Customer Complaint

[Hard Ball Get]

I know a lawyer that plays footy, wears thongs, singlets and shorts.

True story.

Not sure how one's personal life relates to their professional life

I think he was more referring to the grammatical errors and suggesting that they would not be there if he was indeed a law student.

 

[Leper]

I think he was more referring to the grammatical errors and suggesting that they would not be there if he was indeed a law student.

Correct.

id hate to hav a lawyer aparently representing me present arguements for there case in this sort of way to tha judg

Maybe I'm an old fart, and I know Big Footy is hardly a legal transcript, but my point is that I was taught at school to read and write properly. I would expect a law student to have a better standard of "wordsmithing" than the babble above (even if most of the points are valid). Whilst we see a lot worse around than the quoted passage (SMS speak), there seems to have been a significant decline in educational standards over the 2 decades since I was at school.

End rant.... play on.

 

[Leper]

PS - I picked on that parcticular post because, although you'll see a lot worse around, I think (but may of course stand corrected) that it was the same person who was recently babbling on about how her best friend.... who was shouting her a $700 weekend at a 5 star hotel.... was a right royal bitch because she wanted to bring another couple of male friends along for drinks that night.

 

[LondonCalling]

Just started back at the bank after 4 months off to concentrate on my research.

First day back - The printing company responsible for sending out the CBA's credit card statements send a large mailout of them to customers.....in ANZ envelopes.

Pandominium erupted.

 

[Embers]

A while ago at the restaurant im say 2nd in charge at some dude comes up with a credit card to pay and I get called over. Its not his signature. I turn over and its got Mrs on the card so I say. This isnt in your credit card sir. Is Mrs XXXX here to sign for it. He replies "Nah shes out getting the car". It was raining... Not only wasnt this guy paying for dinner he wasnt even going outside in the rain to get the car. I just continously refused the credit card in a vain attempt to try and get this bloke to pay for the meal. Its the least he could do. After about 10 mins of complaining I eventually bit my tongue and told him to get some balls and be a man. I called him pathetic to his face and he left without paying.

The next afternoon the girl who he was with came in and payed for it. The guy called up looking for my boss but once I explained the story he kind of agreed and we got the food payed for so it was a non issue.

Seriously some men and women these days. Man for being a pig and woman for being dumb enough to put up with that

 

[sear]

Oh dear. You claim you're doing a law degree yet your spelling; punctuation; sentence structure and grammer is nothing short of shithouse.

Do they give law degrees away on Corn Flake boxes these days?

Just read this but uh... I'm on a football forum? Not writing an English exam. lol I'm also an English tutor so I do know what I'm talking about, I just don't think I need to waste my talents impressing the grammar nazis on bigfooty!

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

I got caught on the other side of the counter this week.

Installing a new printer to my home network, and for some reason couldn't get it to work wirelessly.

Rang the work techs, explained the situation in detail, including what hardware, software and existing setups that did work.

They couldn't find a reason over the phone, so arranged to come out, which they did on Tuesday.

After 6 hours of turning machines on and off in different orders, resetting passwords (and then losing them) - they managed to not only fail to setup the new printer correctly, but also change the wireless router password (resulting in none of our other portable machines working), and remove the 'print anywhere' options so I could choose which printer (colour, B&w, fax) I wanted to send it to.

It took me a further 3-4 hours last night to get everything back to how it was initially - inclujding an international call to a manufacturer to complete a full-reset of the router.

Then this morning I get an invoice for $645 for 5 hours of consult.

I rang to tell them I wasn't paying a cent, as they didn't fix my specific request, and secondly they altered other setting which weren't necessary for what they had been asked to do, rendering other pieces of machinery useless until I fixed it.

The guy then had the gall to accuse me of sabotaging the repair, and as I'd changed settings after they'd left, I'd voided any right to refuse payment.

I let him know what I thought of him....and it felt good.

 

[BomberGal]

Man, this thread makes me laugh...and I'm ****ing glad I don't work in customer service!

