Current Events > who are the dumbest people you have to deal with at work?

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so i work for the post office and every day people try to drop UPS packages off with us.

like, I sincerely don't understand

https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/sri/rfa-pickup.page?srch_pos=1&srch_phr=drop+off
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yes with USPS postage. not UPS postage. stfu

The customers.
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People not knowing where they're at.
"Where are we right now?"
"You're in (town name) Virginia."
"No we're not. We left Virginia an hour ago."
"Actually, you don't get out of VA for about another 40 minutes if you stay on the interstate here."
"NO! I'm telling you, we're not in Virginia right now."
"I don't know what to say, but sorry, you still are. I'll show you on the map where you are."
*points out on the map, and shows how far it is to the next state*

It always flips them out, and they almost always respond with "Dang, Virginia is BIG!"
I mean, I don't understand how with smartphones, Google, gps, and nothing indicating that they've left the state, that so many people just assume they're in another state for literally no reason.
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I'm in construction and on a fairly small crew lately. 3 of us plus the supe... There's no one who's dumb or who I even dislike mostly. One guy is high strung as fuck tho
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KogaSteelfang posted...

People not knowing where they're at.
"Where are we right now?"
"You're in (town name) Virginia."
"No we're not. We left Virginia an hour ago."
"Actually, you don't get out of VA for about another 40 minutes if you stay on the interstate here."
"NO! I'm telling you, we're not in Virginia right now."
"I don't know what to say, but sorry, you still are. I'll show you on the map where you are."
*points out on the map, and shows how far it is to the next state*

It always flips them out, and they almost always respond with "Dang, Virginia is BIG!"
I mean, I don't understand how with smartphones, Google, gps, and nothing indicating that they've left the state, that so many people just assume they're in another state for literally no reason.

this one time a woman called me a douchebag because she asked for 10s back and I said all I had was 20s and 5s. like wtf do you want me to do

CatFAQS posted...

yes with USPS postage. not UPS postage. stfu

It's the ups website telling you that you can return some ups packages at usps.

Ups and usps work together all the time, it's far more logical to think that you can drop off at usps than that you can't avoid getting your accounts banned and warned
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I don't know, focusing and knowing others for their faults is a toxic mindset. I deal with 'ignorant' people many times but part of my job is promoting understanding of the product so if they still don't figure it out, then I consider it a failure on my part.

I'm a courier with a lab.

I work with another Courier who refuses to be called by his actual name. Instead he demands he be called "Bingo".

Bingo is big, fat, loud and obnoxious. He's literally *that* friend in the sitcom. You know the one who the wife of the main character loathes? The guy who blames all his problems on some ex wife, always makes misoginistic jokes that are not witty but just shitty and he always has bbq stains on his shirt and he's obsessed with football?

Anyways, Bingo has a second job. This job involves him delivering cars around the country for an auto auction. They pay him 300 or 400 dollars and he drives cars hundreds to thousands of miles away, then he has to make his way back on his own dime. Because of this he always takes busses.

So basically, he needs Sunday, Monday, Tuesday off to do this job, but because he takes the bus, he always calls off on Wednesday and sometimes Thursday. He always uses his sick mother as an excuse and they let it fly because we are so short staffed.

He brags about this job constantly. He thinks he's making good money because he gets paid 300 dollars for 3 to 5 days work. It doesn't even cross his mind that not even factoring that he has to pay his own way back, he's basically making anywhere between 3 to 5 dollars an hour for this work.
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People who just generally fall into things. Though funny.
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Kineth posted...

The customers.

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I Like Toast posted...

CatFAQS posted...

yes with USPS postage. not UPS postage. stfu

It's the ups website telling you that you can return some ups packages at usps.

Ups and usps work together all the time, it's far more logical to think that you can drop off at usps than that you can't avoid getting your accounts banned and warned

not when the label says UPS GROUND in large bold letters. and usually when this happens the person says "oh, I thought this was UPS"

you're probably that genius who walks in an asks if he addressed his envelope correctly lol

Kineth posted...

The customers.

This. If you have any work environment where your source of revenue isn't also your biggest source of stupidity, that would truly be an interesting conversation.
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Definitely the patrons.
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There are also people who can't read signs. We had to have large "NO PARKING" signs installed about every 5 feet along two parts of the property, and people stil park there and will argue with you that they can because they didn't see the sign when they parked. Or the main bathroom being closed, with huge neon yellow closed sign on it, and an arrow pointing to the secondary bathroom to use, and they'll stand there for staring at it for a full minute, and cussing while trying to get in anyway. Or the big orange sign that says the automatic door is broken and will activate when the door opens at all, and to give it 10 seconds to close on its own, yet people try forcing it closed all day every day despite the two bright signs right at eye level telling them not to.

Or the random crazies that show up sometimes. One thought I was supposed to give him a bunch of money to fix his car because someone backed into him. Took like 2 hours to get him to leave with no money because he thought he was entitled to immediate compensation from me or something.
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