Re: Dick Smith

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.electronics
Subject	Re: Dick Smith
Date	2016-01-11 13:02 +1100
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"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:56930607$0$13136$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com...
> Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:56923246$0$3297$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com...
>>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>> pedro <me@privacy.net> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>
>>>>>>> Best practice in their case would be to have a
>>>>>>> "maître D'" to assign someone to be served.
>>>>
>>>>>> No one does it that way.
>>>>
>>>>> Except crap Telstra stores ....
>>>>
>>>> They don't do it that way either.
>>>>
>>>> The banks do tho.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Some telstra stores have maitre d sometimes probably depends on the
>>> amount of flack they are getting from waiting customers because of not
>>> enough staff. but there are two sorts of these stores in shopping
>>> centres,a few telstra owned ones and the rest franchised Telstra being
>>> the worst for being kept waiting in my experience.
>>
>> Yeah, we only have the franchised ones here and the
>> only time I have used one the waiting was pretty bad.
>>
>> Mate of mine uses them quite a bit, must ask him.
>>
>> I have run one to check on what someone I know
>> claims was available and got a pretty quick and
>> accurate answer. Didn't get as good a result with
>> the Optus franchise operation with a question
>> about what they were up to mobile towers wise,
>> but that's a pretty pathetically inadequate sample.
>>
>> None of them use a maitre d here. At least one of
>> the banks does, I wouldn't go inside a bank more
>> than about once in 10 years now.

> The maitre d thing  is not permanent, it happens when the customers get 
> antsy,

Can't say I have ever seen that with a Telstra shop,
but then I don't go in them that often at all.

I did see in the ComBank, and it was very quiet at the time.

> which in reality is self defeating because it takes one person away from 
> doing the work,(they must have decided that it keeps customers happy)

True unless they use some ape who wouldn't
normally have anything to do with the customers.

> If this works,

Bet it doesn't.

> there is no accounting for sheeple.

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          Re: Dick Smith F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-10 21:28 +1100
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          Re: Dick Smith felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-06 00:37 +1100
            Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-06 07:51 +1100
              Re: Dick Smith Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2016-01-06 07:53 +0800
                Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-06 11:26 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 11:47 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-06 12:45 +1100
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                Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-06 13:37 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2016-01-06 11:06 +0800
                Re: Dick Smith keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au> - 2016-01-06 22:45 +1000
                Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-07 08:03 +1100
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                Re: Dick Smith jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 18:59 -0800
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                Re: Dick Smith "Robert" <robert@no.email> - 2016-01-10 09:25 +0800
                Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-10 12:53 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-06 15:56 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2016-01-06 18:02 +1100
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              Re: Dick Smith F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-06 15:07 +1100
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                Re: Dick Smith F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-06 19:05 +1100
                Re: Dick Smith Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2016-01-06 19:23 +1100
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                Re: Dick Smith F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-06 19:06 +1100
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                Re: Dick Smith "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 17:03 +1100
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                Re: Dick Smith "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 19:28 +1100
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    Re: Dick Smith "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 17:47 +1100
  Re: Dick Smith Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-05 23:44 +1100
    Re: Dick Smith "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-08 17:51 +1100
  Re: Dick Smith Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2016-01-05 22:54 +0800
    Re: Dick Smith "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2016-01-06 09:14 +0800
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