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How has a mobile phone wrecked your life?

(, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 12:14)
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cows
i used to work for a mobile fone company as a customer service advisor..

most days were quite eventful one way or another, with strange people ringing up with their phone queries, a couple as below:

customer: i cant afford my mobile fone
me: would u like me to take a look at your tariff for you?
customer: no its the fone thats expensive!!
me: i dont understand?
Customer: i've had to replace the battery 3 times since i've had it!
me: that doesnt sound good, you've only had it a month, have you been charging it properly?
customer: charging it????
me: yes it came with a battery charger??
customer: oh crap! (hangs up fone!)
** turns out customer had been replacing the battery instead of charging it! - doh!!! **

2nd customer(with very thick northern accent):
customer: I got kicked by a cow
me: excuse me? sorry?
customer: i was kicked by cow, now i need new fone!
me: "laughing"
customer: seriously- i got kicked by cow, fone was in my pocket, fone is broke!

hehe, still laugh at that one!
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 16:55, 13 replies)
You worked as a telecommunications customer service advisor..
and you spell phone as fone? What???
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:17, closed)
Perhaps...
...this poster worked for Vodafone?
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:30, closed)
Indeed
Perhaps this reveals a little something about the source of some problems encountered by people using the 'fones'.
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:34, closed)
and make up stories about people replacing batteries rather than charging them, too
tut tut. youth of today, etc.
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:40, closed)
That first story
Has been on these boards before, and has not been posted by you.
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:58, closed)
I feel a sudden sense of
deja Shit.
(, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:01, closed)
Phone.
With a 'ph'.

It's in the sodding question.
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 1:30, closed)
fone
i did post this story on here before ages ago under a different question of the week, and yes did work at vodafone.

and the stories are 100% true!! -i didnt make anything up!!
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 9:24, closed)
right.
except that spare mobile batteries are sold discharged, so that kind of scuppers the first story.
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 10:51, closed)
nope
actually the customer kept on ordering batteries from us, and we kept on sending them out

... until i realised what was going on!

THIS IS TRUE - accept it!!!!
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:31, closed)
we don't believe you
ACCEPT IT!!!
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:32, closed)
GIVE US MADDIE BACK
:(
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 12:54, closed)
Oh, look...
Your Shift key isn't broken after all.

I'm still undecided about your ' key though.
(, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 14:36, closed)

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