So it’s 10am at work and I am trying to wade through my mountain of tasks in the few hours I’ve got before I need to pick up my son from daycare. The phone rings. The conversation goes like this:
Me: “Hello, Kalena speaking”
Call Center Cow: “Is this Kalena?“
Me: “Yes, who is this?”
Call Center Cow: “Hi Kalena, how ARE you?”
Me: “Fine thanks, who is this?”
Call Center Cow: “Do you have a few minutes?”
Me: “Who IS this?”
Call Center Cow: “My name is [whatever - didn’t catch it and it was probably made up anyway]. I’m calling from New York Commodities”
Me: [I hang up the phone]
30 second pause and then the phone rings again
Me: “Hello, Kalena speaking”
Call Center Cow: “Kalena, why did you just hang up on me?”
Me: “Didn’t you say you were calling from New York Commodities?”
Call Center Cow: “Yes, but I just wanted…”
Me: “Are you trying to sell me stocks?”
Call Center Cow: “No, actually options are different to stocks”
By now, I’ve got a serious case of phone rage.
Me: “Just a minute…”
At this point, I place the receiver on top of my PC speaker and turn the volume waaay up. It happens to be playing the world’s most annoying song, The Reflex by Duran Duran. (I knew those 80’s CDs would come in handy some day).
When I checked 5 minutes later, Call Center Cow had hung up. What a shame.
I was only trying to help you….you should have bought the options.
PS I like Reflex….I wouldn’t have hung up.
Or maybe they were making sure that you weren’t disconnected accidentally? Try to think next time, before you contribute to the overwhelming amount of jackassery in this world.
Or you could just continue to be a moron, and brag about it on a blog. Seems to be the popular choice nowadays.
@ unassuming - uh hello? She rang me back demanding to know why I hung up on her, remember? And another thing: It’s my blog, I can do what I like. This post alone has given me more traffic and comments than any other in my 6 year blog history so others must like it.
http://www.ask-kalena.com/personal/dumbass-of-the-week-the-call-center-cow/
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Thanks for the grins!
Steve
You’re the actual cow in this history. That woman was working.
@ NH - So was I. MOOOOOOOOoooooooo!
My grandma used to have one of those referee whistles next to the phone for types like this..
Am I glad I don’t have a job like this!
Nice one Kalena, but here is a link to the ultimate telemarketer revenge.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/5848/
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Hahaha! Love it, you’ve inspired me to start a daily cynicism blog, to rant about the day to day frustrations of life, what a way to publicly slate someone that deserves it too…genius!
Keep up the worthy work…D
That’s great. I’ve just said “hold on a second” then hung up. Wonder how long it takes for them to figure out I’m gone?
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Hahahaha…this is great! Sounds like our phone that rings…I will try the Duran Duran trick for sure :o)
Its easy if you have one, Just get your 5 year old to answer the phone.!!they normally hang up within 20 seconds.
That’s great. I’ve just said “hold on a second” then hung up. Wonder how long it takes for them to figure out I’m gone?
I once did the same, but with a rickroll..
I hope you never find yourself in a situation where you have to work in a call center in between jobs. Do you go up to a janitor and spit on the floor they’re mopping? I bet you’re the type of person that calls police officers “pigs” for doing their jobs. You ma’am are an a**hole.
@TheTruth - If hanging up on someone for calling ME on my private phone line (that has been registered in the telemarketing Do Not Call list) to sell ME something I don’t want to buy makes me an asshole, then I’m deliriously happy to be one. Have a nice day.
Caller ID FTW. If I don’t recognize the number, they leave a message. (usually they just hang up)
Oh how I idolized the music sound from the decade, everything seemed to be way writer imaginative than today penalization.