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<p> </p><h2>Anyone who has worked in customer service is familiar with having to smile and nod politely while attempting to sincerely answer quite possibly the dumbest questions ever pondered by mankind.</h2><p>Is it possible to get the steak without meat? Could my child sit at the casino? Would you mind knitting this quilt for me if I pay you in &quot;exposure?&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m at work and just talked to a customer new to Canada who in all seriousness asked me what date the snow will be gone because he’s had enough. <br><br>Like, buddy, brace yourself for disappointment.</p>&mdash; 💙Annex💛 (@annex_girl) <a href="https://twitter.com/annex_girl/status/1489723288343531525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/slhiv8/what_is_something_that_people_in_your_profession/">Reddit </a>user asked, &quot;What is something that people in your profession understand, but the general public can&rsquo;t seem to grasp?&quot; people who was frustrated with tolerating &quot;dumb&quot; customer questions and observations were ready to reveal the tricks of their trade.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Yes the animal is in the exhibit. Sometimes you have to look for longer than 8 seconds. - rue842</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>You actually don&#39;t want an exotic animal as a pet. - feivelgoeswest</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Public libraries are not safe places to drop off your kids. It&rsquo;s not the books that are unsafe; it&rsquo;s the other patrons, and the fact that librarians are not babysitters. - fauxbuous</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a chocolatier. My god, your chocolate will last the two weeks until Christmas. Buy it now and give it next Christmas. It has a shelf life measured in years. And stop putting it in the f*cking fridge. I made it three months ago and it&#39;s been sitting at room temperature in a box since then. If you put it in the fridge for a week it&#39;ll get condensation on it and turn sticky, or the cold will ruin the tempering.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>*fillings will go bad sooner than the chocolate itself. But that&#39;s still months. And when I say &quot;go bad&quot;, I mean dry out and have a subpar texture. Quality chocolate melts at around 75F, if your home is 75F or higher you can refrigerate it.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Try to keep the humidity around 40% though, as any higher will give you sticky chocolate. The white streaks or specks is called &quot;bloom&quot;. It&#39;s a separation of either fat or sugar, it&#39;s safe to eat, but it will be like eating chalk. Also most chocolate shops will buy 10lbs bars of chocolate to use, if you want plain chocolate you can ask for bulk and it will usually be about 1/2 the price of a filled candy. - JvckiWaifu</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m a lifeguard. I am not a babysitter. It is your job as a parent to watch your kid when swimming and if they can&#39;t swim you have to be in the water within 5 feet of them at all times. 9 times out of 10 when we have an child incident or downing, (which happens maybe once every few years) you see a parent running down the hill with a drink in their hand. - Ceiling_Fan_Lady</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>If you want to fit a portrait image into a landscape canvas, you either have to:</p> <p>crop it</p> <p>leave a black or white border / empty space left and right</p> <p>distort it (which is almost always a bad idea)</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>On a regular occurrence, clients are unhappy with either of these options, they just want me to <em>somehow make it fit.</em></p> <p>- Designer (Web and Print) - aleqqqs</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Switching it off and on again&quot; in I.T. usually resets the device to the state before you pissed about with it, this quite often solves the problem. - Jezbod</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>No matter how foolproof you make something a bigger fool will come along - DisabledDad</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Teaching children takes more than subject knowledge. Many people think that their experience as a student qualifies them to be teachers. It&#39;s called the apprenticeship of observation. There are strategies for both classroom management and teaching that you don&#39;t learn from being a student. - Substantially-Ranged</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>horses are less fragile than people think. they are also more fragile than people think.