Funny link!

[magog_83]

Just spotted this on Cracked.com and was vastly amused :D :D :D

28 great movies from the perspective of minor characters

My favourite is definitely the Indiana Jones one!

Ugh. Work was long today. I feel like I need to send a letter to all Tesco customers to remind them that if they want cash back, they must WAIT FOR ME TO ADD IT. I am not wired into the mainframe. The act of saying their request out loud and me hearing it does not automatically communicate their request to their bank and have it approved. At the very least, if they persist in asking for cash back and immediately jamming their card into the machine before I've so much as blinked, they could at least not look at me like I'm an incompetant idiot when I have to ask them to remove it so I can put it through the til. COME ON, PEOPLE.

Also, a lady had a dog called Merlin :D Apparently it's not very well behaved. OF COURSE IT ISN'T.

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[jamie15.livejournal.com]

HAHA! :D Oh, that is brilliant - I've got to admit, I probably don't even get half of those (... I'm not that knowledgable on movies ...) but I LOVE the Harry Potter one! And the Lord of the Rings! But I agree with you, the one about Indiana Jones is great too! :)

Aww, poor you! *hugs* I guess, the only thing that I can say is that most people probably REALLY don't understand what it's like to sit behind the cash desk ... but that doesn't give them the right to be so inconsiderate, of course! People are getting more and more impatient these days ...

Finally, having read so many fics that have Merlin reincarnated as a dog ... :D!

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that when I watch Indiana Jones! Like that bit in one of the films when all his students are waiting to speak to him about their essays and he climbs out of the window and runs away. We're probably supposed to think "Go Indy!" but instead I just feel annoyed on behalf of all his students with essay deadlines. They're trying to get their degrees after all!

Most people in Tesco are very nice, but SOME OF THEM... Sometimes it does feel a little like they're looking down on you, which drives me crazy because they don't know anything about you and working at a supermarket doesn't make you less important than them :/

I love dog Merlin! And that cat Arthur fic where Merlin has to put him in the bath at the end and he's all yowling and betrayed :D :D

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love it when people look down on you and they have no idea about your life. I once had some lady condescendingly tell me about dinner rolls shaped like little loaves of bread and she was asking if our bakery made them (I was working in a bakery). I told her I had no idea what she was talking about and she was telling me they served them in high end restaurants. I wanted to laugh in her face and tell her I'd probably eaten in fancier restaurants than she had, but alas, I was just a stupid server and she was a customer.

I usually have great sympathy for workers at jobs like this, having done this sort of work myself.

Dog!Merlin makes me chuckle:D

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I had a man two weeks ago who made some comment about 'young people' not being able to do mental arithmetic anymore, and how in his day they'd had to work out pounds, shillings and pence (our old currency). He said "I bet you don't even know what they are, do you?" and I cheerfully said that actually I did, because I'd done early modern history at uni and had to learn all the old currency systems for my research. Then he smiled at me really condescendingly and said "and yet here you sit". I couldn't believe how rude he was! I really hate snobbery.

I think that whatever job I end up doing, hopefully my archivist job, I will always respect people who work in retail because it can be pretty thankless.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Augh! I hate that no-win situation feeling that people put one in. Fah on that stupid bloke.

What is your current currency? I remember visiting England in 1989 and using pounds, shillings, and pence.

*crosses fingers for an archivist job for you* Do you have something lined up? That would be great!

[jamie15.livejournal.com]

When I was working in the library last summer there was this one co-worker who was really snobby, too. He must have been about fifty, really had no idea about his own job (that he had, oh what, only been doing for twenty years?) and was really condescending to me too. He said the same thing to me and then gave me a problem to solve just to prove his superiority, I expect. How unlucky for him that I was actually able to solve it ... :D

I think it really is thankless - and then people wonder why people in retail always look so unhappy when they're working.

[blondielox.livejournal.com]

I only got the Indiana Jones and the Lord of the Rings posters... And here I thought I watched a lot of movies.

