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Rachy
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I searchbared and was surprised to not find this so if it does exist, show me cause I'ld like to see it, otherwise here goes.

So I'm working front desk at a hotel until winter starts and I can not believe some of the things people ask.

With in the week I have gotten:

"How do I use the internet?"

"If you need to see a doctor, do you go to the hospital?"

"Have you ever been to Los Angeles or San Francisco?" (Mammoth is pretty much considered a suburb of LA. I don't know anyone here who hasn't been to one of those)

"Since you aren't going to hire me, can I have my resume back? It was my last one."

Guy calls and we talk a bit about the facility. I tell him our rate for Jan 19th - the 21st is $179 per night. He asks how he can get a $50 rate. I inform him that there is not one that exists. He then asks where in town he can get a $50 rate. I inform him of the youth hostel. He exclaims he is over 50 years old and could never stoop that low. He then asks what is the cheapest hotel at that time. I explain to him the Holiday Haus may be around $120 right now. He then says thats horse shit and hangs up the phone.

Anyone else get amazingly ignorant/ridiculous questions?
Sep 30 2009 12:20PM
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Malcolm
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hahaha
Sep 30 2009 12:37PM
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TechnoPotamus
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american:
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canadian:
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Sep 30 2009 12:51PM
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prontocuts.com
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working at keystone scanning for tickets at the gondola, we were split into three scanning lines

"Does this line get you to the same part of the mountain as that line?"
me "Nope, this one takes you to breck"
Sep 30 2009 1:04PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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I sold cell phones when I was in hs/college (right around the time that the wireless industry blew up) and I've heard some of the dumbest things imaginable...usually from old people.

Had an old woman bring me a cordless phone that was super old school with a retractable metal antennae and she wanted it activated as a cell phone. She couldn't understand why that wouldn't work & she "was going to find someone who knows what they're doing." -Great, have a nice day ma'am.

Had a guy come in one time and bitch about the fact that no one could call him on his cell phone. After calling his phone repeatedly & it working just fine, it finally came out that he was turning the phone off after he made phone calls because he didn't want the battery to die. He didn't seem to grasp the concept that the phone had to be on in order for him to receive phone calls. After all, calls came thru on his cordless phone when it was off, so why "didn't my piece of crap phone" work like that as well.

God, there are soooo many more. People are technologically retarded.
Sep 30 2009 1:15PM
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eastside
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bahahaha. mammoth is not a suburb of la. if mammoth is a suburb of la, then vermont is a suburb of nyc. infact, the whole north east would be a suburb of nyc.
Sep 30 2009 1:27PM
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b-kul
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lol @ the old lady.
Sep 30 2009 1:27PM
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Rachy
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Literally just had someone ask me which gas station has better gas? Shell or Chevron?

My answer:
I'm not a petroleum engineer, and both are the same price, but the Shell station is only 20 feet away.

My manager laughed.
Sep 30 2009 1:27PM
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Valind
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I had a customer say "my phone wont work"  I took the phone, turned it on, gave it back to the customer.  BOOM.  it worked.  Imagine that. 

Customer "Why did you turn off the tower near my home, i dont get service anymore"

Me "sorry about that sir, let me go in the back room and flip the switch to turn the tower back on"  must have hit it by accident.

Sep 30 2009 1:55PM
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Caveman.
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I'm an estimator/foremen for the fence building part of the company I work for meaning I have to meet with home owners, measure their lots, give them prices, etc... And I have met some fucking ass holes, some wierdos, and some really dishonest people.
Sep 30 2009 1:57PM
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Deletedtoday
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i worked at a sporting goods store. someone walks in and says


"you guys have sports stuff right?"
Sep 30 2009 2:04PM
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Rachy
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We refer to Mammoth as Orange County with snow. In that pretty much every person living here that moved here is from LA or orange county.

Hence why we joke of it as a suburb of LA. The S. Cal collegiate snowsports conference even competes in Mammoth and that is basically LA, OC, and SD. I have friends that are here every weekend in the winter from LA. So yeah..... Mammoth although 300 miles away, is basically just another suburb when no one seems to be bothered that it is a 4-5 hours drive.

4 hours drive in California is looked at far differently than 4 hours on the east coast considering it can take 4 hours during rush hour traffic to get from one end of LA to the other.
Sep 30 2009 2:06PM
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Tasche
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OK I get it. 4 hours on the west coast is not 4 hours on the east coast.

Its like what is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of iron.

Maybe you are that stupid person asking foolish questions...
Sep 30 2009 2:15PM
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Aaaron.
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four hours can get me 200 miles out side of DC.  4 hours from LA will get you into traffic
Sep 30 2009 2:22PM
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Tasche
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see now you are measuring in distance not time. My point is that 4 hours is 4 hours unless you are traveling the speed of light or near it.
Sep 30 2009 2:23PM
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Rachy
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That was unnecessary.

