I hate Verizon...
Nate Nagel
I took the day off work today to meet the Verizon repairman that was
supposed to come fix my telephone line, which has been very staticky
and completely unusable for modem purposes since last Saturday. So
I'm sitting around on the couch, getting rapidly more and more bored,
when I figure I'll just call Verizon and see if they can give me a
narrower window than "sometime between 8 and 5" which they gave me
when I originally called in the trouble report. I was told "oh, we
tested your line and didn't find any problems so we closed your
service ticket."
"Oh really. Does this sound like a phone line that is working
correctly?" (crackle, hiss, etc.)
"No sir, I can understand your frustration. I'll open a new ticket
for you and we can have someone out there... umm... how does Tuesday
work for you?"
"I've already taken the day off work to wait for someone to show up
who you apparently cancelled without informing me. Why don't you just
send the guy that was originally supposed to be out here today?"
"We don't have anyone available today, sir."
"So you're telling me that even though my phone service has been
essentially unusable since Saturday, you can't send anyone out until
next Tuesday, despite the fact that I called as soon as I noticed a
problem."
"Yes, sir."
(unprintable comments on customer service and the lack of necessity of
having a land line in this age of cell phones and cable modems.)
Why do I get the nagging feeling that I'm going to be canceling my
phone service in the near future?
nate
Terry Austin
as undeliverable. Today, I got a nastygram demanding payment. With the same
address. Telephone droid flatly refused to send the correct payment
information in writing.
I'll be picking up small claims paperwork tomorrow.
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Steve Daniels
Austin <tau...@hyperbooks.com>, to say:
>I'll trade you your Verizon for AT&T Wireless. Got a payment back yesterday
>as undeliverable. Today, I got a nastygram demanding payment. With the same
>address. Telephone droid flatly refused to send the correct payment
>information in writing.
>
>I'll be picking up small claims paperwork tomorrow.
<sigh>
Ok.
I'll bite.
What on Earth could you possibly be suing over this time?
Julian Macassey
> I was told "oh, we
> tested your line and didn't find any problems so we closed your
> service ticket."
That has always been the Verizon/GTE policy. Find an
excuse to close the ticket and mark it up. That way 1. You are
fixing probs. 2. You are fixing them in record time.
Forget that 1. The customer is pissed 2. It will take 2
more tickets to fix the problem.
> Why do I get the nagging feeling that I'm going to be canceling my
> phone service in the near future?
Get a cable modem and Vonage.
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managers the world over. - Simon Davies, Privacy International
Terry Austin
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Refusing to provide a valid postal address in writing is a FDCPA violation.
Terry Austin
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> On 15 Jul 2004 11:14:21 -0700, Nate Nagel <njn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was told "oh, we
>> tested your line and didn't find any problems so we closed your
>> service ticket."
>
> That has always been the Verizon/GTE policy. Find an
> excuse to close the ticket and mark it up. That way 1. You are
> fixing probs. 2. You are fixing them in record time.
>
> Forget that 1. The customer is pissed 2. It will take 2
> more tickets to fix the problem.
That's two more problems to get credit for fixing, and two more
opportunities to do so in record time. It's a win/win scenario.
Nate Nagel
> On 15 Jul 2004 11:14:21 -0700, Nate Nagel <njn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I was told "oh, we
>>tested your line and didn't find any problems so we closed your
>>service ticket."
>
>
> That has always been the Verizon/GTE policy. Find an
> excuse to close the ticket and mark it up. That way 1. You are
> fixing probs. 2. You are fixing them in record time.
>
> Forget that 1. The customer is pissed 2. It will take 2
> more tickets to fix the problem.
>
Geez. I work closely enough with the service department of the company
that I work for that I can say (with pride) that anyone that suggested
such a strategy would be laughed out of the meeting. I would have hoped
that most other companies would be similar.
Of course, unlike Verizon, if we fuck up badly enough, we won't get our
bids accepted for any more contracts. I guess competition is a Good
Thing(tm.)
>
>>Why do I get the nagging feeling that I'm going to be canceling my
>>phone service in the near future?
>
>
> Get a cable modem and Vonage.
>
I couldn't care less about the phone itself, a cable modem would be
sufficient. I can get a cell plan with better hours than my current one
for less money, and I've pretty much decided to do that at the end of
this billing cycle (next week.) Since most of my friends are out of
state, the free long distance of the cell makes up for any
inconvenience. Comcast here I come.
nate
!Peeve: my phone line has cleared up enough today that I can get online
and annoy you all, albeit at appx. 16K.
