We were **** and the ref was a ****

Yeah, goddamn those customers wanting service.

Yes, you’re such a polite little man aren’t you?

I really do believe that you speak to salespeople like the real gentleman that you are! 😉

And honey, I don’t work in ticket sales, but I did have a laugh to myself when I was walking through the gates at all the stupid people like yourself getting all worked up over something you have complete control over.

Just because I don’t see the need to blame the salespeople, doesn’t mean I am one. I have however worked in retail for many years, and thus I sympathise with them when they have to deal with self-important jerks like yourself.

getting back to the game, we saw a team that can’t catch, and can’t pass to put a man at speed into the line.

The coach can blame the players all he likes for not following “the plan” but at the end of the day the Brumbies look like a very poorly drilled side, and that’s no-ones fault but Gandalf’s.

a) I’ve worked plexes with a 40,000 weekend walk-in . That’s multiple cinemas with multiple times. One show, one time, 15,000 patrons of which ~8,000 have seasons tickets is a doddle in comparison. A veritable walk in the park.

b) The customer is not always right but if you for a moment make the customer think anything else you have messed up royally. It saddens me that your training has been so diabolically poor.

c) I am always polite to the staff when i (in this case after a very long time) eventually get to the front and actually talk to someone.

d) If your customers are totally browned off by the time they get to speak to you I suggest you take it up with the managers who have understaffed and undertrained you, not the customer who has endured thirty minutes of propoganda announcements while queuing for what is supposed to be “fun” and then has to fork over > $30 for the privilege, having missed a quarter of the game.

The customer is NOT always right, that’s the biggest load of bullsh1t to ever be perpetuated.

Leads to selfish bastards like you who think they can push around 16 year-old girls. Tell me, does it make you feel like a big man to yell at teenage girls?

And selling tickets at Hoyts does not compare to selling tickets at a gigantic stadium for a packed footy match, you ignorant twit.

“Australian rugby has been strangled by stretching resources too thin, and the players and coaches inability to take risks”

That and the current crop are nowhere near as good as they think they are, and are paid too much to think that way. The 99 World Cup squad would hand the current guys their arses on a platter.

This saddens me, as I am an Aussie rugby man through and through, but hand the RWC to the All Blacks now and save the surrounding spectacle. The Wallabies won’t make the semis

I love how you just blame everything on the salespeople rather than your inability to get off your arse and get to the game a few minutes earlier.

Rule 1 of customer service, the customer is always right.

Having done a few years of professional ticket sales I know when it’s done well and done badly.

When the line does not move a step forwards for five minutes then the ticket selling is not being done well.

The customers turn up when they damn well want to and if the people selling the tickets want to stay in business they plan for the surge.

If you can’t get off your arse and sell tickets then maybe I’ll stay on mine rather than going to the ground to be treated that way.

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Growling Ferret, thats good, rugby doesn’t need its bandwagon followers who are only interested in games that look like a game of rugby league.

Comment by Avacry — 4 March, 2007 @ 4:14 pm”

Bandwagon followers? Pull ya head in clown. I used to watch the Brumbies at Manuka Oval – I bet you did not even know they played there… I was there the day Roff got 4 on James Smith and made the clown cry.

Bandwagon my arse – Australian rugby has been strangled by stretching resources too thin, and the players and coaches inability to take risks. Shame the current mob could not catch a cold…

I love how you just blame everything on the salespeople rather than your inability to get off your arse and get to the game a few minutes earlier.

My left arm is famous!

ahh, lovely welcoming attitude there.

The windows were about 1/3 staffed, furthermore the people they had on were painfully slow. I used to do cinema box office and I can tell you it was substandard out there last night.

here’s a picture of the gates taken at the same time, the ticket sales were so slow there was no-one moving through the gates despite the big crowd still trying to get in.

^ Exactly, is it really that hard for people to understand that if you turn up just before the game starts, there’s going to be a line to get in???

If you find it so traumatic to come a few minutes earlier, buy a season ticket and then you can go straight on through. Or better yet, stay home.

Canberrans always turn up with 10 minutes to go before something starts, and it looks like they have all the ticket windows open in the photo, what would you expect them to do?

Turn up a bit earlier, watch the lead-up game (if they have them these days – difficult to tell from my remote locale this season), and sink a few beers while you wait.

“Maybe next time people will get there a bit earlier? The box office opens at 4:15, yet people are still stupid enough to arrive 15 minutes before kick-off.”

Wow, that’s customer service!

Support the team properly, buy a season ticket.

Growling Ferret, thats good, rugby doesn’t need its bandwagon followers who are only interested in games that look like a game of rugby league.

Maybe next time people will get there a bit earlier? The box office opens at 4:15, yet people are still stupid enough to arrive 15 minutes before kick-off.

The bloke standing to the left of the mass-cheater, that is… We were in front of him, then he ended up in front of us. Go figure.

To think, at any time you could be standing next to Johnboy and not know it. scary.

I was. The bloke standing to the left is my mate, I was on the left of him.
Ticket sales were absolutely shocking.

Super 14 is anything but Super. And if this is the future of rugby, the sport as a form of spectator entertainment is dead… 4 years ago I used to go to all the games. 2 years ago I started watching them at home/pub. Now I prefer to watch whatever else is on Fox Sports

Grasshumping isn’t a sport.

To think, at any time you could be standing next to Johnboy and not know it. scary.

All those jumping off the Brumbies bandwagon as it careers off the road might like to try coming along to a Raiders game in the next few weeks. It promises to be far more entertaining than the drivel you watched at this match…

Yep, a poor performance and we now have the least number of scoring points than any other team in the comp.

Lose to the Stormers next week, we may as well declare the season closed.