone where I used to work. Some clueless client would phone up 5 minutes before I put the phones on “Away” (you see, I was in charge of that too) and ask for evidence that what we were being paid for was actually happening when we were going to send them the report the next day. Yet, they wouldn’t get off the phone and wanted me to go over everything because they couldn’t wait to read the report or possibly didn’t bother reading the f’ing monthly reports… I was usually overly nice but deep down I was cursing like a sailor on leave.
this is what they said I should be via a test!
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