Anyone else get dumb questions at their job??

[momof3disneyholics]

I have to share this, here's some humor for your Thursday night. As some of you know, I am a concierge here in Orlando. People come up to my desk all the time, they have no clue what they want to do, did not research before they came, think they are going to "Disneyland", when I ask what park, they repeat "Disneyland". Then I list the parks, they still say "Disneyland". So, it is my job to ask questions and decifer what it is they want to do. Sometimes I am surprised that they were even able to book the hotel by themselves.
So, today I am sitting at my desk, a guest walks up to me and wants tickets to MGM so he can go ride that new ride that replaced "Kong". I kindly correct him and tell him that Kong was at Universal not at MGM and the started telling him about the Mummy ride that replaced it. Well, he stops me and "tells" me that I am wrong and that the Kong ride was at MGM because he remembered riding it there. I correct him again and pull out a current Universal map and show him where the Mummy ride is on the map and he says that's nice, but that didn't replace Kong, something else did. . I just let it go at that point and sold him his tickets to MGM. I hope he found what he was looking for.
Later on, a guest walked up and showed me some old Universal tickets from 2000 and said they had one day left on them and wanted to know if he could trade them for Disney tickets. I explained to him, that I don't deal with used tickets and that no matter where you go there is NO WAY anyone is going to trade you Universal tickets for Disney tickets. They are like apples and oranges. He then thanked me and told me he was going to go to the ticket booth at Disney and trade them there. Good luck!
I also work at Universal's Islands of Adventure two days a week and get my fair share of dumn questions there. I've had people walk up to me with MGM maps asking where TOT is, I've had people tell me they were going to get their money back because their child wasn't tall enough to ride a ride, and that they are going to get their money back because a ride broke down. My all time favorite is "It never rains like this at Disney!" Yes, I have ACTUALLY heard that! My biggest pet peeve would have to be the people that walk up to the line 5 mins after the park closes and want to ride. AGHHHHH! The park was just open for 11 hours!!
Anyway, just wanted to share!

 

[OhMari]

I would love your job.

Mine is so boring-
I get the usual phone calls around any Holiday-What time are your Masses. If I am having a bad day, I will tell them it has been in the bulletin for the last 3 weeks, or it has been announced at Mass. I'm usually not that cruel, but sometimes if I recognize a voice and know them pretty well, I will really lay the old guilt trip on them.

 

[Nancy]

My favorite question is "do you work here?" I work in a grocery store, I'm wearing the uniform which clearly states the name of the store, I'm wearing a name tag and walking around with keys on my arm and sometimes a phone attached to my butt....but no, I don't work here.

One of the things I really don't get is why someone gets mad at me because I don't know the price of an item. We have thousands of items...I'm lucky I know where they are located in the store, but the prices...no way!

 

[minkydog]

As a night-shift nurse I have my own clutch of nutty tales, but the question that always takes the cake is,"I hope i didn't wake up?"

 

[ChristmasElf]

Why does it always seem like when you can't find something in the store, whenever I ask someone, it's right in front of me???? So embarrassing!

Especially some of the really large grocery stores that have 2-3 deli areas, a cheese station, when we were visiting in New York, my kids looked like real tourists in the deli section!!! They were so used to just 1 deli with only 1-2 workers, in Wegmans there were people 4 deep, 5-6 workers, so different!
The fact that you could buy pizza and wings in the store always made them happy to shop with me!!

I did really like that store!!! Awesome.

 

[teacherforhi]

In the computer lab of the public library...

"I want to print and it says I have to click OK to print. What do I do?"

Ummm....click OK?

 

[ctinct]

I used to work in a grocery store, and often got the question, "where do you keep your ice?" Ummmmm....in the frozen section.

 

[Aidensmom]

I've worked in software support for many years, way too many stupid questions to list.....my favorites, though, are when someone calls with an error message that tells you exactly what the problem is, and they read it to you and ask you what the problem is. Something like "xxxxx.xxx file is missing, please reinstall Microsoft Word." If you can't figure out what you are supposed to do from that, I really am not sure what else I can tell you.

 

[poohandwendy]

I used to work in a grocery store, and often got the question, "where do you keep your ice?" Ummmmm....in the frozen section.

LOL, I understand your frustration, but around here...many stores have their ice freezers by the cash registers as a convenience (away from the frozen food section).

 

[mommytotwo]

I worked at a place where I had a person call to see how the weather was in Hawaii then asked me why I was at work and not at the beach. They thought that no one worked in Hawaii, that we could drive from one island to the other by using our bridges, and that we lived in grass shacks. And this person was serious, they didn't realize how things were here. The person was calling from the east coast.

 

[jonestavern]

I work at an historic house museum in farm country (or what has been farms)
Adult pointing to runners on the sleighs: "what are those for?"
One lady grew quite irrate at the 'redolent' bovine odors, "they should do something about the smell!"
Me, apologetically: "It's a farm. Today there are only 3 cows, in Benjamin's time there were dozens. It's the best we can do for authenticity."
I had been working, in period dress, in the garden, it was hot, I was perspiring & dirty,"You mean they let you come to work like that?"
I have also had the "do you work here?" garbed head to foot in 1820's attire & with a name tag!

