Ok so I wrote this rant years and it still holds true to this day, people never learn. I need content and I’m a bit on the hughover side (fun last night 
) so this is a copy and paste from my bebo page written over a year and a half ago.
As the title says how not to piss me off in work (this is not directed at friends but is more of a rant than anything).
1) Don’t complain about the price of things after you’ve used a non-essential service, i.e. an Internet Café. No the price shouldn’t be what you think it should be, the price is what it’s displayed ON THE PRICE LIST, the same thing you checked when you came in!
2) Wait your bloody turn, I can only do one thing at a time. Don’t demand that I go help you especially when i’m busy with another customer.
3) Please don’t try to argue that after an hour you couldn’t log into your email and therefore you shoudln’t have to pay, no matter how many times you shout or raise your voice.
4) When wearing headphones try and remember that you don’t have to shout when talking to the person next to you.
5) Just because I work in an Internet Cafe doesn’t mean it’s ok to wander off the street and ask me what is the best broadband provider, how much they charge and what speeds they have. Do you walk into a shoe shop and ask who their supplier is and how much they charge? I thought not.
I have no problem giving advice to people I have seen at least once or twice before but not just random people.
6) Nobody wants to hear your music. Especially from a mile away, if ya want to go deaf you’re on the way. They’re personal music players, I do not want to hear your thumping dance music, I get enough of it from the passing cars. And what the hell is with that squeaky voice dance crap?
7) Pen + Monitor + Idiot = Angry Rob
Chairs are for sitting on oddly enough. Balancing on one leg is fantastic, until you fall over and try to claim for being an idiot. (The braindamage was there before they fell over, I swear.)
9) I am not a low cost babysitter. Don’t even think about leaving your kids here unattended, while you go off shoe shopping. I’ll call the social welfare people.
10) Last but not least, do you think it’s acceptable to be looking up porn in a public place? Well here’s a hint, it isn’t.
This has been an AngryBob Industries PSA
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i sympathise, people are always asking me about the best broadband providers too!
Yeah it’s flippin stupid, you’re there to sell what you have in your shop, I know people want to know which is the best etc.. you can’t really badmouth the providers service you’re selling or tell them to buy someone other companies services.
Ditto! Quite annoying indee!
What can you do? It’s not like shooting the morons is an option, anyways. No matter how much I wish it were… ^_^
Yeah, just cause you work in a web cafe doesnt mean you’re gonna dispense tech support advice to random strangers for free. Give em your hourly rate I say. Ever ask a doctor or dentist for advice out of hours. They just dont help…>
Try running a pub…
* Why do you pay me by thrusting a pile of coins (mostly coppers) towards me in the expectation that I’ll count it for you? The common excuses… “I just want to de-shrapnelise myself”… “ah sure it’s all money, isn’t it?”… Yes, sure it is – but count it your bloody self and give me the proper change. You wouldn’t do that in Tesco, would you?
* Oh you’re an expert on kegs, gas systems, beer lines and taps, tills, glass washers, etc. etc. are you? You know everything about everything and feel that you should point out what I’m doing wrong and I’ll appreciate you giving me your expert opinion on how to do my job? Join the queue. Everyone’s an expert, as they say.
* Much as I’d like to say “don’t bother quoting law to me, I’ve heard it all before”, I know you will anyway, and you’ll be wrong. The amount of times I’ve been told that I have to accept certain ID or I can’t refuse people service or throw them out because they’re special or “it’s the law!” is crazy. “Look, I’m studying this, I know the law well and it says…” … “look, I’m the manager, and I said feck off.”
Thanks for all the comments guys, think I’m gonna enjoy this whole blogging thing
I think anyone who has worked at anything for a while has niggling things that customers do, and the worst kind are the people who think they know everything, I sure as hell know I piss off eircom when I have to call about line/connection problems, they don’t seem to like people who have done the basic checks, like making sure the modem’s plugged in etc..
But I do cringe when I’m in a pub and someone starts spouting off about how the pressure is low, or there’s a millimeter more head in the pint than there should be. It’s a pint for feck sake, also you have to accept my ID, I printed it myself! Out of interest, what ID is “legally” accepted, I’d assume passport, garda age card, driving license?
Those three are supposed to be accepted, yes- but a pub can still, of course, refuse entry and claim that they believed the ID was forged.
haha great post, can actually relate, i work in a tinterweb cafe too and you really hit the nail on the head.
Good luck with the blog, il be subbing!
Ben
Cheers Ben
Still sorting out my own subs and feeds, but will be addin ya. trying to decide on a program / option for reading feeds. Using google reader atm, but it seems a little too rigid, anyone got a suggestion?
Good job Rob!
Hey there’s Simon…
Hi Simon!