There Should Be A Test

for people who work with the public.

from JoeUser Forums
I just called and ordered a pizza to be delivered to my hotel room. The young lady who took my order seemed to have the IQ of your average turnip. I had to repeat damn near everything I told her, she didn't seem to even be listening at all. Um, you're on the fucking telephone, listening is pretty much all that's involved!

She even had one of those stereotypical Valley Girl voices that I find amazingly annoying. If I could have reached through the phone I would have done the world a favor and strangled her on the spot.

Why do some people even bother taking jobs where they are required to work with the public? I find few things as annoying as placing an order where I have to constantly repeat myself because the moron taking the order isn't bothering to listen. That's their damn job! Listening isn't even all that hard. Just do your best to quell that hurricane force wind blowing through that empty space between your ears and actually pay attention to what the person is saying. Really, it isn't that damn hard to do.

By the time I had finished placing my order I needed a beer, or to kill someone, or something. Argh! I hate stupidity!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hahaha!  Sadly, that seems to be the case in several situations.  Luckily I seem to have more or less competent people when I'm doing transactions and the like.  I do get the occasional oddball that should probably be in the back stacking boxes or something...and what a horrible experience it is...although you do feel a hell of a lot better about your intelligence when you encouter the dimmer bulbs out there.

~Zoo

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hahaha!  Sadly, that seems to be the case in several situations.  Luckily I seem to have more or less competent people when I'm doing transactions and the like.  I do get the occasional oddball that should probably be in the back stacking boxes or something...and what a horrible experience it is...although you do feel a hell of a lot better about your intelligence when you encouter the dimmer bulbs out there.


~Zoo




Well you do have a point there. No-one is totally useless, sometimes their purpose in life is to just make you feel better about yourself.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
makes ya wonder who's gonna take care of us in our old age, huh Mason?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

makes ya wonder who's gonna take care of us in our old age, huh Mason?


I'm still holding out hope that the whole nanny state mentality will end and we'll stop protecting the stupid from getting themselves killed. It's the only hope for mankind's long term survival.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm still holding out hope that the whole nanny state mentality will end and we'll stop protecting the stupid from getting themselves killed.


I remember when I was growing up a popular saying was :give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves. Sad, but that way of thinking is long gone now.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'm still holding out hope that the whole nanny state mentality will end and we'll stop protecting the stupid from getting themselves killed.


I remember when I was growing up a popular saying was :give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves. Sad, but that way of thinking is long gone now.


Well, ya know there's also What goes around comes around.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

I've got the best 'dumbass' story ever told, and I swear every word of it's true.



Getting off the freeway somewhere deep in Appalachia one day (I believe we were either in eastern KY or extreme western TN) we found ourselves having to drive several miles to find the 'food, gas, lodging' promised on the exit signage, and finally happened upon a McDonald's.



We each wanted two regular cheeseburgers, and decided to split a large fry. When I placed my order for 'four cheeseburgers and a large fry' she earnestly asked....'Ya'all want cheese on those?'



Incredulous, I replied "Yes, that's why we ordered cheeseburgers?" I emphasized 'cheese' and looked her intently in the eye when I did, assuming she'd 'get it' and laugh at herself, but it was not to be. She replied very seriously, saying "Oh I know that, I was just wonderin' if ya'll wanted cheese on 'em."



I bout died laughing, after assuring her that we did indeed want CHEESE on our CHEESEburgers.



After we'd eaten, we realized we'd gotten rather turned around trying to find this sustenance, so we asked the same bright soul how to get back to the freeway. She had no idea, of course, having never 'been there' herself.



~sighs...



Sadly, that isn't even an exception. I have many times, in many parts of the country, been asked if I wanted cheese on my cheeseburger.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
When I placed my order for 'four cheeseburgers and a large fry' she earnestly asked....'Ya'all want cheese on those?'


What? Cheese on my cheeseburger? Fuck you! How dare you assume that the name actually describes the food. It's not like words mean things!



If someone asked me that, I'm not sure what I would do...either run away in fear or mock them into oblivion.

~Zoo
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
If someone asked me that, I'm not sure what I would do...either run away in fear or mock them into oblivion.


Well if you're like me the question itself will strike you dumb with it's sheer absurdity. It's kinda like suddenly finding yourself in a Monty Python skit.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

I sympathize with you Mason, I really do.  We have some real losers in the areas around me working at the fast food joints and pizza places.  Totally and completely clueless.

On this:

By the time I had finished placing my order I needed a beer, or to kill someone

That's part of what I asked earlier (regarding video gaming systems)   As I joked with someone the other day about going home to play my nice shiny new copy of Call of Duty 4 on my Xbox 360, my stress relief from the idiocy is to go home, put myself in front of the TV and blast away considering the people and bots that I'm killing on the console the morons I have to deal with.  You'd be surprised how many of them resemble the Clueless Old Liberal

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
You'd be surprised how many of them resemble the Clueless Old Liberal


Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
There use to be a test - it was called social darwinism.  But now they have laws against it.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Strangely enough, the only thing harder than getting your cheeseburger with cheese is trying to order a hamburger.

"I'll have a hamburger, no cheese, and no cheese."

"Okey-dokey."

Out comes... cheeseburger!

Luckily, I like cheeseburgers, but my friend did not. Cheese-scraping was almost a daily activity for him in the college cafeteria.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
There use to be a test - it was called social darwinism.  But now they have laws against it.


Sad huh?
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Strangely enough, the only thing harder than getting your cheeseburger with cheese is trying to order a hamburger.

"I'll have a hamburger, no cheese, and no cheese."

"Okey-dokey."

Out comes... cheeseburger!

Luckily, I like cheeseburgers, but my friend did not. Cheese-scraping was almost a daily activity for him in the college cafeteria.


Doesn't surprise me in the least. I always order a burger sans pickles as I despise those nasty little critters. It's really amazing how many people find it impossible to leave off the damn pickles.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Joe, no pickles on this one."

"But I LIVE to put the pickles on... it's what keeps me SANE!"
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

"Joe, no pickles on this one."

"But I LIVE to put the pickles on... it's what keeps me SANE!"


Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Actually, I think the real reason might be the way the orders are structured.

"Quarter pounder with cheese"

Okay, make a quarter pounder with cheese... check the order slip, no lettuce... crap.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Quarter pounder with cheese"

Okay, make a quarter pounder with cheese... check the order slip, no lettuce... crap.


Which is why any decent burger joint will ask what you want ON it, not expect you to tell them what you DON'T!