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i was on a call for tech support once when the lady claimed to have broken her coffee cup holder.

mcgid1 wrote:

burnzz wrote:

i was on a call for tech support once when the lady claimed to have broken her coffee cup holder.

I've heard that way too many times to believe it and I always thought it was an urban legend.  Does that crap actually happen in tech support?

to me it did - the woman was older, and if she was playing me, well, she got a free cd-rom out of the deal.

The restaurant I worked at was a chicken place (not KFC, but like it), and one time we had an 11-piece meal. Weird number, but whatever. This one lady asks me, dead serious, verbatim, "How many pieces come in the 11-piece meal?" I stood there stunned, and then finally said, "Uhh.... 11." And then she says in complete amazement, "Oh really? There's really 11? Wow!"

burnzz wrote:

i was on a call for tech support once when the lady claimed to have broken her coffee cup holder.

Some lady called the helpdesk a few weeks ago because she dropped a manila folder behind her file cabinet.

Some guy didn't want to pay 1p for a bag and advertise the shop I work at, so he asked me to put it inside out.
The bag was so thin you could still see the logo..

burnzz wrote:

didja tell her the file was unrecoverable? tell her it was deleted . . .

No, i went upstairs and got it for her im a nice guy like that.

mtb0minime wrote:

The restaurant I worked at was a chicken place (not KFC, but like it), and one time we had an 11-piece meal. Weird number, but whatever. This one lady asks me, dead serious, verbatim, "How many pieces come in the 11-piece meal?" I stood there stunned, and then finally said, "Uhh.... 11." And then she says in complete amazement, "Oh really? There's really 11? Wow!"

ohhhh boyyyy.........

"Can I have a cheese burger?"
"Sir, this is Chick-fil-A, we have chicken."
"Oh... can I get a chicken cheese burger?"

"Do you have a 20-piece chicken mcnuggets?" (I can't tell you how many people thought the word was 'mcnuggets' instead of 'nuggets')
"No, but we have an 8 and a 12 piece chicken nuggets, do you want those?"
"No, i want 20...."

"I want the combo 8... but no coleslaw"
"So, you would like the combo 5?"
"Oh, yea, i guess so"

etc. etc....

steelie34 wrote:

Morpheus wrote:

"Do you have a 20-piece chicken mcnuggets?" (I can't tell you how many people thought the word was 'mcnuggets' instead of 'nuggets')

actually, they are mcnuggets.  it's listed as an item on mcdonalds menu, so you have added yourself to this mcthread.

i worked at fucking chick-fil-a.

mcnuggets is the product specific to McDonalds.... if i were at McDonalds, i would have been serving mcnuggets.

lrn2read

I once asked a guy what kinds of pieces he wanted with the mixture of chicken (breasts, wings, thighs, legs aka drumsticks). He says, "Gimme a few breasts and the rest legs. Oh, I also want a few drumsticks in there, too."

And one time, this guy laughed his off, genuinely, when we said that one of the pieces was a wing. He said, "What!? Chickens don't have wings, don't you know that! This place is a charade, I don't want to eat here if you're serving fake chicken. Chickens don't have wings, otherwise they could fly."

It was late at night and I was coming back from a friend's 18th birthday party (In italy the tradition is to have a very formal party with friends and family's friends dressed in tux or in elegant dress code.)
So anyways i was coming back from the party with my car with a friend of mine and i needed to refuel.
So i pull over to a gas station and I see a Golf infront of me, with a hot girl in a black dress running around the pump and looking very confused.
Now, I know she is from the party as it was 3 oclock at night and she was wearing a very formal and very expensive black dress.
Anyways i put the money in the machine and start refueling and this girl keep walking back and forth between the pumps, so i walk up to her and ask her "Hi, do you need some help? and she is like "Yeah, this stupid gas station doesn't have Diesel. and i'm really running out of gas".

-Let me explain that my car is a VW Touran TDI, and either i'm an idiot and i'm putting normal Fuel in my car or she is so dumb that she does not see the 4 pumps with *Gasolio written all over them. (Gas olio is Diesel in italian).

I explain to her that Gasolio is Diesel and she can fill up with that, but she does not believe me. I keep saying her that my car runs on diesel and i'm filling up with Gasolio but she starts getting mad at me because she think i'm fucking around with her.
My friend who was sleeping wakes up by now comes out and we both try to explain to her that Gasolio is Diesel and I even have to go to the Dictionary on my Iphone to prove my point. She is finally convinced and she puts the money in the machine and goes over to the pump and starts filling her car....or thats what we thought. She starts looking at the pump and looks even more confused. We were about to leave when she starts waving at us. I go over to her and she says that the pump is not working... It turns out she put the money in the wrong pump. So she moves the car to the right pump and I told her to stay inside the car and I took care of the fueling. Me and my friend couldn't stop laughing whilst going back home but hey at least she gave me her number.

Last edited by aerodynamic (2009-12-15 12:53:15)

NateWiese wrote:

I'm working at the local Salvation Army part time to get some extra money for christmas. During the hiring process for bell ringers, they were brought in twice. First for the application so a background check could be run, second for I9 and W4 paperwork along with policies. I've been given the opprotunity to witness tons of idiots from this job. First, I'd say about 40% of the people mark no for any prior criminal history, and are even warned if they have a Class A felony they cannot be hired. It costs $10 for every background check. 40% of these people either have Felonies on their records, or warrants for their arrest. Next in the hiring process comes I9 and W4 paperwork. I've seen people with 1 child claim 13 dependents. People claim Exempt and 10 dependents, who when you explain to them they cannot claim 10 dependents and Exempt get upset. People write in the wrong last name on a W4 form scratch it out then write it again in the wrong place. I've had to sit down and explain to applicants that it's a federal form and that scratching out the name and writing it on the address list won't work. I'd say most people went through about 3 I9s and W4s.
Now that bell ringers are out, I get to interact with the ones who are getting paid $8 an hour, and make $3 an hour in there kettle. Places like Walmart where one bell ringer can make $180 in 5 hours, then the next bellringer makes $40 and claims that it's because walmart customers don't want to put money in the kettle. They don't realize it might have something to do with the fact that they sit down on the curb with their cellphone out texting for 5 hours.

I understood maybe 9% of that.

People call during a power outage and can not log into the server. They ask what can be done or how can they log in.