I'm Noticing a Trend!

[Bluemound Freak]

I have begun to notice that lately there are more and more dumbass people in the world! Is this an epidemic?Is there something in the water? Is this the new wave in the american public? To see just how damn dumb you can seem? I am not knocking on any particular group and or background so please don't get ruffled! Dumbass's come in all shapes and sizes and heights and weights and colors and heritage! Even Education is obviously not a factor any longer! The American Public is just getting more dense by the day and I don't mean the number of people!

Take this for instance. I work in the Automotive industry, Transmissions to be exact! Well This gentleman comes into my shop a day or so ago and I tell him a price to fix his vehicle! It is along the lines of 1,200-1,400.00 dollars for the repairs, A complete Overahul of a 4L60-E GM transmission in a 98 GMC Z-71. It's a fair price for the amount of work performed. Well I explain that this will come with a 12 month/12,000 mile warranty and includes all labor and Taxes! Well he leaves and comes back the next day to get his vehicle. He sits down and we discuss what was wrong and I go over the warranty with him and he hands me my money and I hand him his keys! He stands up to walk out and almost makes it out of my office before he turns and asks me if we remembered to fill it with Fluid! I just spent the last 24 hours working on his truck, repairing what ailed it and now he lacks the faith in my work to question wether or not I put fluid in it! First off Automatic transmissions will not work without fluid and second if I work on it I put only Havoline Fluids back in the vehicles, there is a sign in my office clearly stating this! I said yes I put fluid in it sir, Well did you test drive it:shrug: Yes sir We test drove it and everything is fine! O.K. He leaves and now I'm thinking Bring on the next dumbass and let's get down to business. Well the phone rings, It just so happens to be my favorite Aunt Mary! This one is a doozy. She says to me " do you have a shop vac?" yes mary I have one " Can I borrow it?" yes you can! Well Sounds harmless enough! then she goes into this long drawn out story about how her office got flooded and she was waiting on a plumber and she sure was glad today was friday and she was off work in just a bit! Then the big one! She asks me if my dad was at the house! I said No he's not home he is not here either! Well she says where did he go on vacation or something or is he just goofing off today? I say no he's at Work, AT WORK? Why is he working on Saturday? Did you not just get done telling me that you were at work and you were glad it was Friday? She justs acts like I'm the idiot for calling her on this! I said what the hell is wrong with you? Are you that damn dumb? And she hangs up! Guess she didn't need that Vac badly as she thought!

It just baffles me the assault of dumb questions you will get in a day! Start taking notes on how many dumbass's you meet in one day and it might make you want to move to Alaska and ice fish with the polar bears and stay the hell out of any populated areas! Check em out and let me know if you notice it as well!

 

[ryson]

Blue,

In regards to the work at your shop - there are plenty of folks who have had work done by shady automotive shops. I am one of those folks, I refuse to have any work done on any on my trucks by anyone other than the dealership. Just chalk it up as customer service and please don't take it personally. As far as your Aunt..............I have one of those too, just family bro

 

[Bluemound Freak]

Ryson,




I am the only shop in my town of this sort and I do all the Dealerships work for them here in town! My Father has been in business for 30 years and has a reputation that follows him and myself throughout the industry! This guy new I was not shady......Trust me! And anyways I meant for this to be humorous not to piss on any wheels

 

[buddy]

she: "There's something wrong with my car."

mechanic: "What kind of car is it?"

she: "It's a yellow one."

 

[MadJack]

several years ago i did a direct mail promotion for my hearing aid business. included in the mailing was a 'sample' non-working hearing aid so they could see how small the instruments really are. one day some old guy called to thank me for sending him a hearing aid. "young man, i've been hard of hearing for as long as i can remember and you made my day when you sent me this hearing aid. i haven't heard this good in YEARS!!"

true story!!



I could not convince him that the aid did him no good. he SWORE it was the best thing that has happened to him in years!!

 

[Snake Plissken]

Blue,

I too deal with the public on a daily basis (I own two pizzerias)
and I agree 100% people are dumb.

Example one:

This guys walked in and says "I want to order two Cheese Pizzas"
I say O.K no problem about 15 minutes. He sits down in front of me a WATCHES me make 2 pizzas, Take them out of the oven, slice them up and hand him 2 boxes. I say OK sir all set that will be twenty dollars.
He says I didn't want two pies I wanted 2 slices

Example two:

A women orders two pies over the phone to pick up. The pies are made and she walks in and has a coupon for 12.99 for 2 pies. I ring her up on the register and with tax comes to 13.95. She hands me the coupon plus one dollar. I say its 13.95, so she says here the coupon is 12.99 plus one dollar is 13.99. After about ten minutes trying to explain to this women that the coupon doesn't have 12.99 value, 12.99 is what you have to pay.

