Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Draft #93
Some good old fashioned griping
1. What's it like being a switchboard operator?
-It's loads of fun. The kind of fun people associate, with being forced to watch a puppy as it gets run over by a truck.
2. What's the weirdest call you've ever gotten?
-Well today the guy next to me took a peculiar call. Sometimes when people are waiting on the line for the switchboard to pickup, they engage in conversations with friends or whoever. When we pick up a call, we'll hear the tail end of their conversations before they realize they're on the line. Today he overheard this from a lady talking to what I assume would be another lady, "Wow, it must be hard to masturbate with those fingernails.......Oh high operator. May I have the credit union?"
3. What's the most aggravating aspect of your job?
-I'd have to say it is a tie between taking calls from the elderly and really foreign people. The elderly can be very demanding, they don't understand anything. All of our electronic menus confuse them severely, as if someone was lowering them into a pool of lava on a slow moving platform that won't stop until they solve an extremely discombobulated rubik's cube. They hate menus, so once they panic and "zero out" of the menu they are currently in and come to us, they will stop at nothing to keep us in their grasp. They fear machines, but can relate to the sound of a human voice (and by relate to, I mean they have someone to ramble on and on with). So once they're finally done explaining their whole issue, we have to tell them we are just the switchboard, and that we can transfer them back to customer service (which is just another series of menus). It's an endless cycle of frustration. Once we say that we can transfer them, they're like, "Not another menu, they don't work, I was on hold for an hour, I need a live person, my back hurts, will you come with me, where's my pills?" They're just quite the inconvenience I tell ya.
I don't even wonna get started with people who speak trainwreck English, all's you have to know is that it is a pain having to ask someone to repeat what they just said four or five times. "What....Who......Is that their first or last name.......can you spell it please........F as in Frank or S as in Sam..........I don't see anyone with that name..........Oh, it was m-a-r.........There's four Katimastimar's...............Do you know which one................Do you know which department they're in...............Do you know anything...........at all"
4. What's the best way to piss off an operator?
-When you don't get exactly what you want, the second you want it, asking for our manager isn't going to help you out at all, well maybe it will, but it's the dickhead way of getting what you want. And do not ask me what my name is just for the sake of narking on me, not cool.
5. Has anyone said anything interesting in the last 10 minutes?
-A co-worker was talking about how a girlfriend of hers gave her the "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" DVD for her birthday a couple years back. She said she already knew how to do that. It usually only takes her seven days. So I guess it was a bad gift.
6. Do you currently have an eyelash caught in your eye?
-Yes, and it is quite bothersome.
7. What did you have for lunch today?
-A portobello on focaccia sandwich, seared haddock, green beans, cauliflower, and rice. It was outstanding!
8. Who have you e-mailed the most today?
-My friend Christina. She said she was hanging out last night in the VIP section of a club with Andrew Bogut and Bobby Simmons. If that was the case, then it's nice to know that the Bucks fine young talent really knows how to spend a Monday night, especially after a crippling defeat in the playoffs. Where's the discipline?
9. What was the deal with the waitress you had last night at Fiesta Garibaldi?
-No kidding, who actually thinks having two gold front teeth is a good look? She looked like a Mexican pirate. They did make one hell of a chimichanga so I won't complain.
10. What's the first thing you're going to do when you get home tonight?
-I'm going to put on some Lee Press On Nails and see if the rumor is true.
# posted by hucklebuck @ 11:22 AM 
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Did you see the numbers Bobby Simmons posted last night? Three points in over 30 minutes and you're telling me he doesn't deserve to have a libation or ten? Oh, and don't forget about the large contribution from Dan Gadzuric..........DNP baby! That's 3 points last night from guys that cost the Bucks 15 million this year.
"The NBA, it's CRAPTASTIC"!
"The NBA, it's CRAPTASTIC"!
1. How does a scrawny, white, eight-year-old get the nickname Buckwheat? He just does.
2. They are actually working on a new product called the Double Use Douche that will be available in October 06', and it will make for a great stocking stuffer.
2. They are actually working on a new product called the Double Use Douche that will be available in October 06', and it will make for a great stocking stuffer.
I also know of two different people that have seen Dan Gadzuric in public. He's been spotted at a Piggly Wiggly in Cedarburg, and the Grand Avenue shopping mall.
Reports say that he is very tall.
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Reports say that he is very tall.
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