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  • #16
    23.

    Not exactly related, but if you call the wrong number, please have the decency to apologize instead of immediately hanging up like an asshole. I swear to God, this happens at least three times a day where I work.

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    • #17
      Quoth Pinkie View Post
      6. Do not eat or smoke while on the phone. The last thing I want to hear is some lip smackin' or you inhaling or exhaling when you take a drag. We can hear most everything!!
      Ok with you if the customer breathes?

      Seriously though, while I understand a hearty exhale right into the mouthpiece may be irritating (Which I don't do - it yecchs up the phone.), I'm gonna go ahead and smoke in my own home... especially if I'm on a long hold.

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      • #18
        If I am trying to explain something to you, then SHUT THE HELL UP and let me explain it! If you interrupt me and continually cut me off you will get nothing but trouble.
        "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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        • #19
          Also, if you're calling us up why in the hell are you yelling/talking loudly to someone else while I'm picking up and saying hello? It hurts my ear drums.
          "No, I will not poop a shopping cart out for you." - Irving Patrick Freleigh

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          • #20
            Quoth Mordecai View Post
            23.

            Not exactly related, but if you call the wrong number, please have the decency to apologize instead of immediately hanging up like an asshole. I swear to God, this happens at least three times a day where I work.
            23a. When calling a supermarket or department store with an auto attendant and you want the bakery but accidentally hit the button for deli or you hit appliances when you wanted electronics, etc, kindly tell the person who answers. We will be glad to press a few buttons and send you call to who you need. It is annoying to pick up the phone, hear a dial tone and two seconds alter hear a page for another department.

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            • #21
              Quoth Mordecai View Post
              23.

              Not exactly related, but if you call the wrong number, please have the decency to apologize instead of immediately hanging up like an asshole. I swear to God, this happens at least three times a day where I work.
              Well, at least that's better than having them get mad at you for not being the person they thought they were calling...


              If you are calling a store and want us to look up something in the computer for you, give us time to actually get to the computer. Most of us don't have the luxury of waiting around for the phone to ring. There are other things that need to be done in the store. That's why we have those handy portable phones.
              I don't go in for ancient wisdom
              I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
              It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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              • #22
                If I tell you that we got no Nintendo Wii or Wii Fit or Wii Whatever... that means we do not HAVE them. And calling every five minutes asking us again along with "when are you getting them" will not change anything.
                New England Patirots... FIVE TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPS!
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                • #23
                  Quoth Mordecai View Post
                  23.

                  Not exactly related, but if you call the wrong number, please have the decency to apologize instead of immediately hanging up like an asshole. I swear to God, this happens at least three times a day where I work.

                  By the same token, if I am at work and accidentally dial the wrong number, please don't cuss me out over it. I'm always polite and apologetic, and it was an ACCIDENT, for chrissakes.
                  "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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                  • #24
                    6. Do not eat or smoke while on the phone. The last thing I want to hear is some lip smackin' or you inhaling or exhaling when you take a drag. We can hear most everything!!
                    Also, don't you forget your dentures. Or if the dentures are loose, do something about them (I don't have dentures but the way some people sound like makes me think they are loose).

                    Don't call asking "how do I make a woman come." Or call, faking an Middle Eastern accent and say, "I just got married and I don't know how to have sex with my wife. Can you tell me how to have sex with my wife?" The librarian will tell you that we have books you can check out about sex.

                    Don't call asking for medical advise, esp. if you don't want to go to the emergency room. "Something's coming out of my butt. What is it?...Do I have to go to the doctor?" We can't diagnosis your problem.

                    Don't call asking for someone who works here by their first name and you don't know their last name and you don't know what dept. they work in or what they do. There are at least 10 Marias, 10 Annes, 10 Joes. Also, wanting to talk to the "Gray-haired lady" describes 25% of the librarians here. Also, asking for the librarian wearing glasses discribes 50% of the librarians, and there might have been a day one of the librarians who wears contacts forgot his/her contacts and wore glasses the one day you came in.

                    Don't call us "babe", "honey", "sweety-pie", etc. Were librarians, we think that our Masters of Library Science gives us the right to be spoken to like your equals. Also, the library support staff and the cleaning people don't like it (well, maybe the cleaning people). How do you like being called "babe"?

