eviljoker7075
09-22-2004, 04:02 PM
Have any of you seen this site: www.waroncallcenters.com (http://www.waroncallcenters.com)? It's majorly funny and speaks to anyone who has ever been bugged by a call center!
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PeOfEo
09-22-2004, 05:14 PM
A lot of people I know have worked for call centers. I feel sorry for the peons. Its a truely crappy crappy job. I mean I hate call centers, but I pity the people I am on the phone with.
My favorite thing to do is to just strike a conversation with them about absolutly nothing and see what happens. Sometimes when they call and start talking I say knock knock and start telling jokes like that or just say did you hear the one about the 3 jews in a bar? Stuff like that... its fun.
My favorite thing to do is to just strike a conversation with them about absolutly nothing and see what happens. Sometimes when they call and start talking I say knock knock and start telling jokes like that or just say did you hear the one about the 3 jews in a bar? Stuff like that... its fun.
eviljoker7075
09-23-2004, 04:30 PM
Yeah but I suppose if we all took that sites advice the call center bosses would be forced to stop their activites
PikoTech
09-23-2004, 06:05 PM
For those of you in the UK you will have noticed all the callcenter jobs moving abroad (to India etc) because it is cheaper (infact more losses were announced at Norwich Union today).
Now I have nothing against India or any other country for that matter however I'm not too happy at british companies (usually very profitable ones) pinching pennies and moving their callcenters abroad.
For this reason I have had CLID installed on my home telephone line. Now whenever I see an international number popup i simply lift the receiver and put it down again.
Call me evil if you like! :D
Now I have nothing against India or any other country for that matter however I'm not too happy at british companies (usually very profitable ones) pinching pennies and moving their callcenters abroad.
For this reason I have had CLID installed on my home telephone line. Now whenever I see an international number popup i simply lift the receiver and put it down again.
Call me evil if you like! :D
PhillMc
09-23-2004, 06:40 PM
I just have a button. Now that all telemarketers and call centers are required by law to identify themselves on the caller ID, I just hit the button. It's a pre-recorded message, "<ding><ding>I'm sorry, but this number does not accept this type of call. Please regard this as your notification to remove this number from your list. Thank you."
It's a lot of fun to use against friends that have pissed you off too. :D
It's a lot of fun to use against friends that have pissed you off too. :D
PikoTech
09-23-2004, 06:51 PM
Damn, why can't they have those in the UK?
I guess because you guys in the US have those things installed they have looked further afield (keep getting more and more calls leaving messages about "sweepstakes" from American call centers).
Funny thing being, I doubt many people here know of the word "sweepstakes". :rolleyes:
I guess because you guys in the US have those things installed they have looked further afield (keep getting more and more calls leaving messages about "sweepstakes" from American call centers).
Funny thing being, I doubt many people here know of the word "sweepstakes". :rolleyes:
PhillMc
09-23-2004, 06:58 PM
Originally posted by PikoTech
Damn, why can't they have those in the UK?
I guess because you guys in the US have those things installed they have looked further afield (keep getting more and more calls leaving messages about "sweepstakes" from American call centers).
Funny thing being, I doubt many people here know of the word "sweepstakes". :rolleyes:
True. They are more advanced versions of what I have. Most call centers do their calling by computer. There is a nifty little product call the "TeleZapper" that emulates 3 tones (The "Your call cannot be completed as dialed" tones) and the computer that made the call 'hears' these tones and says "hey, this number isn't good, so I'll delete it. I like my button better, feels as good as hanging up on them. :)
Damn, why can't they have those in the UK?
I guess because you guys in the US have those things installed they have looked further afield (keep getting more and more calls leaving messages about "sweepstakes" from American call centers).
Funny thing being, I doubt many people here know of the word "sweepstakes". :rolleyes:
True. They are more advanced versions of what I have. Most call centers do their calling by computer. There is a nifty little product call the "TeleZapper" that emulates 3 tones (The "Your call cannot be completed as dialed" tones) and the computer that made the call 'hears' these tones and says "hey, this number isn't good, so I'll delete it. I like my button better, feels as good as hanging up on them. :)
MstrBob
09-23-2004, 09:08 PM
Oh, you brits are behind the times. Outsourcing and getting rid of telemarketers was SO last year...
Honestly, since I signed up for the Do Not Call registry, I've gotten no telemarketers. It's amazing man. See, everyonce in awhile the government passes some cool laws...
Honestly, since I signed up for the Do Not Call registry, I've gotten no telemarketers. It's amazing man. See, everyonce in awhile the government passes some cool laws...
PikoTech
09-23-2004, 09:12 PM
Then again, while we wait for Oftel to get us some new laws I think after reading www.waroncallcenters.com I am rather looking forward to the next international call showing up!
davidbrent
09-27-2004, 08:33 PM
This is definatley the best script ever!
Them: Hello am I speaking with Mr Jones?
You: No I'll just get him for you
[put the phone down on the table and have a bath]
Them: Hello am I speaking with Mr Jones?
You: No I'll just get him for you
[put the phone down on the table and have a bath]
Stephen Philbin
09-27-2004, 09:30 PM
I think the worst thing about them moving call centers off to other countries is the damned accents. I never have any problems with peoples accents. However with call centers it's another story. I swear the get the most difficult to comprehend people they can possible get their hands on and just slap 'em on a phone.
When I was first trying to set up my Xbox live for example. Around that time I'd never even heard of an ethernet cable or NIC before. So you can imagine the problems I had when I had some French guy with an accent that sounded more like a Frenchman trying to do an impression of an Australian on the other end of the phone telling me to check my "Pay-Pay-Oh-Aye" settings. I thought for ages he was telling me to check my credit card details to make sure payment methods were confirmed. After a great deal of frustration I finally realised he was saying PPoE. That was just one of his many absurd pronunciations. As for BTBroadband customer support. Well don't even get me started about the Indian guy trying to tell me I'd set up something wrong that I knew was perfectly fine. :mad:
When I was first trying to set up my Xbox live for example. Around that time I'd never even heard of an ethernet cable or NIC before. So you can imagine the problems I had when I had some French guy with an accent that sounded more like a Frenchman trying to do an impression of an Australian on the other end of the phone telling me to check my "Pay-Pay-Oh-Aye" settings. I thought for ages he was telling me to check my credit card details to make sure payment methods were confirmed. After a great deal of frustration I finally realised he was saying PPoE. That was just one of his many absurd pronunciations. As for BTBroadband customer support. Well don't even get me started about the Indian guy trying to tell me I'd set up something wrong that I knew was perfectly fine. :mad:
PeOfEo
09-27-2004, 11:02 PM
we don't get telemarketing calls anymore. We have a ntional do not call list that telemarketers are forbidden to call.
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