I get to know my customers as much as possible. I’ll be as cheerful as I can, but if I see someone doesn’t appreciate it, I stop. And since I work at a fitness centre with swimming pool, kids are always fair game for playful comments. “All children 7 years and under must be within arm’s reach of you at all times, please. It’s so they can save you if you’re drowning.” This usually brings a smile, since the pool is only 1.6 metres deep (5 feet in Fahrenheit) at the deep end. It’s a great pool to take little ones! Bring your bug sometime, Adam. 🙂
I’m conflicted about that. On the one hand I understand they’re just trying to be polite and make your experience a little better. On the other hand I can see how it would be annoying.
Sorry to bother you, but since this website switched to another hoster, I usually get an old version of the page when I select the address from my previous visited pages. That wasn’t the case while the site was on the previous hoster. There I always got the most current version. Today I saw the “Take a Long Card Look at Myself” with one single comment and not even Adams business card shown.
When this happens, unfortunately the “next comic”-arrow doesn’t work either. I didn’t try a manual reload, though. So I found this page only by looking into the archive and selecting it there.
From this page here the “previous comic”-arrow works, but even then I get the old version of the page as I saw it before: Just one comment and no business card. A reload did in fact work then.
This happens on android as well as windows 10, Firefox both times.
I didn’t change any settings in firefox. So is that something related to the hoster or did some Firefox update mess things up?
I’ve had similar problems, but have not been able to mention it here, because the commenting features are busted (when I’m using Firefox). If this goes through, it’s because I’m testing whether it works in Safari.
For instance, if I view this comic in Firefox, it says there are four comments, and doesn’t display the ones I made yesterday, but in Safari I see both of them, and can add this one, too.
I’ve got the same problems. Using Firefox, too. I can see this comic on the main page but the forward arrow from yesterday’s comic doesn’t work. Also ‘random comic’ always gives the same result for me.
Okay, I’m writing this using Chrome now. I can’t see my previous comment in Firefox but here it is displayed. In Firefox I also can’t view the comic after this one but in Chrome everything is in order. The random button is still broken though. Doesn’t matter whether I use Firefox or Chrome. It always leads to the same comic. Funnily though Chrome shows a different comic as Firefox.
Short answer – both are useless without feathers (quill pens)
Long answer – a bad pun based on misspelling “never” as nevar”, noting that nevar is raven spelled backward, and that you would never use either backward.
Imagine spending 8 hours a day drawing the same panel over and over, while an endless line of growling customers walked by, grabbing it and slapping a few pennies down. Over and over. 8 hours a day. Every day. I think when the apocalypse comes, it just may be by the checkers who have been denied any outlet at all to act like or be seen as a human otherwise. (And I would totally get in the line of Mad Max bug)
I’m torn… I like “Hi, did you find everything you needed today?” but I don’t like: “Ah, Cheetos… I’d have to be in the gym 4 hours if I ate those.” “Paper or Plastic?” is fine but “Paper or ruin our oceans?” kinda pisses me off. Still, I don’t want to use the self-check isle… having to check myself out really chaps my ass.
I would much prefer a friendly and zany grocery store checkers than those “I hate every single one of you and I can’t wait to punch my ticket and go home” Walmart checkers. Yeesh.
No worries. I’ve seen a few smart alec cashiers in my life and, thankfully, none of ’em lasted. If enough people contemplate violence (you are SO not alone), there’s always a few badly raised egotists that assume their contemplations are undisputed and should be made into reality. Much like those cashiers, ironically.
In any customer service job, you have three choices. You can be RETAIL DRONE 48, you can be the curmudgeon, or you can be the zany one. The curmudgeon may seem the most real, but some of us can’t take ourselves that seriously all the time.
I get to know my customers as much as possible. I’ll be as cheerful as I can, but if I see someone doesn’t appreciate it, I stop. And since I work at a fitness centre with swimming pool, kids are always fair game for playful comments. “All children 7 years and under must be within arm’s reach of you at all times, please. It’s so they can save you if you’re drowning.” This usually brings a smile, since the pool is only 1.6 metres deep (5 feet in Fahrenheit) at the deep end. It’s a great pool to take little ones! Bring your bug sometime, Adam. 🙂
“1.6 metres deep (5 feet in Fahrenheit)”
Welp, my day was made and it’s not even 10 AM!