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drdoody
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> On 15 Jul 2004 11:14:21 -0700, Nate Nagel <njn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was told "oh, we
> > tested your line and didn't find any problems so we closed your
> > service ticket."
>
> That has always been the Verizon/GTE policy. Find an
> excuse to close the ticket and mark it up. That way 1. You are
> fixing probs. 2. You are fixing them in record time.
>
> Forget that 1. The customer is pissed 2. It will take 2
> more tickets to fix the problem.
Ever dealt with SBC? I just spent two weeks trying to get somebody out to
repair my phone/DSL connection. Also, SBC likes to close trouble ticket
whether or not anything has been done about them or not. Once, they even
closed the ticket without a guy even coming here at all. I don;t mean that
he fixed the problem elsewhere. I mean that he never even came to the area.
Their excuse was that I live in a "remote" area and he couldn't find the
residence. After two weeks of mucking through every customer supporttard and
Bangalore dothead imaginable, I snapped.
"Oh, so the technician couldn't *find* the house this time? I don't suppose
having the name of the complaintant embossed on THREE INCH HIGH LETTERS on
the mailbox a foot from the road was enough, was it? Maybe next time I
should try flares and fucking smoke signals. Better yet, explain to me why
the technician can't find the house, but my bill manages to find it every
month. Have you ever tried mailing your techs to the callers? I'd pay the
shipping for a Tard-In-A-Box of my very own."
Other gems from my most recent descent into tech support Hell:
"I don't give a fuck if everybody in your Indian call center is a college
graduate. That doesn't necessarily make them qualified to do the job. They
were college educated in *India*. I've known tons of Indian college educated
doctors who couldn't tell rat shit from rice crispies."
"Holy shit. I guess they really *do* make curry-flavored crack."
"Oh, you're a manager? In the ten minutes I've been dealing with you, I've
determined that you probably couldn't manage a runny bowel movement. Next
dumbass, please."
"Just tell the tech to drive down the street. Don't worry about a house
description or address. Just tell him that when his tires start exploding,
he's there."
There were a few other outstanding remarks that aren't so outstanding at the
moment. Suffice it to say, customer support sucks ass no matter what company
you use. Especially if that customer support happens to be a bunch of
basmati-eating Untouchables sweating their asses off in some warehouse in
downtown Madras. Why not just use fucking computers? I don't fault the
dotheads for trying to make a buck from American corporate greed. Even if it
does short-dick thousands of people right here at home. Indians gotta eat
just like everybody else and I'm sure that curried sewer rat gets old after
a few decades.
But they don't actually *do* anything.
"Offshore Tech Support" is just suitspeak for "Cheap-Assed Human Answering
Machines". They take your calls, listen to your unbridled hostility and the
no-so-scattered racial insults with Gandhi-esque patience and then refer
your call elsewhere when they've reached the end of their troubleshooting
checklist. I'm sorry, but I'd rather deal with a machine here in the states
than some singsong voice in a tropical shithole. And you can't tell me that
a few computers here in-country are more expensive than droves of Indians
overseas. Even somebody who lives on $5 a year working seven 20-hour days a
week can't hold with a machine. Not forever, the little bastards can't.
Plus, at least a few people here in America could make money maintaining a
computer tech support service. It wouldn't be a total employment fuckover
like offshoring is.
Doc
David
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, "drdoody" <drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net>
in message <mNGLc.4630$5A2....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>, on
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:47:30 EDT, posted:
[...]
> Bangalore dothead
[...]
> "I don't give a fuck if everybody in your Indian call center is a
> college graduate. That doesn't necessarily make them qualified to
> do the job.
It makes them OVER-educated for the jobs they have to do. Like the
PhDs driving cabs in Chicago, see. It's because jobs are tight and
they need the money.
> They were college educated in *India*. I've known tons of Indian
> college educated doctors who couldn't tell rat shit from rice
> crispies."
Too bad for you. My experience thas shown me that Indian college
grads actually learn something in school, as opposed to the frat
boys and their sorosluts around here who seem to be majoring in
puking up Jaegermeister in doorways at 3 A.M. on Tuesday.
> "Holy shit. I guess they really *do* make curry-flavored crack."
[...]
> basmati-eating Untouchables
[...]
> dotheads
[...]
> "Offshore Tech Support" is just suitspeak for "Cheap-Assed Human
> Answering Machines".
So what do YOU do that's of such important benefit to Humanity?
> They take your calls, listen to your unbridled hostility and the
> no-so-scattered racial insults
I see you've figured out already that you're a racist fucktard.
