What is the stupidest question someone has asked you at work?
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ANSWERS: 19
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How many red bags are there? (and the red bags were right in front of him, there was only 2)
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Are you working today?
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How are you?
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Can you make me look like ___________? (insert any celebrity name you can think of)
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Where's a starbucks? (I work in manhattan, we have two in our building alone.)
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I work at my college's tutoring center. People come to me to ask their stupid questions. Don't even get me started.
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why do we have to wash our hands?{fast food restaraunt}.
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At that moment, some ten years ago, I had my desk next to a big Kodak photocopier. It was being repaired. The repairman took it apart, I think that there were some twenty parts laying on the floor and on a desk. Someone came, looked at the disassembled photocopier and asked the repairman: Can I burn a copy right now?....
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Punched out, hand on the door..."Are you leaving"?
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Most men assume that because I am an entertainer, I will go home (or elsewhere) with them. You can't even imagine how many times I have been asked this. I am an entertainer, not a prostitute. That is why I work in a club with security, and not on the street corner. There IS a difference!
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Why do people hate Jeeeeeeeeeesuuuuuuuuuuus? (that is to indicate the crying and wailing that accompanied said stupid question for an hour after the question was asked) All this because somebody smashed their finger in a very heavy vault door and said g**d*****. Give me a break!
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the usual dumb question is, when the elevator is on the bottom floor, "Does this elevator go up". I want to say, no sir, just side to side. Or even better, "does this elevator go to the 12th floor" The 12th floor is on the main campus of the hospital, 2.5 miles away. It's an elevator, not a transporter.
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I got a text message from my boss, 'where are you today? are you sick?' I was on annual leave which she has approved. The next day I get another message 'Its ok your on leave'
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"Do you work here?" I felt like saying "Nope. I make it a habit to wear the employee uniform of the store I'm shopping in." I also liked: "I know you're closed, but can I just come in and buy something real quick?" Um, no. That's what CLOSED means. Some of us really would like to go home at the end of a shift.
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Someone once asked me, "Where's the fax machine?" It was right next to them when they asked me this. After staring at it for about fifteen minutes they asked me how to use it. This person has been working there longer than I have.
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Back from vacation already?
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A customer once asked me how many items they could bring in an express line At Wal-Mart when the sign infront of the register clearly states 20 or less.
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A man asked me if he could have his "rabbi", (I can only hope he meant "ribeye") Med rare. I told him that some people got in trouble for that a few years back(1945?) and could I interest him in the Barbecued Christian.....errr....Chicken?
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Famous line.. whenever I have a suit on "got an interview?" .. uggghhhhHhhh!
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