F*** YOU

poor old frank,stay in school kids or one day you might just find yourself up the clock tower at homeworld armed with an AK47 assult rifle “inforcing” the law your own way..
remember to look up people!

As with many ‘public facing’ jobs, Car Park attendant is up with the top of them for getting abuse. It’s easy I suppose….

However, brighten up your day, give the attendant a tip! Seriously, the look on the guy’s face when I said ‘keep the change’ (about 2 dollars) was pricless. If I had been in a Merc or some other tall-poppy’s car then it wouldn’t have worked, in my beat-up Daewoo it was just fab.

Frank, just remember, those who give you grief are giving themselves high blood pressure and will die soon; so just smile knowingly at them… 🙂

Not being a Tuggborean, i dont get down to the Hyper – D as much as i should. Has anyone had a run in with Frank? or know of him?

Someone needs to chill out and stop taking their job so personally. Frank, unless you own the company, it’s not your money so who cares!

PBO said :

I have been thinking about my response to this and i have come up with this.

Get a cup, some water and cement and harden the F*#k up. You are paid to do a job, not to bitch and moan about it. I have had that particular job in the past and I dealt with it.

If you dont like it change jobs, you cannot change the world from your position.

And dont bitch and moan about getting folks registration on camera because it is
un-enforcable and you know it. If people get away without paying, then so be it.

I gather that you might be a bit of a prick and that is why people give you attitude.

If you smile and be friendly and approacable then people may be nicer to you.

Think about it.

+1 if you can’t handle it don’t do the job – simple. take a deep breathe and GATHER YOURSELF TOGETHER princess

goose said :

I will forward this article to the Hyperdome management. So F*** YOU too.

It is vital to respect anonymity on the board please, so goose please retract that threat!

oh come on, give frank a break, seriously…

So he had a rant, no problem there as I reckon everyone has been affronted by some self important yummy mummy with an inflated sense of entitlement in a toorak tractor .

Good, worthy rant though…

Or, as Elvis may have put it… “a-mum-in-a-humm-(in)-a”

“Ha! I kill me” (ALF:1980s) 🙂

you missed one shiny flu 🙂

I have been thinking about my response to this and i have come up with this.

Get a cup, some water and cement and harden the F*#k up. You are paid to do a job, not to bitch and moan about it. I have had that particular job in the past and I dealt with it.

If you dont like it change jobs, you cannot change the world from your position.

And dont bitch and moan about getting folks registration on camera because it is
un-enforcable and you know it. If people get away without paying, then so be it.

I gather that you might be a bit of a prick and that is why people give you attitude.

If you smile and be friendly and approacable then people may be nicer to you.

Think about it.

Bud White said :

F*** you back Frank ya whiney b*tch. Get some qualifications and get another job.

Parking attendant = parasite.

At least someone’s doing the job.Every job comes with it’s bitching (I could write a pretty long article about my working gripes – and I’m only doing part-time with study). I’m sure most public servants in customer service areas feel the same way about some customers.

Goose, that’s low. Nobody likes a dobber.

Pommy bastard said :

I’ll make my kid read this, hoepfuly it will make her even more keen to do well at school.

You beat me to it.

I remember when shopping mall parking was free in Canberra.
I suppose those executive corporate salaries must be maintained,even if it is under the guise of user pays,then throw someone like Frank to the wolves.We definitely have a much higher class of complainer in Canberra
so go Frank push back.

While it’s obvious that Frank had a bad day and went for a mega whinge, I think anyone who is insulting him for his career choice is very unkind. How would you like it?

No, tell us how you really feel?

@Punter yes yes yes…I totally have to agree with the size of the parking spaces. Must be the smallest in Canberra.

Frank…If it make’s you feel better to get that off your chest then great, I hope you feel better…don’t let it eat you up eh (life’s to short :)!

F*** you back Frank ya whiney b*tch. Get some qualifications and get another job.

Parking attendant = parasite.

I will forward this article to the Hyperdome management. So F*** YOU too.

Yes, Limelight validate parking tickets like Hoyts used to. Just ask on your way out.

Wow, what an idiot.

I’ll make my kid read this, hoepfuly it will make her even more keen to do well at school.

