Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: People You’d Like to Know More About

By: Joelle

Joelle — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:35:00 +0000

Working at a gas station, I had a small line of customers, and thought it odd that I was smelling cigarette smoke even if the door was closed. (It’s illegal to smoke in public places in my province.) Well, I serve one customer, and he leaves. The next come up to the counter and promptly blows smoke in my face! I calmly told him that sir, smoking in public places in prohibited. He tells me that doesn’t matter and buys a pack of smokes! I only later realized I would have had the right to kick him out.

By: Heaz

Heaz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:42:00 +0000

3-Tokyo Joe’s in the Denver metro area is awesome.

By: erak

erak — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:14:00 +0000

I worked in a local movie theater in high school. One night, for a sold out show, a pair of ticket-holding octogenarians arrive 20 minutes late. My boss asks me to usher them to find them seats–not an easy thing to do with a sold out show.

I’m given a flashlight, but we typically only use these to shine on the floor. Instead, the old lady grabs it from my hand, stands at the front of the theater, shines it in everyone’s faces, and talks loudly to her hard-of-hearing friend for a good 5 minutes before they sit down somewhere. Ugh.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Bad customers? I used to take portraits at a higher-end portrait studio — lots of kids with parents coming though. We had our share of stories! One couple brought in their 4 month-old baby for a portrait, and as soon as the session started, just disappeared. They came back 20 minutes later with lattes. Then there was the seemingly endless stream of parents who would scream at their kids to smile, threaten to ground them if they didn’t look happy for the picture, etc. And then at the same time, when the kid looks miserable in the picture because the parents have spent the whole photo session berating them, turn around and blame us photogs for substandard pictures. UGH!

I will also throw my hat in for Wegmans. They are the BOMB!! Great stores, great customer service, and also consistently ranked in the top 100 companies to work for. They know how to do it, and they do it well on all fronts.

In your shoes re: the blog, I’d just start a whole new one and direct your family to a new URL. That’s about the extent of my know-how to deal with such things goes. Good luck!

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:05:00 +0000

Alas for you fans of Baja Fresh: they attempted to expand into North Texas a while back, but failed miserably due to poor location choice, dirty restaurants, and mediocre food. I’m sure the restaurants in Nor Cal are great, but they failed the jump to Dallas’ hyper-competitive restaurant market.

By: earwig

earwig — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:48:00 +0000

Totally agree with Lindseydl about Wegmans expanding. We’re originally from upstate New York but now live in Philadelphia. We drive over to Jersey just to go grocery shopping at Wegmans. It’s that good!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:47:00 +0000

I worked customer service and phones for wal-mart right out of high school. We had to answer the phones, “Thank you for calling your 24 hour wal-mart, How may I help you?” One customer demanded to speak to the store manager when I answered “Thanksgiving.”

By: Chickadee

Chickadee — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

I used to work at an Optometrist’s office in college. I answered the phone, “Texas Eye Associates this is Sarah speaking.” The caller said, “Hi Beth, I need to make an appointment.” I replied, “Sure, I’d be happy to do that, but my name is actually Sarah.” She said, “Then why did you say Beth?” Guess she told me.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:49:00 +0000

I was a whitewater raft guide in the early 90’s . Some of the questions I got were outrageous… “does the river come back here?” ( i.e. back to the put-in) or thirty minutes into the trip someone would say “didn’t we just pass that rock?” My all time favorite was when someone would ask “how did you make so much water?”

By: Jaybird

Jaybird — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:16:00 +0000

1) I worked at the campground kiosk at a national park in Canada and one night a young guy comes up to the kiosk and asks why he’s having such hard time start a campfire. He apparently had been trying for a few days. It had been raining off and on for a few days, so I said it was probably because the wood was wet. Then he asked us for a pamphlet. “You want some paper to start your fire? How about if I give you an old newspaper instead”, I said. He responded with, “No, I want a pamphlet on how to start a fire.” He was really surprised and disappointed that we had nothing of the sort!