Oh boy, story time!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Ok, look. I have stranded passengers, police officers, a hospital and a PRISON RIOT going on, on my other lines.

A prison riot? Oh my. I hope Kara wasn't involved.

[Andara Bledin]

Meh. -.-

I have a shirt that says that. You might want to look into getting one for yourself.

Princess, by some miracle, remained conscious through the heavy bleeding long enough to meet them the cute little things and enjoy every last minute alive, er, alone playing with them.

The End.

Ahhh... Don'cha just love a happy ending?

^-.-^

[blas]

So does this Hot Tips For America Snausage dude call you pretty much every night you work?

[Evil Queen]

GK, I'm beginning to wonder what you do for a living; I thought you work in a call centre of some sort. But these stories are making me think you have multiple jobs!

Yes, this did happen to me.

Have you ever bought a new pair of jeans and forgotten to take all the tags off of it? Specifically you missed the clear sticker on back with the measurements? Then, while riding the escalator at Granville, you feel something odd, turn around and the girl behind you is peeling the sticker off your butt? No? Well, you don’t know what you’re missing. The sheepish explanation and awkward silence is awesome.

I, too, am guilty of this but I generally tell someone they have the sticker first.

[blas]

GK is a therapist and owner of a Pink Cammo Rehab Center in Nunavut.

[Ree]

GK, I'm beginning to wonder what you do for a living; I thought you work in a call centre of some sort. But these stories are making me think you have multiple jobs!

He works in a call centre that handles multiple accounts.

[Gravekeeper]

He works in a call centre that handles multiple accounts.

Indeed, we're an outsourced call center. If you don't have a call center or you do but want to provide 24 hour service, you hire us, we train operators to handle your customers and then we take some or all of your calls.

Normally operators are divided into different teams/divisions during the day that only take specific types or a single client's calls. But at night, its just moi or me and one other guy some nights. So we're trained to take *every* call. Thats why my life and my posts seem so wondrously varied.

[SpyOne]

Hot Tips for America

SC: “Yeah, like, I have an idea that might help the US economy. Like what if you had like a new dollar coin that was like 100% silver? With an eagle on one side and a crow on the other. Then you could like-“

Given our governments aversion to minting coins that are worth more as metal than their face value (why pennies aren't copper anymore), that would be one SMALL coin.
A quick check of current silver prices shows that a silver dime would be worth ... $1.50 to $1.79 (by weight) right now, so a bit bigger than half the size of a dime.
And you think people don't use our current dollar coins? I can barely image how unpopular something worth $1 and easilly lost in pocket lint would be.

At the current price of silver, we would have two options:

I am so glad to see that I wasn't the only (or even the first) guy to try to work out how big a $1 silver coin would be.

[friendofjimmyk]

Buying a Vowel

Me: “Ok, and your name please?”
SC: “It’s M-A-A-A-“

Er…..is this going to take a while? Because I’m off shift in about an hour and a half. I don’t want to go into OT just because your parents named you after the sound a mountain goat makes as it slips and plummets down an 800 foot cliff face deep in the Himalayas.
.

This caused me to giggle uncontrolably for quite some time. This is one of those parts of a Gravekeeper post that I will remember randomly throughout my shift and giggle yet again thus breaking up the monotany of my day!

Normally operators are divided into different teams/divisions during the day that only take specific types or a single client's calls. But at night, its just moi or me and one other guy some nights. So we're trained to take *every* call. Thats why my life and my posts seem so wondrously varied.

I think that this would help prevent your job from becoming boring. I mean, call centers are boring to begin with, but handling different kinds of calls would help, I would think.

[Gravekeeper]

I think that this would help prevent your job from becoming boring. I mean, call centers are boring to begin with, but handling different kinds of calls would help, I would think.

It does, actually. Taking one type of call over and over begins to tire me in fairly short order. The variety does help.

[Gwen_Goth]

With No Apologies to Chicago

Ok, I’m really trying to piece together what just happened. As far as I can figure out you called a random <nation wide real estate company that has hundreds of offices> office ( You don’t know which one ), spoke with someone named “Gwen” and she hung up on you 6 times because she thought you were a rude, abusive asshole. Now you want to complain to the <company> head office. But you can’t figure out which office is the head office, so you just called directory assistance, asked for the number of a random <company> office and decided to call it ( at 3am no less ) to bitch, piss, moan and rant about how butt hurt you are about Gwen from <Company> Unidentified because she won’t talk to you anymore? Ok, I think I have the general gist of it.

You also managed to work yourself up into a complete indignant forth completely by yourself too. The only words I got in edgewise were “Pardon?”, “Who are you trying to reach?” and “Gwen?”. You also ranted something about how you own two businesses and you’re a Chicago Blackhawk and how no one should DARE speak to you that way EVER because you are so fantastically important that even taking that tone of voice with you should result in the skies parting and lightning striking the offender.

Essentially, I quickly began to figure out why she had hung up on you.

Also, your hockey team sucks.

YES

if only I really were the cause of this gem...

[Slytovhand]

I think that this would help prevent your job from becoming boring. I mean, call centers are boring to begin with, but handling different kinds of calls would help, I would think.

Although... in our company, we've got a line that is overflow for about 20-30 different campaigns - some of which they'd only get calls for maybe once a week (or less). Ok - most of them are simply name and number, we'll get someone to call you back... but still!

[friendofjimmyk]

For me, it's the same-old-same-old. I'm either getting calls from contrators or calling contractors. Whichever I get is the luck of the draw.

[Rapscallion]

Yes, this did happen to me.

Have you ever bought a new pair of jeans and forgotten to take all the tags off of it? Specifically you missed the clear sticker on back with the measurements? Then, while riding the escalator at Granville, you feel something odd, turn around and the girl behind you is peeling the sticker off your butt? No? Well, you don’t know what you’re missing. The sheepish explanation and awkward silence is awesome.

Change "Granville" to "work canteen" and "girl" to "woman who likes other women", and then I know where you're coming from.

Mind you, I got a cheery, "Hold still a moment," before the main event.

Rapscallion

[BookstoreEscapee]

Given our governments aversion to minting coins that are worth more as metal than their face value (why pennies aren't copper anymore),

Yeah, and they still cost more than 1 cent...