Stupid Customers.

[Man Of Kent]

Remember guys, these people can vote

[cocoonrecs]

Originally Posted by Man Of Kent

Remember guys, these people can vote

[Hellfire]

WE get some right fucking nut jobs at the hotel.

Atm we have a crazy women with us for 2 weeks, on more than one ocassion she has phoned Reception and demanded for Maintaence to fix the bed side lights, even though I have gone to her room and shown her that there is a switch above her bed to turn them on, she then proceeds to say they're too dark in BROAD daylight and she cannot read, with the certains open and demands for 120W lightbulbs, (we use power saving lightbulbs as a Green policy)

A customer Arrived this morning (part of a conference) and asked for there room at 11AM, I proceeded to explain 11AM is check out time and 2PM is check in, he then demanded his room saying its 11AM and its check out time so why cant he get the key? I swear we was thinking backwards, finally he understood me and demanded we REMOVED said person from the room and clean it by half past 11 so he can enter the room.

I politely told him to shove it. well more of.. "I'm afraid we cannot do that, your room will be ready at 2, I made sure his room was ready last

The amount of guests who ask if the coutesy bus is "FREE" and if they can use it even if they're not GUESTS even though its called the "guest coutosey bus"

the amount of people who phone up saying they were told this amount by this person and so and so, they say a name of someone who doesn't even work here, lol idiots.

there are so many more

[stargalaxy]

Originally Posted by rachie004

Oooo oooo another thing that really really hacks me off - when people pay for a cup of tea with a £20 note, and if they're really lucky I might have a £10 note but the rest ends up in change. Then they go - oh you don't have a fiver?

I spent two seasons working for the shops at the Haven park. Our cash machines are often stuffed full of £20 notes. Because of the transation fees, a lot of people withdraw huge amounts of money in one go, meaning they've got nothing but twenties on them. This poses real problems for shops, and especially for the bars. The number of fivers and tenners that we went through in a single day is disturbingly high. The nightmare is worst in bars and pubs, where people often buy one or two drinks, price coming up to about £4, and paying with a £20. When one person does it, it's no problem. When everyone does it, you need a massive supply of smaller notes to compensate.

I decided one day last year to do a bit of research into this. I asked the Bank of England how many £5 notes are in circulation. They tell me there are around 220 million of them in circulation at any one time. They also keep 200 million in storage. The notes stay in ciruclation for one year at most, usually because they deteriorate in quality very quickly - people just don't look after their money when they've got it. It would suggest that there's just over three fivers for every person in the country. However, can you remember any occasion when you had three fivers in your wallet? Nope. I have one if I'm lucky. I don't mind carrying pound coins - they're far more useful to me than notes - but some people get really hacked off by it. The people who get pissed off are usually middle-aged men who can't be arsed to buy a wallet, who know that they'll lose the coins in their pockets.

The Bank of England also tell me that there just over one billion £20 notes in circulation. This is a year in which they're changing the old twenties for new ones, and changing a billion of them is an astronomical task. With there being so many twenties, this explains why, when you go to a cash machine, you often get nothing but twenties. There's a mix of reasons - shops are holding onto smaller notes where they can, and the banks have also been accused of hogging them. They all deny the charge, incidentally. Some seem to give out more tenners from their ATMs than others, suggesting they're rather stung by this criticism.

Anyway, just a bit of insight into the subject.

[Calvin]

Originally Posted by stargalaxy

I decided one day last year to do a bit of research into this. I asked the Bank of England how many £5 notes are in circulation. They tell me there are around 220 million of them in circulation at any one time. They also keep 200 million in storage. The notes stay in ciruclation for one year at most, usually because they deteriorate in quality very quickly - people just don't look after their money when they've got it. It would suggest that there's just over three fivers for every person in the country. However, can you remember any occasion when you had three fivers in your wallet? Nope. I have one if I'm lucky. I don't mind carrying pound coins - they're far more useful to me than notes - but some people get really hacked off by it. The people who get pissed off are usually middle-aged men who can't be arsed to buy a wallet, who know that they'll lose the coins in their pockets.

They also told me that there just over one billion £20 notes in circulation. This is a year in which they're changing the old twenties for new ones, and changing a billion of them is an astronomical task. With there being so many twenties, this is why, when you go to a cash machine, you often get nothing but twenties. Banks have previously been accused of holding onto smaller notes. Some seem to give out more tenners from their ATMs than others, compounding the problem.

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[stargalaxy]

Originally Posted by Calvin

You've far too much time on your hands

Do you really have nothing better to do than going round the boards, making snide comments about me? I would suggest you're actually the one with too little to do.

[Calvin]

Yeah fair enough

[Monserrat]

Originally Posted by Mr Orange

Ringing up moaning because he hadn't got sound, and he should have sound, upon investigation he had unplugged the speakers and forgot to plug them back in - This guy is supposed to be running the company! Fucking idiot.

Oh my life!! I feel/share your pain!

[Big Gay]

Originally Posted by stargalaxy

I decided one day last year to do a bit of research into this. I asked the Bank of England how many £5 notes are in circulation.

I don't know of a cash machine that dispenses 5 pound notes, so while interesting the figures aren't directly relevant to that issue. the 10 pound figure, on the other hand....

[RubberSkin]

There used to be one in Cotteridge that dished out fivers, gone now though.

[katralla]

I must have been about twelve/eleven last time I saw fivers from a cash point

[JsT]

Originally Posted by Big Gay

I don't know of a cash machine that dispenses 5 pound notes

Both of the cash machines at Huddersfield Uni dispense fivers.

[Bri-namite]

From working in a call centre -

Customer asks me (after 15 minutes speaking to me) if he's been speaking to India today. Does it sound like you're speaking to bloody India?

Old biddy who's daughter text her and she doesn't know how to open it. Spend 25 minutes getting her to open it (an achievment, considering she didn't listen to a word I said and didn't know what a keypad was) so she says thanks, and I ask her if there's anything else I can help her with. Of course, now she wants to know how to send one back. An hour and a half spent explaining how to text, and of course she wants to use proper words, punctuation and a long thing not far off War and Peace

From working in the bingo -

The bloke who threatened to go to trading standards because our menu displayed jumbo sausages instead of the two smaller ones we had for sale.

Customers who accused me of lying and stealing, because I gave them change off a tenner when they said they give me a twenty when they bought their bingo books. Every time this happened, the CCTV proved me right, and not once did I get an apology like I'd have had to give to them if I'd fucked up.

Have to admit that I've fucked up a few times though. One night this old couple came in first to buy their books, gave me a twenty and I checked it with the note checker pen. It marked all over it, so I said to my supervisor it was a dodgy note, the old couple looked horrified. Managers and everything came down, the queue behind them was out of the door, but it turned out in the end that instead of using the special note checker pen, I'd actually used a black marker instead

[Sa-ra-ra-ra]

Originally Posted by JsT

Both of the cash machines at Huddersfield Uni dispense fivers.

Yeah, the barclays cashpoint at UEA gives them out. So does the barclays bank cashpoint in Forest Hill, or at least, it used to.

[kangoo]

Originally Posted by Bri-namite

turned out in the end that instead of using the special note checker pen, I'd actually used a black marker instead

Ahahahaha red face