I control both cable & nature apparently

[Phone Jockey]

More fun with cable customers!

C: Can you have the sun turned back on, mam? I’m tired of the rain.

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C : Hey, help me with my cable issue, please.
Me: OK, how may I help you?
C: (silence)
Me: Sir?
C: Yes, I’m looking at you.
Me: What?
C: Yup.

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C: Hey…I’m just some schmuck who has broken his cable box.

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Me: OK sir, let me get your name & address, please.
C: OK…you mean from me?

[Andara Bledin]

C: Can you have the sun turned back on, mam? I’m tired of the rain.

I suspect this person was just spreading random bits of confusion, trying to lighten people's days.

Me: OK sir, let me get your name & address, please.
C: OK…you mean from me?

This guy, probably thought you could get his info from his hone number.

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[MoonCat]

Me: OK sir, let me get your name & address, please.
C: OK…you mean from me?

I get these. If I say "I need to get your phone number," I get silence. Apparently they think I'm lifting it from somewhere without their help. We don't have caller ID. I have to be careful to say "May I have your phone number please?" Otherwise they don't understand what I want.

[Versalia]

I get these. If I say "I need to get your phone number," I get silence. Apparently they think I'm lifting it from somewhere without their help. We don't have caller ID. I have to be careful to say "May I have your phone number please?" Otherwise they don't understand what I want.

Yep. I get this one ALL. THE. TIME. This morning, in fact:

Me: And where do you work?
SC: Oh... in [City].
Me: ... For which COMPANY?

[chainedbarista]

now telejockey, all you need to do is harness the time/space continuum and you have all you need to rule the universe...mua ha ha ha!

[Andara Bledin]

Me: And where do you work?
SC: Oh... in [City].
Me: ... For which COMPANY?

Well, you do have to admit that as useless as the answer was, the SC did answer the question as it was posed.

When I get incoming CS calls, one of my first questions is, "What company are you with?" Mostly because I can get to all areas that I might need from the company record.

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[KellyHabersham]

I get these. If I say "I need to get your phone number," I get silence. Apparently they think I'm lifting it from somewhere without their help. We don't have caller ID. I have to be careful to say "May I have your phone number please?" Otherwise they don't understand what I want.

I got this in the church office once - a woman had called to ask if we could remove her from the mailing list for our monthly newsletter, and I think she assumed that we had caller I.D., because she didn't identify herself until I asked for her name.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Every once in a while, I get a phone cal from someone who wants to reorder a previous job and they'll just tell me their first name. I'll take as much information as I can, then wait until they're just about to hang up before saying...

"There's just one more thing I need to know... Who are you?"

Some seem genuinely surprised that I know more than one person named Dave...

[Mytical]

I get a lot of "Would you connect me to receiving?" or similar. Then they are stunned when I say "I need a name to connect you to." Da rules here say, you don't get connected if you do not know a name. Period. And a full name. Not "Bob" or "George" or "Beyonce"..and absolutely not "Purchasing", "Management", or such. However..there is one we will do..."Security." Yep..we will connect that call

[mharbourgirl]

More fun with cable customers!

C: Can you have the sun turned back on, mam? I’m tired of the rain.

Sorry. That might have been me. 10 days of rain and a nasty cold at the same time, cold meds do funny things to my brain.

Though I don't remember any issues with the cable, so it might not have been me. But I haven't had a spell of rain this long since I left the Wet Coast, and that also does funny things to my brain.

Hmm, maybe I need a beer. Yes, that would be a good idea.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Well, you do have to admit that as useless as the answer was, the SC did answer the question as it was posed.

According to an old joke, the SC worked for Microsoft.

I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer.

[Andara Bledin]

The joke's older than that.

The classic variant usually uses mathematicians for the butt.

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