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Get back down to your wine cellar Bernard and find another

Could I book a table in the corner for me and the good lady, tomorrow evening, say around 8:00 pm for 8:30pm. If you could have a glass, sorry bottle of cabernet sauvignon waiting to go with a medium ribeye.......

I could certainly do with a nice relaxing table in the corner after today...

Spent most of the afternoon and various phone calls to a customer working out the best prices on over £1000 worth of stock (at the their normal RRP prices). When it finally came to the customer deciding that we were the best deal in the country I told them that their £300 deposit would become non-refundable once the goods were ordered. Soon changed their mind they did. Then they chewed my ear off saying how I should run the business and that it was stupid to think they should be prepared to pay £300 without having first got the goods.

Bearing in mind this is stock we don't normally have on the shelves and it's standard company practice to require deposits on non-stock items. Still, I was told how I should run the business and how they had (of course) been in business before and knew all about it...

This was on top of the dozens of jobs I didn't get time to do because of the time wasted with the customer and the fact that more and more jobs kept piling up throughout the afternoon.



Oh, and I cut my lunch break down in order to keep things running smoothly...


... and then I never got a break in the afternoon...


... and then I stayed over extra late to sort stuff out...


... and it's still not all finished...


... hohum...

I think you have certainly earned your mellow time today.

That's the kind of customer I've always been tempted to suggest a competitor to.
They're going to be trouble right up to the solicitors letter and possibly beyond.
I had one that used to phone up once in a blue moon and say things like "what discount did we agree on the last time we spoke?" and if you were daft enough to rack your brain they'd let you query them for a while and then say "I think it was a young lady I spoke to"..... er...lol

I presume they never go on holiday because you have to pay a deposit and then the balance before you get the goods/holiday

'Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm'

I got my finger stuck in a bank deposit box yesterday. Just wanted to share.

scooterchick wrote:I got my finger stuck in a bank deposit box yesterday. Just wanted to share.

Thanks for sharing.. Hope it isn't hurt?
You have a text..

Zeb wrote:

scooterchick wrote:I got my finger stuck in a bank deposit box yesterday. Just wanted to share.

Thanks for sharing.. Hope it isn't hurt?
You have a text..

Oh so I have.....just my pride is hurt

Ah....you were there for some time then?

it was about 5 mins. which is a long time when you think the fire brigade will have to attend! just as the bak manager went off to get some soap I managed to tease my knuckle free. I saw stars just in sheer panic. did you get my replies? the first one didn't send, so I had to try again

No, I just got 'try again' thought you meant mine had been messed up so resent!

you have mail

YOu have a reply..

So do you.........

Ha! So do you! Go sort that baby!

He's sorted he still likes a midnight snack and I'm it.

scooterchick wrote:He's sorted he still likes a midnight snack and I'm it.

TMI!!!!!

What's going on? What a fuss in the mellow room!

I've just been looking for a quiet place ...