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lauz the caterpillagoddess of all things slimey and an interchangeable insect!
2,443 posts
Location: nottingham - the land of opportunity lol!


Posted:
ok so at my new job i'm phoning people to promote gyms.
its quite a stressful job as you get some very rude and ignorant people (and cant shout back) but on occassion you get some right weirdo's.

like this one guy i was telling him about the gym and the offers and i asked if he would be interested. he replies "i'm a fat slob, i dont need to go to the gym"

and then you get other people who come out with things like "your a really nice polite girl, do you have a boyfriend? because my son is single"

i find this hilarious.

any one else have a job that lets them speak or deal with weirdo's and tell me all about it, please do it will make my day tomorrow when i get in from yet another night of work smile

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KupschSILVER Member
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Location: glasgow, United Kingdom


Posted:
yes! I work in insurance customer service, I deal with absolute weirdos all the time, I deal directlywith complaints, you wouldnt believe how petty and pathetic some people are, they are like babies, and find satisfaction with tedious remarks and take things personally against you!

its sometimes incredibly irritating, but mostly just funny...

the wierdest person we've had so far, i fortunately didnt have to deal with, but another girl had to get sent home because she felt "sexually harrased" as the man phoned for a quote and throughout the call groaned and told her he would like it if she refered to him as baby, then when she gave him the price for his car insurance, he screamed and told her....what had basically just happened all over his hand. it was disgusting!! i felt sorry for the girl, but i doubt she was that affected, i think she just wanted to get home early and just used the call as an excuse!! (im sorry if this has offended anyone!!!)

IgirisujinSILVER Member
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2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom


Posted:
lol oh yeah that is so an excuse, if she felt so distressed about it she could have hung up anytime. Maybie she got so turned on she ran home to her boyfriend and banged his brains out ahahha.

The closest thing I have to deal with is is a smarmy pretentiouse chef called kieth (who everybody also hates), not exactly wirdo, but he makes that idiot of the telly whats his name Gordan Ramsy look fun to be around.

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PyroWillGOLD Member
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4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom


Posted:
No, but i serve weirdos, make them drunk, then serve them again and they're even weirder, like taking candy froma baby

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MynciBRONZE Member
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8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
I just talk to stereotypes around the world, thats where Har-row came from wink if you ever spoke to the little dude you wouldn't stop laughing for a week it's a lottery picking up the phone in case it's the first thing you hear. ubblol

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DominoSILVER Member
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Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK


Posted:
I used to work in a lab testing yogurt for bacteria (fun fun fun). To add to this rather tedious job I was also working with sex pests, most of them female. On my FIRST DAY I was treated to quite a graphic description of having sex in a public swimming pool. One topic of conversation, bugged the utter crap out of me for a long time and I slowly learnt just to phase out

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blu_valleySILVER Member
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197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom


Posted:
I dont deal with them myself, but part of my job is to listen to some calls made by telesales agents. This world is filled with wierdo's.

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MynciBRONZE Member
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Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: blu_valley

This world is filled with wierdo's.




ubblol

really blu!!!
how is the crazy bambino?

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MiGGOLD Member
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Location: Bogged at CG, Australia


Posted:
At least you were all separated by a phone line and some walls...

one of my previous part time jobs was a sunstenance logistics assistant (pizza driver). Now, we all know the stories about what happens when you drive pizzas, every other delivery is a hot member of the opposite sex who wants your body, and that when not driving, you sit around doing not much at all.

Well, my experience was almost nothing like this. Time spent at the shop was flat out, the hours were pretty sucky if you wanted a social life (6pm-anywhere between 9pm and 2am), and my car wasn't liking me much at all most mornings. I got no invitations inside for romantic interludes at all.

Now, think about what its like when 1:30am rolls around on a sunday morning, and you really feel like pizza. Chances are, you're either drunk, stoned or both. And, chances also are, that you aren't alone. No, most people who've had a few too many have a couple of mates around at least, who are often hardly sober themselves.

Add to that a lot of the deliveries i had were to the seedier part of my area, and you have a guaranteed recipie for fun and excitement and 'crap, here i am, at some druggies house (the smell of weed in the air is a dead giveaway), with at least $200 in my changebelt, and no feasable means of self defence. I'm scared'

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IgirisujinSILVER Member
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2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom


Posted:
Scary *hugs MiG* its ok, the bad people cant get you now. *taps his head* there there, dont cry.

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Pink...?BRONZE Member
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Location: Over There, United Kingdom


Posted:
I work for the Dti (department of Trade and Industry) in the Small firm loan Guarentee unit (guess what we do?)

