[Nicola_Red]

It's 5pm on friday. I leave work in 30mins. Are you all happy? I'm not too bad, even tho I am coming down with a cold.

some of you may know I work in theatre. next week Derren Brown is on here. He's doing three dates. It went on sale back in November and has been sold out for a long time. We have 50 names on a waiting list. i'm going myself - i paid full price for tickets just after christmas.

My last call was a chap who asked, "have you got any tickets for Derren Brown?"

me: "it's completely sold out, I'm afraid."

him: "you can't get any tickets?"

me: "no, it's completely sold out."

him: "f* off" (phone slams down).

what is wrong with these people? how many meanings does 'sold out' have?

I mainly wanted to rant, but also those of you that are lucky enough to work with the public feel free to share your experiences of 'customers'.

[MK Chris]

next week Derren Brown is on here.

He's good, I saw him doing the 'Something Wicked...' tour almost a year ago - very impressed.

[Nicola_Red]

Yeah, I saw that and the one before too. Last time I got to hang out backstage with him for a little while, I was like a stupid schoolgirl.

[DemonHorse]

It's 5pm on friday. I leave work in 30mins. Are you all happy? I'm not too bad, even tho I am coming down with a cold.

some of you may know I work in theatre. next week Derren Brown is on here. He's doing three dates. It went on sale back in November and has been sold out for a long time. We have 50 names on a waiting list. i'm going myself - i paid full price for tickets just after christmas.

My last call was a chap who asked, "have you got any tickets for Derren Brown?"

me: "it's completely sold out, I'm afraid."

him: "you can't get any tickets?"

me: "no, it's completely sold out."

him: "f* off" (phone slams down).

what is wrong with these people? how many meanings does 'sold out' have?

I mainly wanted to rant, but also those of you that are lucky enough to work with the public feel free to share your experiences of 'customers'.

Shouldda told him to go on Ebay, see how much people will try to charge him on there.

[Yudster]

My direct line rang this morning -
Me - Good morning, [insert name of organization]
She - Can I speak to Shalim Khan please?
Me - Sorry, I don't have anyone here of that name.
She - But this is HIS number.
Me - Sorry, I think you may have dialled the wrong number.
She - No, this is his number.
Me - I am sorry, can you tell me what number you are trying?
She - Its this number . Oh......erm......
Me - I really think your call has misrouted.
She - Could you put me through to him then?
Me - No, I'm sorry, I think you may have the wrong number.
She - Well what is his number then?
Me - I am sorry, I really think you have the wrong number.
She - But you are Fluval. You are Fluval?
Me - No, sorry.
She - Well what are you wasting my time for then! *slams phone down*.

Nice one.

[MK Chris]

My favourite one when I was working for Unilever was the guy who thought it clever to mix half a bottle of Domestos chlorine bleach with half a bottle of Domestos oxygen bleach. It exploded.

[SAV1OUR]

I am the local courthouse, I don't actually work there, but according to a lot of callers, it is me who will deal with their driving fines/bans and any other criminal activity happening locally, its happened so often, my favourite is the recent one where a bloke left a 5 minute long message begging not to be prosecuted, he wanted to speak to someone because he was confused about when he'd be appearing in court.

Spilling out all the nitty gritty details of your run-in with authority isnt wise on a BT answerphone. And as the sig says, sometimes its just best to humour the poor sods. Wrong number this, wrong number that, it takes all sorts on my landline phone, bless em.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =105609393 - Listen to BT Horn Blower on there hehe.

[Walter Sobchak]

It's 5pm on friday. I leave work in 30mins. Are you all happy? I'm not too bad, even tho I am coming down with a cold.

some of you may know I work in theatre. next week Derren Brown is on here. He's doing three dates. It went on sale back in November and has been sold out for a long time. We have 50 names on a waiting list. i'm going myself - i paid full price for tickets just after christmas.

My last call was a chap who asked, "have you got any tickets for Derren Brown?"

me: "it's completely sold out, I'm afraid."

him: "you can't get any tickets?"

me: "no, it's completely sold out."

him: "f* off" (phone slams down).

what is wrong with these people? how many meanings does 'sold out' have?

I mainly wanted to rant, but also those of you that are lucky enough to work with the public feel free to share your experiences of 'customers'.

As you know (by reading over there <<<<) I live in Yeovil, our main Theatre is the Octagon, they have some good acts on.
Now I was told that Lee Evans was appearing there, by a friend that works for the promoters.
So I called the Octagon and gave them the dates, they said that they couldn't book me as the act hasn't been confirmed, after a bit of haggling, the nice lady told me to phone again next week, which I did, I spoke to the same lady, and she told me that the tickets would be on sale tomorrow.
I couldn't phone that day, but phoned the day after, and was told the tickets were sold out! I couldn't believe it, 2 days later I got the brochure in the post, advertising Lee Evans.
I do understand the brochure was printed before being sold out, but all the people that called the Octagon hoping for tickets were wasting their money.
So I do sympathise a little with this guy, although there is no need to be rude to the staff, it's not their fault, but it can be very annoying.

[Walter Sobchak]

Anybody that has been a Taxi driver has had to put up with this kind of thing:
"How can you charge that much when it would only cost a couple of quid for me to drive myself?"
of course the answer is that it's a business, and like all business' there is a need to make a profit, plus the high rates that local authorities charge for the licences (personal and vehicle), The huge cost of public liability insurance for each vehicle (the lowest taxi insurance is usually around £1500 per vehicle, but can be a lot lot more!), and of course unlike the bus services who get grants, taxis (usually) get no benefits from the government or local authorities - unlike most of Europe...
Which is another point, some Clients say "I was in (Holland), and the Taxis were nowhere near these prices" well, take the Netherlands as a 'for instance', there they do have to buy their 'medallions'(licences) which then belong to that person and costs a lot of money, but once they have that then (as they are classed as public transport providers), they pay little or no 'income tax' and their fuel costs are subsidised, I think they only pay 20% of the tax that anyone else pays, they also get other benefits, which I can't remember at the moment

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I am helpful and polite so people aren't horrible to me. You all deserve it.

[Ickle Angel]

Fridays always busy in our call centre. Mainly with people moaning and complaining