> with Gandhi-esque patience
Not really: the attrition rate is pretty high. Partly from lousy
hours -- because of such facts as "the roundness of the Earth"
and "Time Zones" these people work nights all the time; their
bosses aren't any better than bosses here, and with fewer legal
restraints; and to top it off they've got tp deal with racist
fucktards like you because that's their job.
Ever tried treating these people as *people*? Your post showed,
in the parts I snipped, that you have a legitimate complaint:
your local repair person could not find your house, or so the
repair person said. But where *is* your house, racist fucktard?
Is your house in *India*? Is it even in one of the surrounding
countries of the Indian subcontinent (Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh or Pakistan)? Somehow I figure it ain't.
So tell me, you racist fucktard, what in the fuck does somebody
in a call center in India have to do with an *American* repair
person's profesed inability to find a house *in America*? Don't
you think that a local repair person would most likely live in
or near the area s/he works in?
As for your problems with corporate policy, well, again, what
influence do you think the Indian call center worker has over
that, hmm??? Do you think the guy in Bombay has the slightest
chance of being listened to by the bigwigs of the corporations
his employers contract with, let alone the slightest chance of
being an Evil Overlord directly responsible for your problem?
(I mean, the technical problem you called "Customer Support"
ABOUT, not the personal problem you called them WITH.)
As for their job, I worked in a phone center for *one day* in
1983, in one of those "boiler rooms" that call people up and
try to sell them newspaper subscriptions -- and that made the
answering machine and later Caller ID such necessities. It was
so irksome to me I wouldn't do it, and in my job getting hung
up on was a veritable part of the job's routine. And then too
this place was open in broad daylight during my normal waking
hours, was right on a busline, and I didn't *need* the money.
Even had I been desperate, they couldn't have paid me enough
to deal with abusive fucktards such as yourself. If calling
random people at a comfortable time for me to sell them home
delivery of the local newspaper was so annoying, I think it's
pretty clear that working Customer Support from an offshore
call center must be far worse, for having to deal with racist
fucktards like *you* who, *unlike* the people whose suppers I
interrupted, had no legitimate reason for being hostile at ME.
So here's a suggestion you might actually be smart enough to
understand: when "some basmati-eating dothead" calls you up
while you're trying to pump yourself a hard-on to use with
your inflatable sheep, *then* come complain about it. Until
then, I suggest you a) don't use any product or service you
might have to call Customer Support over, and b) eat shit.
Got that, fucktard?
Unsupportively,
TheDavid
P.S. By the way, can somebody who's worked Customer Support
give us practical ideas that might help customers get
successfully supported without undue upset to either human
being? (Besides "show some fucking human respect for the
human at the other end," which I think I've just addressed.)
--
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drdoody
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>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, "drdoody" <drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net>
> in message <mNGLc.4630$5A2....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>, on
> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:47:30 EDT, posted:
>
> [...]
> > Bangalore dothead
>
> [...]
>
> > "I don't give a fuck if everybody in your Indian call center is a
> > college graduate. That doesn't necessarily make them qualified to
> > do the job.
>
> It makes them OVER-educated for the jobs they have to do. Like the
> PhDs driving cabs in Chicago, see. It's because jobs are tight and
> they need the money.
>
> > They were college educated in *India*. I've known tons of Indian
> > college educated doctors who couldn't tell rat shit from rice
> > crispies."
>
> Too bad for you. My experience thas shown me that Indian college
> grads actually learn something in school, as opposed to the frat
> boys and their sorosluts around here who seem to be majoring in
> puking up Jaegermeister in doorways at 3 A.M. on Tuesday.
My experience shows me that 99% of Indian-educated doctors in the states
came here with the express intention of escaping the festing shithole from
wence they were spawned and couldn't give a fuck less about their patients
or how to treat them. And they're usually real pricks to deal with.
> > "Offshore Tech Support" is just suitspeak for "Cheap-Assed Human
> > Answering Machines".
>
> So what do YOU do that's of such important benefit to Humanity?
I'm an EMT who's been working in an exclusive 911 district with a call
volume of @1,000 calls/month for seven years. I've been involved in one
aspect of medicine or another for ten years. You wanna know what I do for a
living? I slither through the bleeding, puking, shitting, screaming effluvia
of this species on a daily fucking basis. What do you do, prick?
>
> > They take your calls, listen to your unbridled hostility and the
> > no-so-scattered racial insults
>
> I see you've figured out already that you're a racist fucktard.