Jean

 

[poohandwendy]

I SWEAR THE FOLLOWING IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE:

I work at a hair salon and there are a few clients (2, exactly) who just cannot understand why their hair color 'fades' at the root. These are educated, professional women in their late 30's.

No matter how my boss tries to explain it, these people just do not get it.

This is an example of a conversation I recently overheard between my boss and a regular client who has mentioned this ''problem'' a few times and still does not get it...

Client- "I am not happy with the hair color you are using on me. It's great on the ends, but the roots are gray. It seems to me that it is fading or rubbing off there"

Styist- "The color isn't fading, your roots are growing in...and since they haven't been exposed to hair color, they are coming in your natural color"

Client- "I don't think so. This is NOT my natural color. I never had this trouble when you first started coloring my hair." (which was 15 years ago, when they were in their early 20's!!!)

Stylist- "Your hair is probably becoming more gray over time. You just don't see it all over because we try our best to make your hair the color you would like it to be. If your color was fading, it wouldn't happen only at the root. It would fade all over."

Client- "See, that is what I am saying...it must be the color because it is only happening at the root. Look how uneven it is. The rest of it is a totally different color."

Stylist- "The part that has been colored is even, the roots are regrowth and need to be touched up so they will match the colored hair"

Client- "Do you think the sun could be affecting my hair color at the roots? Maybe it is like a chemical reaction or something"

Stylist- "The sun will definitely affect your hair color, but your roots are not colored...that is your natural hair that has grown. "

Client- "I'm telling you, this happens every time even in the winter. Just wait and see, I will come back in a month and show you how it faded at the root."

aaaaaarrrrgggggghhhhh....

It does not matter how many ways the stylist explains it. They somehow do not understand that hair grows in a different color than the dyed hair. It is frustrating to witness this. Escpecially because they think it is something the stylist is doing wrong.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

My favorite comment heard it in a store adjacent to my workplace - actually overhead not said was in the "dollar store" is how much is this? Uh, can we all say "a dollar" The sign before entering even states "ALL ITEMS 1.00" so it cracks me up everytime I hear someone ask it.

 

[sunni]

LOL, I understand your frustration, but around here...many stores have their ice freezers by the cash registers as a convenience (away from the frozen food section).

Did you ever see the ice freezers outside? You rarely see that anymore.

 

[princesspumpkin]

I seem to remember a post a while ago asking nurses about their stupid questions from patients. If I recall correctly, the OP got flamed royally!! Anyway, I'll give my personal best - "Do babies pee at night?"

 

[pearlieq]

My DH used to work the call center at Cedar Point. OH the stories he can tell!

My favorites:

Do you accept cash? (Uh, we're kind of obligated by law, there...)
Can you see Canada from the park? (Sure, look all the way across Lake Erie and squint.)

and, the best:

Is the lake still there? (Since the last Ice Age...)

 

[sunni]

My favorite comment heard it in a store adjacent to my workplace - actually overhead not said was in the "dollar store" is how much is this? Uh, can we all say "a dollar" The sign before entering even states "ALL ITEMS 1.00" so it cracks me up everytime I hear someone ask it.

Well, actually some things are 2/1.00 (or even 3 or 4 for a $1.00, like candy). The first time my kids realized some things were 2 for 1.00 they were amazed, like we hit the jackpot. It didn't matter to them that it was bottles of Rubbing Alcohol!

 

[tiggersmom2]

The worst thing for me is when patients question me about why they need x-rays. I am a dental hygienist (I work for my Dad who is a dentist) and we only take bite wings (the x-rays of the back teeth) once every 2 years. MOST dentist do BWX every 6 months but we believe in going by the American Dental Association guidelines and not price gouging the patients....anyway....


I will have patients that tell me they don't want to do the x-rays just to give the dentist some extra money to pay his mortgage (most of them don't know I am his daughter and feel free to say ugly things ) I always tell them that it would be NEGLIGENT of us to NOT do them b/c you can't see cavities otherwise between the teeth.

Can you tell that I had a really unkind patient today?!

 

[poohandwendy]

I will have patients that tell me they don't want to do the x-rays just to give the dentist some extra money to pay his mortgage

LOL, I think I would snap back at them and say..."Oh no, the mortgage was paid for this morning...you are helping with the Cayman Islands trip"

 

[tiggersmom2]

LOL, I think I would snap back at them and say..."Oh no, the mortgage was paid for this morning...you are helping with the Cayman Islands trip"

Bwahahaha!!! I would love to say that!!!! Seriously, my Dad is such a sweet guy that he would have a heart attack if I said anything out of the way. He is from the old school (the patient isn't always right but should be pleased at all costs!)

We have had patient's complain about the price (and we are one of the most reasonable in town) and he tells the front office to cut the cost in half! He is such a sweet man and it really upsets me when patients make those mortgage comments!