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12 February 2008

I just had a wacky spammy phone call... in which I didn't understand what the person what talking about, so I asked him in Greek, are you looking for my husband, Mr.Taz? And he said... something. That I didn't understand, so I told him in Greek, "I don't really speak Greek", and in English, "maybe you want my husband?" And he asked me to hold on. After which another guy came on and said in English, "you called us about Xproduct?" and I said, "No, I'm sure you have the wrong number," (and I'm really sure, because not only would we never, ever call about any product, my husband screams "Fuck you!" into the phone when people call us like this). [More:]

But apparently, this was maybe a sales class about how to deal with difficult customers, or how to make a sale no matter what - or something like that, because I soon perceived that I was on speakerphone, and there were a whole bunch of people laughing. Not at me - at him, as I responded to his increasingly ridiculous statements. In the end, even he was laughing - though damn it, I don't remember exactly what I said. But I was pretty hilarious, and should probably try to make improvisational standup my next career. Apparently.

Also, henceforth, I should record all calls so I could provide proof of my wit, and have some memory of what the hell I said that was so good. But just take my word for it, 'K?
post by: taz at: 11:47 | 8 comments
I was going to leave a hilarious comment here -- really, it was killer -- but I can't remember what it was.

But trust me, you woulda loved it. :-)
posted by occhiblu 12 February | 13:11
Now I want to call you and put you on speakerphone with our salesguy. Hilarity would undoubtedly ensue, on my end at least. [Words fail me on a continual basis describing his schmoozy strangeness.]
posted by Frisbee Girl 12 February | 13:11
"schmoozy strangeness" is a perfect exposition!

Anyway, this guy - obviously supposed to be the "closer" or the super-good phone sell-'em guy (also in English!) had a really great phone voice... but so do I. So, part of the fun was talking back in this really non-shrill, euphonic tone in which I made fun of the obvious silliness of the sales pitch. I actually have great phone-voice skills that I don't pimp because I really hate talking on the phone in any form... but this one time, it was fun.
posted by taz 12 February | 13:59
Can I borrow your phone voice? I have a crap phone voice, I hate phones. Only works if there's something technical going on, whenever my man has to talk to tech support regarding his internet/wifi/router he puts me on. After a few minutes of me doing a pretend stupid blond thing, I repeat back to them what they just told me to do (which is always technically inaccurate) so that they themselves can hear how wrong they were. After a while they give, or laugh, and finally admit their fault, and take notes o how NOT to explain to people who know a thing or two about routers how to deal with them. Poor sods usually deal with "my cup holder broke" type of people though.
posted by dabitch 12 February | 16:02
How very, very bizarre.
posted by chrismear 12 February | 16:56
I get this kind of crap every day except in Japanese. Even worse I get it for someone called Hamada-san who I suspect had our phone number over 4 years ago.
posted by gomichild 12 February | 21:39
my cupholder did break when i bashed it with my wifi router.
posted by quonsar 13 February | 00:17
ooooh. I just got an email from Olena. Next time, I'm going to forward the call to her. OLENAAAAAAA!
posted by taz 13 February | 02:22
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