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[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

Usually I enjoy hearing what people have to say when I have my headset muted and they think they're on hold. People can say some funny things.

But today, this luser I just had called me a retard because I pronounced her name incorrectly. I was tempted to unmute and ask her if she was aware that the call was being recorded.

Who was asking whom for help again? And for a simple task, no less?

Comments

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I never talk when I've been put on hold. Methinks that's gonna have to change :) Wonder how much random shit I can come up with to babble...

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

It depends on the way the consultant puts you on hold.

Unless we're going to take a long time at my place of work, we usually just mute the headset, so if your consultant goes "hang on a second" and then you hear the line go dead, that's your chance.

If there's music, they probably can't hear you.

[nomoremystery.livejournal.com]

Once when I was on the helldesk, I put someone on hold because I wasn't clued up on the application she was having issues with (out of the 50 or so we support) and heard "I've got a right numpty here".
As I recall she had a lot of problems logging on for the next couple of weeks. It's almost as if someone was resetting her Windows password every morning. Strange.

[kgasso.livejournal.com]

Hey, how did your maximum password age get set to 1 day? Well, it must be corporate policy, so I better not mess with it. Sorry about that.

[nomoremystery.livejournal.com]

I think if the maximum password age had been 1 day I would have left a lot sooner than I did!

[mashiroikaze.livejournal.com]

Completely apropos of nothing, but I love your icon.

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

I once got to hear a discussion between the person on the phone and someone else in the room concernng the former's yeast infection. EW.