Working in tech support
We had to keep calls short, which meant a limited time span for listening to people shout at you about things that were beyond your ability to fix... things like 'your local telephone exchange is under 6' of water due to the recent flooding'.
Our manager understandably did not want to have to listen to the countries most ignorant and angry internet customers either. Passing on too many calls for people who had requested to speak with him would result in loosing your job.

Despite this I got repeatedly complained at for 'forwarding too many calls to extention 253'. I found it the best solution all round... after all its not like anyone actually sent us any faxes.
(rikku_dreamer, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 12:20, 8 replies)

Eh?

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 12:48, closed)

Yeah I am with you on this one

( spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 13:14, closed)

what a looser

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 14:25, closed)

Working in tech support
We had to keep calls short, which meant a limited time span for listening to people shout at you about things that were beyond your ability to fix... things like 'your local telephone exchange is under 6' of water due to the recent flooding'.
Our manager understandably did not want to have to listen to the countries most ignorant and angry internet customers either. Passing on too many calls for people who had requested to speak with him would result in loosing your job.

Despite this I got repeatedly complained at for 'forwarding too many calls to extention 253'. I found it the best solution all round... after all its not like anyone actually sent us any faxes. I would forward calls to the fax machine rather than to my boss, because my boss was shit.

^{* I think *}
( rofl harris, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 14:08, closed)

yeah... too subtle?
(rikku_dreamer, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 19:41, closed)

Not so much too subtle
as insufficiently comprehensible.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 12 Apr 2015, 21:22, closed)

I don't think this was particularly difficult to understand,
but it does sound as though you just weren't very good at your job.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 13 Apr 2015, 8:42, closed)

i agree, this was perfectly easy to understand
and i diagnose an extreme case of "zero fucks given".
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 13 Apr 2015, 10:21, closed)