Just another day at the office for me

[JimmyBlueEyes]

Originally posted by header
Was the relevant point that there are idiots out there or this was just another day at the office for you?

I would have to say it's a little bit of both. The idiots out there make it just another day at the office. There are days when I will answer an alarm box out on the street, and be told to suck someones dick, the persons dick is on fire or ass is on fire, fuck you. I got called a Jew once. One person called on the box at 3 in the morning just to make sure the thing works. And they don't realize that at that time of the morning, no matter what comes in over the alarm box, is we have to send someone. And you really really wanna go back at them but you can't, cause everything is taped. People with really thick accents are fun to deal with, or if they don't speak english at all. We'll answer and they'll say "Speakie Spannie??" and never give the right address, they'll give the house number, but instead of the street, they'll give the avenue on the corner. and they don't say nine or five, it's Ni and Fi so when they give you a phone number, it's ni three fi, seventy fi, nity one. It gets to a point where you have to ask them what it says on the mail to get the address right. Most of the time I really don't need an address as long as I get two intersecting streets. I dunno about the reality TV stuff, but I do know one thing. I talk to friends who do my line of work in other cities and they can't get away with half the shit I do. I've had people call up and ask me to send firemen to get a bird out of the apartment. I tell em to use a broom and open the window. Toilet overflowing, call a plumber. People will lock themselves out and lie that they left a pot cooking, and I tell em flat out they are gonna break the door down, then they get all whiney about it and I say too late, they're already coming. And they all have kids, they always preface the problem with how many kids they have. The fucking building could be falling down and burning but they got 5 kids, and they all have asthma. It was just as bad when I worked in Manhattan, except those people just wanted things their way. No sirens(yeah right) only one truck(not happening) and don't tell the neighbors I called. Or they see smoke coming out of a chimney(WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO COME OUT OF YOU FUCKIN MORONS!!!) and then it stops and you have to explain to these people how a boiler works. And they all call from 5 blocks from where they see it cause they were looking out the window with binoculars. I once had a guy call up bitching about someone barbecuing in the backyard and told him we weren't coming, took all of his information and caught him in a lie when he called back saying it was a fire. Called him a liar over the phone. You know if you're pissed off because the guy didn't offer you a burger, just say so. So what kind of idiots do you have to deal with??

[Jimbo]

every single person i work with is an idiot. and the sad part is i am not kidding.

[GMANN]

Originally posted by tricia
last week we had the pleasure of a 3 hour open bar party for a bunch of 22 yearolds. we didn't know how young they were gonna be till they got there and all the ids were from 81 and 82l. so they proceeded to spend their 3 hours doing jager bombs, which is new to me. apparently like a car bomb but with jager and red bull instead of baileys and guiness. so of course come 1 am on the wednesday before thanksgiving we're trying to get them out. they didn't wanna go. they're all from long island, jackasses. there's the one guy who just bought his brand new kenneth cole leather jacket. so of course he hung it on the rail that was open to any and all.

now, we have bouncers on thurs fri and sat, but not wednesday. there's one guy bartender and the gay manager who stayed in the basement out of the way. so, it's up to the girls, the dumb rich guy who is all of 22 is behind the bar bitching because somebody stole his jacket. we continually try to tell him that nobody was up there but people from their specific party. this spoiled little douche is going all off that he's going to call the cops and his lawyer on us. we're practically begging him to call the cops because chances are he'd go down for drunken disorderly.

unfortunately, they don't show til after this douche has gone, but his good buddies from mineola have started a fight in the middle of 5th ave. we had 2 copcars facing south, 2 north, and 1 on the sidewalk,. they didn't arrest anyone. if it was up to me i woulda, just to take those rich prick can't touch me douches down a notch or two. this one guy was still mouthing off to another after the cop had him against the wall. idiots and all rich kids.


so anyway, i guess the moral is, don't be these idiots.


when i started this story it had some relevance to the thread, hopefully you'll see it too

Every bartender I know said that last Wed was " amateur moron from Long Island" night. Starting fights, under age, being rude....etc. I hate Long Island!

[Jimbo]

my town had a dui checkpoint at the entrance on wed. night. if i had stayed at the bar probably another hour longer i would have been up shit's creek.

[BITENY]

Interesting...I was out in Oyster Bay on Wed night. No problems there. That's because the bar was kept under control.
But it's the LI jerkoffs that leave LI that cause problems.
Not only that- Brooklyn. Flatbush Ave bars (Avalanche, Turtle Shell-where they allow the kiddies in there to drink- also....actually that's it) Usually by 1am on Saturdays there's a fight.


Anyway, point being- retail is the best business (probably aside from Jimmy's job, where I've heard many more stories from him and they are funny)for encountering morons. Going from ShopRite (and getting $$ thrown at me by snobby Jews), to Old Navy (and having assholes try to let themselves into fitting rooms and then leaving clothes behind, and people asking for "farmer pants" as opposed to the normal saying of "overalls") to Staples....Staples was the best store for morons. I loved the job, I just hated the customers.

People coming in w/6 year old surge protectors asking to return them saying "it doesnt work" (so buy a fucking new one), to the man known as "Blue Black" (smelly middle eastern man who buys a shitload of blue & black papermate pens and "blue black" are the only words he knows how to say), to the idiots who work for discount stores trying to return fax rolls saying that "its the wrong one" or "it didnt fit", and when you open the box, and see the roll, it's used- they try to pull a fast one on me. Nah ahhh.....not me.
Anyway, those are my little tidbits.

[Lush]

Originally posted by BITENY

Not only that- Brooklyn. Flatbush Ave bars (Avalanche, Turtle Shell-where they allow the kiddies in there to drink- also....actually that's it) Usually by 1am on Saturdays there's a fight.

I've been there. Wow that place sucks. Basically most of brooklyn sucks.

[BITENY]

Been to which bars?

[Crack Hitler]

ever been to a bar in brooklyn called Johnny Mack's. i used to work there, just wondering if that fucking shithole from hell has gone out of business and somehow managed to kill its piece of shit owner in the process.

granted the other cooks in the kitchen with me were pretty damn cool

[GMANN]

Brooklyn is ok....Wicked Monk is a cool bar

[Lush]

Turtle Shell and another one close. I forget the name though.