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Post by NancysSummerSip on Mar 12, 2015 13:42:33 GMT -5
Isn't there a lot of smog in the PHilippines? So they could be used to smog/fog being not good to breathe. I'm not sure how much of a Jewish presence there is in the Philippines (isn't it mostly Catholic and Muslem?) I don't know much about how Philippine people live their lives so I can cut them some slack on not knowing much about Jewish customs. She's from a small village. No smog. Furthermore, there's a huge difference between fog and smog. What bothers me is that they don't bother doing a lick of research or exhibit any curiousity about the world they're living in. I overheard one telling a patient to throw the meds away and just pray. They're uber-religious. I reported her. That's just unacceptable. That's not the category of not very bright. In that case, her light bulb has pretty much dimmed to black and there's no replacing it.
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Post by dannylion on Mar 12, 2015 16:30:57 GMT -5
Isn't there a lot of smog in the PHilippines? So they could be used to smog/fog being not good to breathe. I'm not sure how much of a Jewish presence there is in the Philippines (isn't it mostly Catholic and Muslem?) I don't know much about how Philippine people live their lives so I can cut them some slack on not knowing much about Jewish customs. She's from a small village. No smog. Furthermore, there's a huge difference between fog and smog. What bothers me is that they don't bother doing a lick of research or exhibit any curiousity about the world they're living in. I overheard one telling a patient to throw the meds away and just pray. They're uber-religious. I reported her. That's just unacceptable. I've had the same thought when encountering really clueless people. How can they not want to know? I want to know as much as I can about everything around me. I want to know why it is, why it happens, how it works, what it does, where it came from and how it got to be here, what else it can do, anything and everything. I look things up. I'll read just about anything that will teach me something useful. I just don't understand being baffled by everything and just blundering along in life letting things happen without knowing. I want to know.
I have encountered a subset of this type as well. They understand that it is possible to know things, but it has to be taught to you in school. If it was not taught to you in school, you cannot know it, and furthermore, it is not possible to be known. They do not understand that much of life's learning happens outside the classroom and that it is, indeed, possible to learn things, even to seek to learn things deliberately, outside of the classroom. So, if one tries to explain anything to this type of person, they stare at one as though one is speaking Martian or accuse one of outright lying.
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Post by milee on Mar 12, 2015 16:34:31 GMT -5
I want to know as much as I can about everything around me. I want to know why it is, why it happens, how it works, what it does, where it came from and how it got to be here, what else it can do, anything and everything. I look things up. I'll read just about anything that will teach me something useful. I just don't understand being baffled by everything and just blundering along in life letting things happen without knowing. I want to know.
This is a characteristic of every single successful person I've ever known. ("Success" not necessarily being defined in respect to money, could be successful in relationships, art, etc.)
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Post by wvugurl26 on Mar 12, 2015 16:41:53 GMT -5
Upper management for sure! Just when I think I have heard it all they render me speechless once again. This morning I heard we should do less audits of Program X and more of Program Y. Because after all our audits of Program X only recover millions per audit. I'm still trying to figure out how recovering overpayments is a bad thing. And oh yeah Program X spends at least double what Program Y spends. The final kicker is we only audit compliance with rules the people who run X and Y write, we can't write them. Somehow our management has decided we should focus on that type of audits.
Oh my other favorite, recovery numbers don't matter. They just represent part of our operating budget!!
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Post by Opti on Mar 12, 2015 22:07:09 GMT -5
We have a lot of immigrant nurses from the Philippines. Oy! One came in all bundled up with her nose and mouth covered because it was foggy out? So? She told me that fog contains poison, and you must not breathe in the toxins. Another had a daughter who was getting married into a Jewish family. There was a "meet the in-laws" dinner, and she had to bring kosher wine. She said to me "I had no idea that wine contains pork products. How do I find wine that doesn't have pork in it?"
Yes, boys and girls. These are people who are looking after your health. Sorry to hear these are the Filipino nurses you've gotten. The Filipino nurses and PT therapists I've met through my job are smarter than that thankfully.
