[Misc] What would you do?

[Weststander]

Yeah it would have to come across sincere. They'd have to make me believe that they knew they were being cheeky, and knew I was doing them a big favour.

When I was a teenager I used to work in a supermarket. Customers who asked me politely/nicely if we had stuff in the warehouse, I would look after. I'd go check, and if it was out of stock I'd find out when it was due back in.
If someone was rude to me, I would pretend to check the warehouse, and leave them standing by the door. I'd go out of another door, go back to what I was doing and leave them standing there.
It's all about how you ask.

I’ve worked with people who are incredibly rude/aggressive over the phone to people just doing their job eg HMRC staff. I loved it as they never seemed to get anywhere, adding to the beetroot faced anger.

Whereas being polite and respectful in my experience gets you a long way.

 

[Weststander]

I can picture the scene.....
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From 4:35, footage from the Brighton line buffet car.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

When I was a teenager I used to work in a supermarket. Customers who asked me politely/nicely if we had stuff in the warehouse, I would look after. I'd go check, and if it was out of stock I'd find out when it was due back in.
If someone was rude to me, I would pretend to check the warehouse, and leave them standing by the door. I'd go out of another door, go back to what I was doing and leave them standing there.
It's all about how you ask.

During my teenage years serving tables in a hotel restaurant we did something similar, a particular favourite were the arrogant ones who complained about an aspect of the meal, it doesn't look right or it is not hot enough, whereupon us waiters would return to the kitchen with the plate, rearrange the position of one or two potatoes and take the same meal straight back out - amazingly enough they seemed very satisfied with the 'new' dish. They would do this all week and then not bother tipping you at the end. Bastards

 

[simonl]

Offer to takethe Minutes in exchange for a coffee.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Join in, and make lots and lots of very useful contributions - despite knowing absolutely nothing about the issues.

Oi ! I made a lifelong career out of that

But the right answer is a proper Gallic shrug followed by ignoring them completely

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Join in, and make lots and lots of very useful contributions - despite knowing absolutely nothing about the issues.

You are Rishi Sunak and I claim my five pounds worth of premium bonds.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'd take out my phone, pretending to have received a call (on vibro mode), and then shoo her away, like she's a nuisance chugger, while talking inane bollocks very loudly to my imaginary colleague.

I have done this on numerous occasions when noisy twats are annoying me on the train to work.

 

[Baldseagull]

I'd take out my phone, pretending to have received a call (on vibro mode), and then shoo her away, like she's a nuisance chugger, while talking inane bollocks very loudly to my imaginary colleague.

I have done this on numerous occasions when noisy twats are annoying me on the train to work.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Yeah it would have to come across sincere. They'd have to make me believe that they knew they were being cheeky, and knew I was doing them a big favour.

When I was a teenager I used to work in a supermarket. Customers who asked me politely/nicely if we had stuff in the warehouse, I would look after. I'd go check, and if it was out of stock I'd find out when it was due back in.
If someone was rude to me, I would pretend to check the warehouse, and leave them standing by the door. I'd go out of another door, go back to what I was doing and leave them standing there.
It's all about how you ask.

Everyday I used to tell people it was my first day so I couldn’t possibly know

 

[dazzer6666]

Join in, and make lots and lots of very useful contributions - despite knowing absolutely nothing about the issues.

Classic NSC behaviour

 

[Pevenseagull]

I'd probably go and get another coffee and a big cake, eat with my mouth open and cough a lot.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I'd take out my phone, pretending to have received a call (on vibro mode), and then shoo her away, like she's a nuisance chugger, while talking inane bollocks very loudly to my imaginary colleague.

I have done this on numerous occasions when noisy twats are annoying me on the train to work.

Is that the live equivalent of your ignore list?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Is that the live equivalent of your ignore list?

Yep.

Militant's slogan was 'no compromise with the electorate'.

Mine is 'no compromise with the illiterate, the intellectually incontinent, and ****s'. Fact.

Hope you are keeping reasonably cheerful in trying times.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Take the minutes then leave them your bill.