<snip remaining indignant diatribe>
Indignant and repetitive, that is. Just how many times can you use the word
"fucktard" in the same rambling, poorly written flame? Don't answer that.
I'm sure we can all count and the less frothing you have to do while
responding to this, the better.
Let's clear the air here, shall we? I am a bigot. I despise people based
upon their race, their religion, their sexual preference, their nation of
origin and virtually anything else I can think of. Come to think of it, I'm
not a bigot at all. I hate *all* people. I hate you for your simpering
fucking sanctimony and your constant assumption that everybody should adhere
to the same touchy-feely, "love everybody equally" liberal tripe the mass
media's been spewing for the past twenty fucking years. I hate niggers
because they have no sense of personal responsibilty and bring up the
subject of racism more often than any twelve neo nazis you can think of
combined. I hate neo nazis because they're fucking stupid and blame all
their problems on niggers. I hate beaners because they come to this country
and wander around like they're in fucking Disneyland. I hate chinks
because.. well, I actually like chinks. They work hard and they're generally
polite. I hate the white, SUV-driving, spoiled little rich cunts in their
gated communities because they bitch whenever anybody so much as thinks
about stepping on their toes and then turn around and force everybody to
maneuver around their chronic excesses. And I hate Indian call takers
because they're poorly trained cannon fodder whose entire niche could be
rendered obsolete by three computers and a Halo-addicted programmer in a
portable building on the outskirts of fucking Sheboigan.
I hate virtually every socioeconomic group on this planet simply because
they're human and I can.
Now take your carefully prepared response and shove it straight up your
puckered little shithole. This isn't alt.fucking.kindergarden. This is
alt.peeves. And I have better things to do than hammering your silly,
priggish little ass into the NG like a digital tent peg.
Doc
--
"I'm completely in favor of the separation
of Church and State. My idea is that
these two institutions screw us up
enough on their own, so both of them
together is certain death."
George Carlin
David
[...]
> I'm an EMT who's been working in an exclusive 911 district with a
> call volume of @1,000 calls/month for seven years. I've been involved
> in one aspect of medicine or another for ten years. You wanna know what
> I do for a living? I slither through the bleeding, puking, shitting,
> screaming effluvia of this species on a daily fucking basis.
So you do good. Good for you. Does that mean you get a pass for being
a racist fucktard, prick? I think not. If anything it *raises* the bar.
Besides, racist fucktard, I wouldn't know you're a racist fucktard if
you had not posted a racist fucktarded screed "denouncing" the Indian
"dotheads" who work in call centers. Get it, racist fucktard? You post
unabashed self-admitted -- nay, self-*proclaimed* -- racist fucktardia
and then get upset when someone objects. Whatcha gonna do for an encore
sir, mug old lady on a busy street -- while yelling "Look at me! I'm
mugging an old lady on the street!" -- and then *complain* that people
say *mean* things to you once you've gotten our attention? You're not
only a racist fucktard, you're a pompous ninny too. Congratulations!
You're one of the most egregiously shameless "people" I've ever seen!
So, how many of the Rolexes you've "found" on your EMT runs were real?
[...]
> Let's clear the air here, shall we? I am a bigot. I despise people
> based upon their race, their religion [...] I hate niggers [...] I
hate beaners [...] And I hate Indian call takers [...]
I get it: you're a pathetically twisted raving ball of hate, in addition
to being a racist fucktard. You should be locked in a rubber room strapped
a wall with a constant Haldol enema so you don't let go and hurt anybody.
You've quite persuasively informed us of your vile disposition: you're a
stomping raving sputtering argument for preemptive protective detention.
And whether it would benefit you at all is irrelevant: Society is entitled
to protect itself from menaces like you.
So now tell me: what kind of person goes out of his/her way to convince of
us of such a fact?
But I suppose I should express gratitude that you haven't threatened to
HUNT ME DOWN AND KILL ME. You racist fucktard.
Now, I'm sure you're really a very nice guy in person, really, and that
you know of lots of lurkers who can testify to your swellness in email.
And maybe in real-life you might even have something like friend or two
(while you're buying the drinks), and I'm sure your Mommy likes you. So
you're a ticking-timebomb racist fucktard who swears he has a redeeming
quality or two. Good for you! I hear David Berkowitz loved kittens too!
People are supposed to trust a raving stomping sputtering ball of hate
like you when they're weak, hurt, sick, and strapped down to a gurney?
SHEESH. Please tell me you don't work anywhere near the 502 area code.
Nub,
Dabey!
drdoody
> [...]
