Anyone else get dumb questions at their job??

[poohandwendy]

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!

Aww, he does sound like a great guy. People are such idiots!

Wouldn't you just love to have an 'honesty day at work' though? It's a dream of mine.

 

[MinnieM21]

I always seemed to get the question and comments, "How old are you? You're not old enough to work here!"
Then they would go on about how they don't believe me and tell me how old I really look. Like I really cared what they had to say...

By the way, I worked at Urban Outfitters and you had to be 18.

 

[tiggersmom2]

Wouldn't you just love to have an 'honesty day at work' though? It's a dream of mine.

LOL....when I was pregnant I had this particularly nasty lady that HATED to move her head. I asked her to move her head towards me and she said " if you are so incompetent that you can't clean my teeth without me turning my head then maybe I should have a word with the Dentist."


I was 8 months pregnant and not in my right mind I told her that my DAD would be in shortly to take care of her and that she was very rude. I swear she turned purple!!! Well, my Dad came in and she told him what an awful reprehensible employee I was......she WAS NOT TURNING HER HEAD!!

Bless my Dad's heart.....that was the ONLY time he became really ticked off! (I guess you can be ugly to him but not his baby! ) He told her that we didn't have time for prima donna's in our office and that patient's must move their heads so we can utilize our instruments properly. He then told her she would probably be more comfortable with another dentist.

 

[poohandwendy]

Bless my Dad's heart.....that was the ONLY time he became really ticked off! (I guess you can be ugly to him but not his baby! ) He told her that we didn't have time for prima donna's in our office and that patient's must move their heads so we can utilize our instruments properly. He then told her she would probably be more comfortable with another dentist.

Go DAD!!! Good for him, what a witch!

When I was pregnant, many moons ago, I worked for the Olive Garden. We wore black pants, white button-down shirts, a neck tie and a green apron. They gave me the option to decide what I wanted to wear, as long as my top was white and my pants were black. I actually chose to stick with the uniform look and just bought a larger shirt and black maternity pants. Because I needed to wear the apron too, I continued to tuck my shirt in my pants so that the shirt wouldn't look silly and unkempt sticking out under the apron strings.

One elderly woman actually complained to the manager that I looked ridiculous because a pregnant woman should not wear clothing that 'accentuated her growing womb'! Funny thing was, you could only tell that I was pregnant from the side. From the front and the rear I looked just like the rest of the employees. As a matter of fact, most people didn't even notice that I was pregnant until I took the apron off.

Some people have very odd ideas about the decorum of a woman 'in her confinement'...I guess they want us to stay confined and out of view.

 

[Lil_Tink]

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.

Same here. I went to disney and got this question...


"Are Hawaiians Japanese?"

No..Hawaiians are Hawaiian and Japanese Japanese

"Do you go to school?"
No I sit with hobos all day...DUh


"Do you eat cocnuts all day"
Eww.. I hate them


"Do you have guys in hawaii?"
No its a all girl state so we cant reproduce!

God just makes me wanna....

 

[luvthatduke]

OMGoodness - thanks for the laughs!
I gotta say the "roots are fading" post
almost made me wake up the house!

I know this doesn't really count,
but if I worked at BJ's (it's like Sam's or Costco)
I would have posted this from last night:
Little boy with dad, looking at the tons of
food in their cart,
"Dad, did I eat dinner yet?"

eta: not that I thought the little guy was stupid!
It just cracked me up when I heard him.

 

[disykat]

I love paw's hair root story!

When I was working at a LAKE in Oregon, I had someone ask me "do you have Sea Lions here?" I guess she'd heard about Sea Lion Caves? No, those would be at the ocean! It was hard to answer with a straight face I was so dumbfounded, but I managed to point out the ocean (several hours away) on the map.

 

[poohandwendy]

I just have to add to the color fading post, one thing I forgot the client said in the middle of the argument...she actually said, "the root part is the only part you touched with color the last time, and that is the only part that faded" Um, NO...once again, THAT part grew out about an inch and still is dyed...what you are seeing now is it's replacement...the new hair!!!!


It is so frustrating.

 

[PixieDust32]

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!

OMG!! Yes, you're from my same world, the world of customer services or hospitality services! I aslo work for a hotel, at the front desk and i also do concierge. And you know how we get and see all kinds of people and i have seen some weird ones! Also on the phones!! People call the hotels for everything!!! Like 411 information.
I work for Marriott and our building is huge,with the big red letters on the top, and several times i had peolpe check-in and after i cannot find their names, they got no confirmation number, they scream at me for not finding their ressie and after calling central reservations and all the hotels around, they ask and with attitude, "THIS IS NOT THE HILTON" !! I just want to call them all kids of names, but i cant!! I have to keep my big smile and act like its all myfault.

Another one, a guest walks in and asked to speak to the manager about me! (Im a Supervisor)He was upset because a couple weeks earlier, him and his "girlfriend" check-in as a walk-in, ( walk-in we always ask for a DL) and of course i put his name, address in the system , he saw me doing it! And the problem was that marriott send a survery to his house and he got in trouble with his wife!! Dah!!!! It was my fault again!!

