[identity profile] raliyn.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
what's the best way to preserve your sanity during the last 3 hours of a 10 hour shift filled with call after call after call of people wanting their password reset, yet not being intelligent enough to follow your simple step-by-step instructions without them being explained at least 4 times?

*eats headset*

Date: 2008-09-18 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misfit4leaf.livejournal.com
I would suggest booze, but I'm sure that's frowned upon at your workplace.

Date: 2008-09-18 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diver-boy.livejournal.com
booze in the bathroom

Date: 2008-09-18 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taleya.livejournal.com
3 hour cigarette break.
Edited Date: 2008-09-18 10:11 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-18 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diver-boy.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] taleya, that sounds good just about now. lol
I could really go for one...

Date: 2008-09-18 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fuego.livejournal.com
Light your desk on fire. Oops, can't take calls!

Date: 2008-09-18 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reanimated.livejournal.com
what's the best way to spend three hours of boredom on a slow day, with only the slow and unclear customers for company? ;p

Date: 2008-09-18 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkmattr.livejournal.com
Take all your case notes in haiku

Date: 2008-09-18 10:49 pm (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-18 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evilbutcute.livejournal.com
failblog.org

Date: 2008-09-18 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkmattr.livejournal.com
Spent a night doing that, sadly nobody noticed.

Customer can't browse.
Able to ping from modem.
Out of support scope

Date: 2008-09-19 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vulpisfoxfire.livejournal.com
Stare at your cute kitten icon for a while between calls? ;-)

Date: 2008-09-19 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gilmoure.livejournal.com
Tequila in the big gulp cup.

Date: 2008-09-19 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xforge.livejournal.com
Scarring the forearms and hands in tribal patterns?

Date: 2008-09-19 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com
It used to be allowed until someone ruined it for us.

Date: 2008-09-19 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misfit4leaf.livejournal.com
Sad :(
What happened?

Date: 2008-09-19 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com
Wait, sorry -- I thought this was a completely different person.

Never mind.

Date: 2008-09-19 04:09 am (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-19 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-s-guy.livejournal.com
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp
http://blog.officenmore.com/office_origami/20080513-091118-Origami-in-the-Office

Date: 2008-09-19 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redqueenmeg.livejournal.com
Bubbels! (http://www.funnygames.nl/spel/bubbels_1.html)

Date: 2008-09-19 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featheredfrog.livejournal.com
Arrgh, here be the real answer: a blunderbuss and the addresses of yer "favorite" lusers.

Date: 2008-09-19 03:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zendequervain.livejournal.com
TV Tropes (http://www.tvtropes.org) be a good place t'start, arr.

Date: 2008-09-22 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] russianswinga.livejournal.com
Ughh. Sounds like you work for a public university system ;-)

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