>
> > I'm an EMT who's been working in an exclusive 911 district with a
> > call volume of @1,000 calls/month for seven years. I've been involved
> > in one aspect of medicine or another for ten years. You wanna know what
> > I do for a living? I slither through the bleeding, puking, shitting,
> > screaming effluvia of this species on a daily fucking basis.
>
> So
<snip>
*yawn*
When you come out with something that isn't a raving, frothing advertisement
for proactive abortion, let us all know. Until that point, shut the fuck up.
You're stupid, repetitive, immature and more than just a little easily
whipped into a furvor. That, and you're a completely talentless dipshit
whose flaming skills don't quite breach the level of "fourth grader throwing
a hissy fit".
Cujo DeSockpuppet
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Got a live one! Keep this guy on the hook.
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> Got a live one! Keep this guy on the hook.
>
Trust me, if you're seen one obsessive nut rave in a public forum, you've
pretty much seen them all. I just responded because it's been quite a long
time until I flamed some hapless halfwit into cinders. I'll give him a round
or two more before I KF him out of boredom.
David
[...]
> You're stupid, repetitive, immature
And you're a twisted raving hateful racist fucktard. So?
> and more than just a little easily whipped into a furvor.
You don't know me very well, do you.
> That, and you're a completely talentless dipshit whose flaming skills
> don't quite breach the level of "fourth grader throwing a hissy fit".
Oh you mean as opposed to a strictly off-the-shelf third-grade example
of puerile name-calling like that. I see. What's next, a "your mother
dresses you funny"?
And you're still a racist fucktard. That's right, don't forget that this
thread is about all YOU and what a sputtering raving menace to Humanity
you are. Think of it as a special gift. Since you begged for it.
D.
drdoody
news:Pine.LNX.4.58.04...@troll.weezl.org...
> And you're still a racist fucktard. That's right, don't forget that this
> thread is about all YOU and what a sputtering raving menace to Humanity
> you are. Think of it as a special gift. Since you begged for it.
Holy shit. I haven't seen this level of hatred since.. well, it's been since
before the last time I drunkenly sodomised my wife. Which would put it at
last Tuesday. Seriously, man. We're talking time for a significant dose of
lithium. Yes, I am a racist. I'm also a sexist. I also despise people if
they follow any kind of organized religion, whatever the fuck that's called.
I also hate people if they breathe in my vicinity. I pretty much hate
people, period. I hate people because I have to take care of them. All day
long it's need, need need. I realized long ago that people are really just
pathetic little piles of self-mobile flesh that keep annoying me. This is
called misanthropy. Look it up. Understand it. And then deep throat the
dangerous end of something long, loaded and cocked.
But before you shuffle off your mortal coil in your mother's basement and/or
I killfile you because of sheer, mind-rending tedium, I have to know
something: Why do you fucking care?
What does it matter if I'm a chauvanist bigot? What does it matter if I
shine on a few Untouchables sweating their curry-gulping asses off in some
Bangalore warehouse? What does it matter if I take a shit on James Byrd's
grave because he was a no account crackhead who got canonized because he was
black and got dragged to death by three peckerwoods? Why would you put on
such a humiliatingly fervent display of unbridled hostility because one guy
about a thousand miles away from you typed something offensive? Are you some
sort of crusader? If you are, then you're a pretty shoddy one. You suck.
Both in the figurative sense and hopefully, the literal. Otherwise, you're a
near total waste of time and energy. The only reason I'm even typing this
right now is because I'm bored, drunk and, like the other denizens of this
NG, in ned of a laugh, which you've provided by the bucketfull.
Alex
"drdoody" <drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Bravo!
bob
> "Cujo DeSockpuppet" <cu...@petitmorte.net> wrote in message
> news:cg1dfh$sci$2...@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>
> > Got a live one! Keep this guy on the hook.
>
> Trust me, if you're seen one obsessive nut rave in a public forum, you've
> pretty much seen them all. I just responded because it's been quite a long
> time until I flamed some hapless halfwit into cinders. I'll give him a round
> or two more before I KF him out of boredom.
Translation: I will stop playing and hide my head in the sand ("I
can't see you, you aren't there") when I run out of canned responses
and since I'm not particularly witty, I figure I can only eke out an
additional response or two before I start to repeat myself.
drdoody
news:a9962032.04081...@posting.google.com...
Actually, it'd be closer to: "He's an annoying motherfucker and taunting him
started getting boring a few gouges back.".
David O'Bedlam
post referenced by {"drdoody"<drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote in
message news:G2VUc.2347$oF4....@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com} below, with
its included quotes to add, after *thousands* of words:
[...]
