It Couldn't Get Worse.
Tales of telephonic abysses are common. Annoying recorded messages, dreadful muzak, endless ringing phones. All very irksome. Now imagine combining the three!
When you ring a hospital (yes hospital) to confirm a relative's attendance for surgery - you get the usual tiresome preamble about my call being important to them. Then you get the ringing tone AND the muzak simultaneously - a cacophony of mindbending irritation which is then punctuated by intermittent repetitions of "you are in a queue but your call is important to us" over the top of the other two irritants.
What planet are these people on?
posted by john dodds @ 6:06 AM
3 Comments:
oi, it could always get worse.
Glad you appreciated my little homage.
This may be my mind wandering up a dangerous path but shouldn't these places have geek numbers to call.
Having worked at a call centre when i was 17 i understand why there are such queues. The vast majority of callers were equatable to morons who needed between 5 and 10 minutes of talking to coax out of them what they wanted to know.
I need to speak to an Orange store today to see what they need from me to return a phone, the whole box, just the phone, a receipt? It's petty i know but it will save me the inconvenience of boxing up if i know they only need the phone itself.
So why do they print a store number on their receipt only for the phone never to be manned and an answering service promising a call back that hasn't come in 75minutes.
If there were a geek number i could call this is a 20sec question. th
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