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tzechuk
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scotty12347
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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 Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: Silly Brits... unreasonable complaints |
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They are ridiculously bad.
On the local news was a man who had rung the emergency services after he was on some ice on the pavement (sidewalk) and was too scared to move forward or backward. |
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Hightop
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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I love these. This one is the best, "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation'. We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?"
I wish there were more questions like this on Dave's. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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One of my friends works for the Seoul Travel Hotline and the stories she tells me of the stupid people who ring up asking moronic questions is, sadly, not unbelievable.
One of the more frequent questions is:
Q. Hello, I need to go to (insert the location name here).
A. OK, where are you now?
Q. No, I want to go to (insert the location name here)!
A. Well, I can't tell you that until you tell me where you are starting from. Where are you?
Q. I don't know.
(Rinse and repeat, often with demands to help becoming more strident.)
She also tells me of a man (from Canada) who is infamous among the different help centres in Seoul. Apparently he has rung with demands that action be taken upon any perceived grievance, no matter how trivial. He once rang up with a complaint that a small child was staring at him and he wanted the Travel Hotline to make the child stop. |
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
One of my friends works for the Seoul Travel Hotline and the stories she tells me of the stupid people who ring up asking moronic questions is, sadly, not unbelievable.
One of the more frequent questions is:
Q. Hello, I need to go to (insert the location name here).
A. OK, where are you now?
Q. No, I want to go to (insert the location name here)!
A. Well, I can't tell you that until you tell me where you are starting from. Where are you?
Q. I don't know.
(Rinse and repeat, often with demands to help becoming more strident.)
She also tells me of a man (from Canada) who is infamous among the different help centres in Seoul. Apparently he has rung with demands that action be taken upon any perceived grievance, no matter how trivial. He once rang up with a complaint that a small child was staring at him and he wanted the Travel Hotline to make the child stop. |
She could have been talking about me or at least two other guys I know!
That hotline has a thick-as-molasses twit who ignored my questions for what seemed like an eternity before I raised my voice to her and asked her, "Why did you take this job if you do not even have the common courtesy to answer my questions?!" Oh, and before that she had given me absolutely wrong information on more than one occasion.
I told her in our last incredibly painful phone "conversation" that she's a rude moron of the first order and that she should not attempt to bring any offspring into this world.
If this is the same individual that I had to deal with last Summer, please tell her the guy who lived in Samseong-Dong in Seoul at that time is still traumatised from her stellar displays of idiocy. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| dirving wrote: |
She could have been talking about me or at least two other guys I know!
That hotline has a thick-as-molasses twit who ignored my questions for what seemed like an eternity before I raised my voice to her and asked her, "Why did you take this job if you do not even have the common courtesy to answer my questions?!" Oh, and before that she had given me absolutely wrong information on more than one occasion.
I told her in our last incredibly painful phone "conversation" that she's a rude moron of the first order and that she should not attempt to bring any offspring into this world.
If this is the same individual that I had to deal with last Summer, please tell her the guy who lived in Samseong-Dong in Seoul at that time is still traumatised from her stellar displays of idiocy. |
Well, you sound like a real charmer.
There's more than one woman who works there all around the clock doing either 11 or 13-hour shifts (day and night-time). You must feel like a big man shouting at and insulting people who are only trying to help you and not even in their own language. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| seoul travel hotline rocks! i've lived here for three years and i still abuse their "tourist" service! "Where is ____? What time do they close?" etc. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| I foresee a string of prank calls to the good people of Seoul Travel Hotline in the near future. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Hightop wrote: |
I love these. This one is the best, "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation'. We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?"
I wish there were more questions like this on Dave's. |
I love these ones: "The beach was too sandy!", "No one told us there would be fish in the sea!".  |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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My friend used to work in a place called 'The Bead Shop'
A guy walks in and asks "Have you got any beads?" |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| If you work customer service you will see just how many ㅍuckfaces there really are out there. I've had people argue their faces blue over the most petty and stupid things known to mankind. It's even better when they are wrong and you can call them out. |
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| dirving wrote: |
She could have been talking about me or at least two other guys I know!
That hotline has a thick-as-molasses twit who ignored my questions for what seemed like an eternity before I raised my voice to her and asked her, "Why did you take this job if you do not even have the common courtesy to answer my questions?!" Oh, and before that she had given me absolutely wrong information on more than one occasion.
I told her in our last incredibly painful phone "conversation" that she's a rude moron of the first order and that she should not attempt to bring any offspring into this world.
If this is the same individual that I had to deal with last Summer, please tell her the guy who lived in Samseong-Dong in Seoul at that time is still traumatised from her stellar displays of idiocy. |
Well, you sound like a real charmer.
There's more than one woman who works there all around the clock doing either 11 or 13-hour shifts (day and night-time). You must feel like a big man shouting at and insulting people who are only trying to help you and not even in their own language. |
Dear Sleepy,
People who really know me would never think that I'd be like that without sufficient cause. I had sufficient cause with the female in question.
Would you not be at least greatly annoyed to lose a lot of your time on a wild goose chase on a couple of occasions thanks to the thoughtless unprofessionalism of a person who's responsible for dispensing accurate information? More, would you feel upset if the same person ignored your polite questions for more than a minute leaving you to feel it proper to ask her repeatedly if she was still on the phone?
By the way, this particular woman was working in the afternoon hours and told me the second time I tried to utilise the service that one should not call "so often." It says right in the K.O.T.R.A. Guide to Korea (2008) that this service is free and essentially open to all whenever they need it, etc.
Whether this person is your friend or not, you'd better re-evaluate your wise cracks about me. Really, why insult me here on Dave's when I was the one who was treated badly by her for no reason at all on at least three occasions? In short, your cracks about me do not logically follow from the chronological course of events.
I stand by what I finally felt were fair comments to make to that female. After all, she really did ask for and deserve them. |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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I was part of an official entourage to Cp Bonifas (JSA) when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld visited several years ago. During the trip, we got a chance to cross the border over to the North Korean side and we went to the large headquarters building of the KPLA.
As we crossed over, an elderly couple tried to cross the border behind us. The South Korean as well as the North Korean border guards were trying to stop them from crossing. They were making a huge stink about it, with the elderly man demanding "If we couldn't go over there to take pictures, why do they get to?"
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dirving
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| mc_jc wrote: |
I was part of an official entourage to Cp Bonifas (JSA) when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld visited several years ago. During the trip, we got a chance to cross the border over to the North Korean side and we went to the large headquarters building of the KPLA.
As we crossed over, an elderly couple tried to cross the border behind us. The South Korean as well as the North Korean border guards were trying to stop them from crossing. They were making a huge stink about it, with the elderly man demanding "If we couldn't go over there to take pictures, why do they get to?"
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Jon Curtis (A.K.A., Dutch Jon) told me the same story in the Gecko's pub some time ago. What a coincidence, eh? |
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