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Captain Seafort wrote:So I assume there was no opportunity for the phone line to suffer a slight technical problem involving a pair of garden shears?

We almost never use the land line to talk to each other, and lying about the connection would only lead to a sack full of trouble of biblical proportions.

Speaker phone, my friend. You can go "Uh huh" as you work

Yeah, you need an earbud or something.

Mark wrote:Speaker phone, my friend. You can go "Uh huh" as you work

I do that anyway.

Deepcrush wrote:Yeah, you need an earbud or something.

Got one. I'm not in the habit of wearing it while I'm in my own home, though.

One thing you learn in government work is you're never home since you're always on the job. Its a good mindset for a married man.

Why oh why must people be so god damned stupid!? I'm ready to snap on the next person that says something stupid to me. Let me share a conversation I just had at work......
*****
"Thank you for calling............................how can I help you?"

"I have a light on my dash that says my low beam is out. But I don't have a low beam. My car is lying to me."

"It is likely indicating that the bulb burned out ma'am. Your car has a backup bulb so you may not immedietly notice its out. Would you like us to change it?"

"I'm telling you I don't have one! I only have high beams."

"Ma'am, all cars have low beams as well as high beams. Your regular headlights are low, and the high beams are your brights."

SILENCE

"Oh....I thought my high beams were my headlights, and low beams those colored lights under the car that those kids drive around with."
*****

And that is just one among many.

I'm sorry Mark, I really am...

Thus why customer service sucks. If I can land a job as a night desk clerk at a motel (fingers crossed), I doubt I'd have to deal with that level of stupidity.

Deepcrush wrote:One thing you learn in government work is you're never home since you're always on the job. Its a good mindset for a married man.

Or, to just never be home.

Tsukiyumi wrote:Thus why customer service sucks. If I can land a job as a night desk clerk at a motel (fingers crossed), I doubt I'd have to deal with that level of stupidity.

"Can I get 5 hours, or do I have to buy the whole night?"

Mark wrote:Why oh why must people be so god damned stupid!? I'm ready to snap on the next person that says something stupid to me. Let me share a conversation I just had at work......
*****
"Thank you for calling............................how can I help you?"

"I have a light on my dash that says my low beam is out. But I don't have a low beam. My car is lying to me."

"It is likely indicating that the bulb burned out ma'am. Your car has a backup bulb so you may not immedietly notice its out. Would you like us to change it?"

"I'm telling you I don't have one! I only have high beams."

"Ma'am, all cars have low beams as well as high beams. Your regular headlights are low, and the high beams are your brights."

SILENCE

"Oh....I thought my high beams were my headlights, and low beams those colored lights under the car that those kids drive around with."
*****

And that is just one among many.

I feel smart now.

I think more than anything, I hate catching flake for someone else's stupidity. Part of my job involves receiving new security badges to pass along, usually to new contractors so they can get into the areas they need to. I made a minor whoops and forgot to note down the newest badges I had been given, it was one of those days. It should not have been a big deal, because when we get the new badges they come paper clipped to a print out with the name, company, date of pick up, ect of the person the badge belongs to.

Well someone on a different shift decided for god knows what reason to unclip the badges, put them in the general badge binder unlabeled, and shove the print out into a stack of papers. So when the guys showed up to get their badges the person on duty had no idea they were even coming, who they were, or where their badges were. And surprise surprise, guess who said individual on duty was? That's right, the post supervisor, of course. He was understandably unhappy about it.

Yeah, I made a small mistake, but it wouldn't have actually been an issue if the papers had just been left out, which is pretty much our standard method anyway.

Not really a rant as such, but does anyone else here think that Youtube's new layout is fucking awful?

Sionnach Glic wrote:Not really a rant as such, but does anyone else here think that Youtube's new layout is f***ing awful?

Yes.

Yeah, me too