Vent: If you want the picture to be 3D, switch the glasses on!

bcl999

vyle
I think you are teasing us - and you've still not told us where you work.

Money_User

brian_723 wrote: »

Time to get an other job me thinks .

Whats the amazing job that everyone will like that has nothing wrong with it?

Dave_C_2

Money_User wrote: »

Whats the amazing job that everyone will like that has nothing wrong with it?

Retirement

vyle

Meepster wrote: »

What gets me about this type of retail establishment, is the staff. Mainly, the fact that you can't seem to browse for more than 3 minutes at a time without being asked if I need any help. If I wanted help, I'd ask for it.

And when I do need help, I go find someone, the nearest staff member will do, but this typically ends up with them saying "I don't know anything about that, I'll go get someone who does". This someone is usually either "on lunch" or dealing with another customer. So they call over someone else, who is equally clueless and between the two of them, answer any questions by reading from the POS. Don't you think I've already read this? And that's why I'm asking for more help? I wont go into more detail about me buying a new printer recently, but lets just say "idiotic" was a vert good adjective to use...

The problem is that there are customers who WON'T ask, but will walk off and complain that that they weren't approached. Perfect example, near the staff room is a board with appreciations, neutral feedback and complaints. All of the complaints were that they had come into the shop, and nobody had approached them to ask if they needed help and they'd been in there for 5 minutes :O.

So you'll get complained about if you don't, and get your head bitten off if you do.

bcl999 wrote: »

vyle
I think you are teasing us - and you've still not told us where you work.

And I'm not going to, either :P. Too risky.

Dave_C wrote: »

Retirement

you'd think so, but I've had colleagues come back out of retirement because they loved their job so much.

And my point about it saying that the glasses are active surely indicates that there is SOMETHING different about them.

One last thing that bugs the hell out of me:

People asking for the NEWEST TV. They want the newest one, not the best one. You can show them the best TV and they'll want the newest. you show them the newest and then they ask what's different and you tell them it's worse, that the better TV is older, and watch their head explode as they fail to process that there is more than one TV by each manufacturer, and they might release a good model, then a bad model, then a better model, then an ok model...and that all of them may be on sale at the same time.

It's like sausages -- tesco's cheapest aren't the best because they're not made well, not because they're older than the better ones.

Dave101t

those glasses work well, on or off, on my 3ds....

Azari

vyle wrote: »

So you'll get complained about if you don't, and get your head bitten off if you do.

I'm sure that's standard.

What I want to know is how shop staff know whether or not you need assistance. If I don't I can guarantee that I will be asked within a couple of minutes. When I do no one approaches me no matter how long I stand around. It's uncanny!

And my point about it saying that the glasses are active surely indicates that there is SOMETHING different about them.

As I've said before, you don't realise just how non technical some people are. They see detergents and cosmetics that scream they are 'active' or have 'active' ingredients and they don't need to be turned on.

And, as I've already said a couple of times, if the sets are turned on why would it even occur to them that the glasses aren't?

Just because something is obvious to you and me (who actually know how active 3D technology works) doesn't mean that a layman will have a clue.

Before broadband I had a friend (not stupid - had a degree) who could not get her head around the fact that if you didn't connect to you ISP you would not get any new mail. What her visualisation of the email system was I can't imagine.

People asking for the NEWEST TV. They want the newest one, not the best one. You can show them the best TV and they'll want the newest. you show them the newest and then they ask what's different and you tell them it's worse, that the better TV is older, and watch their head explode as they fail to process that there is more than one TV by each manufacturer, and they might release a good model, then a bad model, then a better model, then an ok model...and that all of them may be on sale at the same time.

That's a weird one.

For many years I kept a bottle of Radox that had flashed on the label: 'New' 'Original'.

PasturesNew

I didn't know you could get 3D tellys. I'd probably not realise, not see the glasses and just declare loudly that the picture was !!!!!! (assuming that a 3D picture without glasses would be !!!!!! as I've never seen a 3D anything).

shandypants5

I watched Liverpool play football on a 3D tv once,
it was so good someone in the crowd nicked my wallet.

Meepster

vyle wrote: »

The problem is that there are customers who WON'T ask, but will walk off and complain that that they weren't approached. Perfect example, near the staff room is a board with appreciations, neutral feedback and complaints. All of the complaints were that they had come into the shop, and nobody had approached them to ask if they needed help and they'd been in there for 5 minutes :O.

So you'll get complained about if you don't, and get your head bitten off if you do.

No, you misunderstood. I'm talking about EVERY 3 minutes. By different people. I was in Comet on Thursday and I was asked by at least 6 staff members if I needed help...

dizziblonde

Last time we bought a telly (last year) I walked away from a fair few stores who addressed everything to my husband and ignored me completely, chewed gum while dealing with us (my pet hate) or just read the shelf edge card and recited that back to us (name the chain there)... ended up buying from the one guy who talked to both of us and actually listened to, and took on board, what we were saying we wanted to use the telly for.

As for 3D TVs - I cannot for the life of me see the joy in it, I think it's a load of overhyped nonsense, that forgets about those of us who wear glasses and I'm also sick to death of films including badly contrived action sequences with things wooshing forward on the screen just for those who paid a ridiculous amount of money to go to the 3D screen in the pictures going "oooh and aaaah" - seems like every film in the last year or so has had the mandatory "woooshy things out of the screen for the 3D customers" segment - they'd even put alien spaceships zooming out of the screen into a berlumming Jane Austen adaptation these days (although Mister Darcy in those tight white trousers coming out of the lake may well be one of the few things that I would definitely like to enjoy in 3D in the privacy of my own bedroom).