Asklemmy

44170 readers

1405 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

340

People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by morganth@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

155 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Brought to you by my discovery that some people think that “the customer is always right” isn’t the slogan of a long-dead department store, but rather it’s an actual call the cops law.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] linuxduck@nerdly.dev 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not exactly to the title but I was alone with a coworker and explaining my precancerous cells I was being checked up on and a customer walked up as I was explaining.

He said, "that sounds like bullshit and I would know because I have a PHD."

he was an idiot.

[–] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know lots of very stupid people with PhDs

I have a PhD, for one

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a buddy who's about to get his PhD in math. He's probably one of the dumbest guys I know. Don't get me wrong, he's incredibly smart and a very hard working. But also the guy can't open a baby gate, even if show show him 3 times. We play a lot of non-voice acted video games together where you need to read stuff, and he mispronounces pretty much every word. Like, he isn't even close on most of them.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a PhD student you pretty quickly learn that everyone is barely holding it together. It's the kind of work where you learn and discover the edges of knowledge and then forget how to eat

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta make sacrifices to be able to know shit when you're under 30

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does being under 30 have to do with it

[–] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah if anything when you're over 30 it's even worse, as then you have to dedicate some brain power in dealing with all the body ailments you suddenly start developing.

[–] MooToYou@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I have a BSC... Bronze Swimming Certificate.

Obligatory Red Dwarf love!

[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

I would know because I have a PHD

Also "I'm an engineer". People with specific vocational training (EE, MD, whatever) think because they know one thing well enough to get a professional license they know all things well.

[–] shectabeni@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think some people don't even realize PhD and MD are different things.

[–] ptolemai@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Philadelphia and Maryland?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Not going to ask a Chiropractor anything even if they are an MD. At first I was going to say they all specialize... but chiropractors... nah just going to play it safe and tell them I'm fine.