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[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

Dear asshat customer,

If you have a small child hanging around, do not put me on speakerphone. What a stupid idea.

Love,
Your friendly (and now hearing-impaired) tech

Comments

[jareth-gk.livejournal.com]

Speaker phones... in general... are evil.
And people think they have to use it only when calling customer service. What the hell! Just once I would like to refuse to help just because they are on a speaker phone. For now I just keep faking that I have a hard time making out anything they are saying till they give up on the speaker phone. That doesn't always work thou... *ugh*

x Jeremy M.

Well......

[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

I would use the speaker phone if I was being directed to climb behind or inside my computer to rearrange hardware configurations. Kinda hard to hold a phone to your ear (even with your shoulder) when you're elbow deep in cables.

Otherwise, yeah, use the freaking handset.

_MaH

Re: Well......

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

Of course, that I can understand, or they can put the phone down or whatever. But I work at an ISP. Occasionally I get someone who doesn't have a wireless phone and has to be across the room to follow instructions. Okay, fine, because these people are usually in an office with NO SMALL CHILDREN! There's generally no excuse for not using a handset. :)

[glennarbor.livejournal.com]

If somebody puts me on speaker phone i stop replying until they take me off speaker phone. They tend to pick up mighty quickly as they think they lost the call.

Amen

[freaky-gamer.livejournal.com]

Amen. No childern unless over 10. But then why would I want to talk to you. Put the 10 plus kid on and I can solve the issue in seconds...

Re: Amen

[aragirn.livejournal.com]

Exactly, I actually did this with a nine year old once, after half an hour on the phone trying to get the woman to right click on the "pretty blue e" on her desktop.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Me: Alright, we're going to clear your startup environment. Read off the things on that list, and i'll tell you to check or uncheck.
EU:bridge.dl(yyeahhhhhhhhhhhhh)
ME: *cringe* uncheck.
EU:SVHos(AARGHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA)

ad nauseum, infinitum.