You've Gotta Be Kidding Me ( Epic )

[Syriilord]

Me: “Well, we’re here 24/7.”
SC: “So am I!”

Wait, what? You…..are? …..are you in the office with me? Where are you?! Show yourself! Oh God, I’m in a direct to DVD horror movie aren’t I? Probably with some stupid tagline like “Shank You For Calling” and somehow involving Freddy Prince Jr.

Coming Soon to a DVD Store near you: Gravekeeper and Freddy Prince Jr. Starring in:

Afterhours

Shank You For Calling

[dalesys]

Afterhours

Shank You For Calling

(Technical Director: Kara)

Fiddling while home burns...

[Syriilord]

Fiddling while home burns...

Yeah...I probably have wayyyyyy to much free time at the moment....

[Sapphire Silk]

. But here's the kicker: She needs one to talk to her own children, so that she can tell them their father passed away. Their father was also deaf. Now, think about that for a second. Her husband is deaf. Her children are deaf. But she has never bothered to learn a shred of sign language to speak with any of them. It's not that she isn't particularly good at it and needed help. It's not that there was anything preventing her from learning it. She just couldn't speak it at all

I tried to learn sign in college. A friend of mine was fluent, and her mother was born deaf so she grew up speaking it.

It was hard. I never could get the knack of it. My problem wasn't learning the signs; it was interpreting them from other people. It is harder than it looks.

Can't the woman with the deaf children write it down for her children or something?

That's a pretty ineffective way to communicate with a deaf person. I know; I've had to do it in the ER. An interpreter is really the way to go, or being fluent n sign.

She could be like the *second* wife and not the mother of the kids, who were already grown up and out of the house ...

Well, the question that hits my mind is, how did these guys manage to have a relationship not being able to communicate?

My hospice co irker Butz went to China last winter and married a Chinese woman. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese. She doesn't speak a word of English.

I have no idea how they manage.

[Jester]

That's a pretty ineffective way to communicate with a deaf person. I know; I've had to do it in the ER. An interpreter is really the way to go, or being fluent n sign.

Yes, but when there is no interpreter available, this seems like a reasonable way to go. It isn't great, it isn't the best, but if it's the only thing you have, you go with it. I have done this on multiple occasions when I have gotten deaf guests in my restaurants over the years. Well, to be fair, I rarely am the one writing. I speak slowly and directly to them so they can see my lips, and they will either say what they need as best they can, point, or write it down on a pad I proffer, as it is pretty clear from the get go that I can't sign for shit. I know most (but not all) of the alphabet, and that is about it. (Hell, I can't even spell Jester, since I always confuse the s and the e. Fuck.)

[Peppergirl]

SC: “Then why do you even have a 24/7 number?!”

Every. F**king. Shift.


I seriously want to stab someone every time this is uttered.

Add to that the fact that they act like you kicked their freakin' puppy by having the utter GALL to say, 'I'm sorry, but for that (incredibly unimportant, idiotic request) you'll need to call back during business hours."

This is often met with shock and outrage.

Why the are you calling me at 4am on a Saturday night for something that's NOT a travel emergency? Seriously. Unless you're drunk or high, you have no excuse. Or you're just a insomniac entitlement whore. Or both.

Sorry. Rant over. I feel your pain on this one.

[Teefies2]

My hospice co irker Butz went to China last winter and married a Chinese woman. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese. She doesn't speak a word of English.

I have no idea how they manage.

I do ...... it starts with an "S"

[Mikkel]

I do ...... it starts with an "S"

Signs???

[Gravekeeper]

I am deaf, and my two siblings and parents are not. Everyone but my dad is at least conversant in sign language.

Yeah, I can't even comprehend it. Though it makes me wonder how the heck they got together in the first place.

Happened at the dorm a lot because we WOULD get a shit-ton of false alarms.

Yeah, this building doesn't get any though. If its going off, shit luckily be real. Last time it went off there it was, indeed, real. ( and yeah a few people still called ).

Was this the beginning of the phone call, or something that happened partway through (perhaps after something else turned out to be unavailable)? The former would be "special", but the latter would be checking how much hatred he would earn from you for this distraction.