There are tons more but I know Exactly how you feel and my only advice to you is to take a vacation or a few days off it will do you good.

 

[ryson]

Ryson,

I am the only shop in my town of this sort and I do all the Dealerships work for them here in town! My Father has been in business for 30 years and has a reputation that follows him and myself throughout the industry! This guy new I was not shady......Trust me! And anyways I meant for this to be humorous not to piss on any wheels

Blue,

I find it funny because I am that anal bastid asking all the questions even tho the shop is a valid shop (BTW: I don't know shat about cars) but I am giving you my cash so I feel the right to ask questions. I do the same thing that you do but in software. Customers suck.....but they pay the bills

 

[buddy]

For many years, my father was manager of a supermarket.

One day, an angry lady stormed into the store with an opened bag of cat litter.

She demanded to see the store manager.

My father politely asked how he could help.

The lady demanded her money back.

My father said returning the money was no problem, but what could possibly be wrong with cat litter?

The lady said, "No matter what I mix with it, my cat won't eat it."

 

[Cartman88]

I am a Customer Service Mngr for a Pay TV company and every day I get more and more amazed at what people do.

Some of the idiots I have had the pleasure of dealing with ......

Customer having a problem with his decoder box. I ask him to unplug it at the power point and come back to the phone. A few minutes later I can faintly hear the customer saying "hello hello is anyone there". A few more minutes pass and the customer makes it back to the phone. Turned out he was holding his glasses case up to his ear thinking it was his phone.

Customer having a problem with her decoder box. I ask her to unplug it at the power point and come back to the phone. She came back to clarify what I meant. Despite trying to explain this from every possible angle she couldn't grasp the concept of a power point. I eventually tried saying "when you have toast you plug your toaster into a power point". She said "That's right". I said "the same concept applies to your decoder box. It is plugged into a power point". I again asked her to unplug it at the power point and come back to the phone. I hear some crashing and banging in the background and eventually she comes back to the phone. She says "OK. I have plugged my toaster in. What's next".

Customer had lost his satellite signal due to torrential rain. I explained that in extreme weather conditions this can occur. Customer seemed happy enough and the conversation was over. 10 mins later same guy calls up again. He had just got on his roof and put a huge beach umbrella over his satellite dish. He couldn't understand why it still wasn't working.

I could go on forever but I have to go to work soon.

 

[Jhpga]

Im no longer in cellular sales but about 9 years ago before caller ID was avaible on cell phones and the only phones were big brick motorolas or bag phones...a customer comes in and said he had the wrong phone.Cause everytime he missed a call the screen said call ed.And he doesnt know anybody named Ed.But the screen really said CALLED.I laughed in the guys face.Man Im glad Im out of that business but now the golf business can be just as bad.People call for a tee time and they want 9:00.I tell them ..I got 9:08 and they say....you got anything closer to 9.I want to say......please golf elsewhere you moron.

 

[AR182]

Very funny stories.

My former sales manager summed up your situations perfectly:

"God sure likes stupid people because he made an awful lot of them".

 

[yyz]

About the dumbest thing at my work place recently?

I was working in a core, controling the locking doors of our facility. One of our psychiatrists came to a set of locked double doors. Under normal situations, only the right door opens, but in special instances, both doors are opened.

After one of these situations, someone used the right door, but the left remained "unlocked". When the doctor wanted access to that area, he stood infront of the right side door. I called him on the intercom:

"Dr......The left door is open."

"What?"

"The left door is open."

This man, with who knows how many years in school, and making well over $100 and hour, proceded to take one step to the left, open that door, let it close to re-lock, and go back to standing by the righthand door!

"What are you doing?"

"I closed that door, so you could open this one."

"Why didn't you just walk through the one you opened?"

He placed his head in his hands and turned red, and I shook mine.

 

[fatdaddycool]

Wasn't at work but had a guy tell me one time that he thought those, same, old, tired, worn out, stereotype jokes about Texans and how dumb they are, were REALLY FUNNY

 

[Elegant Lance]

I love that the irony of an illiterate post like this talking about stupid people!

My favorite: Education is obviously not a factor any longer!

LOL! With grammar like that I seriously doubt you even graduated elementary school.

 

[Bluemound Freak]

Elegant Lance, I aint gonna make waves for you, I notice you only have made 2 posts, so I'll remind you of this. Don't read it if it is so elementary! You know you smell a little bit like a Bains or Rico the Beaver Boxer, I'm not quite sure but I'm probably not the only person thinking WHAT A DIHK!


I did graduate from Elementary School, I did graduate high school, and as far as my grammar a##hole I did not study English in college! I studied Vet medicine! SO A##, Take your little comments and get the hell off of my thread!:fingerc:

Blue

 

[JT]

buddy, that one about the cat litter made my day. Car one was great also, lmao.