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Post by ZaireinHD on Mar 13, 2015 0:59:11 GMT -5
I like the people that pretty much demand I order specific products for them. I've been open a year and a half roughly. I get people that come in and want X. Doesn't really matter what X is. They're the only customer I've ever had looking for it. They can't find one anywhere, and they've checked all over. (This by the way is clue number 1 that X is a terrible item for stores to carry, if they could make money selling it they would be.) I look around online and find a supplier, but I'd have to order a couple dozen or more of the things. I tell the customer, sorry, I can't get you that. The conversation that follows is pretty much always the following; Your mistake was telling them you could buy it from Amazon and charge them $5 more. When you see you can't buy it wholesale, just look it up on amazon and quote them the Amazon price +$10. Either they'll buy it or they won't. People who talk like this probably don't understand the concept of retail/wholesale anyways. Helping the lazy order from Amazon is probably a new income stream for you. as soon as I would have saw on Amazon. place order with Amazon / get total price / tell customer to leave a non-refundable deposit / order comes in and charge customer for cost delivery and time.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Mar 13, 2015 8:45:25 GMT -5
OK, here's my DH as a customer in a restaurant:
DH:What kind of diet soft drinks do you have?
Server: We have diet Pepsi
DH: You don't have diet Dr. Pepper?
Duh..............
When does crawling under the table seem like a plausible idea?
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Post by justme on Mar 13, 2015 9:03:52 GMT -5
I LOL'ed at that. It would be the pork product thing that most people would think of, not realizing that koshering of products is a process that can be applied to any processed product. It means that it cannot be processed in a facility that has come in contact with any bread, dough or grain product and that the entire winemaking process must be watched from start to finish by observant Jewish men. Geeze, I've had a lot of Jewish friends and had no idea about the grains/wheat issue. Probably because only one attempted to keep kosher but cheese often tripped her up. Well that and living with three other people that definitely weren't keeping the kitchen kosher.
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Post by justme on Mar 13, 2015 9:10:12 GMT -5
Well in my Disney days I was asked the infamous question about the three o'clock parade, with the kicker that I wasn't in a park that had a parade.
I was also asked where in the park Hogwarts was on several occasions.
It took me a while before my brain finally accepted that when people asked how to get to Disney world they were asking for directions to magic kingdom. Often asked how long the wait was...standing next to the sign that said how long the wait was.
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Post by milee on Mar 13, 2015 9:14:32 GMT -5
Well in my Disney days I was.... Often asked how long the wait was...standing next to the sign that said how long the wait was. In all fairness, that's not necessarily a dumb question to ask since it's probably actually a variation of "Hm, I know the sign says it's a 60 minute wait to ride, but is it really 60 minutes? Or are they making the line seem shorter than it really is so people don't complain about how crowded things are? Or do they do the opposite and overstate wait times so that they can meet people's expectations, so the actual wait is likely to be only 45 minutes?"
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Mar 13, 2015 9:19:07 GMT -5
When I was a server "What soda products do you carry?" "We carry Coke products" "I'll have a Pepsi"
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Post by justme on Mar 13, 2015 9:22:18 GMT -5
Well in my Disney days I was.... Often asked how long the wait was...standing next to the sign that said how long the wait was. In all fairness, that's not necessarily a dumb question to ask since it's probably actually a variation of "Hm, I know the sign says it's a 60 minute wait to ride, but is it really 60 minutes? Or are they making the line seem shorter than it really is so people don't complain about how crowded things are? Or do they do the opposite and overstate wait times so that they can meet people's expectations, so the actual wait is likely to be only 45 minutes?" The wait times are all computerized now (at the time on that ride it was manually changed by the person out front so it was actually more accurate than the computer versions) so there's no fudging. Though it's a little inaccurate as it's based on how long the last person to ride with a red card waited. After working there a while you might be able to judge wait time by line length, but you'd have to be able to see the whole line too. The CMs really don't know any better than the stated time. Though this was at spaceship earth where the whole line was outside and it was often asked when they're was no one in line and you could literally see up the ramp to people getting on the ride. Lol
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