Can you add the customers of Asda to that letter, too, plz?? Ugh. The amount of people that keep doing exactly what you just described, or just putting their card in and typing their PIN without me even pressing the key on the till to enable them to pay by card is ridiculous. And then they act affronted when I ask them to retype their PIN... *throws hands up in despair*

My (future) sister-in-law wants to call her dog Merlin, if she gets one. Which means I wouldn't be able to call mine Merlin. D= She thinks it's a cute name, apparently.
But she still calls Colin Morgan 'rat-boy'. T_T I kinda think she still does it just to annoy me, but... =/

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I shall CC the customers of Asda on that email! It's the way they act like it's YOUR FAULT that drives me crazy. One lady even sighed and eye rolled when I asked her to take the card out just for a moment. You have to bite back all your natural instincts to point out that they are the ones in the wrong, not you :/ I had another man today who told me he'd used 5 bags (for his green clubcard points) and then jammed his card in and typed the pin number before I'd managed to add the stupid points. THEN he had the cheek to say "Didn't you add my points? I did say!" like I was ten years old. I've yet to work out a super-polite way of saying "well you didn't wait, even when I was trying to ask you to".

I am clearly not cut out for a long term career in customer service work :/

Also, rat boy? RAT BOY? Are you sure she isn't confusing Colin Morgan with Mackenzie Crook??

[blondielox.livejournal.com]

XD Thanks! No, me neither. We're supposed to be cheerful and helpful, and make small talk while we'e serving them, and I am awful at it. Well, I'm cheerful and polite enough, but striking up random conversations with every customer?? D= haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. Striking up conversations with lj-ers, though?? =)

I DON'T EVEN KNOW! I think maybe one of the first clips of Merlin she saw was of Merlin in the rain, or something????? It's the cheekbones, she just doesn't appreciate them... I've tried showing her other pictures (a la my icon etc) but there is no swaying her... Yet she likes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and doesn't think they look alike at. all. My face when she said that: O_o. Both are thin, pale... and then cheekbones, lips. IDGI.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Those were really funny!

Sorry about customers. Most people don't even think about how hard things can be.

LOL about the dog Merlin. Of course, he wouldn't be well behaved. :D

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the woman was wondering why I was grinning to myself :D She was talking to her friend about it as I scanned her shopping. Apparently she'd "given up on hiding the dog biscuits".

Most customers aren't too bad, it's just sometimes you have to really grit your teeth!

[dk323.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the link. Some of those movie posters were pretty funny. I only understood a few of them, but I do agree with you that the Indiana Jones one was good. I liked the Ferris Bueller and Harry Potter posters too.

Aww, sucks that you had to deal with those customers. :( How frustrating. Hopefully the next time you go into work will be a better day for you. ♥

LOL at the dog being named Merlin and not being well-behaved. :p

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I did giggle at the Ferris one! I think the Indiana Jones one really got me because I've always thought that was a bit of a silly aspect of the storyline. Just how laid back IS Indiana's contract? I hope he has a lot of postgrads to take his lectures when he's away!

I'm in work again tomorrow so FINGERS CROSSED :D

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't even want to speculate about what Gwaine the dog might get up to!

I loved the Indiana Jones one - SO TRUE. I also loved the Ghostbusters 'Just Doing My Job' one :D :D

[sighnomore.livejournal.com]

Ugh, customers. I feel you >_>

I love those movie posters XD

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

Customers can be such a pain in the ass. Not all of them of course, some are very nice, but sometimes I have to grit my teeth and think mean thoughts at them to get by ;)

[giecast.livejournal.com]

Haha that's brilliant! But whoa, there's a lot of movies I don't know about.

Sorry to hear about rude customers. I think people got used to instant everything. But c'mon guys, some common sense please.

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

Some of the films took me a while to work out, but then I am a bit of a movie geek :D Even if I haven't watched them, I will usually recognise them.

I know! It's just a matter of seconds to wait. And it's common sense! If they've asked for something, OF COURSE I will have to actually press a button or something first, how do they think these things work??

[sally_maria]

Customers...don't talk to me about customers. ;-) (Fellow feeling from WHSmith.)

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

::retail solidarity fistbump::

They can be SO ANNOYING. I really hope I am never as rude to shop assistants. I have the greatest respect for people who work in retail, it's a pretty thankless job sometimes.