We take it in turns to answer the enquiry line...
You should hear the wierd companies people want to start/have started and want loans for!
Like a tanning shop & Dvd rental? So you get a tan, then sit in & watch DVD's?
I cant think of any off top of my head

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lauz the caterpillagoddess of all things slimey and an interchangeable insect!
2,443 posts
Location: nottingham - the land of opportunity lol!


Posted:
well today at work was crap. i made no appointments what so ever had one woman telling me that gyms are dangerous and another man who asked me to call back saying "oh god not you again"
and many old people saying that they cant walk. oh the joys of phoning random strangers smile

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*i was a caterpilla last night wink* - libby_tuesday


ZauberdachSometimes sword wofter
199 posts
Location: Edinburgh


Posted:
I work part time in a bookshop and occasionally have to ring people up to tell them the books they've ordered have arrived. This is the worst job in the shop. People always think you are trying to sell them something and get all [censored] and rude with you. Then they get all worked up when they realise that technically they've asked for to call them and in fact they have been waiting for your phone call.

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Lost83spyBRONZE Member
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587 posts
Location: Somewhere, out there..., South Africa


Posted:
Well, at the moment my company deals with alot of international clients, mostly from Korea & Angola. Our client from Korea is very interesting. He is a short fellow by the name of Mr. Kim and quite a funny bloke. But boy can he work! He thinks I'm a machine and I have to do five things, all at the same time! I cant forget when my dad asked me one day, "Is his first name Foo?" Mr. Foo Kim, hehe!

Cracks me up everytime!

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Red_RaveNGOLD Member
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358 posts
Location: Sala, Slovakia


Posted:
offtopic Koreans ******* big time.. the fun a friend of mine has working in Samsung.. 100+ hours overtime..

BUT...

I sometimes work as an operator in HP, we support big companies' servers. When we get a phone call we expect it to be some serious manager or technician.. Which is mostly the case except that most techs are from India or Malaysia..

Me:"Can you please spell me your name?"
Them:"Rahasamasharmasam Prakasharasamaputra"
Me: *brain melts* "can you please spell me your last name please?"

*insert 30 minutes of trying to get a dude from india to SPELL HIS NAME!!!*

*cannot find him in database*

Me: "Umm.. Can you please spell me your first name?"

*insert another 30 minutes.. of course that was his LAST name*

Me: "Can you please describe the problem?"
Them: "User XYZUSER cannot acces instance XYZ on server XYZSERVER.." and so on and so on..

*insert a lot of minutes trying to get an indian to spell*

Smile.. It confuses people..:)

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lauz the caterpillagoddess of all things slimey and an interchangeable insect!
2,443 posts
Location: nottingham - the land of opportunity lol!


Posted:
hehehe.

work was funny today. i made an appointment last minute of a crappy day. how lucky lol.
its so annoying being called lass though frown

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KyrianDreamer
4,308 posts
Location: York, England


Posted:
Yeah, phone support can be oh-so-very-interesting.....

My ex worked in phone support for a company in california, and he generally expected the head of IT on the phone with him... which taught him a lot about the people who worked as IT heads! And how they could not know things integral to their jobs... but...
Well, at 2-4k a box most people didn't buy this product (a spam firewall) for home use. But one lady did. And then she called claiming it was blocking emails when she didn't want it to. The caveat:

It was still sitting on her table not plugged into anything. At all. Including power.

And she wouldn't belive them that it couldn't be blocking emails like that!

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Lost83spyBRONZE Member
Out! Out! You demons of stupidity!
587 posts
Location: Somewhere, out there..., South Africa


Posted:
Written by: White RaveN


offtopic Koreans ******* big time.. the fun a friend of mine has working in Samsung.. 100+ hours overtime..





Aahh, I did go off topic, sorry frown

In my office we have two telephone lines. One leads directly to my office and the other leads to my boss. Everyday on my boss's line, without fail, I'll get a call or two asking for Doctor Schalk and if I dont put them through they have a fit and insist they have the right number. Something like this:

me: Good day!
person: hello, please put me through to Dr Schalk"s office.
me: Sorry, but I think you have the wrong number
person: thats impossible! This is the number he gave me!
me: are you sure you havent dailed it wrong?
person: are you telling me I have bad eyesight?! (or other times: do you think I'm stupid?)
me: NO, not at all sir! Its just that you have the wrong offices.
person: Stupid! *hangs up the phone*

It happens everyday! Hope thats not off topic

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