I'd hope I'd stay put and have something to hand to take notes on. Notes on the phone would probably do it. Followed by a fake call to my 'boss' debriefing them on our rival firm's important call.

I'd probably just sit there with a new coffee loudly coughing and banging the table though.

However, I'd probably be submitting this tweet for Twitter / X's "didn't happen of the year" award.

 

[Justice]

Many years ago I was on a packed train back from London and took a seat in the buffet car at a table. The other blokes on the table got out some green baize to start playing cards across my space and another bloke was stood over me to join in.

At this point, I opened my briefcase to get out my Walkman (this was the 80s) and a book but the first thing that the others on the table could see was the large, fixed blade Stanley knife I had with me as I had been working with coax cables. At this point, I received some rushed apologies for taking my space and they abandoned their card game.

‘ Have you meet Stanley ‘ said in a Scouse accent

 

[Eeyore]

I’ve worked with people who are incredibly rude/aggressive over the phone to people just doing their job eg HMRC staff. I loved it as they never seemed to get anywhere, adding to the beetroot faced anger.

Whereas being polite and respectful in my experience gets you a long way.

I have to bite my tongue with HMRC.

When I was made redundant I was given a secondary payment that was regarded as capital and not income under law. I had my benefits stopped. I called them and was told that I wasn't eligible. It was only when I quoted their own rules at them, via their own online pages, that it was referred and the benefits were re-instated. I was rather annoyed as other folk might not have known the law and lost out on a lot of much needed cash. That's not the only problems I've had with them not knowing their own rules. A bit like when my Dad received a bill for Mum's pension being taken out after she died. He hadn't been taking it out at all, he just hadn't stopped it. I was fuming because another elderly person without the support of a son or daughter might have panicked.

I'm never rude and aggressive. I once did wrote the transcript of one of my many conversations with HMRC after I was out of work for a few months. This felt like all the conversations:

Me: I need a P45 for my new employers
Universal Credit: We don't issue them.
Me: How is my new employer going to know what the correct tax code is then ?
Universal Credit: We can issue a letter confirming your Universal Credit entitlement.
Me: That won't give them the correct historical figures. So what do I do here ?
Universal Credit: I don't know....

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

And what’s the deal with Seinfeld, surely?

What's the deal with it being HD despite originally broadcast in the 90s? Similarly, The Avengers way back in the 60s?

 

[jcdenton08]

What's the deal with it being HD despite originally broadcast in the 90s? Similarly, The Avengers way back in the 60s?

And what’s the deal with airline food anyway?

 

[Giraffe]

This EXACT situation happened to me just last week. To be fair, I was sat alone at a table for four people. The three remaining chairs were the only ones available in this coffee bar in a hotel. Two guys sat down and said do you mind. I said no. The third joined a few minutes later and said, “sorry mate but we need to have a confidential chat”. I assumed he thought I was the interloper so just went with it as a spare table had come up anyway. I did wonder what the first two must have thought though! So I voted I’d love, because I did!

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I have to bite my tongue with HMRC.

When I was made redundant I was given a secondary payment that was regarded as capital and not income under law. I had my benefits stopped. I called them and was told that I wasn't eligible. It was only when I quoted their own rules at them, via their own online pages, that it was referred and the benefits were re-instated. I was rather annoyed as other folk might not have known the law and lost out on a lot of much needed cash. That's not the only problems I've had with them not knowing their own rules. A bit like when my Dad received a bill for Mum's pension being taken out after she died. He hadn't been taking it out at all, he just hadn't stopped it. I was fuming because another elderly person without the support of a son or daughter might have panicked.

I'm never rude and aggressive. I once did wrote the transcript of one of my many conversations with HMRC after I was out of work for a few months. This felt like all the conversations:

Me: I need a P45 for my new employers
Universal Credit: We don't issue them.
Me: How is my new employer going to know what the correct tax code is then ?
Universal Credit: We can issue a letter confirming your Universal Credit entitlement.
Me: That won't give them the correct historical figures. So what do I do here ?
Universal Credit: I don't know....

A Pedant writes:

Universal Credit is operated by the DWP, not HMRC ....