ESCAPE PANTS

[Bliss]

A hip looking insulated pant. Comes with double snap waist with belt loops, is seam sealed, inner thigh venting, inner draw cords, and articulated knees. :'(

Wait... what? Articulated knees? Wtf, isn't that something made out of rigid material, like for example, oh I don't know.. A SUIT OF ARMOR would use? rather than normal pants??? What are these? pants for contortionists? or is the material so bad you need articulated knees to be able to walk.. and a page to help you put them on...

[MannersMakethMan]

Well, I went looking for them, and found the page "Escape Pants in Pants Section". I don't think someone thought their cunning plan all the way through...

[Blade_Raver]

Lost In Translation

I do not speak German. I appreciate that you have learned enough English to ask “Do you speak German?”. However, it seems you have not learned enough English to realize that “No” in English does not mean “Why yes, I speak perfect German. I’m just pretending not to in order to frustrate and enrage you because I am jerk and think yours is a country of suspenders and hairy women. Now why don’t you run along and shave your wife's back or whatever it is you do over there.” in German.

I took 2 years German back in high school... my German isn't exactly the greatest.. but here's some German that may help you if you run into this again..

I don't speak German: Ich spreche nicht deutsch.
Literal translation: I speak not german.
Pronounced: eekh sprecke neekt doytsh

No: Nein
Pronounced: nine

Yes: Ja
Pronounced: Ya

I hope this helps!

[Seshat]

((By the way, that's probably what my own career is going to be. I'm wavering between a counselling psych degree or clinical social work)).

Thank you. With the people who can be medicated to a level of 'can look after themselves', a counselling psychologist - ideally a team of them who can be on call at all hours - is an essential support person. A social worker is also essential.


One of my best friends is a 'can look after herself' mental health patient. Almost all the time, she's just fine. If she gets a gastric illness which prevents her meds from properly being absorbed, or something else happens to mess up the neurochemistry, she becomes temporarily unstable. We - her friends - can usually support her through these episodes, but sometimes she needs a professional.

So thank you for considering these two fields, Buglady. VERY valuable work!

[Gravekeeper]

I took 2 years German back in high school... my German isn't exactly the greatest.. but here's some German that may help you if you run into this again..

Thats much better than the single phrase of German I know. Which is something to the effect of "ICH LIEB MEIN WAFFLEN UND SWINE" and ill suited for normal conversation.

Though I really, really did want to say it to him. I hate when people call and get mad at me for not speaking their language. Despite having called a company in Canada or the US and having pressed 1 for English. ( 2 for French ).

[Calud]

I took 2 years German back in high school... my German isn't exactly the greatest.. but here's some German that may help you if you run into this again..

I don't speak German: Ich spreche nicht deutsch.
Literal translation: I speak not german.
Pronounced: eekh sprecke neekt doytsh

Do they teach the spelling like that in school?? No wonder English's German is so terrible.

[IHateStupidCustomers]

SO. MANY. WORDS.

Me: “Ok, and your postal code?”
SC: “Oh…..ummm……”
Me: “…….?”
SC: “Sorry, I was just reading the paper so now my head is all full of facts and things.”

Indeed. Not a lot of drive space in your brain box is there? Maybe you should just stop reading altogether. It may be safer that way. There’s no telling what sort of damage you’ll inflict on yourself if you persist. Basic literacy is simply too dangerous to risk. In fact, for your own safety maybe we should just skip the phone number and email address questions altogether. I’d hate to inadvertently wipe half your childhood.

When I worked in a catalogue call center, I had TOO many calls that went something along the lines of:

Me: "What size do need ma'am?"
SC: "....."
Me: "Ma'am, what SIZE do you need?"
SC: "...."
Me: "Ma'am?"
SC: "....."
Me: "HELLO!!!???"
SC: "Oh, sorry. What now? I was watching TV."
Me:

SOOOOOO sorry to have interrupted your TV-watching. It's not like YOU called ME or anything.

[dalesys]

Gravekeeper: being serviced by SC's 24/7/666...

(because a normal year isn't evil enough)

[Cyphr]

“SHOW US YOUR TITS!”

The only way to respond to this is to shout back:
"I can do better than that" and promptly drop your pants

[otakuneko]

I'll admit to not being able to find the power (switch/button) on some computers at first glance, especially older laptops which had all sorts of crazy ideas as to what (button, actual switch, brief-contact slider?) and where (anywhere they damn well please) the damn thing should be. A cursory search always turns it up, however. Or a "let's push this and see!"

I've also seen poorly designed cases where the power and reset buttons were the same size, unlabelled, and right next to each other. Then it becomes a game of WHICH one is the power. :facepalm:

Course, I imagine some people are completely defeated by those cases that hide everything behind a door. Hiding the drives I can understand: *sort* of helps keep dust out. But why in the world would you make the power and reset buttons inaccessible?

[AriRashkae]

Course, I imagine some people are completely defeated by those cases that hide everything behind a door. Hiding the drives I can understand: *sort* of helps keep dust out. But why in the world would you make the power and reset buttons inaccessible?

3 year olds.

[otakuneko]

Oof. Touche.

[Alpha Strike]

Just because you have not gotten your way in under 5 minutes does not mean you need to trot out the F-Bomb. The F-Bomb is an unwieldy weapon of mass destruction in the customer service industry. When hurled at an unsuspecting foe it deals at least 6D6 damage to any given CSR’s Sympathy and an additional 4D6 to any other coworkers within 15 feet.

The whole point of this is to try and increase the target’s Sympathy.

Is there any weapon in an SC's arsenal that will actually raise your sympathy? I was pretty sure that your particular class - Bitter and Jaded CSR, Prestige Class: Overnight Shift - was immune to all Sympathy-increasing effects anyway.

[Geek King]

But why in the world would you make the power and reset buttons inaccessible?

In addition to 3 year olds (good one, btw. ), you might want that on a computer you plan on using as a server, or just don't want to accidentally turn off. And yes, I have accidentally stumbled (over my boss ) and grabbed the computer rack out of instinct, placing thumb squarely on a server power button. Fortunately, that one was built to not shutdown unless the power button was held down for a couple of seconds. But accidents do happen.

[Kogarashi]

3 year olds.

Hear hear!

I had to tape a plastic gerber lid over my reset button and change the power switch's settings so it brings up the Standby/ShutDown/Restart screen instead of automatically shutting down. Not only was my little girl forever coming up and poking at the buttons, but I'd occasionally kick them on accident too. And with as heavy and unwieldy as my tower is, there's nowhere else I can put it to make it less accessible.