Things that give you the sh1ts

[McGovern]

People putting jobs in the 'too hard' basket.

[Pseudo]

Had to go to a bank this morning to deposit a cheque. The teller, upon assessing my balance, promptly began hard-selling investment products to me.

That really, really, really gives me the shytts.

My balance is none of your business, stickybeak. If I have significant amount of clams in there then it is for a reason, which is also none of your business. Just stick the damn cheque in the damn account like I asked you to. No doubt when you took the job you were subjected to rigorous training - I bet they had you sit in a Skinner Box while they flashed numbers at you, and every time the number was greater than $50 you had to press a lever to be rewarded with a pellet - but FFS, if you do this to every customer then you're going to slow the queue down tenfold, and the bogans waiting behind me to get their social security money are already looking restless. It'll be on your head pal, not mine.

Rant over.

[A Mum]

Had to go to a bank this morning to deposit a cheque. The teller, upon assessing my balance, promptly began hard-selling investment products to me.

That really, really, really gives me the shytts.

My balance is none of your business, stickybeak. If I have significant amount of clams in there then it is for a reason, which is also none of your business. Just stick the damn cheque in the damn account like I asked you to. No doubt when you took the job you were subjected to rigorous training - I bet they had you sit in a Skinner Box while they flashed numbers at you, and every time the number was greater than $50 you had to press a lever to be rewarded with a pellet - but FFS, if you do this to every customer then you're going to slow the queue down tenfold, and the bogans waiting behind me to get their social security money are already looking restless. It'll be on your head pal, not mine.

Rant over.

The exact reason why I left 'banking/telling' after 15 years

I felt so uncomfortable with this 'see how much is in their account and sell' attitude.
Sad thing is - he has to 'sell' to ex amount of customers to keep his 'job rating' so to speak.

So from previous experience please don't shoot the messenger

Same thing happened when banks introduced bank fees - us frontline staff copped it big time!

[Brucetiki]

Had to go to a bank this morning to deposit a cheque. The teller, upon assessing my balance, promptly began hard-selling investment products to me.

That really, really, really gives me the shytts.

My balance is none of your business, stickybeak. If I have significant amount of clams in there then it is for a reason, which is also none of your business. Just stick the damn cheque in the damn account like I asked you to. No doubt when you took the job you were subjected to rigorous training - I bet they had you sit in a Skinner Box while they flashed numbers at you, and every time the number was greater than $50 you had to press a lever to be rewarded with a pellet - but FFS, if you do this to every customer then you're going to slow the queue down tenfold, and the bogans waiting behind me to get their social security money are already looking restless. It'll be on your head pal, not mine.

Rant over.

The exact reason why I left 'banking/telling' after 15 years

I felt so uncomfortable with this 'see how much is in their account and sell' attitude.
Sad thing is - he has to 'sell' to ex amount of customers to keep his 'job rating' so to speak.

So from previous experience please don't shoot the messenger

Same thing happened when banks introduced bank fees - us frontline staff copped it big time!

Same thing happened to me on Saturday when I deposited some money into my account - started getting the hard sell about setting up a second account that earns a whole 1% interest per year . I know he's only doing his job so I just said a polite 'no thanks'.

The ones that really irritate me are the ones that keep going after you've said 'no thanks'. Out of all places, I find Ed Harry's to be the biggest culprits of refusing to take 'no' or 'just looking' for an answer.

I honestly don't get this whole try and sell something to someone no matter what reason they're in the bank/store mentality. All it does is lower staff morale because they have to meet unrealistic expectations and annoy customers because they can't do a simple task without getting a hard sell.

[Johno6]

My GF has a large sum in her account becuase of certain things etc etc

anyway same thing happens to her, everytime she goes into bank for whatever reasons they ALWAYS ask her if she wants to get a home loan and has she looked at this that n the other.

very annoying

[Bum Crack]

Had to go to a bank this morning to deposit a cheque. The teller, upon assessing my balance, promptly began hard-selling investment products to me.

That really, really, really gives me the shytts.

My balance is none of your business, stickybeak. If I have significant amount of clams in there then it is for a reason, which is also none of your business. Just stick the damn cheque in the damn account like I asked you to. No doubt when you took the job you were subjected to rigorous training - I bet they had you sit in a Skinner Box while they flashed numbers at you, and every time the number was greater than $50 you had to press a lever to be rewarded with a pellet - but FFS, if you do this to every customer then you're going to slow the queue down tenfold, and the bogans waiting behind me to get their social security money are already looking restless. It'll be on your head pal, not mine.

