Just when you think you've heard it all..

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

But to a certain extent, it's the way parents want the school systems to raise their kids. It's the parents wanting to relive their own lives through their children. Not that that is a bad thing, but to take it to the extent that parents today do, is just sad. These are the same parents that didn't get first place at something they tried, so when they realize that their kids won't either, they complain that "everyone" should get a trophy, not just 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

It's Jan Brady syndrome.

Hey Syndrome, is there a disease for this? I mean, all you head doctors come up with some abbreviated disease name nowadays. ;)

I think it's called "Headupass" disease. I have to deal with this at work sometimes, but they don't like my solution! I actually had a parent call me once asking me why I didn't treat their kid different, because he obviously came from a well off family!! (hehehe)

[darph nader]

One of these days,when my computer is'nt Fd-Up and I've got 6hours,I'll tell you about my 'customers' at work.

I know,I know,you all are waiting for my 'obeservations' from my trip last month.

[Princess Susi]

Yeah Darph, I have been just sitting and sitting in front of my computer for weeks waiting for the pics. I have been drooling on myself and sleeping on the keyboard and picking the crumbs of my meals of gingerbread cookies and dietcaffienefree Pepsi out from between the keys. When oh when for the sake of my health :D: are you going to post your pics?????
susi

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Yeah Darph, I have been just sitting and sitting in front of my computer for weeks waiting for the pics. I have been drooling on myself and sleeping on the keyboard and picking the crumbs of my meals of gingerbread cookies and dietcaffienefree Pepsi out from between the keys. When oh when for the sake of my health :D: are you going to post your pics?????
susi

You know, they make a plastic enclosed keyboard that you can roll up, and also if you spill something, you can wah it off under a faucet! We use them for setting up systems out of the office!!

(NOT saying you are messy or anything.......)

[Cranbiz]

Now if I can just get one of those for my monitor...........

[hueneme]

I do believe that the sulfur from the fireworks could be causing his roof a problem. The sulfur gas(S) would combine with the oxygen (O2) from the air, and this sulfur dioxide (SO2) would further combinw with water (H2O) to make H2SO4, sulfuric acid. At least if I remember my college chemistry. Chuck...

[Big Wallaby]

But to a certain extent, it's the way parents want the school systems to raise their kids.

That's what makes it saddest of all. Raise your own kids, or they'll become your own damned kids. For many, it's too late. Those who think of school as a babysitting service and it's great because they can go back to whatever they did without kids are idiots who don't deserve to have kids. Granted, it does afford that opportunity, but that's not what it is about.

I think it's called "Headupass" disease....I actually had a parent call me once asking me why I didn't treat their kid different, because he obviously came from a well off family!!

That's when you offer that of course you can treat their kid differently, then scar him mentally for life!

Now if I can just get one of those (washable keyboard-like screen*) for my monitor...........

You could surf SGT in total safety! The only bad thing would be that you had had to go wash your monitor.



* reference added by BW

[Randy B]

Yeah, I work with Patti sometimes, and you do get SG with stupid questions calling the ticket line.
I had a SG call, not to order Mickey HH tickets, but to complain because she called a couple weeks before and was told they were sold out for the day she wanted, and after talking with me that day she found out there were some tickets left, and now, since she couldn't get time off work, she couldn't come on that particular day!!! She called to complain to me that she could not get time off work. Shouldn't she be complaining to her boss? And she then complained that even if she could get time off, (which she couldn't, she told me several times), she thought it was unfair that we would have to charge her $20 for overnight shipping to ensure that she would receive her tickets in time for the event, the event that she could not possibly get time off from work. She couldn't get time off work, so what did it matter what it costs to ship them to her?
But none of this mattered, because she couldn't get the time off of work now!!! Then she proceeded to tell me the approximate day and time that she called, like I'm going to track down the CM that gave her inaccurate info. She didn't have a name, exact time or day, and I hadn't been in that dept. for 3 weeks, so it wasn't like I was going to find out who it was anyway!!

Terrytunes

Been there....

I work nights in a radio station (one AM playing the BBC all night, and an FM playing Classical Music). I get all kinds of interresting phone calls. I get the complaints that someone "a few days ago" at some unknown time mispronounced the name of a performer, but the caller can't remember which performer. And they want me to put them in touch with the errant person so they can tell them off. First, I am alone in the building, so I can't just call someone to the phone. Without a day and time I don't know who would have been announcing at that time, or even if it was an in-house program (as we play many many pre-recorded programs and many live on satelite programming from elsewhere in the country). And I can't even send out a station wide email to point out the correction as they didn't remember what correction needed to be made. But when I mention all this they just get more and more upset and louder and louder that I am not helping them with their problem. And since I am the person actually pushing the buttons to keep us on the air, I have to interrupt them to do my job. :(

Or the other interresting calls are the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with anything we do. I get calls requesting the name of a rock song that the caller can't remember (if old enough I can sometimes help), or even once a call wanting to know which poker hand had won (I actually knew that one, tho I don't play poker).

The scarriest calls were several years ago when a "lady" (used very loosely) who would get drunk, and call at night to complain about her husband who, she said, was having an affair with a female student, at a different college. She frequently made death threats about that. Many of us had calls from her. I was mentioning this to a friend at a local eatery who said "Oh, you mean crazy sally". I found out she lived right in the neighborhood. But the calls stopped when one morning she walked into the dinner and asked a uniformed cop if that was a real gun on his belt. When he said yes she asked if she could borrow it. When the cop said no, she asked if he would shoot her husband for her. Needless to say, she hasn't been around for quite a while. :D:

So I can understand the feelings when the only number someone finds is the public assistance number (or in your case ticketing) and feel that you MUST help them if they can find any slight excuse for it being your problem.

Randy

[Princess Susi]

Randy...You are another *radio person*? I worked almost 20 yrs in the radio announcing biz, one of the other threads here has all the info. I *was* going to share some stories about my tete a tetes with some of the well known rock stars of the 1970's but I don't know if it is proper to kiss and tell. ;) How long have you worked in the broadcasting field? And you are right. some of the calls a station gets in the middle of the night are priceless! I worked all shifts throughout my career, all nighters on Fri and Sat were the weirdest! Lots of drunks and meth freaks up all night...Whew......Some strange memories of those shifts.

susislicker, yep, that was my radio name!

[Big Wallaby]

I would like to get into announcing... listening to some of my spieling I think I could be good at it. I don't think I want to get into radio anymore, though. I don't think I have a quick enough wit for what I would want to do, and I understand breaking into the business is a bit on the tough side.