ESCAPE PANTS

[BlaqueKatt]

her Uncle Murray, who lives in Canada, was kidnapped and murdered by….er…”Them”. I do not know who “Them” is, but “They” slew her uncle. Than took all his stuff and sold it. Than took all his property and sold it. Poor Uncle Murray. He was liquidated by the nefarious Them.

her uncle Murray was murdered and eaten by radioactive giant ants?

Them

[Seshat]

Is there any weapon in an SC's arsenal that will actually raise your sympathy? I was pretty sure that your particular class - Bitter and Jaded CSR, Prestige Class: Overnight Shift - was immune to all Sympathy-increasing effects anyway.

The Voice of Politeness (+5), combined with the Genuine Attempt To Find A Fair Compromise is usually effective, even against the Bitter and Jaded CSR. However, the B&J, especially the Overnight Shift B&J, is immune to almost everything else.

The GATFAFC, unfortunately, appears to be an extremely rare artifact.

[Gravekeeper]

They're rather clearly marked on my new rig ( Quad Core 2 Q9550 ftw ). On my old case they were just two silver buttons. Though the power button was larger than the reset button.

Still, if I couldn't find the power button I'd just keep looking. I wouldn't be placing a service call on my company's tech support contract at 3 in the morning that will likely cost my boss several hundred dollars. ><

[otakuneko]

Geek King: Two of my computers have cases (identical cases, in fact) with identical large, convex buttons for both reset and power. They're quite easy to push. They're also not labelled, making it a wonderful guessing game as to which is which. and one of these computers is on the floor. Fortunately, my dad hasn't kicked it. Yet.

My old Alienware's case (which now houses my phenom ) has buttons that are within raised circles. The reset button is very small, and recessed below the raised area, so that I have to use my pinky to hit it, and even then, if I don't have enough of a fingernail, I might not push it in enough.

It's also one of those that has a door that when closed covers both drives and buttons. The door's removable though, and I've had it off for a good while now.

[Kogarashi]

3 year olds.

Hear hear!

I had to tape a plastic gerber lid over my reset button and change the power switch's settings so it brings up the Standby/ShutDown/Restart screen instead of automatically shutting down. Not only was my little girl forever coming up and poking at the buttons, but I'd occasionally kick them on accident too. And with as heavy and unwieldy as my tower is, there's nowhere else I can put it to make it less accessible.

[Geek King]

But why in the world would you make the power and reset buttons inaccessible?

In addition to 3 year olds (good one, btw. ), you might want that on a computer you plan on using as a server, or just don't want to accidentally turn off. And yes, I have accidentally stumbled (over my boss ) and grabbed the computer rack out of instinct, placing thumb squarely on a server power button. Fortunately, that one was built to not shutdown unless the power button was held down for a couple of seconds. But accidents do happen.

[Alpha Strike]

Just because you have not gotten your way in under 5 minutes does not mean you need to trot out the F-Bomb. The F-Bomb is an unwieldy weapon of mass destruction in the customer service industry. When hurled at an unsuspecting foe it deals at least 6D6 damage to any given CSR’s Sympathy and an additional 4D6 to any other coworkers within 15 feet.

The whole point of this is to try and increase the target’s Sympathy.

Is there any weapon in an SC's arsenal that will actually raise your sympathy? I was pretty sure that your particular class - Bitter and Jaded CSR, Prestige Class: Overnight Shift - was immune to all Sympathy-increasing effects anyway.

[otakuneko]

Oof. Touche.

[AriRashkae]

Course, I imagine some people are completely defeated by those cases that hide everything behind a door. Hiding the drives I can understand: *sort* of helps keep dust out. But why in the world would you make the power and reset buttons inaccessible?

3 year olds.

[otakuneko]

I'll admit to not being able to find the power (switch/button) on some computers at first glance, especially older laptops which had all sorts of crazy ideas as to what (button, actual switch, brief-contact slider?) and where (anywhere they damn well please) the damn thing should be. A cursory search always turns it up, however. Or a "let's push this and see!"

I've also seen poorly designed cases where the power and reset buttons were the same size, unlabelled, and right next to each other. Then it becomes a game of WHICH one is the power. :facepalm:

Course, I imagine some people are completely defeated by those cases that hide everything behind a door. Hiding the drives I can understand: *sort* of helps keep dust out. But why in the world would you make the power and reset buttons inaccessible?

[Cyphr]

“SHOW US YOUR TITS!”

The only way to respond to this is to shout back:
"I can do better than that" and promptly drop your pants

[dalesys]

Gravekeeper: being serviced by SC's 24/7/666...

(because a normal year isn't evil enough)

[IHateStupidCustomers]

SO. MANY. WORDS.

Me: “Ok, and your postal code?”
SC: “Oh…..ummm……”
Me: “…….?”
SC: “Sorry, I was just reading the paper so now my head is all full of facts and things.”

Indeed. Not a lot of drive space in your brain box is there? Maybe you should just stop reading altogether. It may be safer that way. There’s no telling what sort of damage you’ll inflict on yourself if you persist. Basic literacy is simply too dangerous to risk. In fact, for your own safety maybe we should just skip the phone number and email address questions altogether. I’d hate to inadvertently wipe half your childhood.

When I worked in a catalogue call center, I had TOO many calls that went something along the lines of:

Me: "What size do need ma'am?"
SC: "....."
Me: "Ma'am, what SIZE do you need?"
SC: "...."
Me: "Ma'am?"
SC: "....."
Me: "HELLO!!!???"
SC: "Oh, sorry. What now? I was watching TV."
Me:

SOOOOOO sorry to have interrupted your TV-watching. It's not like YOU called ME or anything.

[Calud]

I took 2 years German back in high school... my German isn't exactly the greatest.. but here's some German that may help you if you run into this again..

I don't speak German: Ich spreche nicht deutsch.
Literal translation: I speak not german.
Pronounced: eekh sprecke neekt doytsh

Do they teach the spelling like that in school?? No wonder English's German is so terrible.

[Gravekeeper]

I took 2 years German back in high school... my German isn't exactly the greatest.. but here's some German that may help you if you run into this again..

Thats much better than the single phrase of German I know. Which is something to the effect of "ICH LIEB MEIN WAFFLEN UND SWINE" and ill suited for normal conversation.

Though I really, really did want to say it to him. I hate when people call and get mad at me for not speaking their language. Despite having called a company in Canada or the US and having pressed 1 for English. ( 2 for French ).