Rant over.

everytime I bank money, they ask me if I want to take out a loan

[Media Park]

Had to go to a bank this morning to deposit a cheque. The teller, upon assessing my balance, promptly began hard-selling investment products to me.

That really, really, really gives me the shytts.

My balance is none of your business, stickybeak. If I have significant amount of clams in there then it is for a reason, which is also none of your business. Just stick the damn cheque in the damn account like I asked you to. No doubt when you took the job you were subjected to rigorous training - I bet they had you sit in a Skinner Box while they flashed numbers at you, and every time the number was greater than $50 you had to press a lever to be rewarded with a pellet - but FFS, if you do this to every customer then you're going to slow the queue down tenfold, and the bogans waiting behind me to get their social security money are already looking restless. It'll be on your head pal, not mine.

Rant over.

everytime I bank money, they ask me if I want to take out a loan

Solution... never have money in your bank...

[A Mum]

The fact also is - they dont employ bank tellers for their 'good customer service' skills anymore - they employ the 'good sellers'.

[Bum Crack]

Had to go to a bank this morning to deposit a cheque. The teller, upon assessing my balance, promptly began hard-selling investment products to me.

That really, really, really gives me the shytts.

My balance is none of your business, stickybeak. If I have significant amount of clams in there then it is for a reason, which is also none of your business. Just stick the damn cheque in the damn account like I asked you to. No doubt when you took the job you were subjected to rigorous training - I bet they had you sit in a Skinner Box while they flashed numbers at you, and every time the number was greater than $50 you had to press a lever to be rewarded with a pellet - but FFS, if you do this to every customer then you're going to slow the queue down tenfold, and the bogans waiting behind me to get their social security money are already looking restless. It'll be on your head pal, not mine.

Rant over.

everytime I bank money, they ask me if I want to take out a loan

Solution... never have money in your bank...

That's what I meant. Normally if you have no money, you get a loan. if you have money, they ask you to invest.

[saintal]

The fact also is - they dont employ bank tellers for their 'good customer service' skills anymore - they employ the 'good sellers'.

Yes. I worked for CBA for a while during and after uni, and the teller role was very much considered a “sales” role rather than purely a service role. Lofty targets are set for each employee for opening new accounts and referrals to home lenders etc. In tellers defence though, it wasn’t that uncommon to see somebody leaving 50K in an account earning no interest for months on end. A suggestion to whack it into a term deposit or online saver is not too unreasonable really in such circumstances.

Funny though, that very rarely when I go into a bank or CU I get hassled.

[saintal]

Owners of morbidly obese pets, such as Sampson the dog who was in the media yesterday. Over-feeding then on junk is not a sign of love as some stupidly claimed. Rather it’s a lack of effort and care on their behalf to provide appropriate food and exercise.

[Q.]

Owners of morbidly obese pets, such as Sampson the dog who was in the media yesterday. Over-feeding then on junk is not a sign of love as some stupidly claimed. Rather it’s a lack of effort and care on their behalf to provide appropriate food and exercise.

The poor dog's joints will be rooted!

[Brodlach]

Owners of morbidly obese pets, such as Sampson the dog who was in the media yesterday. Over-feeding then on junk is not a sign of love as some stupidly claimed. Rather it’s a lack of effort and care on their behalf to provide appropriate food and exercise.

The poor dog's joints will be rooted!

And the girl climbing on its back for a ride

[JAS]

Tennis (and snooker and golf)...totally screws up the tv schedule every time...planned the evening around watching a new forensic anthropology series History Cold Case...kicked off cos the tennis overruns

Regards
JAS

[southee]

Owners of morbidly obese pets, such as Sampson the dog who was in the media yesterday. Over-feeding then on junk is not a sign of love as some stupidly claimed. Rather it’s a lack of effort and care on their behalf to provide appropriate food and exercise.

The poor dog's joints will be rooted!

And the girl climbing on its back for a ride

Yeah thought the same with the kid on the back of it....disgusting!!!! Poor animal

[Thiele]

That i had to hand out some mini West Adelaide Footballs after game today

[Columbo]

Alistair Lynch's commentary on Fox.

[bloods08]

My bus tickets being stuffed up for the 4th time in a row by the same ticket validator. Now I have to make a special trip into town just to get them replaced.

[Brodlach]

Football!!!

[Phantom Gossiper]

public hospitals...

4hr wait for the doctor to tell me he "unsure" about my x-ray results!