These are real people asking these questions???


"I wanted to see if my computer would read my credit card so i put it in the cd rom and it got stuck, how do i get it out?? I tryed toothpics but lost them in the process?? also the drive is making noises"


TIS

i hope these are people who just want to joke around...i hope

TIS, I surf over to Yahoo Answers a few times per week and actually supply answers to some of the more lucid questions. However, many of them are just as bizarre as these ones. Give it a try.

That list gave me some good laughs.

Went to Arby's with the folks yesterday. It wasn't even 5pm yet so it was empty; just one guy on line ordering. The manager was serving, another manager-type was doing some paperwork, and the cook was taking orders in addition to preparing the food.

It soon became apparent that everything was going soooooo slowly, and the manager appeared drunk not just to me, but to the other customer (and those who followed). He counted products very slowly, and aloud, placing them in bags. He put things in bags, walked around with them, placed them down, picked them up, walked them elsewhere -- had trouble getting orders together properly, had what appeared to be slurred speech because I couldn't understand him. After a while all the customers were getting quite agitated and couldn't believe it. Orders weren't getting out!

I was sure to catch the guy's name (and made a point of it), as did at least one other customer I chatted with who also planned to complain when we got home (via the online survey and/or phone). Before leaving, the cook was in the store for whatever reason so the other guy asked him what the manager's deal was. Apparently he's handicapped.

WTF??

Now is it supposed to be OKAY that service sucked to the point of total customer dissatisfaction just because they put this person on the front lines?? My mom's like, "are you still going to complain?" and I'm like hell yeah -- everyone should be treated equally, right?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for those with disabilities to have the same opportunities as everyone else: as long as they can perform those jobs with reasonable competence. I'm pretty sure the front counter of a fast food joint isn't the best "managerial" position for this particular person.

So I filled out the online survey and answered all the questions honestly and accurately. In the final comments I wrote


Not too harsh, right? Most people won't realize he's "slow" and are likely to be more harsh, perhaps even in person. It's GREAT that some companies give people opportunities that others companies may not, but they really should better match people's skills with the tasks at hand.

Or am I just a sonofabitch?

My Daughter and her hubby got me the GF trivia game for Christmas. No one wanted to play it against me. Do you think I'd get all the answers right and have an unfair advantage?

5 hours and no comment. Guess I'm just an asshole

So many possibilities here ......

Seriously though, if they offer an online survey, they should expect that it will be filled out HONESTLY. You did nothing wrong by answering as you did.

Geoff,

I'm with SC here. I don't think you did or said anything wrong. I too think it's great to have handicapped people do jobs they are capable of doing BUT, from a customer's viewpoint, you still deserve to be waited on in a timely manner. I would hate to see this person lose his job, but I blame whoever put him in this position if he's not capable. Or they could have at least, have someone working with him. If he wasn't drunk, but sounded drunk, some mean SOB will probably jump all over him. I'd wanna spare him that treatment.

TIS

I think you're OK, in fact maybe applauded. You may have done the guy and the company a favor. If he has a disability then maybe someone put him in a position that he can't perform, then that person is a bad manager. If he was drunk, then he needs help. YOu can't sweep those problems under the rug.

Hey, let's not go crazy here!

No. I would say you're more of a sonofabitch than an asshole.

The only thing I would have omitted was the phrase "as if he were drunk," but that would be because the lawyer in me tells me that that phrase would be inadmissable in court testimony within the context you've outlined.

I disagree. Given Geoff's history of drinking, he'd be considered an expert witness.

I don't think the jury would be sympathetic towards him. They'd probably think he was a sonofabitch not for ripping the mentally disabled worker, but for taking his parents out to Arby's for lunch.

Ha ha ha .....You guys are hilarious!!


So which is it? An SOB or an A-hole?



TIS

Just like Miller Lite Beer ("Less Filling ..... Tastes Great") the answer is: BOTH.

True. I'd even call him a bastard too.