People call the desk to ask if they watch a pornografic movie will the title shows on the folio!! Of course not! And when they check-out, after watching 5 movies sometimes more, they want us to make magic and delete them from the folio!


I can write a book about all the crazy and sometimes stupid things

 

[Meezers]

Okay...these are 9-1-1 calls I have received.

"What is on sale at Walmart?"

"I need an officer to come and make my 5 year old go to bed."

"How do you get to Virginia Beach?" I reply...well ma'am where are you? She says...I don't know...somewhere in Atlanta...and will you stay on the phone with me until I get there?

"I need the phone number to Pearl Harbor."

"The phone says 9-1-1 is a free call. Can you transfer me to my brother?"

"I had an accident at Walmart. Can you send an officer?" "No I don't know which Walmart" (there are only about 25 in the county)

"My house is on fire" "No I don't know my address" (calling from cell phone)

 

[PixieDust32]

Okay...these are 9-1-1 calls I have received.

"What is on sale at Walmart?"

"I need an officer to come and make my 5 year old go to bed."

"How do you get to Virginia Beach?" I reply...well ma'am where are you? She says...I don't know...somewhere in Atlanta...and will you stay on the phone with me until I get there?

"I need the phone number to Pearl Harbor."

"The phone says 9-1-1 is a free call. Can you transfer me to my brother?"

"I had an accident at Walmart. Can you send an officer?" "No I don't know which Walmart" (there are only about 25 in the county)

"My house is on fire" "No I don't know my address" (calling from cell phone)

I KNOW!!

I WORKED FOR 911 SERVICES AS A TRANSLATOR, I WAS THE ONLY ONE AND OH MY GOD!

" MY HUSBAND IS CHEATING ON ME, TELL ME WHAT TO DO"

"I CANT SLEEP"

"MY CAR DOESN'T WORK"

AND MUCH MORE!

 

[Meezers]

Hey...Flowery Branch is just up the road! I am here at Suwanee PD....couldn't take the stuff at Gwinnett County anymore!

 

[PixieDust32]

Hey...Flowery Branch is just up the road! I am here at Suwanee PD....couldn't take the stuff at Gwinnett County anymore!

WOW HI!!!

Yes, you're right!!

We ran to hall county from Norcross GA in 2000 and we love it here!! Its NUTS there!!! We're 5 minutes from Lake Lanier and Flowery Branch is just perfect!!!

 

[LuvN~Travel]

At the Post Office, our favorite is 'Is this letter going to leave today?' Duh...I thought that was the whole point of you mailing it!
Kim

 

[delilah]

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.

In all honesty, alot of time the Sunday bulletin gets mixed in with the newspapers and into the recycling bin by Sunday evening. Our parish has gotten smart and anticipates that many people will lose the Sunday bulletin with the Mass schedule on it, and have a voicemail message about the Masses. In all honesty, it was nice in the good old days when Midnight Mass started at (gasp) Midnight, instead of 8pm, as our Easter vigil Mass did this year.

Another thing they do that's nice is put the entire month schedule into the bulletin the first weekend. This goes onto the bulletin board as soon as we get home from Mass.

 

[NMAmy]

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.

I used to have the same problem in New Mexico. I worked at a bank and we took over a portfolio of loans from all over the U.S. People were upset about the change and would call and ask things like, "Do I have to send my payment in pesos?" Umm... no New Mexico is part of the United States. "You speak excellent English." Why, thank you, you twit. And my personal favorite from a lady who was behind on her payments, "Well, I don't know how you do things in YOUR country, but in the U.S. we..." Excuse me, the U.S. IS my country.

People would also ask if the temperature was up to 100 degrees in January. Well, seeing as how we're at 5,000 feet, ummm...no. It's about 35 and snowing, thanks.

 

[DMickey28]

This is not so much questions. I work at a very large insurance company. We right in almost all states and have offices all around the country. I do auto claims. I had a call yesterday:

Me: "Thank you for calling NameofInsuranceCompany. This is Christina. How may I help you?"

Claimant: "This is Bob Smith, from 414 Main St. Witchita Kansas and I was in an accident with one of your clients."

Me: "Ok, do you have a claim number?"

Claimant: "No, my name is Bob Smith from Witchita KS."

Um...ok, I deal with like 10 states... I just think it's funny that they think we are supposed to find them with just information. I picture this big alphabatized book that is relplaced every hour with everyone's name in it!!

 

[lynetteSC]

I have two fav requests from clients:
- can you find me a great deal on a 4 day cruise that will go to nassau and hawaii? I haven't been to either of these places.
- how long does it take to get to hawaii on amtrak?

 

[golfgal]

My freshman year in college we had some people from the south on our floor and we were talking about what we were looking forward to this year. One of the southerners piped up and said she could hardly wait to see her first polar bear. We gave her directions to the zoo. THen sometime later someone mentioned something about ice fishing and she asked "doesn't it get cold in the boat?" Well, no, since the lake is FROZEN!

 

[diznygirl]

These posts are putting a smile on my face this morning!

I worked for a toy store in a mall - a "boutique" toy store (no national affiliation). People would call us all the time looking for Toys R Us. I would tell them we are not. Once time a caller asked, "Are you sure?" I said "Wait, let me check. Nope, not Toys R Us!"