> Bravo!
Funny, I don't see rec.org.mensa in the subject line. Has a Super-
Genius escaped to terrorize normal newsgroups? (You can tell Super-
Geniuses, they can't even learn how to edit their Usenet followups
with such dinky-ass software as, in Alex's case, Outlook Express.)
Nub,
Dabey!
--
"It's my life, and I'll do what I want." - Eric Burdon
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David O'Bedlam
[...]
> Actually, it'd be closer to: "He's an annoying motherfucker and
> taunting him started getting boring a few gouges back.".
I see, the boring silly "flames" you post *is* the best you can do.
You really *are* a pathetic little fucktard; it no wonder you must
blame somebody else, in your case "non-whites", for your sad life.
The
--
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drdoody
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> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, "Alex" <Grand...@Freemason.org> quoted the ENTIRE
> post referenced by {"drdoody"<drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> message news:G2VUc.2347$oF4....@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com} below, with
> its included quotes to add, after *thousands* of words:
>
> [...]
>
> > Bravo!
>
> Funny, I don't see rec.org.mensa in the subject line. Has a Super-
> Genius escaped to terrorize normal newsgroups? (You can tell Super-
> Geniuses, they can't even learn how to edit their Usenet followups
> with such dinky-ass software as, in Alex's case, Outlook Express.)
*yawn*
Plonk
bob
<drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>"bob" <than...@coldmail.nu> wrote in message
>news:a9962032.04081...@posting.google.com...
>> "drdoody" <drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> > "Cujo DeSockpuppet" <cu...@petitmorte.net> wrote in message
>> > news:cg1dfh$sci$2...@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>> >
>> > > Got a live one! Keep this guy on the hook.
>> >
>> > Trust me, if you're seen one obsessive nut rave in a public forum,
>you've
>> > pretty much seen them all. I just responded because it's been quite a
>long
>> > time until I flamed some hapless halfwit into cinders. I'll give him a
>round
>> > or two more before I KF him out of boredom.
>>
>> Translation: I will stop playing and hide my head in the sand ("I
>> can't see you, you aren't there") when I run out of canned responses
>> and since I'm not particularly witty, I figure I can only eke out an
>> additional response or two before I start to repeat myself.
>
>Actually, it'd be closer to: "He's an annoying motherfucker and taunting him
>started getting boring a few gouges back.".
>
I win!!!
bob
<drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>"David O'Bedlam" <thed...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
>news:2004081909...@shell.rawbw.com...
>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, "Alex" <Grand...@Freemason.org> quoted the ENTIRE
>> post referenced by {"drdoody"<drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote in
>> message news:G2VUc.2347$oF4....@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com} below, with
>> its included quotes to add, after *thousands* of words:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > Bravo!
>>
>> Funny, I don't see rec.org.mensa in the subject line. Has a Super-
>> Genius escaped to terrorize normal newsgroups? (You can tell Super-
>> Geniuses, they can't even learn how to edit their Usenet followups
>> with such dinky-ass software as, in Alex's case, Outlook Express.)
>
>*yawn*
>
>Plonk
burp
David
[...]
> *yawn*
>
> Plonk
Once again I've been boringly "plonked" by one of Usenet's "witterati"!
Oh boy! I really ain't that senile after all!
Ambiently,
TheDavid
P.S. I really do get irked by 'racist fucktards', by the way.
--
"I don't think that I can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it."
...................................................................
(C) 2004 TheDavid^TM | David, P.O. Box 21403, Louisville, KY 40221
Cujo DeSockpuppet
news:3s7ai0heq3p9k13fv...@4ax.com:
I'll just point out that this quote ("Got a live one! Keep this guy on
the hook.") was directed at David. For some reason Doo-doo thought I was
cheering him on. It's not surprising to me that Doo-doo got it wrong.
--
Cujo - The Official Overseer of Kooks and Trolls in
dfw.*, alt.paranormal, alt.astrology and alt.astrology.metapsych.
Winner of the 8/2000 & 2/2003 HL&S award. Hail Petitmorte!
Colonel of the Fanatic Legion. FL# 555-PLNTY Motto: ABUNDANCE!.
Official Slapper of Spamming Mary the Drama Queen. Meow.
"You're not that stupid. I'm a Savant's idiot kook, to get down to
your level of kook adoration......" - Twonky, adding to his legend.
David
> I'll just point out that this quote ("Got a live one! Keep this guy on
> the hook.") was directed at David.
