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  • #1

    This Is A New One...

    For me anyway...

    As I've said before, I work for a cell phone company,..in the retail store.
    Tonight a lady walked in (not my customer so I will paraphrase...)

    CW _ coworker
    WL _ weird lady

    CW: Hi! Can I help you?
    WL: YES! Look at me!!
    CW: ----???
    WL : Do you see my nose??
    CW: Yes? I see your nose?
    WL: LOOK CLOSELY!
    CW: .... yes?
    WL: It's RED!
    CW: Um...yes?
    WL: It's blistering!!
    CW: Is it?
    WL: YES! And it's because of this phone!
    CW: Because of the phone...?
    WL: YES! I was using the speaker phone and holding it up like this (holds phone directly up to nose/mouth area) and it made my nose red.
    CW: ... um...
    WL: It's RADIATION coming from the phone! I felt it!!! I could feel the radiation blowing on my nose as I was talking!
    CW: (and really...what DO you say to that??)
    WL: I am on my way to the doctor now..and when he says it's RADIATION poisoning from this phone.. what are YOU going to do about it??
    CW: um.. well ...we-we can send it back to the manufacturer under warranty?
    WL: What about my NOSE?
    CW: We don't---we don't manufacture the phones...I suppose you'd have to call the manufacturer?
    WL I will do just that! It's ridiculous! You sell radiating phones!
    ... and she stormed out.

    What....the......hell?? Radiating phones? Next complaint will be excessive ear wax caused by the phone.
    Oh, "Blah blah blah 'Your Needs'!"
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  • #2
    "Radiation" turning her nose red, huh? Is that the name of a new alcohol?

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    • #3
      Ow.


      Seriously? I mean, wow. That is a level of dumb/delusional I thankfully never had to deal with while working on the cellular side of the business here. Just.....wow.
      "In the end I was the mean girl/or somebody's in between girl"~Neko Case

      “You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.” ~William Stafford

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      • #4
        She's definitely a special kind of stupid.

        But we had much fun and laughter after she left.
        Oh, "Blah blah blah 'Your Needs'!"

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        • #5
          Mrow? Maybe she was yakking it up on the phone while driving, and hit something - casuing her face to smash into phone and phone to smash into steering wheel...and this is why her nose is red!
          If you are thinking to yourself, "Hmmm, should I post this?" it should probably go HERE.

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          • #6
            My bet is that she was out in the sun talking on the phone until the battery went dead and got sunburn.

            My sister is like that.
            This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.

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            • #7
              Customer probably watched some primetime news show that had a story about the risk of radiation poisionong from cell phones and well....took it to the extreme. It amazes me that people STILL believe all the OTT crap they see on T.V. Sweet Jesus!
              "If it offends one person, it effects everyone".....me, on the PC world in which we dwell.

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              • #8
                *dring dring*
                "Hello? Uhuh... uhuh... okay."
                "Yeah, miss customer? It's 1980. They want their phone back."
                Now would be a good time to visit So Very Unofficial!

                "I've had so many nasty customers this week, my bottomless pit is now ankle-deep."-Me.

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                • #9
                  Quoth bigjimaz View Post
                  My bet is that she was out in the sun talking on the phone until the battery went dead and got sunburn.
                  That's not possible. Everyone knows the sun doesn't give off any radiation at all!

                  Seshat's self-help guide:
                  1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                  2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                  3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                  4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

                  "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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                  • #10
                    I want to know why she was holding the phone so flippin close to her face if she had it on speaker anyway.... seriously people. Drugs are bad mkay.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth bigjimaz View Post
                      My bet is that she was out in the sun talking on the phone until the battery went dead and got sunburn.

                      My sister is like that.
                      Or she just came in from cold weather, or she had a cold virus and had been blowing her nose...

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                      • #12
                        Tell her if she's really concerned to check the owner's manual for the SAR rating (that's the legally acceptable amount of radiation put out by electronic device and no piece of electronic equipment can be sold unless it falls within FCC regulations). Then she can look up more information at fcc.gov. I get people once in awhile complaining they get headaches or whatever other ailments supposedly from their phone. Most of the time it turns out they aren't too concerned about long-term health effects, they just want a new phone without paying for it.
                        "You are loved" - Plaidman.

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                        • #13
                          I know that every cellphone I've ever had, when I use it to talk for a while, such as longer than 15 minutes, it heats up. On the ones that I've had to talk on for an hour or so I have to switch hands/ears because the phone gets almost unbearably hot.

                          I don't have a new top of the line phone, never did need one or see the use for one, but has anyone else noticed this?

                          If she was touching her nose then maybe the heat from it caused it to turn red.
                          "Time shall help me face my painful memories with indifference, and with more of it, I won't feel the need to face them at all..."

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                          • #14
                            Quoth SCSlave View Post
                            What....the......hell?? Radiating phones? Next complaint will be excessive ear wax caused by the phone.
                            Oh, so THAT'S what's going on with my left ear, huh?

                            I didn't know radiation "blew"...I thought it, well, "radiated"...and incidentally, unless her phone has a fan in it, how is she feeling something "blowing" out of it?
                            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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                            • #15
                              Quoth Kusanagi View Post

                              I don't have a new top of the line phone, never did need one or see the use for one, but has anyone else noticed this?
                              It's normal for phones to get warm. Mine is a brand-new Samsung I just got in December and it warms up after 2-3 minutes. As long as it doesn't get too hot to touch, it's not a problem. If it ever gets too hot to touch, call your carrier and get it exchanged, because that's hazardous to your health (not due to radiation, but because they tend to start shooting sparks from overheating).
                              "You are loved" - Plaidman.

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