I live here. Most of the people I know that live here joke about it often because everyone gets out of their car still in flip flops and shorts.

If you live here and can tell me otherwise, then we clearly know far different people.

I thought it was funny that someone would ask me if I had been to LA (they were from LA). Anyone who lives in a smallish town has probably been to the nearest big city. Maybe in incredibly rural areas this is not the case, but in a town where LA, Reno, Las Vegas, and San Francisco are the biggest towns around and LA is the one we are associated with, yeah.... I've been to LA.
Sep 30 2009 2:26PM
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gbirrd
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k so i work the deli at independent near my house.

if anyone has worked deli they would know to slice up salami it takes for ever.  so this lady asked for 800 grams shaved paper thin....it took me at least 5- 10 minutes. after i did it all she said wow thats to much i only want 100.... after she saw me slice it all. then i swear her being soo dumb again asks for a different type of salami and same amount and same thickness. i asked are u sure 800 grams again? she said yes. soo i cut it all up AGAIN just for her to same the exact same thing. dumb people.

Sep 30 2009 2:28PM
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Abc567def
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I work as a photographer for a mountain and many ppl can't get over the concept that "no i will not give you free photos if you get a data version", them="why". Me "really, like really?"
Sep 30 2009 2:31PM
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Rachy
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I don't know anyone that measures distance with actual distance. When someone asks how soon can you be here and you say 20 minutes, you are measuring in time. That could be 20 miles or 1 mile.

So when a you can drive 300 miles in the same amount of time as you can drive 60 miles, that actual distance is no big deal and most of us would rather do that and end up in Mammoth than do that and end up at work or home.. Sadly most people in LA don't have the luxury of going to Mammoth every day and get stuck only doing it on the weekends.
Sep 30 2009 2:31PM
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Aaaron.
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i have spend half my life  20 minutes north of LA (agoura hills)  and half my life 20 minutes north of DC(Montgomery county).
commuting out here is a world apart from what is was out there.
Sep 30 2009 2:32PM
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Rachy
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I used to do the same.....

"Can you take a picture of us with our camera"

No, I cannot, but I will gladly take one with mine so you can look at it later and not buy it.

Management got so upset if would take pictures with their cameras cause we were missing potential customers. I usually gave in and took them anyway.... probably why i don't do that job anymore.
Sep 30 2009 2:36PM
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Tasche
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I was being facetious. And you are a tool.
Sep 30 2009 2:36PM
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eheath
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Valet job

I open the door, greet the man get his name etc.

As he's leaving i say "have a good dinner sir"

He replys "you too" and just leaves, unphased.


Fucking idiots.
Sep 30 2009 2:41PM
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Abc567def
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Did you ever have them come in and try and take a picture of the picture, there were so many times i wanted to slap a hoe in the face for coming in with her dumb friends and wanting to just walk photo to photo and take one of each. It took so long for them to understand that concept that that was actually stealing...
Sep 30 2009 2:53PM
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Tasche
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I do that all the time.

Maybe he just wanted you to have a nice dinner after you got off work.
Sep 30 2009 2:59PM
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Rachy
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All the time. So annoying.

Then they would come in and be like... can we see it closer up, can you zoom in on this... oh how does my hair look.. blah blah blah.

Then they walk away after making the people behind them that do want to purchase wait 10 minutes.




At the hotel, our credit card machine is about 6 feet from our computers that we use. So we have to walk to the other end of the counter when someone decides to change the credit card they are using to pay. I hate it when they follow me down the counter and stand there while I do it and then follow me back to the computer so I can check them out. Seriously, do you think I am going to steal your credit card number? You have no clue what I am entering into this box right now, so why are you following me?!
Sep 30 2009 3:01PM
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ChipSki
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I worked in a Pizza Restaurant/ ice cream shop this summer. I lost count of how many people asking me how big an 18" pizza was. I usually said either "it is between 17 and 19 inches" or "Pie(9)^2". Some people are so dumb
Sep 30 2009 3:11PM
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eheath
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Then you're a moron.


And i worked til like midnight. He did not want me to have a good dinner after work, he was just mentally handicapped and can't have a conversation with a valet attendant.
Sep 30 2009 3:13PM
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Rachy
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thats when you say.

Sesquipedalian.
Sep 30 2009 3:17PM
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sarahskis
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Lady with stroller comes into the coffee shop and starts talking about how smart her kid is. 

her - "now, i know im a very intelligent person, gifted really, but not many people know about the salmon trick."
Me - "Did it have to do with eating a lot of salmon?"
her - "OH MY GOD!  your mother must have eaten a lot of it during her second trimester, i can tell.  It makes your brain grow real big"
me - "Woah, freaky."
 
