help. i'm working in a call center right now. it's slow and the phones are not ringing. there are seven of us in the room (including the supervisor) and there are two women talking across the room to each other in a tone loud enough that it is impossible to ignore them. they have been doing this since 8:00 and it is now 9:28. the just won't shut the **** up. my super walked past me about 10 minutes ago and said "i'm going to go take my life" and walked out of the room. he came back just now and said "i couldn't do it." i said, "i just might." one of these delusional freaks is about 40 years old and a virtual know it all who ALWAYS has something to say and is an expert on everything. the other girl is about 25 and is probably one or two generations removed from poor white trash. supposedly her dad is a doctor, she has a doctorate, teaches at law school and went to law school. PhD in mediation. Ok, why the f*ck are you working a temp job at a call center making $9 hour??? This other b**** gave a 5 minute dissertation yesterday on why the women in the room shouldn't have been afraid of the roach that flew across the room because it actually wasn't a roach..."it was a palmetto bug." wtf?!!! someone help. i think my head is going to explode.
i don't think there's such thing as a PhD in mediation. i do some mediation work...i've gone through the 40 hour basic training...i don't think there's anything past that. certainly not to the level of PhD!
just scream, "Shut the fffffront door!" they will get the picture. i did that in the movie theaters a few years back b/c of all the stupid teenagers. it gets a few laughs.
supposedly there's only one school in the nation that has it - NOVA or something like that in florida.
Get some head phones and turn it up just loud enough to cover their voices. Then connect the wire for your ringer to your scrotum and wait for life to get interesting.
Why not just ask them to keep it down in a polite way? Say you are trying to get some work done and they are disturbing you or something.
Sorry, verse. That's the kind of thing that happens in call centers all over this great country. Which is why I'll never work in one again... I work in one now, although I'm in Operations instead of on the phones. There's a chick behind me that CONSTANTLY coughs, and when she does, she seriously sounds like she's throwing up in her mouth and swallowing it. Sometimes, it gets so bad that I actually gag listening to it. I'm not exaggerating. All I can tell you is to be strong. If things get too bad, start taking hostages.
seems like a good day to ask off for the rest of the day. sounds like someone's got a case of the thursdays
Check your employee handbook: if strangeling isn't explicitly frowned upon - i say put both hands on it and choke it. That's what i always do in situation such as these.
wow, if you can't handle this then you aren't exercising your god given right as an american* to bear arms, and to unload some payload. *that means you were born in the greatest country in the history of the universe
Well, I looked up "palmetto bug" on wikipedia, and the article for "American Cockroach" came up, so I'd say that gives you enough reason to smack that stoopid b**** across the face... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmetto_bug
i always thought it was funny if you saw a cockroach at a friends house and then he'd say "its just a waterbug".
The creature's name is Periplaneta americana, and is more commonly known as the American Cockroach, Palmetto Bug, or Waterbug. In other words, a cockroach and a palmetto bug are the same thing. (source)
