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February 3, 2010
Greetings...
Flyboy has the week off which means he asks for a list of things
he needs to get done and has a completion ratio of about 45%...
I don't mind because you can't leave the house and do things in
the house at the same time...
He goes back to work Saturday and that's when I'll start doing
things around here. For the record, my completion rate is 95 %...
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Something happened today that annoyed me to the point I lost my
patience with the person on the other end of the phone. I was
going through the mail and came across our new credit cards to
replace the ones that will expire in a week. As with every other
credit card, there was a sticker on it with a phone number to
call to activate the cards. Not a problem, I grabbed the phone
and made the call. I punched 1 for English, 2 for activation,
and I obviously punched 3 for ...torture
I have activated dozens of card in my time and always punched
in numbers, waited for a prompt and then a recording instructed
me to remove the sticker and "have a nice day"...
Not today. Today, after punching in my credit card number for
authorization and waiting for the "have a nice day message", I
waited and was greeted by a guy named "Samuel". He verified
account information, asked what seemd like a hundred other
questions, then told me the cards were activated. I was waiting
for the "have a nice day" when Sammy tells me he wants to talk to
me about three features, which I already know are sales pitches
and having already spent more time on the phone than I should
have for a simple process, I nicely tell Sammy that I am not
interested in any "upsells" and thanked him...
I swear I was nice and polite, UNTIL he pushed a few buttons that
made me lose my cool. After politely declining any and all of the
offers, Samuel wouldn't take no for an answer and no matter how
many times I said no, he came back with, "Why not"? I finally
blew up and told him that I didn't HAVE to give him a reason for
declining the offers, and also told him this was the only time
I ever had to go through this to activate any credit card!
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This goofball continued to question me as to my reasons for not
wanting a multitude of "important" options and I knew I had to
be done with this once and for all...
I said to Sammy, "OK, before we talk about the options, I am
curious about something"...
Sammy, figuring he had me "back" said, "ask me anything"...
I asked Sammy if my card was activated so we could move on. He said
it was and I said...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo and hung up...
Enuff of that! I understand people have to work at these jobs and I
understand that commission and upselling is a vital part of their
job, but have some decency when people say they are not interested.
Why turn polite people into angry, crazed, monsters?
The same goes for Telemarketers who are using every trick in the book
to get you to listen to them from calling and asking for people by
their first name like they are old friends, using bogus caller ID numbers=
,
refusing to take you off the list even though you are ON the Do not Call=
list...
Oh well, maybe you haven't had this type of problem, but based on
the amount of sales calls I get on a daily basis, something tells
me that most of you have...
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