Stupid stuff wot customers said, innit.

This is a small collection of quotes, questions and general enquiries that I heard while working over Christmas, at other jobs, and just recently. However, I will probably end up updating this as more occur to me. I submit these to the jury, only to show that the customer is not always right: *** Customer: [...]

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Aw, Bless

Today, I am happy. Having a few days of nothing to speak of meant that I was able to move on to the hellish medium level of Guitar Hero (suddenly, having to use my little finger to press the blue means that my hands are even more painful), catch up on the epic Pratchett season [...]

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“Can I hear a ‘Wa-hey!’ from this corner of the room?”

Because of the Christmas work that I did, and despite all of the necessary, tedious ‘only being able to get a part time job’ stuff… I have officially made it out of my overdraft! Yay! Of course, it’s not by much, and I’m not saying how much, and all of that malarky (largely as my [...]

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Que Sera Sera…

Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours, to see Que Sera, Sera So, it looks like that my time at my Christmas job will be ending this week. While it’s a shame to have to leave the job that I rather enjoyed, what I will miss is the friends that [...]

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You know when you are working over Christmas when…

You can go to work, walk past a busy shop floor full of people whilst wearing your work top, and never get asked a question. However, the moment that one person queries you for something, you have 4 or 5 people try to interrupt you. You develop a personal relationship with the till.In fact, you [...]

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Fourth time to prove successful?

1st Test: 13 Minors, 2 Serious (Which stank, no matter what way you choose to look at it) 2nd Test: 6 Minors, 4 Serious (Which is better, but likely equals out the same in the scheme of things) 3rd Test: 11 minors, 1 Serious (Which just makes me ever-so-slightly annoyed)     What is getting [...]

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Waiting for Scampi

Waiting for Scampi is like waiting for Godot, but with more breadcrumbs. I have quite a few things to wait for at the moment. For one thing, I’m now an applicant for teacher training, as I sent in my form a few weeks ago. This means I am now waiting for them to respond, and [...]

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All work and no play makes me… feel pretty productive.

“What have you been doing to wile away the hours, Graduatecalling?”   1. Work. This past fortnight has largely consisted of me jumping feet first into the explored yet still unchartered world of Christmas employment, but in an entirely positive and confidence building way. I deliberately state this-seemly obvious-fact as I have been part of [...]

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So you know…

I am actually over the jetlag now. I am now working overtime at the Christmas job, and honest to God I have not had the time to sit down and just type. I’m taking the fact that I have no spare time and struggle to not fall asleep on the bus as a good thing, [...]

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