Sep 30 2009 3:36PM
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lineskier10
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why would he want to have a conversation with a fatty like you though? and i do that shit all the time, i expect someone to say have a good one or something so i just say you too, but then when you realize someone said something different that you too doesnt work with and you just feel like an idiot and walk away, its mad awkward to walk back and say i didnt mean you too i meant something else
Sep 30 2009 3:43PM
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Tasche
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Ya I guess I am usually too busy doing other shit like going to dinner or paying for my goods to give a shit what some fat valet said to me.

But most of the time I have a canned response to people and you too is usually the shortest form.
Sep 30 2009 3:45PM
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Pee_and_Ski
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some lady asked if theyre is soy in the soy bean oil my worrk uses

iv also been asked in the winter is it bad to walk on cement with skis on and is it damaging my skis to have theire shithead of a kid heal stomp them with ski boots on

Sep 30 2009 3:51PM
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Frank_Spinatra
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I had a guy come up to me at the lobby bar in beaver creek a week after the season ended with skis in hand asking me why the lifts were shut down today
Sep 30 2009 4:19PM
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skithesprings
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how do you know he was going in for dinner?  you made an assumption. perhaps he did too.

Sep 30 2009 4:19PM
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Malcolm
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once i wished someone happy birthday and they said you too haha
Sep 30 2009 9:00PM
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Mr.Panda
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I worked for the City of Bellingham and I used to wear the coveralls supplied to me by the city and that even has a patch on it that says "City of Bellingham".  Well, anyways, I am out in the town working, the city truck is parked right near me with the City of Bellingham seal on the side and this guy walks up and is like:

"DO YOU WORK FOR THE CITY?!"
I kinda look down at my coveralls towards the patch and am like
"No, why?"
"WELL, IF YOU SEE A CITY EMPLOYEE TELL THEM TO MOVE THE TRUCK!!!!!  ITS MAKING THE STREET LOOK UNCLASSY!"
Sep 30 2009 9:05PM
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Crack.
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i work in a pharmacy and the most popular question is..

"well why won't the insurance pay for." I get this probably 10 times a night and I just kindly say "well I don't know ma'am, I don't work for the insurance company."
Sep 30 2009 9:20PM
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.jr
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Im not sure whats funnier..

the fact the valet is calling the successful man an idiot,
the fact that you think he cared about his conversation with you,
the fact that you think "unphased" is a word, 
or the fact that you just acted like you didn't have dinner that night!

Fucking idiots.
Sep 30 2009 9:52PM
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Deletedtoday
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hahaha
Sep 30 2009 11:46PM
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m3mike02
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Had a customer last week writing a check "where am I again?"

another classic, "30 dollar oil change?!?! well thats just bullshit!" It took everything I had not to bust out laughing in his face.

Sep 30 2009 11:59PM
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Billek
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Yummy.

I like The Heath though, stop being mean.
Oct 1 2009 12:00AM
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.jr
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ha that panda told me to go own noobs in nsg, so thats what I am doing.
Oct 1 2009 12:22AM
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Mr.Panda
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Is this a reference to me?  Or a different panda?  I'm confused now.
Oct 1 2009 12:28AM
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.jr
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panda = eheath

you = Mr. Panda
Oct 1 2009 12:39AM
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Mr.Panda
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Goddamnit i got fucking confused.  Don't DO THAT TO ME!
Oct 1 2009 12:40AM
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hotdog.garbage
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might want to check member numbers before you call out noobs
Oct 1 2009 12:53AM
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PacificRimJob
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Mammoth is directly east of San Francisco, so how could it be a suburb of LA??

;P

Oct 1 2009 12:56AM
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caucasian_chad
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Well I work at mcdonald's which is one of the best places for stupid questions.  I work in the grill though so I just hear about them from other people.

Some recent highlights:
Customer:  Is the Parfait on the Dollar Menu?
Employee:  Yes
Customer:  How Much is it?
Employee:  Ummmmmmm a dollar...

Another customer got all pissed off because the thought a mcchicken MEAL was a dollar, we had to kick her out.

Today, someone asked if we have 'Extra Large' shakes.

You'd be surprised how many people don't know our menu.  I thought most people had a pretty good idea what's on it.
Oct 1 2009 1:02AM
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k-rob
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i had a drunk guy ask me if i was gonna "fuck the group of cougars in the booth over there" and he asked me if i was black and i said i was half black and he said "once you go black you never go back" as if it had something to do with anything.
countless people would walk past the washroom, look at the door, and then come over to me and ask where the washroom was. i guess the stickpeople on the doors weren't obvious enough.
people asking me when their drinks were coming as if it was my job to know, therefore making it my job to go to the bar and get their drinks, therefore making the people who were supposed to get their drinks all peeved with me for doing their job better than they could.
oh and co-workers looking at the schedules to see who could work their shifts, then asking me if i could work a shift for them, when it was a shift that i was already put down to be working anyways so i clearly couldn't take theirs.
Oct 1 2009 1:08AM
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