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starku wrote:It is a huge lol to me that almost he only person discussing the content of me3 is a bikie

i just refuse to post in there if znegata for anacronian are vomiting shit all over the place

Darth Fanboy wrote:One of my real experiences. "Why doesn't your zoo have Pandas I thought every zoo had Pandas? San Diego Zoo has Pandas! That's the only other one I've been to."

And you just sit there and think..."this will be the fourth time I've had to explain today how rare Pandas are to some stupid chick here with a class not paying to get in and wasting my lunch because the dumb broad asked for a manager in the fucking gift shop without saying why."

I love where I work and what I do, but for perspective I work at a very small municipally owned zoo sandwiched between San Diego and Los Angeles, two of the bigger zoos in the country with far for massive budgets. So its always just great to hear that despite putting in numerous hours of volunteering on top of a hard workweek, someone who comes in for half price can just shit all over you because you can't compare with fucking SDZ. Nobody, except Columbus really, can do that.

Do you work at the Moonridge Zoo in Big Bear or elsewhere?

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=154154

maybe the inclusion of the phrase "wedding tackle" will get spacemarineandchange to hush for a little bit

but probably not

Akhlut wrote: Do you work at the Moonridge Zoo in Big Bear or elsewhere?

That's a cool zoo. It focuses on the local animals.

timmy wrote:

weemadando wrote:Especially considering that at the end of spectrum at which the company did care, you had folks willing to pay for two first class round the world tickets for an employee to babysit a bottle of wine which got a seat to itself, just to retain the no) 1 frequent flyer position.

I want to hear the rest of this story

The story goes that the person who held Frequent Flyer number QF0000001 hadn't been flying enough recently to keep it (what with private jets and all that) and so was called up and told "look, we're going to have to give the number to this other guy who's been spending a shitload and wants it". The person in question then says: "Fine, book a first class seat around the world, I'll put a bottle of wine in it." They're told that you can't have unaccompanied freight on a seat, so they then just grab one of their employees, give their details to us and tell them to grab their passport, take this bottle of wine and get to the airport. Turns out people who are exceptionally wealthy can be obsessive about status symbols.

That is quite simply insane. And I had no idea that FF systems actually ranked people that way

DF struck a truism of working directly with the public. No matter what you do, there will always be unsatisfied punters. And all you can do with those people is kill them with your kindness.

Im at Santa Ana Zoo, Moonridge is a little bit east. Good folks running that place and I hope they get their relocation plans to go smoothly.

timmy wrote:That is quite simply insane. And I had no idea that FF systems actually ranked people that way

DF struck a truism of working directly with the public. No matter what you do, there will always be unsatisfied punters. And all you can do with those people is kill them with your kindness.

Everyone gets ranked - Bronze (worthless), Silver (eh), Gold (how can in help you), Platinum (oh, don't worry about that, we'll kick someone off the flight to make room) and Chairman's Lounge (insane luxury at major airports but almost purely status symbol as most of these folks have private or RAAF transport arrangements).

The no. 1 frequent flyer position is allocated purely as a posturing thing, doesn't matter if you fly less than others, it shows that we value your name and your company's business travel more than others.

I mean, we Call Centre plebes were never even meant to talk to the Gold and above members, but sometimes they'd slip through the cracks. One or two were even genuinely pleasant and polite human beings who just happened to be really rich and fly first class service a lot - like one guy I had a few times who commuted Sydney to London weekly in first class, but liked to be home at weekends with his family who didn't want to move. Man, there are so many crazy stories from that place...

Yeah pretty crazy

Like 'let's fire a few people so my next bonus can pay for my next yacht upgrade

Kill the rich etc

So, my program is a bit different, but with an extra tier.

0-25,000 - General (absolutely worthless, question if the extra junk mail is worth joining)
25K - 50K - Silver (get maybe upgraded on nowhere to nowhere, free bag, premier service)
50K - 75K - Gold (Star Alliance Gold (international lounge access) better upgrade rate, 2 free bags)
75K - 100K - Platinum (better upgrades, more award seats, lower fees)
100K+ - 1K (better upgrades, no fees, dedicated line, expanded auto upgrade seats

$30,000+ fares total (full fare Econ or better, no discounts) - Global Services - we'll tell you if you qualify.

This is all per calendar year.

It should be more like
How many average wages do you spend per year on air travel

I'd lol

You mean 'how many average wages does your company spend

A lot of our corporate clientele are fairly loose about what extra services and amenities they partake until you tell them that their company has not authorised those charges

And then it hits the fan

It doesn't matter to me who is wasting this hilarious amount of money

It's funny either way

And man fuckwjts trying to claim whit as expenses is a giant lol

Get rib quick seminar was BUSINESS EEVELOPMENT EXPENSE rift guys

speaking of flying

i'd just like to add that the midwest is quite possibly the most godawful boring as fuck place in the world you could be stuck flying across

how boring is it? the cloud formations that broke up the landscape were the most interesting things there

Your phone spelling's below the usual par Dan

But yeah

A few years back we had a guy asking on checkout if we could put a $10 minibar expense as pretty much anything else but that

He was told no, for the reason that we needed to be able to account for it

A massive tantrum ensued, followed by the threat to pull all the business of his company. It turned out he was a company director and the threat was credible; though our General Manager was then able to speak to him directly and point out that he had more personally invested in that particular company than they were spending with us, and how far did he want to go over ten bucks.

starku wrote:It doesn't matter to me who is wasting this hilarious amount of money

It's funny either way

And man fuckwjts trying to claim whit as expenses is a giant lol

Get rib quick seminar was BUSINESS EEVELOPMENT EXPENSE rift guys

Get ribs quick? Man, I could go for some ribs about now.

The funniest example of business cost rorting has to be the guys who ran a brothel that took CabCharge.

Gotta do the seminar first dude

weemadando wrote:The funniest example of business cost rorting has to be the guys who ran a brothel that took CabCharge.

Half-price for the first $60? That's pretty sweet.

starku wrote:Gotta do the seminar first dude

Before the ribs, or the brothel?

Before ribs

i was to a get ribs quick seminar once

it increased the speed at which i can acquire ribs by 38%


i also was to a get rich quick seminar once because a friend invited me by lying

it was funny when the guy drew how the scheme worked by one guy recruiting three sellers, each recruiting three more, and so on, all of which were paying up to the top in a pyramidal structure, then said "this is not a pyramid scheme"

you are correct my surrealist friend

it is a drawing of a pyramid scheme

"no it's not a multi-level marketing scheme, this one's ~*different*~"

Man, what happens if a pyramid scheme has the guy at the top become a buyer to one of the people at the bottom? Does it become a mobius strip of fraudulence? Does everyone in the scheme acquire infinite wealth and thus ruin the economy of earth? The implications are staggering!

they aren't pyramids any more

they are matrix compensation plans

so one of my jobs last year was one of them and they wanted a visualization of their "matrix"

i coded that shit

and they were like "y it so wide so fast that don't look good"

and i was liek "lol"