Most rediculous complaint recieved...
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A friend of mine used to work in the admin section of a residential training facility.
It was her job to arrage hotels for the students and staff when they did training off-site. The other week, she had to arrange for a teacher to stay in a hotel down in Torquay.
Apparently the teacher complained at the fact she got a double room (the standard room size for all teaching staff) in a 4 star hotel. Reason being that having a double room apparently "made other people think she was currently in a relationship with someone, when she clearly is not" and she was disgusted at "having this kind of thing assumed in this day and age"
Well each to their own I guess
So whats the most rediculous complaint you have ever recieved through work?
It was her job to arrage hotels for the students and staff when they did training off-site. The other week, she had to arrange for a teacher to stay in a hotel down in Torquay.
Apparently the teacher complained at the fact she got a double room (the standard room size for all teaching staff) in a 4 star hotel. Reason being that having a double room apparently "made other people think she was currently in a relationship with someone, when she clearly is not" and she was disgusted at "having this kind of thing assumed in this day and age"
Well each to their own I guess
So whats the most rediculous complaint you have ever recieved through work?
sebo said:
Not my experience but whilst on a work training day I heard a BT engineer was fired for asking for a black coffee. Apparently some woman believed it to be a racist slur so asked for his dismissal.
Apparently the PC phrase is Coffee with milk or coffee without milk.
It's bad when we can't even refer to everyday things according to their actual colour.
I'd say there's one hell of an Unfair Dismissal case here.
ehyouwhat said:
Not my experience but whilst on a work training day I heard a BT engineer was fired for asking for a black coffee. Apparently some woman believed it to be a racist slur so asked for his dismissal.
Apparently the PC phrase is Coffee with milk or coffee without milk.
It's bad when we can't even refer to everyday things according to their actual colour.
I'd say there's one hell of an Unfair Dismissal case here.
I would suggest referring to it in future as "a very very dark white"
sebo said:
Not my experience but whilst on a work training day I heard a BT engineer was fired for asking for a black coffee. Apparently some woman believed it to be a racist slur so asked for his dismissal.
Apparently the PC phrase is Coffee with milk or coffee without milk.
Was working in Dundee when a "coffee without milk" contractor, from London, went ballistic when he overheard one of the locals use the phrase "about as much use as a chocolate teapot". They were not refering to the contractor.
los angeles said:
CRABBY OLD WOMAN: I wanted a room with a sea view!!!
BASIL FAWLTY: And that's exactly what you have got.
CRABBY OLD WOMAN: I certainly have not! Where is the sea?
BASIL FAWLTY: There - between the gas tank and the railway station.
.... or words to that affect.
BASIL FAWLTY: You can see the sea. It's over there between the land and the sky.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fawlty_T
ehyouwhat said:
Not my experience but whilst on a work training day I heard a BT engineer was fired for asking for a black coffee. Apparently some woman believed it to be a racist slur so asked for his dismissal.
Apparently the PC phrase is Coffee with milk or coffee without milk.
It's bad when we can't even refer to everyday things according to their actual colour.
I'd say there's one hell of an Unfair Dismissal case here.
I think that is an urban myth, unless omeone KNOWS it for sure???? There are a number of these 'PC' myths about but I have never tracked down the source. In a similar fashion I have not been able to track down the true source of the following expessions which are now said to be racist/mysogenist, but which I think are just the PC club's ideras after afew beers:
' A " rule of thumb" is a mysoginist term because it refers to the old common law that you could beat your wife with a stick as long as it wasn't thicker than your thumb' and
'Nitty-Gritty' is racist because it refers to the poorest/illest slaves left in the bottom of a slave ship.
I haven't cheeked the OED recently but neither appeared there a few years ago and there is, to my knowledge no basis , certainly for number 2, in historical records of the ships that took slaves around the world..
Back on thread I once dealt with a complaint that a member of my staff had 'an arrogant walk.'
Now I say deal with it.......actually I said....................
