Not Quite Dead Yet...

[TequilaSunrise]

Just think when you've dealt with the worse SC's...along comes GK. I couldn't last 5 minutes at your job.

As for the furnace situation, I think this is a job for GK's Fangirls! Furnace?! You don't need no steenking furnace! That's what we're here for.

[Becks]

Shhh! You'll incriminate us both.

Maybe we can share a cell.

[Bluenomi]

It's way to hot down here, I'll send you some of my excess heat

And thanks, I'm now humming the imperial march. With the odd bit of cantina music thrown in for good measure. Dah, dah, dah, da da dah, da dah dahhh!

[Reyneth]

Why, do you normally strike up conversation with automated phone systems?

Well, at my call center each and every one of us has had the pleasure of talking to an outgoing vm message.
As in:
voice - hello?
me - hello, may I speak to.....
voice - hello?
me - yes, can I speak with XXXX
voice - nah, not happening
me - ok, can I leave....
voice - not happening 'cause I'm not here. Leave it after the beep
*beeeeep*
me - GRRRRRRRRR

Or variations of it. It's annoying. Although when I heard coworker saying "Ma'am! I didn't say that! I did NOT call you any such name! ....... oh........{message script}" I was


PS - I hope things get better, and warmer, for you soon!

[Onar]

I work for an answering service on the east coast; I can relate to the "Is this/are you a real person?" thing. Though usually for me it's more like "Oh, are you the answering machine?" Most people catch themselves and become sheepish about calling me a machine.

It's the other ones that get me. They continue on, either not realizing their error, or perhaps thinking they are indeed correct. In a form of situational irony, it's always these callers that sound slow and mechanical when listing off their info. It's like they really think they are talking to a machine, and need to speak like one so it'll understand.

[Apocalypse Cookie]

Isn't that cute....BUT ITS WRONG

Do I get a cookie?

[BaristaGirl]

You realize now, *somebody* is going to be tempted to do a remix with the Closer and the Imperial march? ::laughs::

Seriously? Let me know when they do, that would make the perfect themesong for mind-blowing geeksex. ^.^

[qaxons]

Where I work, I'm calling out all the time, and at least three times a day I'll get the weird people with voicemails like:

SC: Hello?
Me: Hello, sir/ma'am, I'm calling..
SC: Hello?
Me: *speaking a little louder* Hello, sir/ma'am, I'm calling...
SC: I don't care, I'm not here, leave a message *beeeeeeep*
Me: Grrrrr *codes out an answering machine*
I growl after I mute the mic, btw =P

or the ones that are just like 60 seconds of house-hold noise and then a beep. Seriously, wtf? Do you have ADD? What in the bloody hell possesses you to start the recording and then go off and cook dinner while your kids raise hell playing Halo 3 at a volume that is far too loud to be good for anyone's eardrums. It's those where I'm going "Hello?" every 6-10 seconds and then swearing under my breath.

What really just weirds me out though, is when you get an answering machine, and it sounds like you got two or three. Usually those robotic default "Hello, please leave a message after the tone." ones. One sounds like a real machine, the other is delayed a few seconds and sounds far away. It always weirds me out.

What's really creepy is two seperately recorded machines that sound like they're arguing with each other <.<

[MinimaMagistra]

Good choice, btw. However, when his phone rang I experienced 7 seconds of the most disturbing musical mash up I have ever heard in my life.

What's on par is the existing mix of Closer and various Mario sound effects. And it bleeds over to the unmixed version, so I expect to hear "It'sa me, Mario" right before he belts out "You can't have my isolation", etc. Go out and find it. It's good to share such things.

[Slow-Jo]

you amaze me. im just going to read your threads every time i have to remind myself that the people i deal with are cupcakes compared to your dung pies.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

They should pass a law in Canada that anyone who does not know what a toque is gets kicked out of the country.

[qaxons]

They should pass a law in Canada that anyone who does not know what a toque is gets kicked out of the country.

Do I get free citizenship because I know what one is, could learn the anthem in about a day (I know most of it already) and have 3 canadian friends?

I actually also kinda like the money <.< color coded ftw!

[Jester]

Then the guy in front of me made the Star Wars Imperial March his selection for a ring tone. Good choice, btw.

I love the Star Wars music, and actually have the Imperial March as a ring tone....but I only use it for one person. My evil older sister, The Witch. Somehow, it is so damn fitting!

As for the furnace, I would send you some warmth from the Florida Keys, but I am both too lazy and too selfish to spare some of it, as I hate the cold. But you do have my sympathies. Heck, tonight I think it may have dropped below 75, so I feel for you, man, I do.

(ducking the inevitable volley of snowballs and iceballs the majority of CSers are bound to lob his way...)

If it's any consolation, tonight at Walgreen's I saw a camo Santa hat.
Also saw a pink sparkly one.
Sadly, no pink camo Santa hat.

Yet.

You realize now, *somebody* is going to be tempted to do a remix with the Closer and the Imperial march?

I swear by all that is good and holy and right with the world, if that happens, I will hunt that person down, put them in shackles and chains, and violate them repeatedly with a granite gargoyle statue until they can whistle "Dueling Banjos" by memory.

From their rectum.

And if I find out that you're the one that gave them that idea, I'll not only make you watch the proceedings with your eyes glued open, I'll sign you up for a year as a foreign exchange student. To Nunavut.

(Have I ever mentioned how much I despise Nine Inch Nails? If not, I guess I just let that cat out of the bag, huh?)

Seriously? Let me know when they do, that would make the perfect themesong for mind-blowing geeksex. ^.^

My mental visual and aural senses just completely overloaded. Thank you for that multimedia mind melt.

Now, take a wild guess who's going to be operating the camcorder in the above scenario?

Just think when you've dealt with the worse SC's...along comes GK. I couldn't last 5 minutes at your job.

I could. Hell, I would buy/cook GK a dinner and get him a twelver of his favorite beer or a bottle of his favorite booze if he could completely violate company policy and sneak me in to answer his phones for one of his graveyard shifts. Hell, even to listen would be worth something...but to be able to answer these proofs that Darwin was seriously overestimating things? Oh, that would be heaven for a smartass like me.

[ArenaBoy]

You realize now, *somebody* is going to be tempted to do a remix with the Closer and the Imperial march? ::laughs::

I swear by all that is good and holy and right with the world, if that happens, I will hunt that person down, put them in shackles and chains, and violate them repeatedly with a granite gargoyle statue until they can whistle "Dueling Banjos" by memory.

From their rectum.

And if I find out that you're the one that gave them that idea, I'll not only make you watch the proceedings with your eyes glued open, I'll sign you up for a year as a foreign exchange student. To Nunavut.

(Have I ever mentioned how much I despise Nine Inch Nails? If not, I guess I just let that cat out of the bag, huh?)

I know I have the right equipment and the programs for it and both songs. I just need a lot of time. *Ponders* I think I'll do it. This could be entertaining and I need to get back into doing producing. And I can torture Jester with it.

Oh and Jester, I can whistle Dueling Banjos, play it on a banjo AND a guitar from memory.

[Jester]

And I can torture Jester with it.

Oh and Jester, I can whistle Dueling Banjos, play it on a banjo AND a guitar from memory.

Oh, torture will be involved. Oh yes.

As for you playing Dueling Banjos....you might want to re-read what I wrote. Just a guess, but I don't think you play it quite....like.....that.