Apparently womenfolk can't handle making phone calls

[CancelMyService]

I had a fun exchange the other day. A customer called in with a billing question which was uneventful in and of itself. The problem started to rear its head when it became clear that the lady who's name was on the account was not the one who handled the bills in the house. Halfway through the call, the "man" of the house snatches the phone and starts barking at me while I'm still in mid-sentence. I had to ask three times "who am I speaking to?" before he would SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME, with an annoyed tone in his voice that he actually had to respond to something the phone monkey asked him. All I got in reply was "I'm her boyfriend", as I did not warrant the courtesy of knowing the name of the person who just shoehorned his way into the conversation (the account was in her name, btw).

Maybe it's just me, but it really grinds my gears (ooh, he said it!) when people pass the phone around like a baton in a relay race let alone have some sexist jerk decide it was time for the menfolk to talk. Especially when the topic is billing, I'm not going to have a discussion on your past due bill full of porn when everyone on the block is taking a turn on the phone.

[Posture Moll]

"I'm her boyfriend"

*snerk*

Well, La-dee-DA, mister. I never knew that by just sleeping with somebody on a semi-regular basis somehow gives you power of attorney over them.

Something to ponder before I invite any good-looking folks back to my place.

[LambChop]

Feh. Sexist bullshitters get their comuppance in one way or another so I normally don't let it bother me. It's when they start doing it right in front of me that there's a problem.

*tries his best to be 'good-looking.' Fails miserably*

[Racket_Man]

Maybe it's just me, but it really grinds my gears (ooh, he said it!) when people pass the phone around like a baton in a relay race let alone have some sexist jerk decide it was time for the menfolk to talk. .

try taking a pizza delivery order from 5 DIFFERENT poeple. I swear this was a race to see how many people they could put on the phone during ONE friggin call

1 give out the phone number
1 to give the address
1 to order 1 pizza
1 to order another pizza
1 to ask what the specials were
and 1 to pay with a credit card

my head hurt after that one and I know my IQ dropped a few points

[chainedbarista]

1 give out the phone number
1 to give the address
1 to order 1 pizza
1 to order another pizza
1 to ask what the specials were
and 1 to pay with a credit card

why are 'lightbulb' jokes coming to mind right now??

sounds like management, but with a few adjustments:

1 to figure out the schedule
1 to write up the schedule
1 to correct the first schedule
1 to figure out how things run
1 to 'manage' the workers

[Peppergirl]

Wow.

Any man who did that to me would get smacked with said phone. Hard.

[Kyree]

why are 'lightbulb' jokes coming to mind right now??

sounds like management, but with a few adjustments:

1 to figure out the schedule
1 to write up the schedule
1 to correct the first schedule
1 to figure out how things run
1 to 'manage' the workers

You just quoted my work, haha. Except one thing.
1 to change the schedule after it's been put into the computer, so the other 5 have the manually override our department when we come in.

And to the OP: I hate that too, but sometimes I have to hand the phone off to my dad because...I'm too nice on the phone. He's more forceful and gets things done when if it would have been me, I wouldn't have. Like with Comcast. Oh how I hate Comcast. It took them a year and a half of calling once a month to get them to put my name on our account so I could pay the cable bill.

[Gwen_Goth]

sounds like management, but with a few adjustments:

1 to figure out the schedule
1 to write up the schedule
1 to correct the first schedule
1 to figure out how things run
1 to 'manage' the workers

like this?



we have this one up in work, except one of the junior chefs replaced "bloke from poland" with his name

[freeatlast]

When I was working in the call center, I absolutely hated those calls where the account holder (usually the man, for some reason) would call to ask billing questions on his account. In the background you would hear the woman telling him what questions to ask. On this type of call, normally the original caller would be pretty reasonable, even if he wasn't getting the answers he wanted. However, the woman in the background would start getting irate and yelling at him and telling him exactly what insults to hurl at me. Several times, I finally told the original caller that I could not assist him with the screaming in the background and that if she had that much to say to put her on the phone. They were usually pretty apologetic and could often be heard in the background backing me up once I got the screaming woman on the phone. I am a woman, and I usually found it really odd that it was usually woman who behaved in this way. But I always set them straight and pointed out that they were wrong.

[Racket_Man]

why are 'lightbulb' jokes coming to mind right now??

sounds like management, but with a few adjustments:

1 to figure out the schedule
1 to write up the schedule
1 to correct the first schedule
1 to figure out how things run
1 to 'manage' the workers

my job is sooooo much like the light bulb jokes somtimes

well we know there are a lot of dim bulbs of SC out there and sometimes management is not much better