07-27-2003, 10:19 AM
Ghostiger,Jul 27 2003, 05:42 AM Wrote:-what you smell likeHmm, that one's not so easy to dismiss . . .
Back in '97 I was working in a software retail store that was a very face-to-face, greet-them-as-they-walk-in-the-door kind of business. One day my chinese co-worker started talking to a customer over the counter just before I emerged from the backroom . . . I got to around three metres away from this guy and suddenly remembered something very important dragging me back into the back room that I had yet to dream up. Moving to within three metres of this halitosis record benchmark person (with maybe as many as a third of his teeth still vaguely intact after extensive rot) was like walking face first into a brick wall! :blink:
Can you imagine someone like that applying for a waiter's position in your restaurant, or other face to face job. It just wouldn't work.
Poor Richard. When the mutant non-customer finally got the hell out of our shop, I looked at my coworker sagging heavily at the counter, pushing fingers up under his glasses to wipe at the teary eyes, and I just said, "take a break man. You need it." :(
I have great respect for dentists after that encounter.
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