Don't make eye contact and give one word answers. Focus on talking to paying customers.Heck, that sounds awful!
I was hoping that I'd come into this thread today and see a range of handy tips for getting rid of our problematiccustomervisitor (she never buys anything)!
Put a sign up saying ‘customer area only’Not a colleague, but we have a visitor who comes and tells us her life story every morning. She doesn't read social cues very well - she'll stand front and centre at the cart ranting while queues form, and you can't interrupt her because she just talks over the top. A couple of our staff have had problems moving her on and her antics are costing our business (customers expect to be served quickly, and rightly so).
When she came along while I was on the other day, I did just talk over the top of her and asked the next person in line what they would like which prompted them to move forward; she still carried on talking but eventually got the message and wandered off. Another time I said to her - before she started talking (I got in first - ha!) that if she didn't want to buy anything (she never has) then I wouldn't have time to talk today because we're very busy ... at that, she grunted and wandered off.
The staff members who have complained about not being able to move her on have tried the same tactics as I have, but they haven't worked. I don't really know what else we can do to get rid of her though - you can't trespass someone for being annoying, and it's public property that we're on (Council-owned; we pay a monthly rental for the spot).
So sorry glossy, I think this is not the company for you. Even after your move you still sound unhappy, have you considered a move to another company? Would that be possible?Life is waaay too short to go to work with shitty people for the majority of the week! Sending hugs xxI have a huge bandaid on my face and felt self-conscious during a (non work related) presentation my team gave in front of 50 people, so I had my camera off. I wasn’t a speaker as the presentation was given by one person only. Apparently they did not like it that I didn’t have my camera on.
I’m sorry but I felt uncomfortable with this thing on my face. I wasn’t even a speaker anyway but I was in the office. I honestly don’t see the big deal especially as people were looking at the screen being shared, not people’s faces.
My manager does this. He’s a useless sack of shit and so unbelievably immature. His wife hasn’t long had a baby and he sleeps in a separate room to her and the baby so his sleep doesn’t get interrupted. Absolute c***.Passive aggressive email responses where they start to just use your name instead of “Hi no-no”. Who are you talking toSo many people not doing their job, either it’s laziness or they’re out of their depth, but it’s getting ridiculous now. I need a brew.
Wow, he sounds awful all-round! How crap for your team (and the wife). It must be in the “deflect from how shit I am” rule book. I had to really bite my tongue this morning, I don’t mind if it’s their usual writing style but when it comes mid-email chain I’m like…My manager does this. He’s a useless sack of shit and so unbelievably immature. His wife hadn’t long had a baby and he sleeps in a separate room to he and the baby so his sleep doesn’t get interrupted. Absolute c***.
Hope he fucks off in the next year. He’s crap and doesn’t give the team any direction, then moans when we aren’t being creative and just churning work out. Lol, it’s your fucking job to shape stuff, arsehole.
I definitely think it’s a case of them being threatened. And if your situation is anything like mine, they add a ‘hi *insert name here* in the mix for everyone else. Idiot doesn’t realise I have folders and it’s all just ammo at the end of the day. I also tend not to reply to the emails anymore if I can and just archive them. He can swivel. If asked outlook “self-archived them”.Wow, he sounds awful all-round! How crap for your team (and the wife). It must be in the “deflect from how shit I am” rule book. I had to really bite my tongue this morning, I don’t mind if it’s their usual writing style but when it comes mid-email chain I’m like…
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Thank youSo sorry glossy, I think this is not the company for you. Even after your move you still sound unhappy, have you considered a move to another company? Would that be possible?Life is waaay too short to go to work with shitty people for the majority of the week! Sending hugs xx
I don’t put my camera on most of the time. There’s always some arsehole that pipes up and asks me to put it on and I just say no thank you, I’m keeping it off.I have a huge bandaid on my face and felt self-conscious during a (non work related) presentation my team gave in front of 50 people, so I had my camera off. I wasn’t a speaker as the presentation was given by one person only. Apparently they did not like it that I didn’t have my camera on.
I’m sorry but I felt uncomfortable with this thing on my face. I wasn’t even a speaker anyway but I was in the office. I honestly don’t see the big deal especially as people were looking at the screen being shared, not people’s faces.
I once had this in a previous job when one of the petty directors complained in an email that we came back from lunch 10 minutes late. I replied that I'd consider his words whilst I worked my 3-4 hours unpaid overtime I was doing at the weekend. Nothing was ever said again...One of my frequent customers (coffee cart) started a new job this week and she received a telling off for leaving the office to buy a coffee mid-
It's extraordinary how some gobshites cannot see the harm they do with a comment like that. People will give more, imo, when they are treated like adults, not children with their every move watched.I once had this in a previous job when one of the petty directors complained in an email that we came back from lunch 10 minutes late. I replied that I'd consider his words whilst I worked my 3-4 hours unpaid overtime I was doing at the weekend. Nothing was ever said again...
Oh yes, I've definitely had that same experience!I once had this in a previous job when one of the petty directors complained in an email that we came back from lunch 10 minutes late. I replied that I'd consider his words whilst I worked my 3-4 hours unpaid overtime I was doing at the weekend. Nothing was ever said again...
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