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On being called a “Bloody obstructionist cow.”

Oct 30th, 2009 by bipolarlawyercook

Dear Sir:

The fact that you insist that you have “a email,” (it’s actu­ally “an email,” just because you have an Eng­lish accent doesn’t mean you have mas­tery over your own tongue) with a track­ing num­ber prov­ing we’ve received your book doesn’t change the fact that both my inven­tory sys­tem and my phone call down to my receiv­ing man­ager say that we don’t.  So when I say I’m fairly sure we don’t have it, but I will still go down to the base­ment and check, know that call­ing me a “bloody obstruc­tion­ist cow” and lit­er­ally stomp­ing off in a huff will not incline me to go down and check once you’ve left the store.

Fur­ther, return­ing not a half hour later with said “a email” from UPS (aka, not the com­mer­cial enter­prise for which I work) with a track­ing num­ber say­ing the item had shipped does not prove your point, because when I bring up said track­ing num­ber on the Inter­net, it shows that it’s (drum­roll, please) a noti­fi­ca­tion of SHIPPING.  FROM UPS– from our dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter sev­eral states away to UPS’ dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter.  Sev­eral states away.

Sin­cerely,

The BOC

Clearly, he needs the book less than he needs a good mood sta­bi­lizer, but that sure as hell isn’t my job, though I could rec­om­mend a few books that might lead toward self-diagnosis.

I did, how­ever, point out that while I might be a bloody obstruc­tion­ist cow, it still didn’t change the fact that as it said on the order con­fir­ma­tion receipt we would call him when his book arrived.  I’m think­ing he’s prob­a­bly not going to come in, although who knows.  I do know the man­ager on duty’s going to ban him once this order’s com­plete, even though I never felt wor­ried.  Des­per­ately unhappy, mis­er­able peo­ple who have futile foot-stomping tem­per tantrums don’t bother me– I have been one, many a time, though never to the point of name call­ing.  And there are prac­tic­ing attor­neys in Boston whom I reg­u­larly came up against who were far, far worse.  This guy was a annoy­ance only.

An annoy­ance.  Sorry.  Some things are bloody contagious.

Moo.

Posted in adventures in retail

6 Responses to “On being called a “Bloody obstructionist cow.””

  1. Jenn @ Juggling Life says:
    October 30, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Ahh, the joys of work­ing with the pub­lic.
    .-= Jenn @ Jug­gling Life´s last blog ..Ele­men­tary School Smack­down II: First vs. Fifth =-.

  2. Cheri @ Blog This Mom! says:
    October 31, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    We can all stop wor­ry­ing about swine flu and go back to fret­ting over mad cow disease?

    You rock.

  3. Dawn says:
    October 31, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Nice to see man­age­ment come down on the employee’s side for once! Betcha he’s made a pain of him­self before this…

  4. phil says:
    November 2, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    just reminds me of Office Space…here’s a clip but alas it’s not the actual clip from the movie
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA-hudiwU-0

  5. Sherry says:
    November 3, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    The BOC … Moo … he may have got­ten you all worked up, but I am pleased to see that your sense of humor remains bloody well intact!

  6. alejna says:
    November 10, 2009 at 10:14 am

    Well, it made for a funny post. Well, *you* made it into a funny post.

    Of course, it did cause me to have flash­backs to one of my most har­row­ing cus­tomer ser­vice inter­ac­tions. [shud­der]
    .-= alejna´s last blog ..Sevilla Tapas tour =-.