Please STOP! (pet peeves that drive me crazy!) — Page 4

A variant of the post w people stopping to text at the top of stairs. Stopping at the top of escalators. I just flew home and the number of nit wits who stopped to look around while the rest of us behind WHO CAN'T STOP cos we are on a moving staircase get jammed up is nearly criminal. SO many people bumping and nearly falling. If u need to get your bearings take a step to the side for crying out loud.

Updated On: 12/13/15 at 12:51 PM

What about the people who act like the line to get onto the plane is the line for free tickets to Cher's final farewell concert? I get that people want overhead space for their bags but, goodness. Take a chill pill. I sit down until the plane is almost totally boarded. We are all going to the same place and WE ALL HAVE ASSIGNED SEATS. No need to push and shove your way to the front. I'd rather not spend an extra 15 minutes on the plane waiting anyway. I also always see people who try to get into an earlier group and get sent away by the person scanning tickets because their group number hasn't been called yet. It always baffles and amuses me.

You picked up their cigarette butts from the gutter. SMH

Is that worse behavior then them throwing it there? :)

They could stop smoking on the street? It's so disgusting to get stuck behind a smoker on a busy sidewalk and it's blowing into your face.

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Agree with the airport line. I did wait at my gates for a bit. Only because I had nothing else to do. But, I never rushed to be 1st in line. Especially since they were calling by sections.

I guess working in retail has definitely been an eye opener for customer service. Like I have been helping customers a couple of times and then you get the 1 who thinks they are so much more important and expects you to drop what you are doing to help them. I don't mind helping, it's just nicer if people were more patient and waited their turn. And also against popular belief, we don't just pull rules out of our asses to piss you off. If we tell you something, it's what we know. And the times I do happen to be wrong, I do apologize. I have no secret agenda. It just amazes me how a lot of rudeness is unjustified.

In the past, I would never rush to board a plane. In fact, I preferred to hold off as long as possible to avoid having to sit there while everyone boarding would bump into me. However, twice it happened that there was no room in the overhead baggage compartments for my bag, and it had to be checked. Now I DO try to board as soon as possible.

Artman, All the time! If you watch, people try to put their bags in the very first overhead space, no matter where they sit.

I don't mind having my bag gate-checked, if need be. First off, you don't have to pay a ridiculous fee. Also, if your bag is gate-checked, nine times out of 10 it is waiting at the gate, so you don't have to deal with the baggage carousel. What is the downside? You don't really need your suitcase with you on the plane; if there is something in your suitcase you can't live without, you can remove it.

Since we are talking customer service and retail, here is another pet peeve of mine. Clerks who give service to the person over the phone instead of the person in front of them. When I worked retail, we were taught you take care of the person in front of you, because that was a for sure sale. The person on the phone may never come into the store.

This pisses me off, too. It happened to me recently: I stood at a register for 10 minutes while the clerk talked to a customer on the phone, only barely acknowledging me. In the end, I walked out in frustration and she lost out on a pretty nice commission (it was a high-end men's store here in Manhattan).

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Updated On: 12/14/15 at 04:41 PM

I like when you tell them not to call anymore and they ignore you

Another good one is when you pick up and you get a dial tone. Wait a minute - a telemarketer that hangs up on itself. I think I am on to something here

The telemarketers call several numbers at once. When one of them picks up, the rest are hung up on.

When a telephone customer service rep hasn't helped whatsoever then asks at the end of the call "Is there anything else I can help you with?."

My other peeve are those recorded customer service directories....press 1 for orders, press 2 to upgrade....press 12b but only when the moon is full and a rep may be with you shortly but you're better off going to the website. And then after I have lapsed into a coma waiting, another recording comes on asking if I'd be willing to take a survey after the call. ??