I had a ew this morning very irate because I could not fix the one PBS channel she was receiving. For some reason bi local university was having broadcast problems this morning and she thought I should give her a large credit because of their problem, or fix it myself.
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Here's how I'd love to handle someone like that:
Certainly! I'll be happy to give you a credit. Let's see, under your current package, you get 100 channels, for which you pay $60 a month. That's 60 cents a month per channel, you had 1 channel out for one day.....
There, it's all done, I have credited your account for 2 cents. Have a nice day!"Aliterate : A person who is capable of reading but unwilling to do so.
"A man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot" - Mark Twain
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Quoth infinitemonkies View PostCertainly! I'll be happy to give you a credit. Let's see, under your current package, you get 100 channels, for which you pay $60 a month. That's 60 cents a month per channel, you had 1 channel out for one day.....
There, it's all done, I have credited your account for 2 cents. Have a nice day!"I never lost my faith in humanity. Can't lose what you never had right?
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Quoth infinitemonkies View PostHere's how I'd love to handle someone like that:
Certainly! I'll be happy to give you a credit. Let's see, under your current package, you get 100 channels, for which you pay $60 a month. That's 60 cents a month per channel, you had 1 channel out for one day.....
There, it's all done, I have credited your account for 2 cents. Have a nice day!"
1. Older people would call up and demand that a technician come to their house -- to change batteries in the remote. For Free.
2. Parents (they were near a college town) would call up and demand to know why Junior's cable was cut off.
3. People would call up because they dropped $50 on a Pay Per View boxing match (back when Mike Tyson was in his prime) and complain that they wanted their money back because:
A. They were out of the house when it started, and they missed it
B. They were in the bathroom, and the fight was over before they got to see it
C. The fight only lasted 5 minutes
D. Some other lame reason
4. Older people (I guess because they are on fixed incomes) would call up and complain because their bill went up 1 cent and they wanted to know why.
There are more, but those are off the top of my head...Last edited by mjr; 11-08-2013, 10:03 AM.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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Quoth mjr View Post4. Older people (I guess because they are on fixed incomes) would call up and complain because their bill went up 1 cent and they wanted to know why.
Of course, then I have the people who sign up for our $XX/month plan, and go batshit when they get their first bill and they've added around $4 in taxes. "You LIED to me! You said the plan was only $XX/month and they've charged me $XY!!!!!"Last edited by icmedia; 11-08-2013, 02:10 PM."She didn't observe the cardinal rule: Don't F**K with people who handle your food"
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Quoth icmedia View PostOur local sales tax just increased by 0.5%, and the number of people flipping their wigs about the extra few cents on their phone bill is ridiculous.
Of course, then I have the people who sign up for our $XX/month plan, and go batshit when they get their first bill and they've added around $4 in taxes. "You LIED to me! You said the plan was only $XX/month and they've charged me $XY!!!!!""Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages." - Terry Pratchett
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Quoth Dentarthurdent View PostOhhhh yes. When I worked an ice cream counter (please gods never again) people would flip their shit that we added sales tax to the prices posted on the boards. I mean, sure, an arm and a leg is a lot to pay for ice cream, but did you really think Uncle Sam wouldn't get his share too?
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Quoth infinitemonkies View PostHere's how I'd love to handle someone like that:
Certainly! I'll be happy to give you a credit. Let's see, under your current package, you get 100 channels, for which you pay $60 a month. That's 60 cents a month per channel, you had 1 channel out for one day.....
There, it's all done, I have credited your account for 2 cents. Have a nice day!"
Love this, I often did the same thing when I was at the BorgSphere Cell Phone center.
They would end up getting less than a two dollar credit.
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Quoth infinitemonkies View PostHere's how I'd love to handle someone like that:
Certainly! I'll be happy to give you a credit. Let's see, under your current package, you get 100 channels, for which you pay $60 a month. That's 60 cents a month per channel, you had 1 channel out for one day.....
There, it's all done, I have credited your account for 2 cents. Have a nice day!"
I enjoyed it.
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Quoth Monterey Jack View PostAlways happens when people buy those 24-pack cases of canned soda...they'll always wonder why it's a few dollars more (they ALWAYS buy four or more packs per shopping trip), not realizing that it's an additional five cents per can that you get back if and when you recycle them.
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Quoth mjr View Post3. People would call up because they dropped $50 on a Pay Per View boxing match (back when Mike Tyson was in his prime) and complain that they wanted their money back because:
D. Some other lame reason
People actually did call their PPV provider and asked for their money back because of it. And they got it. Really made WWE rethink some of their booking decisions.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!
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Quoth Jay 2K Winger View PostThis actually happened recently to WWE. They had this big PPV match last month, wherein indie-star-made-good Daniel Bryan fought against the evil-corporate-backed Randy Orton for the WWE Championship. Bryan won the title, and the very next night on Raw, he was stripped of the title due to shenanigans.
People actually did call their PPV provider and asked for their money back because of it. And they got it. Really made WWE rethink some of their booking decisions.
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Quoth sstabeler View PostI can sort of understand that, actually. The PPV fight would have been promoted as the underdog's chance to topple the big guy. Then to have the underdog get screwed over off-stage to reverse the result? basically means WWE were going "you suckers paid for an unimportant match!!! You fools!"- yeah I'd be asking for a refund too. It's misleading to promote a match, then reverse the result via shenanigans.
This is the first time that it's had a major impact on WWE, though.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!
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