Glad to help!
1.6m is five foot three, though.
The places I do my shopping tend to be busy enough that no one has the energy to be zany on the job. I’m not sure whether I envy you, Adam.
Wow, that’s harsh.
Have you considered just telling him to stop with the friendliness?
Ah, sorry, it’s vegans that will be the first casualties of the apocalypse.
They’re on the menu.
Nom. Nom. Nom.
What does a vegan zombie eat?
Graaaaaiiiiinnnnssss!
I’m conflicted about that. On the one hand I understand they’re just trying to be polite and make your experience a little better. On the other hand I can see how it would be annoying.
Cannibals should never eat comedians or clowns… they taste funny.
Sorry to bother you, but since this website switched to another hoster, I usually get an old version of the page when I select the address from my previous visited pages. That wasn’t the case while the site was on the previous hoster. There I always got the most current version. Today I saw the “Take a Long Card Look at Myself” with one single comment and not even Adams business card shown.
When this happens, unfortunately the “next comic”-arrow doesn’t work either. I didn’t try a manual reload, though. So I found this page only by looking into the archive and selecting it there.
From this page here the “previous comic”-arrow works, but even then I get the old version of the page as I saw it before: Just one comment and no business card. A reload did in fact work then.
This happens on android as well as windows 10, Firefox both times.
I didn’t change any settings in firefox. So is that something related to the hoster or did some Firefox update mess things up?
I’ve had similar problems, but have not been able to mention it here, because the commenting features are busted (when I’m using Firefox). If this goes through, it’s because I’m testing whether it works in Safari.
For instance, if I view this comic in Firefox, it says there are four comments, and doesn’t display the ones I made yesterday, but in Safari I see both of them, and can add this one, too.
I’ve got the same problems. Using Firefox, too. I can see this comic on the main page but the forward arrow from yesterday’s comic doesn’t work. Also ‘random comic’ always gives the same result for me.
Okay, I’m writing this using Chrome now. I can’t see my previous comment in Firefox but here it is displayed. In Firefox I also can’t view the comic after this one but in Chrome everything is in order. The random button is still broken though. Doesn’t matter whether I use Firefox or Chrome. It always leads to the same comic. Funnily though Chrome shows a different comic as Firefox.
Now you got me curious as to why a raven is like a writing desk.
Short answer – both are useless without feathers (quill pens)
Long answer – a bad pun based on misspelling “never” as nevar”, noting that nevar is raven spelled backward, and that you would never use either backward.
My favorite answer is “Poe wrote on both.”
They both have inky quills.
@ Adam – For the next time it happens, try responding like this:
1) Ich spreche leider kein Französisch!
…followed by …
2) Je ne parle pas allemand!
Where on Earth are you shopping? Around here, all the cashiers may as well be wooden puppets!
Imagine spending 8 hours a day drawing the same panel over and over, while an endless line of growling customers walked by, grabbing it and slapping a few pennies down. Over and over. 8 hours a day. Every day. I think when the apocalypse comes, it just may be by the checkers who have been denied any outlet at all to act like or be seen as a human otherwise. (And I would totally get in the line of Mad Max bug)
I’m torn… I like “Hi, did you find everything you needed today?” but I don’t like: “Ah, Cheetos… I’d have to be in the gym 4 hours if I ate those.” “Paper or Plastic?” is fine but “Paper or ruin our oceans?” kinda pisses me off. Still, I don’t want to use the self-check isle… having to check myself out really chaps my ass.
I would much prefer a friendly and zany grocery store checkers than those “I hate every single one of you and I can’t wait to punch my ticket and go home” Walmart checkers. Yeesh.
No worries. I’ve seen a few smart alec cashiers in my life and, thankfully, none of ’em lasted. If enough people contemplate violence (you are SO not alone), there’s always a few badly raised egotists that assume their contemplations are undisputed and should be made into reality. Much like those cashiers, ironically.
Dinnertime!
In any customer service job, you have three choices. You can be RETAIL DRONE 48, you can be the curmudgeon, or you can be the zany one. The curmudgeon may seem the most real, but some of us can’t take ourselves that seriously all the time.