Today I got a very strange phonecall from a woman who wanted to complain about the advertisements (that are distributed with local newspapers) that always come sealed in plastic:
Woman: Hello, this is miss so-and-so. Who printed those leaflets?
Me: What leaflets?
Woman: They are always sealed in plastic!
Me: There are a lot of printers who print them.
Woman: So you don't print them?
Me: No, we usually don't.
Woman: And you can't give me any names?
Me: I'm sorry, I can't.
Woman: Is it a good idea to call the newspaper then?
Me: A very good idea, they can surely help you with this matter...
Woman: Hello, this is miss so-and-so. Who printed those leaflets?
Me: What leaflets?
Woman: They are always sealed in plastic!
Me: There are a lot of printers who print them.
Woman: So you don't print them?
Me: No, we usually don't.
Woman: And you can't give me any names?
Me: I'm sorry, I can't.
Woman: Is it a good idea to call the newspaper then?
Me: A very good idea, they can surely help you with this matter...
Someone I know works in trading standards, some of the stories they tell me are un-bloody-beleivable... e.g. last week there was a bloke kicking up a huge fuss about some shoes he bought on the market and the soles had come away. Wanted a refund, Trader told him to get stuffed. Oh dear you may think, obviousley sub standard.
Untill further digging revealed the small, barely significant fact that he'd had these shoes for SEVEN SMEGGING YEARS.
Untill further digging revealed the small, barely significant fact that he'd had these shoes for SEVEN SMEGGING YEARS.
I was recently at the factory of a lawnmower manufacturer. In the reception, framed and on the wall, was a complaining letter. It went something like this:
"When I bought my lawnmower from my local shop the salesman said it was well built and shouldn't break. I bought it in good faith. However, at the weekend it stopped working. As such, I would like you to provide a new one because the shop is no longer trading. Please find my receipt attached"
The receipt was dated 1955.
"When I bought my lawnmower from my local shop the salesman said it was well built and shouldn't break. I bought it in good faith. However, at the weekend it stopped working. As such, I would like you to provide a new one because the shop is no longer trading. Please find my receipt attached"
The receipt was dated 1955.
srebbe64 said:
I was recently at the factory of a lawnmower manufacturer. In the reception, framed and on the wall, was a complaining letter. It went something like this:
"When I bought my lawnmower from my local shop the salesman said it was well built and shouldn't break. I bought it in good faith. However, at the weekend it stopped working. As such, I would like you to provide a new one because the shop is no longer trading. Please find my receipt attached"
The receipt was dated 1955.
Was that when you were there?
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I was recently at the factory of a lawnmower manufacturer. In the reception, framed and on the wall, was a complaining letter. It went something like this:
"When I bought my lawnmower from my local shop the salesman said it was well built and shouldn't break. I bought it in good faith. However, at the weekend it stopped working. As such, I would like you to provide a new one because the shop is no longer trading. Please find my receipt attached"
The receipt was dated 1955.
Was that when you were there?
vErY fUnNy
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I was recently at the factory of a lawnmower manufacturer. In the reception, framed and on the wall, was a complaining letter. It went something like this:
"When I bought my lawnmower from my local shop the salesman said it was well built and shouldn't break. I bought it in good faith. However, at the weekend it stopped working. As such, I would like you to provide a new one because the shop is no longer trading. Please find my receipt attached"
The receipt was dated 1955.
Was that when you were there?
I could regale you with hundreds, all motor trade related. No way could I work in the service department, it was bad enough with what came my way in sales.
The lady who insisted we had changed her wheels and tyres for smaller ones when her car came in for its 1st 1000 mile check, when I showed her the tyre size on her car, and then on all the same model in the showroom and on the demos, she claimed we had changed all of those too to trick her.
Or the motability customer who's finances were screwed down so tight on their no deposit motab' car, they wanted us to put a few thousand miles on the car and run it in for them as they couldnt afford the higher petrol consumption whilst the engine was tight.
