I love my job, but I really get some ignorant things said/asked of me. Had about my highest day of stupid questions, so thought I'd post and see what else people deal with.

I'm a delivery driver, and some things are just common silly things "Is this package for me?". Just being silly/flirty, not really being stupid. BUT....

I get this ALL the time. Today was an all time HIGH. We have what we call driver release, which means we can drop the package on the porch without signature and go. It's funny how many people will come out the door after we've knocked/rang bell (some guys don't, I know) and yell "Hey, do I have to sign for this?". Hmmm, let's see, I left package and am in my truck getting ready to leave. What do you think? LOL This happens ALOT. Well, today was like every other delivery. I think the funniest thing along side this that ever happened was a customer actually jumped in her car and followed me. Came up along side me a block down the road and asked me if she needed to sign for her package. Sheesh.

Then, there comes the "Hey, what's in the box?". Hmmm, I deliver like 300+ packages a day, I have no idea what's in them. Unless by chance it's a Gateway box. I just deliver them. Then, they'll ask "Are you sure you don't know what's in it?". Hmmm, like I lied about not knowing in the first place. LOL

Just some stuff I think is funny. So what do customers/bosses ask you that is a no brainer???

One of my favorites is "So, do you fish?"...kinda obvious that I DO when I am standing behind the counter in a flyshop.

Said by an ex employee "I didn't do it, I didn't do anything!"

Most of what I get are excuses for why someone can't come to work. I think one of the best was "I am sick today because i drank too much sour milk" Hard to know just how to respond to that.

How about when you are leaving the river with a fish and you get the question "Did you catch that here?"

Actually, I ask the guys at the local fly shop "Do you fish around here?" It usually stumps them.

I was trying to help our local "should have retired years ago" worker on a problem with her computer. After much wrangling back and forth SHE came to the conclusion that she didn't have a keyboard. Of course she did, but when I asked her about "the thing you put your fingers on to type the letters into the computer" she was sure that she didn't have one.

While I was working at a tech support number for a local graphics software company we fielded an email from a VP of advertising for the NBA who was PISSED that every time he had to reinstall in operating system (he had a bunch of Macs) that he had to buy a new license of our product, as the number wasn't saved in the preferences file that he had backed up. He claimed that he had bought dozens of licenses because of this and he was SURE that we did it on purpose so that people would have to buy more copies each time. Of course he must have missed the part where the serial number that he needed was on the back of the manual (he would have had to find it to install it the first time), and if he would have done the free software registration that we would have the serial numbers on-hand for him.

Must be nice to have that kind of money at hand.

**adding another one**

As I'm replacing the monitor for a local: "Am I going to lose the data that I have stored in there?"

They must own an iMac.

After having a customers car for a week doing major repairs the customers come and picks up her vehicle. The next day she call up and informs us that we had STOLE her power steering.?? Ok, why don't you bring your vehicle by so we can take a look. She is very upset at this point. We take a look at the vehicle and she right there is no power steering. After further inspection found that her vehicle was not equiped w/ power steering from the factory!! Come to find out she had rented a caddy for the last week w/ power steering and got comfortable with it.

Overheard at work:

"Should we really be sending these kind of e-mails to each other?"

Guess where I work!

Steelheader,
I've hollered at them as they're getting back in their truck.

It used to be you had to sign something to get the package. I wasn't aware they changed policies and was trying to do the driver a favor.

I can't believe Fed Ex. They just drop computer parts over the gate at my brothers house and leave. Or they toss them under a tree in the yard.
Good thing it wasn't raining.

I worked retail for 6 years in a farm supply store. Wish I could remember the stupid things people asked.

Can I borrow your hammer?
Got a tape?
Can I use your cordless?
Have you ever set hollow metal door frames?
Are you union?
Who's your boss?
Does your boss treat you well?
Do you have to swing that door?
We never pin em to the floor.
You tap with a drill...we do em by hand!
Do you have anyone available...tommorrow?
You're going to have to figure out how to get em up there.
Can I get some tools on your Home Depot account?
I didn't chip that terrazo!
I drilled that 3/8ths hole on that wood door in the wrong spot.
Those steel doors sure do look heavy.
I thought we were ready for you.
Can you fix it?
We didn't factor that in.

FJ...out.

Geez sinker, UPS changed to driver release back in the late 70's, you're behind (or aging yourselff )

Dependiing on where you live dictates if you're required to sign. But, if we're in ouur truck driving away, we can leave it. lol. But on some of the rural routes I do, we leave them at gates and fenceposts per customer request. But, we normally will put them in a plastic bag first, not just leave under a tree.

Maybe it was just workin retail at a store that required it.
Not aging myself. Be turnin 30 next month

FJ,
Plumb? I had one for lunch?

Cleo...with some of the framing I've seen lately...they couldn't find the way to a fruit stand!

FJ...out.

Just remember that there are no stupid questions, just stupid people asking questions.

I work in a snowboard factory. Every once in a while, we get kids that show up on their bikes, knock on the door, and ask, "Do you guys have, like any free snowboards?"

Yeah, they sell in the retail shops for $450, but let me go grab one for you for free...

I used to work tech support for a commercial music company, and I don't miss it... trying to troubleshoot stereo systems with the manager of a Gap store or something similar... they had trouble FINDING the stereo, never mind troubleshooting it.

Dave Jackson's one reminded me of a computer tech support call I heard about... guy calls up and says the cupholder on his computer is broken... tech can't figure this one out, finally has the guy explain EXACTLY what it looks like, guy says "...and it says 48X on the front of it..." the guy had been using his CD tray for a cupholder.

-N.

Hang on, I'll continue as soon as I find my "any" key....

I had an assembler ask me what the diff. was between female and male wire terminations. "Well, uh, one side has a hole, and the other side has a long slender cylindrical thing that fits nicely into it...."

If they'd just think things through a LITTLE.

From my elementary teaching days-

Fifth grade sex ed questions:
What happens if the egg dies in the tomb?
Who has it harder, the man or the woman?

Test question:
Name one important thing the men of Jamestown Colony did in 1609?
Student answer: They made their own wives.

Student who had spent the entire noon recess building the classroom hamster a habitrail home:
Come and look, Hammy's got a new condom!!!

Student comment during Health discussion:
One morning my aunt woke up DEAD!

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