Customer Nicknames

**Night Train** · 08-18-2001, 11:09 AM

This thread is, in part, a response to Darris' thread on "those annoying customers". As an employee of a small quick printing business, I deal with annoying customer ona regular basis and I was comforted to learn that this is a universal problem. We have taken one small theraputic step in this problem of impossible and/or annoying customers. We give a few of them nicknames. I am not sure how many of your customers come into your businesses on a regular basis enough to warrant this same treatment, but I am willing to bet you have done this same thing. I recently talked to a business person who runs a coffe shop and she assured me that in her business the "nickname treatment" has been great. All you have to do is find something unique about a particulat customer and then for a nickname about him or her based on that unique point. A Negative tarte is preferable as it is these people inparticluar who trouble su so much. Here is a samll sampling of our list:

Fart Breath: I am sure everyone out there has a customer with this particulat trate.

Glass Butt: This customer actually sat on a display case in our lobby and went through it with his bottom.

Nazi Porno guy: This guy is an artist whos genre is pretty self explanatory from his nick name.

Phsycho copy women: This lady has several nicknames. (Star Trek Lady, Plant Lady, and Ichthyoid - my favorite - look it up)

The Gidiot: This man gets printing done for a very respectable organization - The Gideons. He is, however, an idiot. Hence the nickname.

**optigoddess** · 08-18-2001, 09:06 PM

This is a "carryover" from my dental assisting days (in a former lifetime).....PITA. We used to actually code charts with this word.
Pain In The "****".

**Jakeman** · 08-19-2001, 01:48 AM

at compusa i get this guy who comes in every now and then with his iMac. he thinks there's a problem with it but he's just stupid. he keeps saying that he has an army of lawyers and he will sue steve jobs. and his son comes in alot too, and he's a lamer.

moral: don't make empty threats

**Judy Canty** · 08-20-2001, 08:50 AM

Be very careful here. Years ago, while working for the world's largest superoptical, someone typed "jerko*f" into the lab computer as the first name of a rather difficult customer. Unfortunately, said customer began receiving mail from the worlds largest superoptical with that particular first name. Things got pretty ugly and a less than brilliant lab tech was out of work! Not to mention that consumers do peruse the 'Board from time to time...