Just read this but uh... I'm on a football forum? Not writing an English exam. lol I'm also an English tutor so I do know what I'm talking about, I just don't think I need to waste my talents impressing the grammar nazis on bigfooty!

If you know how to write properly, it's not exactly an effort.

BTW, English exams aren't the only places in life where you are going to need good grammar.

 

[sear]

If you know how to write properly, it's not exactly an effort.

BTW, English exams aren't the only places in life where you are going to need good grammar.

You're right, its not an effort to use the good grammar, however, when your TYPING and you're not very good at typing, it does become difficult to be so pedantic about these things, especially when you're typing something as long as what I did, trying to type quickly, I'm not going to waste even more time going back and fixing up any spelling or grammar mistakes I made when trying to get it all out the first time!

Yes of course exams aren't the the only places you need good grammar, in most areas of life you do need to use correct grammar obviously but my life isnt so petty and boring that I'm going to waste my time fixing up a few typos on an internet forum, especially a football one!

 

[BomberGal]

Forums are probably more important. People have to read that shit.

Heads up - a lot of people don't bother reading long pieces of writing if they're hard to read.

 

[RoosterLad]

Man, this thread makes me laugh...and I'm ****ing glad I don't work in customer service!



If you know how to write properly, it's not exactly an effort.

BTW, English exams aren't the only places in life where you are going to need good grammar.

"BTW" is hardly the Queen's English.

 

[footyfreak]

"BTW" is hardly the Queen's English.

LOL, **** you crack me up

 

[BomberGal]

"BTW" is hardly the Queen's English.

Fairly standard abbreviation.

Polemics full of "lol" and "yeah" and "like" with no capitalisation, and no sentence structure, are a different kettle of fish.

One must type properly, mustn't one.

 

[THRILLHO]

Oh dear. You claim you're doing a law degree yet your spelling; punctuation; sentence structure and grammer is nothing short of shithouse.

Do they give law degrees away on Corn Flake boxes these days?

Seriously hate it when people try to use semicolons when they clearly have no ****ing clue how to use it appropriately. Even worse when it's some clown who's trying to play the 'grammar Nazi' card. Or, should that be, the 'grammer Nazi' card?

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Fairly standard abbreviation.

Polemics full of "lol" and "yeah" and "like" with no capitalisation, and no sentence structure, are a different kettle of fish.

One must type properly, mustn't one.

There should be a question mark at the end of that last sentence.

 

[do you know george?]

y r u arguein about grammer lol lol roflmao

 

[LondonCalling]

There should be a question mark at the end of that last sentence.

It was also an improper sentence structure, but who's counting?

Had a horrible one today. Served this woman on Tuesday, organised for a cash advance on her credit card of a fairly large sum. She goes off to count the cash, leaves her credit card on the counter, and drives off.

Leave a mesage on her mobile about half an hour later, letting her know it's here, what time the branch shuts and when she can pick it up. She doesn't come in by close of business, so I leave it with the regulars, as I was merely filling in at that branch for the day.

Fast forward to about an hour ago, on my way home on the tram, and get a phone call from head office. Apparently the customer had stormed into the bank at about 1 minute before closing time, and demanded the whereabouts of her credit card, as I'd apparently forgot to give it back to her, as opposed to her leaving it at the window.

Turns out the staff have no idea where they've put it, so it's my fault. Because obviously, if losing your credit card is such a drama, you'd wait until 3 days later to come and get it.....

 

[Dan Moody]

After about 10 mins of complaining I eventually bit my tongue and told him to get some balls and be a man. I called him pathetic to his face and he left without paying.

lol if true embers

 

[BigBadCam]

When i first moved out this way, before i got a job in the mines, I ran the bar at the local. Tossers would come in and order their food, then come and yell at me about their food like it was my fault. I'd tell them that I didn't even cook the meal, but i guess I looked like an easy target because most people still got stuck into me. A word of advice - never complain about your food - especially in a mining town. If you do happen to complain, don't give your meal back and expect to get a better one. The chef was a disgusting human and I dread to think how much of his bodily fluids were eaten by the miners.