Or the guy that wouldnt accept a 30 day exchange on his new car that had a bad water leak, despite us offering him a replacement car immediately with no hassle at all, he wanted his money back. Until the neighbour grassed him up as no longer needing the car due to a company car with a promotion, so he was pouring a bucket of water into the footwells every time he bought it in to complain to try to get out of it so he didnt lose the initial depreciation when he sold it on. I still say we should have prosecuted the
for fraud.
Or the other motabber who's new car was a few days late, and when it turned up, it was the wrong specification, it was a GLXi the next model up and not a GLi, it had alloys and an alarm as extras too, HO decided to let him have the car anyway, despite the fact it was a no deposit and the extra £1200 worth of kit on it. We then got a solicitors letter demanding compensation for the few days that the new car was late, despite the fact he just stayed in his old motab car anyway. I phoned the solicitor, explained the upgrades he had gotten. Even the solicitor said the guy was a cnut.
One of the main things that I dont miss about the motor trade, and which I have never experienced to anything like the same degree in any other vocation, is the sheer number of lying cheating bastards you get. And thats the customers, not the sales people.
The lady who insisted we had changed her wheels and tyres for smaller ones when her car came in for its 1st 1000 mile check, when I showed her the tyre size on her car, and then on all the same model in the showroom and on the demos, she claimed we had changed all of those too to trick her.
Or the motability customer who's finances were screwed down so tight on their no deposit motab' car, they wanted us to put a few thousand miles on the car and run it in for them as they couldnt afford the higher petrol consumption whilst the engine was tight.
Or the guy that wouldnt accept a 30 day exchange on his new car that had a bad water leak, despite us offering him a replacement car immediately with no hassle at all, he wanted his money back. Until the neighbour grassed him up as no longer needing the car due to a company car with a promotion, so he was pouring a bucket of water into the footwells every time he bought it in to complain to try to get out of it so he didnt lose the initial depreciation when he sold it on. I still say we should have prosecuted the
for fraud. Or the other motabber who's new car was a few days late, and when it turned up, it was the wrong specification, it was a GLXi the next model up and not a GLi, it had alloys and an alarm as extras too, HO decided to let him have the car anyway, despite the fact it was a no deposit and the extra £1200 worth of kit on it. We then got a solicitors letter demanding compensation for the few days that the new car was late, despite the fact he just stayed in his old motab car anyway. I phoned the solicitor, explained the upgrades he had gotten. Even the solicitor said the guy was a cnut.
One of the main things that I dont miss about the motor trade, and which I have never experienced to anything like the same degree in any other vocation, is the sheer number of lying cheating bastards you get. And thats the customers, not the sales people.
That reminds me BG. Three or four years ago, when my missus bought her Toyota MPV, I went to collect the car from the dealer.
There were an elderly (ish) couple there who said they had £3k to spend on a new car. The most important feature must be that the passenger seat was totally electric. When he explained that the cheapest car with that option was much more expensive than £3k they started to angry with him and began raising their voices. With a dead straight face the rep said "go across the road to the Mercedes dealer and someone to show you the Mercedes E Class, that should be within your budget". And as they were leaving he shouted "tell them John from Toyota says high".
There were an elderly (ish) couple there who said they had £3k to spend on a new car. The most important feature must be that the passenger seat was totally electric. When he explained that the cheapest car with that option was much more expensive than £3k they started to angry with him and began raising their voices. With a dead straight face the rep said "go across the road to the Mercedes dealer and someone to show you the Mercedes E Class, that should be within your budget". And as they were leaving he shouted "tell them John from Toyota says high".
sebo said:
Not my experience but whilst on a work training day I heard a BT engineer was fired for asking for a black coffee. Apparently some woman believed it to be a racist slur so asked for his dismissal.
Apparently the PC phrase is Coffee with milk or coffee without milk.
Bollox to that, I have my coffee 'straight black' (ie with no milk and no sugar).
I guess that makes me a homophobic racist
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