Are You Calling Me Fat?

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A week or two ago, someone posted a link on EliteFTS to notalwaysright.com Anyone who has ever had a job in the service industry can relate to illogical, outrageous, rude or just plain confusing customer demands. I thought this one would go over well here

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Retail | Missouri, USA

(An angry, overweight female customer approaches me with a Nintendo Wii Fit and hands me her receipt.)

Me: ?Hi, what can I help you with today??

Customer: ?I?d like to return this.?

Me: ?What seems to be the problem with it??

Customer: ?I think it?s broken.?

Me: ?All right, what?s going on??

Customer: ?Whenever it weighs me and calculates my BMI, it labels me as obese.?

Me: ?And??

Customer: ?Well, that can?t be right!?

Me: ?From what I?ve heard, the measurements on Wii Fits are fairly accurate. Are you sure you want to return this? They?re pretty hard to find.?

Customer: ?Are you calling me fat?!?

Me: ?No, I?m just saying that??

Customer: ?You just called me fat!

Me: ?No, I was just saying??

Customer: ?Whatever. I still want to return it. It?s obviously not working right. And, I think someone should talk to the designer; make them use a different word. It hurt my feelings.?

Me: soothingly ?Maybe you could contact Nintendo; write a letter or something.?

Customer: ?You know what, I will! I?ll let them know that their stupid game called me obese and made me cry for three hours straight. I haven?t eaten solid food for two days because of it. I?m so hungry! I almost fainted last night. Do you think I can sue??

Me: ?Well, you can sure try. Have a nice day.?

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Actually if it was using The BMI scale, it would be the people that wrote and endorse it that she should sue. Not sure its endorsed by the NIH or any other organization anymore though.

Oh or how about sue the people that invented or defined the word obese. Webster or somebody.

Yeah, customers are idiots, it one reason I became an engineer.

I wouldn’t have been nearly as nice. I’d have told here in that case it is being used as a clinical term and she statistically fits the criteria. If she doesn’t like being clinically obese, she should change herself, not the word.

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You guys would just sue for anything… Sad. I would however love to have one day a customer complaining about something like this.

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Wii fit calls me obese too, maybe the lady is just muscular like I am.

On another note, I’ve known quite a few people who were PISSED about the wii fit telling them they were obese.

Every single one of them was a girl.

They were all overweight.

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[quote]AlexD wrote:
You guys would just sue for anything… Sad. I would however love to have one day a customer complaining about something like this.[/quote]

You make generalizations about a group of people based on nationality … sad.

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Hilarious.

But lets all be polite here. Surely we can be sensitive to her body type.

Nintendo is obviously wrong here.

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[quote]KBCThird wrote:
AlexD wrote:
You guys would just sue for anything… Sad. I would however love to have one day a customer complaining about something like this.

You make generalizations about a group of people based on nationality … sad.[/quote]

But indeed true, sorry. It’s a fact that you cannot do shit in the US without risking getting sued. Please let me know of other countries where any magistrate would not laugh at that woman when she’ll explain him why she wants to hire him.

Sorry if you felt like I included you in the “you guys”, I initially meant the group of low life too lazy to actually work and make money and who tries to find alternate ways to get some. Its those I actually despise (so this nice fat lady), not you.

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WTF, really? This is what is wrong…i know there is customer service but then there is reality and we tend to sugar coat the shit as deep as possible…screw that lady…you should have said there is nothing wrong with the WII and when she said “did you call me fat” I would have said no, I didn’t call you fat or say you were but the console is correct and you should use that information to your advantage…

if she continued I would admit to her that I did think she was fat…screw it…I used to be all nice and stuff but if you are fat and try to believe or act that you are not then too bad. My damn WII said the same thing to me…it is true…I am fat right now…screw it. I am working on changing that…too funny.

can you imagine if you told her yes, you are fat what her face would have looked like?

PRICELESS!!!

M

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lol@ Nintendo giving it to you raw.

these people all must feel insecure about themselves in order to get mad over somthing so trivial. if you werent obese, like Higgins but it said you were anyway it wouldnt bother you and it shouldnt unless the shoe fits so to speak.

