Customers from HellThe customer is always right. And yet, as 'listentomyopinion' writes, this is utter bollocks.
Tell us of the customers who were wrong, wrong, wrong but you still had to smile at (if only to take their money.)
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chthonic, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 16:42)
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fuckspawnI’ve been reading through these - turning out to be a better QOTW than we all seemed to think initially… real eye-opener.
I did post quite early on moaning about some the idiot clients I have to deal with in the creative industry (if that’s not a contradiction in terms) but reading some of the horror stories here of dealing with the great unwashed (I used the term advisedly, it would seem I could also quite rightly say the great knuckle-dragging, illiterate, inconsiderate, shit-spattered fuckspawn – but from what I have read but that might well be too kind).
What I have realized reading the posts is how bloody lucky I am. I had forgotten the ‘joys’ of working Saturdays in a shoe shop as a teenager. Dealing with animated lard crudely spooned into ill-fitting polyester to an 8-hour solid backing tune of piss-poor chart covers on a merry-go-round loop from hell. The pleasures of working a double shift in a heaving bar full of pissed up rugby twats (who were a picnic compared to the braying student nurses) had been gently shrouded by the mists of time.
What I can say without hopefully sounding (too) smug is that clearly I am damned lucky to have a job that I enjoy, allows me to do something creative, something that if I’m honest comes as naturally to me as walking yet is regarded as being rare elusive and worth paying for. Compared to the b3tard who posted about being a paramedic I am paid a small fortune for a pile of old wank that benefits no one.
My job is also supposed to be pressured and I have succumbed to stress in the past but as my good mate Frazer pointed out one late evening trying to meet a deadline – “we don’t actually make anything worthwhile, it’s not life or death stuff and in 6 months time no one will give a fuck anyway.”
What is clear to me is that life is rich and varied and people can be great, but the public are a bag of cunts.
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spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sat 6 Sep 2008, 12:31,
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What's that old saw...'If you have a job you enjoy, you'll never work a day in your life'
Or something like that.
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Ahem!who were a picnic compared to the braying student nurses)
Were we really that bad?
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