MacBros' Place

Buddy Taking My New Slippers

Buddy seems to have taken over my new slippers that I got on Christmas. I just can’t seem to keep a pair of slippers without the cats taking them over. Maybe he is just keeping them warm for me? No, probably not, that was just silly to think that.

The title of this post actually comes from a conversation I had at work. The girl sitting next to me was talking about how she forgot to retrieve her money from the self check outs at the supermarket. She said she was lucky it was still there and a lady held up the money to show her when she was talking to the clerk when she went back for it.

She said that she bet that if she didn’t come back and that other lady didn’t see her coming, that the lady would have pocketed it.

I said I would have pocketed it too. She then said, “Yea, I would have too probably.”

That’s when I said, “I profit of of other people’s stupidity.”

So I’m actually claiming that phrase and coining it.

And later on when I got home, I was watching that show, “What Would You Do?” and they asked a question that if you were dining out and the restaurant forgot to put the charges for a very expensive bottle of wine, would you point out the error or say nothing. I said to myself, “Nope, I profit off of other people’s stupidity.” And giggled a little pit.

Anyway, Speaking of work, some of the things that the boss said needed to be enforced weren’t. Nothing serious, just minor things like filling the floor from one side to the other instead of spreading out making it difficult for floor support to get around to everybody. Hoodies and hats were still on peoples heads, but I didn’t see them later on in the day. Maybe they were told to leave?

I only smelt pot once and it was just a whiff, and nothing pungent like it was in the past. And one guy was apparently drunk when he came in. 

So either their not enforcing the policies, or just haven’t noticed these individual. I have to admit that it was actually milder and more professional than it was the last couple of weeks. I guess it’s going to take time to weed the weed heads and troublemakers.

It was a fucking zoo as far as the calls go though. Seemed like all the empty helmets fell out of the idiot sack and could only get a hold of me.

Some people think that all customer service people are gullible. One fella claimed that a turned off cell phone was somehow making calls while it was turned off and using up his minutes. All 70+ of them. And others claiming they never downloaded ring tones and music files off of the Internet, and it is somehow dialing  the Internet by itself. Only to be told that they shouldn’t have changed the default settings from the key that can’t be pressed when the phone is closed to the one on the outside on the side of the phone that gets pressed when you put the phone into your pocket.

The ones who would admit to their mistake, I actually fixed their problem, but the ones that insisted on insulting my intelligence and insisted on denying their stupidity and say things like, “How should I know that would happen?” instead of reading the fucking manual, (Since a lot of them actually say not to place features on certain hot keys) they got nothing from me, simply because they pissed me off and I am not a dill hole that is easily a push over.

Getting a dozen or so calls about the same Internet problem because of the same stupidity with customers setting the Internet connection key to an outside one really wears you down, especially when they deny doing it and somehow some magical fairy flew into their pocket while they weren’t looking and thinking they’ll get me to credit their account or  credit $20 – $40 worth of downloaded data of ring tones and music files that they say they didn’t download.

No wonder people get pissed off waiting on the phone for customer service. It’s because of these assholes that are tying up the lines and are usually the ones that keep us in the damn calls that are going in circles the longest too. 

I’ve noticed that smart people never call in, and if they do, it’s because there was a mistake on our end, and it’s just a couple of minutes to fix it.

My opinion, that you are entitled to, is that if you don’t understand the technology, then stay away from it and get somebody to teach you about it, BEFORE you end up spending money on it and then blame it on somebody else that you don’t understand it. You’ll save money, time, and sanity for both you and me.

This post is brought to you by the words Stupidity, Dumb Asses, and by the secret code ID10T.