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[quote]AlexD wrote:

But indeed true, sorry. It’s a fact that you cannot do shit in the US without risking getting sued. Please let me know of other countries where any magistrate would not laugh at that woman when she’ll explain him why she wants to hire him.

[/quote]

have you noticed how pussified western europe has become?

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My doctor said I was obese according to my BMI… Then I had to take my shirt off and she said okay I get it you’re not fat…

I laughed.

I’d just tell that lady “yes mam, I just called you fat, now get the fuck out of here before you scare the hot chicks away”

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[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
AlexD wrote:

But indeed true, sorry. It’s a fact that you cannot do shit in the US without risking getting sued. Please let me know of other countries where any magistrate would not laugh at that woman when she’ll explain him why she wants to hire him.

have you noticed how pussified western europe has become?[/quote]

Teh whole world’s men are turning into fags !

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[quote]bmwdemon wrote:
WTF, really? This is what is wrong…i know there is customer service but then there is reality and we tend to sugar coat the shit as deep as possible…screw that lady…

you should have said there is nothing wrong with the WII and when she said “did you call me fat” I would have said no, I didn’t call you fat or say you were but the console is correct and you should use that information to your advantage…

if she continued I would admit to her that I did think she was fat…screw it…I used to be all nice and stuff but if you are fat and try to believe or act that you are not then too bad. My damn WII said the same thing to me…it is true…I am fat right now…screw it. I am working on changing that…too funny.

can you imagine if you told her yes, you are fat what her face would have looked like?

PRICELESS!!![/quote]

I would have a pretty tough time imagining what her face would look like seeing as how I’ve never met her. This was just a post I found on notalwaysright.com

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[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
AlexD wrote:

But indeed true, sorry. It’s a fact that you cannot do shit in the US without risking getting sued. Please let me know of other countries where any magistrate would not laugh at that woman when she’ll explain him why she wants to hire him.

have you noticed how pussified western europe has become?[/quote]

Yeah, you guys at least still get violence in movies and computer games :wink:

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Wii fit uses the standard BMI calculations from what I can tell, so yeah I’m really obese according to nintendo.

height:weight ratios sort of work for the majority of the sedentary population, but not athletes. kind of like having a low resting heart rate (<60 bpm) is considered bradycardia in a non-conditioned person.

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[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
AlexD wrote:

But indeed true, sorry. It’s a fact that you cannot do shit in the US without risking getting sued. Please let me know of other countries where any magistrate would not laugh at that woman when she’ll explain him why she wants to hire him.

have you noticed how pussified western europe has become?[/quote]

this has only been going on since the 18th century. i wouldnt really say theyre pussys either…theyre just different. they just care more about orgies, cobblestone streets, cigarettes and duster jackets than we do. which i think are better priorities than mcdonalds, walmart, and fords.

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Usually fat people know they are fat.

It’s pretty sad one can be obese and so oblivious to the fact, probably because her partner/friends all tell her she looks fine.

On a side note, I saw a fat dude the other day who just brought the Wii Fit and was slamming down not one, but 2 big mac meals from McDonalds. Great Start.

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[quote]hardgnr wrote:
Usually fat people know they are fat.

It’s pretty sad one can be obese and so oblivious to the fact, probably because her partner/friends all tell her she looks fine.

On a side note, I saw a fat dude the other day who just brought the Wii Fit and was slamming down not one, but 2 big mac meals from McDonalds. Great Start.[/quote]

He was getting his bloat on. So he could go all out.

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[quote]FormerlyTexasGuy wrote:
Hilarious.

But lets all be polite here. Surely we can be sensitive to her body type.

Nintendo is obviously wrong here. [/quote]

Right obese would be the wrong word… Based on her behavior… I’d rate her:

Morbidly Obese

Might light more than just tears. Maybe would encourage a few 100 steps a day to better health.

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At least she might have burned some calories taking it back to the store and getting worked up.