It occured when I first asked what they wanted to order. ><

She could be like the *second* wife and not the mother of the kids, who were already grown up and out of the house ...

No, the children were young. Like "Why isn't daddy home?" young.

Unless it's American Express. But that's just a freak card.

YES. Thank you. AMEX is a roving wasteland mutant card. Whenever someone asks "Do you take AMEX?" my first thought is always "Yeah, but why do you have it?".

Don't you read your own posts??

No, it keeps me sober. >.>

Yeah, but they have to make up for it by having a 4-digit CVV so the checksum string is the same as the others.

Mutants.

Needless to say, she is not currently employed at said establishment.

Wish I could say I haven't worked with someone like her before.

You keep saying that, and the more you say it, the more one phrase keeps leaping to my mind: "Methinks he doth protest too much."

Again, remind me to post about my old job at another call centre. Not that I am that kind of operator. But there were things our boss there tried to make us field call wise.

Whoa there, big boy. I'm the resident magician around here. You stick to being polite, gorging on Tim Horton's, riding the Sky Train, and mercilessly mocking your nocturnal callers, and leave the wizardry to me. Okay? There's a good GK.

I'm really more the malevolent overlord type then a wizard.

Check the stairs of the office building. My guess is you'll see him there, making out with another guy. Just a thought.

I try to ignore the stairs. At night the elevator is locked down so the only way drunken fucktards that work at other companies in the building can get in is through the stairs. They seem to think the building is a great place for a drunken piss stop before heading to the next bar.

Cept for one guy who did something to annoy me one night, causing me to pull a reverse asshole on him, but I couldn't mention it in my posts because I wasn't sure how to explain it without ID'n the twat ( He's a public speaker ).

My hospice co irker Butz went to China last winter and married a Chinese woman. He doesn't speak a word of Chinese. She doesn't speak a word of English.

I have no idea how they manage.

Speaking from personal experience ( I didn't marry her, thankfully ) it may have little to do with the relationship and everything to do with showing off social status. >.>

Though in my case she could speak decent English and I spoke a lick of Mandarin.

Every. F**king. Shift.

Ugh, I know. I hear some variation on it at least once a week from some stale twat bagel after they call for something that is in no way an emergency. Despite the fact I use the word "emergency" when I answer and identify the line.

[Jester]

Again, remind me to post about my old job at another call centre. Not that I am that kind of operator. But there were things our boss there tried to make us field call wise.

Consider this your reminder.

I'm really more the malevolent overlord type then a wizard.

Well THAT I can live with. Next time just say so, damn it!

[Rapscallion]

I'm really more the malevolent overlord type then a wizard.

You too? Wooo! Maybe we should form a gang and have a club house and have sleepovers and a secret handshake, and maybe a decoder ring. It would be super!

Rapscallion

[Jay 2K Winger]

You too? Wooo! Maybe we should form a gang and have a club house and have sleepovers and a secret handshake, and maybe a decoder ring. It would be super!

Rapscallion

Make that three of us! We should go find an evil thoroughbred and form an evil league of overlords.

[dalesys]

You too? Wooo! Maybe we should form a gang and have a club house and have sleepovers and a secret handshake, and maybe a decoder ring. It would be super!

Rapscallion

...and paint NO GITZ on the door...

[Gizmo]

Consider this your reminder.

Seconded.

[AccountingDrone]

I have no idea how they manage.

There are several methods with deaf mutes. There is a group that goes entirely with lipreading and attempting to speak coherently - My friend Steve is someone that happened with. He has that Marlee Maitlin garblespeak thing going, he has to be amazingly careful when he tries to speak. He reverts to writing stuff down a lot.

Steve's wife is of the learn to lipread, learn to sign, communicate in sign or write it down.

Then there is a group that goes for implants, surgical procedures and so forth trying to restore hearing, who have an inverse group that consider trying to restore hearing is abhorrent nazism and there is nothing wrong with them thank you very much.

*sigh* I prefer to stay out if it entirely. I think everybody hearing or not should learn lipreading, it is amazing what you can 'overhear' with it

I would surmise if she is the second wife, Dad is old enough to be one of the lipreaders and he writes down responses back to her.