Oh damn. Maybe I should've gone a little easier on him then, maybe he'd
still be around to play with.
Kittenishly,
TheDavid
bob
I wonder if his plonker is leaky.
Alex
"David O'Bedlam" <thed...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in message
news:2004081909...@shell.rawbw.com...
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, "Alex" <Grand...@Freemason.org> quoted the ENTIRE
> post referenced by {"drdoody"<drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> message news:G2VUc.2347$oF4....@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com} below, with
> its included quotes to add, after *thousands* of words:
>
> [...]
>
> > Bravo!
>
> Funny, I don't see rec.org.mensa in the subject line. Has a Super-
> Genius escaped to terrorize normal newsgroups? (You can tell Super-
> Geniuses, they can't even learn how to edit their Usenet followups
> with such dinky-ass software as, in Alex's case, Outlook Express.)
>
cheese sandwich out of my nose!.
David
> "David O'Bedlam" <thed...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in about Alex
> in message news:2004081909...@shell.rawbw.com...
[...]
> > Funny, I don't see rec.org.mensa in the subject line. Has a Super-
> > Genius escaped to terrorize normal newsgroups? (You can tell Super-
> > Geniuses, they can't even learn how to edit their Usenet followups
> > with such dinky-ass software as, in Alex's case, Outlook Express.)
> It's so funny I laughed, and passed part of a cheese sandwich out
> of my nose!.
I'm glad you liked it. What kind of cheese?
Dabey!
--
"I don't think that I can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it."
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(C) 2004 TheDavid^TM | David, P.O. Box 21403, Louisville, KY 40221
David
[...]
> Funny, I don't see rec.org.mensa in the subject line.
I meant, of course, the *newsgroups* line.
> Has a Super-Genius escaped to terrorize normal newsgroups?
*I* didn't escape from the Mensan Circus but from the Angsty Fair.
Picture me in a cap with bells.
Bowingly,
TheDavid
--
"I don't think that I can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it."
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(C) 2004 TheDavid^TM | David, P.O. Box 21403, Louisville, KY 40221
E Varden
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, drdoody wrote:
> [...]
This David smell escapes more killfiles than gas from a Crohn's, fer
crissakes.
He has some serious marbles trouble, from way back when I first
encountered the buttinski crossposting pisswit, in alt.bitterness.
Get cancer, and die, David. And hurry up about it.
Your pal,
Pe
Sam
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, "drdoody" <drd...@dieslowly.sbcglobal.net>
> in message <mNGLc.4630$5A2....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>, on
> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:47:30 EDT, posted:
>
> [...]
> > Bangalore dothead
>
> [...]
>
> > college graduate. That doesn't necessarily make them qualified to
> > do the job.
>
I've worked in 20 call centres (I'm not exaggerating), mainly in
Canada but in London (UK) and Belfast (UK) as well. Turnover is a self
inflicted problem that plagues call centres. India may have a billion
people, but I'm convinced call centres will run out of employees by
the end of the decade (now I'm exaggerating). Many if not most inbound
call centres require a college degree or diploma to prove that you
have a higher than average IQ. You see, learning is a major part of a
call centre. Call centre software is generally the most user
unfriendly stuff out there (there is a fortune to be made there). The
most user-friendly software I used was in 1999 at First Telecom, a
discount Long Distance company in London (UK). The guy who owned the
company got the money to start it up by selling his call centre
software to Microsoft! Well, the interface was good. Unfortunately,
major glitches included regular crashes, problems with adding and
subtracting and processing credit card payments. But at least it was
Windows/point and click based. Then you have to learn about the
product (which in the confuse-economics service industries, is
incredibly complicated) and learn about the changes in product (daily)
and learn about all the new promotions. But the trickiest thing about
working in a call centre is figuring out your schedule. Add to that
being constantly evaluated and worrying about your stats (call
length, ratings, plugging all the right things) and it is one
aggravating job. One place I worked, a loud BEEP would ring in your
earpiece every 90 seconds so you could keep track of time! I got a
warning letter for going to the bathroom between my breaks at a major
Canadian cable company (while there were a hundred agents waiting for
calls). American Express had four different password protected
software systems that had to be opened at all times and would time-out
after a few minutes. Needless to say, each of the four software