I'm with Geoff (no surprise, considering how bitchy I can be regarding customer service). Did it occur to you that the cook was covering for his friend, knowing that he has a drinking problem?? "Um, he's developmentally disabled," sounds better than, "He's drunk off his ass."

With the way Geoff described it, it's very possible he was developmentally disabled. Not sure why he would be a manager though.

NEW YORK – Tavern on the Green, once America's highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song.

The former sheepfold at the edge of Central Park, now ringed by twinkling lights and fake topiary animals, is preparing for New Year's Eve, when it will serve its last meal. Just three years ago, it was plating more than 700,000 meals annually, bringing in more than $38 million.

But that astronomical sum wasn't enough to keep the landmark restaurant out of bankruptcy court. Its $8 million debt is to be covered at an auction of Baccarat and Waterford chandeliers, Tiffany stained glass, a mural depicting Central Park and other over-the-top decor that has bewitched visitors for decades.

Even the restaurant's name is up for grabs. At stake is whether another restaurateur taking over the 27,000 square feet of space, owned by the city, can reopen as Tavern on the Green.

Although I've never eaten there, mostly because I've read that the service and food has declined sharply over the years, it truly is a NYC landmark, and I was saddened to hear this.

Let the games begin: Survivalism Lite

They call themselves 'preppers.' They are regular people with homes and families. But like the survivalists that came before them, they're preparing for the worst. But about a year ago, Bedford's homemaking skills went into overdrive. She began stockpiling canned food, and converted a spare bedroom into a giant storage facility. The trunk of each of her family's cars got its own 72-hour emergency kit—giant Tupperware containers full of iodine, beef jerky, emergency blankets, and even a blood-clotting agent designed for the battle-wounded. Bedford started thinking about an escape plan in case her family needed to leave in a hurry, and she and her husband set aside packed suitcases and cash. Then, for the first time in her life, Bedford went to a gun range and shot a .22 handgun. Now she regularly takes her two young children, 7 and 10, to target practice. "Over the last two years, I started feeling more and more unsettled about everything I was seeing, and I started thinking, 'What if we were in the same boat?'" says Bedford, 49.

Bedford is what you might call a modern-day survivalist—or, as she describes it, a "prepper." Far from the stereotype of survivalists past, she owns no camouflage, and she doesn't believe that 2012—the final year of the Mayan calendar—will be the end of the world. She likes modern luxuries (makeup, air conditioning, going out to eat), and she's no doomsayer. But like the rest of us, Bedford watched as the housing bubble burst and the economy collapsed. She has friends who've lost their homes, jobs, and 401(k)s. She remembers Hurricane Katrina, and wonders how the government might respond to the next big disaster, or a global pandemic. And though she hopes for the best—the last thing she wants is for something bad to happen—she's decided to prepare her family for the worst. "We never set out to go build a bunker to protect ourselves from nuclear fallout; I have no idea how to camp in the wild," Bedford says, laughing. "But Lisa Bedford is what you'd imagine of a stereotypical soccer mom. She drives a white Tahoe SUV. An American flag flies outside her suburban Phoenix home. She sells Pampered Chef kitchen tools and likes to bake. Bedford and her husband have two young children, four dogs, and go to church on Sunday.all of this stuff started hitting closer to home, we [wanted] to take some steps to safeguard ourselves."

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital with chest pains on Wednesday, a Honolulu television station reported.

Paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort where Limbaugh is vacationing, KITV reported. The station, citing unnamed sources, said Limbaugh was taken to The Queens Medical Center in serious condition.

Me too. I thought I had had drinks there with my late brother, but it was Trader Vic's.

I have to update my death pool list for 2010. Thanks for the update. And, for the record, I wish Limbaugh well.

You're a better man than I am, Klyd .

Reports are that Limbaugh is doing okay.

damn...i mean thats great news

Isn't a certain amount of mental slowness REQUIRED for management level employees? It certainly seems that way in the company I work for. I would be more surprised if a manager WASN'T somewhat challenged..

Lilo, there is an old business axiom: Those who can, do. Those who can't, are the boss.