 

[-VC-]

When i first moved out this way, before i got a job in the mines, I ran the bar at the local. Tossers would come in and order their food, then come and yell at me about their food like it was my fault. I'd tell them that I didn't even cook the meal, but i guess I looked like an easy target because most people still got stuck into me. A word of advice - never complain about your food - especially in a mining town. If you do happen to complain, don't give your meal back and expect to get a better one. The chef was a disgusting human and I dread to think how much of his bodily fluids were eaten by the miners.

Friend of a friend sort of story, but I heard about a chick who contracted an STD because three strands of semen were found in her steak after she'd sent two back. She asked for well done, and neither of the first two were. Ouch!

 

[Upgrayedd]

We have some 20% off for 6 or more wines . People keep looking at the 20% off price and either
1.buy one bottle and want it at the price
2.buy 6 bottles and think its 8 dollars for 6 wines

Lately a bloke got pissy at me for trying to check his bag (ended up banning him from the store for stealing cans


Worst is the people who buy 600 dollars worth of piss and want a further discount on cartons (when your buying cartons of teds for 30 dollars, carlton mid cans for 29.90 and carlton cold for 29 its out of the question, were losing money on those prices anyways)

I had a bloke who actually thought i cared about losing his business, his mistake.

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

We have some 20% off for 6 or more wines . People keep looking at the 20% off price and either
1.buy one bottle and want it at the price
2.buy 6 bottles and think its 8 dollars for 6 wines

Lately a bloke got pissy at me for trying to check his bag (ended up banning him from the store for stealing cans


Worst is the people who buy 600 dollars worth of piss and want a further discount on cartons (when your buying cartons of teds for 30 dollars, carlton mid cans for 29.90 and carlton cold for 29 its out of the question, were losing money on those prices anyways)

I had a bloke who actually thought i cared about losing his business, his mistake.

Haha, yeh.

How bad is that.

We had VB and Carlton Draught on special for $29.80 a few weeks ago (normal price is $38.99 and $39.99) and we had customers still wanting discounts for bulk purchases.

Some people.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

^^ Serious?

I always 'bargain' when I'm spending >$200 on beer. I'm struggling to think of a time when I haven't got something (even if only a lousy bottle of wine or six pack).

If they will do that, but you guys can't, does that mean I'm getting ripped normally when I don't bargain?

 

[NeRFaHoLIc]

^^ Serious?

I always 'bargain' when I'm spending >$200 on beer. I'm struggling to think of a time when I haven't got something (even if only a lousy bottle of wine or six pack).

If they will do that, but you guys can't, does that mean I'm getting ripped normally when I don't bargain?

If you go to Cellarbrations, Vintage Cellars, or anything independently own, they will nearly always give you a discount, or something extra. Just to make you happy, and hope you'll stay loyal.

Companys like Woolworths and Coles won't care at all. They just see that they are losing money, therefore no more discount.

But if it's already heavily discounted (in this case, $10 per case), you shouldn't be complaining.

 

[jonoman89]

I was doing odd jobs around the store, and wasn't meant to be selling anything. That was my coworkers job for that morning. I was gluing stuff together, hammering in nails, cleaning etc. and a woman came up to me, asking if i could "quickly" sell her something because all the retail people were with customers and she was "in a rush". I said i shouldn't, but i would just the one time.

After i sell it to her, she says "thanks for that". I walk off and continue gluing shit to the walls around the store, and then my supervisor comes up to me. "That lady just complained quite loudly as you had chewing gum in your mouth while you sold her that product". I laughed loudly, and the woman turned back towards me as she was leaving, obviously not happy with me.

I wasn't chewing it, i put it to the side of my mouth. I couldn't just spit it out in front of her! I'm amazed she had the balls to complain when i was doing her a favour that i really shouldn't have.

I wouldn't piss on that bitch if she was on fire.