It was funny at the time..
Quite a while back I used to work at an IT firm in Sheffield that ,as well as supplying the local businesses, had a specialist contract for supplying home PCs to disabled Uni students in the local area. The people we supplied kit to varied from genuinely disabled students to ones that had been out drinking, fecked their writing hands up and recieved a grant for them to recieve a mid range PC to finish their coursework on.

As the injured/disabled students couldn't lag a PC round their Uni with them we also supplied a dictaphone so they could record the lectures and type them up when they got home. We had to schedule a follow up call a month after the install to check everything was ok, etc (The usual customer response shite).

Around August/ September was the busiest time and a number of unlucky sales blokes got lumbered with making the follow up calls all day (Muggins here was away the day they were asking for volunteers so I was added to the list).

The calls quickly became tedious with the usual clients bitching that their system was more expensive and a lower spec than one they saw on the Dell website/ filled with viruses/ couldn't run Doom 3 (told you it was a while back). This all came to a head when one of the clients I called had a bit of a gripe about the dictaphone we had supplied:

Student: Whats the point of supplying this tape recorder?
Me: You mean the dictaphone, its to record your lectures so you can remember what was said and write up you're own notes afterward
Student: Why I'll just copy them off someone else, its shite
Me: Sorry about that, we have to supply them as part of the agreement with your university
(evil mischeivous Mon switches on inside my head)
Just to let you know that I actually own a dictaphone myself
Student: Really? Do you use your dictaphone?
Me: Nope I use my fingers like everyone else (bursts into laughing and slams phone down)

The bloke sat next to me (also on customer service calls) thought this was hilarious and will still break down laughing at the joke nowadays,sometimes dropping whatever he is doing (the novelty of it has worn off for me). The bloke has since left the world of IT sales to become an ambulance driver- this may not have anything to do with it but if by chance you're picked up by an ambulance in Sheffield and feel like making the journey to the local hospital a bit more risqué, then yell out "Do you use your dictaphone?" as I guarantee that he'll probably let go of the steering whell while laughing his ass off.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 15:04, 1 reply)

I'm sure that was FP'ed off the /board this morning,
but it's still making me piss myself with laughter. Have a good, long, hard click, monsieur le bison.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 15:14, closed)