crowny2 - 2007-09-21 9:02 AM
Rynamite - 2007-09-21 10:23 AM
I'm trying to decide which are worse, the lightbulb salesmen, or the packaging supplies salesmen. They think they're so tricky with their premeditated sales pitches. A packaging guy just called... and asked the secretary for the person in charge of shipping supplies. When they don't know who to give it to, they give it to me. So here's how the convo went:
"Hello, this is Ryan"
"Is this Ryan?
"That's why I answered the phone that way"
"Ryan we're getting our fall catalogs read to ship and I want to verify the information, are you still located at blah blah blah"
"Yes"
"We're sending out our thank you gifts, would you like an AM/FM walkman, or a leather organizer? It's a free gift, our way of saying thank you."
"Organizer"
"Ok great, I'll get that sent out at no charge (then he talks fast and quiet) with a small purchase... blah blah blah. I want to verify the spelling of your last name."
"How do you have it spelled?"
"Actually, I don't have your last name on file"
"Exactly, you're not going to either. Don't bother sending your catalog" CLICK.
That's a nice one! I like your style. I'll have to remember that.
I've got a question, though, slightly unrelated. Why are people so stupid?
Background: I talk to a potential client who needs to send a new product in for probiotic testing (you know, like the good bugs in yogurt). We exchange a few emails, agree on price, blah, blah, blah. She tells me they are coming (September 7th). I thank her for the heads up.
Fast forward to today. I get an email from her saying that she is disappointed in the lack of attention provided her. I ask for the shipping number. She provides it. After some research, we find out that they sent their product, in another company's container, shipped from a generic shipping store, with no identification in the box, nothing to identify it at all that it is hers, that it came from her, anything. I email back this information. She then has the gaul to ask for compensation in the new product she is going to have to make and ship to me?!?!?! Are you kidding me???? Lady, this company has over 4000 clients in the US alone! My facility receives sometimes upwards of 100+ samples, for analysis, a day! Just because you are a dolt and didn't put any identification in the package at all and now I have to compensate you for your idiocy?!?!?! F**K U!
Edit to add she is from Beverly Hills.
She's SoCal. That explains everything.
The Blonde is NorCal and everyone up here HATES SoCal. They take our water. We should be charging them 80 grand a gallon. Even better, we should take a few nukes and blow the faults at Santa Barbara and install anti-aircraft missiles.
Northern California thinks Southern California is full of idiots... and we're right