courtenay
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potsy
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That has to be a wind up
Nobody is that thick.Are they?
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- The TerrorVortex
I've worked on a helpdesk. People can be that daft and then some.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
And for those of us without facebook accounts, it is...?
potsy
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In a nutshell
A guy rings Asda's customer services to complain that his pizza has no topping only the base.
Mid conversation he realises he has opened the packaging upside down
A guy rings Asda's customer services to complain that his pizza has no topping only the base.
Mid conversation he realises he has opened the packaging upside down
snorri
Legendary Member
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- East coast, up a bit.
Supermarkets do have strange effects on ones perceptions mind you.
I was quite sure I saw queues when I was in a Morrisons last week. Standing waiting behind several people at the check-out as you do in Morrisons with several check outs unstaffed as usual. I spotted a group of four management types standing in a huddle and told the lady behind me that I was going to ask them to get more check-outs staffed, "Good idea" said she. The response to my polite request to management to ease the queues was met with a response that quite surprised me. "There are no queues sir" the brainwashed management type told me. The lady behind me in the non queue couldn't believe it when I told her , and the guy in front said "There are always queues in Morrisions".
Does anyone know how many people are required to stand in line before the line becomes a queue in Morrison speak?
I was quite sure I saw queues when I was in a Morrisons last week. Standing waiting behind several people at the check-out as you do in Morrisons with several check outs unstaffed as usual. I spotted a group of four management types standing in a huddle and told the lady behind me that I was going to ask them to get more check-outs staffed, "Good idea" said she. The response to my polite request to management to ease the queues was met with a response that quite surprised me. "There are no queues sir" the brainwashed management type told me. The lady behind me in the non queue couldn't believe it when I told her , and the guy in front said "There are always queues in Morrisions".
Does anyone know how many people are required to stand in line before the line becomes a queue in Morrison speak?
Crankarm
Guru
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- Nr Cambridge
In a nutshell
A guy rings Asda's customer services to complain that his pizza has no topping only the base.
Mid conversation he realises he has opened the packaging upside down
Unbelievable. It has to a wind up.
NormanD
Lunatic Asylum Escapee
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- Heworth the other side of life!
No it's true some people really are that stupid, although I expect the one above to be a wind up.
My sister used to be on the help line for guide dogs for the blind (donation section) and was confronted with a call from a young woman asking if it was possible for her (the caller) to visit one of the centres to pick out her own blind dog and how much training she (the caller) would require with the white stick tapping it on the ground so the dog knows what line to walk in.
She acctually thought the dogs were blind themselves and that the people with the white stick were using them to make tapping noises to guide the dog along!
My sister used to be on the help line for guide dogs for the blind (donation section) and was confronted with a call from a young woman asking if it was possible for her (the caller) to visit one of the centres to pick out her own blind dog and how much training she (the caller) would require with the white stick tapping it on the ground so the dog knows what line to walk in.
She acctually thought the dogs were blind themselves and that the people with the white stick were using them to make tapping noises to guide the dog along!
potsy
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- My Armchair
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That it just brilliant
Very amusing even if it is proved to be a wind up.
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punkypossum
Donut Devil
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- My own little planet...
To be quite honest, this one might be a windup, but the people that ring us at work are pretty similar - we had a woman ringing in the middle of the night, asking us to fit her a new front door with a cat flap and she wanted it the next day. And that's one of the minor ones.... And others asking us to deliver their dinner because the cooker wasn't working (even though it was their cooker!)
people are really dim . i was spraying a very nasty weedkiller at a golf club with skull and cross bone signs around me in a fenced off area wearing major ppe gear and a man tapped me on the shoudler and asked if it was dangerous to his dog . who was sat the other side of the fence . he had climbed over it to ask me . mind you i nearly shat myself cos i was not expecting anyone to come near me .
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
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- Leith, Edinburgh
People CAN be that dumb - a colleague at a branch of my employer once asked a customer to send in a copy of the disk which they said was faulty and wouldn't work in their computer. In the post a few days later she received a photocopied image of the floppy disk...
Years ago in my job here, we used to use real 'floppies' - the old 5 1/4" floppy disks. The number of people who'd update the program on the disk with their monthly pension contributions and then staple the disk to the correspondence was staggering. None of them could understand that driving a staple through the disk surface would make it unreadable and they'd have to do it all over again.
The best were the ones who couldn't work out how to put the 3.5" disks back in the boxes. The outer box was open at both ends so you could slide the inner-tray in with the disk in it. The inner was a long, rectangular piece of card lined with bubblewrap, which you'd put the disk in and then bend the ends up over the disk and slide it into the outer. People could never work out that if you put the inner in side-on, it was open at the sides and the disk would slide out. You had to put it in the other way so the folded-up ends outwards. They'd go to hugely extravagant lengths to wrap miles of tape around the whole thing to stop the disk falling it. No common sense whatsoever - you'd have though that seeing the disk arrive in the box correctly each month would have let them see how it was supposed to be done, but no....
Years ago in my job here, we used to use real 'floppies' - the old 5 1/4" floppy disks. The number of people who'd update the program on the disk with their monthly pension contributions and then staple the disk to the correspondence was staggering. None of them could understand that driving a staple through the disk surface would make it unreadable and they'd have to do it all over again.
The best were the ones who couldn't work out how to put the 3.5" disks back in the boxes. The outer box was open at both ends so you could slide the inner-tray in with the disk in it. The inner was a long, rectangular piece of card lined with bubblewrap, which you'd put the disk in and then bend the ends up over the disk and slide it into the outer. People could never work out that if you put the inner in side-on, it was open at the sides and the disk would slide out. You had to put it in the other way so the folded-up ends outwards. They'd go to hugely extravagant lengths to wrap miles of tape around the whole thing to stop the disk falling it. No common sense whatsoever - you'd have though that seeing the disk arrive in the box correctly each month would have let them see how it was supposed to be done, but no....