</p> <p>also, it probably won&rsquo;t kick you if you walk behind it. but insurance is expensive, so please don&rsquo;t. - Affectionate-Whole93</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>Unpleasant feelings are healthy and needed for us to function properly - bananaritual</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not every problem with audio is feedback. Feedback is when the sound goes out the speakers and back through the mic and loops around and around. Ground hum is not feedback, noise is not feedback, echo off the wall is not feedback. And speak up, people, the mic isn&#39;t magic you need to be heard! - srcarruth</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Just because I&#39;m an electrical engineer doesn&#39;t mean I can rewire your house. At least not legally. - CrumpledPopCan</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>As somebody in the travel industry...most chain hotels are not actually owned by the company whose name is over the front door.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>People kind of get the franchise model for fast food restaurants, but they have no idea it applies to hotels as well. - Hysterical_Realist</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>Bathroom renovations. Things take time. Drying times are a factor. If I ask your budget, it&rsquo;s not because I&rsquo;m trying to empty your account&hellip;I just need to know your expectations so I can meet them. - EasyOutside4</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>We can&#39;t keep a copy of every book ever published on hand in our store. Some things we will have to order for you. - BatmansKhalessi</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>Yes, your flight is in fact delayed due to weather. Yes, I also understand it&rsquo;s a gorgeous day here AND at our destination airport. What you don&rsquo;t understand is the airplane is coming from New York and THEY had weather. - poser765</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Pencils are expensive,paints are expensive,proper paper is expensive,it takes a lot of time to do a painting....so no I can&#39;t give it to you for free or &quot;exposure&quot; - SidnyM</p> </blockquote><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>Flossing actually helps - throwmeawaydumbas*</p> </blockquote><h2>20.</h2><blockquote> <p>That everyone is entitled to due process and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty no matter how sleazy or guilty they are. - bobby4orr70</p> </blockquote><h2>21.</h2><blockquote> <p>Just because I &quot;play&quot; in a band, doesn&#39;t mean it isn&#39;t work! For every hour you see me on stage, I spent probably 100 hours practicing and rehearsing, so you would enjoy listening to me. - LusciousLennyStone</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>22.</h2><blockquote> <p>Your children are generally as*holes and we don&#39;t find them nearly as charming as you find them - JonGilbony</p> </blockquote><h2>23.</h2><blockquote> <p>Don&rsquo;t drop microphones, someone owns it and they can be damaged. - kmo9e</p> </blockquote><h2>24.</h2><blockquote> <p>Just because I&#39;m an IT guy doesn&#39;t mean I know how to fix everything. Just like every other profession, there are specialties. Want me to build out a server? Im in. Want me to remove a virus on your Windows 7 machine? Ummm... No thanks, not really my gig. - Kaertos</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

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 Anyone who has worked in customer service is familiar with having to smile and nod politely while attempting to sincerely answer quite possibly the dumbest questions ever pondered by mankind.Is it possible to get the steak without meat? Could my child sit at the casino? Would you mind knitting this quilt for me if I pay you in &quot;exposure?&quot;I’m at work and just talked to a customer new to Canada who in all seriousness asked me what date the snow will be gone because he’s had enough. Like, buddy, brace yourself for disappointment.&mdash; 💙Annex💛 (@annex_girl) February 4, 2022 So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What is something that people in your profession understand, but the general public can&rsquo;t seem to grasp?&quot; people who was frustrated with tolerating &quot;dumb&quot; customer questions and observations were ready to reveal the tricks of their trade.1. Yes the animal is in the exhibit. Sometimes you have to look for longer than 8 seconds. - rue842 2. You actually don&#39;t want an exotic animal as a pet. - feivelgoeswest 3. Public libraries are not safe places to drop off your kids. It&rsquo;s not the books that are unsafe; it&rsquo;s the other patrons, and the fact that librarians are not babysitters. - fauxbuous 4. I&#39;m a chocolatier. My god, your chocolate will last the two weeks until Christmas. Buy it now and give it next Christmas. It has a shelf life measured in years. And stop putting it in the f*cking fridge. I made it three months ago and it&#39;s been sitting at room temperature in a box since then. If you put it in the fridge for a week it&#39;ll get condensation on it and turn sticky, or the cold will ruin the tempering.   *fillings will go bad sooner than the chocolate itself. But that&#39;s still months. And when I say &quot;go bad&quot;, I mean dry out and have a subpar texture. Quality chocolate melts at around 75F, if your home is 75F or higher you can refrigerate it.   Try to keep the humidity around 40% though, as any higher will give you sticky chocolate. The white streaks or specks is called &quot;bloom&quot;. It&#39;s a separation of either fat or sugar, it&#39;s safe to eat, but it will be like eating chalk. Also most chocolate shops will buy 10lbs bars of chocolate to use, if you want plain chocolate you can ask for bulk and it will usually be about 1/2 the price of a filled candy. - JvckiWaifu 5. I&rsquo;m a lifeguard. I am not a babysitter. It is your job as a parent to watch your kid when swimming and if they can&#39;t swim you have to be in the water within 5 feet of them at all times. 9 times out of 10 when we have an child incident or downing, (which happens maybe once every few years) you see a parent running down the hill with a drink in their hand. - Ceiling_Fan_Lady 6. If you want to fit a portrait image into a landscape canvas, you either have to: crop it leave a black or white border / empty space left and right distort it (which is almost always a bad idea)  On a regular occurrence, clients are unhappy with either of these options, they just want me to somehow make it fit. - Designer (Web and Print) - aleqqqs 7. &quot;Switching it off and on again&quot; in I.T. usually resets the device to the state before you pissed about with it, this quite often solves the problem. - Jezbod 8. No matter how foolproof you make something a bigger fool will come along - DisabledDad 9. Teaching children takes more than subject knowledge. Many people think that their experience as a student qualifies them to be teachers. It&#39;s called the apprenticeship of observation. There are strategies for both classroom management and teaching that you don&#39;t learn from being a student. - Substantially-Ranged 10. horses are less fragile than people think. they are also more fragile than people think. also, it probably won&rsquo;t kick you if you walk behind it. but insurance is expensive, so please don&rsquo;t. - Affectionate-Whole93 11. Unpleasant feelings are healthy and needed for us to function properly - bananaritual 12. Not every problem with audio is feedback. Feedback is when the sound goes out the speakers and back through the mic and loops around and around. Ground hum is not feedback, noise is not feedback, echo off the wall is not feedback. And speak up, people, the mic isn&#39;t magic you need to be heard! - srcarruth 13. Just because I&#39;m an electrical engineer doesn&#39;t mean I can rewire your house. At least not legally. - CrumpledPopCan 14. As somebody in the travel industry...most chain hotels are not actually owned by the company whose name is over the front door.   People kind of get the franchise model for fast food restaurants, but they have no idea it applies to hotels as well. - Hysterical_Realist 15. Bathroom renovations. Things take time. Drying times are a factor. If I ask your budget, it&rsquo;s not because I&rsquo;m trying to empty your account&hellip;I just need to know your expectations so I can meet them. - EasyOutside4 16. We can&#39;t keep a copy of every book ever published on hand in our store. Some things we will have to order for you. - BatmansKhalessi 17. Yes, your flight is in fact delayed due to weather. Yes, I also understand it&rsquo;s a gorgeous day here AND at our destination airport. What you don&rsquo;t understand is the airplane is coming from New York and THEY had weather. - poser765 18. Pencils are expensive,paints are expensive,proper paper is expensive,it takes a lot of time to do a painting....so no I can&#39;t give it to you for free or &quot;exposure&quot; - SidnyM 19. Flossing actually helps - throwmeawaydumbas* 20. That everyone is entitled to due process and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty no matter how sleazy or guilty they are. - bobby4orr70 21. Just because I &quot;play&quot; in a band, doesn&#39;t mean it isn&#39;t work! For every hour you see me on stage, I spent probably 100 hours practicing and rehearsing, so you would enjoy listening to me. - LusciousLennyStone 22. Your children are generally as*holes and we don&#39;t find them nearly as charming as you find them - JonGilbony 23. Don&rsquo;t drop microphones, someone owns it and they can be damaged. - kmo9e 24. Just because I&#39;m an IT guy doesn&#39;t mean I know how to fix everything. Just like every other profession, there are specialties. Want me to build out a server? Im in. Want me to remove a virus on your Windows 7 machine? Ummm... No thanks, not really my gig. - Kaertos 

Anyone who has worked in customer service is familiar with having to smile and nod politely while attempting to sincerely answer quite possibly the dumbest questions ever pondered by mankind.  Is it possible to get the steak without meat?...