(Literally) impossibly demanding customer

[ShadowBall]

So since March is in the past, the balance from that month no longer exists and you guys are just big meanie-heads for charging her for that month. Well gee, if I knew that's how bills worked and I could just pay the ones I want to pay, I could pay back all my loans no problem.

Wow...I think special would be an understatement for this woman. I definitely do not want some of whatever she's smoking. Why does nature hate us all and not make stupid of this degree painful?

[XCashier]

Why does nature hate us all and not make stupid of this degree painful?

Oh, it is painful, but not for the stupid. It's the people who have to deal with the stupid who wind up in pain.

[8xInfinity]

Gah...that was seriously stupid. Why is she even allowed to keep using the service with a past due balance?

She never went over 30 days. If she had been even a day late after that, her service would have been cut off for being over 30-days past due. Because she paid the same amount each month, she was only paying the previous balance, and then the current would become late.

This conversation was probably even longer than what I posted (this was awhile ago, so it's all slightly paraphrased). There was probably a lot more cursing and a longer bit of round-and-round with the same demands and attempts to answer.

Annoying at the time, but pretty funny now.

[barainga]

I to worked for a major callphone company as a supervisor no less and I can say that this is a pretty common call. Sad but true... makes me want to cry everytime I think about it.

[Chazzie]

Yeah, back when I was working for a major cell company and was fresh out of training I had so many of those calls it was ridiculous. I don't understand how they can think by NOT TALKING ABOUT A BILL, it magically goes away.

:hugs: for you. I wasn't able to make it past 4 weeks working the same job you have, and took a major paycut to go back to my donut shop. However, I know others with a different mentality do very well there.

[Betweenshades]

I love circular conversations!

[dalesys]

I love circular conversations!

Here we go ... round the bullberry bush
The bullberry bush
The bullberry bush

Here we go ... round the bullberry bush
The bullberry bush
The bullberry bush

So eerily in the moaning...

[Teskeria]

You were too complicated. You needed to simplify. Fast 'you paid march in april so april was late, you paid april in may so may was late, you paid may in june soyou now have to pay june and july as june is late. Once you pay June and July you will only have to pay one month at a time again. '
Of course it is doubtful anyone can speak fast enough to get that out quickly other than a professional auctioneer. (man are they quick!)

[chainedbarista]

it's magical thinking, of course; only what she wants to exist exists, so this march bill doesn't exist, and mentioning it ruins her special world of magical thinking, which makes you stupid. or something.

ah, the crashing pain of reality in the magical thinking world...

[Captain Trips]

You know, that's one thing that burns me...people assuming that one is stupid based on what job they do. There is no shame in an honest job. You do what you have to do.

Quite. I have a measured IQ of 136, yet I have found myself pushing a broom or stuffing Halloween costumes into plastic bags for a living. The smart ones of us know that you need to pay your bills no matter what job you have to take for it. (Saying "I don't want to work this month because last month's bills are in the past and the past doesn't exist any more so I don't have to pay them" just doesn't cut it!)

[Duelist925]

Oh god. I've taken this call so many times. T_T So much stupid.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I to worked for a major callphone company as a supervisor no less and I can say that this is a pretty common call. Sad but true... makes me want to cry everytime I think about it.

Yep, I worked at a call center too and got this call practically word for word once, it was kind of freaky because for a minute there I thought I was reading one my own posts from back when I worked there!

[Imogene]

Here we go ... round the bullberry bush

I swear I read that as Mullberry bush, then as Bulllberry Mush, and THEN as it was written...