Working At a Car Dealership.. AGHHH!

One of my jobs is working at a Acura car dealership. Some people would think that is a cool job. (you get to be around these nice cars and the job can't be that hard right..?!)
Okay well I will give it to you there.. my job really is not that hard. I am a receptionist/cashier. Yes, I do handle large sums of money, but as long as you're organized your okay.
But what no one sees is the inside of a car dealership!!! These people are absolutely crazy!!! Everyone is always fighting with eachother over money and getting the deal. It is sad to see it go to the lengths it does. I have seen friends that are co-workers get into crazy fights. Not only are all my co-workers crazy.. The customers are.. OH MY GOD!!!! hahaha I don't even want to go there. But it is ridiculous some of the questions I am asked..
Some of the craziest things I have seen working here.......
1. A husband and wife coming in to buy a car. He thought his credit score was at a 740 and his wife was a 500. He expected to be at a 4% finance rate, until my finance manager told him it would be more like 14%. Turns out his wife neglected to mention she got a bunch of credit cards and they are in 100,000.00 in debt. The man nearly had a heart attack in front of me. (he had no idea)
2. A middle eastern man throw an entire extra large coffee across the entire showroom at a salesman. We still have the coffee stains against the corner wall.
3. Porters back cars into walls, doors, other cars... no big deal.
4. A man smashing his car literally pulling off of our lot, bought it brand new.
5. Our service department told a couple that they could not drive their car because it was very dangerous. They assured us they called a tow truck and just wanted their keys. (they weren't happy with our service dept. i guess) We had no choice but to give them their keys. They pulled about 10 feet and all four tires fell off. Their car was literally on the ground.
6. Having a customer come from jiffy lube because they stripped his oil pan while doing an oil change and the oil was leaking. He came here for an oil change and blamed us for doing this when he picked up vehicle. When my general manager said we would not replace this at our cost. He called the police, having broken up english... we had 6 squad cars.. 3 fire engines.. and 2 ambulances in front of the building in the matter of minutes... Turns out the 911 operator only could make out oil leak and thought the building was like going to blow up.

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AT&T && THE IPHONE!

Seriously ever since this iphone has come out, there has been no other phone that I have wanted! Just the newest coolest phone! So I suspended my account with t-mobile and went to AT&T with my brother. At first I was like okay I love this phone and it does everything that everyone says it does.....
THEN, I have it for a couple days and try to call people and recieve phone calls! I have never had so many dropped calls in my entire life. Whenever you call the customer care line, they just say that they will discount your bill (that's if you turn blue in the face) and make up some excuse and send their apologies.
If anyone out there wants to go to AT&T for just the iphone purpose, don't do it! You are better off getting an unlocked iphone off ebay or something and just bringing it to another carrier. AT&T service is terrible, and their customer care representitives dont even get personal with you when you are talking with them.
Coming from tmobile, they always were so nice and personable.
Ultimately it is your decision. Read the reviews online before signing a two year contract!
As soon as they come up with a jailbreak for my particular phone and upgrade, I plan to pay the deactivation fee and go back to T-mobile!
Best of luck to you guys! :)

PS- Apples contract with AT&T is coming to an end soon, and most service providers might have it.. just saying! :)

Craigslist....Beware!

So I have never really been into the whole buying online thing. But I thought I would give it a try, and decided to put my ipod online for sale. I put it on craigslist. My brother has used the site dozens of times, for lots of different reasons. So i figured, its my old one, why not sell it?!
So I put it up for like 200 bucks. I had a couple people interested in it, but I wasn't 100% sure that I wanted to sell it. (I should've probably thought about that before). A lot of people were trying to talk me down in price, but finally I found someone that said they would buy it for more than I was even selling it for. I told my brother because I was pretty excited. He told me I was an idiot and that it was a scam.
Before I knew it was a scam, I stupidly gave the woman, or whoever was at the other end of the computer, my real address. They told me that they were sending me a check through next day delivery, but they were out of the country. They sounded very intelligent and they told me that they would have their courier pick up the ipod. She told me to cash it through my checking account and that she was writing the check for 1000.00 over and to just give the money to the courier. Than told me that she would give me an extra 200 for doing this. The next day I had a check that was next day delivered in my mailbox.
Okay call me an idiot for thinking this was real but I actually did. Than I came to my senses and realized I was given a fake check. I gave it to the Northlake Police Department. They took care of it from there. The lady emailed me everyday for like 2 months straight asking when she could send her courier. I finally just deleted the e-mail and created a new account. People are crazy and sneaky out there! BEWARE!!!!!