Redundant much?

[lyore]

On a 'MilkyBar' desert label:

This delicious dairy product contains milk.

No, really? Thanks for the heads up, I might not have guessed. *sigh*

Also, the contractors for my project behave like children. You'd think if you were the PM for a massive project, you could at least pretend to have some maturity. Apparently not.

I want an 'exasperated' mood.

Comments

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Pbbtht! I know that attitude- "I'm in charge, so you have to walk on eggshells around me but I can throw any tantrum I want."

I saw it a couple of years ago at an airport when I was trying to get a massive flight screwup corrected. Huge weather delays were causing a lot of disruption and the clerk who'd originally tried to reroute me had made a huge error which I didn't catch until I tried to check in for the next flight. So, while I was being calm and laid-back with the poor guy who was trying to unravel the mess, the guy at the next counter (Mr. Expensive Suit) was yelling and throwing his weight around. I got abject apologies (from three different airport people, no less), a first class seat home, comped meals and a comped airport shuttle. Mr. ES? For all I know, he's still in Cinncinnati...

Once in a great while, what goes around really does come around...and you get to see it in action.

[amethyste5.livejournal.com]

Having worked in customer service I'll confirm that, nice people you bend over backwards for, jerks go to the end of the line.

(Really hateful people get handed over to the strictest, crankiest, most "no means no" manager you can get your hands on.)

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I've done my own time in customer service, and it's amazing the rules which will get broken bent for the nice people - and the ones that won't for the jerks.

You'd think they'd have figured it out by now...

[lyore.livejournal.com]

I see people like that at airports, and I wish I was carrying around a tranquiliser gun. Some people just need to relax. (They may not let me wander around an airport carrying a tranq gun, but that's beside the point.)

Sometimes, it pays to be nice. And when it does, it feels so much sweeter for all the rarity.

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

My husband and I want to recommend that the airport have separate lines - one for people who just want to check in and get where they're going and one for 'whiners'. We, of course, would prefer to be in the no-whining line, which would move a lot faster!

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

There are certainly days in which I am grateful that dairy food products I am eating actually contain dairy. *eyes processed food skeptically*

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Ah... it wasn't a warning, but something they are proud of and need to advertise?

(And that is one worried-looking baby!)