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fandomhigh2020-10-09 05:16 am
somethingwithturquoise) wrote in fandomhigh2020-10-09 05:16 am
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Multidimensional Economics; Friday, First Period [10/09].
"Good morning, everyone!" Summer greeted the class eagerly as they met in the Danger Shop yet again, although it was the Danger Shop running her Absolutely Normal Classroom sim because that would never not be hilarious to her, even more so when she could have run an actual simulation for what they were doing that day, but decided not to.
Look, sometimes, you just had to make your own entertainment.
"So, today's class is actually inspired by recent events," she gave a small nod to Eleanorassuming she was there, "and we're going to tap a little bit into some creativity, because today we're talking about returns and how to handle them, and while I thought we could run a good sim of some aliens in dead-end customer service jobs who want absolutely nothing to do with your bullshit, that's pretty much what every day life is like, anyway, and I thought it would be way more fun if we each tried to take turns in both roles with each other and do a little role-playing with it."
Because she'd learned very quickly in this class that there was no way even she could program aliens as entertaining as this handful of students bouncing off of each other.
"So here's the deal: take some turns as both customer and customer service rep, and work against each other to figure something out. The customer will approach the rep with a product and complaint of your own imagining and see if you can't convince the rep to process the return. Reps, feel free to be as lenient or as stubborn about it as you'd like. Everywhere has its own policies for this sort of thing, right? So we'll just see where it goes!
"Oh! And one last thing. I am totally going to be that teacher that gives you an assignment for the break week, but it's extremely relevent to the class and it's not really, like, a normal assignment that's actually work. But, for those of you who are going, we'll be going to a different continent next week, so, while it's a little bit smaller potatoes than multidimensional, there's definitely some economic considerations going to be at play here. And my mission to you all, if you choose to accept it, is to make sure to find at least one really interesting or really bizarre or just really different from what you would normally find where you're from souvenier to bring back with you that we'll discuss in next next Friday's class. I will totally even reimburse you for it up to a certain dollar amount." Because, yeah, she had some money she was still trying to burn through from her Chopped win, but she wasn't about to burn through that much. "So basically: buy something weird next week on my dime so we can do a trip-based show-and-tell. Not too bad, right?
"And with that said," she tossed a smile around the fake classroom, "let's tap into some of our inner Karens and try to return some crap for ridiculous reasons."
Look, sometimes, you just had to make your own entertainment.
"So, today's class is actually inspired by recent events," she gave a small nod to Eleanor
Because she'd learned very quickly in this class that there was no way even she could program aliens as entertaining as this handful of students bouncing off of each other.
"So here's the deal: take some turns as both customer and customer service rep, and work against each other to figure something out. The customer will approach the rep with a product and complaint of your own imagining and see if you can't convince the rep to process the return. Reps, feel free to be as lenient or as stubborn about it as you'd like. Everywhere has its own policies for this sort of thing, right? So we'll just see where it goes!
"Oh! And one last thing. I am totally going to be that teacher that gives you an assignment for the break week, but it's extremely relevent to the class and it's not really, like, a normal assignment that's actually work. But, for those of you who are going, we'll be going to a different continent next week, so, while it's a little bit smaller potatoes than multidimensional, there's definitely some economic considerations going to be at play here. And my mission to you all, if you choose to accept it, is to make sure to find at least one really interesting or really bizarre or just really different from what you would normally find where you're from souvenier to bring back with you that we'll discuss in next next Friday's class. I will totally even reimburse you for it up to a certain dollar amount." Because, yeah, she had some money she was still trying to burn through from her Chopped win, but she wasn't about to burn through that much. "So basically: buy something weird next week on my dime so we can do a trip-based show-and-tell. Not too bad, right?
"And with that said," she tossed a smile around the fake classroom, "let's tap into some of our inner Karens and try to return some crap for ridiculous reasons."
Re: Attempt to Return Things! - Economics, 10/09.
"Well we can forgo the service call however you're going to have to meet me in the janitor's for a full refund."
Yep. She's throwing him a t-bone.
Re: Attempt to Return Things! - Economics, 10/09.
And then he went right back into the character he really hadn't been playing through this whole thing, when he said, very seriously, "As a customer, I find those terms acceptable and legit."
Re: Attempt to Return Things! - Economics, 10/09.
Those surveys were bullshirt anyway.