Ya know, working in the customer service industry I take certain things for granted. Like, everyday, I know I will speak with at least one asshole, pissed off about something that has nothing to do with me or my department. I'm ok with this, it goes part and parcel with the job. I am paid to get screamed at by assholes, and that is my job. I'm good with that because normally I realize they are angry at my company and not attacking me personally. But every once in a while a customer will strike one of my nerves, and I fire back.
So the other day a guy calls me completely interrupting my greeting saying, "I need the country code for [name of small country deleted], Do you even know what that is?" Now, normally I would kindly inform him I could help him with his request (even though I'm in Marketing, and this is a request for Customer Service), but this hit pretty much the only nerve that I have when speaking with a customer. The assumption that I am a moron.
Roughly 80% of people in my department are college educated, the other 20% have been at the job so long they are better at the job than me. Basically when you call into customer service, or our department in particular, you are not speaking with an idiot. This asshole was assuming that just because he wasn't speaking with a doctor or lawyer, he was speaking with some sort of GED reject. He was basically assuming that I dropped out of school before I could attend 10th grade Geography.
So, before he could get the "S" sound out in "Do you even know what that is?", I fired back "It's a small island in [geographical area deleted]. To which he said "Oh." I said "Here's your country code". The kicker is he didn't even want to know that tidbit of information for anything even related to our company. Dick.
Poopin.gif was terrifying... yer looking at a bunch files of hot naked chicks and then there's a picture called "Poopin.gif". Now unless you're dumb as hell, you at least partially know what's in store when you open the file, but yer a fifteen year old boy and the internet just came into being... you're not that jaded yet. You know, maybe it's just a turd or some chick taking a crap. Nope it's a naked chick eating a turd coming right out of some dude's ass. Now maybe it's the whole "Time has made it more horrible than it was." factor. You know, how we all remember Star Wars being a great movie (but not the universal truth that Highlander won the academy award for best movie ever, that shit happened.), or Tekken 2 is the be all and end all of fighting games. You go back and visit those things, and they are no where near as good or bad as you thought they were. Now I'm old and have seen every bit of depravity that the internet has to offer... but nothing has scarred me as bad as Poopin.gif. I gazed upon Poopin.gif, and at that moment never had I prayed more that there was a God, and never was I more certain that there was not one.
Is A-Rod getting peed on by Bill Brasky, the guy in that picture must be 12 fee tall to be able to have his dick at A-Rod's forehead level. I mean, getting peed on by Bill Brasky isn't such a bad fate. It's an honor. Bill Brasky was the best damn sales man in the office.
Poopin.GIF was the single most traumatic memory of my teenage years. I remember it clearly. Pappy was always the man when hooking us up with internet porn, but one day I opened a 3.5 floppy to enjoy my afternoon wank, and what should appear? A picture of a chick eating a turd! Fuck you, Pappy.
Hey all... well, the Holiday season is coming up in a few months and I've been thinking of getting the crew back together when some people are home. I know Peps is gonna be in some time around Mid December to early January, who else amongst our out of state brethren are coming back for the holidays?
Remember when we used to make up Brasky tales about John Courage. I don't remember any of them, but they were rad.
I guess he had the time of his life.
Yeah, I had a rock hard boner waiting for Avatar. I mean come on man... A sci-fi flick from Jim Cameron... we haven't seen that since T2. Even the Abyss, though not exactly kick ass action, was still a solid flick. I remember reading about this movie back before the www was around on Prodigy's movie BBS'. This was not the trailer I was waiting 14 years for. It looks like a really rad X-Box 360 game. I'm assuming there will be frag grenades and Recon armor, and Avatar Blue will be the latest flavor of Mountain Dew. I'm officially more jazzed about "Gamer" just so I can see Dexter make a bunch of convicts do a dance number. Fuck you Cameron.
Calliander,
It's true, Aaron is an anti-Semite. That's why he calls me Bitch-Jew when he beats me up.