systems required a different password that expired every month. A
unionised government call centre had us doing 12 hour shifts on a
three day 24/7 rotating schedule (not good). I read the same 40 minute
survey at Statistics Canada for three months straight. We took
customer orders between technical support calls at a help desk. At
that same call centre, we were instructed to transfer calls to a
fictional "level 2" agent under certain conditions (we occasionally
transferred the calls to ourselves!). At Nortel, we were expected to
put op to 6 people on hold so we could adhere to the 99% in 6 seconds
or less answer promise. "-Customer: Our entire European phone network
is down. -Me: please hold". -Colleague lying: "I'm so sorry, the
engineer had a traffic accident on the way to your company, but he is
OK. We'll get someone out there immediately". Working for a bank: "Ms
Jones, you are a secondary credit card holder on your father's credit
card account, as your father has stoped paying his bills we are
holding you responsible. I realise your father is in the hospital in a
coma, unfortunately you are a secondary card holder and you must pay
off the account. And it doesn't matter that you got the card when you
were 17 and you never used it in the last 6 years. Will you be making
the $3000 payment tomorrow or Friday?". PriceWaterhouseCoopers: "Since
you speak French, call these people in Northern Belgium (sic) and
convince them to do this survey." England call centre: Job
requirement: bilingual (French-English). "You'll only be taking calls
from India and Australia since we put you on the night shift for the
duration of your 2 year work visa". Working for a large credit card
company: "Would you be interested in $15,000 at a special 6% interest
rate for the next three months (regular rate, 21%)?" All day and every
day. Trying to fill ethnic quota with a survey company in Ottawa: "Mr
Smith, does anybody in your household have French as a first
language?" Working tech support: "Yah, I got this CD, how do I connect
to the Internet? Um, do you have a computer? No, why?". "I'm a
computer Engineer but I'm having trouble connecting to the Internet.
No problem, what do you have on your screen? Um, I don't know, I'm in
the basement and my computer is on the third floor, just tell me what
to do and I'll write it down". _Regular_ schedule at a bank: Thursday,
finish at 11pm, Friday, start at 7am. "Well, you have 8 hours rest,
that's all we legally have to give you". Same bank, one 15 minute
break in the morning, 30 minutes for lunch and no break in the
afternoon. And that was the place that had the loud BEEP every 90
seconds! In the UK we had two 15 breaks a day. But they were unpaid!
I've been unemployed for 7 months, but for all the gold in India I
wouldn't go back to that type of work.
Thinking about immigration to Canada? If yes visit:
http://www.geocities.com/merdealorsen/immigration.html
Sam
Deirdre Sholto-Douglas
Sam wrote:
Have you ever heard of something called a
"paragraph"? If you haven't, and for that
matter even if you have, take adfp out of
the headers.
Sheeesh.
Sam
Point taken. What is adfp though?
Robert Sneddon
<merdea...@yahoo.com> writes
>Deirdre Sholto-Douglas <finch.e...@rcn.com> wrote in message
>news:<412CD15F...@rcn.com>...
>> Sam wrote:
>>
>> Have you ever heard of something called a
>> "paragraph"? If you haven't, and for that
>> matter even if you have, take adfp out of
>> the headers.
>>
>> Sheeesh.
>
>Point taken. What is adfp though?
Alt dot Fucking Peeves. We suffer fools gladly, as in we gladly make
fools suffer. Among our many peccadilloes (before you ask, it's a small
armoured rodent similar to a wild pig in demeanour) is a delight in the
beauty of the English language and its vocabulary and a deep and undying
detestation of those who abuse it. They never did find the body of the
last L33t-speaker who infested our hallowed halls.
Paragraphs are good. OK?
--
Email me via nojay (at) nojay (dot) fsnet (dot) co (dot) uk
This address no longer accepts HTML posts.
Robert Sneddon
Steve Daniels
merdea...@yahoo.com (Sam), to say:
>Deirdre Sholto-Douglas <finch.e...@rcn.com> wrote in message news:<412CD15F...@rcn.com>...
>> Sheeesh.
>
>Point taken. What is adfp though?
You're soaking in it.
David
> On 25 Aug 2004 15:23:55 -0700, something compelled
> merdea...@yahoo.com (Sam), to say:
[...]
> >Point taken. What is adfp though?
>
> You're soaking in it.
More like "stepped in it."
Squitchingly,
N. Thornton
boy, has it gone downhill. What are the good threads Im missing?
E Varden
"N. Thornton" wrote:
> Whats happened to rom? I been reading thru some threads today, and oh
> boy, has it gone downhill. What are the good threads Im missing?
Sloppy bunch of Xpostings, bumhat.
"Mensa"?
Bwahahahahaa... What a maroon!
Plonk
Pe
N. Thornton
I'm sure someone made sense of that :)
Loogie
to happen twit!
--
hawktooie
Loogie out
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