Good on you Frank. Those of us with marginally more interesting jobs can sympathise. Those of us with marginally more interesting jobs are often just as challenged by the ill-mannered people we deal with, only often they are First Assistant Secretaries! Working on your own can have its advantages. Just watch your blood pressure and don’t let idiots get to you. Go Zen … breathe … and please don’t turn to the bottle other than in company!

i like Frank

All the parking at the hyperdome is automated for a start. Why you would need to park there for more than the free period, unless you work there or go to the movies, is beyond me. It does look like some of the gates at the hyperdome have been rammed a couple of times, to invest in some Westfield ones maybe? I have often seen people backed up at Woden because one idiot has not paid before trying to leave. The best way I have heard of avoiding the fees are by ghosting the car in front, from people who work in shops in the centre..

Punter said :

While were on the subject of parking in the Hyperdome car park, how narrow are the majority of car spaces in there? Most of them must be below standard. http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/disabilitystandards/exhibits/exhibit11.pdf.

Frank, perhaps you could channel your passion toward a positive venture and spearhead this initiative.

I couldn’t agree more Punter; to the point where I now park across the road just to avoid having to negotiate my way through the terrors of the hyperdome car park and the skinny, ridiculous parking spaces. Husband is still cranky about my most recent encounter with a hyperdome pole.

Good on you Frank for having a good vent; better to let it out here than blow up in the face of one of the cranky car-parkers.

And as for you, ‘ED’, who ‘wouldn’t be seen dead in the hyperdome carpark’; your comment reflects the very worst kind of Canberran snobbery.

With Frank on this one. Weel, whoever Frank is at Woden. Last Wednesday night some chip-on-her-shoulder Territory-driving baby boomer blocked an outgoing lane for everybody behind her.

Her basis for not paying at the booths? It was under 2 hours when she left the centre to head back to her car.

The effect on everybody doing the right thing? Queueing in the heat for a quarter hour.

While were on the subject of parking in the Hyperdome car park, how narrow are the majority of car spaces in there? Most of them must be below standard. http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/disabilitystandards/exhibits/exhibit11.pdf.

Frank, perhaps you could channel your passion toward a positive venture and spearhead this initiative.

Something tells me Frank is about to pop up in a course for ‘customer relations’ very soon.

Limelight do validate tickets.

It is automated Punter and to their credit the old girls who used to man the exit booths before automation were always unfailingly civil and polite. Same can’t be said for Centre Management or the brain dead Morons who call themselves “Security”

Cranky Franky, it might be time for a career change. I thought the Hyperdome was fully automated?

Let me help you on the way to a better life Mr. Frank:

The words “do not” can be abbreviated with “don’t” and not “dnt”

Other than that your petty rant (or should it really be called a whinge) was quite good on the spelling front, in fact it’s quite the achievement in comparison to Riot Act’s Ranters Hall of Fame.

By the way, Happy Valentines Day. I would give you flowers/chocolates, but I’m afraid you’ll murder me with a boom gate.

Frank, what actually happened? Details with no regos would be great. Was it a late model Toyota, grass green in colour? Then I’m sorry. I truly am. PMS is my only excuse.

Punter said :

I was under the impression the Hyperdome was completely automated with ticket machines to manage the car park, no more ‘toll booths’.

I knew it was a bad idea to connect the parking system to the Internet.

There is one lonely personed booth in the top carpark near Coles – Frank is probably in that one. Frank if they would improve the signage re Fri night parking you might get more joy – if it says entry after 6 it is in very little writing as all I see is Friday night – to me that is anytime after finishing work on Friday!

Glad you could get your frustrations out and I promise I am one of the people who are usually nice to you.

Definitely flame of the month

I was under the impression the Hyperdome was completely automated with ticket machines to manage the car park, no more ‘toll booths’. On the side Frank, does the limelight cinema validate car park tickets the way Hoyts used to?

Sorry Frank, you gonna have a coronary?

I have a feeling that you don’t really like your job, I can possibly give you a hug next time I’m down there.

where’d my ‘a’ go? ‘a frank assessment…’

Hahahaha, Frank, you obviously feel strongly on this issue. Let me guess you just served an especially cranky, probably older bloke who asked to talk to your boss, and are still seething with unfairness of it all. Let me just say never work in any type of call centre or government shopfront, Medicare etc or you will really cry.

this is clearly very frank assessment of the situation – that said, despiTE LACK OF CAPITALs in odd places, etc: flame of the month?

The Horrordome just got a whole lot scarier!