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da ([personal profile] da) wrote2006-01-05 12:02 am

fer Pete's sake...

I just got a phone call from the guy who bought a HP calculator from me on eBay, a month ago. It's 11:55 here. He wanted software support from me. What do I look like, AO flippin' L? With 24-hour hotline?

The guy must've looked up my phone-number in the white-pages, since he called my home number.

He seemed suspicious that I hadn't given him all of the memory the calculator came with. I firmly told him I had nothing else I could help him with; he has a working calculator, and if he has software problems he needs to talk to the people who made the software, and no, I didn't need his phone number in case I had any ideas to help him out. I was probably too polite, but frankly I was dumbfounded.

[identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
If you were AOL, he'd never have gotten to a human.

[Do I sound bitter after several days of computer-run call centres?]

[identity profile] kraig.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

The question is: are you bitter enough?