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Old Feb 14th 2011, 1:38 am
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Originally Posted by DeadVim
Did you go to the Uni or just hang around?
Hung around mainly but somehow managed to scrape a degree!
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Old Feb 14th 2011, 2:34 am
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Originally Posted by Turban Explorer
Hung around mainly but somehow managed to scrape a degree!
That's the way to do it, no point in overexerting yourself

I managed a cycling proficiency certificate and a HND.
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Old Feb 14th 2011, 2:44 am
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Originally Posted by DeadVim
That's the way to do it, no point in overexerting yourself

I managed a cycling proficiency certificate and a HND.
Exactly right... I'll be damned if I can bag this Cert IV Nail Technology course however.
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Old Feb 14th 2011, 3:32 am
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Originally Posted by DeadVim
That's the way to do it, no point in overexerting yourself

I managed a cycling proficiency certificate and a HND.
Not at the same time I hope, that would have been way too much work.
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
Not at the same time I hope, that would have been way too much work.
Indeed, men cannot multi-task.

I have just learrnt there is a Kelloggs Cereal diet ... how do marketeers sleep at night?
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As life is a glorious journey filled with wondrous experience we constantly learn new things (wretch).... today I've discovered

1) The Yanks call Tunisia 'Tune - eesh - year'
2) My 1 year old cat, Outboard, can lay a turd the size of King Kong's finger
3) A massive brown stripey spider found in the car can evade an industrial hoover

What about yous?
That these boards have really gone to shit since my last visit.
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That gobbledegeek is a miserable b'stard
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Wasn't until I looked in tonight. Nothing has changed.

Kindly delete my account.
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I have also learned that i cant delete accounts
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I have also learned that i cant delete accounts
That's cos we haven't promoted you to Admin yet, have to apply again later in the year
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Originally Posted by Gobbledegeek
That these boards have really gone to shit since my last visit.
Must have been a dramatic decline since January then.
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Old Feb 16th 2011, 11:33 pm
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That houses advertised as a four bedroom 'spacious' house with a room for a pony actually consist of two bedrooms (where you can just about fit in a queen bed), another bedroom in which you can squeeze in a single bed and the last one is actually a storeroom being passed off as the 4th bedroom
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
Today I learnt that going into an Optus store and expecting intelligent staff is a really really stupid expectation. How I didn't lump the guy I do not know but rest assured, he knew I considered him and his colleague complete moronic dicks. :curse:
Reminded me of the service I got yesterday. I phoned origin energy wanting an quote on a solar power unit. These things are round $5000 - $10000 so you'd think they would take it somewhat seriously - right. Well the recorded message said they were too busy and I had to leave a message with my contact details and they would get back to me - promise. So my message was "Why don't you hire more f***ing staff to answer the phones you idiot" Do you think it made it to the manager - probably not...

Now on to what you said...

I worked at bunnings for a time, or should I say I did time at bunnings... When customers vented it was by far the best thing they could have done for us that worked there. Nothing could be better than having someone blow a gasket, throw their arms up and storm off effin and bliming... It simply meant that they became someone else's problem, or better yet just f@@@ed off to some other store, and I could go back to mindless tedium. Do you honestly think we actually care that you are unhappy with the service or product?

If you really want to punish the retail retards make them do everything possible that you can think of i.e. make them walk around the store with you and explain everything three times... Take up as much time as possible... And then say, I think I'll shop around and promptly leave without thanking them. Basically you've completely f$$$ed their day if you can string it out long enough because retail retards are made to work hard for the paltry seeds they're paid. Managers are hired because they excel at slave driving and being assholes - not because they now how to me good managers.

Or better yet, as the poor retard sales clerk is only doing what they're allowed to do by the managers under threat of losing their jobs, go and find a manager and punish them by dragging them around and f***ing up their days work... You see the sales clerk isn't given any knowledge or training (what bunnings said in induction compared to what happened when we were turned loose on the floor is an absolute joke) to do even a remotely competent job and the managers don't give a shit. Their attitude is head down don't want to know... When I go to bunnings (or anywhere else now) and have a problem I find the first red shirt and say you don't get paid enough to put up with the shit i'm gonna start flinging so go find a manager (really). The smile that comes across their face is priceless when I say that. Cause their thinking "Yes! it pay back time and I have a front row seat"

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Originally Posted by Pollyana
Head hurting a little is it?

Today I learnt that geckoes have no shame and are happy to mate on the kitchen wall in full view anyone who happens to be passing
Did you get some good lizard porn at least
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Originally Posted by mic n mat
Reminded me of the service I got yesterday. I phoned origin energy wanting an quote on a solar power unit. These things are round $5000 - $10000 so you'd think they would take it somewhat seriously - right. Well the recorded message said they were too busy and I had to leave a message with my contact details and they would get back to me - promise. So my message was "Why don't you hire more f***ing staff to answer the phones you idiot" Do you think it made it to the manager - probably not...

Now on to what you said...

I worked at bunnings for a time, or should I say I did time at bunnings... When customers vented it was by far the best thing they could have done for us that worked there. Nothing could be better than having someone blow a gasket, throw their arms up and storm off effin and bliming... It simply meant that they became someone else's problem, or better yet just f@@@ed off to some other store, and I could go back to mindless tedium. Do you honestly think we actually care that you are unhappy with the service or product?

If you really want to punish the retail retards make them do everything possible that you can think of i.e. make them walk around the store with you and explain everything three times... Take up as much time as possible... And then say, I think I'll shop around and promptly leave without thanking them. Basically you've completely f$$$ed their day if you can string it out long enough because retail retards are made to work hard for the paltry seeds they're paid. Managers are hired because they excel at slave driving and being assholes - not because they now how to me good managers.

Or better yet, as the poor retard sales clerk is only doing what they're allowed to do by the managers under threat of losing their jobs, go and find a manager and punish them by dragging them around and f***ing up their days work... You see the sales clerk isn't given any knowledge or training (what bunnings said in induction compared to what happened when we were turned loose on the floor is an absolute joke) to do even a remotely competent job and the managers don't give a shit. Their attitude is head down don't want to know... When I go to bunnings (or anywhere else now) and have a problem I find the first red shirt and say you don't get paid enough to put up with the shit i'm gonna start flinging so go find a manager (really). The smile that comes across their face is priceless when I say that. Cause their thinking "Yes! it pay back time and I have a front row seat"
I do similar to that, get the whole demo of whatever the product does, have a play with it for a while & spend as long as I can in there. It's not until the staff ask if I want to purchase that I "fess up" & declare "Hell no it's way cheaper on ebay! I only wanted a demo before I buy online"
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