                    Make your kid do his/her own homework. Don't call us and say, "My son has a project and he needs to know the state tree, flower, bird, song..." The teacher gave the rugrat that homework assignment so he/she can learn how to look up stuff. I imagine in 20 years you are wondering why your kid isn't looking for a job and still living at home, because he/she doesn't know how to do things for him/herself. Note, I know some people are going to say, "My mom did my homework all the time and I have a $120,000/yr salary, so screw you!" Some people can get by without learning how to do their homework, because they can motivate themselves in other areas. But I've seen way too many adults come in to the library and not know how to find any type of information or do anything for themselves and have the librarians do the most basic of things for them, like look up a ph. # in the phone book or re-do their resume because a 5th grader could write a better one.
                    Last edited by depechemodefan; 06-04-2008, 02:13 AM. Reason: adding note
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                    Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

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                    • #25
                      Don't forget Rule #8. Oops, sorry, wrong list. Moving right along...

                      Don't call our store and ask if we have "the item that's in your ad". That only narrows the choices down to mere hundreds of items in our store.

                      If you ask the above question and I ask you to describe the item more specifically, don't heave a gusty sigh like I'm a doddering simp and say, louder and more slowly "The item that's in your ad! On page whatever!"

                      Failure to abide by this rule will result in me telling you we just ran out of that item, even if it happens to be untrue. Or alternatively, me putting you on hold to go look for the item, and the phone gets mysteriously hung up and your call dropped MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
                      Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                      "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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                      • #26
                        when you are calling in need of help for direction, please STOP TALKING TO THE DUDE/BITCH sitting next to you, if he/she knows how to get here, you wouldn't be calling for help, right?

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                        • #27
                          When calling in, please understand some people don't qualify for every promotion you see on TV/hear on the radio.

                          Also please understand what "bait and switch" means. Not being told what you want to hear =/= bait and switch.

                          Believe it or not, the cable company isn't actively trying to piss you off. Sometimes shit happens. Picnics get rained out, hearts get broken, not all puppies are cute, and sometimes your cable will go out when some asshole decides to play Pole Position: The Home Game and wraps themselves around the pole supporting our lines.

                          Finally, please realize when calling in to berate us over your months-unpaid cable bill that it's no skin off our noses when you play the "well I'll just go to dish" card. Frankly we could use less deadbeats. Bonus: when I inform you that just letting your service disconnect for non payment will negatively affect your credit, don't think you put me in my place by mentioning how your credit is already bad so one more bad mark won't make a difference.
                          "You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride not to be human." - Hobbes

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                          • #28
                            Another one, don't even try to ask me what our competitors prices are for the same item! Quite frankly I do not care and it's not going to get it for you lower from us. We do not price match nor does it say we do anywhere on our literature. Our products are unique to us, we do not carry the same exact things as our competitors.

                            If you bitch about how high you think our delivery charges are do not be surprised when I quote you the much higher delivery prices of all of our competitors and ask you if you'd prefer to use one of their rates.

                            Also, if you ask for a custom order of something weird do not get all stupid about the price. Custom orders are just that, custom, and usually are more pricey and take a two day lead time.
                            "No, I will not poop a shopping cart out for you." - Irving Patrick Freleigh

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                            • #29
                              If you call to make an appointment, please have your datebook and/or schedule of classes handy. Have some CLUE when you might want to come in. And if I offer you a choice of times, think it over quietly, not while going "TCH TCH TCH TCH TCH' in my ear. Really, is it necessary to make stupid and annoying noises in order to get your brain to work?
                              Women can do anything men can.
                              But we don't because lots of it's disgusting.
                              Maxine

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                              • #30
                                DO NOT CALL if you are so drunk or stoned that you cannot form coherent sentences and/or speak without slurring so much that you cannot be understood. I do understand that after partying hard all night it's natural to get the munchies at 3 am, but the Mail Order Food Company is NOT the place to call to satisfy those munchies, it's going to be a week or so before the order can possibly reach you. Plus, of course, the odds that you will remember calling and placing that $500 order are slim to none.
                                You're only delaying the inevitable, you run at your own expense. The repo man gets paid to chase you. ~Argabarga

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