Interviewing is so different when it’s done over Zoom. As an interviewee, you can have a Google Doc open with all of your stock interview answers (and the answers specific to this job) written down so you can read them right off the page. It will be obvious you’re doing this if you’re an amateur, …
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‘You want a pizza with everything? You got it’: Customer demands pizza place for a pizza with every single topping, costing $50 and making it impossible to eat
Alright fellas, let’s talk about pizzas. Finding the best pizza place is a challenge, but once you find the place that makes the best pizzas for your liking, it is a relationship no less important than the one you have with your partner. You get friendly with the employees, they soon know your name and …
Seguir leyendo ‘You want a pizza with everything? You got it’: Customer demands pizza place for a pizza with every single topping, costing $50 and making it impossible to eat
Customer Service Employee Feigns ‘Amnesia’ Over Customer’s Name After Intense Encounter Takes Place
These days, the client is always right, and you should never disagree with their points of view. For the benefit of those customer support representatives who put in endless hours of work day and night, the poster below has discovered the most passive-aggressive method to settle the score with all entitled consumers. In the story …
Seguir leyendo Customer Service Employee Feigns ‘Amnesia’ Over Customer’s Name After Intense Encounter Takes Place
‘You must be kidding!’: Boss Emails Entire Company Employee’s Salary Details, Including Expected ‘Raise’
For reasons that are still unknown, salary has proven to be one of the most private and sensitive bits of information in the business world for years, if not decades. What would you do, then, if your pay increase was unintentionally disclosed to the entire company? Would you be happy to brag about your raise, or …
Seguir leyendo ‘You must be kidding!’: Boss Emails Entire Company Employee’s Salary Details, Including Expected ‘Raise’
‘Pay first, then leave’: Server Catches Wind of Family’s Sly Attempt to Dine and Dash, Doesn’t Leave Their Side Until They Pay Their $200 Dollar Bill
Work in the food sector is never simple. It’s more challenging, though, to work in the food industry with clients who are trying to score free meals. The story below is an account of a puzzled server. The Original Poster (OP) is a server at a local restaurant. As we all know by now, working in …
Seguir leyendo ‘Pay first, then leave’: Server Catches Wind of Family’s Sly Attempt to Dine and Dash, Doesn’t Leave Their Side Until They Pay Their $200 Dollar Bill
‘You saved my wedding…’: Hotel clerk turns into therapist when approached by bride with cold feet the night before her wedding
Not all heroes wear capes, some work as front desk clerks in random hotels. I got married when I was pretty young, and even though I didn’t actually have a case of cold feet the night before my wedding, I did have my doubts. Call me dramatic, but getting married is a huge decision, and …
Seguir leyendo ‘You saved my wedding…’: Hotel clerk turns into therapist when approached by bride with cold feet the night before her wedding
‘Ma’am, you do know Google is free right?’: Hotel clerk gets fed up with demanding guest who expects clerk to be an encyclopedia
Do you even stop to think – how on earth did people manage to live their lives before the internet existed? Sure, it might have been more peaceful and carefree times, but how did they go places without GPS? How did they find information without Google? I know this sounds completely ignorant of me, but …
Seguir leyendo ‘Ma’am, you do know Google is free right?’: Hotel clerk gets fed up with demanding guest who expects clerk to be an encyclopedia
‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’: Determined Guest Attempts to Break Into Room to Recover Lost Bag After Being Refused Entry by Hotel Employee
Being a customer service representative is not always an easy or enjoyable job. What is the hardest part, you ask? One instance that springs to mind is having to tell clients ‘no’, which usually leads them to feel upset and frustrated. The story below is an account of a frustrated front desk clerk. As usual, …
Seguir leyendo ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’: Determined Guest Attempts to Break Into Room to Recover Lost Bag After Being Refused Entry by Hotel Employee
‘She spoiled everything, so I did too’: To get back at her entitled co-worker, woman decides to spoil the ending of her favorite book
How do you feel about spoilers? Some people actually enjoy having things spoiled for them. My sister, for example, will start watching a film, skip over to the last five minutes to see what happens, and then go back and watch the rest of the movie. Then there are some people, who hate spoilers with …
Seguir leyendo ‘She spoiled everything, so I did too’: To get back at her entitled co-worker, woman decides to spoil the ending of her favorite book
‘He took it too far’: Petty Family Leave Restaurant a Bad Review in an Attempt to Get an Extra Discount
As we often say, being a customer service representative has perks as well as drawbacks. But what happens when hierarchy enters the picture? If we’re being really honest here, that means you will most likely be forced to work every holiday, birthday, and significant occasion up until a new hire steps in to take your …
Seguir leyendo ‘He took it too far’: Petty Family Leave Restaurant a Bad Review in an Attempt to Get an Extra Discount