Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!testfeeder.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.electronics Subject: Re: Dick Smith Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:02:13 +1100 Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: <0rd39b1cnglmnv7c4frb8150ej5e3v47br@4ax.com> <56923246$0$3297$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com> <56930607$0$13136$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net GBOyMzLp2cfNpDIiwI3l3Q6R0om05R+u85O6zTTJM64HMRg0E= Cancel-Lock: sha1:M4nCKufqQ9pDNDwsGeFSQPb3R38= In-Reply-To: <56930607$0$13136$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:50171 aus.electronics:30775 "F Murtz" wrote in message news:56930607$0$13136$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com... > Rod Speed wrote: >> >> >> "F Murtz" wrote in message >> news:56923246$0$3297$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com... >>> Rod Speed wrote: >>>> pedro wrote >>>>> Rod Speed wrote >>>>>> Petzl 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.