Comments on: Annoying Customers Today

By: dopekitty

dopekitty — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:05:51 +0000

Having worked in a dollar store for several months, i would have to disagree slightly with this chart. We always seemed to get the annoying customers just before breaktime.

By: annoying csr

annoying csr — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:42:30 +0000

LOL

both of them.

By: moimoimoi

moimoimoi — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:53:08 +0000

amen to that….fucking stragglers

By: harpdevil

harpdevil — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:17:40 +0000

The last 30 minutes are never part of your shift, the last 30 minutes are where you stay open after the store has closed because customers refuse to leave and let you tidy and go home.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:12:18 +0000

A stacked bar graph would have been better, with “last five minutes” accounting for most of the second half of shift.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:29:11 +0000

No. The second half of the shift NEVER includes the smallest logical denominator, defined as the period of time that the person relieving you might arrive in, or your boss might decide to close early.
In this case 30 minutes. Unfortunately for me its only 15.

By: butterflysigh

butterflysigh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:25:09 +0000

In the process of locking the doors, while customers saying they’ll only be a minute: 18

By: Carolyn J.

Carolyn J. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:52:54 +0000

If you’re going on vacation the best strategy is to hide under your desk for the last half-day, at least.

By: J

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:17:48 +0000

Too true. I work in the IT dept for a major bank. The majority of calls I get come in between 2pm-4:30pm. The most annoying are usually on a Friday, they’ve had the problem all week, never called anyone, and want it fixed NOW. The good news is that I set the priority of said calls, and the late Friday ones get pushed to Monday, unless the impact is too great.

By: Dexaan

Dexaan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:07:16 +0000

Double this if the next day is a weekend, and redouble this if you’re going on vacation.

By: Clay

Clay — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:16:29 +0000

I work at Best Buy and this is 100% true. It’s especially annoying when you get those customers who aren’t there to buy anything but would prefer to play Rock Band or Madden until half past close.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:36:17 +0000

For me, it almost always happens that the first customer I get on Saturday morning (my first day of the week) is going to just rant and rave ’til the cows come home. Then again, it may be because I drink very heavily Friday night anticipating the work week and I’m still dry heaving into the waste bin.

By: Frollard

Frollard — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:58:47 +0000

Really if you look at ‘customers’ as ‘customers per hour’ it makes sense.

it is a rule that this graph truly applies.

By: SickleYield

SickleYield — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:52:07 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. I’m alone the whole afternoon, and suddenly at 4:45 there’s some twerp who wants a split-shot half-caff and a bagel with cream cheese toasted for EXACTLY two minutes and “Oh, would you put the cream cheese on for me? Sorry, could I have some more cream cheese? And this latte tastes funny.”

By: m.

m. — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:57:36 +0000

Good point.
I apologize!
Hope your graph makes it on sometime. :]

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:46:48 +0000

Not clear–are there more clients who seem to be annoying you, or are you annoying the clients?

By: DieNarrin

DieNarrin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:08:26 +0000

Think he/she/it could have solve the graphical problem by using times at the bottom of the graph…

8:00am – 12:00pm
1:00pm – 3:30pm
3:30pm – 4:00pm

Would have solved it and keep it funny

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:23:30 +0000

I, too, would like to see accurate, more humorous graphs. I submitted a lame graph and it did not get on so not all the lame ones get on. I do see your point, however.

By: b.

b. — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:20:56 +0000

I concur. A simple fix would be to turn it into a continuous line graph with a big spike at the end.

By: 216

216 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:56:47 +0000

I like the graph too. But one has to remember the purpose of a graph is to acurately convey an idea in a visual manner. This is not accurate.
I think the other issue is… we all submit graphs and they never seem to get on. The ones that do get on are often lame, unfunny and in this case…not tight. A lot of us want to know how ours get denied when these others don’t. It seems we’re all geeks and geeks take this kind of stuff quite serious.

By: Yore Mamma

Yore Mamma — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:56:03 +0000

first poster is right. it can’t both be funny and wrong. and since it’s wrong that overshadows the LOLness. TRY AGAIN!

By: 216

216 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:50:29 +0000

WHOA!
Good catch WIN.

By: m.

m. — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:40:28 +0000

trubl – why do you have to be a lol killer? you knew what was trying to be conveyed, no?

jaycee – how very, very true, sir/madame!

By: k.os

k.os — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:26:52 +0000

true. technical difficulties on the graph, maybe. but it’s funny because it’s so true….

By: turbl

turbl — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:20:50 +0000

umm, the second half of the shift includes the last 30 minutes, so its impossible for it to be smaller. fail?