Am I Making A Fuss About Nothing? Opinions Please.

spike7451

rustyboy21 wrote: »

I love it when that happens to me. I used to be a rep on the road and the amount of times, I would be in M&S or TESCOS etc, shopping on way home ( was in a suit) and people used to come up, being so rude, demanding this and demanding that. I just used to stand there, smiling, waiting for them to finish their rant, before telling them to f*** off I dont work here.Other times I used to agree and say ' yes we are crap aren't we, why dont you shop elsewhere in future?,

It normally used to be the fur coat, no knickers brigade, who thought they were something. The amount of times I got reported to the manager was amazing!. That is why I dont suffer 'shopping' fools gladly

BTW anyone else find it really amusing when toffy nosed people go to the places like Lidl,Aldi, Netto and pack their shopping in their own bags? These are usually M&S,Harrods,Selfridges bags etc. I love to peak at what they are buying, usually the cheapest tins of beans you can buy, but dont want anyone to know about it.....:rotfl:

In my line of work as a Service Tech with NTL/VM & then Sky after redundency from VM,I have been into hundreds of homes fixing faults & I can honestly say that the large,grandiose homes lived in by those 'fur coat' brigade have been some of the filthiest,messy & smelly home's I've been in.The small council/terraced homes owned by your average joe have been some of the cleanest.
The have been a few exceptions tho however I did end up getting & bringing home fleas from working in a big posh home...:mad:

paddyrg

Heh heh, oh OP don't let it distress you, it won't do you any favours holding onto this, it'll be your life it spoils, and your heart that takes the stress. If your family are all laughing, try to see the funny side and learn to laugh with them "oh I guess I was a little OTT!" which will help you relax, and this can become an annual family joke as opposed to the stresser it currently is :-)

I learned a great lesson some years back - I took flying lessons with a chap who'd done 25yrs with the RAF, 15 as a mercenary in the gulf, and 10 yrs as a captain with Gulf Air as his wind-down. He had seen plenty of conflict action in his 40 years. They hit bumpy air and a hostie spilled some soup - she went to the cabin to complain and his response was "well look on the bright side - at least no bu99er is firing at us". I just loved that sense of perspective - we will all hit misfortunate situations where our proximity to them stops us being objective. When you remember "at least no bu99er is firing at us", the situation was not life or death, laugh it off and get on with enjoying the next moment (which may be a good one but we're so caught up we don't see it!). It's not how the situation is handled/resolved, but how you respond to it which will make your life easier/happier!

(PS - try online shopping, I guarantee nobody will say "dunno" to you!)

rustyboy21

Question for you all.

Who ( apart from the OP) eats Vol au Vents now anyway?

Thought they died out in the 80's

What does one fill them with? is it still Prawns, or tubey cheese? or a nice bit of pate?

frivolous_fay

We've done much of our shopping online, but picked up odds and ends in M&S. O/H was obsessing about trying their luxury mince pies because they were on a multibuy, and as far as we could tell, sold out (as some muppet had filled the shelves with a different type of mince pie, that's a pet hate actually, grr)

Anyway, we found a lady with a huge trolley full of cheaper pies and asked her if there were any luxury ones left, feeling sure there weren't. Bless her, she went out the back (which evidently no-one else in the store had bothered to do) and found a box-full which she delivered with a smile

Sadly they weren't as nice as the cheaper ones :rotfl:

Waterstones are also good - they have had plenty of staff ambling around ready to help you at that OMG WHERE IS THE FREAKING GARDENING SECTION moment!

Flyboy152

rustyboy21 wrote: »

Because you would all be on here moaning about it , if they didnt !

A serious point though, if everyone did as you suggest and buy everything in the first week of December, what would be the point of the stores opening the last week before Christmas?

Flyboy152

Ionkontrol wrote: »

The OP needs to get a life and stop complaining about people on £4.50 an hour.

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Flyboy152

Blobby8 wrote: »

It appears the PBI in supermarkets are expected to do everything, and smile, yet still get paid bu££er all.
Added to that the checkout staff have to smile and be polite to the chavvy scum with a trailer load of value cider, their own weight in junk food & 5 snot-nosed brats in tow.
I'm a fairly harsh sort but I reserve my happiest demeanor for the people who serve me. If I do get poor service I assume the poor ba$tard has just had to put up one of the many whinging to$$ers I see nowadays.

Why should anyone just accept shoddy service? Surely by letting business owners aware that their customers are not satisfied, how can they mange to retain them?

Flyboy152

rustyboy21 wrote: »

I love it when that happens to me. I used to be a rep on the road and the amount of times, I would be in M&S or TESCOS etc, shopping on way home ( was in a suit) and people used to come up, being so rude, demanding this and demanding that. I just used to stand there, smiling, waiting for them to finish their rant, before telling them to f*** off I dont work here.Other times I used to agree and say ' yes we are crap aren't we, why dont you shop elsewhere in future?,

It normally used to be the fur coat, no knickers brigade, who thought they were something. The amount of times I got reported to the manager was amazing!. That is why I dont suffer 'shopping' fools gladly

BTW anyone else find it really amusing when toffy nosed people go to the places like Lidl,Aldi, Netto and pack their shopping in their own bags? These are usually M&S,Harrods,Selfridges bags etc. I love to peak at what they are buying, usually the cheapest tins of beans you can buy, but dont want anyone to know about it.....:rotfl:

Do you enjoy being rude to strangers?

Flyboy152

paddyrg wrote: »

Heh heh, oh OP don't let it distress you, it won't do you any favours holding onto this, it'll be your life it spoils, and your heart that takes the stress. If your family are all laughing, try to see the funny side and learn to laugh with them "oh I guess I was a little OTT!" which will help you relax, and this can become an annual family joke as opposed to the stresser it currently is :-)

I learned a great lesson some years back - I took flying lessons with a chap who'd done 25yrs with the RAF, 15 as a mercenary in the gulf, and 10 yrs as a captain with Gulf Air as his wind-down. He had seen plenty of conflict action in his 40 years. They hit bumpy air and a hostie spilled some soup - she went to the cabin to complain and his response was "well look on the bright side - at least no bu99er is firing at us". I just loved that sense of perspective - we will all hit misfortunate situations where our proximity to them stops us being objective. When you remember "at least no bu99er is firing at us", the situation was not life or death, laugh it off and get on with enjoying the next moment (which may be a good one but we're so caught up we don't see it!). It's not how the situation is handled/resolved, but how you respond to it which will make your life easier/happier!

(PS - try online shopping, I guarantee nobody will say "dunno" to you!)

I wouldn't be so sure.

rustyboy21

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Do you enjoy being rude to strangers?

Only when said stranger , who is up their own backside and doesnt look to see if the person they are verbally abusing is actually in store uniform or wearing a store name tag, then yes ! I take great delight in it. The times I haven't been rude back after a verbal onslaught and explained that I dont work there, you still end up with the abuse levelled at you, as if even though you dont work there.

If you dont believe me, try it, stand in a shop with a suit on and see how many people come and ask you for this or that. You will even get a moaner too, I guarantee it.:p